When in doubt, paint a princess

Today I've been having a hard time with a painting I've been recently working at. At some point I decided to screw it for now and use the leftover paint for a Snow White speedpaint (~15 mins).
Lately I've been in love with paintings that are build up with very soft brushstrokes and toned palette, like Auguste Renoir's or Olga Boznańska's (whose works I'm always so happy to see at Warsaw's National Gallery).

oil on canvas, 24x24cm

Hopefully later today it will be easier for me to work on the bigger project, but for now - lunch break. :)

Shamanism

I am always inspired by certain roughness and primitive -- yet, in a way, sophisticated -- character of shamanic rituals and apparel. I love the fact these otherworldly traditions can be observed in just any part of the globe - from Lappland to Oceania - so the subject seems to be a limitless supply of inspiration to explore.  Following are sketches I did just to get things going, I am with all certainty going to develop this artistic research further. :)

I actually went quite far with developing the idea from the far right -- but it was digital, and the computer I was working at died, taking the work with it to the grave. I'm not giving up on it though, I will likely restart after I get my pc fixed. :)

Awakening

Finally got around scanning some older works of mine.

I roughly titled this drawing "Awakening" (or rather, Polish "Przebudzenie") and it kinda stayed like that. It seems an adequately titled piece to submit after such long absence of updates.

pencil on toned paper, 21x30cm

a quick study of a tree branch

Will post more works soon!

Layouts

I have been changing my blog's layout many times lately but I believe I will be settling with this one for a while. Being indecisive for the win... not ;)

Doggies

Today I saw a photograph of a shibu ina, a beautiful japanese dog and I instantly felt like drawing it :) eventually it ended in a small dog-drwaing fest, haha.

I used photo references to draw these. :)

Next one is based on my dog Spike! And doggie treats my grandma gave for me to give him, haha.

And some of you must know this next one... since I was drawing dogs, it only felt natural to doodle a picture of my favourite image on the entire internet. (Close second place is this but I'm not likely to draw it. :<)

Quick small works like these are so much fun to draw! :) Though right now I'm working on something hopefully a tad bigger ;)
See ya!

Gaia

I had a rather busy day today but I still managed to "paint" this one hour doodle :)

Inspiration came from detail picture of Philippe Lallemand's portrait of Charles Perrault - especially the palette he used. I love the armospheric yet luminous earthy tones he used. Though obviously in the begining I also used it as a face reference :)

I also used an old sketch of a bird I did back in Goteborg as a reference, so I can't really say what species was it supposed to be exactly, heh heh... 

 

Obviously I'm happy to be back to working on my big ol' computer instead of my tiny laptop ;) so much more comfortable, gee. :)

Until next time!

Quick works

I'm finally moved and settled at my usual place! My flat underwent some serious rebuilding so it took a while, but now it's super awesome and I'm loving it. It took a bit of time to get everything in the right place but now I feels comfortable enough for me to stop rearranging stuff and draw! :) Which resulted in two quick pieces done in Photoshop.

First one was a very quick, 1 hour warm-up, a while of which was spent making custom brushes which I never really did before but boy, was I a fool not to!
It was fun drawing a bearded dwarf - especially since it's not something from my usual repertoir of characters :)

The dwarf approves.

I also felt inspired to create a children illustration and I really enjoyed making it! It was the first time actually doing something like that and I think I'm hooked.

Yay, all the colors of the rainbow. ;)

I'm a little ill (common cold in mid-August, gosh) so my mind refuses to come up with anything more to add... sorry!

Anyway, I hope you liked it!