Of castles and lonely girls

Ok, so this is a slightly sad poem. It is not about me or any of my friends. It is simply a story. So don't think I'm all emo even though I might look the part sometimes :P It is just something my hand started writing, so here goes:

Of castles and lonely girls

There's a castle dark and crumbled
hidden within a girl
The halls are empty the windows are broken
no words are spoken

It used to be a happy pretty place
with lights and flowers
Those days are over now and forever
she will find those moments never

Now the girl is gone
only the ruins remain
From the heart flies a bird
with a sad song that should have been heard...

Written by Anita Olsen a.k.a Anita Night

Brave..the poetry inside

The poet within  me has awoken for a brief period of time. It comes and goes. Last night it compelled me to write and the result is this poem:

Brave

My mortal heart is flowing over
with dreams and wishes
of true fulfillment, love and kisses

But at my center something nags
a dark thing spreading doubt
Something I dearly wish I could live without

It tells me I will never succeed
my dreams will come to naught
that all my wars were needlessly fought

But I refuse to listen to the nag
It's not my intention to simply stop trying
to fulfill my dreams I would brave the risk of dying...

written by Anita Olsen a.k.a Anita Night

Submission for ArtOrder Creature Retread

Well I have taken the plunge, manned up (so to speak) and actually tried to participate in the ArtOrder challenge calle Creature Retread. I am terrified to tell the truth.

I know that I'm supposed to become a professional illustrator pretty soon, but that doesn't mean I don't have a little vicious goblin in my head who likes to point out weaknesses. I think everyone has one. Right now mine is telling me that I suck when it comes to digital artwork...Be it true or not that's how I feel. This submission is the first real attempt I have done when it comes to digital work that is even worth mentioning.

Fingers crossed that somebody will actually like it. We will see. I think I'm pleased with it though. I know there are some flaws here and there, but time will not permit any further work on this piece due to school.

2010- starting a new year

Happy new year everybody ^^

Alrighty, I have nothing new to show as of yet... not because I am lazy and haven't bothered to make anything. I can't really show you because all my latest works belong to the monster art exhibition and I wont be releasing any of the paintings before the art exhibit starts.

I can however give you a little taste. One of my unfinished pieces:

This is quite exciting for me, I have never done a skeleton before, and this is sorta going to be my homage to the corpse bride. fingers crossed it'll look good when I'm finished :P

I've been waiting...

Is the title of my latest painting. The girl in the picture is a vampire, she has a slightly mischievous look about her, like she's seeing someone she's been waiting for, an old lost lover, or a human walking into a trap, I'm leaving it to your imagination. I tried to give her a really pale complexion, and play around with lighting at the same time. I'm not really good with lighting. I just paint it the way I think it would look. I gave her clothing and the lamp behind her an old fashioned, slightly victorian look, and made her hair very tossled and modern. I think it gives the picture a nice contrast.

I really like how it turned out in the end. I think I was able to give it a dark ambience, sort of mysterious. The painting was made with acrylic paint and water colour on a regular drawing paper. Please feel free to give me pointers on the lighting or my technique.

comic of the week

Another strip from my school project

translated it says:
Things I like: I like dancing in the rain, when I think nobodies watching. I like to sing when I do the dishes, even though it doesn't always sounds that good. I like reading by candlelight, and I like chocolate. It is really the small things in lfe that makes it worth living.

Happy Halloween ^^

So, I decided to do a little piece in honor of halloween. I made one last year too, and I'll probably do it next year too. I didn't want to make anything cliche this year. I did pumpkins,witches and ghosts oh my last year, and didn't want to repeat myself.

I saw a picture of Emilie Autumn online, she was playing her violin, and her pose was so fantastic I just had to use it. please note the bats on one of the sleeves I painted, the skulls in her hair and the bleeding heart on her corset. All of these are symbols I put in the picture to symbolise halloween.