Up and around again ...

Hello me hearties =)

How are you all doing?

Been working a lot lately catching the deadline for that Nightwish days exhibition finishing my Scaretale painting ... And I made it! :D Already sent the scan over so it's gonna be a part of the show now x)) Here's the finished painting:

 

My sister says it's creepy but I think it's not creepy enough xD I've added glow-in-the-dark paint as an extra gag, so now the teeth, the eyes, the stars on the suspenders and the eyes of the little skulls on the clown as well as the bigger lights on the tent masts are glowing in the dark :D

I've also a lot of new ideas for further imaginaerum pics ... sketches flying around for Slow love slow, I want my tears back and Arabesque x) For the rest I have to see what my mind gives me.

But for now I'm packing my bags (nah ok more having a load of laundry out in the sun and waiting for it to dry .. the rest is already packed -.-) .. I'll be going to Ingolstadt again for 2 weeks watching over my bosses cats. I'm also planning on doing a lot of stuff in that time I'm up there such as visiting my "brothers" again with a friend I haven't seen for a very long time again now, wanna go to czech republic once more to walk through the Soos again ... For everything else I'm gonna see but I'm sure it's gonna be a litlte more relaxed than last time ... And this time I've got a better camera with me means there's gonna be amazing night photos of the refinery out there ^^ Can't wait to take them :D
Maybe I'm gonna make a video of that trip... we'll see. Keep your fingers crossed for me I'm gonna stay healthy this time because I'm strangely always getting sick when I'm there -.- (I blame it on the stuff that comes out of the refinery ...) But this time I'm armed with a lot of highly effective medicine to kill the germs. They're not gonna get me this time Ò_Ó

So .. yeah... I'm gonna keep waiting here now for my clothes to dry and wish you all a lovely day =) Cya! *vanishes* 

P.S.: Trying to get myself into vacation mood now and thought I let you be part of it :D And you'll probably also gonna hear from me if I can make it to catch the new Amberian Dawn album while I'm away. :)

It's coming back to life.

Hello me hearties :)

How are you all doing?
Another big sorry for being away so long, I had a few health problems in the last weeks and another ton of stuff around me ears ... but I guess slowly I'm getting back on track, kicking the a** of my muse which apparently seems to have gone on vacation down to the beaches where my mind is on vacation too these days ... I totally lost my spirit in some way ... But now I'm starting to get it back =)

First of all - since I've got the "Life and times of Scrooge" album lately I am obsessed with wanting to be able to draw those disney characters ... also because I would so love to do a disney style watercolor painting for one of the songs but it seems this is gonna stay a dream since I'm not really talented in that way -.- I'm not getting the proportions right at all... but see yourself:

Still I've sentenced myself to practise drawing that stuff now because it's something I always wanted to be able to do. I have that book here and I will not stop until I can draw proper McDucks xD 

As for the album ... I don't really wanna do a review for it since I've got a strong personal aversion against Mrs. Kurkela ....  I won't tell anything further. But the album itself gets 8 ouf 10 points from me, minus the 2 for that hypocritical singer. The rest is arranged very well (Who wonders about that anyway? That piece is done by a genius.) and I can partly literally smell the fresh air up in the Yukon. Really great piece. Yeah, just so much for that. And is it just me or do I partly hear a Vangelis influence out of that soundtrack?

The positive side of that new musical material is - besides wanting to be able to draw Disney stuff - that my inner eye begins to work again means I'm sketching a lot in the last days. Here's two pieces I put down yesterday. One for "A lifetime of adventure" and one raw idea for Amberian Dawn's "Guardian" ...

I chose to trash the first version I did for lifetime of adventure because it's crap ... or better - I can't paint mountains. Need a better solution so I begin anew. 

But for now I'm gonna call it quits and move my lazy a** upstairs to get some sleep ... gonna continue working tomorrow, need to finally do something again and catch up. 

Have a lovely sunday everyone and see ya next time! :)

Oops.

I guess the last entry somehow got lost? o_ô

Anyway ... sorry for not writing so long!
There's not much new in the south, I'm hardly coming forward with my artsy projects at the moment. Guess I've got another block or something.

I've also got a lot of stuff around my ears the last 2 weeks ... first I wanted to go to FedCon with my boss to see some people from Stargate but we had to cancel last minute ... well whatever I guess it shouldn't be and the time hadn't come yet. Nothing happens without a reason.

As for  now I'm looking at an unfinished commission, 2 waiting and another pile promised by my first customer... hope I can put a foot on the ground soon in this biz. Maybe the sun shines a bit brighter again soon :D Ah yes and I have to finish that circus painting for the nightwish days in Kitee -.- And I wanna do another draw-this-again. Too mucht to do, not enough time.

For everything else - all is perfectly alright. Just wanted you to know :D

Cya'll, have a lovely weekend! *vanishes*

P.S.: Can anyone tell me where to find tutorials for doing this kind of art: CLICK ? I would love to try something like this myself but couldn't find anything tutorial - like out there :(

Charity reminder.

Hello me hearties :)

How's everyone doing?

In this entry I'd like to remind you, my dear readers, that the 3 paintings I did for charity are still available for you to get!
I did them with the purpose to give the money of their sale away for something good. In this case, to the flood victims near where I live, down to Kolbermoor and Rosenheim. There are still people in need and I already contacted a few of them to make sure the money will reach its destination.

