Jenny Dolfen

Folktember: The Seelie Queen

It's on! Folktember should be sliiightly easier for me to do than the October challenges - fewer class tests and conventions! It's only got five prompts, so I’m getting the first one ready for September 1st. =D 

Quick sketch using a r...

Video tryout!

My phone stand arrived yesterday and I can now actually film myself painting! I hope the magnifying glass isn't too irritating; at least it doesn't cover the area I'm working on. 

I will DEFINITELY do videos now! I wish I could just upl...

Maedhros in progress (with art tips)

I'm still smacking myself for not doing this mixed media thing sooner! (As always, it's smoother than this in real life.) I'm deliriously in love with the textures and colour transitions here.  

Steps: 

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Oathkeeper

Maedhros has been very patient this past six months, but he finally decided I'd done enough testing and trying and dallying with media and fandoms, and demanded Art Nouveau and quiet obstinacy/tragedy. I was happy to comply. =D 

My fami...

"I will not lose you again" - an adventure in mixed media!

I am so fricking happy with the technique here. I used really everything - Procreate for the lineart, normal watercolour for the background, watercolour pencils for the rough colours on the figures, Polychromos for detail, more watercolour pencils...

Look what I found!

... I found the obvious thing: watercolour pencils! *rofl* 

There have been a number of people who said: "Okay, so if you can't use watercolour anymore, but recently fell in love with coloured pencils, have you tried watercolour pencils...

Prints are back on the menu, boys!

So, as promised, starting a test run with twenty prints in my Etsy shop! They're the ones...

RPG lineart, Haunted Forest, and a print trial!

A lot is going on! First off, an RPG scene that happened last weekend - Jax meets his mother, the redeemed Succubus Arueshalae, in a fight that nearly kills several of them while fighting off demons attacking her. Jax was knocked unconscious (and ...

Master Holbytla

Art Nouveau Merry is done! I can't tell you how happy I am with the coloured pencil look in this. A part of me is almost grateful that my crappy eyes have forced me to rediscover this medium - I don't think I'd have invested in coloured pencils ev...

Art Nouveau Merry in progress

Finally tackling this one! How do I polychromo again?
It took me a while, by the way, but I've now found my perfect way of organising my coloured pencils! Since I can only use them at my desk anyway, I ditched the 98-slot-pencil cases, put the...

RPG night sketchpage: Jax

Last weekend yielded a lot of draw-worthy scenes in our Pathfinder game night. It's a campaign that's getting more and more epic as it pits the characters against demons of the Worldwound (a portal to hell), and we're starting to realise it's up t...

Finnan and book project

Finished Finnan, and started putting together the Haunted Forest book!

If all goes well, it should be available in September. 💚💙💚

Back from holiday!

I somehow made it through the last week of school and now we're freshly back from a holiday in Denmark. (Which I've fallen in love with - how can a country have the friendliest people, the best food AND the hugest Role-playing shops I've ever seen...

Remember Agnes and her adventure in the Haunted Forest?

I'd put up a few prints of her at Tolkien Tage the weekend before last, and there were so many people who got prints and pins of her, without having any idea who she was, that I decided it would be a good idea to finally get that story out there a...

Merry in Art Nouveau

This one's squarely on Kate, who asked whether I was going to do anything else with Merry, and I remembered how much I'd loved Merry in Andy Serkis's Lord of the Rings audiobook (which came extremely close to how I'd heard him in my head reading t...

Tolkien Days book sketches!

I spent the last weekend at Tolkien Tage in Geldern/Germany, and I finally think I may have even out that sleep deficit, so I can post the sketches I did in art books! It's been an insanely wonderful time with people I hadn't seen for three years ...

"Among many other things"

"Curiosity is the spark of many arcane pursuits and knowledge... among many other things." 

Gilmore and Vax, finally done! I love this one so much. 

Polychromos on Arches hot-press watercolour paper (I've finally found out wh...

"Let's play."

Scene from our D&D game. Technically, from next session.
Characters: Farryn, Gnome Fighter (my DMPC), Eragon, Dragonborn Paladin (our friend), Nicht, Goblin Artificer (my husband), Farawyn, High-elf Druid (our daughter). We're somehow an a...

Vax and Gilmore (in progress)

I'm so in love with this piece and it just keeps getting better. Gilmore's skintone just turned out so gorgeous. 

I'm using Arches watercolour paper, Arches being the barely contested queen of watercolour papers, and I just could never ...

Borrowed Time

Another image from Critical Role (spoiler-y for the end of Campaign 1, but I've already spoilered that pretty thoroughly): Vax'ildan realises that some resurrections leave their mark.

After his death and subsequent resurrection*, Vax has not...

Fingon commission finished ... and a few words on men kissing

Here's the last of the three commissions! I'm really happy with how this worked out and will certainly open a few slots again later this summer. In the meantime, if anyone has any Critical Role commissions they've been thinking aabout, you can thr...

Celebrimbor

Finished Celebrimbor! Probably my favourite "Black hair in coloured pencil" I've done yet. 

And now I realise who he reminds me of - Paul from Dune! And that wasn't even planned, though I have to say it makes sense. 

Vax/Gilmore lineart, and Fingon and Celebrimbor colouring in progress

Yup, I'm somehow doing three pictures at the same time AND I'm also marking Latin exams in between and I'm feeling pretty accomplished. 

Toned...

Celebrimbor, Fingon, and some kissy Critical Role =D

Here's the next batch of the commissions: Celebrimbor and Fingon! I hope the colouring will go well - I have a new extremely irritating blind spot in my left eye which keeps making me think I forgot to draw a line that's already there. The spots d...

Signed and numbered LE prints this afternoon!

Haleth is getting a tiny little print run of ten! Prints are dropping this afternoon at 4 pm CET. <3

Haleth

Toned paper and coloured pencil. OMG. It's the perfect background tone as well. <3 

Also, blues and ochres forever! 

Note me making her hair totally ambiguous. I have no idea why, but in fanart, Haleth is usually blonde, a...

Commission: Haleth (lineart)

Here's the first go at the Patreon commissions! Haleth of the Haladin. To be coloured! =)

Orym wallpaper

This is probably the most wallpaper-ready image I've ever done, so here's a free-for-all phone wallpaper! 

I want to go wild with Art Nouveau now. =) 

Had an incredible day yesterday when Orym's (and Vax's) player Liam O'Brie...

Orym in all his (digital) splendour

This completely defeated me in coloured pencil, sadly. It probably would have worked out, but the Ugly Stage looked so ugly that I abandoned it in favour of Procreate, in order to be able to tweak the colours indefinitely. With red (for t...

Orym lineart (Art Nouveau makes a comeback!)

I'm going to HATE myself for the details here soon enough...!