Hey guys, with quite a bit new art soon hitting the shop (and the printer taking a loooot of time about it), I think it's best if I open my Etsy shop *before* the new art arrives (and then again when it arrives), to space out orders a little. I've got even more art coming up (I'll post a Maglor-in-progress later, alo...
2021-09-24 07:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post
(I've used that title before, haven't I? Probably at least four times. Never mind that.)
YAY for this painting style! Definitely something I'll be experimenting with. I used rather standard brushes (no watercolour ones), with a "Magic Canvas" texture from Lisa Glanz (which are absolutely awesome).
Defi...
2021-09-20 17:56:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This, guys! This is the digital look I've wanted to achieve for almost twenty years!! 😀
Still in progress, not there yet, but like 90%! I'm happy! =D
2021-09-20 13:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I was sketching aimlessly yesterday when I realised I wasn't using Procreate to its full potential (especially considering the HUNDREDS of brushes that sit there in my menu). I was still trying to mimic my watercolours, and while I get near enough, it falls a little flat and leaves me unsatisfied. So I decided to do something...
2021-09-19 05:55:22 +0000 UTC View Post
More fun with mockups! I'll probably have to find out how to make them, make smart layers and such, and make my own...
Here's the art on its own. ;)
I have no idea why I'm so timid with colours when I work ...
2021-09-17 17:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Spent my day off drawing more of my Tiefling Rogue Jax. I love this guy so much!
I put in an order of a few Maedhros and Hare-agorn prints at the local print shop, and will be opening my shop again for a day or so when they arrive! Hopefully next week or so. 😊
And also - WOW! So many new folks! I'm so glad ...
2021-09-16 09:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
A few people were asking to know more about Jax, so I'll write it out here, to read or ignore as you please. ;)
Jax grew up in the household of Matthew Falconblade, a Witchhunter of the Order of the Flaming Spear, in Kenabres. It wasn't long before he realised he was not Matthew's biological son - Matthew never ma...
2021-09-09 13:22:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawing my little quarter-demon boi, Jax - my new RPG character, a Tiefling Rogue. I haven't had this much fun playing RPG in ages. Yes, Paladins are cool, but they hold a lot of frustration potential when you attempt something heroic and then the dice fail you. With Jax, on the other hand, I can totally botch a stealth check...
2021-09-08 12:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hm. He seems to have lost some of his regal expression, but I think that was always due to the pure lineart stage. Hares have strange faces!
2021-09-01 14:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on the colours. I'll have a free day tomorrow AND the kids out of the house until four, so I hope to finish this then. XD
I've never worked with pre-built palettes (not in digital media), but for this one, I used the colour scheme from one of John's most incredible photos, and plucked the colours straight out of...
2021-08-31 19:20:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Why, yes, I haven't drawn in four months and now I'm springing (see what I did there) Aragorn as a hare at you. What else did you expect? =D
John Garth (of Tolkien and the Great War fame) has been posting photographs he took of hares all summer, and seeing them, I wanted to draw them. They looked...
2021-08-30 19:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
... a lot more slowly than her right had been. ;)
Maedhros and I can start our own Paralympics team. He'd be the Amputated Swordfighting champion, and I'd try my hand (ha-ha) at Visually Impaired Arting.
It only really works on the iPad right now - always perfect light, and zooming in to dimensions tha...
2021-08-28 18:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the ten-minute delay! I know the holiday option is one of three tabs on the Etsy dashboard, and on a bad WiFi day, checking all three and finding it's the last can take ten minutes... X)
2021-08-08 08:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostI'll open my shop around 10.00 am CET tomorrow morning! That's between 2 and 4 am for the US, and later Sunday for Asia/Australia. I will hopefully be able to leave the shop open for about 6-8 hours. And this time, I will actually, hopefully have a week of totally uneventful summer holidays to take care of them!
I can't...
2021-08-07 17:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostWe were mostly spared by the devastating floods that ravaged our region a week ago; but we have friends and family who needed our help, so we spent several days clearing up in the hard-hit adjacent town of Eschweiler, and I'm a bit behind on packing Etsy orders. I hope to meet the deadlines, but it's possible I'll need a few ...
