Schlagwort: Recap

Easter Update aka Quarter Year Recap

Small Folks

Witchphibians

DTIYS

Hazbin Hotel

Happy holidays!

We are already three months into the new (now old) year, time to keep up and to give a review of the past months as well as a (careful) preview on what to expect in the next months.

In the beginning of the new year, I started (re)drawing a few characters who originated in the Inktober 2019 challenge and who I’d like to summarize as „The Small Folks“: Three fairies and a gnome. Additionally, I added a bunch of new Witchphibians OCs to the cast throughout the months and participated in two DTIYS challenges. Last but not least, I discovered the show Hazbin Hotel and got blown away by it, so I had to do fanart.

Regarding what to expect next …

I don’t want promise anything since creativity (especially when doing art as a hobby) is a process that highly depends on inspiration, time available but also motivation and – for me at least – to not feeling pressured into doing anything.So, I may have inspiration, ideas and even plans for the future, I just can’t predict ones eventually come true.

However, I’d like to share a general overview of what may (or may not) come soon. Firstly, Mermay is just around the corner. I participated five years in a roll, and I’d love to do it this year again. I even already have something like an idea how to approach it this year and how to prepare for it. Apart from Mermay, there are also ideas for some more Witchphibians characters and paintings, elaborating the inhabitants and the background stories of Witchwood (yes, the place all these stories take place got a name now).

Small Folks

The Bicker Fairies

In 2019, I took part in the Inktober challenge(🇩🇪) in form of kind of a puzzle picture. Part of it were three tiny fairies, the Bicker Fairies, constantly arguing about everything – just a few doodles within the big picture. However, not long after the end of Inktober, I drew them again in a proper painting (in my style back then). In the beginning of this year, I got the idea to draw them again in my current style and with the names I gave them in the meantime:

Chimney (because she once almost got burnt by a candle), the unofficial leader of the trio

Bunjee (because she once got flung through the air by some vines), the most playful of them

Batty (because she likes bats), kind of a goth

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Engie

There also was another character from mentioned puzzle picture I felt to draw again, Engie the Mechanic Gnome. Back in 2019 she fixed a golem which went out of control. No we are picking on again in this scene.

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Witchphibians

Archie

Some Witchphibians OCs are old. Not only in terms of age but in terms of when I came up with them in the first place. Others are mentioned randomly in the background story of others and then come to life with my next painting.

Archie exists as long as I created Mirro (his wife and Samandra’s master witch) more than one year ago. Since Mirro is a master in changing things and living beings in other things and living beings, it wasn’t that big of a leap to imagine her husband living as a turtle large parts of the day to slow down his pace of aging.

Herb and Nay

Apropos the age of the Witchphibians characters, I noticed that so far I drew young witches and witch apprentices and old witches and wizards, but I still missed out the group of people of my own age, around the age of 40 years. This changed when I created Herb.

In the end of 2013, I introduced Bend Stuffcurver and mentioned Herb the Healer Mage who not only rescued them with her healing magic but also took them in as her apprentice.

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This lead to the idea of actually depicting her and to depict a mid-aged witch for the first time, almost at the peak of her powers but still with room to improve them, with a full-time job and also with a family.

Enter Nay Carpenter, her partner for 20 years and mother of their daughter. Initially, I was wondering which witch or magical being Nay could be, but then I found the thought of being a non-magical person intriguing and made her the carpenter she is. Regarding the teenage daughter, this is another story still to be told (hopefully in the near future).

DTIYS Challenges

Eye of the Chimera
aka The Poses Archives March challenge

Technically, this one is a Witchphibians piece, too. At the same time it’s a „Draw this Pose in your Style“ entry of the monthly challenge The Poses Archives and Tony Cartoonish provide on Instagram. Every so often I get inspired by the poses they are sharing or use them as reference photos when drawing poses I am not familiar with. When I saw the March challenge and Tony’s example of the axe holding orc, it reminded me of Kimeira Wartribe who literally uses a battleaxe as her main weapon.

In the background story of her introducing painting I wrote that she once fought a chimera and when seeing March challenge’s pose immediately the picture of her facing the chimera in this pose jumped to my mind.

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Originally, I had planned another painting depicting this encounter but this way, it made so much more sense. I also thought it’s been a nice touch to incorporate the kitchen accident which I mentioned one year ago when introducing Kimeira.

Galaxy Girl
aka Year of the Dragon

The other DTIYS I drew is my entry to the second DTIYS of Greenfich_Illustration on Instagram). I already participated in the first one and the second one again gave me the inspiration to draw my version of the Galaxy Girl.

