Maidalen

Artist, writer, graphic novelist | No AI

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A little oil painting of Journey...

"We are not alone"

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Peace Among the Lilacs

I was aiming for a more painterly style for this one, but something just wasn't working right, and the lighting was completely off. I'm tagging it as WIP, as I'm hoping to come back to it and retouch it one day.

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Love in Another Universe #1: All Our Stories Combined

This piece will be the first in a series called Love in Another Universe. I've done most of the sketches for the other drawings I've planned, but colouring and rendering took unexpectedly long, so I'm not sure when/if I will finish the others.

I'll be honest, this piece was particularly difficult to complete emotionally speaking, but it also felt necessary as a way for me to express my grief. Perhaps one day I will be ready to share more about the story behind it, but for now I'm focusing on feeling my feelings and expressing them the only way I know how.

P.S., I don't love how the faces turned out, but I also feel completely exhausted from trying to fix them. Maybe one day I'll come back to this piece and rework it.

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Timelapse of my Hay Lin drawing

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WIP Hay Lin fanart

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November Palette Study

This one turned out... a lot more difficult than I expected. I planned for it to be bigger, with 3 mini-landscapes and other doodles, but I just gave up and deleted the others. I love this palette, but I find greens extremely difficult to mix.

Anyway, I'll try to squeeze in one final palette study before the holidays.

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Sharing another small piece I worked on last year.

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Here's a little palette study I did last month. Hoping to start posting these every month.