Head of Stone

Digital painting, comic style: A character sheet of the Medusa mermaid Merdusa, light, pergamentlike background, Merdusa in the bottom right half of the sheet in front view, she's a mermaid whose lower body part is the body of a white sea snake with yellow stripes, the end of the tail is flattened. She's got snakes instead of hair. The arms ar crossed, she is looking out of the corner of the eyes to her right, there is grey rimlight and a grey shadow beneath her, in the background a pale school of fish; in the upper left half of the painting text: "Merdusa - Stunning Stone Queen of the Sea -; Aristocratic ancestry; Soft but resistant skin + scales, mimicking stone surface; Lower body of a sea snake, poisonous snakes as hair; The poison petrifies whoever get bitten by them, it also can be spewed into the water for broader (but less effective) impact (this rising the rumor, just looking at her would turn everyone to stone); She has a no-nonsense attitude to life but at the same time she is attracted to nonsense; This leading to her love-hate relationship - well, more love than hate - with Nema, the clownfish mermaid, but she won't admit her affection for Nema easily.

Digital Painting, Comic style: Below sea level, sea's bottom, rather dark water, "Merdusa" in front view, a mermaid whose lower body part is the body of a white sea snake with yellow stripes, the end of the tail is flattened. She's got snakes instead of hair. The arms ar crossed, she is looking out of the corner of the eyes to her right, in the foreground are some water plants, in the background some blurry rocks, a school of fish can be seen in the upper left corner, water and light are creating a pattern on Merdusa's skin and hair.

Digitalzeichnung, Comicstil, Ausschnitt aus einem Bild: Merdusa, die Medusa-Meerjungfrau, graue-blaue Haut, gelbe Stellen auf der Haut, weiße Schlangen auf dem Kopf von vorne, der Oberkörper ist zu sehen, die hat die Arme verschränkt, guckt ungeduldig nach links (vom Betrachter aus gesehen). Korallen und Seeanemonen im Hintergrund.

🇩🇪 Die Neu-Zeichnung Merdusas von letzter Woche sollte nur der Auftakt zu einer Reihe weiterer Mermaid-OC-Bildern sein. Und diesmal habe ich es sogar geschafft (zeitnah) diese Reihe weiterzuführen … sort of.

Mein nächster Mermay-OC befindet sich bereits work in progress, zuvor jedoch habe ich diese Woche noch einen Charakterborgen für Merdusa erstellt, um diese endlich einmal richtig vorzustellen, abseits dessen, was ihr hier auf diesen Seiten und in diesem PaintLog in der Vergangenheit bereits habt erfahren können.

Doch auch an anderer Stelle kündigt sich Neues am Horizont an:

Aus Arcryla City stehen gleich zwei neue Bilder ins Haus. Passend zum Valentingstag gibt es ein Valentings-Event mit einer Promptliste und ich werde natürlich nicht zögern, hier etwas zusammenzuzeichnen.

An dem anderen Bild arbeite ich bereits seit einer geraumen Weile zusammen mit meiner Kollaborationspartnerin Potato Beta. Es wird die Geschichte von Paula + Crissy und Potato + Conway, fortschreiben, die mit dem Sleepover begann und bisher bis zum Zeppelin Night Ride führte. Bislanng ist noch nicht abzusehen, wann es fertiggestellt sein soll, ich hoffe jedoch, dass wir es in den nächsten Wochen finalisieren können.

🇬🇧 Last week’s redraw of Merdusa was only meant to be the kick-off to a series of more Mermaid OC paintings. And this time I even managed to continue this series (in a timely manner) … sort of.

The next Mermay OC The next character is already work in progress, but before that I created a character sheet for Merdusa to finally introduce her properly, apart from what you have already learned here on this website and in this PaintLog in the past.

But there are also other news on the horizon:

There are two new pictures going to come from Arcryla City. Fitting for Valentine’s Day there is a Valentines event with a prompt list and of course I won’t hesitate to draw something together here.

I’ve been working on the other painting for quite a while now with my collaboration partner Potato Beta. It will continue the story of Paula + Crissy and Potato + Conway, which began with the Sleepover and has so far led up to the Zeppelin Night Ride. As of yet, there is no word on when it will be completed, but I hope we can finalize it within the next few weeks.

