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After the previous journal entry had graced my dA profile for like a year and a half, I figured it's about time for a new one. Hopefully though my recent submissions have proved that I am indeed alive. And I can tell you that it feels good to finally have some new pieces up. Since June last year I have been working as a full time concept artist, and that left me pretty much no time for personal stuff. But I am having a great time at the job and I have learned so much and have in fact painted more than ever before. Lately I just got too fed up with having only my rather old pieces up, hence why I made the time for new ones. And I'm definitely happy that you guys are enjoying them, that's great encouragement. There are a good many more pieces in the pipeline, but I don't know yet when I will find the time to finish them.

The next couple of weeks will be rather chaotic for me and I will probably not be online much, so please don't take offense if I am not replying immediately. I will still read every comment. But life sure isn't boring these days.


Hope all of you are doing well!
Dancakes

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Some of my recent paintings:

So I thought it's time for a new journal! Not that I have a whole lot of meaningful stuff to say, but I thought I'd let you know that I'm still alive, haha! I have been fairly busy with uni assignments lately, lots of annoying writing and attempting to reach minimum word counts, it really is quite dull. And I am working on a commission as well. But I cannot really complain too much, I am doing well

And while I may not have had the time to really do a painting, I've been actively filling pages of my sketchbook with little thumbnail sketches, playing around with different ideas for sceneries and perspectives more, which is heaps of fun. Most sketches are not more than four inches wide (about ten cm), some even less, and they don't take too long And all done with pencils or pen, but it's ideal to stay rough. I can only recommend anyone to do that!
When I have some more time again, I will probably plough through the thumbnails and pick some which I will paint!

Also I've been meaning to do that for a while now, I wanted to plug Sangiev's King of Land contest here! It will go through several rounds, and the good entries of each round advance to the next. There seems to be a fair amount of prizes waiting at the end, too, so have a look

Contest: news.deviantart.com/article/72…

The deadline has been extended to April 20th, so there's plenty of time for you guys to join in


Now back to assignments How is life treating all of you?

Love you all,
Dancakes

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Sketchy goodness:</b>

So as some of you may have noticed, I have started to upload a bunch of speedpaintings and sketches to my scraps. mynti persuaded me to show them That way I can show you what I do to practise, especially things like seeing colour, values and shapes, and also the important bit about not getting carried away with details, haha.
Hand in hand with that I have cleaned out my gallery and moved some old pieces to scraps, as well. More will probably follow in due time. So the gallery got categories now and probably looks tidier

That have been quite a few pieces at once now to kick things off. In the future it will most likely go a little slower, but I do plan an continueing to upload sketches and some speedpaintings to scraps. So if you don't want to look at all that, feel free to unwatch my scraps

Here are some of the newly submitted pieces:

In any case, I am sorry that I haven't submitted anything major in a long while. I've had some rather annoying computer issues...the monitor burned through a good while ago, so I had to use my macbook for a good while, which isn't exactly suitable for painting. In December classes started again and I was busy with a commission, and now in January I had to find an apartment in Berlin and work on some assignments.
Tomorrow I will move into my new place and on monday it's back to classes. I will try to get internet as soon as I can, and then I think the investment in a completely new computer is due. So when that's resolved, you can expect new paintings from me. I have some stuff that I've been meaning to finish for a long time


How's everybody doing?


Love you all,
Dancakes