Paula Lucre – Zum Kritzeleck

Digital painting, comic style: A young girl in front view, brown skin, blue hair, blus nail polish, blue lipstick, blue eyes with heartshaped pupils, the wrists are crossed above the position of her heart, she's wearing gloves with sparkling heartspaded diamonds, there is a heartshaped boob windows in her top, she is wearing blue skirts, blue leggings and a semi-transparant blue cape, golden pendands hanging from ear piercings, two golden hearts on ech leg of the leggings; blue background, a big white empty heart with a smaller white empty heart in it behind her, sparkles building a track from her fingertips along the outer heart; blue and white petals in the foreground.

Let’s prepare another PaintLog entry. With luck it will be finished in 2-3 weeks again.* Perhaps I can call myself lucky because two weeks ago I did my latest piece and then I didn’t find the motivation to do another one. This means that I can present you those 1-2 weeks old pieces today, though.

Both are somewhat unusual compared to my other pieces. The first one (Scorpio) is an attempt of transferring OCs (Paula in this case) into alternative environments, the second one an DTIYS that I joined.

*It actually took only 2 days this time.

ZodiOCs: Scorpio

Every so often I see artwork from brilliant artists depicting the Zodiac signs in one way or the other. Whereas I don’t believe in astrology, star signs, esoterism or similar stuff, I still appreciate a good story or a good motif (like fairy tales or religious stories: You know it’s made-up, but it“s fascinating stuff nontheless).

So, I got inspired to my very own series of depicting the Zodiac signs. To this purpose I’m going to put Original Characters (OCs) into drawing showing the respective Zodiac sign of the year. However, the OCs may not necessarily be born under the sign they depict.

Since I started in the beginning of November, the first sign was Scorpio and my OC Paula from Arcryla City perfectly fit into it. Or rather the other way around: Imaging her as a Zodiac sign created this idea in the first place. The next one (Sagittarius) is already finished and can be found as early access on my Ko-fi account for a tip in my jar.

Her hair already roughly has the shape of a scorpion’s sting and in steampunk version she is known for wearing high heeled boots, so the image of a sharp and thin, sting-like boot’s heel also jumped to my mind, legs and feet being positioned over head.

I also added minor details that aren’t part of her normal design like the tattoos and the ear jewellery. I wasn’t sure if to add the vines, though, but she her hobby is growing carnivorous plants (which have to be trimmed) and this way the scissor gauntlets actually make sense.

DTIYS: Heart Goldwing

Some time ago Instagram user Pocket Andrew started hosting a DTIYS. Although I don’t do DTIYS that regularly (my OCs have got priority), this time I wanted to participate.

Seeing the original painting, I got the idea of a magical girl in a Sailor Moon like pose. With stars and glitter and all. Since 3/4 body made the best impression, the boot and the roller skates weren’t in the picture in the sense the original one shows them.

Therefore I had to change one trinket of the ear jewellery of each ear, so you now find them there. The petals in the foreground are supposed to not only add to the Sailor Moon like scene, they also are suppossed to add depth.

Heartbroken Goddess: Statue + Light

Demons, No Angels

It’s been a while since my last PaintLog. I just didn’t feel motivated enough in the last few week and whenever I tried, other obligations kicked in and well – if something that is supposed to be fun feels like duty … take a break.

This said, I was writing this PaintLog entry for around three weeks now, the artpieces that I’m sharing today are from the end of October. There are even more, but I will share them with you next time.

The main piece that occupied me three weeks of October was the entry to the Arcryla City Midnight Gala that took place some days before Halloween. As usual, our entries were supposed to be revealed during the showcase. It was a Halloween event with costumes and all.

However, I also finished the Inktober piece, keeping up adding prompts to the Heartbroken Goddess. Those were the prompts „Statue“ and „Light“.

Heartbroken Goddess: Statue + Light

With October Kalisamiii’s Inktober challenge came to an end. I already planted the statue part when drawing the goddess in the first place. I only added some cracks and the smaller statue inside the heart, telling the reason why she is heartbroken.

But this isn’t the end, because where’s light there’s hope:

Initilly, the rays weren’t planned but I figured, this way it makes a greater impression, showing what’s going on.

Demons, No Angels

The Arcryla City Midnight Gala again was a great spectacle. There were so many amazing entries.

We got our assignment, our „theme“ beforehand and weren’t supposed to tell anyone which costume our OCs got. To everybody’s surprise it turned out that everyone got the same costume: Demon.

Digital painting, comic style: Crissy (young woman, short purple hair, big round glasses) and Paula (young woman, short turqoise hair in sidecut) dressed as demons, bot seems floating above the ground and there are summoning circles and sparkles beneath their feet (Crissy's purple, Paula's green), where they meet, they complete each other; Crissy: smoke resembling dress, body skin all white with blue mystical letters along body parts, green lipstick, purple skirt and vest, eye-like cutouts at the hips and the nable, an amulett of a black one-eyed demon, she is holding a purple orb with wires connected to the rest of the costume, purple shining eyes, a black hat with one purple shining eye in the center; Paula: Body from toes to fingertips clad in a black and sparkling one-piece and a white jacket with several green shining eys and teeth a the rim, a boob window as additional eye, a green gleaming bow tie with an eye, a white tophat with teeth and one green gleaming eye, a cape formed like two purple wings, a green biforked tail, she's holding a stick with a hand that is grabbing the rim of the tophat, her eyes are colored green with a cat eyes' pupil, purple lipstick; one arm of each is crossed with the other's one, where they meet they together are building another summoning circle built of their respective colors; background: stairs with a red carpet and statues of man with tophat and a rose and a woman playing the lyra; a golden door at the top of the stairs, cogwheel gears; foreground: candles.

There is an additional sheet to my entry with a narrative text and a tiny doodle to explain how Crissy and Paula managed to create all those special effects you can see on the painting. This happens by the technical capabilities of the steampunk world they are living in. In some cases, like the colored contact lenses, I figured that contact lenses would’ve been around although they were made of glass and not that comfortable (but this wouldn’t have stopped them from wearing them). Moreover, the colored version only came into existence after the need for them arised by the movie industry. Still, this won’t stop Crissy and Paula either to ask one of the ingenius opticians of Arcryla City.

Text sheet with the narrative text: The blurred and faded painting with a small sketch of the costume in the right bottom corner, text: ""Our assignments arrived today, Sweetie." Crissy had been a little bit reluctant to RSVP the invitation to the Midnight Gala. She still wasn't keen on attending big social events and last time Paula had talked her into doing so, she didn't show up. Well, Paula hasn't been her girlfriend back then. So, Crissy figured, expectations had been way too high on her side. Now it was different. Now they were a couple, now they were heading into the couples costume stuff. "And I already have a greeeat idea! - Can you do this?" "Well, I'll need one and a half dozen dynamos, small ones, a lot of wires, some pipes, hoses, two orbs, one big, one small, tiny light bulbs, electro-luminescent liquids, oh, and liquid electrolytes, of course, two pairs of those coloured contact lenses, transparent footwear should do the hovering trick ... But it could get expensive." "Don't worry about that - I'll handle it.""

If you look close, you will see several popcultural references from TV shows and video games and of course there are the little statues of the Arcryla City’s Mayor Alexander and Lynette, his assistant.

Last but not least: The Gala also was a drawing contest and guess what? My painting was one of the two winner paintings!!

I was so happy when this was announced!

There even was a price: I could choose one of my OCs to be drawn as an emote for the Discord server (and for any other purpose I’d like to use it for). When I got sent it to me, I will share it here too in my next PaintLog!