Three Pixies

 The other day I felt like drawing some pixies. ♥

This is what most of my paintings look like in between...a somewhat delicate mess.
(which I oftentimes prefer to the final outcome though...♥)

'Briar Rose-Pixie'

'Kraken-Pixie'

'Lamella-Pixie'

  The last one is my personal favourite I guess...what do you think? :)

You can buy prints and greeting cards of these here if you like.

'Verdorben'

 

My contribution to a secret-santa action. The theme was 'Human Insects' and I was given the 'Scorpion fly'.

I'm glad that I finally found a use for those lovely dried flowers I've been keeping ever since last october.

 Hope you like it! Here's some work in progress:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commission: Nocturnal Bath & Reading Time

These are a couple of commissions I did for Prinzessin-Zelda. The first one shows her OC Minka with her alter ego and the second one pictures her OC Dragon.
They've been a pleasure to paint and I wholly enjoyed the process of creating them. Here is a bit of w.i.p. for everyone interested. Enjoy.♥

 Sketches

 fully covered the paper with water, than added some splashes of colour and salt here and there to create an atmosphere and overall colour scheme

 

fleshing out the characters, creating depth and contrast

 

elaborating the background, adding final touches

Voilà, done! ♥

(I'm lying..it actually took me way too long again, I really need to get faster...^^')

Cemetery Junction

I spent some time sketching at the cemetery today. You meet some weird characters if you stay there for too long but the weather was lovely and provided just the right contrast.

 

 

 

a VS b

 

Hello,

for a couple of months I've now been working on some illustrations for a novel that is soon to be published.

More information on this very soon - for now I'd like to ask for some advice.

These are the two potential covermotifs but only one of them will be used for the printed edition so I'd like to know which of them would rather grab your attention in a bookstore (and 'why' maybe).

Any answers are highly appreciated. :)

Auburn Sensation

A little something for a special someone.

Happy Birthday, dear! ♥

The media I used were mainly acrylics which are great to achieve those beautiful textures I'm obsessed with lately. I also used a reddish-brown non-waterproof fineliner as well as a white gelpen.

Here's some work in progress.

 

 

 

 

 

The Beauty in Decay

 

Hello everyone. :)

We've been given a new long-term project for University. It's to do with recording our lives and the things that excite us so basically doing lots of observational drawings. We also should consider the way we display all these drawings.

Since I'm mostly interested in capturing the beauty of decay in my works it was an obvious choice to pick an old book from a charity shop to work in instead of a brandnew, perfectly bound sketchbook without character. These old books really do have a lot of character and stories to tell - just as the things I like to observe with my drawings so I guess it's a suitable display. :)

Anyway, I splattered some paint all over the pages to cover up some of the images and texts in there and to create some very interesting pattern and textures as well as different colour schemes - for every drawing I do in there now I'll be able to pick the perfect background. I did use acrylics for this in combination with coffee and salt - my all time favourites. It definitely was a lot of fun and I'm very much looking forward to filling all those pages with drawings of strange things.♥

 

 

The first thing I put in there yesterday was a bunch of flowers. Actually I wanted to paint them some weeks ago when I got them but I never got down to do it... Fortunately though, because they've only gotten prettier with time and fit the theme of my book much better now so it was pure joy for me to draw them. ♥

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's for all the lovers out there who's love might not be in full bloom today but who patiently hold on to it because they know some day it will bloom again.♥

I hope you had a lovely St. Valentine's Day.