Jenny Dolfen

Painting on one layer

Been poring over this one for ages, spent two evenings laying out flat colours that wouldn’t work with each other, detailing faces I didn’t like… and started from scratch, on one layer, the way I would on paper. It’s weird how scared I am ...

It's not good-bye - lineart (hi-res download for Patrons!)

This barely looks different from the last one, but there are SO MANY MORE HOURS in this, haha. 

I'm also celebrating the return of my favourite little emotional support halfling to the show, and will in all likelihood draw quite a few s...

"It’s not goodbye" - "rough" lines

Still some lineweight and details to be added. I love their expressions so much! I've found an incredibly nifty little artist resource: referenceangle.com, for ANY angle of the human (or halfling) face. I was despairing over Orym's angle, looked f...

A kiss on the tiny little forehead (sketch)

Orym: "It's not goodbye… see you later, that's all."
Dorian: I'll bring him in tight and I will kiss his tiny little forehead.

I had a BEAST of a time coming up with a pose for this, and bringing anyone in tight was completely out of t...

I've just remembered why I don’t do comics

I will never understand how people can do cartoons and comics. I already work fast, but for even a halfway cleaned-up thing like this, it’s two days of work for a weak little punchline. How do people do it? Gluttons for punishment? Priorities? I...

Sketchy Will and Orym mini comic

Oh, I'll put up a warning for language just to be safe. ;) 

Sparked by Orym once telling Chetney "We chose our life with eyes wide open" (referring to how dangerous it isfor two bodyguards to be married), as well as the fact that they m...

Flowery Orym - process video

Here's the vid I promised! Compression's looking good to me. 💚

Music by Jeff Kaale. :)

Main brushes by Boo Studios.

Watercoloury Orym

I actually wasn't going to use the full watercolour look (and I kept the flowers flat-ish), but I'm really in love with how this turned out. This time I mainly used "loose watercolour brushes" from Boo Studio. (My watercolours are hardly ever loos...

Orym demanding flowers (wip) and ACEO test

No, of course Orym doesn't demand. He just stands there quietly and hoping I'll notice he'd like them if he just looks wistful enough. =D 

I went for peonies because they look absolutely spectacular and I finally managed to wra...

Sorry, gratuitous shirtless Orym post. And my Patreon will get some new tiers again!

Yes, the Orym withdrawal is real. Two months without my favourite little halfling (as we've been with the other half of Bells Hells since early March), so here's some shirtless Orym wrapping his hands. What is it about people contemplatively wrapp...

Calico and Sapphire - coloured

More flattish colours! I'm really happy with the style here.

(Calico's name is a hot mess, I know. I looked up the word "calico" about 25 years ago because of a Paul McCartney song, and found it meant undyed cloth. I later read that there ar...

Come here, kitty kitty...

Because three RPG campaigns in two different systems are not confusing enough*, here's the new Pathfinder 2nd edition characters of my daughter and me: Sapphire, a lynx-like catfolk Champion (possibly of Shelyn), and his little sister Calico, a ba...

A gryphon made of stars (coloured)

Updated with new image - old one is below! 

This is turning out to be my go-to solution of Procreate problems: When in doubt, simplify shading. ^^;

First version: 

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A gryphon made of stars

… eventually, in the colouring.

Some more from Critical Role: Calamity. A heartbreaking moment from the end, when the Paladin Zerxus, in the destruction of Avalir, with his dying breath after losing his soul to the Lord of the Hells, is gr...

"I think you might be dead."

ASHLEY (Fearne): I don't know how to do this. I don't even know if you're there. Could be dead. Could be talking to nothing, which I actually do a lot. Never mind. Okay. I came here to say, if you're there, maybe you can talk to my friend Orym and...

When the Wildmother sends you a sign…

… and your character is too dense to see it. 😂 Critical Role spoilers for episode 56. 

After days away from the others, Fearne goes to a shrine of the Wildmother to pray (in her endearing but inept way) and to ask the goddess to le...

Elenwë and Thranduil, and prints!

Here's the finished commissions! ^____^

Give me some time to have them printed and sent out! Definitely not as long as the last batch of Glorfindel, Dorian Storm, Elanor, and Nerdanel (of which I just got the prints in). 

I got ju...

The boys in splashy colour, Elenwë and Thranduil drawings!

First week of school after the Easter holidays, so naturally, I've been busy. =D

I splashed some colour on Will and Orym, wanting to keep this dreamlike and like a memory, and I really like that look. I'll keep that one in mind for quickish ...

These two 💚💙

Love is all around in Critical Role these days, though the canon stuff that's happening on stream is a lot more hilarious. When two robots fall in love and one of them is played by Sam Riegel, watch them go from "let's power down holding hands" to...

First Knight of Avalir

Welcome to new Patron, Victor! Hope you're all having a good week =)

The first of the commissions: Zerxus Ilerez, First Knight of Avalir, from the Calamity story arc set a thousand years before the other campaigns o...

"I lost my way, Chetney"

Welcome to new patron Julia! Glad you joined us! =)

Why does Travis' hilarious old gnome resonate with me so much? (Maybe because Travis is one of the biggest gems Critical Role has.) The way Chetney reconciles with his form...

Three commission slots!

I want to try some loose digital watercolour portraits, and am opening commission slots for three of these! 

I'm going to pick three ideas you throw at me over the next 28 hours, so this time it's not a first come, firs...

Attack on Zephrah - finished!

I'm weirdly unsure whether I like it. It always shows up in weird compression and fuzzy, but maybe I'm just getting cross-eyed!

That, I find, is the problem of working on something that' would amount to about A2 size (by the way I...

Wip: detail of Keyleth, Will and Orym

Fun fact: I still start colouring on the right of a painting, so I don't smear wet paint along my path (leftie here), though that's no longer necessary on the iPad, but I guess that's deeply ingrained. 

I knew the colour scheme would be...

Attack on Zephrah - in progress

Welcome to new Patron Lottie! Have a maple ginger cookie! 

I now remember why I haven't shared my wip shots of my recent paintings - because most one-character pieces end up finished before I think of it! This is taking...

Attack on Zephrah - progress shot

Okay, there are some challenges to this and it’s taking ages, but it’s really shaping up!
Mostly, I need to remember to zoom out frequently so I can see whether the flow and line weight still work with such a busy piece. So much easier on ...

Process video: sketching a busy scene

Here's a little (unnarrated, no voice still! ;)) video of me inching towards the sketch stage I showed you yesterday. (For some reason, I seem to have mirrored that canvas before I started sketching, so the programme faithfully recorded everything...

(Sketch) Finally, a larger scene - Attack on Zephrah

Welcome to new Patron, Emily! I hope you enjoy the magic! =)

I haven't really dared to tackle more involved scenes in years, but I keep looking at my ~2019 art and thinking, this ought to be possible still... 

So ...

Falling for you - coloured

Welcome to new Patreon, Arryo! 

I did have a LOT of fun colouring this. 💚 And I went for Procreate brushes this time, instead of my textures, because especially skin that it not lily-white looks too murky with those ...

Falling for you (Orym & Will)

Those two lovely boys. 🫠

My head canon is that Orym and Will, after being childhood friends, both fell in love with each other at around the same time but then were too mortified for ages to tell the other. (Yeah, I know. =D)

I'm lo...