Jenny Dolfen

Sketch: Fly me to the moon (mild spoiler)

... no, that's not what he said, but you can't have Dorian flying Orym around piggyback without me drawing that. XD

Also, is that song somehow burned since "Squid Game" or is it just me?

Dorian's new clothes

POV: You're three feet tall and this man is looking at you like that and HOW ON EARTH ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO FUNCTION

(Haven't seen the latest episode yet, so hoping they're all still alive... I was marking all day yesterday and didn't have time to finish this before the new episode hit! ;_;)

Also, YES, I think I can...

Sneaky teal

I did want to see what Orym looked like in canon brown armour, but decided to sneak in teal everywhere else. 😂 (And put in a few places where there’s still a hint of teal in the armour too.)

I'm very happy with him now! He looks cute and fuzzy, but like an adult, and what’s most important - ...

Still searching for Orym's new look

Next in the series "Jenny tries to adjust to Orym having fluffy hair now while still trying to make him look like an adult" 😂 I'm very happy with the pose, for starters!

Mer...maedhros and freebie paper packs!

I still owed you a Mermaedhros! I was looking for a more dynamic pose and happened to find one where one hand was entirely invisible, which was fine with me, hee hee. It's been a while since I've drawn him!

I've also spent the past week in a complete blur, scanning watercolour papers and I've finally found out how to sc...

Dorian - process video

Here's the process vid for painting Dorian! For those of you who are using my brushes, please let me know if these are helpful. (I plan to do a follow-along tutorial with a simple landscape soon!)

MerMay Dorian Storm

Dorian as a blue betta. 🫠

I'm very proud of myself that I managed to finish eight full colour illustrations for MerMay! And I haven’t forgotten that I promised you a Mermaedhros. 😇

I recorded a lot of the process again, so watch out for the videos later!

I also found out today that I didn’t have a ...

New Orym, coloured

I really changed very little. All of Bells Hells went for blue and yellow in their outfits to honour F.C.G., and since I’d always done him with yellow and green, I could just tweak it to yellow and blue. And there is no way I’ll change the colour of the Zephyr Armour. It's teal. Teal, precioussss.

Tousled Orym, take two

I wasn’t really happy with my first take at tousled Orym - I seem to have gone to my default setting and Orym ended up looking as if he'd nicked Maedhros' wig. I then set out to do a few more sketches, and I think I nailed it now. Still a boyband face, but he's progressed from the bad boy to the heartthrob. 😂 I can defin...

Painting with "Watercolour Essentials"

A little look at what brushes I like to use where! 🥰

Video tutorial: using alpha lock layers

Painting on alpha lock layers has been something like a watercolourist's dream. Once or twice, I actually masked off entire figures with masking fluid to be able to slosh around with background washes. One of the best things with Procreate is that masking off stuff becomes so easy. You can’t tear your paper with digital mas...

MerMay: Nott the Brave (as a pike)

Nott was the character of Sam's I was most thrilled to mermaid-ify; mainly because she'd be all, "WATER! Water everywhere! Aaaaargh!

She was hugely fun to paint, with that pike half. I recorded several bits of the process and will be posting videos too! Just tried putting them on Discord, but the files were too big... ...

We interrupt this programme to bring you…

I was in the middle of drawing Nott as a pike mermaid (because teeth!) while watching the most recent episode of CR, and Orym has canonically grown out his hair. This is not a drill. My "adult halfling" problem has just increased tenfold. 😂 There’s no way people won’t think Dorian is a pedophile now. 2024-05-24 09:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post

A little sale!

Since Tolkientage would have been my biggest event of the year, I'm holding a little sale to compensate for some of the financial aspect, at least. :/ Not that anything can compensate for two days of pure joy. Maybe the universe will give me Fridays off next term as well so Oxonmoot becomes doable...

Everything (in...

No Tolkientage for me this year

To anyone hoping to catch me at Tolkientage this weekend, I have bad news. Since we've got a pertussis epidemic in our town (whooping cough), and since I have got a cough, I have to isolate until after the weekend. I've just come from the doctor, who tested me for pertussis, but the results take three days so won't be there t...

