Okay, this is really, really unusual for me. I spent two days wrestling with Alcyone, not being totally happy with the lineart, and then completely failing at any sort of digital colouring, and dec...
2021-01-21 22:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been wanting to draw something inspired by the myth of Alcyone for a long time. It has grief, the sea, and kingfishers!
Alcyone was the daughter of the wind-god Aiolos, and was hap...
2021-01-19 17:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hooray! I'm really happy with my first iPad/watercolour mixed media. And I love those golden blues here! Hope you love it too, Intea! <3
There's so much new about this piece!
I'm very artistic today. I get new brushes that are wonderful to work with (not because they're the best brushes ever made, but because my old brushes were four years old and it never had occurred ...
2021-01-14 17:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I HAVE THE POWERRRRRR!!!
Sorry. But I can't get over what I can do with Procreate. All the little sloppy bits in my pictures, suddenly GONE because I can zoom in to a ridiculous extent. I had...
2021-01-12 16:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I swear I'll stop turning this Patreon into product placement for Procreate some day, but... it is not this day. Holy s***! I will never, ever, ever do lineart in any other other way ever ...
2021-01-11 18:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It‘s such fun to go overboard with the fine-tuning here! And it‘s a huge relief to know that I can do the lineart right here in Procreate, on the sofa if I want, on several layers that I can mo...
2021-01-10 13:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post
First steps of a commission for Intea - of Fingon‘s victorious return after driving off Glaurung. I‘m constantly thinking of the Jabberwocky poem - “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come t...
2021-01-09 21:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
All right, I'd better explain this. XD
On a watercolour forum I'm on, there are monthly challenges. Mostly, they don't interest me much (many of the artists there are of the flowery-landscape...
2021-01-06 07:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The Napolemouse of crime. No matter how boopable that nose is - don't.
Docmouse Watson is up on Etsy now! If you buy Shermouse and Watson, you get Mousiarty as a free add-on. If you hav...
2021-01-04 08:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
„I‘m sooooooo changeable!“
Inks (again in Procreate) of Jim Mousiarty, the Napolemouse of Crime, again done for Is.
Is, I went for mouse skulls instead of humans; if you think they l...
I have a clear pathway getting to know a new medium: 1) I have no idea what I’m doing - better draw a beautiful woman. 2) I’m getting the hang of this - Maedhros, here I come!
I can’t t...
2021-01-01 22:26:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh my, this silly little piccie took me ten times as long as the result warrants, but first attempts with new digital media tend to have that effect on me. At least it’s safe to say that Procreat...
2020-12-31 09:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post
... and again, the most intuitive art programme I‘ve ever worked with, and the easiest to use lively textures with! So much fun.
I think she’s Earwen, by the way. :)
2020-12-29 07:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I‘m really pleased with how well this workflow went! Sketching and drawing on the iPad, printing on mixed media paper, colouring with watercolour and gouache, and photographing again on the iPad ...
2020-12-28 13:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Woo-hoo! Procreate is such incredible fun, and it took two days to revolutionise my workflow and motivation!
Here‘s the beginning of a Commission for Is, who asked for Watson and Mousiarty to...
I wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, with as much calm and happiness as anyone can hope for under the circumstances. The final week of school was once again *far* more hectic than a lockdown...
2020-12-25 17:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post
These landscape large sketchbooks are great for one coloured piece per page, plus some sketches next to it. It always looks so impressive and professional. =D
Also, I realise again that with ...
2020-12-20 12:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Nib must have been one of those unfortunate young squirrels that fell from the nest. Fortunately for her, she was found by Corvus, a raven who, still more fortunately for her, had just eaten. When ...
2020-12-19 16:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided to avoid a mistake I'd made in my Dungeons and Dormice last spring: I'd jumped straight into a series without more than a very basic idea of what dormice even looked like. So this time, I...
2020-12-15 19:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Germany's entering another lockdown on Wednesday; our district has already been in lockdown since Saturday, after cases were rocketing. Schools are mostly closed - exams were supposed to be happeni...
2020-12-14 18:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the final Squirrelpunk piece. I'm beyond happy with the look of this! You'll notice it's quite a lot softer and yet more vibrant than what I've recently done with watercolour; funnily enough...
2020-12-07 18:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I always find it fascinating how my painting style changes when I've gone for a month without painting, or when I've gone for six months without painting on watercolour paper (the cosplay dormice w...
2020-12-06 18:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Today was literally the first day in forever with a little bit of time to paint (and the necessary minndset for it). I know that there is no ideal Pandemic setup, but Pandemic with two kids squarel...
2020-12-03 16:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
And I'm very pleased to report that a search for "squirrelpunk" yields next to nothing!
Steampunk attire is fun. Although the coke tins for greaves are probably too big!
2020-11-23 19:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
We had our chance - now Squirrels rule the world.
Sketch with blue pencil (I turned it inky blue so you can actually see something, haha). I'm pretty sure the hero is called Rick (I had...
2020-11-22 15:06:42 +0000 UTC View Post
https://teespring.com/stores/jennydolfenart
I just uploaded "Feanor, no", the Fairy Story design as well as...
2020-11-18 18:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Many thanks to C. for his terrific t-shirt idea! I used some other paintings than the ones you suggested (Ulmo would have been terrific for "recovery", but the Vala was completely unreadable in the...
2020-11-16 18:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
For years and years, and years, I've been wanting to do some soft pencil shading, and I never was able to work out how the hell to do it. Using less force and harder pencils is one thing (I always ...
2020-11-13 18:46:16 +0000 UTC View Post