While I am not much home drawing these days I created this drawing, as a little gift for a girl from the forums, Valerie. She sent me a photo of herself lying on a rock and I immediately pictured her lying in the trees surrounded by cherry blossoms. I'm working with a new skin color and I really love the natural look it has when used with the rest of my usual skin colors.

Just a little reminder to keep dreaming and believing, even through hard times.

Made with colour pencils on Lana drawings paper (150g/m2).
7x4.7" | 17x12cm

Model, Lisa: http://blackbutterflylmk.deviantart.com/art/I-feel-you-on-my-fingertips-109789305?q=&qo=

After a busy and fun weekend I am back with the pencils, worked another 5-6 hours on the drawing. I am always surprised how time consuming a medium color pencils are, yet I love working on it, despite the slow process.

I worked 3 more hours on the drawing. I am watching Angel, the first season at the moment. We bought the DVD box set some months back and it's really great watching them all over again, it was such a great show back then... same with Buffy. I like drawing with some kind of back noise even when I mostly listen to the series and only watch a bit.
Anyway, still a long way to go with the drawing but I will get there eventually, I very much love working on it.

Today I started a new drawing, back at my normal size paper. I am about 4 hours into the drawing by now and it's going to take quite some time to complete. I have to admit I love working on it. It's based on the beautiful photo of Lisa: http://blackbutterflylmk.deviantart.com/art/I-feel-you-on-my-fingertips-109789305?q=&qo=. I saw her photo some time back when she was entering my previous Butterfly Contest and fell in love with it. Something about the mood and the cropping of the photo. I am glad I started the drawing.

I am working with a completely new base skin colour, I've been very tired of my old flesh colour from Faber Castell as it had a too pinkish tone, and when scanned it got even worse. I think this new skin tone colour is very natural and I love it so far.

My main goal with the drawing is to convey the emotion and get a new kind of realism with colour pencils. It's never been easy for me to achieve that with this medium though I love working with it.
I will try to post updates as it progress.

I have 2 new ACEO drawings;

Autumn Girl

Moon Girl


Both are made with colour pencils on Lana drawings paper (150g/m2).
2.5x3.5" | 64x89mm

They are up for auction on Ebay, starting at 0.99$:

I am back from nearly a week at my parents place. Again I just enjoyed the sunshine, animals and being with family, I really need it these days. I only did a few drawings, small ACEO’s, I realized one of the best things about them are how handy and easy they are to bring with you.

When I returned home I got a pleasant surprise from one of the winners of my previous Butterfly Contest at DA, a cute bracelet, with my favourite colours. Thank you so much Lisa; I love it! It's hard to see but there is a small butterfly attached to it as well =)

More of Lisa's jewelry: http://blackbutterflylmk.deviantart.com/

My very first ACEO. Made with colour pencils on Lana drawings paper (150g/m2).
2.5x3.5" | 64x89mm
The image you can see on the screen, is actually a little bigger than the original size, just showing how small it really is...

I've decided to put my first ACEO ever up for auction on Ebay :)
You can follow it here:



Have a great weekend everyone, it's supposed to rain here so for me it will be a cozy and creative one with my love ♥