Kristina is now a FULLTIME freelance illustrator! - updated April 3rd

[Maidith]

Check the last page's bottom for new stuff!
('cause the stuff on the first page here is old crap. seriously.)


Hi everyone! I'm Kristina, 19 years old, from Germany, and I have to practice more. Bobby Chiu said the greatest motivation for a painter is to envision what you will have after painting and practicing, and he is so right!

I can't do any finished stuff right now, but I feel so inspired by people and their art everywhere. Solution: lots of speedpaints

I painted those in December, using Photoshop and my wacom tablet. I set myself an 1 hour time limit for each of those.

Creepy Green Dude


Madame Anne


Lost War


The Catamite


Celin


More to follow. Have a Happy New Year everyone!

[algenpfleger]

Ooh, nice to see you becoming active here as well
As usual loving your color schemes... wait, i saw all of those already
And yeah, do some anatomy studies, it really helps... i hope.

[Spocksleftball]

I'm struck by how the thumbnail of the last work looks different than the larger pic. In fact, the thumb has a completely different and interesting emotion.

[Maidith]

algenpfleger, thank you!
Spocksleftball - perhaps that's because of the real close cropping? I don't know xD

Making drawings after old master paintings... I so wish I had a life drawing class now, but for now, copying will have to suffice.









And this is a portrait of Braimaki from a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. Don't know yet exactly what the story is about, but I like that guy already xD

(PS7, wacom tablet, 1 hour)

[Peter Berkovski]

First of all Happy New Year,nice sketchbook so far,I like last sketches (single line is just beauty, I can't do that yet but the time will help me) and especially last portrait, keep em coming Kristina!

[Maidith]

First of all Happy New Year,nice sketchbook so far,I like last sketches (single line is just beauty, I can't do that yet but the time will help me) and especially last portrait, keep em coming Kristina!

Thank you! What do you mean by "single line"? sketches without shading?

[Maidith]

More practicing. PS7, 1 hour each.

Cesare (he's supposed to be about 10-12 years old in this one)


Agrippina


Pencil sketches from the work of Nicolas Poussin

[zaimless]

I really enjoy your style, looking forward to more in the future.

[Maidith]

Thank you zaimless! (I so totally agree with your signature)

[Maidith]

More stuff from December.

Bleeding Skies (SAI, 20 minutes). I was aiming for something "meditative" here.


Lorien Lost (PS7, 45 minutes)


Piano Playing Ghost (PS7, 25 min)

[Maidith]

More practice stuff Hope you like ^_^

The Dream of Yunus Emre (PS7, 1h)


closeup 100% original size


All is Lost

[Maidith]

New piece - PS7, 1 hour.

Kostantiniye


Kostantiniye closeup (100% original size)

[Maidith]

Sultan Mehmet's Mother - Hüma Hatun Valide (PS7, 1 h) I wanted to paint an old woman.


More studies after Nicolas Poussin

[Maidith]

New piece: Eleonora
(PS7, 1 h)


Close-ups (100&#37

[Merlkir]

Lovely SB! I really like your portraits as well as the body studies. Really impressive for 1 hour works! I think I couldn't make them so nicely in 4 hours

[Maidith]

Thank you Merlkir! Your sketchbook is really nice too, especially your traditional media work

Still life, painted from life, it's a little older though ^^; Oil paints used.


I'm a wannabe forger Eric Hebborn is my idol XD

[Camara]

Hi!You have a cool classic style in your line work that is very attractive!I like it a lot.Your use of color is great in some of the pictures too!
Keep posting!

[Maidith]

Muchas gracias, Camara Tu sketchbook es bastante cool, me especialmente gustan tus dibujos nuevos... así sigue! Saludos de Alemania!

Update:
Lucrezia (PS7, 1 h)


more sketches after Poussin:
The finding of Moses

[AsaB]

Very impressive studies! Especially those life drawings, I like how few lines you use to establish the form. Keep that up, it'll certainly get you forward

As for the digital paintings, they're looking very pro, it's obvious you're getting confident in that area. No crits here really, just keep doing this and you'll improve. Very nice sb!

[Maidith]

AsaB, thank you! I'm honored

Life drawing, using a pencil and a white pastel pencil:




I don't know how long each one took; somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes.

[Maidith]

Here I set another time limit - 2 hours. Didn't quite manage it - the speedy turned out to look finished already before 2 hours.

Psyche; PS7. Here's how it looked after 1 hour:


1 hour 40 minutes:

[aspiringpaintre]

Cool stuff Kristina! I really like your pencil and charcoal studies. All of your stuff is very similar, having a soft and almost ethereal feel (which is cool), but I thought maybe it would be cool to see what you could do with a different style. Maybe something more rough and sketchy. I noticed in some of your work that you tend to have some sketchy lines that you put over top of everything at the end, which gives it an interesting contrast, so maybe you could push that even more. I think it could end up leading to something really cool. Anyway, just a thought. Tschüss!

[Trashy]

Your life drawings are top notch and your digital paintings are coming along as well. Pretty good sketchbook! keep up with all the good work. I don't have any really crits for you at the moment. The charcoal pieces are ace!

[Naastika]

I like how everything is so soft and pretty, it gives it a fantasy/dreamy feel. I wish I had the patience to make my art softer.

[Maidith]

aspiringpaintre - thank you I really need to try different styles! (currently I'm drawing a bitmap picture, will post it here too)

Trashy - thank you, I'm honored

Naastika - thank you very much too!

(deleted michelangelo studies)

[Xaya]

wo liegt denn Meerbusch?

Well first of all really nice speed paintings, i think you don´t do wrong to study other artista, especially the old masters.
Nevertheless common study of anatomy and composition/lighting is definitely a must.
From my own experience doing speedpaintings is a great thing, to get the essential on digital paper as quick as possible.
Nevertheless doing finished work is something you should do, because there u learn different things and difficulties which you don´t learn from speedpaintings.
And also u have some "real" work done, which is quite satisfying... for a few days...

So keep going!

Xaya

[sameolesame]

you have some good things going on with the toned paper stuff... ever try scanning these and painting digi?

[Maidith]

Xaya - hallo Meerbusch is near Düsseldorf and Cologne ^^ Thank you! Usually I don't do as much speedpaints as I do now, but more finished works. They can be found in my Deviantart gallery or at my portfolio website. For now, I'm focusing solely on speedpaints since that's something I should have done much earlier

sameolesame - yes, I should do that more often thanks!

[Maidith]

New speedpaint: Kyralina (PS7, 1h)

[Maidith]

Cristiano (PS7, 1 h) I tried to imagine how the main character from my story would look like. He's 15 and darn pretty xD


Pond of Oblivion (PS7, forgot about the time). It was supposed to be for the NVart competition at CGtalk but I never managed to finish it so it stays a speedpaint.


More Poussin studies: