A RAVEN'S PARCEL FILTERED

I really am a true beginner at digital drawing! Ever heard of Filters? Textures? Esther, I guess you really do not get enough sleep to forget these things and to need your husband to remind you of such possibilities!

It does not make much difference at a small size, but at a bit larger size (or when printed) the version with some simple photoshop filters applied looks much better.

A RAVEN'S PARCEL

A quick drawing I did as birth greeting card for a good friend and (obviously) a fan of ravens.

While I am slowly adapting to the way of drawing with my tablet, I think I would have liked the look of a traditional drawing better - now that I look at the printed card. I guess I should have done this with black liners instead of digitally.

THE BOAR-RIDING LITTLE WITCH

A doodle of my little ones in their 'true form'? Who knows. At least they make us often laugh (and shake our heads) and think of a wild boar and a little witch. So I drew this kind of portrait and hang it up on their door.

ILLUSTRATION

An illustration of a temple of Boron (the god of death from the role-playing-game DSA). It accompanies a story lead by my husband, especially a passage written by him in which this temple is carved into a rock face by dwarves to commemorate the fallen of a battle. It is based on the monastery of Ostrog in Montenegro.

RESTORING PERFORMANCE

Last year's autumn has been very exhausting: The kids were taking turns in getting sick and we did not have a quiet evening or a good night's sleep for two months.

This changed just before christmas and I have been working to restore some of my creative routine (what a contradiction in terms!) since then. This drawing of our St Nichlas' Day was the first movement. The second one was a measuring rod for the kids, showing various animals at their approximate height (mostly shoulder height). And currently I am getting back to writing ...

ANOTHER BABY BREAK

"Wenn du Gott zum Lachen bringen willst, erzähl' ihm von deinen Plänen." (Quote from the film Amores Perres)

All my plans changed when I got pregnat again last year. (Well, THAT was a plan, too, but pretty incompatible to my plans for arting and writing...)
One painting for the wedding of two very good friends and a christmas card were practically the only two creative things I managed to do during my pregnancy. And since little Ragnar was born in May I could not even think about painting - let alone writing - so far. Hormones have taken over. But as stressful as it often is, I enjoy every minute with my family. Arting and writing will have to wait a bit, again.

BACK TO THE ROOTS

I have been quite busy in the evenings during the last month - busy thinking about and planning a fantasy novel I have been wanting to write down for quite a while. Since I have only about one or two hours in the late evenings, I decided that I have to concentrate on one thing for a change. So I'm going back to my roots, to the very thing that gave me the most thrilling inner energy I knew in my past: I'm back to writing.

This means there will be only few new drawings or paintings from me every now and then and definitely there won't be a new homepage. I will stick to this blog (and maybe a German version of it to replace my former homepage malerfeder.de) to post anything new.