And this is where you come into the game. If you buy one of these paintings listed down there, you help people getting back into their lives, buying things like clothing, furniture, everything they lost in the water. So please let me know if you'd like to get one of my artworks or simply order them on etsy :)

I would love to help the poor people down there but without you my hands are tied. So off with you to etsy, get your painting now! :)

And - I've been painting again lately, not as much as I wanted to but still enough to show you some WIP's =) Here they are.

I first messed up the sky but took advantage of this mistake then by turning it into a gloomy looking wall of clouds :D And no worries, I'm gonna correct the clouds as soon as the moon is completely done. Still, this could take a few days since I will now continue with my commission to finally get forward there. Got too much around my ears at the moment not coming to do much because my mother's on treatment and I have to do biggest part of the household... -.-° She'll return on tuesday, so I hope it'll get better again afterwards, especially because there are another two painting ideas on my mind. So much to do, so little time .-.

So, I'm out again for now - don't forget to get yourself a painting & happy easter everyone!

Cya'll next time :)

Inspiration bomb.

Hello me hearties :)

How are y'all doing?

I'm fully recovered again and working like a madwoman atm, painting the hell out of my supplies... I know I'm a bad girl since I do still have this commission but that damn painting wants to get out of my head and I can't do anything against it :-/ So I need to paint. Here's some WIP's for you, including sketches and external stuff to be added later:

Yes, you're seeing right, these are blood puddles. Little Ala goes brutal. xD But it matches the concept. This painting's gonna combine about 4 songs:

- Scaretale (Nightwish) [main concept inspiration since this painting's gonna be another piece of my series for Imaginaerum]
- Circus Black (Amberian Dawn) [Kind of the same as scaretale I think xD]
- Charnel's Ball (Amberian Dawn) [Adds the bombast to this painting, I just love this song.]
- "Come little children" from the movie HocusPocus ... adds the dark, spooky component.

So ... yeah, I've kinda been hit by an inspiration bomb ... hiding under the surface of Amberian Dawn's "Re-Evolution" ... I don't know what it is but this album somewhat re-animated my imagination. Now I've got more ideas than I'll ever be able to realize xD And I've also realized that it really is music that's my main inspiration. At least for my paintings. I wouldn't know what I'd do without it I guess. I'm happy that my imagination is working again :D :D 

So far for now ... ah yeah and my web page -.- It is still down due to my server guy is quite stressed atm but I hope he pulls up the backup soon ... >.< Beg your patience for that :-/

Have a lovely weekend & cya'll next time. *vanishes*

P.S.: My video project is due to spring now postponed until next winter ... but I found a great song to put under another thing I wanted to do a long time ago... I think I'm gonna dig out that old video project again when I've time.

Please forgive me, I couldn't resist...

^_^ Bombast has eaten me once again. I first re-designed my deviant art and now the blog here ... I think I'm gonna keep this layout for a while, I love it. Next things to follow - a new facebook and twitter header and then a web page layout, if it should ever be up again Ò_Ó 

So then, hope you like my new layout :D C'ya :D <3

Well ... not really.

Hello me hearties ...

... so this is what you get when you're full of motivation and have a lot to do. You get a damn cold. >.< I really, really hate being sick and am bombarding this rubbish with everything I have here to make it pack its bags and move on. But I'm already doing much better compared to yesterday. So I'm positive that I'll be rid of it tomorrow or the day after. 

As for the manga story I wanna do, I now made it to put together a more or less good cover for it x) Next time I'm gonna use a pen for the outlines that makes thinner lines. I definately don't like the outlines. But yeah... here it is x) Together with the legend I'm gonna use as the driving force in the story. (Click to read it, I've uploaded it on deviant art.)

 

The legend

I'm curious myself what this is gonna be ^^ But so far it sounds promising and that's why I'll continue. I already sketched the first page of the story x)

So now I'm going on curing my throat... see you all later =) *vanishes*

Slowly coming back on track.

Hello me hearties =)

It's been a long time since I wrote last, hasn't it? Actually there wasn't much to blabber about but I thought today I should do an entry again :)

First of all I'm sorry - my web site still isn't fixed, the server guy has no idea what is wrong... we'll put up a backup now and hope the loss is as little as possible :/

And the other thing is - There lately has been this daily deviation on deviant art that reminded me of a story idea I had already forgotten... just because it portrays the main character so perfectly :D So I digged it out again now and am working on it more or less. I originally wanted to do it as a manga, I'm trying that now. If it doesn't work I'm gonna pull it up as a story. The content is a classical "geek becomes hero" story ^_^ Yet I think it's kinda lovely and there's something that wants out of my head. Won't reveal any details and no title but I'll keep you up to date =)

Which leads me to the next point. I yesterday (or was it the day before?) thought ok, go to youtube and take a listen to that new Amberian Dawn singer. And what happened? Little Ala got blown off her chair. Expected everything but not that. In a positive way. Because I never liked Heidi's voice in the first place, I think it somehow has a lack of emotion ... but the new stuff is so awesome :D But see yourself:

I just have that thing for bombastic stuff.. the more bombast the better xD This is perfect :D 

As for this song - I think this is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written right after Mandragora Scream's Frozen Space and Sleeping sun. <3

 

So ... yeah x) Everything slowly starts to go its old way again. I had an artist's block until 2 days ago but seems my creativity is back from vacation now and I can continue. 

As for now I'm gonna go to bed *yawns* I wish you all a wonderful rest of week and see you next time =)