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Emmerence

A while back I uploaded an unfinished lineart drawing of mine, it’s taken me some time and quite a few times of redrawing, recolouring and redoing everything. It’s still not done, but I find that this might be as close to as done as I’ll ever get on it. She lacks a better background border, and she lacks more shades and highlights, but besides that.. She’s done. And I think she more or less shows where my general status of where my skills are at the moment. I have every intention of getting better, I just need a kick in the beehind to actually start doing more traditional art again, and see if I can figure out my own style. Or one that I am comfortable with and enjoy. I’m not displeased with this one, neither am I thrilled. She is what she is. 

Enjoy. 

Artist of the Week

Lindsaycampbell is a Canadian artist who I came across very recently during looking through the Daily Deviations on Deviant Art. I don’t know much about this artist, other than she has some adoreable and cute art. And I like the medium she has chosen to use! 

Thought this would fit during the summer heat that is going around right about now. 

I’ve been told on numerous occation that I am a perfectionist. And I guess I am, but at the same time I’m also a firm believer that there is no such thing as perfect, as we all percieve things very differently in life. Like the saying goes: What is one man’s treasure is another man’s trash. 

But I’ve come to wonder.. What is this Perfect that so many of us is chasing? 

Can anyone tell me that?

Summer is here, or so it feels like it. 

Yesterday morning was real bad for me, full of anxiety attacks and I just couldn’t calm down. It was no fun at all. My body went on highwire of adrenaline and fright, but once I managed to calm down and come back to my senses the rest of the day was very enjoyable. Most of it I spent outside in the garden reading a book enjoying the sun and trying as much as I could to let go of the stress. It got real warm, real quick. And in honesty at times it felt like it was a bit too hot. And the lake looked real inviting to go jump into and swim around to cool down. So I went down to test the water, but far too cold to my liking, as I feared. No wonder though, as I was still wearing woolen underwear last week, not that it stopped Scott and my sister’s fiance to try later in the day. I was quite comfortable on land watching them trying to hard to go swimming. 

The only really bad thing about this fantastic weather, is that the hunger for unhealthy ice-cream is very much present. And yesterday… We did go get some very delicious ice-cream! I had pistashio and some other nutty thing on mine, Scott decided on limefudge and Martin had a… I’ve no idea what it’s called in english. Sorry!

I didn’t have any time to do any retouching of any of these photos, so bear with it!

Sometimes when I start looking at inspiration and things that I’d like to have for our wedding, I get a bit confused “this or that theme?”, and then I look at the price and my brain goes “Why spend so much money on just ONE day?! it’s insane! A dress you’re only going to wear ONCE! Even more insane!” And I get stressed. 

So yesterday I said to Scott, Screw it, can’t we just get married tomorrow? He just smiled and kissed me. But if I am honest with my self, and with Scott, I kind of do want a wedding party. Not something overly fancy and posh. More down to earth filled with lamps. Though both of our countries are sort of plagued with unpredictable weather… But still outdoor wedding with loads of candle lights flowing from branches and such.. it’d be gorgeous. But then, I am a sucker for candle lights really. 

Ah well, it’s a long while til we can afford it anyway. So for now it’s just dreaming, and semi-planning and then the occational stress of it all. 

Dinner time!

Stress. 

Yes, that’s what I’m mainly consumed by these days. Stress. Every little thing sets me off, and in all honesty.. I really wish I didn’t have work tomorrow. That I could wake up whenever I woke up, could take a long warm shower, put on my bathrobe sip some tea and look out at the beautiful scenery that is at my parents house. Then… just do whatever I want to do. Relax, get rid of the stress for just a day. Draw something, play with the dog, read a book.. Listening to music.. .without anyone bothering me, really. That. Now, that would be heaven. 

However, it’s not going to happen. I got to go to work tomorrow, and there’s a somewhat busy week-end ahead as well. Besides we’ll have to continue to look for jobs after I get home tomorrow anyway. 

I’m just really, really stressed. And it is starting to get to me a bit too much. 

Artist of the Week

Another week has gone by, so it’s time for another artist of the week. This week it’ll be of the talented Sandra Duchieicz from Poland, her deviant profile name is Telthona.

She also has some tumblr pages, so why not check it out? Monochrome Mantra and Fantasy creatures.

I’m having problems with my art. And it makes me sad, not progressing and I feel empty of motivation. I keep working on this one drawing, over and over and over again. and I have to finish it, but… I usually never finish, I usually stop at this stage and find something else to move on with. So, I did a quick sketch earlier of something else all together, and it turned out… really unsatisfying. Maybe it’s the stress that’s messing it up for me at the moment? There is a lot of stress right now, we’re just walking around.. waiting… hoping.. that Someone, someone will very soon give Scott a chance for a job here, so we can actually be together. 

But I promised I wouldn’t stress today. So, I’m not going to think about this right now. 

On a completely unrelated topic. We went to a viking-festival today, in the rain, and silly me didn’t dress for the weather. So I started shivering and got all cold, one should think I’d have learned by now, living in this city all my life. Knowing what clothes to wear to what kinds of weather. Problem was, I wanted to look nice. Anyway, we had a real good time. Got to see some action at the blacksmith, got to see a vikingboat floating on the water, Scott wanted to go for a ride, but we were too late down there. Next time! And we got to see some really sweet handcrafted belts they made for their costumes. Everyone walking around in medival costumes of wool. It was beautiful, and I want to make my self some too. I think I will.. Once I can afford the fabric! We also saw some swordplay of the medival group I used to be a part of, I’m now inspired to re-join. Hopefully together with Scott. We’ll see what happens! 

Got to dash!

Artist of the Week

I am starting to get a bit uncertain on which ones I’ve chosen before, and which ones I haven’t. But regardless, I generally think that the artist I like and enjoy should get some more attention, as it is such a competative and hard work to be in. So I have no shame in sharing with you the same person twice, or thrice! Anyway!

For this week, I’ve chosen the very talented Axel Torvenius from Sweden. Lately he’s been sharing with us a bunch of speed paints, and I have to admit, some days, I generally prefer speedpaints, and sketches and such more than the finished work. Otherdays it’s the otherway around though, don’t get me wrong. Anyway, on to the art!:

I love the expression and the colour, as well as design. Just something very pleasing and teasing about this picture.

I usually don’t add sculptures, but perhaps I should do more of that as well. Regardless, here is one, and I find it pretty cool and dark, but compared to the other lovely sculptures he has, this is one of the least morbid ones! 

Artist of the Week

This week is Waldemar-Kazak from Deviant art a brilliant artist from Russia, if you like these I’m showing you here, you should definetly check out the rest of his gallery.