2021-07-23 06:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post
... and I've got the much-requested large versions of the "Hunt"! I'm sorry I haven't been able to take any pretty photos - I usually take those outside, but I haven't seen the sun since the weekend. And we're much better off there than some unlucky villages nearby - some have been evacuated, in one, a shopping centre roof ha...
2021-07-14 17:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm slowly easing into the holidays - last week was full of doctor's appointments with absolutely no result other than me being a superbly healthy person (at the cardiology department, they kept bringing in student trainees to "Look at what a healthy person's heart looks like, see here..."); this week is full of apocalyptic r...
2021-07-13 07:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys, sorry again for the radio silence. My eyesight is no better, and stress in the final school weeks hasn't helped.
Spring (formerly Teespring, where you can get my t-shirts) is holding a sale this weekend, with 10% off all orders with the code 2021-07-02 18:56:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Excuse the three-minute delay! Why didn't anybody tell me Germany play at 6 pm tonight? XD
https://www.etsy.com/shop/JennyDolfenArt
2021-06-19 17:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey you wonderful people (and the warmest of welcomes to the NEW wonderful people who have signed up even though times are so uncertain), here's a post of me trying to find a new normal with my screen settings set to even bigger size. Forgive any typos athat I didn't catch - believe me, the teacher in me is appalled already!&...
2021-06-18 11:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo it seems I've got an answer to my eye problems, and it turns out it's most likely non an eye problem at all, but a congential heart problem. I will not go into any more detail here any more, to discourage well-meant medical advice.
The damage to my eye is, in all likelihood, permanent as well.
I still hav...
2021-06-12 12:41:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, just letting you know that I paused billing for June, meaning that those of you who pledge on a monthly basis will not be charged next month.
I've felt compelled to do this as I've had a few rather painful departures, quite obviously in reaction to my recent announcement, and that's something tha...
2021-05-23 17:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sorry if things are even slower than usual for me right now - I managed to get myself an eye infarction (retinal artery occlusion) this week, on top of my other visual impairment, all concentrated in my right eye and totally unrelated to each other. The good news is that this one is probably temporary (whether it's relate...
2021-05-21 11:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It really feels like slowly returning to life. Infection numbers falling. Returning to school on Monday. Both hubby and I got our first shot. Restaurants and shops could open again soon. And I have a glorious four days off to get some gouache painting done!
That was my first gouache landscape; in the second attemp...
2021-05-13 14:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I did get a photo of her yesterday, too, but the photos looked so off-colour that I was afraid to show you, haha. The manu sent another one today, and this time I'm really excited! The sheen in her dress will look beautiful. (As with Tilion, I went for a large area of enamel for the pearly effect.)
I also did some gouac...
2021-05-06 06:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey you lovely people! I'm sorry for the long radio silence - we've been in lockdown again for over a week now, and teaching is more time-consuming and less bearable than ever. The shops and restaurants have been closed for a whopping six months. For the last ten days, it's been all I've been able to do to keep up with Etsy o...
2021-05-05 13:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This was weird.
I sat down and thought I knew exactly what I wanted to paint. Of course, when you don't know your medium, it's almost impossible to paint what you want. So I painted something else, hated most things about it, thought I'd just finish the face, and maybe the leaf here, oh and let's do some leafy stu...
2021-04-24 17:04:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So, all the designs are done, vectorised and almost ready to go... as soon as settle on the Question of Bling.
Most people said they dislike glitter, and I concur - BUT my manu can do pearlescent enamel, which looks absolutely spiffy and held-back, and I'm definitely using that for the dark blues in Tilion, ...
2021-04-21 09:39:32 +0000 UTC View Post
They arrived yesterday (four days ahead! <3) and GOSH, I LOVE THEM. There's an exhilarating feeling to opening a box of newly arrived (well-done) pins. You'll remember that my very first unboxing involved the horribly flawed Maedhros pins, so it's always a little nerve-wracking, but so satisfying when they're good (and eve...
2021-04-18 06:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been difficult to scrape out time for art last week, but I finally finished designing the next batch of pins. Celestial bodies plus nerdiness plus fandom moment. ^__^ Eärendil, as always, is inspired by the 1919 illustrations of the Edda edition I inherited from my grandmother. Too Germanic? Some of the stuff in that ...
2021-04-16 19:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post
