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Kristina ´Aryana´ Siers

Kristina 'Aryana' Siers

Kristina has finally found her style and draws like crazy.
 
 
 
Hello everybody and welcome to my little place in the Woods! My Name is Kristina, I live in Germany and I paint and draw for my own fun (and for request, if you like)since my Grandpa tought me how to draw. There had been an update within my private life - I got married, and my name changed, so don't be confused, it's still me! :-)
As a german, of course I am member of elfwood-d, the German elfwood community. Have a look at our page!
Hobbies: Drawing, reading (mostly fantasy, history and manga), music (I am one of the so-called filkers), rpg, writing (see my website for my mostly german written stuff).
My inspirations: fantasy comic-books and manga, roleplaying, fellow artists. A note on my art: I don't even TRY to draw photorealistic people, because even after hours and days and months of practise I'm stll not good at it. So I decided to stick to my comic-manga-like style. :)

Now, have a look at my little gallery and please leave comments!
Update: 'Asra I', 'Asra II', 'Nightfall I', 'Nightfall II', 'Cúwen', 'Najaro'.

Art trades:
I do Art trades, but maybe you'll have to wait a while for my part, for my time is short.

Copyright:
Please respect my copyright on all pictures shown here. If you'd like to use any of my pictures, please ask my permission first. Private use only! If you use my pictures, please show my name visibly near to them and link back to this elfwood page and please don't change them beside resizing.
A last word: Dear Commentators, I really appreciate your opinion. CC is welcome, even if it's delivered anonymously. Flames only amuse me - and after I had my laugh, are deleted.

I am now a member of the Comment Exchange on elftown. Members of the Comment Exchange promise to comment on the galleries of those that comment on their own.
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Friends in the woods and my favourite galleries:
Gertrud 'Grinsekatze' Wenzel: A really talented newcomer to the woods with a wonderful little gallery that I hope will grow on and on forever!
Christel Scheja: Beautiful character pictures and fantasy creatures, mostly gryphons and phoenices, fantastic costumes.
Uta 'Freawyn' Hesse: Some more wonderful characters and creatures, mostly gryphons - and again fantastic costumes! Have a look at her fanart gallery also (elfquest fanart)!
Kerstin 'Pisces' Eiben: Beautiful fantasy creatures and amazing pictures of Ashreel, her favourite character.
Eva Schlehahn: A newcomer to the Woods and a good friend with whom I share hours and hours of fantastic roleplaying. Have a look at her art!
Elke Meyerhoff: Another newcomer to the Woods and an old friend of mine, please visit her!
BJ Malata: Wonderful LOTR-Art.
Hope Hoover: Again wonderful LOTR-Art.
Adele Lorienne Sessler: Anime style fantasy art. You really should visit here. This is fantasy art at its best!
Jenny Dolfen: Fantastic watercolors and amazing characters - her drow are gorgeous! Don't forget to visit Jenny's fanart gallery (Harry Potter fanart)!
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law Fantastic art - just visit and stare in awe!

Guestbook for Kweiss

DateNameComment 
27 Jan 200545 Dworkin
Your gallery interested me a great deal. Your work seems very promising. The impression they make as a whole - and when looked at in thumbnail version is quite impressive.

Your personal style is developing strongly, but I think you have a couple of saltations in development to undergo before you hit a commercial level. The main thing I think you need to tackle to take your work to that next level is your choice of medium, or your style in using it.

Consider working (more) with mediums like watercolor and Photoshop over coloured pencil. Pencil may be easy to work with, but the result (in your work) often distracts the viewer somewhat from your subjects and your beautiful compositional sense. While it *is* possible to use pencil shading to cover areas solidly enough so that the blank bits do not distract the viewer - it would take about three to four times as long as you're currently spending on colouring in the spaces. In my opinion, for that investment in time, your pictures (with their focus on one or two subjects, mostly in the foreground etc), would be better served with a different choice of media.

