Lene Saethre

Drawing of a ghost sitting on a gravestone holding a jack’o lantern at night. Small ghostly lights are floating around her.

Happy Halloween!
Haven’t been able to post for a little while. So, I decided to throw something together for Halloween just for fun! Hope you all are enjoying autumn and spoopy vibes.

#drawing #painting #art #halloween #ghost #jackolantern #grave #night #spoopy #spooky #haunting #illustration

An illustrated profile portrait of a young girl with brown hair. Golden butterflies of light flitter about her. A line of golden light can be seen in the background.

Little Human Girl

Just a technique experiment

#drawing #painting #art #illustration #girl #human #experiment #technique #practice #portrait

Painting of a golden eyed lynx rolling in the heath.

“Seen”
To be seen,
like a lynx rolling in the heath.
There is a joy to be found in being seen like that.
In the moment.
Unjudged.
Untethered from the demands of society.
To just,
be.

#painting #drawing #lynx #mixmedia #nature #eyes #art #fineart #illustration #animal #portrait

A mix media painting of a white moth, with golden eyes, in motion

Flutter - Life is but the brief flutter of wings within the vastness that is time.

#painting #drawing #mixmedia #art #illustration #moth #digital #gouache #golden #eyes #poem #time

Mix-media painting of an owl swooping in for the kill.

“Hunting” We hunt. Our desires silent, like the wings of an owl in flight. Silent, up until the very moment, claws outstretched, we act.

#painting #drawing #owl #nature #mixmedia #art #illustration #animal #stylized #fineart #night #action #hunting

Pen doodles of various imaginative houses. Borrow elements from different building cultures.

Doodling a bunch of strange houses with pen. Looking at images from the u.k, India, and Norway, combining random elements (:

#doodles #drawing #traditional #house #illustration #art #imagination #creative

Excerpt of a painting in progress featuring mountains.

Mountains, as part of a messy painting process.

#wip #painting #drawing #art #illustration #process #mountains

A painting of a fox playing in the forest, trying to bite its own tail. It’s eyes a bright golden yellow.

“Moments”
Immutable experiences malleable by time. They make us who we are.

#fox #painting #art #illustration #drawing #mixmedia #golden #eyes #digital #gouache #nature #moments

A black and white painting of a spider amongst brush and heath, having jut caught a fly and spun it into a cocoon. Its eyes are the only thing with colour, they are yellow.

“Trapped”
Caught. Suffocating in a web of societies making. Trapped. No way out.

#painting #drawing #mix-media #art #illustration #digital #gouache #spider #prey #nature #eyes

Painting of a little rodent sitting on the remains of a cut down tree. A fox looms in the background.

“Guardian”
We are not all the same. Yet, when we feel small, we seek out those close to us. Companionship being the guardian that staves off the world.

#drawing #painting #mixmedia #art #illustration #fox #mouse #rodent #fineart #nature #narrative

Picture of two sketchbooks.the upper one with water colour doodles, and the lower I'd filled with pencil thumbnails and doodles of people

A bit of doodling, a bit of planning, and, a bit of practice while at work ✌️

#doodle #drawing #pencil #painting #watercolour #art #illustration

A painting of two ermine facing off in the brush.

Encounters: Not every encounter is made equal. They are not always welcome. Yet it is when we are down, when we need them the most, that they are the hardest to face.

#art #painting #drawing #animal #portrait #illustration #nature #ermine #stoat

Meant to reply a while back, but things got in the way. But thank you :D glad you like it <3!

Eeey, thank you. Sorry for the late reply, kept forgetting. But maybe I should try to sketch some snacks at some point. Could be a fun exercise! Thanks for the suggestion <3

A rough illustration of a cat sitting in a corner.

Just a rough practice doodle. Because sometimes you just do not really feel like doing much other than to stare out at the sky.

#doodle #drawing #cat #painting #art #illustration #practice #sketch #rough

Illustrated portrait of a troll girl with blue skin and red hair. Moss grows on her. She is set against a backdrop of mountains and a starlit sky.

