Moar cups!

More cups! Mugs and teacups with saucers, to be precise! I've been doing different designs - there's now a mug version of the dragon popping out the trees, and also the saucer to accompany the teacup. :)

Dragon mug, teacup and saucer (that mug is for you Matthew Lee, if you're reading!)

 Here's all the cups together so far - more on order, and I need to bake some of these guys and get them sent off to those asking for them. :)

Cup collection - Domo-kun guards them to the right...

A 'Fleacup' ;)

Busy painting cups atm! Have a little order of them (check a previous post to see what I mean!) Thought I'd experiment with a teacup too, and a different design - a monster (and Flea) exploding out of the trees, raaaawr! Painted on bone china too, how fancy :) Have to wait 48 hours for the pen to dry properly, then it has to be 'cooked' in the oven. :) Would anyone like any of these too? I might do the saucer to accompany it as well! 

 Gonna get back to do some digital portraits again, it's just nice to do 'real' art once in awhile too ;)

More older environments

Here's a couple of older environments from work I thought I'd share on here; each one was done rather quickly, hence the lack of super polish, but I still think they're kinda nice-ish. :)

They live in a big tree and have robins as transport!

Home sweet home

Inside one of the 'rooms' in the tree - disco ball (why not?) and pet ladybug

A time-lapse pic

Another time lapse pic, getting overgrown

A place to buy prints and other goodies!

Ooo look, a little shop! http://society6.com/AstridCastle

Now you can buy little (or large) prints of mine, as well as framed, stretched canvas, iphone covers, laptop covers, greeting cards and t-shirts! It's pretty cool! I'll be adding more designs to this too, just nice to have something available there so far - so go on, you know you want at least a little print :)

Here's what it looks like:

Flea cup!

Omigod, a cup - how amazing is that?? Well, there's more to it; I painted it. :) Decided to do the first double page panel of Flea's Journey, slightly modified on a porcelain cup. Was having my usual wander in the local art shop, and strayed accidently into the more 'crafts' area, and spotted the cup and magic pens. :D Needed plenty of layers on there, and then 'fired' in the oven. Just a bit of fun!

Flea's Journey - coming soon!

Just thought I'd mention that I'm getting a children's book I made, 'Flea's Journey' published by a small publishing company here in Germany. :) Should be out around June/July, take a look here:

http://www.khorshid-verlag.de/?cat=281

and here's the cover :)

Overgrown city

As the title says! Overgrown cities are very popular these days - I think we all secretly love the idea of seeing the place we live in covered in trees and jungle. :) Nature and man-made exisiting in the same place!

Nice...eyes ;)

Ooooooooo, doesn't she have great....eyes! ;)
This my super sexist, totally impractical, warrior woman design ;p (obligatory at some stage for all artists ;) She's joined by Flea, her trusty side kick.

Faces!

Faces!! Just wanted to play around with a 'template' of a face, different styles, makeup and the like. :)



And here's the original face :)

Sci-fi lady!

A sci-fi lady!! Bit of a figure-hugging suit she's got on there, but hey it's sci-fi ;) Fun to do, spent just a few hours on it...more to come!

Portrait ahoy!

Another study, trying a differently lit one! Time for a full body, I reckon...

Another portrait!

Another day, and another portrait! Just practising more, really. Wanted her to have a cool/weird eye tattoo thing (if only they were socially acceptable! I'd have one ;) Having fun with this!

An (almost) non-cute update!

Been wanting to attempt doing a realistic face, so here's a little face study I did today - was tons of fun!! It's of course based on a photo, but I wanted to see if I could do such a realistic face. Think it turned out ok! I actually way more prefer drawing characters as opposed to environments (I think it shows) so...expect more characters now ;D



Can't have an update without asomething vaguely cute, so here's a painting I did for my bf - an 'Ogg' :D

Older environments!

Thought I'd share a few older pieces...I actually quite like them! Need to do a nice detailed one like these again, I think. :) I'm not usually such a fan of drawing cities, warehouses etc, but they really are a challenge!