Last week I started a small series of attempts to translate analog styles into the Digital world using Procreate – first with the Warrioress with a Spear, and then with the Warrioress doing Yoga behind the Scenes. For the last two nights, I’ve dived into with portraits, for which I’ve used a wild mix of oil paint, chalk, and colored pencils.

Instead of participating in #Inktober or #Frightfall as planned, it looks like this is more #Figurefall for me! It’s so good to not invent and construct for a change, but just draw reality, and I notice how my visual library benefits from it. It’s #DailyDrawing  too, with currently one drawing or experiment per day (better, night!), besides my actual work :)

I liked the mixture of fierceness and vulnerability I see in model and pose, her serene calm and heroic dignity, so much that I really wanted to capture them, and thought I might get closer with portraits. I’m very encouraged by her attitude, which corresponds to my own stance towards translating translation of analogue techniques into digital!

After it looked (sorry, I have to elaborate here…) as if the Wasp nest next to our kitchen window (where presumably forest wasps lived, because they were more interested in a place by the sun than in people or food; after the initial fright, we coexisted peacefully :)) ended the season, I was stung during drawing, by likely the last wasp of the year.

That was clearly my own fault – and I felt very relieved that the wasp survived. After I accompanied her outside and sat at my desk again, I noticed how simultaneously fierce and yet vulnerable wasps are too… so, this very special wasp ended up becoming part of the picture. And somehow, it was just the thing that had been missing!

I clearly still have a lot to learn in digital painting, but I really like that perspective right now!

Great Thanks to RS of Grafit Studio – and the Wasp!

Likewise, many thanks to the unknown photographer and to Matthias Klesse and Angelika Luckhaus for the – as always – extraordinarily good advice, even if I didn’t take all of it. But most of it! :)