Jenny Dolfen

Will in progress

I'm a little worried about all the colours in the crown, but I'm going to tone them waaaay down. Oh, and I added poppies since the lineart I posted, because the piece wasn't sad enough yet... Because I love poppies and include them at any chance, and because Orym Druidcrafted poppies in Laudna's ...

It’s ooooon!

Do you know the feeling whe you can’t wait to start something, but you're also just as scared to? That's a lineart waiting to be coloured, baby. 

Midsummer Will (lineart)

Is it weird to love a character we've seen on the show for less than five minutes? Well, I guess it's not, as anyone Orym would want to spend the rest of his life with has to be beyond gorgeous. =)

I love the lineart here. Well, I love it now. I totally forgot I was going to do a p...

Goldberry's washing-day

Goldberry among her water lilies. 

Prints are up on Inprnt! (Which is STILL having a sale despite constantly telling me "Last day of sale!", but hey, all the better for you!) =...

A little sketchalong for CR3_E64 (spoilers)!

Finally did a little sketchalong again!
Reunion with Fearne (in the version where she's not a raccoon dog, haha), Prism casting Enlarge on Orym and suddenly he’s 6'6, and Deanna breaking up with a god. 😱

Goldberry (now with left hand)

I briefly considered just updating the file and pretend she always had a left hand on her left arm… but now you can still enjoy my previous shame in all its glory.

I have never yet put the wron...

Goldberry - colour washes

I'm absolutely in love with the colours here! Details next. =)

Sketch to lineart video: Goldberry

I always see these little reels on Instagram, of artists pretending that this is how lineart works. 😂 It is kind of magical. And of course totally glosses over just how long lineart takes (here, a relatively quick two hours). 

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New fun stuff: Stickers, jelly bean freebies, and the poll results are in

Welcome to five new Patrons! Jeff, Apis, Stefan, Robert, and E. have joined us. Yay! 

I've been busy, too: New stickers are on the way, because they are really popular at cons, and people kept asking w...

Cat familiar - finished!

Here's the finished little kitty from June suggestion runners-up! 

He gave me a lot of grief scanning. My usual "fix watercolour scan" setting in Photoshop did nothing. He really is this bright even if it looks as if I punched up the saturation! 

Cat familiar, Holbein artist...

Cat familiar taking shape (and a lot of colour)

Boy, those Holbein coloured pencils are incredible. I don't have some of my favourite colours from Holbein, though, so I often fall back on Polychromos... and using them side by side, it's almost frustrating that the latter are so relatively hard! 

Look at the gradients - they blend li...

"We're at war" - finished

“Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war

Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war

Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child...

"We’re at war" - lineart

I may just have drawn my first quasi-zombie. Overgrown with roses. I should start designing tattoos! 

I'm *incredibly* proud of this lineart! The format, too. I was initially going to do this maaaaybe in coloured pencil, but of course I went totally overboard with the detail. Maybe if ...

New sketch (spoiler for Critical Role 3_63)

Aaaah, the holidays, where I can work on two artworks at the same time and still feel confident I can finish both within a week, and where I can work on Critical Role trauma. >_<

Last episode was HARD, you guys. I've come across a lot of people in the past who said, "I can't wait for ...

Cat familiar - progress shots

A warm welcome to new Patron, Apis! =D Make yourself right at home! 

I'm working on the wizard cat in Holbein coloured pencils. They were recommended to me by my neighbour at Feencon, Jessika <...

Cat familiar

This one just flowed! I'm going to use this one to try out my brand-new Holbein coloured pencils. 🧡 With swirls, because you gotta have swirls! 

I started packing the little welcome packs for you guys on Forest Guardian (and equivalent) tiers! I'm starting with the ones who've been ...

Orym and Will - finished!

I'm totally in love with the colouring here! I recorded over an hour of real time painting and am working on a video tutorial now. =)

Happy Pride! (I really meant for this to be done much earlier, for the beginning of Pride Month, but then there were two cons and end of term…)

Throwback Thursday: Fields of Gold

It's hard to believe that this piece is twenty years old! And the song it accompanied is exactly ten years older. It was in the charts the summer I was eighteen, travelling through Denmark with my brother (and shooting photos in fields of barley). 

And of course I thought about doing a...

Little progress video: Orym and Will

Finally painting these two darlings! I plan to do a full narrated vid later (holidays ahoy).
Here's where I'm at with the piece:

I think some of the reds are too red. I always forget digital wa...

Feencon sketches!

I had some darker paper with me, which resulted in even more POP with the white Polychromo than on the other paper.

I will put all these up on Etsy, Thursday 23nd June, 6 pm CET. (Click on the b...

Feencon Bonn blog post!

A warm welcome to new Patron, Kat! =D 

Feencon in Bonn was a very, very full weekend, with some lows and a lot of highs. It was my first time there, and I know by now that the first time at a new con can't be compared to the experience at a con I've been to for years, ...

Froggy shenanigans

• Welcome to new Patrons Martin, OrkenspalterTV, Andrew, Míriel, Anissa, and Regina! 🎉

Here's the refined sketch of Maedhros trying to tell off his twin brothers. In the end, ...

Art suggestion sketch: twin trouble

Here's a first sketch (to be refined) of the sketch suggestion that won this month's poll! The suggestion was "Maedhros attempting to scold Amrod and Amras", and the twins very clearly have been up to no good. 😂 A very fun scene to draw! 

I'm posting this to all tiers for now, but p...

Back from Tolkien Tage with a LOT of sketches!

What a weekend! I still haven't caught up on the sleep I didn't catch, but the weekend was a total blast. Thank you, all of you who stopped by to chat (or stock up on pins)!

My eyes behaved exceptionally well, especially as it was dry and dusty and there were open fires with their smoke - a...

Never felt so small - finished

Deni$e: You're going to be okay. The minute you're not okay, you die.

Orym: The thing is, I don't think I've ever... I just don't think I've ever felt so small.

I went for a quickish colouring style here, for which the loose watercolour brushes I recently got work really well! These a...

"Never felt so small"

Deni$e: You're going to be okay. The minute you're not okay, you die.

Orym: The thing is, I don't think I've ever... I just don't think I've ever felt so small.

(Yes, Liam, go ahead and break my heart… again.)
Deni$e (money sign instead of the s) and Orym bonding over a bottle of...

Squirrelpunk (no new art *yet*, just a refresher and art dump)

So yes - that project I started in 2020 which then was cut short by my worsening eyes? I'm ready to revisit that! For those of you who joined after that, or could use a refresher, here's what I have: 

It started with the above illustration, with no real intention of a full thing develo...

Stuck on your tier (now with workaround!), ... and Orym showing off

After two months of no Orym, there was such a plethora of scenes, and this spoofy little cartoon was the first thing I drew (to quote Fred Weasley: "With all the ear-related humour open to you, you go for HOLE-Y?"). So, Bells Hells meet new friends, one weirder than the next, and I loved this bit...

Shiny new ACEOs, shiny new Patreon tiers!

It's here! I feel up to discovering another new normal*, with a revamped Patreon, all new tiers, and these little precious ACEOs! I actually squealed when I picked them up from the printer's yesterday. Seeing my art in miniature print always makes me weirdly giddy, it's just alwa...

"It’s not goodbye" finished

I love this so much! I tried another set of brushes this time, and it’s got some that allow you to geeeently drop a second colour into an existing one, which has been my life's blood with real watercolours, and I'm so happy to be able to achieve this look again! It's "Powerful watercolour" by P...