Real Cows of Milka Portrait Entry

My entry for Milka's portrait contest. I chose a more a traditional painterly approach (but digital) with a focus on the face. In the end they went with a more decorative style.

Big Eyes Kitty

You can watch the video of how I made the first drawing on my Youtube channel.

Plantiferus

An experiment. Took a random pencil sketch from my sketchbook, and painted the rest in Photoshop. I filled in the base color (even using the pen tool for precise curves) then added one dark and one light tone variation of each color. An attempt to simplify my work process.

Femme

Illustrations created for the occasion of Women's Day 2020. Mixed media (brown fineliner along with watercolor/digital color) representing a spring fairy and popular musician Grimes.

Bath Kitty

An original illustration continuing the last drawing with Kitty (and makes for a potential series). Originally created for Valentine's Day 2020, it supports the idea and self-care and self-love for all the single kitties.

Old Townhouse

This was an unfinished drawing in a sketchbook from 2012 and I finally decided to finish it. Mostly I only used a brown fineliner to complete some of the windows and doors. The reference I used is an old townhouse in my city.

The Witcher Fan Art

I saw Netflix's The Witcher over Christmas and it was really nice so I made some fan art. I worked on an A4 size for this one and used the Sonnet russian watercolor set and Polychromos colored pencils.

January 2020

First traditional drawings of the year:

Snowflakes

An editorial illustration made for the Illustrator's Club Facebook December album.

Toys (experiment)

Teddy

Monkey

Selkie

Inktober 2019

For my second Inktober I've decided to be less involved than last year, and to take it a bit easier. That means no daily artworks, but instead focusing on creating a few portfolio-worthy compositions that require a bit more time.

 Day 2. Mindless

  Day 4. Freeze

  Day 8. Frail

 Day 10. Pattern

 Day 12. Dragon

Day 17. Ornament

Day 21. Treasure

 Day 22. Ghost

Day 25. Tasty

Day 31. Ripe

Blobs

Before I went on holiday this summer, I made a quick sketch series. Freehand drawing with marker inside blobs of watercolor. 

There was no planning of the drawing themselves when I made the blobs, and I only used a few reference pics for the portraits in the first one. So it was a great way to get the creative juices flowing.

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Summer Illustration

A fun illustration made for the Illustrator's Club Facebook page for the month of August. The theme was Vacation (Summer/seaside/mountain).

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