ARTING AGAIN!

Finally some kind of daily rhythm has developed here and I can usually count on a "free" evening now. Thus I have actually managed to draw a bit more than just quick doodles or sketches. Hopefully this new rhythm is going to stabilize and I will be able to do more arting again!

BACK AMONG THE LIVING!

Elin is here!

She was born on May 1st and she is such a sunshine of a child!
















Myself I was pretty much knocked out these first months. It was a surprising Cesarean section and I had to struggle with lots of complications afterwards. Finally I am beginning to read my e-mails, draw and paint a little bit and spend a little time online again - in other words: I am slowly recovering and coming back to life!

STILL ROLLING ABOUT ...

I finally finished one of the drawings I promised:






I am still so incredibly slow. In addition, the baby objects my sitting at the desk by boxing and kicking inside me now, so even if I have some inspiration and energy to draw I will not sit to do it very long. Well, at least the inspiration part seems to be recovering a bit these days ...

SIX WEEKS LEFT ...

The countdown is running. I am really curious how life will be with a child around!

Anyway, from this week on I don't have to work anymore, so that part of my energy that's not sucked in by this little creature in my belly is available for drawing and painting again. Finally!

There are several DSA-illustrations scheduled for me. These two were the first to be done:

MAJOR ATTACK OF UNCREATIVITY

Well, let's get straight to the point: I am pregnant!

While this is wonderful news for me and my whole family, I cannot really enjoy myself at the moment. I feel tired and sick all day and I lack inspiration and energy to do anything creative. I read in magazines and on webpages that this will get better after the first third of the pregnancy - and I definitely hope so. Until then: no new art to be expected ...

NEW STUFF FOR SALE

Ellen Million Graphics is adding new designs these days. I just noticed that "Dragonbreaker's Dawn" is available in the EMG online store by now (as prints, t-shirts, cards, mousepads and more). And I hope there will be some fairy warrior cards and bookmarks soon!

MOODY

I have been terribly moody this weekend. Nothing seemed to work as planned. Most of the time I tried to fix some problems in a program I wrote for the next experiment of my PhD thesis but I couldn't fix them the way I thought it would work. Instead I found out about some other problems of the script I had not been aware of before. Pretty frustrating. At six o clock in the evening today my husband told me to stop and do something else and I started doodling around with my tablet - which is not that new anymore but which I have not used very often since I got it. I played around with it a bit, but after dinner I had lost all my desire to paint something. So this quick unfinished sketch of a sleeping unicorn is the only thing I actually did create this weekend.

Jeez. I hope I'll have a better mood and will not scare my muse away again next weekend!