Author Archive: Karen
Life, death and everything in between
I love autumn. It is my favourite time of year, with the myriad of colours, fresh breeze and crunching of leaves underfoot. It is a time of change. And a lot of things always seem to change at this time of year, not just in nature but in life as well. With people …
More practicing of the dragon
I have been drawing again. I officially have started on my dragon now. If you don’t remember when I started the drawing, you can check out this blog post: Practice limbs and head – Dragon So this is the body so far: And I have realised one of the spurs is in the wrong place. …
A restored soul and a new part to Esstiiet Oriandus
Between being away on holiday and having relatives visiting from overseas, the last few weeks have been rather busy. On the plus side, I was able to reignite my creativity with views like this: Wandering around streets like this: Hiking through nature like this: And witnessing sunsets …
Practice limbs and head – Dragon
I want to sketch a dragon, one that is earthy and solid. I have an idea in my head, I can picture the scene. I just need to practice a lot before I do it. So I’ve practiced doing a few limbs. I find feet (just like the human ones) very hard to get right. …
Drawing with graphite pencils
This is the first time I’ve used graphite pencils. It smudges a lot but is quite nice to use. And, as expected, it’s all over my hands, face and everywhere in between. Was fun though 😊😊
Painting – Dragon mountain
I was in the mood to paint yesterday. It was so nice outside in the sun…bliss 😆 I took a few close up photos while I was painting as I love the detail of brushstrokes and layers of paint. Hope you like it. Here is the finished painting: Copyright © 200615 by …
Girl in Moonlight
I did so much writing on my short story yesterday that I really needed a break today. This is a sketch I’ve had in my head for a while but haven’t attempted until now as I find sketching people to be rather daunting. Anyway, I finally decided I have to get it out of my …
Japanese Dragon – Graphics Tablet
I haven’t been able to concentrate today and, as you know, the best remedy for that (for me, at least), is to draw. I love dragons and, for some reason they really have been stuck in my head lately. I think it’s because one of my characters in my novel is a dragon and he …
The Grim
I updated a poem today, on my 1000 words blog by adding in a sketch I did on the graphics tablet. You can find the poem at https://1000wordessays.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/close-your-eyes/ I like my poems with sketches so I think I might do the same for some of the others and perhaps for any future ones too. Any …
Smaug charcoal drawing
I made this drawing after a twitter discussion about how much I love dragons but I totally forgot Smaug. Anyway here is my version of him. It is a charcoal drawing which is my first and a damn-side harder than I thought it would be!
Drawing Room Days 