art by skyggsja

1995 • germany • nature + witchy + fantasy art i make art every once in a full moon ☽

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Hey there, I‘m Nana ♡

I‘m starting this page as an art portfolio. I do a lot of fan art and also original art.

🌞 I love to draw nature inspired art, whimsical and fantasy inspired things and also witchy stuff. My fan art usually relates to ghibli, harry potter and the lord of the rings, but at the end of the day it can be anything really.

🌾 I‘m skyggsja here and on almost every platform. i also have a youtube account and a website.

🌿 I have an Etsy Shop!

🍂 Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy my page.

Index:

Skyggsja Moth Tarot

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🪲✨ I finished this bugs-spread in my sketchbook yesterday ✨🪲

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A Map of Middle Earth ✨🌱

I wanted to see if I can draw a map, so I tried it. Size A3 over a spread in my new big sketchbook. I used promarkers for the colouring, polychromos for the textures and details, black fineliners for some outlines and for the writing, and acrylic markers for tiny corrections 🌱✨

Thought it‘d be fun to draw a colourful map since the ones I see are mostly b/w or beige.

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🔥 Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation 🔥

Character portrait I painted in watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils and some black ink.

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✨ Seraph of the Meadow

I randomly sketched this yesterday and thought it was a cool idea. Really love the result if I‘m being honest!! The ribcage is something I added in the end - I felt like the picture was missing something…

Follow for more ✨ I make nature , fantasy and witchy inspired art using watercolours, gouache, ink, coloured pencils and stuff like that 🌿

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Painted Lady in ink ♡

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🦋✨ My realistic butterfly, made from paper, clay, wire and watercolour.

It‘s a small tortoiseshell butterfly, Aglais ueticae, which is called „Kleiner Fuchs“ in German ans that translates to „small fox“ which is just so cute ngl

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Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

- Eckhart Tolle

Done in Holbein Watercolor

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🌱 Two pieces I created for the upcoming CSD parade in my town! Two months to go but I wanna be prepared lol. Also, I gotta get these printed. I‘ll have some Postcards, some stickers and one medium sized print. Not exactly sure yet which one will be which size. I‘m also working on more designs atm. Can‘t wait!!

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Herbiary - Magical Greenhouse 🌱

Watercolour (Holbein) and coloured pencils (Polychromos) on St. Cuthbert‘s Mill paper.

Available in my shop ✨

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Death Tarot card 🌱

Deutsches Let‘s Paint auf Youtube, schaut es euch an ♡

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🌳🪵 Speed Paint / Video of „The Hut by the Forbidden Forest“

[Video is in German]

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🫟 The Sea of Corruption

This one turned out so cool! It was also the first one I finished because it looked the prettiest after the ink had dried. It was created on Hahnemühle paper that absorbed the water better and the beautiful texture of the paper interacted really nicely with the neocolor crayons, resulting in a nice grain. It‘s also crazy to see how well my tape sticks to better quality paper.. The picture ended up reminding me lots of the Sea of Corruption, the forests of giant mushrooms that cover the world in the Studio Ghibli film „Nausicaä“.

I almost wanted to leave it be and enjoy the dried result of the wet on wet mingle of pigments that you see in the picture below:

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🌳 Ant‘s Eye View of the Forest

Second piece that came of my „Intuitive Abstract Art“ Session last weekend.

Here, I manipulated the shapes a little more by not wetting the entire sheet of paper but painting the clear water in shapes already. The drops of colourful ink then did the rest, spreading the pigment and mixing and blending and flowing into each other.

The combination of colors and shapes really obviously cried „forest“ so crayon textured I added made the shapes into trees. I think.

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🫟✨ Intuitive Abstract Art

This weekend I thought I should try out something new and splashed random colours of ink (Rohrer & Klingner) together on a wet piece of paper.

I did 3 versions, I‘ll share the others later. This one was the first and I thought it was irredeemably ugly, especially with the second and third try next to it but when I went at it with my wax crayons (Caran d‘Ache Neocolor II) it ended up becoming.. something. I‘m kind of seeing a coral reef in it?

I absolutely love this approach to art. Most of it was up to the water and the pigments without me manipulating it too much. The result is chaotic and imperfect but to me it kind of has to be. That‘s what makes me look closer and look again and again.

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✨ saturnia finished - with beautiful shimmery star and moon details ♡

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Maybe I should base my first collection of original art that I‘m gonna offer in my shop on this design? I love the muted colours and the sparkle and the simple white background ✨

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Happy New Year! 🎊

Started off this year with a redesign of something I drew a couple of years ago. It‘s basically a book-cover-style artwork in appreciation of one of my all time favorite books: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.