The challenge allowed us to draw her in an animal form, and since 2024 is the Year of the Dragon of the Chinese Zodiac, the idea of the transformation from a dragon emerged. You also may spot the hare and the snake in the background, the year before and the year to come after the dragon.

Fanart: Hazbin Hotel

Another show has been added to the fanart page of this website. Recently, Hazbin Hotel went online on Amazon Prime (the pilot already was around on YouTube for four years) and it caught me immediately to the extent that I already watched it multiple times. This said, it was only a matter of time that I drew fanart thereof.

Rise with the Morningstar

POSSIBLE S1E06 SPOILERS AHEAD

I started with Vaggie, my favorite character, showing the moment that changed her life forever, depicting it by creating two different versions (and a reel) to show the transition.

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Charlie Morningstar
aka Little Miss Butterflies and Rainbows

Charlie Morningstar, Princess of Hell, daughter of Lucifer himself, is Vaggie’s girlfriend, the lead protagonist of the show and one of the most joyful and optimistic characters I’ve ever watched in a show.

She sees the good in everyone and even when she had to defend her and her friends in the last episode of season 1, she can’t stop apologizing when fending off the attacking angels. Oh, and she sings a lot (in case you wonder about the meaning of the stripes in the background. This said, I tried to catch her vibe in my painting, and I am really happy how it turned out in the end.

What happened …?!

🇩🇪 Sicher erinnert ihr euch an mein Vorhaben eines Comics mit meinen beiden OCs Liz and Jacky Hill. Zum Comic hatte ich bisher weder die Zeit noch die Muse oder … nunja, die Lust. Vielleicht bin ich auch einfach kein Comic-Typ. Jedenfalls nicht für Comics, die über 2-4 Panels hinausgehen.

Trotz dessen hatte ich vor gut drei Wochen, die Woche in der mein kleiner The-Owl-House-Cartoon dazwischenstach, die Inspiration zu einem weiteren Bild mit diesen beiden, wie es auch als Comicpanel hätte erscheinen können.

Wenn ihr durch die Galerie klickt, werdet ihr ebenfalls das ursprüngliche Konzept dieser Zeichnung finden, das ich allerdings verworfen hatte. Dieses sah nicht einmal einen speziellen Hintergrund vor. Die finale Version mit all den Details, dem Hintergrund und allem, ist hingegen das Bild, wie ich es mir auch als Teil eines Comics vorgestellt hätte:

🇬🇧 Surely you remember my plans for a comic featuring my two OCs Liz and Jacky Hill. I haven’t had the time or the muse or … well, the desire to do a comic yet. Maybe I’m just not a comic creating person. At least not of comics that go beyond 2-4 panels.

Despite this, a good three weeks ago, the week my little The Owl House cartoon intervened, I got the inspiration for another painting depicting these two, as it could have appeared as a comic panel.

If you click through the gallery, you will also find the original concept of this drawing, which I had, however, discarded. It didn’t even include a specific background. The final version, with all the details, the background and everything, is the painting I would have imagined as part of a comic strip:

  • Digital painting, comic style: Liz (left) and Jacky (right), two young woman in side view, Liz hugging Jacky, watching her worried, Jacky's eyes are closed; Liz has dark brown skin and short brown hair, the forehead part of the hair is dyed dark red, she wears a white shirt, white trousers, blue round glasses; Jacky is from white colour with red shoulder long hair; she's kneeling on the bed, wrapped into a mauve blanket; in the background a valet stand with torn and dirty white tanktop and blue jeans shorts, next to Jacky a pink cushion and a night table with a digital alarm clock ("1:04 am") and destroyed rectangular glasses on it; there is also a slightly opened glass door (cracks in the glass, the curtain blowing) and the balcony (claw marks on it) with a view onto skyscrapers, the lights of the city and a night sky; Jacky's left hand rests on Liz' right shoulder, it is glowing blue, weebing is visible between the finger, the thumb has a clawlike nail, speechalloons (Liz: "Everything alright, Love?", Jacky: "Yeah, everything ... alright", thinking: "WTF happened last night??!")
  • Digital painting, comic style: Liz (left) and Jacky (right), two young woman in side view, Liz hugging Jacky, watching her worried, Jacky's eyes are closed; Liz has dark brown skin and short brown hair, the forehead part of the hair is dyed dark red, she wears a white shirt, white trousers, blue round glasses; Jacky is from white colour with red shoulder long hair; she's kneeling on the bed, wrapped into a mauve blanket; in the background a valet stand with torn and dirty white tanktop and blue jeans shorts, next to Jacky a pink cushion and a night table with a digital alarm clock ("1:04 am") and destroyed rectangular glasses on it; there is also a slightly opened glass door (cracks in the glass, the curtain blowing) and the balcony (claw marks on it) with a view onto skyscrapers, the lights of the city and a night sky; Jacky's left hand rests on Liz' right shoulder, it is glowing blue, weebing is visible between the finger, the thumb has a clawlike nail
  • Early concept, digital painting, Comic style: Liz (left) and Jacky (right), two young woman in side view, Liz hugging Jacky, watching her worried while Jacky's eyes are closed; Liz has dark brown skin and short brown hair, neatly combed, the forehead part of the hair is dyed dark red, she wears white a white shirt, white trousers and blue round glasses; Jacky is from white colour with red shoulder long hair, she is wearing rose night dress (bellyfree top, short pants); Jacky's left hand rests on Liz' right shoulder, it is blue with lighter blue parts, of the finger tips you can only the thumb which has a clawlike nail, webbing is likewise visible between the fingers and the thumb, there also is a dark blue glow around the hand.