Little Troll Girl

Further experimenting using the same reference as earlier.

#drawing #painting #art #illustration #girl #troll #mountain #experiment #practice #portrait

Illustrated portrait of a dark blue skinned demon girl with an inner fire shining through her eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Her hair flows off her like smoke.

Little Demon Girl

Experimenting some more. Using the same base reference as in my previous post, though, with modifications.

#drawing #painting #experiment #art #illustration #portrait #demon #girl #dark #fantasy

A illustrated portrait of a an elven girl with auburn hair.

Little Elf Girl

I could write a backstory for this piece. Make it more than the sum of its parts. But fact is, at times you just want to play around with technique and style, and that is what this is.

#drawing #painting #elf #girl #art #illustration #portrait #practice #fantasy

A painting of a cabin in the early morning surrounded by mist.

Alone

A quick technique exploration piece (:

#drawing #painting #art #illustration #landscape #morning #cabin #forest #mountain

a half painted mountain landscape

At times I am unsure what I am doing. Whether or not my effort will ever surmount to anythingy… Then I remember that there is something I genuinely want to become good at; And I find myself back at my desk.

#doodle #art #drawing #painting #thoughts #landscape #WIP

A painted portrait of a female void elf from world of warcraft sporting a leather jacket, holding a biker helmet under one arm and looking into the distance.

I have to admit that ever since generative AI got introduced, posting to social media feels a bit like screaming into a void. It could also be that I’ve just lost what little interest I had for social media :b

#drawing #art #illustration #fantasy #wow #elf #portrait #painting #biker

Illustrated character portrait of a long eared elven woman reading a book at a desk. Her eyes glow and she has white hair and a white dress.

A character portrait I made of a game character not long ago. Night elf druid from wow.

#Drawing #wow #painting #character #portrait #nightelf #art #illustration #fantasy #elf #woman

Hah! So glad you posted that. Was getting curious tbh, and I see what you mean. Couldn't really aford it, but ended up buying oblivion just cause I haven't played it in sooo many years x) already spent more time on it than I should :b

Oooh? xD really? not gotten around to the remaster of oblivion yet : o

Illustrated portrait of a scarred dark elf woman with silvery white hair. It is nighttime and she is placed against the starlit night sky.

Sometimes you just need to doodle for sanity's sake. This as Azra.

#drawing #painting #illustration #portrait #woman #elf #darkelf #fantasy #art #oc #character #drow

Illustration of a girl with four luminous eyes, and a horn with golden cracks, grins as she looks at us, and towards something else at the same time. She sits in a dark room with a crooked window behind her. She has on soft robes with crude flowers printed on it as stark light hits one side of her face, while blue shadows bathe the other.

Few, if any, ever saw the face of the performers as they tumbled about, both on, and off, stage. Tthe masks helped humanize them in the eyes of others. Where they once had been hunted for their looks they now could walk openly.

#art #illustration #drawing #portrait #girl #horn #painting #digital

An ink painting of a tree, half faded towards the top.

Some dreams come. Some dreams go. Some dreams stay. Faded by time and reality. But no less real. Like an old photograph. Glimpse of a time lost.

#drawing #painting #ink #art #illustration #traditional #tree #dreams

In an era of ai art, it is hard to tell what is, and what is not, made by actual people. So here is a timelapse showing the various rendering steps of a drawing I finished recently. I really could not get the base sketch right, so I corrected it as I went.

#art #illustration #portrait #drawing

Thank you ^^

Portrait of a young elven woman with blonde hair waiting for someone. A cloak covering one shoulder as she stares into the distance. A mountainscape can be seen in the background.

No matter how long; She would wait.
They had promised her they would return.
As they had her heart, they had her trust.
So, she waited.
Looking for them on the horizon.

#drawing #portrait #lovers #illustration #art #woman #elf #waiting