Bewitch me!

A short inbetween witch-y, purple-y picture!  I hope you enjoy it!

The model is the lovely Miss Morbi1d / redrum from tumblr. -->  morb1d.tumblr.com/

Go check out her blog, she is amazing!

Sterntaler

And even more art. ;)

The picture is called "Sterntaler" which is the titel of a German fairytale from Grimm's Fairy Tales. As far as I know the English title is "The Star Money" or "The Star Talers".
The fairytales tells the story of a very poor but generous little girl who gives away all of her possessions in acts of good-heartedness. In the end, the stars fall to earth before her and turn into pure gold. She ends up rich.

The stock model for this one is Miss Cherrybomb

And some in-between/WIP stuff...

black cherry

Whoah, new art! Really! :D

"black cherry"

The words in the background are from one of my favourite poems called "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley.

"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."

Let them eat cake...

Long time no see! :D

So I've finally finished my exams and have some time on my hands. Unfortunately, I can't use it for making art because my Wacom tablet has somehow become unable to install on my computer. Which is weird, because it has worked fine before. But now the computer is not able to run the tablet software. I need to find out what's wrong with it, I have some pictures in the making which I want to finish.

But now, having time on my hands - what to do? Well - BAKE!

These are just regular cookies, made with vanilla-flavoured dough and with lots of sugar icing. The ones with the letters on them were gifts for friends. 

And these are two types of muffins - "Russischer Zupfkuchen"-Muffins (no clue how to translate that...) and cherry muffins with cinnamon (so yummy!).

wear black, bleed glitter - finished

Yep. I decided for the white background. ;)

aus fleisch und blut - finished

fleisch und blut I

I'm not dead.
I need to finish the pictures I start. At least one of them...

wear black, bleed glitter II

More WIP of the popart/neon craziness picture. Need more work on the hair, though.
I don't know which one I like better - the black based or the white based one...

wear black, bleed glitter

I really like pop art right now.

Have Faith! - finished

Finally! :D

Have Faith #2

Just a smallish update! <3

Have Faith!

A small WIP of a picture I'm currently working on - a sort of "fanart" for Isabelle Faith, who is an incredibly pretty lady I've come across on Tumblr. She is such a beauty! <3

Here is her Tumblr blog: Isabelle Faith
And her DA: DeviantArt

Sterntaler / The Star Money

A few WIPs and sketches of a new work! I hope you like it!
Inspired by the German fairytale "Sterntaler" - Google told me it's "The Star Money" in English! :D

Sketch

Faaaace XD 

Face detail 

Panda Power & Doktorarbeit

 

A (originally a Christmas) gift  for Missimoinsane on DA

I love pandas - they are so fluffy and cuddly looking! :D 

____________________________________________________

Und noch ein bisschen Geschwafel in Deutsch: 

In der letzten Zeit bin ich leider zu absolut nichts gekommen, was irgendwie mit künstlerischer Aktivität zu tun gehabt hat - denn ich habe all meine Zeit damit verbracht, meine Doktorarbeit fertigzustellen! 

Und letzte Woche war es dann endlich soweit: Ich hab das gute Stück, mein ungeliebtes "Baby", endgültig abgegeben. Es ist schon wirklich erstaunlich, wie sehr man eine emotionale Verbindung mit etwas eingeht, was im Endeffekt "nur" ein unsäglich langer Text ist, wenn man sich nur lange genug (in meinem Fall 3 Jahre) intensiv und nahezu ausschließlich damit beschäftigt.... Eine Art Hass-Liebe, die tatsächlich schon etwas Fürsorglich-Müttlerliches annimmt. 

Jetzt bange und hoffe ich auf die Gutachten und danach die Verteidigung der Dissertation - was auch noch mal so einen Meilenstein darstellt, auf den ich auch gut verzichten könnte. Alles in allem werde ich dann wahrscheinlich im Spätsommer endlich meine Titel tragen dürfen. Hat ja auch lang genug gedauert! 

Auf jeden Fall hab ich momentan etwas mehr Zeit zur Verfügung und werde versuchen, mich auch mal wieder etwas kreativ zu beschäftigen. Ich hab zu Weihnachten ein Wacom-Tablet geschenkt bekommen und bin bisher kaum dazu gekommen, es einzuweihen. Das wird auf jeden Fall nachgeholt! 

Somit wird es wohl bald auch auf diesem Blog wieder etwas mehr Aktivität geben! XD

Online feature!

My art has been featured on the Online Weblog Boyofbow, which is a great showcase for collections of photography, fashion, goth, steampunk, fantasy and gothic art. 

Click for the link, please!!!! 

I love websites like this which feature artists from all genres, styles and from all over the world. It's very inspirational and I love being featured there.

It's also nice to have people ask if they can post your art and give credit  for a change. ;) Unfortunately, that's still not always the case...

Endlich ein Update! - Kiss to Kill & Modern Angel (Attention: super picture heavy!)

Hello hello  everybody! :3

Long time no see! First of all: I hope all of you had lovely Christmas holidays and were able to take some time off, relax, spend time with your family, friends and loved ones. I'm sure I did!

Furthermore, I wish you all a (late) Happy New Year! May 2012 become a better year then 2011.
For me, the last year was quite a bad one, very stressful, emotionally challenging and health-wise a total catastrophe. :( I have high hopes for 2012!

Artwise, the last year hasn't been too successful as well. I barely managed to draw at all, mainly due to the time-factor, but also due to a lack of motivation and inspiration, and a crappy tablet.
But now, Santa has brought me a brand new Wacom tablet! XD OH THE LOVE! And I'm eager to try it out. So hopefully, I'll be more productive soon!

I also want to thank all of you who stayed with me during 2011! I'm still in awe to see that there are roughly 140 of you following this blog (well, more or less following, I guess!) I know I'm a horrible blogger who updates only once in a blue moon, but I have love for this blog, so I'll keep it up as long as there are still people who want to see it.

So thank you so much for putting up with me!

Anyways - as every year I offered Secret Santa gifts to my followers on DeviantArt and Tumblr, and I managed to finish 2 in time, a third one will come later on. And because it was obviously a secret, I couldn't show you an progress shots earlier. So - here's a gigantic art update!

Kiss to Kill for blackdepressivefairy @ DA

sketch

sketch and lineart

clean lineart

face (LOL)

face & flat hair color

full

Modern Angel for zombiegirl937 @ Tumblr

sketch 

 sketch & lineart 

clean lineart 

face 

face & body

plain hair 

full

Little Miss Catastrophe

Finally! I managed to finish my Halloween picture for this year - two weeks late.
Yeah, I procrastinate like crazy, sorry. I still like it, though.

Here are three version of it:

1.) Zombie version

2) "Alive"-version XD

3) With my Halloween designs for the Zazzle shop:

Halloween girl still not finished... :(

I unfortuantely didn't make it to finish my zombie girl before Halloween, but I just couldn't manage.  But yeah, that's how far I've gotten until today...

Happy Halloween!!! 

Halloween girl WIP

Long time no see! :D

A little WIP of a zombie-ish girl I want to use for the presentation of a few Halloween-themed designs I made.
I haven't made up my mind yet if I want her to look ghoulish green or just pale. I like both.