Ranarh's Art Blog

Because challenges are so much fun, I tried a new one in 2018 by testing Mermay for myself; it turned out that the theme wasn't really for me, but I still dutifully followed the official prompt list and did get fun out of it. There were some small drawings in my A5 sketchbook in a grotesque style I had been admiring (and would love to do more often), and one large drawing I was very proud of (and even sold shortly after, when it was still a small miracle for me every time someone bought an original from me). It's charcoal and chalk on 43×61cm, and with that also one of the larger drawings I had done then. The dusty medium wasn't ideal to get all the fine detail in, the pieces by other artists are typically done in graphite, which again I do not like very much. I blame those rotten office pencils I had to start doing art with because my grown-ups couldn't care less about proper pencils and there was nothing else in the house. I managed to create another large drawing lik...

My last post here was ages ago, following a period of fewer and fewer posts to begin with. I have since gotten into better habits of creating posts about my work, so I have decided to resuscitate this art blog with regular appearances again; the format of articles lends itself to how I like presenting my process and projects better than the image dump with ignorable text of social media. The first few posts will be looking back at what I've been doing lately, of course, to quickly catch up to present. If blogs aren't really your thing, you can follow me on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranarh.draws/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ranarh.jsl FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/jsl.fans/ For online galleries, look at these sites: Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/ranarh Tumblr: https://ranarh.tumblr.com deviantArt: https://ranarh.deviantart.com/ To get into touch professionally: LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-s-lange Behance: https://ww...