I've still got some ten characters on my list and am down to drawing straws - but I couldn't really leave out Ronja.
Ronja was my first female heroine. As I already said on my "Alanna" piece, ...
2017-10-28 22:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I was eight years old when this opened in Germany. There was no way it could not be in here. XD
Sometimes, when I'm in my daughter's room, I'm amazed at how many unicorns there are in it (note: she ...
2017-10-28 15:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm going to sell some of the Inktober pieces next month - two have already been claimed (Isabeau and Sam Vimes). If there are any pieces you'd like to buy before I put them up, please let me know! Th...
2017-10-27 06:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Uploading a day early - we'll be at the Essen Games Fair tomorrow, and I don't think I'll have a chance to draw anything properly, so I've worked ahead a little!
Right, so I decided he had a space i...
2017-10-26 15:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's your prompt, finally - Ecthelion of the Fountain! Water-soluble graphite and white pencil on Clairefontaine mid-tone paper.
I got this paper yesterday and already love it! It's specific...
2017-10-26 13:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
(I'm an idiot. Thinking I wouldn't manage to finish Inktober anyway, I bought a pad with only 25 sheets of smooth paper. I need to find better paper tomorrow.)
I read Dan Simmons' Hyperion...
2017-10-26 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, here's the first commission for the September winners! Most of the other things - original work, prints and goodies - have already gone out. The calendars for Marie and Sarah are going out to...
2017-10-25 13:23:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The Narnia books have been with me for so long, and so constantly, that I can't even remember when I first read them. I must have been in primary school, and I had the first three books in German. The...
2017-10-25 11:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
So, he finally cooperated! Part of that is due to the fact that this time, I did a structural underdrawing - a stage I often skip, leading to catastrophic anatomy.
Legolas is my oldest recurri...
2017-10-24 10:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Another image more for the sake of posting something, and again a character that would have deserved better. Well.
I got into Star Wars extraordinarily late. I grew up in a very pacifist house...
2017-10-23 17:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
"Cloud Atlas" is probably the most unusual book in this Inktober series, and it's also the one I read most recently.
I'd never heard of it until I read about the film coming to cinemas in 2012...
2017-10-22 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Exactly ten years ago, TV show "Heroes" aired on German TV. I'd missed the first episode though I'd wanted to watch it - I had a newborn daughter at home and my life was pretty upside down - but a fri...
2017-10-21 12:17:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Autumn holidays, finally! Today, I've been simply drained, and was almost resigned to skip today after two Legolases ended up ripped in the wastepaper basket. Remus really deserves better than this, b...
2017-10-20 18:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one that was pretty obvious, right?
I've loved Eddie Redmayne as Newt since the very first promo pic I saw, early last year. My first connection was the Eleventh Doctor - he gave off t...
2017-10-19 08:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Honor Harrington series by David Weber entered my life in 1998, after I'd read my way through all the then-available Star Wars books, and was looking for some other space opera to fill the waiting...
2017-10-18 10:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Ha, nearly caught up! Maybe I'll fill in the 15th at some point.
Alanna of Trebond was one of less than a handful of female heroines of mine when I grew up. (There just weren't many in the boo...
2017-10-17 17:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Two days without or with little time for art, and while I did this one last night, I didn't even want to upload him. I'm mainly putting him up to push myself through this.
Tangaloor Firefoot i...
2017-10-17 09:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've been following me for less than two and a half years, your reaction might now be: "Who? Why?!" but if you've been with me for a while, you'll now be nodding your head with an indulg...
2017-10-14 18:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post
In before midnight! Man, this has been the closest I've come yet to saying, "Nah, I'll do two tomorrow. Or maybe just one tomorrow." And don't think I haven't had this inner conversation every day for...
2017-10-13 21:46:27 +0000 UTC View Post
You knew he was coming, of course!
I started reading A Song of Ice and Fire (which I insist on calling it even though GoT has long become a staple of mainstream culture) in 2003, and somehow h...
2017-10-12 19:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
That Friday evening in late October, 1986, was remarkable for several reasons. My family had got its first ever microwave. I'd come home crying because I'd been stung on the earlobe by a bee. And the ...
2017-10-11 17:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a very quick one today - I was torn between doing two better ones tomorrow, or skipping today, and in the end I decided to go through with this.
Commander Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's...
2017-10-10 20:46:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1986 around Easter, I was staying with a friend overnight. Her mother had taken out a few videos for us, asking us to watch "that bunny film" with my friend's younger siblings.
The siblings...
2017-10-09 20:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Probably my favourite book from my childhood is Astrid Lindgren's The Brothers Lionheart. I still can't do scary dragons. Which is a particular tragedy here because Katla in the book is so scary that ...
2017-10-08 15:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In the early nineties, I took out a book called "The Darkest Road" from the town library. It had an incredible cover by John Howe and the author, the blurb said, had helped Christopher Tolkien edit Th...
2017-10-07 15:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of the Silmarillion themed days! As you can imagine, the Sil gets more than one day of October. I was torn between doing Finrod and Fingon (apart from the obvious others) and this one actual...
2017-10-06 16:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The Neverending Story was the first loooong book I remember my mother reading to me (and always breaking off at the most exciting passages, which made sure I'd read the next chapter or two on my own)....
2017-10-05 07:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
On with my heroes of page and screen! This is Isabeau, also known as Ladyhawke, from the 80's film of the same name. A little jewel, if you're willing to cut the music from Alan Parsons Project some s...
2017-10-04 08:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Wooo-hooo! Ballpoint pen proved to be exactly the game changer I'd hoped it would be when someone suggested it last night.
There's something I've noticed about making art: My brain goes into c...
2017-10-03 13:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Because it's his 565th birthday and I'm marking exams about Shakespeare's version.
Acrylic ink, Micron Pigma and white gel pen. And oh my God, my inking is as bad as I remember it. I'll have t...
2017-10-02 20:37:45 +0000 UTC View Post