Starry-swooshy!
I obviously need to get to know my papers again. On Etival, it all just looked blotchy, I then started again on "cloudy" Nuageux paper - much better!
2017-06-25 13:19:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Jenny Dolfen posts
Lineart!
I've managed to keep the MattSmithiness in there!
And look - Brit sent me her old camera, and it takes photos. Really nice photos. <3
2017-06-24 19:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post“All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?”
Well, Adele, I'm finally on it! I've been feeling so uninspired until last week that I just wasn't up to the commissions and prompts - now I'm so incredibly happy with how he's coming along!
I...
2017-06-24 15:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostLuna Lovegood for Mela
Finally, here's the commission for Mela, of Luna Lovegood! The raffle winnings should be arriving shortly, too.
I love Luna. She's such a wonderful character. I always saw her as an amalgam of...
2017-06-20 07:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostFramed print sale! 20% for Patrons <3
Neighbours' cat not included. He bites, too. XD
Some of you already heard that my last weekend was about as crappy as they come - I'd spent weeks preparing Tolkien Tag convention, only to arrive and...
2017-06-13 10:04:13 +0000 UTC View PostCommission: The Battle of Hastings
The last commission of the latest batch that all but paralysed me. I'm so, SO glad to have that stuff from off my table. Both these commissions were all right and the subject matter was nice in both c...
2017-06-06 18:22:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Knight of Flowers
Colours!!
Still need to practice a bit with acrylic gouache, but for a first (and a half) attempt, I think it's pretty nifty.
Pose comes from a photoshoot I did at Burg Satzvey, at...
2017-05-25 18:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostAcryla gouache and oh the possibilities!
Magic!!!
I've experimented with very thin acrylics before (Paul's Laerminuial, and a few pieces in Cannae), but haven't really pursued that in years, mainly because I didn't like the shiny finish. N...
2017-05-25 11:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostAnother go at this
Last night, I felt this was going in far too garish a direction, and started anew.
As if I hadn't been experimenting enough this year, this is yet another medium: Arylic gouache. It comes in t...
2017-05-25 09:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostChivalry - in progress
Finally, some art underway. I don't know what is the matter with May. Even when I'm not involved in the school exams (Abitur), I still seem to be hit by total art paralysis.
On another sad not...
2017-05-24 14:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostTest illu - Knight of Highgarden
I'm so sorry for the long hiatus! It was the absolutely rotten combination of a head-cold (another one) and working on two commissions that took ages to get off the ground. Remind me never to work wit...
2017-05-15 17:24:58 +0000 UTC View PostFreebies May 2017
Here's a whole load of tablet wallpapers, desktop wallpapers, linearts, and avatars! :)
2017-05-04 13:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostRaffle draw May 2017
I'm sorry about the delay - I've come down with another head cold. *Shakes fist at the weather*
Here's the winners for this month's raffle!
Five goodie bags go to:
Bronwen
2017-05-04 13:19:58 +0000 UTC
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More dapper, more puffskeins
I'd ask for Theseus' number, but I doubt they have a telephone.
And Newt in knickerbockers and stockings is just too cute.
Useless knowledge time: In researching at what age boys exchanged ...
2017-05-02 07:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe war hero and the weirdo
Okay, I have decidedly too many sketches lying around... we'll see which one will be taken further!
This started out last weekend at my MagicCon booth, when a visitor asked whether I'd drawn any pic...
2017-04-30 11:59:12 +0000 UTC View PostFramed and ready for sale!
Glorfindel is now available!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/526924469/glorfindel-orig...
2017-04-25 10:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostGlorfindel finished
Gouache ROCKS. If someone could tell me how to avoid candy colours, that's up next. XD Right now, this looks like straight out of a fairy tale book (which I'd buy at once.)
Gouache on Etival c...
2017-04-21 19:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostGouache to go
Made myself another little mini palette so I can paint at MagicCon this weekend. Gouache works really well like that, too!
2017-04-20 08:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostGlorfindel lineart
The compression here is awful - I kept the lineart extremely light, and upped to contrast for the upload. Hope the first colour wip shots will look better.
Trying for a feathery gouache painti...
2017-04-19 16:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostAnd another sketch...
I spent all day printing, framing, matting, and gilding for MagicCon this weekend - and feel slightly daunted by the sauna piece, so I decided to do a quiiiick portrait of Glorfindel that someho...
2017-04-18 18:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostElves in the mixed sauna
Okay, I'd better explain this one. XD
Someone on Facebook remarked that she wanted to see the wood-elves feasting, and this felt like something I really wanted to do. I went to my new fave posing si...
2017-04-17 21:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostMorrigan
A piece I've been thinking about and planning in my head for quite a while now, and of course there would be TWO Morrigan paintings out this week by artists in my Facebook feed.
I might move h...
2017-04-17 18:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostRide of the Valkyries
You may remember a piece of mine I kept hinting at and shared bits of (and one or two of you may have received it in postcard format). I'm allowed to share it now, though the occasion is a little sad....
2017-04-16 19:40:40 +0000 UTC View PostAnd with gold
Not the best capture; with a bit of luck, I'll be catching some daylight at some point this week so I can try a better shot.
I used FineTec Gold paint again - the lines are thinner than it loo...
2017-04-16 09:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostWarrior Thranduil finished
Yay! This is a way to use gouache that I'll definitely do more with.
2017-04-16 09:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostGouache fun
Going to post it tonight! :) Still need to scan it before I put on gold touches.
2017-04-15 07:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostNext attempt
This time, I'm doing the good stuff in watercolour and will probably go in with gouache for the fringes. The bottom already is some gouache. MUCH more detail possible, at least until I have more pract...
2017-04-13 17:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostThat stage...
With any opaque medium, I find there's a horrible ugly duckling stage, when everything just looks muddy and murky and gaaaaah. I suppose the only way to overcome that feeling is to paint enough painti...
2017-04-13 09:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostThranduil colour wip
This gouache thing is still slightly scary. For seven years, transparent layers have been my topmost concern, so something inside me keeps screaming. "It's opaque! Get it off! Get it off! Destroy it! ...
2017-04-12 19:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post