Welcome to new Patron, Ryan - glad to see you!
Gods, I wished I could do actual quick colour sketches! Maybe something I should try that more forcedly next.
This was sparked by yesterday's episode of "4 Sided Dive", Critical Role's chat show-type format, where Liam was asked about his character Or...
2023-03-22 19:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
So many new patrons! Welcome, Ziebiex Vii, LynMars, Marach, Michelle, and Lauren! Have a cookie!
Here's some of the prompts you lovely folks gave me for the last round of commissions a month ago, that didn't quite make it! <3 S...
2023-03-21 14:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm getting better and even better with my texture thing! I now did something revolutionary, mostly for the background here: Instead of painting an ugly placeholder colour and then turning it into the texture I want with clipping mask, I apply the texture and clipping mask *before* I do any painting, and then when I paint und...
2023-03-19 10:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to new Patrons K L and Denise! 🎉🎉🎉
New lineart for a piece called "Answers". (Spoilers for C3_51!)
For six years, Orym has been asking the same questions about the attack that saw his husband and father in law killed: Why Zephrah? Why Derrig, why Will? Why did they target Keyleth?
Now he has...
2023-03-18 18:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been fiddling with this for days - meant it to be another digital oil painting, and hit the snag I always hit when I do a few gouache (or acrylic, or oil) studies from photos - without a photo, I'm lost. In the end, the good thing was I'd laid out the lineart and the colour layers from the start, so I could just appropri...
2023-03-16 18:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Kate suggested a betta, and I was immediately reminded of Heinrich, the serial killer betta I had when I was thirteen. He was the star in an aquarium I got second hand, and I had no idea when I got it what fish get along with what others. I quickly read up on everything so after another week, I knew that fish need plant...
2023-03-13 10:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
.… it's a bee-eater!
This is a lot more fun when you know you're not wasting sinfully expensive and environmentally problematic material, I'll be honest. ;) And the Ugly Stage (TM) is so much more bearable in Procreate…
2023-03-12 18:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for all the suggestions, but this critter (suggested by Miranda) just took the (rainbow) cake! I can see all sorts of things that would have looked terrible if this had involved a human face, but as it is, I really like it for a first go. And yes, I couldn't be bothered with the stump it’s sitting on, hee.
Hey guys, I'm sick and quarantined with My First Covid. (After three years; I almost thought I'd dodged the bullet.) I'm spending my time watching Critical Role Pub Draw videos, and holy s***, are they inspiring! There's one where Babs Tarr and Matt do an 2023-03-12 10:33:51 +0000 UTC View Post
A warm welcome to new Patrons Felagund and Jackie! =D Thanks for being on board!
Finished piece of Fearne and Orym plotting dark things in case of even darker things. I hope we'll find out next episode whether it'll come to that...
Doing more texture-based colouring. T...
2023-03-08 17:37:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm getting better and better with this textures thing! Now doesn't this look like very wet watercolour? And I'm finally getting faster too!
I'm so glad these batch of commissions has gone so well and so relatively fast! I'll take a break from commissions for a bit, but I hope to hope to open a few slots after the...
2023-03-07 14:27:32 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to new Patrons Kate, Jordan, and Raul! So glad you've joined us!
Dungeons & Dormice are complete! Ranger, Cleric and Wizard are already in their second runs, and the Warlock, Fighter, and Sorcerer are here too! Yeeeees, the Fighter does have Orym vibes...
2023-03-04 17:55:11 +0000 UTC View Post
How many of you flipped to their new calendar page with a little flourish today? I know I did! =D
I finished Elanor yesterday and only find the time to post her today. I'm utterly in love with the textures again here - again, with my new-found technique! It makes me so happy.
2023-03-01 18:32:49 +0000 UTC
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I managed to do a tutorial, on video, with music, AND sound!
Hope the video looks good this time. If it doesn't, I'm officially giving up Patreon vids and point you all to YouTube. ;)
Edit: Ha! 4k was enough then. That's good to kn...
2023-02-25 17:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post
... oh my!
First off, welcome to new Patrons Hannah, Tanwen, Joseph & Julie, and Emma! =D
This watercolour texture thing is SO GOOD. I'm so indredibly happy with the results here. Look at the stone textures! All the granulating ultramari...
