Jenny Dolfen

Dalinar lineart redone and sixfanarts

Those of you who check the discord will have seen the sad journey of this Dalinar piece that ended in the wastepaper basket (with a detour to "when life gives you oranges"), so here's the new lineart. I‘ll do it in watercolour, avoiding new expe...

Shallan sketching

Or:

In a meeting, sitting and sketching Shallan sketching as she sits in a meeting.*

(*This is a ketek, a form of poetry in the Stormlight Ar...

New lineart approach (Dalinar, Oathbringer spoilers)

I came across an Instagram tip a while ago now that had this interesting approach to the transition from sketch to lineart: all of us who work that way know how hard it is to preserve the sketch's momentum and movement, and often simply correct an...

Dalinar (Oathbringer spoiler)

"I AM UNITY!"

You might say I‘ve snubbed Dalinar in my art so far.

Or you might say I waited to give him this moment. It'll be a proper painted piece, not in my sketchbook this time.

I get to paint hundreds of golden...

"Why he froze"

She wrapped her arms around his right arm, like a child clinging to a favored toy. Worried. Frightened. “Something’s wrong inside you. But I don’t know what.”

(Oathbringer)

New gouache piece. ...

Tien (and Bippy)

I wasn't going to paint both of these today, but then I was really disappointed with how Bippy turned out, and am glad that I pushed through to paint Tien as well. And BOY, did I paint Tien. The paint did all that I wanted. The ugly stage on the u...

Just two sketches today

Had a long day at school (with teacher-parent talks into the evening) and was too drained for gouache afterwards, but managed two sketches in off moments. Two very different ones. Above: "He actually smiled" - the last moments in Tien's life. I tr...

Gouache, day six: REALLY getting the hang of things

Missing scene from the Stormlight Archive: Kaladin's mother Hesina, heavily pregnant with her third child, gets a letter from the army that Kaladin was dead, four years after he wrote to them saying his brother was dead. (She tells him later they ...

Art folder: Dark Elves (Drizzt books and OCs)

A drow-y trip down memory lane! I read the Drizzt Do'Urden books by R. A. Salvatore in my mid-twenties (and did several illustrations of them), but not before my husband had DMed an adventure based on them. My favourite RPG character in those days wa...

Gouache, 5th May: Shallan

After pulling off a non-human portrait yesterday, I wanted to try a human one, and Shallan volunteered (also because I wanted to do the skin rather translucent and more squarely in comfort zone territory) that wouldn’t have worked with Kaladin....

Rlain in gouache

I finally summoned up the courage to finish Rlain! And boy, did this WORK. I used an idiosyncratic mix of watercolour techniques and gouache paint, and it worked out surprisingly well.

Steps:

2025-05-04 19:11:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Art folder: A Song of Ice and Fire, 2003

Here's the art I did after reading the Song of Ice and Fire series! Well, the first three books. This was before A Feast for Crows came out and I lost my interest in the series. All of these are from 2003, so eight years before the HBO show came out.

Also, I love the thrill.

😂

3rd May: fairy circle and some things working

A good day. A lot worked today - painting something both small and intricate, trying out different brushes for different things and starting to get the hang of which works for which. Some semi-transparent stuff too. All in all, I think I’m start...

Gouache, day two (closer to four, I think)

Stayed true to my decision to do something in gouache every day this month, with a pretty nice one of chamomiles, a pretty bad colour gradient, and a watercolour underpainting for Rlain. Watercolour has two advantages over gouache - I can do an un...

MayTheGouacheBeWithYou

May… as in a May challenge… with gouache… no?

Yeah, I just came up with that on the fly, but I'm kind of determined to do one tiny bit of gouache every day this month. Even it’s just a flower or a gradient.

Daughter and I sat...

Sketches (Syl and a mousy barbarian)

I'm still wildly determined to learn gouache. So naturally, what I‘m not doing is gouache. 😂 I'm buying stuff (hey, I haven’t bought art materials in four years!), and do sketches I may or may not paint, and I‘m absolutely doing all the m...

They say that for every good painting…

… you have to get past a hundred crappy ones (particularly in a new medium), so I figured I‘d better get those out as soon as I could. 😆Journey before destination indeed.

Just vibing and aimlessly putting paint on paper, seeing what ...

Sketch: Rlain

Sketch of Rlain I'm hoping to turn into a gouache painting. My first time drawing a Listener, too!

I did a sketch of him in my sketchbook yesterday, then ruined it with the first layer of gouache, and did NOT photograph it first, so it seem...

BSFW (barely safe for work) Kaladin 🤭

It seems Shallan got her hands on some gouache. 😶‍🌫️

Tried out my Procreate gouache set, and found that working on top of a fairly refined sketch (the one from a few months ago) is a good and unscary way to get into gouache renderi...

Testing around

The whole book-painting idea got my head whirring (to the point that I bought a few Tolkien books and The Way of Kings to paint, which gave rise to my seventeen-year-old daughter treating me to a "girl, CHILL!" when the latter arrived), and I did ...

Fore-edge painting

My daughter got me into fore-edge painting. 😳

She’s been gushing about print-edged editions in bookshops (and bemoaning the fact that 99% of them are Romantasy), tried some fore-edge painting with markers herself, and got me thinking ab...

“No mating!”

She pulled close. “And so, in reality, you’re the greatest at relationships there ever was. You ruined only the wrong ones, you see.”

He leaned down. His breath smelled of spices, his uniform of the crisp, clean starch Dal...

2025-04-15 06:28:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Old art drop! (Happy ten years of Patreon!)

Whooo-hoo! Ten years ago, I launched my Patreon as an attempt to free up my time for more of the stuff I love to draw. A whole bunch of people (a lot of them still here, bless you!) signed up and have been with me on this journey all these years, ...

Art Folder: Tolkien art 2003-2004 (Elfwood / deviantArt era)

You probably know I've purged all my art quite completely off the net. That was never a conscious decision; it was first sites that were just accumulating spam and hateful comments (deviantArt, Facebook) or that scraped art for AI slop, or at least d...

Chaperone (sketch)

One of the most hilarious chapters in all of Stormlight Archive is when Shallan and Adolin, not-quite-betrothed but very much in love, wonder whether it’s appropriate for them to dine together on Shallan's bedroom floor, so she tells her spren P...

"Why do you care?" (redraw)

It’s come to this - revisiting “old” art I drew four months ago 😅 This was the second ever Stormlight art I did, and I wasn’t that happy...

Welcome to the party

Kaladin put his own back toward Adolin, preventing either of them from being attacked from behind.

“What are you doing here, bridgeboy?” Adolin hissed from within his helmet.

“Playing one of the ten fools.”

Ad...

2025-04-06 21:05:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Sketch: Welcome to the party

Kaladin put his own back toward Adolin, preventing either of them from being attacked from behind.

“What are you doing here, bridgeboy?” Adolin hissed from within his helmet.

“Playing one of the ten fools.”

2025-04-01 19:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post

"I accept this journey" - big Wind and Truth spoilers

Finally! This one has been in the works for… four weeks now? Major cropping and squaring did the trick, and now I'm happy. Still love Kaladin’s face here.

2025-03-31 07:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post