Rest in Peace, David Eddings.... Thank you for bringing me into a world of characters that I can't think of with anything than fondness. You are the reason why I still try to breathe fantasy in my life... I will always try to have a bit of Ce'Nedra in me . Thank you.

I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Lots of thanks to everyone commenting, favouriting and of course visiting my gallery - for you guys, I wish I had more time to update .

My new house has already had me as owner for nearly 6 months, and I'm liking it ^_^. We're soon going into renovation stage 2 - hallway, kitchen and laundry (whee-haaa!). Although "soon" might be optimistic. We'll see .

Anyways, hope you are all enjoying the holidays!

The last three weeks have been my vacation from work. Not that I would call it vacation, because I've worked from 6-7 in the morning to 11 in the evening every day, going one step closer to having a new bedroom, computer room, living room, guest room and most important and messy of all, a new bathroom. When these three weeks are over, we'll still not be finished with the bathroom, but we'll at least have a wc again -_-.

Anyways, aside from this, the moving and working and having family down sleeping in the computer room means that my server has been down most of the time, so that's why Elverquisst have been down lately, and will be down for a little while more.

But, now it's time to clean the apartment a bit (it's messy when two people live here - imagine five and a moving at that). So I have to get back to work.

I want more vacation.

Couldn't stand seeing the old journal here everytime I logged in, so time for a new one . I've bought a house with my Daniel and we're moving there in a couple of days, fixing it up a bit on our vacation. It has the most calming outdoor room, where I imagine myself sitting and drawing or painting or writing or just about doing anything. I long for my out-door room ^_^.

Soooo, this is just a note to anyone watching me that I hopefully will find some peace and time to draw again. I've longed for it ^_^.

My most sincere thanks to everyone visiting my galleries and leaving comments. I'm sorry I don't have time to answer everyone of them, but know that I read them and see the day a little bit brighter because of it .

"Let the dragon ride again on the winds of time"

Yesterday I went to dragonmount to get updated on the latest news of Robert Jordan. A black screen with a message that turned my whole body cold met me. Robert Jordan, real name James Oliver Rigney Jr, had past away on September 16.

After being diagnosed with the rare blood desease amyloidosis in 2005, he gave us hope as he never quit fighting. He updated us on his health, and was sure to answer his fans' questions as often as he could. I had started hoping he would get through when I read that he was gone.

Thank you for cheering up a third of my life with events and characters that made my heart fly. I've drawn pictures, I've learned most of the poems by heart. I still haven't figured out who killed Asmodean .

My warmest and most sincere thanks to Harriet, Wilson and the others who stood you by till the end and who somehow will end your fantastic series with A Memory of Light, hopefully just the way you wanted it to be.

Thank you, Robert Jordan.

Yeah, um. So I promised a picture couple of weeks after new year. Well, quite a lot of things have happened since then. I've moved to a new city (instead of the second largest in Sweden, the third largest, I think it is) to be together with my boyfriend again. I've gotten a new job (hence being able to move), and naturally, a new apartment to decorate! Whee, love decorating and moving around furniture and being able to buy a lot of new things without feeling guilty .

So, the weeks turned into months, but now you at least know what's happened . Yesterday I finally finished the picture that's been the stopping block for any new pictures I've thought of (must finish one before I move on, or else it won't be finished. I have too many half-started projects already.). So, the cute boy with the cat is finally in my gallery, and now I'll be able to challenge myself again. I must get better! Better at skintones, at blending, at light and clothes and nature and noses and mouths and buildings and... *rambles on into the distance*

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and... migosh - over 10 000 pageviews?! You honor me!!!!

It has really been too long since I updated this gallery, and I do have a picture underway. It will take a few more weeks, though, but I think those who likes pretty boys (and cats, although it is in no way combined with the pretty boy, i.e. no anthro ) will be pleased. Me, I'm just having fun with clothes and laces for the moment. Three hours of drawing some few strips of crossed laces... Yeesch! At least I like the result enough to continue...

Anyways, have a great 2007 everyone, and thank you all again!

Anyone who's played World of Warcraft know how easily one get's caught. Unfortunately, this is what's happened to me, and unfortunately, it gets in the way of drawing. On top of that, my boyfriend has got a job in a city three hours away, which means that week-ends are busy just trying to see him. On top of that, I've finally decided that the driver's license I should have, is going to be in my wallet in three months, goddammit(!), and on top of that....

Really, what is up with time? Why does it go so fast? Why do we use it up on unimportant stuff, when we have so little of it? Um, yeah, playing WoW is fun, that's why...

No matter what, I hope I can draw something within the month. Perhaps I should set up a goal - that's the only way I'll ever really focus .

If I only had more time, I would draw for all I was worth. Now, time is pretty much as rare thing in my life. And when I do have some extra time over, I'm too exhausted or uninspired to do anything of it.

So, trying to find inspiration from those who look at my art, I ask you, yes YOU, what you would like to see the next time you stepped into my gallery .

Come on folks, let me know what's on your mind ^_^.

As a follow-up question, which of my pictures would you like to see made a print of (that isn't a print already, of course )

Comment away!

Now all of my prints have been approved again, and this time I've taken away all printed signatures, and lowered the prices several dollars . I have also bought the prints myself to ensure that the colors and quality is what I want, and I was very satisfied when receiving the prints ^_^.