2023-02-25 16:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It was Carnival weekend in Western Germany, which means: five glorious days off school while the rest of the county gets drunk; help the kids into and out of their Orc and Rogue costumes, survive an hour or two while the "Zoch" (procession) gets dangerously close enough to our house for me to hear that waggon 1 is playing "Po...
2023-02-22 18:17:47 +0000 UTC View Post
First off, I thought I'd show you the final(ish) version of the "Take me instead" piece. I used my new textures and it improved a lot, but it was one of those images that just didn't go any further, so well... I'm leaving it there. :)
Next: Three commissions! Oh my, it was SO HARD to choose! So ma...
2023-02-17 08:34:37 +0000 UTC View PostI'm feeling brave and want to open three commission slots. Before you get your blood pressure up (which is BAAAAD, I know!!), I'm going to pick three ideas you throw at me over the next 24 hours, so this time it's not a first come, first serve situation. Cutoff time is tomorrow at eight pm CET. 2023-02-15 19:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to new Patron Secret Name! =D
I finished Dorian today and I can say I've never been happier with a first attempt at anything! I definitely want to try more with this, maybe a few gradients (though those can be achieved easily by blending two different textures), but now I want to make s...
2023-02-08 09:52:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to new Patrons Amanda, Viki, Abrealia, and Denrhea! Woo-hoo!
So, this is taking longer than expected, because this piece, and the idea to use my own textures, is about to absolutely revolutionise my workflow and digital art look! I spent t...
2023-02-05 09:12:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the lineart for Dorian! Thank you again, Ama, for a commission that somehow pushed me to do the most elegant lineart I may have ever done. =O
Dorian's body, lute, and sleeves were kindly modelled by... a painting by Caravaggio.
I'm going to try something new: Today, I got out the watercolours, a...
2023-02-03 16:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The wooden pins have arrived, and they are So. Good. I may actually do these from now on instead of the enamel ones. The cost is similar, but they looks fantastic and are so much more ethically produced...
2023-02-02 08:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the Rogue, Druid, and Monk! I'm so freaking happy with how they turned out. I used an app for colour picking this time - much faster AND much better results than when I colour pick them from the Pantone book. There's so much colour harmony here! Look at the little Druid! <3
2023-01-18 15:30:44 +0000 UTC
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I'm finally on the finishing stretch of designing all 12 character classes of D&D (just when D&D is set to implode, oooh boy). (If you don't know what I'm talking about, google OGL 1.1 - they're revoking their Open Gaming Licence of over 20 years and leaving a lot of creators hanging and furious.)
Never mi...
2023-01-12 14:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post
15% off anything on Inprnt through Sunday, and I added another 5 to round it off to a nice 20%. Take a look if there's anything you've been eyeing! Lots of older art on there, too. <3
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jenny.dolfen.5...
2023-01-10 09:47:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Guy in casino: "You're a collective? What do you do?"
Laudna: "We're, uuuh, traveling performers."
*moment of incredulous silence*
Orym: "I shoot out vines from my hand and start doing Cirque du Soleil shit upside down from the ceiling."
Plus prelim sketches from the doctor's waiting room.
2023-01-09 11:28:12 +0000 UTC
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A couple of things this early January! I finally put my most recent artbook, "Journeys", together as a digital download for my Etsy shop. The Patreon codes don't work on digital things, but this does: YAYF...
2023-01-02 16:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Last art for this year! It's fitting that it should be Orym (and yeah, I'm aware that chances of that weren't too low!), the little 3'3'' guy who in spite of hardship, loss and cynicism never lost his kind little heart. <3 It's safe to say this emotional support halfling carried me through a lot of 2022.
For th...
2022-12-31 06:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostThey turned out even better than I'd dare to hope, and since they are produced responsibly AND can be ordered in smaller numbers, I now want to go bonkers with them! Hit me with all your ideas, also for stuff I have to draw first, to figure out what to do next!
I actually like them better than enamel pins, a...
2022-12-27 14:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This wasn't supposed to be a "End of year, holiday season" type of painting, but time and eye constraints made it such, even though I wanted to paint this scene for two and a half weeks. Orym, who has held on to his non-magical sword until level eight because it was a gift from his late husband, receives a gift from Seraatani...
2022-12-26 06:23:36 +0000 UTC View Post