Digital Painting, a collaboration project in comic/anime style: The Arcryla City OCs Potato Delta, Conway, Crissy and Paula on the dancefloor, Crissy/Paula to the left, Potato/Conway to the right; Conway is a huge guy in a blute coat and a dark tophat with white-blonde hair, holding Potato tight who is leaning against him with closed eyes, Potato is wearing a golden and blue shoulder free dress with golden frills, she has orange short hair, two long strains falling down her cheeks; Paula has short, light green hair as side fringe, purple lips and is wearing a bellyfree button-down shirt without sleeves, platform boots and a skirt with frills, all clothes are green, she also wears black bands around neck and wrists; she is holding Crissy tight and leaning over her while Crissy is leaning backwards; Crissy has short purple hair and big round glasses, she wears a bellyfree corsagelike purple top, a short light purple skirt and purple toefree boots, she is blushing; in the backgrpund people at tables and a big window with flying glowing fish; to the right there are mechanical music instruments which are playing themselves, a pipe, a saxiphone, a cello and a violin; in the foreground two chanedeliers and the contours of people

Digital Painting, Comic style: Two young woman, Crissy Faith (short purple hair, big round glasses) and Potato Delta (long brownish red hair) in Crissy's flat in pajamas on a couch which has been transformed into a bed, sitting on rose, and brown blankets and cushions, Potato holding a glass, Crissy looking sideways down, pressing her stuffed water bear towards her belly, blushing, bowles and bottles around them, pizza boxes on the floor, a table with more bowles, an aquarium, a slate, a notebook, light bubls hanging from the ceiling; huge, wide windows in the background, the scenery showing zeppelins, clouds and a huge building with a blue glowing clock tower in front of a night sky

Back to Work

🇩🇪 Die Frohe Kunde vorneweg: Beim Arcryla City Summer Festival (🇬🇧) haben meine Beiträge und ich den dritten Platz belegt! Eine vollständige Übersicht meiner Beiträge findet ihr an oben verlinkter Stelle und auch noch einmal gebündelt auf meinem Instagram-Account.

Da das harte Arbeitsleben in der letzten Woche wieder so richtig einkickte, bin ich zeichnerisch in der vergangenen Woche ansonsten aber nicht zu sonderlich viel gekommen. In Arbeit sind noch zwei weitere Bilder zu Crissy Faith in Arcryla City (🇬🇧), über das am weitesten fortgeschrittene halte ich euch regelmäßig auf Patreon und Ko-fi auf dem Laufenden. Zu dem anderen darf und will ich noch nicht zu viel verraten, aber es handelt sich erneut um ein Kollaborationsprojekt, das sich aber erst in der Anfangsphase der Planung befindet.

Apropos Ko-fi: Eine weitere Änderung hat sich ergeben. Dort sind nun auch Mitgliedschaften möglich. Diese orientieren sich an den Mitfgliedschaftsstufen auf Patreon und bieten dieselben Arten von Inhalten (Early Access, Work in Progress etc.). Solltet ihr nur einmal spenden wollen, gilt nach wie vor, dass ihr ein Werk dieser exklusiven Inhalte bei einer Spende ebenso erhalten könnt, wenn ihr mir beim Spenden dazu eine Notiz hinterlasst.

Ein Bild habe ich diese Woche dann aber doch zustande gebracht: Den zweiten Teil meines MeetMyOCs-Charakterbogens (🇬🇧) .

Und nun … back to drawing work!

🇬🇧 Good news first: My entries and me made the third place at the Arcryla City Summer Festival! You will find all of my entries by following the above-mentioned links and of course as an overview on my Instagram-Account

Because hard daily work took me quite offguard, I didn’t draw much in the past week. There are two works in progress featuring Crissy Faith. in Arcryla City. You will be updated about the most elaborated on Patreon and Ko-fi. It’s too early to talk about the second one but it again will be a collab project which only is in the planning phase right now.

Apropos Ko-fi: You now can subscribe for membership. The membership levels are similar to the ones on Patreon and provide the same kind of content (Early Access, Work in Progress etc.). If you would like to tip me a coffee only once, you still can notify my when tipping, so I can submit you one piece of those exclusive contend, too.

Last but not least, there actually is one painting I finished this week: The MeetMyOCs character sheet part 2.

And now … back to drawing work!

