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After a couple weeks of work, I’m finally able to post about one of my favourite art pieces of mine!!

This is my linocut print of SharkBearBerry from EEE!!

(Process under the cut)

Going into the project, I was pretty sure I wanted to do something Excellent Entities related, but I wasn’t quite sure. I was dead set on something to do with Chocolate Bar for a while, but then I realised that SBB would probably be more interesting to draw!!

This was my first thumbnail sketch, I was drawing without a reference at first so it looked pretty choppy, and I wasn’t too happy with the background.

Altered it a bit! Added more to the tail and removed the bit in the background.

Final sketch to transfer onto the block, I added an outline to SBB and attempted to make it look like he was in an animation program!! His snout got elongated at some point too, thank god.

Started using this scene in THREEEE 2 as a reference!!

Finally transferred the sketch onto the block!!

Begun carving, transferring the sketch on crooked really came back to bite me though. I had to straighten out the bars of the background as I went through with my carving.

First proof, and it was SCARYY. I don’t have photos of every single proof I did but there were at least five, did a lottt of extra carving.

After a few proofs! So. Much. Carving. Especially on his head and tail, but it turned out fine!!

One of my final proofs, over inked it a bit but I was headed in the right direction!!

My final!! It’s one of six in the run, but in my opinion it was the best quality wise! (I was technically supposed to have 10, but my teacher is a godsend and told me not to worry about it)

I also had it entered into an art competition, and funny enough I won an award of excellence!! (it’s a reference trust,,,)

My only regret is not flipping the background when doing the block honestly, it’s facing the wrong way on the print. It bugs me a little bit, but overall I’m proud for my first attempt!