Category: fantasy

Lady Sindbad (2014)

Illustration of a bunch of people having fun on a tiny island around a campfire on a starry night. One of them has a wooden leg, the another one is roasting something on a stick. They're having an excellent time.
Full version of the illustration, they're actually having a party on a giant whale!

I have this weird thing that I’m only allowed to post stuff I haven’t posted before on #SocialMedia. And while I try to not care about that looks like this fits the bill as well:

„Lady Sindbad“ (2014)

Really like the #cosy atmosphere in this one ^__^

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #AdobeIllustrator #ArtistsOnMastodon #GenderBend #sindbad #fairytale #fantasy #party #fun #whale #pirates #bbq #friends #moon #stars #night

Ghost Tiger (2020)

Illustration of a night scene with a small car on a rural street and a giant, blue-tinded tiger hovering above it. There's a mountainous landscape with trees in the background.

Looks like I’ve never posted this 2020 piece inspired by the #ChildrensBook „When You Trap a Tiger“ by #TaeKeller* Not super satisfied with this (will I ever be with anything …) but I love the #mysterious atmosphere this has ^__^

Hope you have a good week!

* Look at that amazing cover: https://www.taekeller.com/ !

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #tiger #nature #animals #fantasy #ghost #night #spooky #TinyCarsOrNoCars

Forest Dream (2011)

Illustration of a viking with red hair and beard, sleeping on the forest floor, seen from a bird's-eye view. Next to the viking there's a fox curled-up and sleeping as well. It seems to be autumn, the leaves are red and the forest-floor is golden, with light streaming in from behind the viking on the upper left of the picture.

aka „Wikinger Wald“ ^ __ ^

Hello, #Fedifriends! Here’s a another one from the #archives (2011). I was never quite satisfied with the colours and overall composition but it has grown on me over the years.

The original also featured a sword (see here) but I’m not really a fan of tools for killing anymore.

Mh, that’s a nice thought that this might happen to pieces I’m struggling with now …

„A Storm Coming“ / „Viking Monk“ (2010) Repost

Sketch of a viking, seen from behind, hovering in the air next to a rune stone. There's a grazing horse a bit away and dark, foreboding clouds in the sky.

Here’s a very old (2010!) piece I recently found on my blog, it was apparently for the (now defunct) #DrawingDay, done on a tiny, ancient (about A6!) #wacom #DrawingTablet (could never get used to them in the end).

Still like the atmosphere a lot.

Check out the blog for some info on the #RuneStone:

Drawing Day: A storm coming

Briefwechsel Michael Ende und Werner Zurfluh

Da ich grade nochmal panisch danach gesucht habe, hier der Link zu einem Briefwechsel zwischen Michael Ende und dem Klartraum-Forscher Werner Zurfluh (1945 – 2008):

https://oobe.ch/endebr.htm

Ist auch auf archive.org archiviert, insofern bleibt uns das wohl erhalten.

Ich weiß noch, dass ich das damals super faszinierend und traurig fand, dass Ende so unfassbar fantastische Geschichten schrieb, also Zugang zu solchen Welten hatte in den Briefen aber auf mich irgendwie verzweifelt wirkte in seinem Wunsch sowas auch erträumen zu können.

The Selkie / Winter Morning

Vector illustration of a young, white child with long, braided hair standing on the edge of a lake in a snowy landscape. In the lake is a mermaid-creature with a seal-tail. The selkie is almost completely underwater only the top of their head is above the surface. There is an eerie glow coming from the bottom of the lake.
The same illustration but it's not snowing.

I really enjoyed #JonKlassen’s #book „The Skull“, so here is a #hommage with a #Scottish twist* ^__^

The #braids almost killed me, I’ve struggled with #drawing braids before and can totally understand when people just draw a bunch of wonky circles (like Klassen does ^__^) but this time I wanted to understand how to do it and it probably took twice as long as all the rest of the illustration. I think the dramatic shadows on them fit the eery glowing light that’s coming from the bottom of the Selkie lake, no idea how I’d do it in „normal“ circumstances …

Not sure about the #snow, I personally love it but I got #feedback on another piece that it makes it the composition very restless, which I totally see.