Digital painting, comic style: A sheet "Meet my OCs" (Part 2) with four boxes in the lower half, one text box "Name(s)", "Origins", "Occupation(s)", "Misc", four boxes with information regarding my OCs, in the upper left corner another box with my contact information, hashtag #MeetMyOcs; atop of the boxes three of my OCs: 1) Orphelya; The Tale of Cedrakon (Original Story); Gargoyla; Lost her favorite sleeping spot in the attack on Castle Cedrakon 2) The name derived from humans seeing her and cursing "Oarr f***, we all are ...!" 2) Cosmothra; OC building challenge 2020 (Twitter); Temple Guardian of a long lost folk; Can transform into a bat-winged Kaiju size form; Owns a giant teleportation and television amulet; The bat nevers stops talking 3) The Bicker Fairies; Addendum to Inktober 2019 prompt "Swing"; Bickering around; They love each other, really! Their home is the Fairy Tree in the Enchanted Forest

Celebrations

🇩🇪 Gestern endete die Frist zur Einreichung der Beiträge für die general prompts des Arcryla City Summer Festival (🇬🇧). Unglaublich, dass das doch ganze 9 Wochen waren, in denen ich fast durchgehend für diese Festivität gezeichnet hatte.

Als einen letzten Beitrag hatte ich kurz vor dem Ende der Frist noch einen Beitrag zum Stichwort „Fairy Floss“ eingereicht. Die Geschichte ist jedoch noch nicht zu Ende geschrieben und es werden sicherlich noch weitere Bilder folgen, seien es weitere Prompts, seien sie von diesen unabhängig.

🇬🇧 Yesterday, was the deadline to submit the entries for the Arcryla City Summer Festival’s general prompts. Amazingly, full 9 weeks of painting almost permanently for these festivities.

As last entry before the deadline I submitted one for the prompt „Fairy Floss“. Still, the story didn’t come to an end, there will be more paintings in the future, prompt related or of an independent nature.

„Fairy Tale“

Whenever Crissy gets used to the thought to forget about her crush she turns up at unexpected times in unexpected places and does things to raise hope again.

Digital painting, comic style: Crissy Faith, a young woman with short, purple hair and big, round glasses, wearing a brown overall and purple and lavender stripes leggings sitting on a bench with candy floss in her right hand, the her right side, another young woman seen from from the side with short ruffled blue-green hair. She is wearing a deep violette coursage with a plaid pattern over a semitransparent shirt, both bellyfree, a skirt of the same colour and style, three golden chains around her hips and black bracelets and wristband on wrists and neck. Finger nails and toenails are painted with nail polish in the colours of the lesbian pride flag, she is looking to Crissy (who is blushing) and taking a bit of the candy floss with the right hand

Einige befinden sich schon in Planung, doch auch darüber hinaus gehen meine selbige weiter:

Mindestens ein Arcryla-City-Bild (🇬🇧) wird noch folgen
Die Arbeit am nächsten Teil Cedrakon kann fortgesetzt werden
Ebenso jene am Comic (🇬🇧)
Eine Redraw-Version eines Cedrakon-Charakters ist bereits in Arbeit
Es wird Zeit, das Jack’Hill’n’Haid-Comic (🇬🇧) anzugehen
Weitere Teile des #MeetMyOCs-Charaktersheets (🇬🇧)

Bevor ich diese jedoch angehe, habe ich auf Instagram ein DTIYS gestartet, um dort sowohl 100 Follower wie auch mein Einjähriges zu begehen. Hierzu habe ich extra eine Unterseite (🇬🇧) angelegt, auf der ihr, solltet ihr nicht auf Instagram sein, die Details ebenfalls nachlesen könnt. Gerne dürft ihr ebenso teilnehmen, am einfachsten auf Instagram oder Twitter, prinzipiell jedoch über jede Plattform eurer Wahl, über die ihr mich erreichen könnt. Auch hier noch einmal mein Dank an alle 100 Follower!

Some already are in the making but there will be other ones too:

At least one Arcryla City painting will be released
The work on the next part of the Tale of Cedrakon (🇩🇪) will continue
Likewise the comic
I’m already doing a redraw of one of the Cedrakon’s characters (🇩🇪)
Time to start the Jack’Hill’n’Haid comic
More of the #MeetMyOCs charactersheets

Before doing all of this I started an own DTIYS on Instagram to celebrate 100 followers as well as my first Instagram anniversary. You will find the details on the page I created for this occasion. You are invited to participate, of course. The easiest way being via Instagram or Twitter but in general, via any platform I am available at. Thank you again to all of my 100 followers!