Jenny Dolfen

Folktember: The Seelie Queen

It's on! Folktember should be sliiightly easier for me to do than the October challenges - fewer class tests and conventions! It's only got five prompts, so I’m getting the first one ready for Se...

Video tryout!

My phone stand arrived yesterday and I can now actually film myself painting! I hope the magnifying glass isn't too irritating; at least it doesn't cover the area I'm working on. 

I will...

Maedhros in progress (with art tips)

I'm still smacking myself for not doing this mixed media thing sooner! (As always, it's smoother than this in real life.) I'm deliriously in love with the textures and colour transitions here. &nbs...

Oathkeeper

Maedhros has been very patient this past six months, but he finally decided I'd done enough testing and trying and dallying with media and fandoms, and demanded Art Nouveau and quiet obstinacy/trag...

"I will not lose you again" - an adventure in mixed media!

I am so fricking happy with the technique here. I used really everything - Procreate for the lineart, normal watercolour for the background, watercolour pencils for the rough colours on the figures...

Look what I found!

... I found the obvious thing: watercolour pencils! *rofl* 

There have been a number of people who said: "Okay, so if you can't use watercolour anymore, but recently fell in love with co...

Prints are back on the menu, boys!

So, as promised, starting a test run with t...

RPG lineart, Haunted Forest, and a print trial!

A lot is going on! First off, an RPG scene that happened last weekend - Jax meets his mother, the redeemed Succubus Arueshalae, in a fight that nearly kills several of them while fighting off demon...

Master Holbytla

Art Nouveau Merry is done! I can't tell you how happy I am with the coloured pencil look in this. A part of me is almost grateful that my crappy eyes have forced me to rediscover this medium - I do...

Art Nouveau Merry in progress

Finally tackling this one! How do I polychromo again?
It took me a while, by the way, but I've now found my perfect way of organising my coloured pencils! Since I can only use them at my desk a...

RPG night sketchpage: Jax

Last weekend yielded a lot of draw-worthy scenes in our Pathfinder game night. It's a campaign that's getting more and more epic as it pits the characters against demons of the Worldwound (a portal...

Finnan and book project

Finished Finnan, and started putting together the Haunted Forest book!

If all goes well, it should be available in September. 💚💙💚

Back from holiday!

I somehow made it through the last week of school and now we're freshly back from a holiday in Denmark. (Which I've fallen in love with - how can a country have the friendliest people, the best foo...

Remember Agnes and her adventure in the Haunted Forest?

I'd put up a few prints of her at Tolkien Tage the weekend before last, and there were so many people who got prints and pins of her, without having any idea who she was, that I decided it would be...

Merry in Art Nouveau

This one's squarely on Kate, who asked whether I was going to do anything else with Merry, and I remembered how much I'd loved Merry in Andy Serkis's Lord of the Rings audiobook (which came extreme...

Tolkien Days book sketches!

I spent the last weekend at Tolkien Tage in Geldern/Germany, and I finally think I may have even out that sleep deficit, so I can post the sketches I did in art books! It's been an insanely wonderf...

"Among many other things"

"Curiosity is the spark of many arcane pursuits and knowledge... among many other things." 

Gilmore and Vax, finally done! I love this one so much. 

Polychromos on Arches hot-...

"Let's play."

Scene from our D&D game. Technically, from next session.
Characters: Farryn, Gnome Fighter (my DMPC), Eragon, Dragonborn Paladin (our friend), Nicht, Goblin Artificer (my husband), Farawyn,...

Vax and Gilmore (in progress)

I'm so in love with this piece and it just keeps getting better. Gilmore's skintone just turned out so gorgeous. 

I'm using Arches watercolour paper, Arches being the barely contested qu...

Borrowed Time

Another image from Critical Role (spoiler-y for the end of Campaign 1, but I've already spoilered that pretty thoroughly): Vax'ildan realises that some resurrections leave their mark.

After h...

Fingon commission finished ... and a few words on men kissing

Here's the last of the three commissions! I'm really happy with how this worked out and will certainly open a few slots again later this summer. In the meantime, if anyone has any Critical Role com...

Celebrimbor

Finished Celebrimbor! Probably my favourite "Black hair in coloured pencil" I've done yet. 

And now I realise who he reminds me of - Paul from Dune! And that wasn't even planned...

Vax/Gilmore lineart, and Fingon and Celebrimbor colouring in progress

Yup, I'm somehow doing three pictures at the same time AND I'm also marking Latin exams in between and I'm feeling pretty accomplished. 

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Celebrimbor, Fingon, and some kissy Critical Role =D

Here's the next batch of the commissions: Celebrimbor and Fingon! I hope the colouring will go well - I have a new extremely irritating blind spot in my left eye which keeps making me think I forgo...

Signed and numbered LE prints this afternoon!

Haleth is getting a tiny little print run of ten! Prints are dropping this afternoon at 4 pm CET. <3

Haleth

Toned paper and coloured pencil. OMG. It's the perfect background tone as well. <3 

Also, blues and ochres forever! 

Note me making her hair totally ambiguous. I have no id...

Commission: Haleth (lineart)

Here's the first go at the Patreon commissions! Haleth of the Haladin. To be coloured! =)

Orym wallpaper

This is probably the most wallpaper-ready image I've ever done, so here's a free-for-all phone wallpaper! 

I want to go wild with Art Nouveau now. =) 

Had an incredible day ye...

Orym in all his (digital) splendour

This completely defeated me in coloured pencil, sadly. It probably would have worked out, but the Ugly Stage looked so ugly that I abandoned it in favour of Procreate, in order to be able ...

Orym lineart (Art Nouveau makes a comeback!)

I'm going to HATE myself for the details here soon enough...!