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Pencil / acrylic portraits

You get: A portrait like these (or like you find them in the rest of my portrait gallery), including pictures of the drawing process.

I need: ideal case - a high resolution photo, or at least a photo with minimum 800px height

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All pictures will be delivered in a stable packaging, no additional shipping costs for you.

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You get: A pic like these above, including pictures of the drawing process.

I need: Description or pic of your OC / whatever you'd like to have in manga form (I also do non-Sailormoon manga drawings)

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You get: A painting like these above, including pictures of the painting process.

I need: nothing but an idea what you'd like to have

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8000

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A Reason to LiveIf only she had the guts to actually do it, to just leap among the cold waves and sink in death among the fish. She breathed in the smell and taste of saltwater, and water sprays hit her face, neck, and chest. She shivered slightly in the breeze from the waves, but she wasn’t really bothered by the chill. What weighed on her mind was something much deeper than the weather.

A pang of apprehension penetrated her heart as she envisioned her body being plunged into the water and weighted down by the strong waves. She thought about what it would be like to gulp in mouthful after mouthful of water, choking and never feeling any relief, bA Reason to Live by *fotomademoiselle

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Traditional arts. Portraits 'n paintings. Mainly.
Artist | Hobbyist | Traditional Art

Germany

Hay there, visitor!

I'm a self-taught hobby artist from Germany.

I don't really remember anymore when I began to draw ... First I only did manga characters (because of my love for the Sailor Moon anime to that time ^^) but then I started to do Portraits and other stuff too. Same goes for painting, I also don't remember anymore when I started it. I only know that one day I saw those Bob Ross - everybody can paint - series on TV and wanted to do something like that myself. (The first outcome didn't really look THAT good ^_^°)

Photography started after I got my first phone with a few megapixels, spending many evenings at the lake near here to take pics of the sunset... In 2008 I got me a digital camera (Olympus µ1010), and since then I stayed with that.

My specialities are pencil portratis and acrylic paintings.

Currently I'm also working on my own web page (which will go online this year I hope ... -.-°)

If you have any questions, feel free to note or email me

Favorite visual artists
Thomas Kinkade, Christopher Pollari, Yoann Lossel, Akiane Kramarik, Toxic Angel

Favorite movies
Hugo Cabret, Avatar, 2012, Silent Hill, all Dune movies, Contagion, all Harry Potter movies, Disney cartoon movies (especially the old classics), Asterix&Obelix cartoon movies, Stephen King creep shows, King movies in general

Favorite TV show
MTV Daria, Stargate SG1, MacGyver, V, True Blood, Once upon a time, Legend of the seeker, Sailor Moon, 90s Disney series like Darkwing Duck etc.

Favorite music / bands
MandragorA ScreaM, Stratovarius, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Eluveitie, 5ive (Yeah, deal with it!

), Lindsey Stirling, Runrig, movie music, hardstyle, masters of hardcore, etc pp... way too much stuff to list it all here.

Favorite books
Stephen King's Dark Tower Series and all his other books, Federica de Cesco's desert novels, all Harry Potter books, The lord of the rings, The black magician trilogy, Isobel Bird's Magic Circle books

Favorite writers
Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Federica de Cesco, Stephen King

My tools of the Trade
pencils, kneadable eraser, estompen, watercolor, acrylics, nail polish, glitter, stickers, copics, felt tips, crayons, paintbrushes, my fingers, paper, scissors, mouse, Trust TB-7300 graphic tablet, Photoshop CS2, Corel Photopaint 8, PhotoFiltre, MS Paint, CanoScan 5600F, Olympus µ1010, Polychromos

Other Interests
reading, music, travelling, singing, eating, sleeping, reading, writing, geology, languages

To the dungeons and back.

Sat May 18, 2013, 2:21 PM

Hello me hearties

Finally back from London ... well ok since almost 2 days now but I was so done that I had to recover first before I could write anything...
So how was it? It was wonderful, yet so strenuous that it took most of my power (as with Berlin my feeling of London is that it's a very dark and exhausting city... yet London is more beautiful than Berlin xD) but I learned a damn lot over there. But let's start from the beginning:

May 13th
Had to get up at around 3 am but made it earlier cause I just couldn't sleep... went off to the airport then, changing moneys and all that stuff.
Arrived at Gatwick south terminal at around... phew I have no idea but it must have been around 11 am GMT ... went out then to look for a bus that would bring me to London Victoria (2 hours to go there, but saw a lot of england while sitting in the bus..), from Victoria I'd go to King's Cross St. Pancras with the Underground (Got lost 1 or 2 times before I found the right tube..), into the hostel, checking in, discovering that it's all old and stuff and I had to share the room with 5 or 6 other girls that I didn't know and that kept me awake almost the whole night making noises and playing music... >.<
Later on a friend of mine arrived and we went out to King's cross, I wanted to look where that platform 9 3/4 is ... Finally found it then and took a lot of photos before going over to that shop that sold Harry Potter fan stuff

Afterwards we went to McDonald's to eat something and then we went to bed quite early cause we had a long day tomorrow...

