Molly Crabapple Illustration

I delayed the night’s t-shirt designs by painting a topless blue trollop on the cover of my Moleskine.  Should you feel so inclined, here’s how to similarly besmirch yours.

If you take a stab at moleskine defacement, how about posting a pic in the comments?

You Need

*Acrylic matte medium
*One innocent moleskine
*Brushes- fat, medium, thin
*Acrylic paint
*Krylon spray varnish (fire escape essential- do not breathe cancer fumes)

It’s Moley, our innocent moleskine. He has no idea.

Using a fat brush, paint the cover of Moley with gloss medium. Let dry. To keep the pages from sticking together, you can put a sheet of saran wrap between the cover and the first page. You do this to give the paint something to stick to

Block in the base colour of your drawing (in my case, blue for Rococo harlot). This might take two coats

Put your colours on the palatte

Block in your shadows

To make space harlot really glow, I scrubbed her down with a thin coat of Naples yellow

Then, went back in with the skinny brush and brought out some lights and darks

For a line obsessive, nothing has the sweet crispness of liquid acrylics. Sweet jesus yes.

Finish with a coat of spray varnish. Do it outside lest you die of the cancer. Let it dry for 6 hours or so. Take it back inside, and marvel at your fancy new toy