I fancied a change from people and since my girlfriend likes Gorillas I decided to paint one.

Oil on canvas. This took about 6 hours total to finish. All in all I’m pretty happy and Claudia like it so I’m going to call this one a success. Quite allot harder to paint than people because of the minute detail. I tried to get a bit painterly with this to create fur effect without spending hours trying to make it textured. After many attempts at the yes I’m very happy with the ones I finished with. Capturing an animals soul is possibly harder than a humans.

here is a Giff of the stages