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„Stormy Afternoon“ now in the shop!

An illustration of an old brown woman reading a book on a futon-style bed, wrapped in blankets. She's in an attic-room, there's a round window in the wall with a cat looking out into the rainy landscape with towering clouds and a lighthouse. Inside it's cosy, with tea and candles.

I’m experimenting with a #Woocommerce #shop atm and „Stormy Afternoon“ is one of the products now available:

https://shop.jfml.eu/shop/browse-by-illustration/stormy-afternoon/

Still figuring a lot of it out but I’d be happy if you’d take a look 💖

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UtopiaStill-Screenshot

Screenshot of a very low-loly 3d street scene, looking out onto the water, there is lots of greenery, trees and seating, as well as a kid jumping into a fountain and a crow frozen in mid-air.

I know it’s not #ScreenshotSaturday but here’s one from my #utopian 3d diorama #UtopiaStill I’m working on for @chaos_fl@chaos.social anyway ^__^

Working with #Godot has been a blast so far, handling #Blender files is a breeze!

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Colobee 2024

My POV at the Colony of Artists: a table in the foreground with postcards and stickers on them looking out into a room with prints in frames on an easel and on a sofa, there's two small tables with prints and comic / children's books as well.

A front view of my stall with lots of stickers and post and greeting cards.

I had so much fun at #Colobee last weekend! 🎉

Just like the last years it was so good and heart-warming talking to people and seeing them react to my and my friend Monika’s work.

Thanks so much to everybody who came round and to Kat and the other organisers for the huge amount of work needed to pull off an event as this! 💖

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Colobee24 is this weekend (Sept 14/15 2024)! 🎉

Photo of some of the stuff I will have on offer, three framed prints, greeting cards, stickers and postcards.

Nika Novich's surreal digital collage „Soul Transit“: people in suits standing in a dark wood with a giant owl-like creature that also might be a carriage, there's a full moon.

My illustration „Cycle Outing“ in greens and pinks of a person taking a brake from cycling the rather steep climbs in a Scottish landscape with mountains, a loch and woodlands.

Colobee 🐝 aka Colony of Artists, the yearly #Abbeyhill open door / #artfair is happening this weekend, Sat 14 / Sun 15, 11am – 6pm in #Edinburgh! 🎉

Come round for over 90(!?) #artists showing their work in their homes and gardens:

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk

I’m venue 42 with our friend Nika Novich who is doing amazing digital #collages, check out #colobee for more stuff.

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Colobee 24 is soon!

A table with all the things I'm going to sell: prints, comics, children's book, greeting and postcards and stickers.

A bunch of framed prints arranged on a grey sofa, the prints feature mostly landscapes in blue and pink.

A lot of prints on the floor, unframed, some of them in (biodegradable) wrapping.

Scottish friends! It’s less than a month til it’s time again for Colobee 🐝 also known as Colony of Artists, your yearly art-fair extravaganza:

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk

If you’re in the area, mark your calendars for Sat 14 / Sun 15 of September ^__^

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I’m working on a utopian street scene #diorama for @callforstories@chaos.social atm and since I have a bad case of „I need to to EVERYTHING myself“ I’m working on the characters atm. Debating if I should go only vertex colors (left) or „hand-painted“ (right) which is more work (uv-unwrapping 😩) but easier to add small details.

What do you think?

Pretty sure I’m not gonna rig them, though that is another https://xkcd.com/1205/ +__+

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Grafische Reste (2008) – Repost

A rather abstract digital collage in black and white with a female coded figure at the top and graphical elements reminiscent of electrical circuit drawings and printed circuit boards.

Randomly though about this this morning, one of the few times(1) I did (#digital) #collage, courtesy of my friend and fellow student Ina Keck, topics where #consumerism vs #individuality, #tech vs #emotion etc. Fun times! ^__^

Here’s the original blogpost about it from back when.

(1) https://jfml.eu/?s=collage

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„Last Coffee Shop Before the Galaxy“ (2024)

Monochrome illustration of the inside of a hipster coffee shop, the old lady barista is just doing some latte art, there are stickers on the coffee machine and the walls are full of coffee making equipment, that have tiny astronomical things in them (a miniature sun, moons, planets etc). There's a giant window from which you can see the surface of the moon, the earthrise and our milky way in the background.

Detail of the illustration in black and yellow: an old person with a topknot behind the bar of a café pouring oatmilk into a cup. There's an espresso machine with stickers on the left.

Old #punk lady’s #coffee shop on the #moon where the young #space kids fighting for free space travel drop by before going on their #adventures.

I’m a huge #astronomy and #coffee #nerd but I don’t really express these in my #art so I thought why not combine the two ^__^

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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 ^__^

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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/ !

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Cloud Scapes (2020)

A pencil drawing coloured in light grey-blue of two wanderers on their way to a big building on a hill. Above the trees a lot of clouds are stacked above and beyond each other in the sky and around the building.

This started as a #study in 2020 about the way #clouds sometimes stack behind each other to form these #fantastic #landscapes in the #sky.

I feel like I didn’t really nail it, need to investigate that again at some point ^__^

EDIT: This apparently inspired @Fjord in Progress / Semiotic Pirate to the following:

Everything leaned in to watch the wanderers approach the distant castle. The clouds began to loom protectively over the castle’s towers. The landscape filled with intent, though no decision had been made as the travelers remained silent, their footsteps soft upon the earth. There was no path but neither were there obstructions.

Which I love! It’s kinda the opposite of back when the music of The Princess and The Pearl inspired me to do Ghost Ship ^__^ Different art forms inspiring each other, it’s just the best!

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Hipster Café WIP

Vector illustration in black and yellow of an old person with a topknot behind the bar of a café pouring oatmilk into a cup. There's an espresso machine with stickers on the left.

Here’s a #WIP from a piece I’m working on. I realised I don’t draw a lot of the things I care deeply about in real life so (except for nature and fantasy ^__^), so this will be all about #hipster #coffee places (paired with #scifi / #astronomy).

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Sunny Day on Harris

Illustration of a traditional Scottish cottage on a flowering meadow (Machair), surrounded by the sea. It's a beautiful day, there's sheep and birds and mountains in the background.

„Sunny Day on Harris“

This has been waiting patiently in my unfinished-pile to be rediscovered ^__^

I love summer in the #OuterHebredis and the #Machair* is such a thing of beauty!

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

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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

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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! 💖

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A tree on a hill

A black and white sketch of a bendy tree with round canopy on a round hill.

Here’s something a bit different from my usual #style from the #archive: A nice bendy #tree #sketch 🎉

I like it how you can’t tell of those things are tiny #clouds or part of the #canopy #floating around ^__^

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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

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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

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ArtVsArtist 2023

Late to the party as always (🥳) here’s an #ArtVsArtist2023 thingy (I’m super unsure about putting my face on the internet but since this is not going to #Instagram anymore I feel better about it).

I feel there’s a lot of #pink going on which is really nice ^__^ I hope I’ll remember doing more of these in the future, it’s a good way of looking at the past year.

There’s a lot of #pink going on which is really nice ^__^ I hope I’ll remember doing more of these in the future, it’s a good way of looking at the past year.

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