Art and Anxiety

28 | 🇩🇪| Character Design Artist | Writer | Tolkien Lover | Freak

[marielkschen]

I had a wonderful drawing date with my cousin a few days ago. We had super delicious sushi and drew some nerdy, gem-loving aliens 🌼

[marielkschen]

Did some expression sketches of one of my oc's lately.

Definitely need to do this more often because I still find it quite difficult to draw different expressions in my own style for different characters :‘)

[marielkschen]

I drew my main character from Guild Wars 2 🙌🏽

[marielkschen]

Hekate.

An illustration I did for @vox-magica

[marielkschen]

Numb

I’ve always used art to cope with certain feelings/emotions depending my depression. It helps a lot to express them through a character that I’m drawing/painting and also to get some relief.

Would love to hear some critique on this piece 😊

[bobbiedebruyn]

Hate to be that person, but WW3 trend on TikTok is not funny at all, especially your stupid POVs. Because no, Jessica from Chicago, you won’t have to hide in the basement to avoid being nuked and no, Kyle from LA, you won’t get drafted to the front lines. 

You again missed the whole point and managed to make this situation all about yourself, so I’m going to assure your stupid ass - this war is not going to affect you in any way, but you know who it’s going to affect? Actual people from Ukraine, who are going to lose their lives and be displaced from their homes, just like for the past 8 years. 

So congratulations on your stupidity, because it’s not about “I need a way to cope 🥺🥺🥺”, it’s about you celebrating and making fun of other people’s death.

[marielkschen]

I did another ghibli redraw of my most favourite couple, Howl and Sophie 🧡

[marielkschen]

Death Knight commission

[marielkschen]

Depressive episode is waning and I finally feel motivated again to work on my story. I found this cute pose on Pinterest and thought it would be perfect for a drawing of my main character Amelia 🖤 #art #artwork #artist #originalcharacter #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digitalillustration #illustration #drawing #instaart #instaartist #instadrawing #instaillustration #owncharacter #characterdesign #characterillustration #procreate #procreateart #procreatedrawing https://www.instagram.com/p/CO52WFqDkhF/?igshid=115ouksusobw3

[marielkschen]

Othília is a thousand year old priestess of the elves. She is one of the very few first elves that are still alive. They came to life when the first stars fell from the sky and hers fell into a swamp.

She doesn’t like people because they are mostly destructive and selfish beings.

She lives a very withdrawn life in the woods/swamp and trusts no one.

These drawings are currently for sale on my toyhouse page.

[marielkschen]

I’ve finally managed to make some little animation to personalize my speedpainting videos :)

This is my oc Amelia, the main character of the story I’m currently working on.

[marielkschen]

Paprika brought me my motivation back 🧡 I’ve watched this anime so many years ago and yesterday I found out that you can get it on Amazon 😍 it’s one of the best anime’s I’ve ever seen and in my opinion the team captured the absurdity of dreams so well. And the music is also so amazing I can’t 😩 This is the character Paprika and I love her so much 🧡 #art #artwork #artist #fanart #animefanart #paprikafanart #animeart #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digitalpainting #digitalfanart #procreate #procreateart #procreatedrawing #procreatepainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CNNcV5QjzI3/?igshid=1t3s7mda5p0ss

[marielkschen]

Eric is an important character in Amelias story. He’s Amelias best friend and a witch! He’s 28 years old and has his own coffee shop in the middle of the town. Besides his business with coffee, tea and cake he has another small extra income. To the city dwellers he sells all sorts of magic drugs and other favours.

[marielkschen]

I’m currently writing my own story and thought I’d share the main character Amelia with you!

I’m not really used to a painting style as I’m more into painting 2D like... but I tried greyscale today and then added some colour.

Feel free to ask some questions about Amelia :3

[marielkschen]

My first middleeartmarch sketch this year: Lady Galadriel of Lothlórien.

I highly recommend everyone to read The Silmarillion, if you haven’t yet, because it has so many wonderful background stories of the characters that we know from The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings!

[brightlotusmoon]

YES.

[eunyisadoran]

Therapist: What an excellent way to allow yourself to imagine hope and healing in a safe container. That’s very wise of you.

[halfwayinlight]

My therapist legit thought fic was a very creative outlet to process my emotions and experiences

[brightlotusmoon]

Baby Writer Me, in the 90s and 00s, traumatizing characters both canon and original: This is amazing, can I just keep doing this?

Random haughty writers and editors: Obviously there’s something wrong with you, stop doing that to your characters.

My ADHD Therapist, many years later: Oh, that’s fantastic, please keep on doing it.

See? Those snobby editors back then were wrong all along.

[madronasky]

Writing as therapy is well established. Fuck anyone who says different. Write. Write for your goddamn life.

[marielkschen]

Howl's Moving Castle Fanart | Procreate Speedpainting