Those of you who check the discord will have seen the sad journey of this Dalinar piece that ended in the wastepaper basket (with a detour to "when life gives you oranges"), so here's the new linea...
2025-05-19 08:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Or:
In a meeting, sitting and sketching Shallan sketching as she sits in a meeting.*
(*This...
2025-05-15 17:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostI came across an Instagram tip a while ago now that had this interesting approach to the transition from sketch to lineart: all of us who work that way know how hard it is to preserve the sketch's ...
2025-05-13 18:19:56 +0000 UTC View Post
"I AM UNITY!"
You might say I‘ve snubbed Dalinar in my art so far.
Or you might say I waited to give him this moment. It'll be a proper painted piece, not in my sketchbook t...
2025-05-12 11:30:16 +0000 UTC View Post
She wrapped her arms around his right arm, like a child clinging to a favored toy. Worried. Frightened. “Something’s wrong inside you. But I don’t know what.”
(Oathbri...
2025-05-10 17:05:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't going to paint both of these today, but then I was really disappointed with how Bippy turned out, and am glad that I pushed through to paint Tien as well. And BOY, did I paint Tien. The pa...
2025-05-08 17:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Had a long day at school (with teacher-parent talks into the evening) and was too drained for gouache afterwards, but managed two sketches in off moments. Two very different ones. Above: "He actual...
2025-05-07 19:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Missing scene from the Stormlight Archive: Kaladin's mother Hesina, heavily pregnant with her third child, gets a letter from the army that Kaladin was dead, four years after he wrote to them sayin...
2025-05-06 17:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A drow-y trip down memory lane! I read the Drizzt Do'Urden books by R. A. Salvatore in my mid-twenties (and did several illustrations of them), but not before my husband had DMed an adventure based on...
2025-05-06 10:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
After pulling off a non-human portrait yesterday, I wanted to try a human one, and Shallan volunteered (also because I wanted to do the skin rather translucent and more squarely in comfort zone te...
2025-05-05 16:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I finally summoned up the courage to finish Rlain! And boy, did this WORK. I used an idiosyncratic mix of watercolour techniques and gouache paint, and it worked out surprisingly well.
Steps...
2025-05-04 19:11:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the art I did after reading the Song of Ice and Fire series! Well, the first three books. This was before A Feast for Crows came out and I lost my interest in the series. All of these are from ...
2025-05-04 11:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A good day. A lot worked today - painting something both small and intricate, trying out different brushes for different things and starting to get the hang of which works for which. Some semi-tran...
2025-05-03 20:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Stayed true to my decision to do something in gouache every day this month, with a pretty nice one of chamomiles, a pretty bad colour gradient, and a watercolour underpainting for Rlain. Watercolou...
2025-05-02 19:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostMay… as in a May challenge… with gouache… no?
Yeah, I just came up with that on the fly, but I'm kind of determined to do one tiny bit of gouache every day this month. Even it’s just...
2025-05-01 14:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm still wildly determined to learn gouache. So naturally, what I‘m not doing is gouache. 😂 I'm buying stuff (hey, I haven’t bought art materials in four years!), and do sketches I may or m...
2025-04-30 20:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post… you have to get past a hundred crappy ones (particularly in a new medium), so I figured I‘d better get those out as soon as I could. 😆Journey before destination indeed.
Just vibing ...
2025-04-28 19:59:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketch of Rlain I'm hoping to turn into a gouache painting. My first time drawing a Listener, too!
I did a sketch of him in my sketchbook yesterday, then ruined it with the first layer of go...
2025-04-28 08:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems Shallan got her hands on some gouache. 😶🌫️
Tried out my Procreate gouache set, and found that working on top of a fairly refined sketch (the one from a few months ago) is ...
2025-04-25 21:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The whole book-painting idea got my head whirring (to the point that I bought a few Tolkien books and The Way of Kings to paint, which gave rise to my seventeen-year-old daughter treating me to a "...
2025-04-25 17:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostMy daughter got me into fore-edge painting. 😳
She’s been gushing about print-edged editions in bookshops (and bemoaning the fact that 99% of them are Romantasy), tried some fore-edge pai...
2025-04-22 18:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostShe pulled close. “And so, in reality, you’re the greatest at relationships there ever was. You ruined only the wrong ones, you see.”
He leaned down. His breath smelled of ...
2025-04-15 06:28:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Whooo-hoo! Ten years ago, I launched my Patreon as an attempt to free up my time for more of the stuff I love to draw. A whole bunch of people (a lot of them still here, bless you!) signed up and h...
2025-04-13 14:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
You probably know I've purged all my art quite completely off the net. That was never a conscious decision; it was first sites that were just accumulating spam and hateful comments (deviantArt, Facebo...
2025-04-13 13:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most hilarious chapters in all of Stormlight Archive is when Shallan and Adolin, not-quite-betrothed but very much in love, wonder whether it’s appropriate for them to dine together on...
2025-04-12 05:57:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s come to this - revisiting “old” art I drew four months ago 😅 This was the second ev...
2025-04-09 15:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Kaladin put his own back toward Adolin, preventing either of them from being attacked from behind.
“What are you doing here, bridgeboy?” Adolin hissed from within his helmet.<...
2025-04-06 21:05:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Kaladin put his own back toward Adolin, preventing either of them from being attacked from behind.
“What are you doing here, bridgeboy?” Adolin hissed from within his helmet....
2025-04-01 19:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally! This one has been in the works for… four weeks now? Major cropping and squaring did the trick, and now I'm happy. Still love Kaladin’s face here.
2025-03-31 07:36:57 +0000 UTC
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