Queen Bee

The ladies of the Game of Thrones

Small studies just for fun!

Red

Mind Palace

Study of a Jules Dalou sculpture

Another sculpure photo study, this time of Jules Dalou's "Young woman wearing headscarf"

Study of a Thomas Brock sculpture

An evening photo study of Thomas Brock's "Eve"

Fimbulvinter

My best friend Janka and I started holding a lil' bi-weekly drawing challenge, and our best friend Natalia is in charge of throwing us the topic :D Our first topic is ragnarok, because, well, it is supposedly nigh.
It is supposed to be started off with a three year long Fimbulvinter. So my drawing is kind of a variation on the subject of winter, vikings and their gods.
T'was a good thing to draw! I much needed a break from my current project so this was a godsend (hah, god).

Neuralgia

Yaay a more polished piece!
Had this notion on my mind for yeeears... Few days ago it came back to my brain again so I decided to finally get it out fo reals, not just as one of many unused sketches I did a while back. :)

Light 2

I had a lot of fun making that last illustration so I wanted to spit out another one because not everything has to be a milestone in progression. ;)
Color scheme just in time for today's Valentine's Day, lol.

Light

Been trying out some new photoshop techniques -- achieving translucency by using gradients rather than flat block in colors, restricting the palette for a stronger effect... I must say I quite like the outcome! Worked out well for this illustration. :)

Color studies

Continuing the idea from my previous post, this time with colors :)

Top two are Grimshaw paintings (I definitely have a thing for this guy's landscapes), bottom two are by T. F. Simon and Kramskoi.

A guard

Took a pencil figure study from way back and decided to put an armory designy spin on it

A rider

Horses and braids and skulls, oh my!

Zombies

Older sketches from ~a month ago :)

Boyfriend playing "Walking dead" game = chill zombie drawin' time.
I mostly approached these as sorta anatomy sketches which makes it super fun

Frog guy - it was a figure study gone completely experimental with filters, effects and whatnot!
Was curious on how to achieve the night vision effect. :)

Aloha

In light of a hurricane recently invading Europe... it's nice to try out some new techniques while painting an obviously warm climate rocky place. Totally used this lovely photo ref.

What sucks is that I'm completely stuck in a very nonproductive rut :( I miss the time when I was surrounded by art folk! It's really hard not having that :(

Tribal

Worked on a sketch from a year ago :) 

african tribes inspired sketch :)

Bull guy!

Got loads of stuff I sorta never uploaded so I guess I should be finally posting them sometime this year?

Oh man, only now did I think of that it's a bull... with sorta lizard scales... and a thick coat... it's bullizard in a blizzard! ...I should go to sleep.

Fiddle fiddle fiddle

Fiddling around with one of the works from previous post :) Namely this one:

yawn.

got a hold of new photoshop brushes... oh man, t'was fun!

why stop if you can keep on going and change stuff around!

fun fun work fun!I spent practically entire day in front of the computer screen so I'm pretty sure my brain is scrambled eggs... so I'm not gonna write anything more. Bye!

Locations

Been fooling around with photoshop lately, trying to capture various locations!
It's a bunch of ideas not following any particular pattern, I mostly just wanted to try things out. :) I've been under a heavy influence of video games' concept art lately. I'm not only very much inspired by various works, I'm also trying to learn as much as I can from them. Getting as much information into a piece in possibly clearest and simplest ways, putting the mood across... that sort of jazz :)

Continuation of an oil sketch I did back in Switzerland -- I decided to play around with oils a bit more, then moved on to photoshop

And another Narasca sketch gone loose and digital :) Tried to get a fresh foggy morning vibe in it

I found a painting sketch I did way back in February or so, decided to give it a digital refresh :)
I actually found this process the easiest -- painting something in traditional media, then 'shopping it up. I feel much more in control and confident with colors when they're in a material form. :)

Mountains... Not too happy with it but I decided I rather worked on more interesting stuff rather than put more time into this.

Having fun with a horror/zombie apocalypse feel :D

This one is a huge let down... It felt like it's gonna be a nice piece but I just can't get it to work to the point of currently giving up upon it -- gotta give my eyes and brain a rest from it before I will want to get back to it :)

Wooden tree houses are overrated, tree cottages are the new black.
Drawing this was a lot of fun!

 Anyway, hope you liked these :)

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!