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Birthe Jabs

Hello! I'm Birthe Jabs, perhaps bettern known as BJ Malata. I was born in 1984 and draw since I'm thinking and like fantasy most. Lord of the Rings but also the Blizzard computergame Starcraft inspired me. And the Piranha Bytes computergame 'Gothic'. It's a fantasy RPG with great atmosphere (better than morrowind, I have to say). Otherwise I have no idea what to write about myself and my art. I hope you will write more! ;-D By the way, if you are interested in my art, want to give me feedback (please!) or discuss about it, go ahead and email me! And now have fun and look around here. I much appreciate constructive criticism or tips. 

Hurray! As soon as I reached the 50 pictures I may have 50 more! Blessed be Elfwood!

Update! After a longer Gothic (Jowood) pause I returned to Tolkien, writing fanfiction and drawing. I tried to learn, yes! First, I went with my friend to stables and drew horses. I hope my horses have improved since. Second I tried to occupy myself with colour schemes. I am in love with Jenny Dolfen's pictures, as with those of Anke Eissmann, my two favourite watercolour artists. They both have so much feeling for the right colours - I hadn't and tried to teach myself some theory about colouring. Third I relearned to do facial proportions right, hopefully keeping eyes and mouths from slipping out of their right position.

After the big crash ate up my last ticket: Here the update. Since I nearly reached the 100 pictures mark I decided to make a spring-cleaning and throw some older or not-so-good stuff out. I'm sorry when it hit a picture you commented on and at this point want to say thank you to you all who commented !

Warning: My gallery contains some nudity (but really descreet, I'd say, except for Celebrimbor) and homosexual affection. If you are offended by that please don't fill my comment lists with your raving but keep away from those pictures.

Update in my life: I became a student lately. I moved to the haven city Kiel and am now studying Multimedia Production. It is not much about art, more about print and html and later on 3d Design, what is most interesting for me.

News! Finally! perhaps you have noticed that it became quite still around here. But I'm back! And thoroughly, now. I finally have my own internet access and flatrate. That means updates without problems. Very good. Though my student life eats quite some time and doesn't leave me much for drawing. Especially lately. But sometimes new pictures are finished. The problem at the moment is that I draw bigger formats and have no digital camera to take fotos of the drawings. But no matter, I will update in the next days. I was on a little con a month ago, that was an interesting thing, and will hopefully be able to do more life role play. And I'm learning bow-shooting at the moment, very cool. I hope I see you back in my gallery when I offer you some new pictures! :-)

UPDATE! And in my artist-life, too. I finally have a graphic tablet! Was quite time. At the moment im nearly all the time hanging before the monitor, drawing until my poor spine breaks. Greetings and thanks go out to Linda Bergkvist alias Furiae for wonderful pictures and tutorials which helped me greatly to have a good start with my tablet.  

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Guestbook for Bjmalata

Date Name Comment   26 Apr 2006 Christine Loading... Deine Bilder sind hervorragend. Wenn ich nur annähernd dein Talent hätte würde ich vermutlich nichts anderes mehr tun als zu malen. 24 May 2006 Sascha Loading... Man weiss nie bei guten zeichnerinnen wie dir, ob man motiviert oder demotiviert sein soll, selbst wieder anfangen zu zeichnen :/ schon lange nicht mehr so schöne zeichnungen gesehn, du hast dich echt gesteigert schöne grüße und schau mal in deine mailbox. 1 Aug 2006 Elrize J van Vuuren Loading... I love your art!!! You are so talented! Your paintings have so much emotion in them, I wish I could draw like you. Birthe Jabs replies: "Thank you! You made a good start. Just training, training, training. I have an archive of uncountable tries and pictures. And my pc nearly breaks when I open the folder with my lotr pics with thumbnails " 5 Aug 2006 Femke Loading... i just wanted to add that i love your work, your making excellent progress, and i think its amazing that you devote yourself to such magnificent works of art for such long periods. also, your quality shows in the research that you do, not only in improving your art, but also in the history of the settings you paint. Im very impressed Birthe Jabs replies: "Thank you very much!" 15 Sep 2006 Karu Hernandez Loading... Hello there, Birthe D I like your gallery a lot 'cause your style is unic!!You are a good artist D 18 Oct 2006 Enaqworldnow Loading... Hye!I've been looking around for a few days on Elfwood and I spotted your name somewhere(don't really remember where though),I wanted to have a look at your work and I was gladly surprised(don't know if it's the right expression,but,hey,I'm French, so don't sue me'cos I admire your skill in colouring!I was like...Wow!mostly when I saw that picture of Haldir and the other elf standing(for the details of the leaves,too)and I was wondering where you had put that fic related to this pic(if you posted it somewhere...) Could you give a link if you did post it,please? Birthe Jabs replies: "Hello! Thank you very much Sorry I answered so late but I had so much to do that I didn't get the chance to check my comments. If you are still interested in the fic, I could mail it to you. It is not uploaded anywhere for it is not completely finished. " 26 May 2007 Stella from da hood Loading... wieso steh ich hier noch nicht drin?? WEEPS WEEPS jetzt habe ich endlich mal dieses goile gästebüchle gefunden du guckst ja eh nemer hier rein *sniffl* na ja, vielleicht bald mal wiieder deine pics sind sehr nice, sehr niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice und full of drama!! oh, es ist so heiss hier in berlin :''(( schwitz-fließ wachs-sprieß bis baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaald du coole sau xDDD sTeLlA dA cRaZy Xx MöNstAaaaAa xX ||[[HDGDL]]|| 29 Mar 2008 Chamilia Lúthien Tinúviel Loading... I want to know where you story "Visiting Imladris" are! Please? I wanna read it, and your stuff is so good! 15 May 2008 Bradlee Loading... brad 3 May 2009 MT Starkey Loading... Cool gallery. Page: [1] 2 3 4

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