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Hello and welcome to my webpage - a place dedicated mainly to my graphic efforts and fanart featuring my favourite tv series, movies or literature. Over the time Im also planning to upload my photos, textures and stock-pictures as well. All artwork here (unless stated otherwise) was made by me and belongs to me, so please don´t steal. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your stay! :)

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january 25, 2012 - Art update

Wow, long time no see. I got a bit preoccupied will all the real life things again, but lately I got my muse back, so before we get a new layout in here I have a couple of new wallpaper additions :) A lot of them are from the Hunger Games fandom, which has become a new obssesion to me and therefore you can consider yourself to be strongly urged to read the books and be blown away just like I was! :)

Title: Mockingjay
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Note: A couple piece focusing on Katniss and Peeta and on the more... serene and romantic part of their relationship with just a little hint of their future together :)




Title: Hunger Games
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: The Hunger Games







Title: Don´t forget me
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: The Hunger Games, fictional scene
Note: This is a fictional scene, kind of a "what if" depicting Katniss and Gale as they said their goodbyes to each other (which was not described in the book) because she chose to live her live with Peeta. Yet I loved the strong bond between Katniss and Gale, his love for her and even though she couldn´t really love him back the way she does Peeta, her feelings for him were real and it was such a shame the two of them didnt get a chance to say their goodbyes and explain their feelings.


Title: No idea
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Note: A piece focusing on Katniss (for a challenge themed "negative space", a technique that I love to use). I wanted to concentrate on Katniss and how she is almost constantly bemused by the idea that she is the face of the revolution and that the people of Panem have chosen her to be their "mockingjay". She believes that is not a very heartwarming person, which in a way is true, but she is a very spontaneous and pure soul with enormous sense of justice and courage, which is why the people love her, only Katniss just can´t see that about herself.


Title: Clocks
Dimensions: 8528x652px
Fandom: The Hunger Games, wallscrol
Note: I believe this is my 2nd ever wallcrol and boy was it a pain to make it :D But it stuck with me and at the end Im quite happy with the result. This piece was made for Bre´s challenge and was made to fit into Coldplay lyrics (Clocks). I loved how the lyrics basically described everything that was waiting for Peeta and Katniss in the arena, the dangers, the confusion and how they also nicely fit for the relationship between the two of them - not knowing if they can really trust each other and not understanding their feelings towards each other.


Title: Dark blue
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire slayer
Note: Another challenge entry, this time made based on Jack´s Mannequin Dark blue lyrics. A simple character piece for Willow and the way her world turned afer Tara´s death. I was trying to show her loss, the feeling that the world doesn´t hold anything for her any more and also a little bit of the revenge brewing, with the lines "the world could be burning till there´s nothing but dark blue".



Title: Red right hand
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Angel
Note: A character piece featuring Wesley, again made specifically for the Red right hand lyrics. The song itself is about the devil and its ways of seducing the will of man, and I loved the implications for Wesley, the man in a dark cloak and the red right hand (symbolising some terrible crime). Wesley himself fits the character perfectly, because over the course of the show his character grew progressively darker and darker and for various reasons he did have blood on his hands, sometimes unknowingly (kidnapping Connor) and sometimes his actions were very calculated (drugging Faith). He is a very... complicated character, but also someone who has been tormented by his actions.

Title: The long way down
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Leverage
Note: An episodic piece (for 4.01 The long way down :D) depicting a scene that I love very much - conversation between Parker and Eliot, showing how much both of them have grown within the past few years.




Title: Thanks
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Leverage
Note: Another episodic wallpaper for Leverage, this time a focusing on the Parker/Hardison relationshipn in this episode and how Parker really came through for him and didnt give up when he needed her the most. (Can we all say aaaaawww? :)



Well that was a bit longer than I expected at the end :D Im working on a new layout, so hopefully soon there will be some change around here and I will be back with some more art.

I would also love to thank you all for the tags and kind words and comments and most of all - for the amazing xmas wishes you gave me and the gifts you sent me, I can´t tell you how much I appreciate it. I will have them up in my gallery in the next update, I promise!:)

octob 31, 2011 - Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody! Where Im from we don´t celebrate Halloween at all, but I figured what the hell :) And as a little Halloween present Im bringing a couple of new wallpapers:

Title: The Word
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Angel
Note: A wallpaper focusing on the complicated relationship of Wesley and Illyria. I tried playing along the lines of Wesley´s command "never to turn into Fred again", which meant him refusing to ever see the woman he loved, even though (or because) it would be a lie. And all the time he only had to ask Illyria, "say the word", for her to show him his beloved one more time.


