Pixie Dust - Prologue pages 1-4

Lined traditionally and added screentones digitaly to the first four pages of the prologue.

It's weird to draw so many children...so far my characters have always been at least teenagers.:/

It's a good practise though and I feel quite relaxed drawing Faylinn. She's a cute girl.

I can relate to her better than expected.

Follow me...!

 media: copic marker, coloured pencils, 

acrylic paints, pastel chalk

size: A4

time: 16 hours

It's finally done!:D Took me ages to colour and is absolutely NOT in the colour palette I planned to use but I quite like it this way as well.

 I'd just love her to look a bit less scary...at first I couldn't make her look mysterious at all, she was just a cutie, but know...she looks like a demon or something..D:,

Plus, I failed with the feet...-.-" way to small and strangely shaped...I need more feet-practise.

The head also is to big..argh I keep finding more and more errors!

However, I like it.

Here's the W.I.P. animation.:3

(good fairy turns into evil...ahah ^^")

Follow me...! - Sketch

 

Sketch for the Cover of Pixie Dust. :3

I already start to really like the characters.<3

Wiebke - Portrait

 

I drew this portrait for the birthday of a friend of mine. I'm not really satisfied and my boyfriend even says he doesn't recognize her at all...haha ^^°

I guess that's mainly because of the 'colours' I chose, actually she's a pretty blue-eyed blondie but since the reference for this drawing was a black-white photograph I decided to use sepia shades. Wrong decision obviously. But otherwise it still has some sort of likeness I guess...ahah :D

Click the image below to see a gif. animation of the drawing process.

Pixie Dust - Sketches

 I sketched the first pages of Pixie Dust today - more to give it a go and get into drawing manga again after I somehow managed to not draw a single page for more than a year...O__O
I can't believe it's been so long... I noticed it during the drawing though...I need loads of practise to get as good(?) as I used to be, but that's what this story would be perfect for basically. :3
After all..I still love drawing mangas so very much. It's such a nice and more complex way to express something, rather than with a single painting only.

Niki-Pixie Dust

 

 This is only a very quick sketch on the back of a VERY creased letter I received today....: D

Thanx to the postmen...

I started with a doodle and then worked more and more into it until I finally started to like it... haha

It's the character-design for a mysterious little fairy of a story written by a girl who asked me to draw a comic version of it.^-^
I might do it, I kinda like the story and it's not too long either...

It's the very first time I've drawn a fairy btw...ö.ö It was fun.

I'm gonna do a better version of her soon.: D

KaKAO-cards #1 & #2

I've just painted my very first couple of KaKAO's -  Kartenkunst, Auflagen und Originale - or better ATC's - Artist Trading Cards - I prefer the German name though.:D

They've been around for ages and I always quite enjoyed looking at them but never really knew what they're all about.^-^ I knew that they would be traditional painted images on small sized cards, but I never though they might be THAT small! D:< I mean 2,5 x 3,5 inches is ridiculously tiny!!! It definitely takes much patience and attention to create a nice one and it took me way longer than I would have imagined.... ._."
Anyway, I love the fact that they're created to get exchanged against cards by other artists and I definately want to get a huge collection of them!*-* So I'd better get started now to produce some I can trade at the Connichi in September. I'm really looking forward to it.<3

I found this charming tiny book at Camden Market - which I do love above all other shopping possibilities London has to offer :D - and the format fits the measurements KaKAO cards should have perfectly, so I'm gonna use it to collect some ideas and the cards. I did customise it a bit as well..:)

Broken Twins

I finished the colouring yesterday.:3 Took me quite a long time but I really enjoyed it, especially the hair - and there's loads of it. I love colouring hair.*-*
I cheated and inserted the flower background digitaly since the paper I painted on was way to small and I was afraid of ruining the girls...

 

Again a gif animation that shows the colouring process.

(and again you have to klick on it to see the animation...still don't know why it doesn't work in here...)

Broken Twins - Sketch

'Una and Fleur are so called 'Broken Twins'. Both are connected to each other and a terrible fate surrounds them. According to the legend the sister who dies first will go to hell - the other one will face a peaceful dead. But the twin has to be murdered by the hand of its sibling. So they both hit the road, hate-ridden, to find and kill each other...'

That's the story written by a lovely girl who asked me to design the cover image for it.

She commissioned me a few weeks ago and I finally managed to get at least the outlines done. I've used the yin and yang symbol as the basis to symbolise how deeply connected both sisters are. Also I tried to illustrate their opposed charakters according to the description by the author.

If you want to see some indermediate steps of the drawing process you have to click on the image below. I don't know why it isn't working in here... .__."

 

It's the first time I've made a gif animation to show the different steps of the drawing process. 

I think it works quite well.:3

Summer Journal

Okay, here it is.:3 I've finally managed to create my (very first) own journal.:D
Bookbinding really is quite an exhausting process...I did enjoy it though! But I'm rather looking forward to fill it with loads of inspiring stuff.:3 <3 It's the first journal I ever had, I mean I loved filling my sketchbooks but this is something different - more exciting.:)
It contains about 200 pages of various paper, even some hand-made sheets.