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Part 1 of my Sherlock life drawing series:

Charcoal pencil + a bit of watercolour

I love that when painting digitally I can keep the skeleton and angles layers (it is fun to start by drawing a rudimentary skeleton). The second picture shows those layers and my first try with ink lineart, the latter didn't work with me so I redid it with a charcoal pencil.

Entry for @sherlockchallenge for February 2026: 'zero'

— Pain: you will always feel it, but you don’t have to fear it..

Yay, first Sherlock art since Inktober last year - finally.

Being not able to move or work much (and having a sick note) gave me time to do some art. It was hard to focus and this took ages because I feel I am a bit out of practise after four months.

Man Bun Sherlock

He got tired of going to the hairdresser, so he just allowed it to grow.

Got the impression we gained a lot of new artists here since the Sherlock & Co podcast started.

Warm welcome to all the newbies.

Here are some of the ones I discovered in the past year (doesn't mean they are 'really' new, I could have just missed them before - please don't be offenended if I missed you) I will post a part 2 of this later, this post is getting too long.

@v1cc4r

@mosieey

@tryingtimes22

@toothsaberr

@kiddcarnage

@apazmackpie

@eneriology

@sealbug

Inktober 2018

Day 7 – Exhausted

Sherlock’s collapse during his meeting with Faith/Eurus, caused by exhaustion.

The reason for the exhaustion were probably a combination of grief, John’s dismissal and weeks of drug abuse. He seems particularly vulnerable in this scene as well as insecure.

Black watercolour, approx. A4, took me about four hours.

My second work for inktober.

Inktober No. 19 - Bleak

From @bluebellofbakerstreet's promptlist for Inktober 2025.

Halfway through, the operation had to be abandoned due to the surgeon accidentally piercing my uterus. No real damage done (I hope that is true) but they couldn't continue, which means they only finished half of the job, didn't take samples and they didn't finish. Now, I have to wait another three nervewracking weeks for it to heal enough so they can give it another try and get samples then.

All my brief conversations with doctors were really difficult, not only because of my own communication issues but also because not a single one of them was even halfway fluent in German. The only three minute after surgery follow up consultation happened so fast I didn't manage to ask any questions because my brain was fully busy trying to comprehend what they might have just said. I barely know anything about the surgery or what is going on because I couldn't understand them. I hope to get my hands on the report this week.

The other unrelated issue that is giving me sleepless nights is still not even addressed, yet.