Mariennchen's Artblog

Personal drawings and sketches

[fuussefiels]

I got my sticker sheets and my babies look pretty nice if I dare say so myself! I’ll be selling them along with my other stuff at German Comic Con Berlin in October!

[fuussefiels]

Digital sketch for a linocut I want to do. I got my dad’s old linocut tools and I’m itching to try them out!

[fuussefiels]

Birth of an idea or tfw your brain justifies the rent space it takes up in your skull.

[fuussefiels]

Knightmare

Finally done! The flower in the decorative frame is the opium poppy and the mask in the upper left corner with its batwings references the oneiroi, a group of lesser greek gods (Morpheus, Phantasos, Phobetor/Ikelos) who personified different types of dreams and left their home Erebos each night in the form of a flock of bats. Also I think this is my first illustration in landscape format lol.

[fuussefiels]

Some designs for gender-neutral clothings for my 19th century fantasy comic where nonbinary genders are the norm alongside male and female (as well as all other sexualities)

It annoys me that a lot of supposed unisex clothing always defaults to pants, drab colours etc. which in our society is coded male. It’s basically going back to male as default while everything that is feminine coded is inherently gendered and that’s effing bullshit in my opinion. That’s why I try to incorporate more skirts in my designs and more frills and patterns (which you can’t really see here because I did this fairly quickly lol).

[fuussefiels]

Motives for a sticker sheet I’m working on that I’m gonna sell at conventions!

[fuussefiels]

Two comic pages drawn in watercolour and coloured pencils that I haven’t finished editing in Photoshop because I wasn’t happy with the end result. :/

Didn’t really know how to do a night-time scene in watercolours properly and deviated way too much from the style of my character designs I posted earlier. Gotta try again!

[fuussefiels]

Early character designs for a new comic project I’m working on. It’s a fantasy comic set in an alternate 19th century in a fortress-city with magic and mermaids/water spirits. Also, nonbinary genders along with male and female are the norm and the main character (the red-head) is agender.

[fuussefiels]

Got a sample for a different watercolourpaper brand than I usually use and drew something.

[fuussefiels]

And this is what the stickers look like irl! They’re vynil so they’re really durable and can be put anywhere.

[fuussefiels]

Design for a big sticker I’m selling on cenventions. Eros & Thanatos: the big butterfly is a morpho aurora (Morpho being a surname of the goddess Aphrodite), while the small one is a cupido alcetas (named after Cupid, son of Aphrodite) and the knife and red strings speak for themselves.

[fuussefiels]

Death and the Maiden. The image for my roll-up display that I’m using for conventions. Inspired by various medieval motives like the Hunt, Memento Mori, the aforementioned Death and the Maiden but also by the greek huntress-goddess Artemis.

[fuussefiels]

Two comic page samples to give you an idea what it looks like. It’s only available in German though and there’s currently no plans to translate it to English.

[fuussefiels]

Cover for a Comicbook I have finished recently and am currently selling whenever I’m on comic conventions or you can buy it online in the online shop of the Schwarzer Turm Verlag (Black Tower Publishing House).

It’s a horror-fantasy story in a 18th century setting about two sisters whose father goes missing in the woods. On their search for him they are confronted with a dark family secret and supernatural beings...

[fuussefiels]

Sorry for being inactive for so long on my tumblr account! orz

I haven’t uploaded anything on my tumblr for a really long while because I made myself an instagram account and have since been posting all my stuff there.

Over the next few days I’m gonna dump a bunch of my work until my tumblr is caught up with my instagram-account at which point I’m gonna upload on here regularly again alongside my instagram.

[fuussefiels]

Belated No.14 Frankenstein's Monster for Inktober.

[fuussefiels]

Inktober No.13 Werewolf. I'm starting to really like medieval woodcuts.