Sylvia Ritter

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 24

A blue, purple, turquoise, pink, white portrait in a galaxy far, far away. We can see nine planets, each in a different size and distance, entangled with ribbons orbiting around the center of attention. One of my cute, blue-purple monster architects sits on the moon, knitting new planet features. The magic yarn will turn into wind, sand, stone, ...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 23

A fantasy sci-fi scenery in black, purple, pink, orange and blue colors.

In the foreground, a black bird with glowing eyes is sitting on a branch of a magical tree, enjoying the view. More birds can be seen. Are they alive or sci-fi buildings, where the inhabitants prey, work, and sleep? Their eyes also glow; could they be just city lights...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 22

A puzzling sci-fi landscape (black, purple, green, blue, red, yellow colors.

Above, Puzzle pieces float off the ground far into the yonder, where we can see a puzzle piece shining like a moon. It looks like a magical and soothing place, a countryside with some ancient castles. Underneath these floating parts, we can find an underground s...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 21

This is another speedpainting from my bunny series in purple, green, pink and white colors) :).

At night we can see a crowd of bunnies cheering at the recurring flower pot racing festival.

We can see at least six flower pots (one in the distance, so who knows how many contestants take part in this wild event) with various plants pla...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 20

A fresh vivid green and blue alien planet where the people live and build their cities in the shadows and on the upper surface of giant stony upside down shard structures. Red and orange light sources accentuate three capital shard cities. The clouds follow the bright blue sky. It is a peaceful place, where nature is cherished and you can rech...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 19

A sci-fi city (blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow) with mushroom architecture and jellyfish spaceships. It is a busy night. Everybody is preparing for the big event at the end of this cycle.

Created with Krita, in full HD for my patrons.

Many thanks <3,

Sylvia

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 18

An alien planet (blue, purple, red, orange, yellow colors) with giant city statues (slender, wearing long clothes) reaching far, far away, probably looking similar to their inhabitants. Everything is powered by the planet in the distance. The statue's arms are reaching out to it, to protect but more likely to worship their source. A river guide...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 17

The blue planet where dragons and seahorses meet. It is freezing cold here. Many thorn-like structures lead you on a path to a harbor, guiding you through mountains until you reach the guardians of this place looking like dragon seahorses with pink glowing eyes. Are they alive, city buildings or gatekeepers? In the far distance we can see an ali...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 16

Ca(r)pe diem!

We are in space (purple, blue colors). A small figure on an asteroid is wearing a hooded coat with a long cape. The cape morphs into a colorful Milky Way. Space fog and stars orienting around this spiral form.

Created with Krita, in Full HD for my patrons <3.

Many thanks,

Sylvia

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 15

Imagine a landscape (blue, green, yellow) being rolled up, surrounded by clouds and fog. Underneath, we can see the colder grey-blue floor tiles with mandala patterns. Small robots have already cleaned up dust from centuries ago. No worries, the residents moved to a new place until the carbon dioxide reached a healthy level again.

Created ...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 14

We are somewhere in space and can see the stars behind the clouds. In the center of our attention is a bowl with intricate patterns and broad noodles in blue, purple, pink, orange,yellow colors.

Chopsticks are lying on the bowl and a tiny person wearing a hooded cloak is meditation on these sticks. Channeling the power of the noodles, wh...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 13

Beard Planet. A snowy sci-fi fantasy landscape (grey, blue, white colors with warmer lights in yellow and pink).

Mountain ranges far into the distance. These mountains are unusual, wise old grey men with long snowy beards flowing into the valley. The lead us into the distance to even taller grey man mountains in groups, rock the landscape,...

Advent Speedpainting Calendar - Door 12

A lush green scenery with purple and blue fields and streams. The inhabitants of this alien planet worship giant rocks (at least 4.5 times larger than their highest building). They feel safe in the light and in the shadows of these rocks. Crops and fields on these large stones nourish the green cities. They have special tools and learned when th...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 11

We are in a forest (pink, magenta, light/dark purple color). Autumn leaves are falling from the trees. A rabbit, a deer, and a fox are running away from a creature (in this particular moment, probably a bear shape), made only of leaves and branches. There is no real threat, but they choose to abandon this place, to go to a place where the wind i...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 10

This is a more abstract sci-fi scene in blue, purple, pink, turquoise, and white colors.

