Thanks to all you kind people who take time to visit my blog, I’m happy to say that as of yesterday I have more than 12,000 hits…:)) I missed my blog’s first birthday because I’m a bit of a scatterbrain, but I’d like to use this opportunity to thank you all for taking the time to leave a comment and share your impressions with me! :)
This is the (finally finished) cover for the “Book of Time”, a young readers’ novel by Guillaume Prevost. I’m very happy it’s finished, because I was afraid I was getting totally lost in details. All it takes is some good quality gouache and one of those brushes numbered with a “0″, and I could spend hours working on individual hair strands on a character. Luckily I had a deadline for this one! In reality, it’s not very big, only 17×18cm. There’s also the pencil study for this cover…and I don’t usually do those, I rush straight to the final piece. After all this posting I’m ready for a vacation, and therefore I’ll be away from my computer for the next 3 weeks. Stay happy and inspired!:)

A very old drawing,  done back in the days when acid-free paper wasn’t that common.  That particular sketchbook travelled with me across the ocean and back some years later, then it was left on a shelf for years, and it collected allot of dust.
A few days ago, I found it again, and while browsing through its yellowed papers, I had a feeling
that could be described as travelling back in time… to the days before
the war of the 90’s, carefree days of high school…I was reading allot of Fantasy back then, so I filled out a couple of sketchbooks with ideas and doodles. Back then, this was just another sketch that turned out good( in my opinion).  But now, when I look at her, I think of her as a Rusalka.
This drawing reminds me of the days I thought everything was possible… years later, I realised that’s not exactly true…but the magic remains the same :)

Happy Winter Solstice, Merry Xmas, Happy New Year and Sretan Božic!!!

“In Slavic mythology, a rusalka (plural:rusalki) was a female ghost, water nymph, succubus or mermaid-like demon that dwelled in a waterway.”( Wikipedia).

This is a pencil study of a character from my comic. She’s very much into Tarot cards, therefore using them on daily basis, for all kinds of questions and dilemmas she might have…