Title: Blue
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Angel
Note: A wallpaper made for challenge based on words. I got random word, in this case "blue" and had to build a piece around it. This is a simple character piece, depicting Illyria in her superior character. I used a lot of symbolic stocks for her - the plants, as she could talk to them, the crown since she called herself "the king" and various nature-symbolising stocks simply to show the earth that she knew during her time.

Title: Going Down
Dimensions: 1440x900px
Fandom: Buffy/Angel, fictional story line
Note: A piece depicting a fictional story arc. In this Angelus, kidnapping Giles, managed to kill him during his interrogation about Acathla, leaving Buffy utterly shocked, devastated and lost without her watcher. She is driven by her rage and sorrow and hunts down Angelus, who eventually realises that she´s not gonna stop and begs her to spare his life... which she might or might not do, I left the ending open :)


And as a present for me, this site has received two (let´s say it with me guys, two! :) ) Site of the Month awards for October! I couldn´t believe it, especially coming from so talented and wonderful people. I trully am honoured to be able to share these beautiful awards with you and to be a part of this wonderful community.

As you might have noticed, I have rebuilt my art section and stock section as well (planning to add more stocks soon) - the work is not all done yet, but Im working on it :) I´ll be back soon with some more additions, until then take care and CLICKY CLICK for a Halloween gift!

octob 14, 2011 - And the stars are falling, all for us

Hey guys! Im sad to say that at the moment I am sick as a dog, so not feeling very creative and artistic. The ideas are there, but I simply don´t have much strength left to actually even simply open Photoshop, so this is not a huge update, but I do have some new pieces nonetheless. I have also won some new awards over at Buffyforums, so I am very proud to share these with you:

- 1x 1st place (my first golden award won in some time now, this one is from Buffyforums in the challenge Letters of the alphabet)

- 3x participation awards (from the following challenges: Manipulate this, To be continued and Letters of the alphabet)


Now for the graphic update - I have 4 new wallpapers - you can find them all in the R E C E N T section:

This is a piece portraying a fictional story arc. The idea being that when Buffy speaks about going crazy in the episode Normal Again and she mentions having been to a mental institute for some time, in this piece she has never left the place - she couldn´t stop talking about seeing her first vampirers and about her reality as a slayer. She stayed in the institure for years and years to come, her doctors eventually decided that her psychosis was too deeply embedded into her personality for Buffy to be "cured". She was moved into an asylum where they had rooms for these... troublesome patients, rooms where they could be put in and left to their dark dreams and realities. Buffy is trapped in her reality of being a Slayer, not able to escape her visions and she can´ t really tell what´s real and what´s not anymore.




Another piece picturing a fictional story arc, this time playing with the idea of puppet-Angel never being transformed back into his human form. So he continues in his quest as a puppet, his weapons being his fluffy fangs, sword and unbearable cuteness. *cough* He fights his way all the way to the final battle, where he stands true to his final line ("Well, personally, I kinda want to slay the dragon.") and after slaying the dragon he goes on and keeps fighting the good fight, with even a broader range of enemies than ever before!
This is also my first stab at drawing - I got a tablet from my boyfriend and with the help of Signe´s amazing tutorial it came out like this and even though it´s not perfect, Im really loving it!



This time I made a wallpaper for a challenge about the 80s, so that is the fashion and the setting of the wallpaper. The idea here being the fact, that Angel has actually lived through the 80s and since there was a lot of famous detective tv shows at that time, I decided to portray Angel as a sort of a P.I., a specialist dealing with the lonely city´s supernatural problems and crimes :)








And yet another piece depicting a fictional story arc (all three of them were made for a challenge over at BF, called "The unconventional". How fitting, right?). This story is set into the time of BtVS episode Sefless, where Anya kills a dorm full of students and Buffy quickly decides that it is her job to "put Anya down", so to speak. So, this is what happens in my alternative reality, a story that I tried to picture with my wallpaper:
Buffy and Anya, without practically even noticing Xander trying to stop them, start fighting each other, and... during the fight, Buffy actually kills Anya.
What Buffy did, leaves Xander... horrified. Shocked. It takes him days just to grasp the basic notion of the fact, that his ex-fiancé and woman who he loved anyway, is gone forever. He excludes himself from the group, doesn´t talk to Buffy and is refusing to talk even to Willow. He himself puts Anya to ground, and during the ceremony Buffy shows up, trying to make him understand.
Nevertheless, this... event is something that will change the group dynamics for a long time, if not forever. Xander can´t just forget Anya, but can´t bring himself to truly hate Buffy, which leaves him hurting even more. They both want to make things... right, but they both know they cant - when Buffy tries and speaks to him, they can´t even look at each other. The impending Apocalypse eventually brings Xander back to the group, but Buffy´s role as the sole law is something, that they both have to work through in order to make things right between them right again.