I have deactivated all of my prints temporarily -- I want to take away the signature and fix a small thing in my succubus-print. They will be back in a week, though!

I'm sorry for my absence of lately. I'm working with my last final report, like I've done throughout this entire fall. Hopefully, I will have my Master's degree (Information Technology) in the end of January, and then, school's out for LIFE (at least not counting all the small courses I'll have to go to keep me updated).

So I'm just letting you know that I have a picture almost done, with just some tweaking and refinement, and that it'll hopefully come up on christmas break (if I have one, that is -- the report is due before New Year's Eve).

Take care, everyone!

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And I'm still as blank as the last time I wrote a journal entry.
Have been chatting a bit with Adele, was a long time ago, and I'm glad to be in touch with her again (*hugs*, hon). That's also why I've been drawing some of her characters again. I have three new pics in the scrap-book, three of Adele's characters with a gothic theme *heehee*.

The new Luke-pic's a quicky. And not as pretty as Luke really is *sigh*. But there's not a chance in hell that I can draw Adele's characters as good as she can, so I'll have to go with what I'm offered by my muse ^_^.

Speaking of muse -- where the heck has she gone, eh? I've had a gorgeous picture in my mind for three weeks now, and I still can't get it down. Sheesh! She needs some spankin' to get on the right side again.

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...and a boring afternoon. I thought I would try to link to my friends in these entrys, since I see a lot of that. I asked my friend Adele how it was done, but till today I had forgot about it. Fortunately, it could be found in the help .

I have an auction of the original "Fly, my friend"-drawing (the elf with the butterfly) on ebay. I'd be glad if you checked it out ^_^.

Oh -- and I can't get the durned avatar to change! *upload* "drat" *upload* "Drat!"

Oh again! I finally bought a game-cube. I got the last one in Sweden available zelda edition with silver-cube! Whohoo! Now, I just have to buy the freekin' memory card so I can save the game... *duh*

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Very common in the artistic world are comments that accuse us, or disturbs us in some way or another. The usual "Wow"-comment is not even thought about (allthough I really appreciate them after putting down a lot of work ). What really gets to me are people so ignorant that they ASSUME things, out of the blue.

A pair of comments I've gotten through the years (both anonymous):
"Judging by the quality of the ears and clothes, it looks as if you traced over a photo for the face (or used a photograph as reference). Good work, but the lack of attention away from the face detracts from the overall image and gives away your source."

What is that?! This was one of my first pictures ([link] with a tablet, and god knows I worked a lot on that face and hair, but didn't know how to make clothes or such ears realistic... No, he/she just assumed that I had traced the face from a photo, without even asking first. If there had been a little IF there, then I would just have been flattered, but now I took it as a accusation.


"Your work is beautiful, but copying from photos doesn't take that much skill.

I'd love to see some hand-drawn, original stuff. "

Grrrrr! Even with a smiley, this was probably one of the worst comments I've got. Not only did he/she accuse me for copying photos, (no, references is NOT the same as copying -- when working with references, you still need a lot of skill to make a face come alive and work together with the background. AND you need to get your style in there. A reference from a photo is always distorted because of the lens, so if you actually traced/copied it, it would look very akward in a drawing.), but said that they weren't hand-drawn?! WTF?!
There's not a single thing in my pictures that I've done with anything but brush-strokes, be the brushes digital or not. I don't click a few clicks, drag a few sliders, and POW, there's instant art. 10 hours effective time is the least amount of time I put down, and sometimes, with a difficult picture, or a picture that I work really hard with, the hours fly like dust in the wind away at 40, 50 or months.

If he/she doesn't think my art is original, to bad, but I really, really hate getting these "I KNOW that's a photo", "I KNOW you cheat".

Anonymous, you don't know SQUAT! I bet you're just jealous because you wouldn't be able to draw anything remotely close to being photorealistic, and now you're trying to justify your (lack of) skill.


Anyhow, tantrum aside (just needed to get some aggression out ), how do you artists deal with these know-it-all, assuming commenters? (The answers I left them were harsh, but perhaps I should learn to ignore them instead?)

Man, did I work long on my recent submission! It began with a head couple of months ago, that I couldn't continue on no matter what I did. A couple of weeks ago I finally drew her a body, and this week I started working properly on her again. The dandelion seeds were the last thing I drew, after trying out a fairy, a cobra, a green mamba, a small tree that would have housed birds, an ozelot(!) and varios other ideas that never reached the paper.. er, screen. I'm pretty proud of the grass. That's the most decent grass I've ever drawn.

Thank the gods I have a job that I am so fast at that I have lots of spare time .  

I big thank you to all who have supported me since the beginning of my gallery here . You've made me stay ^_^.

I was very pleased to see a person on DeviantART who'd taken images from other artists and claimed them as her own go down yesterday. It's just awful to be an artist and stumble upon someone "pretending" to be you, and take credit, make up stuff about YOUR pictures, that came from YOUR mind and that you'd put so much love and sweat into that you could just cry. I'd like to get all and everyone reading this to take note whenever they see a new picture that they think they've seen somewhere before, but with a different name. Send a short mail to the artists, telling them about eachother, and the real artist will take care of matters.

A huge hug to Epilogue, which great community immediately sets everything aside to help fellow artists!