#skyggsjacreates

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241013 • Frauki („The Frog“)

I‘m in a bit of a hyperfixation relating to Norse/Viking artworks. I recently bought a book about the topic and I can‘t stop looking at it. The animals typically depicted are dragons, wolves, horses and similar, but I‘m currently trying to design some other animals that I think would be cool in this style.

These are four versions Frauki, The Frog. Or actually two different designs and one comes in three versions.

White on Green is a different design, but only slightly. The hips, chest and the feet are a bit different.

The other three are the same design, only different outline/colour combinations.

Tbh I‘m such a fan.. I hope the hyperfixation doesn‘t fade too quickly, because I wanna try insects and more complex designs.

I do already have one more, it‘s a bit more complex but it‘s frogs again. I love frogs and toads, that‘s why :D

Hope you like it!! ✨ 🐸

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✨ sewing project of the weekend

i bought the pattern on etsy and the fabric in my local fabric shop. unfortunately they didn‘t have them in black so i sewed the piece and then dyed it. The bodice part ended up charcoal and the whole dress looks charcoal in the photos but it‘s a bit darker irl.

the main fabric is a nice linen and cotton blend, really soft and i think it‘s gonna be cozy for the autumn and winter.

i really like how it turned out 🍂🪨✨

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it seems i‘ve entered another art slump! i‘m being kind to myself about it (i used to feel like a talent- and energyless failure when that happened in the past, also I have adhd) and i notice that instead i read books and sew clothes and stuff like that. always creating, always doing stuff ♡ ♡

so instead, please enjoy a piece i drew last year.

arwen undomiel and rivendell. i‘d love to draw a similar piece for Eowyn this year, but maybe a bit different as well. we‘ll see.

all the best to you all!!

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✨ Voldy

I realized I never ended up posting my Voldemort Chocolate Frog Card!!! He‘s so glowy hehe

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✨ a witch and her familiar

this is 1 of 10 drawings for an october art challenge.

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✨ a heart is a heavy burden

recent fan art of howl of howl‘s moving castle by studio ghibli. i really like the concepts of the falling stars and the little star men dancing and i‘ve been wanting to draw them for a while now.

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✨ Professor Minerva McGonagall

I wanted to make it look like she only just transformed back from from her animagus form :D love her green outfit.

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🪶 painting over a stain that i couldn‘t wash out of my shoe. we‘ve got a swallow‘s nest above our living room window and i always see them soaring through the sky. absolutely love that view and it inspired me to fix my shoe with a blob of paint.

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🌞 helga hufflepuff

recent digital drawing that i did. i‘ve had the idea for a long time and actually started with rowena. it‘s been sitting in my sketches for months until i rediscovered it and thought it would actually make for a really cute little portrait series. i‘m going to post the other founders soon as well. when i reopen my etsy shop i think i will offer these as prints or post cards.

hope you like her!!

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🌳 bag end in one million lines

this is a piece i drew a couple of months ago. these days i‘ve done bag end in so many various ways that I don‘t need a picture reference anymore ♡

sometimes i love drawing with pens, sometimes i paint with gouache, but most of the times I work digitally

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🪲 • a redrawing of an old tattoo flash that i designed years ago. slightly cuter, slightly more whimsical ✨

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🍂 🫖 🐸 • Over The Garden Wall

I suppose I‘m really in a drawing-hyperfixation again. Wich means that atm I‘ll be unable to read books, unfortunately..

But it was time for my annual OTGW rewatch and I just straight up watched it twice today. And it was another excuse to draw a frog (i love frogs. and toads)

I‘m collecting ideas for my art shop reopening that‘s planned for January 2025. Researching printers etc, and trying to find out how to run a small business with adhd lol because last time I quit because the adhd was standing in my way - but I didn‘t yet know that it was adhd. So now that I know I hope I‘ll find ways to work with it ♡

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Today I saw real nordic rune stones that are more than 1000 years old at Jelling in Denmark. And I bought a book about Viking art which inspired me. And I saw a little white cat with two different eye colours, so this is for her ♡

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🪞 4/10 • a ghost and a mirror

i skipped prompt 3 for now because i don‘t habe the right inspo for it yet, so prompt 4 it is today.

she‘s a ghost but when she‘s near a mirror she can see her old living self for a bit.

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🥦 2/10 • farmer and basket

drew my boyfriend cuz he‘s straight up a garden witch ♡

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🦅✨ The Hippogryph

I am currently rereading the HP books and as always I am most intrigued by the fantastical plants and beasts and the lore, folklore and mythology behind them.

When I first started to do more art, especially digitally, the first thing I drew regularly was herbiary and bestiary inspired artwork. Still something I love to do, and I wanna get back into it in the future.

I thought it would be cool to design a bestiary inspired page about Hippogryphs. The page actually holds a text with info on this mythological beast, but I wanted to go the extra step and paint the illustrations by hand.

This is something I really want to explore more in the future. Actually painting by hand again. I‘m not an expert in it, I have to learn how to blend and mix, I have to get better paper and paints in the future, I have to learn how to paint backgrounds and textures and how to layer and all of that. But it‘s so fun. The unpredictability!!

I‘m using gouache and tbh I don‘t really know what I‘m doing. I‘m mixing different paint thicknesses and just going all over the place but I like the results and can‘t wait to see how it will develop in the future. I‘m working mixed media, mixing the gouache with coloured pencils and it‘s a look I *love*.

Being able to achieve this look that I‘m going for not with digital but physical means is so rewarding to me.

xoxo Nana