Snow or no snow, what do you think?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #Inkscape #ArtistsOnMastodon #fantasy #fairytale #winter #selkie #scotland #edinburgh

Surfer Space Wizard Raven

Digital drawing of a raven-creature with a wizard-hat surfing a yellow surfboard above a green planet with clouds and floating megastructure cities. There are red moons or other planets in the violet sky.

Hi there ^__^ Here’s a Surfer Space Wizard Raven from a few years back! ✨

Floating, pill-shaped cities in the clouds are cool but I especially like the character, I think that would be a cool motive for a shirt, what do you think?

Have a nice week! 💖

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #SciFi #ScienceFiction #fantasy #raven #crow #CharacterDesign #planet #weird #surfer #wizard #skull #tshirt #floating

Cosmic Cow

Vector drawing in dark greens and blues of a night-scene with a highland cow on a small peninsular. The cow's reflection in the water reflects the milky way in the sky above. There's a crow sittig on the cow's back but in the reflection it is somehow in flight.

„Cosmic Cow“, first #illustration of the new year 🎉

A magic #cow and it’s time-bending #crow-companion enjoying the night on Harris ^__^

I like #HighlandCows a lot, they’re so chill and cool. This was probably inspired by John Maher’s night photography of the #OuterHebrides:

ISLE OF HARRIS, OUTER HEBRIDES

#JfmlArt #art #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #inkscape #landscape #milkyway #astronomy #photography #birds #animals #fantasy #mystery #scotland #harris #blue

The Peninsular

Digital drawing of a night scene: A person is standing on top of a cliff looking down at the ocean and a peninsular with a tower on it. The moon is full and there are towering anime clouds in the background.

Hello ^__^ I realised I never posted the finished version of these sketches (1), so here it is!

I’m not super happy with the colours and the outlines but it was a nice, very meditative experiment ✨

(1) https://mastodon.art/@jfml/110695867856903358

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #Krita #painting #landscape #beach #ocean #clouds #fantasy #night #moon #magic #witch #bird #seagull #travel

Nach der Zeit – Cityscape

A nightly streetscene with old houses that are partly submerged in water. In the distance two reed moons and a cloud kinda form a monster's face

Hej ^__^

Here’s another #illustration from my #diploma (1),which I like a lot, I feel like this #cityscape harkens back to my prediploma (2) which was a reaction to my #erasmus #studenexchange in #Istanbul (which was very good but as a lover #nature it was a strange experience).

(1) https://jfml.eu/2009/09/illustration-nach-der-zeit/

(2) https://jfml.eu/2009/10/illustration-ein-labyrinth-ein-traum/

JfmlArt #art #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #underwater #apocalypse #climatecrisis #wallpaper #fantasy #night #dream #surreal #monster #flooded #TraditionalArt

Door to Summer

Sketch in blue on white of a mountain lake with a tiny island in the middle. There's a giant crystal hovering above it and in one of it's sides you can see another landscape with flowers.

Let’s continue with the #winter theme ^ _ ^

I wanted to try #manga style grey-toning and it is a lot of fun (but as I feared it’s a nightmare to export for Web / as a JPG).

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #Krita #ArtWithOpenSource #sketch #BlackAndWhite #landscape #snow #crystal #fantasy #lake #birds #ArtAdventCalendar

Bridge of the Nautilus

This is one of the pieces I like a lot more looking back at it now. It’s weird when that happens but I guess it’s cause you let go of / forget about all the little things that didn’t work out the way you wanted when some time has passed?

Anyway, it’s a #sketch for the #3D model I did for the bridge of the #Nautilus a while back. Nice colours ^__^

♥ my other art

Ich hab vor einigen Jahren heimlich angefangen Illus am Tablet zu zeichnen!

