Lehowa

Something a little bit different this time. Please forgive some shameless advertising of my viking re-enactment group and our festival that is happening in a week in Cumbria! If you happen to be in the area please concider to come and say hi! All information can be found on the event page on Facebook if you search for Moorforge Althing Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/714821223711665/?active_tab=about

Just something for practice. I think I'm about done playing with this one at this stage. Lessons learned :3 I was really unhappy with the drawing, it was one of those silly little things that cause an avalanche of "I'm a horrible artist, I should die" kind of thoughts. I'm happy I managed to turn it around into something productive in the end.

Stole some time from my schedule to do something personal. I'm trying to get back to drawing every... week at least, keep that drawing muscle in shape. Probably best time to do it is when life gets horribly busy.

Here is a study that I like to return to every once in a while to see where can I take it next. In other words, I finally finished this piece xD. Either way, needed to do something for myself, life's been busy.

Commission for Koda over on FurAffinity. I went overboard with details again. But not the epicness, never enough epicness!                                            

Small personal piece. Was laying around in drawing stage for many years, nice to see how my abbility to render fabric improved. She kinda unintentionally look like a maine coon.... watercolour and colour pencils, A4

Hesur getting a proper introduction after some 12 years since I first imagined him. I want to finally start commissioning people so a ref sheet was needed. From one detail to another it grew pretty big but it was soo much fun to do some personal work again, and an OC. I think I finally grew past the notion that I need to get better before attempting to create some own story or  graphic novel. Every year I will learn more things and get better, let the story evolve with me, just make it happen already! Yes, the proportions are messed up but have you seen the Beastars comic? The style of it is my new ideal of not giving a frick but just to convey the message.

Faber-Castell PITT pens don't play nice. Was looking forward to putting some shadows on this drawing and I just gave up in the middle, it just went from bad to worse. But now I have an excuse to fix it in digital 🤘  Until then I might just post the drawing as it is now. Also that elbow is suspended in the air.... On Hesur's ref sheet there was a similar headshot of him smoking a pipe but I wasn't entirely happy with it so I sketched a whole scene. And this is the face i was going for.                                

Been sorting out old folders with art and found a lot of previously unposted pics. This one perhaps appeared on Patreon at some point. I gave it a few tweaks here and there, perhaps now it looks like younger Bluari wanted to. I start to miss that old character, will have to bring her back every now and then.

Halloween is long gone but life happens and this got postponed. A little fun fanart inspired by this year's Halloween event in Guild Wars 2. Two of my favourite villains in the game on one map?! How could I not. And then when I was just about to post this I realised.... Joko was supposed to be a ghost... So I will post both versions because I think the not-ghost-one is better.

Commission for Marcy from FurAffinity <3

Wrong proportions? No worries, just fix it in post

When you take part in an art exchange with friends and you draw your previous commissioner. Anyway, it's always enjoyable to paint pagan stuff so I was very happy. I am happily getting more acquainted with Clip Studio Paint, in many ways it is sooo much easier and time saving than Photoshop. I talked a lot lately about speeding up my process and this artwork is a little proof to myself that I can actually manage this. It looks all high end and polished but really... For most of the time I had no hickups, just sit down and paint. Except for the background.... I just lazily photobashed it. Ultra closeup because I feel awesome about these brush strokes!

Remember when I said I probably have zero chances? Yeah, I got a runner up x'D In the Dragon Challenge contest hosted by For Fans by Fans and Guild Wars 2 On this occassion I thought I will share a lineart and sort of an alternative version which I abandoned due to deadline. I wanted to include the sixth dragon aswell, and somehow squeeze it in there after scanning the whole. Also I was barely starting in Clip Studio Paint and felt very uncomfortable with a new software so abandoned that idea alltogether. Huge thanks for everyone on Tumblr who retweeted and liked my posts in the recent days! I actually had put this image together especially with you in mind <3

My entry for the Guild Wars 2 Dragon Challenge on Fan Forge                                       edit: Thank you so much for all the love on this one! In case you’d like to vote, here’s the link https://community.forfansbyfans.com/m/fan-forge/designs/Guild-Wars-2-Fan-Forge/list/id-16355 Thanks!