Der Dezember bleibt auch diese Woche der Monat der Jahresrückblicke. Auf Instagram kursiert derzeit eine „Summary of Art 2021“. Da ich ohnehin einen künstlerischen Jahresrückblick schreiben wollte, habe ich die Gelegenheit gleich an der Tastatur ergriffen und nicht nur eine Collage mit jeweils einem Bild pro Monat erstellt, sondern auch einen Text geschrieben.

Aufgrund seiner Länge findet ihr ihn auf der Unterseite „Summary of Art 2021„. In ihm lasse ich das vergangene Jahr aus zeichnerischer Sicht Revue passieren, ich gehe auf die Veränderungen ein, die meine Kunst und ich durchlebt haben, seien es Zeichenstil, Zeichentechnik, Grafikprogramm und auch Social Media.

Viel Spaß beim Lesen und da dies das letzte PaintLog in diesem Jahr ist: Guten Rutsch! Wir sehen uns im nächsten Jahr!

This week too, December remains the month of year’s recaps. A „Summary of Art 2021“ is currently circulating on Instagram. Since I planned to write an art review of the year anyway, I seized the keyboard right away and not only created a collage with one picture per month, but also wrote a full length text

Due to its length, you can find it on the subpage „Summary of Art 2021„. In it, I review the past year from an arstist’s perspective, I’m going into the changes that my art and I have gone through, be it drawing style, drawing technique, graphic programme and also social media.

Enjoy reading and since this is the last PaintLog this year: Happy New Year! See you 2022!

