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Watercolor Portraits (March – June 2021)

Aquarell, Art, character, Faces

In the spring of 2021, my interest in Korean music began to wane. I found the industry increasingly perplexing, and ultimately, I just wasn’t enjoying it anymore. During this period, I was quite active on my art Instagram account, where fan art of K-Pop stars garnered a lot of love. However, creating original characters became disheartening, as it was challenging to reach an audience.

As my enthusiasm for posting faded, I noticed the rise of Reels on the platform. This shift meant I had to film my entire creative process to gain likes and engagement, which only added to my stress. I realized that I was no longer enjoying painting as I once had; I was too focused on capturing the process rather than immersing myself in my art.

The portraits you see here were created during this transitional phase, when I was still trying to maintain my output while clinging to my Instagram presence. I participated in numerous “Draw This in Your Style” challenges, where artists reinterpret an original character in their unique style. It was a fun way to connect with other artists and explore creativity, even as my relationship with art was evolving.

The first and largest portrait in this collection features my favorite character from the webtoon—and now anime—Solo Leveling: Esil Radiru, a demon princess who captivated me during my reading.

You’ll also notice that I began experimenting with different mediums in my art. I moved beyond just watercolors, blending them with acrylic paints and colored pens to create more dynamic compositions.


Crystal Dragon (2021)

Aquarell, Art, character, Drawing, Watercolor

Since I’ve always been a gigantic fan of fantasy books and movies, dragons were always my secret spirit animal. I always wanted to paint them more often and maybe even tattoo theme day. My I go my journey step by step.

In February of 2021, I listened to my favorite fantasy audiobook and started to paint this beautiful Lady. I still love the vibrant colors and her design overall.

crystal dragon

Hyunjin (2021)

Aquarell, Art, Faces, Musicians, Watercolor

This here was probably my last K-Pop related artwork.
I am still a bit sad that I wasted so much time, I could have used to create my own characters, by obsessively painting K-Pop stuff. Especially since I am in no ways okay with the capitalistic and human- destroying way, the K-pop Industry works.

But I can’t change that now. And even though I am not happy that I was such a big fan of that music genre, I can happily say that I was never an obsessive fangirl, but simply loved the music, the dancing and the costume & music-video design. And with that thought in mind, I can say that I learned a lot during that time.
And the bottom of this blog-entry, you can see my first watercolor artwork I ever created (which was also K-pop related).

So yes, I did learn a lot during that time, art wise. And I started my journey on finding my own art style.



Underneath, you can see my first K-pop and my first watercolor artwork.

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Kyle Commission (January 2021)

Aquarell, Art, character, Comic Adaption, Watercolor

In January of 2021 I got my first commission via my Instagram Account.
A girl from somewhere in America send me a direct message, asking if I’m taking commissions. I felt honored and accepted it: She wanted the southpark character Kyle Broflovski drawn in my style.

To this day I’m a bit confused, why exactly she wanted me (only painting K-pop related people during that time) to do that for her. Especially since my art wasn’t exactly known or astonishing during that time.
BUt nevertheless I had a lot of fun doing it, also, because the original character really doesn’t look like the references I usually use.

Looking back, I don’t love the way he turned out to look, but it was still a great task.

After I finished and she was happy with the finished painting, I even shipped to her.

Kyle South Park

Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

Aquarell, Art, character, Faces, Watercolor

For one of my moms colleagues birthday, I was supposed to paint a card last minute. Since apparently He likes video games, I decided on this one. It ain’t my favorite one but she’s still cute.
To be honest I must say, that I still haven’t played it yet. But with all the negative backla

sh and the fact, that mycomputer would simply die by trying to run it, I haven’t found the motivation to actually get it.

Also on this watercolor card, you will simply think that she has purple skin, but it’s actually the lighting (which you can’t really notice, since my execution is rather poor lol)

Portait Commission

Aquarell, Art

In the beginning of 2020 I went to “Nightfleemarket” events. An inside flee market, where I painted live and tried to sell some of my artwork.

While being there, I got some of my first commissions from people that weren’t relatives or friends.
This here is one of them. The lovely elderly pair asked me to paint them, I believe it was for their anniversary or something similar.

According to them I asked for absolutely not enough payment, to which they gave me more, than I originally asked for.

It was a lovely experience and I am up to date really happy, how the commission turned out. Especially since it is not heavily stylized but rather quite realistic.

Christmas Cards

Aquarell, Art

Marry Christmas to all of you!

During the same time, my mom and I printed the heavily stylized Christmas cards (you can see them in my last blog post) I also painted some more usual looking Christmas cards that we also printed and gifted to others.

Right now, we are actually still selling some of them, as people love them!

Here, you can see two different ones:

Winter Cards 2020

Aquarell, Art

Matching the current days, I decided to show you these ones, I created in winter of 2020.
During that Christmas season my mom and I decided to print my first cards. Our friends and relatives loved them!

I don’t know why I was doing it, but they have this specific style you for sure notice.

Anyway, I still love these cuties 🙂