"I'm here with you"

The final result of a day-long search for this scene, scrapping three images in the lineart stage and settling on a very, very nice sketch. This is what the folder on my iPad looks like, heh.

The first attempts are all on Dis...

Zephyr armour

Jenny in early 2022: this Orym guy is really cool to draw, but I hate the colour scheme of green and brown. I probably can’t get away with teal, but I’ll make the armour bronze.

2024: Orym sees a set of teal armour he can’t afford; Dorian gives him all his money so he can buy it ("But you can’t have the Gucci b...

***SPOILER*** A spider over a fly

Drawing this, I realised how many Gollum vibes Laudna gives off when she's under the influence of Delilah.

Spoiler C3_95 Things that go bump in the night

That scene that started the juicy player-vs-player sequence in the last episode. It was a challenge to draw Orym asleep with his sword(s) and shield and not having him look like an effigy, lol. I left off his armour (so he can pull down his shirt later to show the others where Laudna's spell hit him). There was SO MUCH in tha...

MerMay: Imogen

Imogen as, of course, a seahorse and sporting her canonical lightning titties. 😂

Now I have every player except Sam and Robbie! Dorian will come, and I’m still debating which one of Sam's I’ll do. I'm actually leaning towards Nott. 😁

MerMay: Fearne

She's neither fish nor faun. Oh gods, the puns are still coming in strong. XD

I am So. Freaking. Happy with her. I fall in love with her more every time I paint her.

I've also compiled the Essential Watercolour brush set! It's free for all Patrons of Squirrel and up, and available for just 7€ in the 2024-05-16 17:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Jenny's Watercolour Essentials - Brush set for Procreate

The definitive, the ineffable, the essential watercolour brush pack for Procreate! Compiling my favourite brushes from all my sets as well as two brand-new wet into wet brushes, this is the slimmed-down version that I put together for myself because it's the brushes I find myself using most often. The set contains one liner/penc...

Fearne in progress

I started colouring her during a free period at school today, then the bell forced me to stop and do some teaching, and I stood in 7c thinking, "Why am I here? I have a date with a goldfish!!“

MerMay: Caduceus

Those who saw the sketch on Discord will have been waiting: it’s Caduceus Clay as a mana…tea. The inspiration hit pretty suddenly last night, and here he is!

I painted this with a little something I’ve been putting together: a "watercolour essentials" brush pack with only a good dozen brushes, but which are alrea...

Protector - coloured

I'm totally in love with both their faces here - Fearne, sweet as always and slowly regretting following a cute little sugar glider into the unknown, and fierce little Orym, ready to protect his big silly friend to the last breath.

Protector

(Spoilers for episode 94)

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A scene from this week's episode gives me a chance to draw Orym at his best - protecting friends twice his size from enemies fifty times his size. In this case, from Fearne’s father riding a dragon.

This one was posed with CSP again; the dragon's pose is from a D&D m...

Mer-Wer-Gnome Chetney

For the four-hundred-year-old gnome who can turn into a werwolf, I was forced to google the weeeeirdest reference photos. My daughter is still wary of going near my computer.

Under the Red Moon - edit: rendered

This is normally my inbetween stage and the one where I start colouring in earnest, but I'm so madly in love with this as it is that I think I'll just leave it. I've always been a sucker for the ligne claire style of franco-belgian comics, but the wish to render everything always stands in my way of it.

Bu...

A kiss under the Red Moon (lineart)

I posted the sketch for this on Discord last night, and cleaned it up and added a few hands. Orym in particular needed a left hand that said "Whaaaaat is happening" (as well as being calloused enough to convey he's an adult).

So yesterday's 4SidedDive was definitely juicy for Dorym shippers! Trust Aabria and Aimee to g...

Laudna's latest Form of Dread

I love her so much. I can call off MerMay. Won't be getting any better than this.

(No, I won't; as least Chetney, Dorian and Maedhros will get the scaled-up treatment!)