Self love

It's Valentines Day and I felt like doing a very simple water colour painting for the sake of self love! Everywhere I go I just see all that romantic stuff for couples... Completely wrong focus in my point of view! ;)

I'm really into water colours lately but there is not much time so I made it easy for myself:

1 colour

1 brush

And painting myself was ... a little bit strange. 

Seeing and painting my own features was like getting to know myself a little bit better.

An interesting experience after all.

I think, I will do this again after some time. It was fun and also a bit like a special kind of meditation.

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Former days

Long time no post...

Yes, I'm still alive and I've found my inspiration again. So now I'm going to bring this blog to life again. :)

A few weeks ago I visited my family and my mum keeps some paintings and drawings that I made for her on her wall. I recognized one water colour painting that I created when I was 13 years old...

 

It was a christmas present for my mum. 

Gosh, when I think about it... This painting more than 14 years old. 

Time flies! 

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Jan

Finally I made it to draw my boyfriend himself. 

I did that drawing in a rush, maybe that's why I'm not really comfortable with the result...

Sometimes I should stop being that perfectionistic ... ^^

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Imran

Yes, again a present. :P

Imran is one of the closest friends I ever had, though he lives in London...

I thought I scan my work in different states of creating. 

I actually find this pretty interesting, looking at it after some time, seeing how it became a complete drawing.

I edited the scans because scanner and pencil aren't the greatest pairing. That's why some of the pictures have a darker background than others.

Maybe there're better ways of editing them without the whole picture becoming darker but yeah, I'm no professional concerning digital art. I prefer the good old paper-and-pencil-way (who would have guessed ;) )

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Ville Valo

Again a present, this was for my boyfriend.

He's a huge HIM-fan and since I started with Ville, I guess I will draw the whole Band for him at some point.

Half way my glasses suddenly disappeared. Until today I have no idea, where they went. I had to get new glasses and that's why this drawing got finished in September, though my bf's birthday is in August. 

Anyway, he loves it and that's the main thing ^^

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Johnny Depp

This was actually the cover of one of my "Pirates of the Caribbean"-books but I liked it so much and hey, Johnny Depp is really worth a portrait. ;)

The shading was quite heavy to do, sometimes I struggle to keep my patience ... oh my...

But in the end I'm comfortable with the result.

P.S.: This portrait is still for sale :)

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Amy Lee

This was a christmas present for a good friend.

He was a great fan of Amy Lee back then.

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