March 18, 2025 - This month I have a brief little underpainting process guide to share with you! I'll be starting with a tight pencil drawing before transferring to a panel, sketching in ink, and adding two layers of oil color to establish my underpainting. I've had this drawing of a "Nettle Warlock" on my desk for some months now, and it has been daring me to paint it. So this seems like an ideal time to take a stab at it!  To begin, I did a quick carbon transfer onto a gesso-primed panel: The carbon transfer is fairly straight-forward. I trace over a print-out of my drawing with a sheet of carbon paper underneath to transfer down onto a gesso-primed panel.  You will notice that I changed some odd bits from the original drawing here as well. The…