sirithduriel

Soon, quite soon, sooner than I am really consciously aware of, I'll be flying off to Ireland to do an internship at a university there. Fun times!

But it leaves me without any idea of how much time I'll really have for drawing, let alone posting. I won't be taking my desktop either, and I'm not sure how well my laptop will handle Painter or Photoshop. Thus, this little corner of the internet will go pretty quiet (as it has these previous few months), as I see it now.

Anything new - art or art-related blogs - will be posted at my DevArt page, thus, moveth thee to http://sirithduriel.deviantart.com !

Additionally, you can email me at sirithduriel @ gmail.com if you'd like to contact me directly!

Gave the improvement meme an update, over on DeviantArt. It's an overview of my art from 2003 to 2009, but now I added 2010 and 2011, as well.

Check eet: http://fav.me/d2h6rm7

Wish you a happy 2012, and hope your Christmas was nice already!

I've no drawings to show, partly because I have been busy with literature reviews, and partly because I haven't liked a single drawing I've made lately. That's also why I have no Christmas card this year, because nothing's good enough to show. Better luck next year, I guess!

I've not felt like continuing the portrait of Lilith lately, so here's a crop of her head to show you how far I got! She still misses the tattoos, but I'll add those if I continue it later on.
I'm quite satisfied with my results so far, even though I have a long way to go :).

One thing that keeps weirding me out is how the thumbnail has such a different expression from the zoomed in version. Here she looks a bit friendly, a bit badass and just intense. While in the thumbnail... dunno, just seems very different to me.


@ DeviantArt. Painter X!

NaNoWriMo is coming up, as well! This year, I will be writing a bunch of short stories instead of one long one. We'll see where that takes me.

And I have quite a cold, just as the weather turned from warm, sunny and summery to cold, windy and rainy. I don't mind the weather, but the timing is interesting.

Aaand we continue. Some anatomical fixes, more shading...

I always think at this stage "I should have planned more!" because of the fixing stuff while already painting. You run the risk of having to fix glaring mistakes and then redoing a large part of your painting. For some reason, though, a sketch just doesn't translate directly to a painting, there's stuff that looks fine when drawn, and looks off when painted.

Luckily all my detailed painting so far is mostly the face, and the rest is relatively quickly done, so I didn't loose much by moving stuff around so it would look better.

I almost considered leaving this painting and just go do something else, but this weekend I finally figured out how to continue. I deepened the saturation especially, partially because I seem to prefer it that way. Many, many things still to do and to fix.