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Elfins Face - an original fantasy pencil and ink pen drawing

 

 

Product Description

One of a kind drawing on paper. I used artists ink felt tip pens (including a gold one for eyes) and color pencils.

The paper is A4, the size of the drawing is about 23 x 14 cm (9 x 5.5 cm).

Inspiration/Story Behind This Product

I love inventing and imagining characters

Materials Used

paper, pencil, ink

An Absolute Stranger print

An Absolute Stranger - an oil pastel painitng by Linandara

An Absolute Stranger - original oil pastel painitng

Linandara has provided a total of 4 photos for this item:

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A portrait of a woman sitting in a train. Measuring approximately 21 x 30 cm (8 x 12 inches)

Unframed: Needs to be framed under glass with a mount.

A keyring is sold

Elvish face - a digital drawing, fantasy art by Linandara

Sad Eyes Necklace

Sad Eyes by Linandara
Something mysterious and a bit dark. Elements of my painting of a lady in a Renaissance costume sadly looking from a Victorian brick wall (photographed in Cromer, Norfolk). Open to your interpretation.

Girl and Her Unicorn

Dreaming... Watercolor and permanent ink pen on card. Original image is about A4 in size. linandara.deviantart.com

A portrait ACEO sketch on Ebay

Only 0.99 Starting Bid.

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"Dawn" in pen & ink and pencil

The latest addition to my Etsy shop. I've got a friend who does stunts for movies in Russia and she kindly sent me a reference photo for this artwork some time ago.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17845046

By the way Etsy does looks so much nicer for an artist than Ebay, but there is a small problem: nothing seems to sell so far...

Wolf charmer or "Mike with Wolves"

Two more drawings. First one (my favorite) has been sold, the second one I've just put on sale on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280287416104&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=018

Two attempts to illustrate the first scene from my book "The Return" in Russian. I am working on this series of illustrations first creating 3D models of my characters, props and landscape, then drawing everything "traditional" way, by hand.

Think, girl!

A fragment from a sketch I did a couple of years ago

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280287379969&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=018

Current project (commision)

ACEO cards with movie themes. 4 done or almost done, nine to go.

BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2008 in Wolverhampton

I've seen this exhibition recently
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART56726.html
http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/003715.html
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/bp2008index.asp

Lots of good art - painterly, skill full and thought-full portraits. For example, Lliana by Krasimir Kolev, Amanda Smith at Vincent Avenue by Simon Davis, Kristy, 3rd Attempt by Geert Schless, Natalie by Jason Walker, Her Name Is Rio by Lucie Cookson, Blue Pool (Datuk Vinod Sekhar Family) by Paul Benney (kids favorite - swimming pool), Melanie by Jackie Anderson (my favorite - a lady in fog).

But two tendencies a bit upset me. First, quite a number of works looked just like good resolution professional photos blown up on canvas. (E.g. Untitled by Peiyuan Jiang - Young Artist Award; Metamorphosis by José Luis Corella Garcia (I actually like the picture), Meralby Joanna Yates). Whats a point of painting then? The eye sees differently to the camera lens anyway. The only case (in my opinion) when photorealistic style really works its when there is no way that you can actually take picture of the subject (if its from the past or from fantasy)

Secondly, there is that hint of admiration of ugliness, illness and injury in some works (like in Sunny Jim by Sue Burns, Hannah O'Brien by Robert O'Brien). I don't mean at all that only classically beautiful people should be painted. But I always thought that the good portrait artist should try to find inner beauty and kindness in any subject. Unless the artist wants to offend or humiliate somebody (including themselves).

Recent art

Here are two more samples of my recent oil pastels. Both A4, resulted from random encounters on the Web. The landscape "Warm Lake" has been sold on Ebay for about 10 quid. The nude is still available from Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16271026).