As for your compositions, I think they are very good. They're wonderfully balanced; you've got a great instinct for colour, and your inspiration really shines through on a few of them - I especially liked 'Lord Nightshade', 'Light and Darkness' and 'Gryphon and Phoenix'.

To be honest, I don't really know what to think about your craft-art figures (Mermaids). If this is really what you enjoy doing, keep at it. But I'd recommend seeing what is out there in Sunday markets and trying to gather other techniques if you really want to pursue it.

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "Thanks so much for such a long comment and thanks for your advice! I will make a try with watercolors again, and with acrylics, but I confess I am too lazy to learn to use Photoshop. I like most computer colored art, but this is *not* my thing. Drawing and painting for me means to take a pencil, a marker or a brush into my hands and *not* a mouse. 2I really don't understand why using of colored pencil distracts the viewer from the picture subject itself, sorry! 1"
11 Jun 200545 Laura R. Hadlock
Wow your very creative! That is so wonderful! I love your art. You are so good. Your characters are beautiful and very elegant. Nice work up here, I hope to see more soon.

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "Thanks! I'm a bit lazy, but I think I'll update in a few weeks."
15 Sep 2005:-) Parisa Shariatpanahi
I like you gallery , esp your dragons and most of all "Dragon and Unicorn" you have a nice style in them , the composition , imagination , shading ,... are great ,
I also thank you so much for your good comment on my gallery , I liked that too , Be successful

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "Thanks very much for visiting in return! I love to get comments - esp. so nice ones! 1"
24 Sep 2005:-) Kerstin ´kolibri´ Eiben
Hi Kristina, hey, you got married! ^^ I was wondering when I saw the strange last name on your comments *lool* Congrats, and have a good time! Hope to see some nice pictures again.

Kerstin

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "Heheee...thanks! I am working on new pics, the "Lómenel" pic is the first of a series of drawings of RPG characters from my email rpg I play with two friends. I plan to portrait all the main characters this way. Thanks for the congrats! 1"
26 Sep 2005:-) Richard I. Fogarity
Love the dragon!

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "Thanks!"
28 Apr 200645 Gwyndon
Hi,

I noticed you as a friend of Freawyn, who contributed something, and Kris, who as a member made a major contribution over several years (5,000 pages and many dozens of pics) to Project Myra (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_(Fantasy) for an overview)

I'd like to ask nicely with 'please' and 'thank you' for permission to use your pictures as illustrations for Myra - with credit and linkback as you specified.
Please? 1
Gwyndon

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "2 Yep, it's okay! But please link back to this page and write a visible copyright note for each picture. "
7 May 200645 Callie MacDonell
You have some interesting ideas. But you may need to go back a bit and practice proportions and human anatomy. I can tell you're enthusiastic about art but it maybe good to step back for a while and practice. It helped me a lot. I'm just trying to help. Keep it up!

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "*grin* I now that I absolutely *suck* at anatomy, and I will practise! I'm just too lazy sometimes.Thanks for commenting!"
11 Jul 2006:-) Nina Roussakova
I really like your gallery. You have a very personal style, and I like the masked people you made. This world of yours seems very imaginative and extraordinary!! Further, I like your horses, and horse images. Very nice. ^_^

:-) Kristina 'Aryana' Siers replies: "Thanks so much for your nice comment! I'm glad that you noticed some personal style in my images!"
15 Nov 2007:-) Nathaniel S. Summers
Stunning work! Very magical! I particularly like the style of the unicorn. It's pose is very dynamic, you almost expect it to leap from the page. Many of your pieces have the same quality.

I also wanted to let you know that the comment exchange has moved from ET to it's own domain: http://www.commentexchange.org

I hope to see you there.
4 Mar 2009:-) Sam Adams
Hi there! I just wanted to congratulate you on your great Albino tour - it’s brilliant to find someone in the Woods who feels the same way i do about albinos!
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Kristina 'Aryana' Siers

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