Wictorian-art

You can find me here

wictorianart — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:05:18 +0000

Hi guys,

it’s been quite quiet for a while. I was never really able to keep maintaining this blog.

I’ve moved all my art related stuff over to my official page: Click here.

It’s a combination of a portfolio, as well as a blog where I will post art related stuff like tutorials, videos, recent work and progresses and so on. Also considering to write about other artists as well as resources and reviews on art books and so on.

If you’re interested, please follow me at the other page.

Color suggestions for Tulip

wictorianart — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:39:56 +0000

Heyas, just throwing in some color suggestions. Not too sure which one I will go for yet.

Also throwing in a version I did like, but not gonna go for it.

Tulip Work In Progress

wictorianart — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:00:37 +0000

I revisited a painting I started last year sometime. Hoping to finish it soon!

Back to blogging

wictorianart — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:41:05 +0000

Hello, is there anyone out there?

It’s been quite a while. Something like 1.5 years to be more exact… The last couple of months, I have been dwelling a little about doing this or not.

A huge part of me miss blogging, but I didn’t like the feeling of it being a job that had to be done. It took all the fun away from it to be honest. Also, as I got older, I wanted more privacy for myself, and I still do, but I feel that I am lost when it comes to where and how to share my art. I have been trying to update tumblr, facebook, deviantart etc., but it hasn’t really felt the same. I felt the response I got on my art here was more personal, and I think I preferred this channel over any of the others, as it was easier connecting with my followers.

This blog won’t be so much about my life anymore, as in my personal life. I will continue this blog with some personal stuff, but mainly I will share my way of working towards getting better at design/drawing. I can’t promise there won’t be any travel posts about me going places though, but I will not post and upload things as often as I used to. Maybe once or twice a week.

The last years, I have desperately tried to get better at drawing/painting, but I’ve felt that getting anywhere came to an abrupt stop. I have come to realize that what I really need to do is to sit down and study. Both reading books, looking at tutorials, and looking at color and shape in real life. If not, I’ll just be stuck at the same level. I think my art came to reach a peek at what I could draw by my imagination, whereas now I see that I have to actually study to be able to draw what I actually imagine in my head.

Photography has stood still for a while… I’m hoping to get back into it, but it seems to be a bit difficult since my hands are already full of drawing/painting and my son.

My son and I

Yupp, I had a kid 9 months ago. Weirdly enough, that made me start working harder with getting somewhere with what I am doing. Having a child changed me in many ways, I guess. It made me see other sides of life that is fantastic, and it also made me really appreciate what it means to have time do what you really want- which is now after kiddo has gone to bed. 2-3 hours per evening in other words.

Anyway, enough of this wall of text. I’ll throw in a recent work in progress I’ve done of Odindsbarns.

Hirka from Odinsbarn

This is the end

wictorianart — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:38:35 +0000

Of the blogging at least.

I’ve decided to stop blogging and writing about my pictures, journeys etc. I have no interest in writing about what I do anymore, so I’m moving on. I still love taking pictures, so I have decided to start using flickr again. So for those of you who are interested in my photography keep an eye on my flickr account.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wictoriabenedicte/sets/

When it comes to my drawings and paintin etc. I haven’t really decided what to do yet. I might continue to use the blog for that matter, but I’ll update you on date later. Might start using tumblr again as a replacement. Not really sure.
Does anybody (if I have any readers left) have a recommendation on where to keep people posted with my art?

Tractor party

wictorianart — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:21:34 +0000

We found ourselves at a tractor event of some sort. It was pretty funny to be honest. I’ve never seen so many tractors gathered at one place in my whole life.

The weather was constantly changing between rain and sunshine. It was rather dramatic when the sky opened up and showered us. All the tractor people ran to the only tent that was there.

I have no idea why they had a tractor event here, we didn’t even think about asking, but it was charming indeed. There were some pretty awesome old school tractors as well as new ones.

A visit from the other side of the world

wictorianart — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:43:12 +0000

My dear Aolai came to visit me in Luxembourg, all the way from Australia. I’m so lucky to see her twice within half a year! I thought it was gonna take at least a year or two before I saw her again.

Aolai was amazed by Luxembourg. No wonder, it’s absolutely an amazing place to spend some days. We drove around the little country, seeing all the green fields and lovely nature. Aolai was as exited as I used to be about the fact that you can drive to another country in less than 30 minutes. We ended up in Remich where we found a little market, but our pleasant stop was ruined by some heavy rain that forced us back to the car.

After driving around streets Jonny didn’t even know existed, we found a cute little lady selling home made jam and alcohol. We decided to buy one of her homemade jams. It tasted absolutely delicious!

After buying the jam we continued our journey and had a pit stop at a wine yard where we took some silly photos.

Surfing

wictorianart — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:28:46 +0000

I had the pleasure of taking pictures of Jonny while he was surfing. You paid 25 euros and could surf for an hour. Pretty amazing to see how much Jonny improved during that hour. I did not when I tried. Let’s not talk about how terrible I was trying this… Hopefully I’ll manage better next time. Maybe

Palma de Mallorca

wictorianart — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:35:13 +0000

This year, my tanning vacation was lazily spent in Spain, at the island called Palma de Mallorca. Me and Jonny had the coolest hotel in Magaluf, which probably was the most mature place in the whole area, considering that 1 minute away you found drunk British and Swedish youths crawling down the streets. It was rather interesting seeing people in a party mood like this, as well as all the half naked ladies working here. I was tricked into thinking I was in the UK now and then.

