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Jenny Dolfen

Jenny Dolfen

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Quick(ish) colour sketch

Welcome to new Patron, Ryan - glad to see you!

Gods, I wished I could do actual quick colour sketches! Maybe something I should try that more forcedly next.

This was sp...

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Sketchpage

So many new patrons! Welcome, Ziebiex Vii, LynMars, Marach, Michelle, and Lauren! Have a cookie! 

Her...

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Answers (finished)

I'm getting better and even better with my texture thing! I now did something revolutionary, mostly for the background here: Instead of painting an ugly placeholder colour and then turning it into ...

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"Answers" and my favourite lineart tips

Welcome to new Patrons K L and Denise! 🎉🎉🎉

New lineart for a piece called "Answers". (Spoilers for C3_51!)

For six years, Orym has been asking the same questions about the atta...

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Back to (digital) watercolour...

I've been fiddling with this for days - meant it to be another digital oil painting, and hit the snag I always hit when I do a few gouache (or acrylic, or oil) studies from photos - without a photo...

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Heinrich the Betta

 Kate suggested a betta, and I was immediately reminded of Heinrich, the serial killer betta I had when I was thirteen. He was the star in an aquarium I got second hand, and I had no idea when...

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Another colourful comfy critter

.… it's a bee-eater!

This is a lot more fun when you know you're not wasting sinfully expensive and environmentally problematic material, I'll be honest. ;) And the Ugly Stage (TM) is so mu...

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Malabar Giant Squirrel (Procreate oil attempt)

Thanks for all the suggestions, but this critter (suggested by Miranda) just took the (rainbow) cake! I can see all sorts of things that would have looked terrible if this had involved a human face...

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Need suggestions for colourful non-humanoid things!

Hey guys, I'm sick and quarantined with My First Covid. (After three years; I almost thought I'd dodged the bullet.) I'm spending my time watching Critical Role Pub Draw videos, and holy s***, are ...

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"Doing the thing"

A warm welcome to new Patrons Felagund and Jackie! =D Thanks for being on board! 

Finished piece of Fearne and Orym plotting dark things in case of even...

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Nerdanel commission finished!

I'm getting better and better with this textures thing! Now doesn't this look like very wet watercolour? And I'm finally getting faster too! 

I'm so glad these batch of commissions has g...

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All twelve D&Dormice classes are here!

Welcome to new Patrons Kate, Jordan, and Raul! So glad you've joined us! 

Dungeons & Dormice are complete! Ranger, Cleric and Wizar...

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It's March! ... and Elanor is finished!

How many of you flipped to their new calendar page with a little flourish today? I know I did! =D

I finished Elanor yesterday and only find the time to post her today. I'm utterly in love wit...

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Tutorial: Texture in Procreate

I managed to do a tutorial, on video, with music, AND sound!

Hope the video looks good this time. If it doesn't, I'm officially giving up Patreon vids and point you all to 2023-02-25 17:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Glorfindel done, Elanor lineart, Nerdanel sketch, AND a full-blown tutorial

... oh my! 

First off, welcome to new Patrons Hannah, Tanwen, Joseph & Julie, and Emma! =D

This watercolour ...

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Glorfindel - lineart

It was Carnival weekend in Western Germany, which means: five glorious days off school while the rest of the county gets drunk; help the kids into and out of their Orc and Rogue costumes, survive a...

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Commission results! And second take on the Vax/Vex piece

First off, I thought I'd show you the final(ish) version of the "Take me instead" piece. I used my new textures and it improved a lot, but it was one of those images that just didn't go any further...

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Let's do this... three commission slots! =D

I'm feeling brave and want to open three commission slots. Before you get your blood pressure up (which is BAAAAD, I know!!), I'm going to pick three ideas you throw at me over the...

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Dorian Storm - finished! and lineart freebies

Welcome to new Patron Secret Name! =D

I finished Dorian today and I can say I've never been happier with a first attempt at anything! I definitely want to try more w...

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What. A. Gamechanger!

Welcome to new Patrons Amanda, Viki, Abrealia, and Denrhea! Woo-hoo! 

So, this is taking longer than expected, because...

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Dorian Storm - lineart (and watercolour textures!)

Here's the lineart for Dorian! Thank you again, Ama, for a commission that somehow pushed me to do the most elegant lineart I may have ever done. =O 

Dorian's body, lute, and sleeves wer...

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Wooden pins are here!

The wooden pins have arrived, and they are So. Good. I may actually do these from now on instead of the enamel ones. The cost is similar, but they looks fantastic and are so much more ethically pro...

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Three new Dungeons&Dormice pins! And all designs are done

Here's the Rogue, Druid, and Monk! I'm so freaking happy with how they turned out. I used an app for colour picking this time - much faster AND much better results than when I colour pick them from...

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A LOT of pins! Dungeons&Dormice round 3, and more wooden pins.

I'm finally on the finishing stretch of designing all 12 character classes of D&D (just when D&D is set to implode, oooh boy). (If you don't know what I'm talking about, google OGL 1.1 - th...

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Inprnt has a sale week! =D

15% off anything on Inprnt through Sunday, and I added another 5 to round it off to a nice 20%. Take a look if there's anything you've been eyeing! Lots of older art on there, too. <3 

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Orym does Cirque du Soleil

Guy in casino: "You're a collective? What do you do?"
Laudna: "We're, uuuh, traveling performers."
*moment of incredulous silence*
Orym: "I shoot out vines from my hand and start doing Cir...

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"Journeys" available as digital download! =) and other stuff

A couple of things this early January! I finally put my most recent artbook, "Journeys", together as a 2023-01-02 16:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post

"The gods are watching!"

Last art for this year! It's fitting that it should be Orym (and yeah, I'm aware that chances of that weren't too low!), the little 3'3'' guy who in spite of hardship, loss and cynicism never lost ...

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Woo-hoo-den pins! These are so incredibly cool.

They turned out even better than I'd dare to hope, and since they are produced responsibly AND can be ordered in smaller numbers, I now want to go bonkers with them! Hit me with all your ideas, als...

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A gift from the Wildmother

This wasn't supposed to be a "End of year, holiday season" type of painting, but time and eye constraints made it such, even though I wanted to paint this scene for two and a half weeks. Orym, who ...

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