  • Digital Painting, comic style: A collage of 12 paintings (3 x 4), for every month in 2021 one painting (titles in the text); 1. A cyclop in chains, 2. An astonished princess, a berry eating female gargoyle and a sceptical guardswoman, 3. Luz Noceda and Amity Blight dancing in front of a full moon, 4. A doctor and a scientist, 5. Electric eel mermay filling a bottle with a letter, 6. A princess and a guardswoman attacked by velociraptorlike feathered reptiles 7. Criss Faith coming homing, heading for her couch, 8. Amithy Blight fighting with a sword and a shield made of abomination goo; 9. Crissy Faith and Potato having a sleepover at Crissy's place, 10. Calamity Ganon rising, watched by my Zora OC Navarra; 11. Crissy Faith with sweating upper body reparing something above her head 12. Potato and Crissy dancing with their boyfriend / crush
  • Digitalzeichnung, Comicstile: Rechts vorne im Vordergrund die Prinzessin, sie schaut mit großen Augen in die Kamera. In ihrem Ausschnitt ist der Kopf einer gelben Ente zu sehen, links im Bild hinter ihr stehen Oprhelya (ganz links) und Luca (rechts daneben), Orphelyas Augenlider und auch die Schwingen hängen recht kraftlos herab, an den Krallen der rechten Hand hat sie mehrere rot-rosane Beeren, die sie gerade isst, einen Kern hat sie ausgespuckt, der sich noch auf dem Weg zu den Kernen in ihrer linken Hand befindet. Diese reicht sie Luca, die wiederum die Kerne in ihrem Beutel zu verstauen versucht, einen skeptischen Seitenblick jedoch Richtung Prinzssin wirft. Alle drei Charektere sind noch mit dem Dreck des Sumpes auf Haut, Kleidung und Haar gezeichnet. Im Hintergrund ist eine Reihe Büsche mit eben diesen Beeren zu sehen, dahinter Bäume und hinter diesen ein verwaschener Grün-Himmelblauer Hintergrund.
  • Digitalzeichnung, minimalistischer Comicstil, Fanart: Luz Noceda (braunes Haar) und Amity Blight (grünes Haar mit einem Stück Braun am Stirnhaar), Protagonistinnen der Zeichentrickserie "The Owl House", Hände haltend vor einem leuchtenden Sichelmond tanzend, Luz trägt sowohl Anzug wie auch einen rosanen und einen violetten Rock, dazu braune Stiefel, Amity ein dunkelrosanes Kleid mit einem dunklen Oberteil und Halbschuhe mit dunkelvioletten spitzen und Absätzen, der Hintergrund ist ein leuchtendes vor einem dunklen Violett auf hellem Grund
  • Digitalzeichnung, Comicstil, heller Grund: Eine Frau mit dunkler Haut und dunklem Haar (Stirnhaare dunkelrot). Poloshirt, Jogginghose und Schlupfschuhe weiß, Brile mit runden Gläsern und dunkelblauem Rand. Auf der Brusttasche die Kontur eines roten Kreuzes. Sie zieht gerade ihren Doktorkittel aus. Sie schaut zu einer Frau an ihrer Seite in der Mitte des im Bildes ("Dr. Jacky Hill") in weißem Tanktop, Jeansshorts und Sneakern, einem Namensschild an der Brust und eine Brille mit rechteckigen Brillengläsern, die Haare rot und kinnlang, ein Reagenzglas betrachtend, aus dem lila Schaum quillt.
  • Mermay1, "Bottle", digital painting, comic style: A mermaid with the tail of an electric eel sitting on a little isle in a swamp, putting a paper slip in a bottle with the left hand, in the right hand she is holding a reed stalk with ink on its tip, ob her tail there is a letter signed with a heart and a tiny blue octopus. Her hair is dark green and she wears water lily's leaves as bikini top, title: "Love Letters"
  • Digitalzeichnung, Comicstil: Szenerie ist der Rand eines Sees, helles Tageslicht, verschwommene Schemen von Bäumen im Hintergrund: Luca (junge Frau, schwarze, kurze Haare) in ihrer Gardistinnenuniform (weiß mit goldenen verzierungen, an der linken Schulter jedoch zerrissen, sie hat dort auch einen blauen Fleck) von hinten gesehen. Sie schwingt den Säbel von links nach rechts oben, Haare, Körper und der Beutel am Gürtel schwingen mit der Körperdrehung mit, die Säbelspitze zeigt auf ein dinosaurierähnliches Wesen (Typ Raptor) mit rot-violett-blauer Befiederung und orangenem Federflaum am Körper, der sich im Sprung auf sie befindet. Auf dessen Rücken sitzt eine humanoide Echse, die einen Holzspeer schwingt. Links von Luca die Prinzessin im orangenen Unterkleid, einen Dolch in ihrer linken Hand haltend, in ihrer rechten die gelbe Holzente Emil zum Wurf gehoben, zielend auf einen weiteren Raptor im Sprung kurz vor der Landung
  • Digital Painting, comic style: A young woman, short purple hair, big round glasses, black/orange striped trousers, leather jacket, orange strapless bellytop beneath, taking off the jacket, a pocket watch dangling from the left sleeve, slipping off boots and purple socks, stumbling over her own boots while standing with the right foot on the left boot's tip, spots of oil and dirt on the clothing and the cheeks. In the background a door with gear and cogwheels and a big lock, on the left a device and a pipe leading to a lamp above the door and a pneumatic post delivery device. On the right on the wall her helmet and belts, on the ground below two pizza boxes and a tool box, covered by her tool belt. Foreground to the left a couch with pillow, the "Arcryla City Steam Magazine" and a purple plush water bear mechanic, to the right an oval desk with a plate of mangoes, an invitation letter, a slate and a piece of chalk. Couch, desk and ground are lightened by three windows.
  • Digital painting, comic style: Amity Blight, character of the tv show The owl house, purple, hair, black dress, red trousers, seen from the front, a medallion with a descending moon's sickle, holding her staff in the air. She is wearing a round bottle at her belt. On her right side ist floating the form of a sword, purple striped and glowing, lilewise a form of a shield on her left side. Staff and Amity also are glowing. A darker shadow and sparkles hint the way from the bottle to the sword and the shield. The background is of tones from green and dark green
  • 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
  • Digital Painting, comic style: A painting of a poster of my OC Crissy Faith seen in 3/4 front view, a young woman with short purple hair an big round glasses sitting and repairing something above her head, she is sitting on her mechanic's coat, a pocket watch dangling from her hip, to her side a handkerchief with a cheese, lettuce, egg and mayonnaise sandwich which she already had started to eat; the upper body is free except for the top which only covers chest, breasts and the back below her shoulders, hear skin is glaring due to the sweat covering hair, face and body, there are dirt and oil spots on these as well, so are on her coat, in the background a big grey cogwheel.
  • 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

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