Learning to fly, final version. Watercolour and white gouache on Clairefontaine Etival, 25x35cm.
Just love how this one turned out. Though fixing the scan took nearly as long as the painting. O_o
2016-04-05 15:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is getting more and more heartbreaking...
2016-04-04 15:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Back with my good Etival paper. After the Arches I was working with on the con, and the crappy watercolour paper in my sketchbook, it feels like comfy slippers after a weekend in high heels.
Or rather, I imagine it feels like that, never having spent a weekend in high heels. ;)
(Incidentally, do you get two notification emails when I edit a new post? If you do, I promise I'll spell-check more properly from now on!)
2016-04-04 13:03:33 +0000 UTC View PostFive goodie bags go to: Anja Raupach, Floss, Tári, Sabine Kauer, Corine Hefting
An A4 print each goes to: Menghui, Deanna
An A3 print goes to: Mela Eckenfels
The prompt for this month is for: Krista Sente
Aaaaaaand the commission was won by Josie Bellrichard!
Congrats all! And please check your Patreon addresses, and change them if needed (AND let me know!) :)
I'm going to send out the goodies for April sometime next week. A lot of things hav...
2016-04-03 17:40:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a year and a day since I started on Patreon - and a fair portion of you have been with me for just as long! For those of you, but also for the newcomers, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! You are terrific. Each of you is helping out a little, and some a little more, so that I my life stays full of creativity and inspiration. You are responsible for some of the best artworks I have created last year, which make me equally proud and insanely happy.
This little guy here is Bukephalos, by...
2016-04-03 17:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A little piece I drew and painted at my booth today (yay Nomad!), and then gilded at home. I hate hate hate this paper, but I love how this piece turned out. I'm going to see if I can sell it tomorrow; any takers here before I do? I put it at 120 €. It's A5 size. 23 carat gold. :) Edit: Sold! :)
2016-04-02 20:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, HobbitCon is a BLAST of a time. I'll be at my booth again tomorrow, and have now spent two days selling out. Every evening, for two days, I pretty much pushed past my hubby and headed straight for my printer to reprint Smaugs, Ben and Reys, and the Art Nouveau piece! I've never sold more than three copies of the same print on a con weekend, and now I've sold about four to five of those each day. I've sold about sixty prints since Friday. O_o
Today, Billy Bo...
2016-04-02 20:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post
(Can't post pics from my tablet for some reason. Sorry for the empty post earlier.)
The Con is great! I'm doing extremely well (Star Wars is, too) and had the presence of mind to bring a little LED lamp to be able to draw at my booth. Hope to have booth pics tomorrow, too!
Here's where I'm at with the latest piece!
2016-04-01 21:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll be at HobbitCon in Bonn over the weekend, so the raffle, and the goodies, will have to wait until next week! =) Hope I'll be back with some new stuff then, too. And I'll break in my brand new NOMAD art satchel. <3
Seeya then!
2016-03-31 19:48:08 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-31 06:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Guppies are done! <3
My scanner struggled with the colours, Badly. It looks much softer in real life, but it scanned rather muddy so I had to punch up the contrast. It's not a colour scheme I fix on a regular basis, either. XD It's actual size - that thing was tiny!
Hope you like it, Is! ^^
2016-03-30 21:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post
"He would have disappointed you."
Very quick sketch for a commission of Kylo Ren in the Falcon's cockpit, remembering his father teaching him to fly. Or just taking him along.
I have a commission of this, of guppy mermaids, and of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. I love, love, love my life. ^_______^
2016-03-30 07:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post
...Guppy love. *falls over*
I love that guppy girl. ^^
Kept the lineart fairly un-detailed, because I'm going to do most of the detail here with paint. Should be fun!
2016-03-29 21:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
... definitely.
Here's Sam Gamgee with a cute plaid scarf. ^__^
2016-03-29 09:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Mmmm. More fun paper. This one's excellent for vibrant washes!
2016-03-27 21:35:40 +0000 UTC View Post
And a second hobbit - after the first one turned out so personal that I can't really give her away! I hope you like him, Kimmie! To be coloured, too. ^^
Drawn over Easter lunch with the in-laws. Post-lunch, actually, while my hubby, my daughter (the hobbit) and my brother in law and his girlfriend were playing a ridiculously complicated and quite hilarious early nineties electronic game called "The Omega Virus".
2016-03-27 16:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon was down all evening until this morning. :( I'd have had so many wips!
Happy Easter, all you wonderful people! =)
2016-03-27 08:20:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay. I dare say Star Wars has bumped up my realistic painting skills quite a notch. O_o
2016-03-26 20:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post
She really, really is that sweet.
Even when she doesn't tidy her room. It's so hard to be angry with her. Her room shows it. XD
2016-03-25 12:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Narrated vid again! This took a little longer - narrated video means I need to be alone for about an hour, which is near well impossible while the kids are home all day during the holidays. So this morning, I took advantage of the fact that the good, catholic three quarters of this family were on crusade - sorry, doing the stations of the cross - and heretical me sat down to narrate a dragon video. It was a very Homer Simpson sort of moment. I regret nothing.
2016-03-25 11:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
... I give you: guppy merfolk!
Guppy merfolk have been on my mind for ten years now. I did some sketches of them in various sketchbooks over the years, but none of those was ever turned into anything halfway presentable. Now I've spent a week or two bouncing ideas back and forth with Isabella, who wanted something for a "bubbly" frame she had - and guppy merfolk sort of suggested themselves.
These are so much fun. And also took a lot of toning down. I mea...
2016-03-24 13:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Prompt for Kimmie, who requested a Hobbit. From there, my mind went to my absolute yearning for Spring right now, and to a photo I took of my daughter last May. That girl IS a hobbit. She may want to be a unicorn, but she's totally a hobbit.
2016-03-24 11:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Anyone who's been eyeing a recent piece of mine - here's another Patreon-only print sale! Just enter PATREONSYAY at checkout for a 16% discount. =) Smaug's there too!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/JennyDolfenArt
My good old printer is acting up a lot at the moment, so I've already bought a new one (gulp). Of course, the instant I hit "buy" on the Amazon button, my old printer suddenly behaved aga...
2016-03-23 13:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post
... looking decidedly smug there with his 22 carat gold. :D
Hope you like it, Is! ^___^
2016-03-23 10:42:42 +0000 UTC View Post
... he's still waiting for his gold leaf though. ^______^
2016-03-22 19:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Scales are so much fun that I have to watch myself to keep it from becoming overrendered!
2016-03-22 14:28:13 +0000 UTC View Post
An unusual approach for me - starting with a fairly uniform golden wash before I work out the details in scales and treasure. I'm recording this; planning to make it a tutorial vid! :)
2016-03-22 11:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Scribbling a fantastillion gold coins is easy. Not sure about the painting bit. XD
I like how he did turn out different from the many, many iconic Smaugs from various great artists. I made sure not to look at any other Smaugs until this evening.
2016-03-21 18:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
... on my desk and under my desk. Must be the holidays. XD
Oh, and THAT's where my pencil sharpener was. Must photograph under the table with a flashlight more often. *_*;;
2016-03-21 15:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't believe I did this. *L*
2016-03-20 14:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post