Digital Painting | 06.07.2023 | Gecko Story

Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of christianyocte digital art! Today, I am painting a gecko but, I added some colors on it to give it another look compared to the reference. As usual, I got the reference from pinterest.

Reference: https://pin.it/82Nk7xF

First, I made a layer for the background. Then, the trunk of the tree where the gecko is. Then I started sketching the gecko.

I decided to draw a gecko today because I want to talk about it in this post. If I am not mistaken, a gecko called "Toko" in the Visayas. It is named as suck because of its sound... "Toko" "Toko"

I remember a childhood story about a TOKO. When I was a kid, our family shares a common restroom with my cousins, it was a separate structure from our houses.

This restroom is housed by this big eyed creature that I am very afraid of. There was always a time in the day that it would deliberately sound just like an alarm clock usually during 6 PM in the evening. And during those time, I would never go to the restroom.

My parents would tell me that it would never harm people if you do not harm them. That gave me courage to use the restroom during daytime.

But, there was this instance when I really need to go to the restroom, I went slowly inside, then suddenly it jumped and landed on my arm. I was so horrified that I ran outside the restroom. And from that moment, I had a fear of geckos and their likes.

Anyways, going back to the process of this painting... As much as I would like to make this realistic as I can, I could really copy the texture of the gecko's skin. It is very difficult to copy. I still have not reach that level... So, I just added here what I can do.

And, if you are not a professional artist, and you just do this thing for fun and as a hobby, you will certainly understand me. And that is totally fine!

At this point, I am already adding some details on the trunk of the tree. I want to have texture on my painting so I used a textured procreate brush. I also, added colors that are not in the reference so that I can give it a different feel compared to the reference.

So, that's all for this digital art painting process! I hope you find this process cute and pretty. Until next time pals, I love yahh...