Genau wie letztes Jahr (stimmt auch da gerne nochma ab, ma sehen, was passiert ^__^) würde es mich freuen, wenn ihr die Bilder, die euch gefallen mit einem ⭐ verseht (im Vollbild-Modus unten links).

Gerne an Leute weiterleiten, die Interesse haben könnten! Dankeschön ^__^

I’ve been stealthily getting into digital drawing!

So like last year (feel free to vote again, let’s see what happens ^__^) it would be my pleasure if you’d take the time and give some ⭐s to the ones you like (in the lower left corner in fullscreen view).

Feel free to pass this on to people who might be interested in voting as well! Thanks a lot ^__^

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Vorher/Nacher-Bilder

Viel hat sich da nicht getan und ich hab’ keine Ahung ob’s besser ist als die alte Version, is aber auch egal:

Witchsona-Cyberpunk-Witch-03

Dann versuch’ ich einfach zum hundertsten Mal programmieren zu lernen, diesmal (wieder) Javascript. Das erste von den in der Bücherei vorbestellten Büchern war „Coding with Javascript for Dummies“ und ist auch abgesehen von dem ableistischen Titel der Buchreihe das schlechteste Programmier-Lern-Dings, das ich je gesehen habe: es ist voller Fehler (im Text, in den Anleitungen und sogar im fucking Code!), Sachen sind superschlecht erklärt, es gibt schon zu Anfang viel zu viele ausufernde Listen, die bestenfalls in einen Anhang gehören würden, etc. Ich mach’ das weiter, bis ein neues Buch kommt aber dann kommt das ohne Nachdenken in die Tonne,zurück in die Bücherei, der Schrott.

Ich werde da als praktische Übung, wenn ich da ein bissl drin bin, (hoffentlich) eine interaktive (und überarbeitete) Version von diesem „Choose Your Own Eulord“ machen:

ChooseYourOwnEulord-02-01-(inkl.-Rechtschreibfehler)-500

Das scheint mir ein realistischeres Ziel zu sein, als das was ich eigentlich machen will (nämlich Emby Theater fürn Mac).

Adoration of the Magi

Ich glaube Stephanie von Vorzeiten hat mal gesagt das Magi den selben Wortstamm wie Magie/Magier hat und seitdem ich gesehen habe, dass dieses Heilige drei Könige-Motiv im Englischen Adoration of the Magi heißt, wollte ich schon immer mal ein Bild dazu machen. Frage ist nur:

A:
AdorationOfTheMagi-02-01A

oder B:
AdorationOfTheMagi-02-01B

?

Frohe Holiday Season! *:･ﾟ✧ ╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭ *:･ﾟ✧

Fox of Friendship / Fuchs der Freundschaft

Wow, hat dann sogar über ‘n Jahr gedauert. Hier die (erstmal) finale Version (Final1, FinalFinal2 …):

FoxOfFriendship-PDF-06-A4-En
FoxOfFriendship-PDF-08-A4-EN.pdf


 Ich hab’ letzte Woche noch eine dt. Version gebastelt (O Graus):
FoxOfFriendship-PDF-06-A4-De

FoxOfFriendship-PDF-07-A4-De.pdf

Und nochmal die Font, Ara Regular in aktueller Version (werde ich, wenn ich was dran mache weiterhin hier aktualisieren):*

Ara Regular-0.4-Alpha.zip

Das war’s dann soweit erstmal, ich werd’ (wahrscheinlich in Dland) dann nochmal eine Mini-Auflage drucken lassen, wenn da jemand Interesse hat, bitte irgendwie melden/kommentieren (und ob’s dt. oder en. sein soll).

Ich werd’ mal gucken, ob irgendein Verlag das haben, will. Der einzige, bei dem ich dazu eine Möglichkeit gefunden hab, wil schonmal zwei Seiten mehr haben. Geht fleißig weiter.

Wer Verlage kennt, immer fleißig her damit!

Nochmal dank an Birdfont, du bist ein merkwürdiges Programm aber zusammen mit Illustrator geht’s gut!