I promised this a while ago, not that anyone noticed. Before you ask, Tolkienfan is my main account. Anyway: A disclaimer: I've never been great at digital art, so everything you see here is a drawing I did on actual paper*, with pens and pencils. Space, arrow keys or click screen to move through. Past the hashtags are a few words on each piece of artwork, continued in notes'n'credits. *except (7), which was on glass. #art #artdump #portraits #picturesofpeople #tolkienfan #officialnuisance #extremelybadphotosdontmindthequalityofmycamera and a touch of #discworld on the side NOTES ON ART 1- A drawing of Tiffany Aching, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, that I did for an art contest on scratch. It came second in its category out of seven entries. 2- Just a random character. I'm doing a personal learning thing at school where I teach myself to draw people, and this is one of the things I did because I was bored, had had enough and wanted to do something just for fun. 3- A monochrome character in the same style, made for the same art contest as (1) but for cat. black n white. I had recently drawn (2) and liked it, and from there came the idea. It came first for some reason. 4- I did this during the same lesson as (2). It's closer to my normal art style. I dinnae ken what happened with the eyes and chin. I did this drawing with my best friend in mind. She really likes strawberry blonde hair, likes wearing pants, and her favourite colour is green. 5- Me playing with silhouettes and reverses, incidentally leaving a lot of Sharpie ink on the desk as I neglected to make a pad for my paper. Good job it was a school desk and not my beautiful antique one at home. 6- Please don't ask. No, really. 7- A picture of my hand. Basically I rested the glass against my left hand and shut one eye and traced it with Sharpie. And censoring my name was the work of a moment. 8- My mum's making home-made elderflower and strawberry cordial. She asked me to do labels for the bottles. This is the first one I did. I also plan to do an elderflower witch and a lemon fairy, but have no plans for the other three labels. This picture gives me vibes from a wonderful picture book called 'The Red Bird'. And yes, I did choose that background fabric on purpose. 9- I can't even remember why I drew this one. It's good, apart from the lack of chin and back of head. It also gives me fantasy vibes, and I still haven't decided if that annoys me or not. 10- Eskarina Smith. Another Discworld character. Esk is the world's first female wizard. Here she is shown with both the pointy hat of office (which she doesn't actually get until near the end of the book) and The Staff. 11- One of the pictures in an advent calendar I'm making. This page is for 5 December, the day before St Nicholas' Day. Ask in the comments for an explanation about its significance in The Netherlands; it took up too much space here. This year the 5th falls on the second Sunday of advent, hence the purple colour scheme and the candles. 12- The front cover of the advent calendar, or more accurately what will eventually be it. Inspired by the Sugar Plum Fairy, I humbly present the Christmas Pudding Fairy. Mum says she looks like a 1950s housewife. 13- Princess Sheeta from the Studio Ghibli film 'Laputa: Castle in the Sky', redrawn in my style. Getting the shade of her hair right was tricky. Reality shock: my drawing style is closer to anime than I'd thought before doing this. 14- The first and only thing in this collection that has nothing to do with drawing people in any way. The lilies were a present. That's an old pasta sauce bottle they're in. 15- Perdita X Dream, another discworld character, no relation to the scratcher by the same name. Sorta simple, but not really. It's OK. 16- This one's too old to fit a 'second half of 2021' category, which may account for the extremely odd shape of the head. When I drew this I thought it was a masterpiece. Now I don't. All of the coloured drawings here use aquarel pencils, but this is one of the few where I actually added water. Also, apologies for the blurriness of this photo; when I took it the sun had just set so my room was suddenly much darker, and my camera only ever takes decent photos in good light.
NOTES continued from instructions 17- Hah, this one's called 'Let them deny it who they will that drawing stick figures is fine art'. Well... admittedly these are much better than most stick figures. You know the flaps of cardboard you get on the front of some art diaries? This was drawn on the reverse side of one of those during a boring health lesson. Again, bad cam quality. 18- Last year for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to put this on the front of my science book. I've drawn this character more times than I'd care to admit. 19- A more recent (and tasteful) notebook cover. Everyone liked the title. The drawing is based on a portrait I did last year of a girl in my class but this version looks nothing like her. The quality of my camera's getting really bad; imma find somewhere else to take photos now. 20- That's better. Not ideal, but certainly an improvement. 21- An impression of me trying to plait my hair behind my back. The closest thing to a face reveal I'm ever likely to share, and even then not really. 22- Mysterious hooded girl with plait. Look, I don't know either. And WHY is the face so long? 23- Fountain Girl again. BTW, she's called that because once I showed a picture of her to my brother, and he was like 'I thought that was a fountain' as soon as he realised it wasn't one. Given that I drew her in monochrome, she was kneeling, her hairstyle, and my art skills at the time, I don't blame him. 24- I'm actually pretty pleased with this one. It's made with the 'Just Get Vaccinated Already' studio in mind. I intend to propose this as a mascot. This character is called Delphine; she's always the one I use for pictures like this. 25- Lily girl. I have yet to discover exactly what went through my head when I decided to draw this. Sometimes the unplanned drawings are the best. I love it, anyway. She's so delicate and elegant. 26- A young lady wearing a pretty but historically inaccurate outfit. Close to one of my favourite outfits, but the bodice has silver buttons instead of lacing, and the skirt has no gold on it, but does have silver embroidery at the hem. Also, my hair is regrettably not this long, nor that colour. 27- Science today, and when I was supposed to take notes for the exam we have in two weeks I wasted my time drawing these. Well, I say 'wasted' but they're actually really nice, despite being in red pen on lined notebook paper. I want a blouse like the one in 27a. And one day I will learn to draw trees properly, but it is not this day. Post-exam update: I failed that section of the exam quite spectacularly. 28- OK, so this one's pretty, but also sorta the epitome of too much obvious makeup. Stereotypical Japanese vibes totally not on purpose. 29- Attempt at semi-realistic profile, with original pencil lines left in. It's not bad, but a range of individually insignificant but collectively disastrous errors make it not good either- most notably of which is the length of the lashes. 30- I was tempted to add water to this one, but decided against. And to illustrate how much effort goes into posing a character like this, I've taken a second photo before I erased the pencil lines and added colour. I always do a pencil sketch first, unless my drawing is a doodle in an exercise book, as in (27). This should come as no reality shock to any fellow artist. Admission time: The art diary I drew most of these in? I found it in a pigeon hole at school, and not being able to resist free stationery I pinched it. END
