Is this Albi?

Just me and myself

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Traced the drawing on different paper and coloured it with watercolour. I actually forgot how to work with them, so it looks pretty desaturated. Maybe I’ll try this again tomorrow.

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“It is easy to mistake a castle servant for a noble because of the way they dress and behave. They are treated with respect, but the slightest mistake can cost them their lives. This may be the reason why Amber Castle is the safest place in the Northern Region.”

I miss telling stories. I used to DM for a small group of friends… years ago. The players eventually lost interest. Maybe it were organisation problems, maybe the novelty effect wore off, maybe I lead the story badly, who knows.

This is my last charcoal sketch on a transparent paper. I traced the contours with 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 mm felt tip liners. I was considering getting a nib holder with different nibs and pretty ink, but decided against it at least until I can try ink I have on the new paper.

I had a lot of fun making small details and textures. I think I will employ this process of sketching and transferring in the future. Besides, this paper is pretty robust and has wonderfull matte surface. I like it a lot.

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Vectorized my own drawing of E. Fuchs. It was an interesting experiment, but the result is kinda ehhh. I’ll try to do better next time!

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This certainly will look good on my wall!

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Sometimes, I paint for more than twenty minutes and use other brushes aside my №20 flat one. And also take a bit more time and effort taking the picture of the drawing. And if I’m extremely lucky, it even looks good. Wow, look at that!

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Art Fight revenge on LeanBaoj (https://artfight.net/~LeanBaoj)

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Art Fight revenge for @isthisalbi

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Artfight attack 3!! For @isthisalbi :D

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I absolutely forgot about this blog! Sorry, I never had any followers or friends here, so I naturally visit Tumblr rarely. But wonderful people mentioned me on their Artfight attacks here and I missed it! 😭

So here’s all my Artfight attacks this year (as if I’m not participating in Artfight for the first time). I’ll reblog attacks on me as well and later upload other drawings.

So, um, hello again.

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Watercolour sketches

This paper isn’t the best, but I lack competence anyway, so nothing to complain about, really.

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Various charcoal sketches I did over the last few months (only the best ones)

Even though all my hands are black from charcoal dust, I love this medium. No pencil can reach this level of black. But what I really need, is better paper for this, not a discounted newsprint block.

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Red and blue. Sketches in complimentary colours.

A while ago, I saw online a red and blue pencil from Faber-Castell that I really liked and immediately wanted to get me one of those. Turns out, it was the best purchase in a while. At the time of writing, it is more or less one third of its original length — never before I went so quickly through one medium.

It is something very different from graphite pencil, that I’m very used to. The first thing, it has a different feeling to it, waxy, smooth, quiet and gentle. Firm pressure extracts rich colour without damaging the lead or your hand. On the other side, very light strokes are clearly seen.

There is much more to this pencil, which is, apparently, designed to markup documents: blue marks should be invisible to copy machines and red marks to be copied as black. Is it works like this, I am yet to discover, but for the time being I repurposed it solely for d

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An acrylic painting I did a while ago.

I wanted to resurrect this blog a while ago and even started posting old art, but the pile was too big, and I eventually crumbled under its weight.

So I’ll post a few highlights and then try to keep this place up-to-date and actually worthy of following. I promise, it has nothing to do with Twitter.

Good to be back?

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Just a bunch of sketches from my sketchbook

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A two-day painting, sleepy dragon finds a place to sleep under a rock.

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I was a bit afraid of drawing without underlying sketch, but everything went pretty good!