Daniella Sjöstrand, born in 1985 in the city of Malmö, Sweden where I currently live and work. I'm a self-taught artist and freelance illustrator. I create commissioned portraits, paintings and illustrations as well as my own creations, which are available to order in the form of art prints as well as originals.
I work with both traditional and digital mediums. To create my digital pieces I use a drawing tablet and do all my drawing and painting using Photoshop. In my traditional work I have focused mostly on charcoal for the last couple of years, but I have lately revisited watercolors as well. For me it's a lot of fun to play with the digital medium to make it true to a traditional expression as much as possible. I like to try to make the viewer a bit unsure about how the piece was created. Is it digitally created or traditional, or is it a combination of the two?
I also enjoy playing with the concept of reality in my more surreal pieces. I'm mostly inspired by nature and I often incorporate flora and fauna in my pieces as a way to express my own thoughts and feelings.
Feel free to follow me on instagram and pinterest where I post some of the things I'm currently working on as well as some shorter time lapse videos of me working.