The lineart for Mîm, for Christian. I'll probably be finishing him up for you this weekend at Tolkien Tag! :)
(For those who don't know: That's not a weird way of playing tag, but it's the...
2016-05-18 15:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostI got my last A-level paper marked yesterday, after spending two entire afternoons until 8 PM at school for the orals, and after every single small mistake on our parts resulted in the immediate rippi...
2016-05-13 06:14:06 +0000 UTC View Post
First sketch of the May commission for Christian, who asked for Mîm from the Silmarillion. Grumpiness ahoy!
2016-05-09 17:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It was five weeks rather than two or three, Krista - I hope it was worth the wait! :)
I've tried out a finer sketching style with very hard pencils and I really like this. Pencil and white...
2016-05-09 10:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again with attachment... ;)
Hey my lovelies!
A SW print goes to Sharon Samples, and the non-SW one to Erin-Claire! (I used an online number generator after all - my daughter might have been influenced by pretty/colourful/mummy's avatars. ;) ...
2016-05-05 06:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
^ That's what my daughter looks like today. She's totally taking May the Fourth very seriously.
In honour of Star Wars Day, here's a mini-raffle! Everyone who comments until tomorrow morni...
2016-05-04 14:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Erin C., Is, Deanna, Willi, Floss, and Kimmie - these are on their way to you! :)
Don't be afraid to use them either - I practically plastered them with fixative, so nothing will ever rub ...
2016-05-02 09:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, I managed to mark 25 Year 7 exams today - yay! A few days of respite before the next set comes in, which means I can work off last month's prompt.
As I said, there won't be a prompt t...
2016-05-01 14:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-04-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For all those pledging $25 (or more), it says "a little surprise" along with the quarterly goodie bags - I haven't forgotten, I just wasn't sure what exactly to do. Now I know - here's a tiny little p...
2016-04-30 21:33:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's been worse than I thought - I'm still in the process of marking exams, and will be for another two weeks. :( Sorry, Krista, for the delay with your prompt! It's on my list; I'll get to it...
2016-04-26 17:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It's done! =D
Got darker than I wanted... again. And both my scanner and my printer hate this one. Got the scanner to cooperate, but my new printer hasn't been broken in properly yet.
... 2016-04-20 20:44:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew!
It's always weird when I've spent several days painting around the main figure, and have finished everything else. I've become so accustomed to seeing it on white that it often feels wrong...
2016-04-20 10:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, that counts as four!! XD
Bonus word for the day: German has its own word for the upper part of a bird's bum. It's Bürzel. Say that aloud. Fluffige Bürzel. Yay.
2016-04-19 20:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, Jenny, you had to go for seven. >_<
;)
2016-04-18 20:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I was really having trouble seeing the colours for this, but I like where I'm going now.
Working with *yet* another new watercolour paper, haha. XD
2016-04-18 06:45:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Only six poofy swan bums after all.
Trying to find ref images of a boat on a river - or any river from above - it took me a while to think of looking for rowing photos. It seems to be the ...
2016-04-16 22:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
.... just in case anyone still gets worried about this piece! :D
... but seriously, poofy little swan butts. Can't be unhappy with seven poofy little swan butts.
Then again, all ...
2016-04-16 18:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Still looks very scribbly, but a lot more work has gone into this now.
I've been thinking about my art a lot this year. Star Wars has been an exhilarating experience - so many new people, ...
2016-04-15 15:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Actually, it's a mix of every dark colour I have on my palette. XD
2016-04-13 18:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm in love with her left hand. Among many other things. <3
2016-04-12 18:34:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the finished Fingon for Josie! Watercolour and a bit of gold gouache for the braids. They're quite shiny in real life. :)
Hope you like him, Josie! ^^
2016-04-12 12:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Fingon in proper Fingolfinian blue.
It's cool to see how much easier realistic shading in faces comes even without reference now, thanks to that extended photorealism spree with my Star Wa...
2016-04-12 08:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Loving this character! And my (t)rusty old Y-Wings!
2016-04-11 16:20:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Star Wars character commission for Paul: his Resistance pilot character. Based on a photo of me casually holding a red balloon (from that toy shop in Aachen, incidentally, Erin C.! They may not have t...
2016-04-09 18:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawn while I was sitting at the indoor pool waiting for my kids to come from their swimming class. He drew some heads from the other mothers playing Candy Crush on their mobiles. XD
2016-04-09 18:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Did all of these (and three more unspectacular ones) over the last three days at school with my lovely new Nomad - it's so cool to just feel like sketching, unzip one zipper, have everything han...
2016-04-08 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