We are drawn into the artwork by a cityscape with tall structures, reaching for the sky, where a rhombus-shaped portal reveals a different city rising to the next sky. Followed by a similar portal shape in bright light, which could be the moon, but al...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 9

A cute alien sacred creature with wings and a rhombus-shaped head, looking like a goddess, is forming clouds. It is busy getting them into the desired shape for a celebratory sky. In the foreground, we can see tiny architecture, sci-fi castles, and temples with their villages and bridges. The lights of these structures indicate a busy city. May...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 8

A rare event is happening at the coast of a small futuristic island in pastel colors (blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow). Ancient but modern high sci-fi structures frame whales flying in the sky. Some of these whales look like clouds; maybe they are their ancestors, or these clouds only form these shapes to follow them to their destination. Ar...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 7

An alien sci-fi city at the golden hour (purple, pink, orange, yellow colors) in a slightly tilted view. In the background, we see a large bridge and a moon or planet surrounded by colorful clouds. Spaceships are delivering precious cargo. City lights here and there show where the inhabitants enjoy their evening. One path in the center of the c...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 6

Dragon Island, where the cities occasionally do not sleep.

Buildings with glowing lights in shape of dragons fill the scenery. The night sky is glowing in blue, turquoise colors. Two real dragons meet. A young dragon is looking rather strict and sceptical at the older spirit dragon it is meeting here.

Created with Krita, in full hd...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 5

It's the annual carrot festival, celebrated with a picnic. Many rabbits congregate with cozy picnic blankets and the most delicious carrots of the season. One of those blankets in the middle is especially colorful (rainbow colors) and reaches far into the distance. Everyone tries to get a view on snowy Mount Carrot, visible in the background, co...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 4

Land of the Lam(p/b)s at the golden hour or seen with a beautiful sunrise (in purple, pink, orange, yellow).

Imagine a landscape where the trees look like lamps in all forms and sizes, on and off. Mist surrounds the mountains. In the sky we can see a glowing planet. Yes, also a lamp, probably the largest in this galaxy. In the front, the l...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 3

We are in the hot desert, sandy colors with a bit of blue, red and orange lights. We can see huge monitor speakers causing wind and sand flying through the air. In the center of the city, there is an abstract resonance pattern. You have probably seen the sand resonance experiments with music and I had the idea of letting it build a whole city. &...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 2

A colorful purple, pink, orange, green landscape somewhere in outer space with a diagonal horizontal line.

A colossal octopus functioning, also as a planet and a safe place for thousands of aliens, can be seen in the sky.

Below on the surface, two giant craps want to join the ride for a better future. 

In the left corner...

Advent Calendar Speedpainting - Door 1

Hello everybody!

I've created 24 speedpaintings for December. :) This is door one for my dear Patrons in full HD.

I hope you are having a great Sunday. <3

Sylvia

An artwork detail of the Queen of Swords

Hello everybody! :)

Since the new artwork needs more time, I want to show you a closer look at the butterflies.

At first, one could think it looks more like a single butterfly. In this position (wings from above), in real life, one butte...

WIP Books in Blender

The 3D mockup in Blender is ready to be painted over for the next artwork.

Here you can see a small part of the render, a few books I've created for the scene.

This is a great small exercise, and you can find public domain covers and wonderful tutorials online :). The books can be bent with proportional editing for a more old and ...

Queen of Swords

Hello everybody.

I hope you are having a great late summer. I finished the next tarot card a few minutes ago.

For this card, I chose a snow leopard as the queen proudly wearing the most precious crown in the whole ice kingdom, extra fluffy fur for protection against frosty times, and demonstrating strength. A necklace with an icy swo...

Knight of Swords

Hi there!

I hope you are having a wonderful summer.

The next tarot card is done! :) - No. 62.

This confident, young, impulsive ostrich is very determined and full of energy. I chose this animal because of its speed (they can run over 70 km/h) and I thought the spots on its neck would be a great way to add a more subtle sword sy...

Out of Space

Hello there!

Hold the Line wasn't the only artwork participating in Revision 2025. Out of Space was submitted to the Modern Graphics Competition :).

I've attached some WIP images, too!

A 24-hour self-induced challenge (including estimated sleep, time for breakfast, lunch, and dinner) stretched over four days. I started with ano...

Hold the Line

Hello! :)

An artwork created for the Paint Over Fast Competition at Revision 2025, https://2025.revision-party.net/.

We had 24 hours to finish the artwork (including sleep and breaks) based on a chaotic picture (second picture, 2025-04-21 12:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post