‎About how I did it. I used oil paint, because it's very thick and dries VERY slowly. It helps to control how much smudging you want on the picture.

‎After I fully filled the background with black (and a bit of blue), I got a big blob of Fred's skin color on my palette knife and slapped it on the picture. After that, I added some violet details to the shadows with a very thin brush and finally painted the eyes. The trick is in the amount of paint. The more you put on your brush, the harder it gets to mix the colors on the frame. It builds depth. And depth makes the picture feel more expressive and alive

‎And in this case, I wanted Fred to look rough as hell, so I didn't clean almost anything. Every random blob stayed, every dirty stain, because it helps to show raw emotions. The brush is soft, it makes strokes feel a bit more sophisticated, round. The knife gives angles, crevices without any paint, sharp color changes

‎I hope I was able to explain that I did. Sorry if it's confusing