Artworks March and April

I have been able to  work with pastell colors for the first time in a long time. Curiously, it also  made me enjoy water colors much more again! I feel lile I'm making the best pictures when I  don't care on the outcome at all, just enjoying the process. 

But that's what  life always is about, enjoy the walk and journey, amd whatever is happening, we deal with it, learn and experience, and move on.  Life simply needs to be lived.

 

2021 summary

What a busy year this was!

That being said, I also feel like I didn't have the opportunity to make art and be creative so much in a long time. 

But while I still love watercolor,  I focused more on other things  this year. 

I got the comic going, and practised more model building.  And... on the side, also made a few cross stitch pieces.

So here are a few examples of what I've done in 2021. I'm excited  what 2022 will bring, and with every piece and project , good and bad, I'll be improving!

Happy new year!

Legend of the paper dragon

 Hey there!

Finally, after a long time, I have started (again) a "comic" of mine! Well, if you want to call it comic, mang, visual novel ... it's your choice! I just draw it, and I don't really follow any particular rule or way of things.

But uff, this takes quite some time to do.  I guess chapter 2 will be out in September, and this will be more of a monthly thing. 

Anyway, head over to Legend of the paper dragon or find it via the menu.

Good reading, please enjoy!

Rice Planting

Sometimes I dream about just watching everything from above like a bird. Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to fly and feel the wind through the feathers?

Too bad we humans can only imagine that!

Anyway, to see two people harvesting rice was a spontaneous idea, a sudden lightbulb on my mind. So I had to paint it. If not, I would never get such pictures out of my head.

Artworks January to June

Half of 2021 has already passed!

And of course I have found a way to make art each week, sometimes more and sometimes less.

So without further ado, here are some of the work from January to June.

 

For this one I mainly wanted to paint with acrylics, which I haven't done for a long time!

In a story, a Koi came across a waterfall. To continue on his way, he tried to jump over it, and failed and failed. So, he tried to jump over the waterfall for 1000 years. And finally, he did! As a "reward" for his effort and not giving up, he was turned into a dragon.

Spring time, and ladybugs are wonderful!

Just a watercolor landscape.

Another spring time drawing. It took a very long time. I wanted to see the contrast between color and pencil.

Om

I love fennec foxes!

Building model houses

Back when I was still in school, one of the possible jobs I could try to get into, was model building. At that time I have never made one though! And it turned out to not be the best prospect either.

But seeing diy kits on YouTube and the like, I couldn't help but try such thing too, finally.

That has meant a huge mess with glue, and even now more than a year later that mess has not become smaller. But it became a craft I do enjoy after all. So much, that I wanted to build my own model houses from scratch!

It turned out that making it mainly from wood rent the best idea, and took longer than expected, on top of being strenuous with the sawing and filing. But I'm proud on the results!

So without further ado, here stimmt are some images of the past 1.5 years or so.

November Art

Inktober has come and gone.
I know I forgot to share the drawings of its last week, and now it's kind of too late to do so, in my eyes.

Anyway, after drawing something else each day, it was nice to now focus on a single drawing over a longer period of time.
Colored pencils are a slow medium, so it fitted quite well for it.

To calm down some more I came up with the idea of a zen stone stack. I made one only few weeks before!
The drawing itself isn't made with any references though. For this drawing I liked to just do it how I thought it would look nice.
Even the streaks on the sky are intentional, they show a little bit how the sky looks like for me each day, because it looks more like the sky I see with my eyes each day.