Yeah, I've been looking at Amano lately, and bought some "poster color paints" which are apparently gouache. I had no idea. They say "Acrylic color" on them but that's a huge lie. It took me a while to get used to this so it's a little non-cohesive. I was a bit disappointed to find my 'acrylics' were just matte watercolors after all. Nevertheless, they're rather bold and I can get some opaqueness going on. Not bad. They feel chalky though.

The model/source is a photo of Kyo, so maybe this is Dir en grey fanart?
Yes, it's overall very blue, but weirdly not as blue as the scan made it out to be. Some of the pink got lost somehow. It's disappointing but pretend there're more orange tones in the orange and browns. Looks like a blue filter doesn't it? I need to fix that somehow.

I noticed Kyo of Dir en grey has a new tattoo on his hand that says "The Emperor Is Dead". That was pretty amusing. I was thinking of that while I worked on this piece.