The hills and valleys of a professional artist
Hey! How are things? This year has been so busy. I’ve been occupied with lots of freelance work, a lot more than last year. I really enjoy it though, and I feel that I’m slowly finding a healthy balance between work and rest. I take a lot of breaks inbetween work, and lately I allowed myself to fine-tune my cats. And other cute stuff that…
Wow, hi. I’ve missed this place and you so much lately. Thanks for sticking around, despite one and a half year of complete scilence. Time to revive this place. Lots have happened since last time I wrote something here. I could start by showing the jacket art of the latest book I’m currently working on. The remaining illustrations inside the book need to be done…
End of the weekend already. I’ve felt such urge to color a fox sketch, that’s been collecting dust on my drive for a couple of weeks. Took me about an hour, maybe. Photoshop. I borrowed the colorscheme from my previous speed painting. I love painting warm lighting so much, I could do this all day. Oh and I remembered to make a new time lapse…
February and March. They just swooshed by. I’ve barely had any freelance work, so I’ve been mostly doing mindless doodles on my spare time. Quite nice though, I like having slower months from time to time, where I put myself first. Still soldiering on with my watercolors these two months as well, and I think I’m slowly moving forward. Learning a lot so far, I’ve figured…
How is it possible to feel this productive and lazy at the same time? I’ve got so much I was planning to do during this weekend, yet I end up here painting a cuddly fox. But, damn it was so much fun painting it. I’ve been in the zone for hours and managed to color this one all in one sitting. Again. One can’t fight…
Why hello there, it’s me again. Almost end of February already? Really? What’s going on? It’s time for the first monthly recap to check on how I am doing wth my goals for the year. January has been really fun, consisting of lazy and snowy days(haven’t have this much snow in Stockholm in years, yay!), some freelance work, losing myself in watercolors. So how…
I’m still living in that magical wonderland from last week in the snowy woods. Who knew that a little frost, sunshine and minus degrees could do so much good. Been looking at the photos I took and long to go back. Hope we can have snow at least one more time before spring arrives. It’s all melted away already. I remember walking past a section…
Last Sunday was magical. I was predicting pretty cold weather, and have been eagerly checking my weather app over and over again so that I won’t miss the best opportunity for a field trip. And I hit the jackpot, baby. The air was crisp, the sun was shining and Stockholm looked like a winter postcard. Insanely Beautiful! This was exactly what I’ve been waiting for, as I…
At last. Had to fail over and over again, but here we are – 5-6 attempts later. I like it enought to call it done. Feels awesome! :D Been grinding for weeks now, “wasting” several sheets of expensive paper. But hey, one needs to make sacrifices in order to improve, right? I’m known for starting over rather than trying to fix a painting that dowsn’t work…
Nice and calm day yesterday. I’ve spent so much time in the kitchen, surrounded by wet paint, brushes and paper. Gosh, been such a long time since I experienced this. Having the table covered in art supplies. Amazing. I’ve just prepared a new watercolor painting. First I created a quick digital painting, the one here above, to use as reference for my traditional piece. Sketched it…