May 14th
The day of the big concert...
We woke up quite early, not really knowing what to do, first getting ready and stuff. Not too much later, the other girls arrived that would be with us. We had a nice talk and stuff while changing clothes and then went off to King's Cross information desk where we'd wait for some more girls to arrive to finally take off to the O².
If you look for a good, cheap way to get around London - get yourself an Oyster card. Costs 5 pounds and you can charge it with how much you want. No day ticket buying or anything anymore, you just pay as you go. Very useful.
At the O² we first sat down inside waiting for what to do now since we wanted to meet the guys (which wouldn't work in the end...) Having some discussions and some chocolate before going over to the H entrance doing some videos and getting our heart posters from one of the girls.
Btw - if you never have been to the O² in London - brace yourself. It's the hugest thing I've ever seen in my life... Outside as well as inside. The outside is like a whole city for itself under a roof, and inside there is space for like 15.000 people. Simply WOW.
So after another few hours of waiting (and a hot chocolate for me..) we finally went in then. I myself just to find out that I'd probably walk straight out again cause I almost felt sick standing so high above with only like 50 centimeters of concrete in front of me to stand on and then the seat rows going straight down. Better not get unconcious there or this might be the last thing you do... But in the end I somehow adjusted to it. Still it was an awesome view somehow.
Yeah what else... the concert was f***ing awesome, at some point the whole venue would sparkle of phone torches while 911 playing a ballad ... never seen something so beautiful. (Sadly the photo is unsharp

) I'm just a little sad that we didn't meet the boys of Five. But well, maybe another day.
After that we went back then, first to King's Cross and then back to the hostel with some McDonalds food and then going to bed.

May 15th
After getting up not too late and saying goodbye to the girls (that would move on to Dublin) I went out to do some sightseeing. I somehow finally had found my way in London's underground which made it easy for me to

find my goals now. First station for me was Tower Hill. I went out and around, over the Tower Bridge, through Shad Thames and back and on to Westminster where I walked my round, seeing Big Ben, London eye (I stood quite a while beneath it gazing up and feeling small...) and the house of parliament. After that I went to Knightsbridge from where I'd go to Harrods. I had to switch tube line at South Kensington and found a kinda good looking guy playing a goddamn good E-guitar *_* ... if my feet wouldn't have hurted so bad I'd stayed and had a listen but nah -.-°
Wasn't in Harrods then for very long cause I had no orientation and feared I'd get lost in there and never find my way out again... BUT I found that egyptian escalator and felt like in a Goa'Uld - temple xD I was fascinated and shocked at the same time by the obvious symbolics.
Well.. out there then and back to the hostel to rest my feet that were hurting like hell. And also - what did I find when I came back? The girls were still there and I was way too fast. But didn't take long until they left then.
After some time of rest I went off another time then to Abbey Road, I wanted to see the place where Nightwish had recorded their orchestra parts... Found the studio but didn't find that famous beatles - crosswalk... -.-
On my way to Abbey Road I also came along Baker Street station, which is - as I think - a great example for how old and stuff London's underground is partly looking... you feel almost like in another world... like in some underground steampunk movie.
Well then, back to King's cross, buying me a Gryffindor scarf and then back to the hostel... had to get up early the next day to catch my flight...

May 16th
Went off to the airport at 9 am, first going to London Victoria, from there with a coach back to Gatwick in another 2 hours. At the airport then I took it slow and had some breakfast first (at lunchtime but who cares xD), dropped my suitcase, went through safety check, off to wait for my gate to be announced and getting some presents for my parents.
After an about 30 minutes delay we finally could go on board of the plane.
Back home I had a really hard time cause I somehow couldn't get used to speak German again xD But slowly everything starts to become normal again.
I came home at around 1 am, checked my mail and stuff and went to bed then.

All in all .... I think London is worth another visit since I couldn't make it to see EVERYTHING I wanted to see cause my feet were killing me. But I made a decision that I'll never fly anywhere again for any person or band in this world. It's simply too strenuous and not worth it.
And also - if you're not good with walking, better not go to London. There are almost no escalators in the underground stations and if you have to switch the tube line you first have to walk a kilometer. For going around the city by tube you best can get yourself an Oyster card that you can buy in almost every tube station and charge it with how much ever you want and pay as you go then.
I don't recommend that King's Cross Journey's hostel... don't like sleeping with strangers in one room, don't like that old and that nothing there is really working (the toilet flush for example) ... But I still got to know some nice people there. (Even one guy from austria who works there and speaks my dialect xD). Next time I'll get me a room of my own.

The whole lot of my London pics you can find on my private facebook page

(Hope you can view the folder, I made it public..) [link]

So... hope you enjoyed this little journey report and hope I could help you if you had questions about going around London

If you have any questions left, feel free to note me