On our way to Hahn airport

I really loved our hotel. They played some really good deep house tunes all day long. It was really refreshing waking up to the vibes from the speakers outside our balcony, as well as seeing people surf on artificial waves in the hotel area.

It didn’t take us more than 3 minutes to walk down to the beach- which was perfect!

It was rather difficult finding good places to eat, and even more difficult finding Spanish food, but now and then we managed to find some delicious meals. I also discovered how delicious Koppaberg Strawberry and Lime is. My new favorite summer drink <3

Luxembourg

wictorianart — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:06:40 +0000

Yet again Jonny is in Luxembourg at his parents’ house for the summer vacation. Luxembourg is so beautiful in the summer and I absolutely love spending time there. I didn’t really take a lot of pictures here either, but I’ll show you what I got.

Kine’s Wedding

wictorianart — Sun, 18 May 2014 20:12:20 +0000

Here are some pictures from a wedding I had on Friday. My friend, whom I’ve been a classmate with since first year of university got married. Really happy for her and I feel so honored to be her wedding photographer.

It took us a little while before we became really good friends. Both of us were pretty scared of each other. No need to be scared of this girl tho, she’s the best.

Painting

wictorianart — Mon, 05 May 2014 17:21:47 +0000

I’m trying to get the hang on perspective. Hard but fun.

Drawing update

wictorianart — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 21:07:18 +0000

Been doing some art this weekend, so I’m showing you the result here :)

This one took me about an hour. Used a reference picture of Jonny painting this one. I tried to go for Artgem’s dynamic style, but I must admit that it’s hard letting go of the control and all. So hard making my paintings look dynamic.

This is the work in progress from me and Anne Marte’s collaboration. I’ve sent the drawing back to her agian so she can continue. I think we’re starting to reach the end of this very soon. So fun to work with! :D On this version I’ve painted a lot on the forest, water and stones etc. Looking forward seeing what Anne Marte does to it next.

Here are some earlier updates from Anne Marte’s blog:

Portrait

wictorianart — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:04:40 +0000

I drew this portrait a while ago and forgot to upload it here :) Better late than never I guess :)

Krakow

wictorianart — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:31:05 +0000

After spending some days at Jakub’s grandparent’s house, our journey headed towards Krakow. We woke up the day we were gonna leave, getting served some vodka shots to cure our hangover from the day before. I found that pretty funny to be honest. My grandparents would never give me that 7 am in the morning.

We stayed at a hostel close to the old city in Krakow. It wasn’t really a pretty hotel, but it was fairly ok, and not too many people. I was really surprised by how beautiful Krakow was. Visually it was pretty awesome!

The weather was really great as well, and the weather was perfect for some lovely photographs of this city. Pictures really can’t justify how beautiful Krakow is.

Of course they had a castle in Krakow- which made me happy! I didn’t take too many pictures of it really, as it was on the hillside and we thought about going up there the following day.

After a rather nice walk through the city, we found our way back to the hostel where we met some lovely Swedish guys that we ended up partying with.

Thai boxing illustration

wictorianart — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:05:15 +0000

Drawn from a reference picture of Jonny.

Break from work

wictorianart — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:52:40 +0000

Worked for some hours tonight but had to take a little break sketching :)

Another photoshoot from Poland

wictorianart — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:39:53 +0000

Jakub wanted me to take some more photographs of him and here is the result. Forced him to take some photos of me as well.

Poland 2013

wictorianart — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:48:53 +0000

Now we are traveling back in time. In October, my good friend Jakub, invited me with him to Poland to meet his grandparents and explore a unseen country (for me).

We went with Ryanair, which is always very pleasant. Not. Jakub tried his best to teach me some Polish, and I tried my best to memorize and immitate him as good as I could. It didn’t really work out that good, considering all the people around us were laughing of my horrible Polish language skills.

Jakub’s grandparents where so adorable and cute! They were extremely welcoming and met me with open arms. I got a cute room and was super exited about spending my first night in a Polish home.

We had a late dinner and chatted with Jakub’s grandparents. The food grandmother had made for us was so delicious! I have never tasted anything like it, and I enjoyed every little bit I ate of the food. I was pretty full at the end of the evening. We also got served some Polish alcohol that tasted pretty good. I hadn’t seen much of Poland yet, as the flight arrived when it was dark, so I was way too exited about waking up to daylight.

The first thing in the morning was some delicious apple cake. Jakub had warned me about all the food in Poland. I was starting to see what he meant.

Then we headed out to explore a little.

I was really fascinated by how different I found the autumn colors here compared to Norway. It was such a delight walking around in the forest. I really love nature. The temperature was perfect as well. Norway had just become too cold to not wear a jacket.

Of course we had to use nature for a little photoshoot. Oh how I wish I could have had a female model with a magnificent dress standing in this forest.

The forest magically provided us a place to put my camera so we could take a selfie.

Flames

wictorianart — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:58:53 +0000

Sometimes, emotions and frustration just makes a drawing come to life. I don’t know if all you fellow artists feel the same way about this, but have you ever had problems going to sleep because you have too much to think about, and the only way you can let go of things is by expressing yourself through art?