Next up are the new affiliates - MINDLESS WISDOM has made some lovely new friends and they are all great people, amazing artists and really worth your while, so go check them out!



I am also still planning on re-doing my gallery (adding the titles and comments to pieces that need some explanation) and also uploading some new stock packages, so stay tuned guys! Unfortunately this work is going kind of slow for me and just when I decided to finally finish it up, I got ill, so hopefully it´ll all be up really soon :)
And as always - thank you so much for reading this, coming back to this site and for all of your lovely comments, I love you guys!

september 25, 2011 - Art update

This time I have a couple of new/old pieces that I forgot to add earlier, so here they are - you can also check them all out in my R E C E N T section.

My first ever Game of Thrones piece - I made it for a challenge over at BuffyForums and it was a lot of fun :) I am a huge fan of the character and was quite sad to see how his story ended up.










Another "first ever" piece, this time from the Doctor Who fandom. I loved this episode so much, re-watched it a couple of times since the first viewing and it always seems to have such a beauty. It is hard to describe, but the writers did a hell of a good job writing this one :)








A crossover piece that is now a little bit older but I still haven´t had the chance to put it up here as well. Made for another challenge at Buffyforums it combines a several horror movie/books related fandoms. Now let´s see if you recognise them, but it probably isn´t all too hard - we´ve got references to Lost Boys, Bram Stoker´s Dracula, Hammer House of Horrors, The Twilight saga, Jekyll and Hyde and classic hand-out-of-grave BtVS :)





This piece was originally made for a challenge over at DELICATE AWARDS, which is a project that definitely deserves some support and you guys should definitely go check it out ;) I wanted to show the very, very hidden nature of Spike, a.k.a William the Bloody, the incompetent poet and altogether a very sensitive man ;) The words written on a cross behind him is in fact the very poem he recited for Cecilly in 1880.






An Angel-themed wallpaper depicting the violent lives of the "Angel Investigations" team, mainly of course Angel and Spike, because their history is filled with outbursts of violence and massacre.








Wallpaper depicting a fictinal story line between Spike and Buffy. You can see the explanation below:
It´s the year 2003 and Buffy destroyed the Sunnydale Hellmouth and created hundreds, if not thousands of new Slayers. She is not the only one anymore. The weight of the world is not on her shoulders anymore. She uses this as an opportunity to try and be what she´d always (more subconsciously than consciously) wished for - be normal, be like other girls.
Buffy and Dawn move to Rome and start a new life. Buffy´s main "job" is not being the Slayer anymore and slowly she learns to let herself be happy, but... She´s alone, and she misses Spike. Just before he died, she told him she loved him, and now that he was gone she is realising more and more that she wasn´t just saying that for him. What she doesn´t know is, that Spike came back to life in L.A. and was made corporial by Fred once again.
So Buffy continues to live on her life without knowing any of this, but feeling somehow... hollow inside. Until one day a letter arrives for her, just a couple of short lines, that are about to change her life forever.

"If you really meant the last thing you told me when we were together, you will soon have a chance to make me believe that. Yours, S."

She is confused, doesn´t know what to believe, because she knows that he died, she saw him dying with her very eyes. But yet she can´t stop herself from hoping and waiting... and one day, just a couple of days later, he arrives and she sees him again. He´s there, he´s alive and that is all that matters. She tells him once again what she´d always knew and the two of them start a new life together.

I have also updated my AFFILIATES section - if you should be there and are not, please let me know and I´ll fix it!
Among other news there is also a new PAST LAYOUTS section and I have moved some of the older news into the UPDATES ARCHIVE.

That is all from me for today, take care and thank you all so much for the sweet comments and tags!

september 22, 2011 - New layout

So Im back again, this time bringing a brand new layout with me. The old one had been here for a couple months and I was slowly getting quite bored of it, so this time we have a little bit more contrasting colours - I´ve gotten quite fond of the "sloppy" blending and boxing style, leaving the shapes sharp rather than masking them, which is why the layout looks like this :) Im still in the process of fixing all the itty little bits that need to be fixed, so please have patience with me :)

Im also planning to update my credits section, set up a "past layouts" section and get all my stocks up again. Unfortunately this time my space is limited so Im gonna have to come up with some new storage space for them. And yes, Im playing around with textures-making as well, so stay tuned!

Thanks for the lovely comments and I hope you´re gonna like the new look as well. Love you guys, x

september 18, 2011 - Back from the Dead

Hey guys! So after a couple of long months MINDLESS WISDOM is back in the bussiness! We´ve had some hosting troubles but now everything is sorted out(thanks to my wonderful host Rhia ) so Im all ready to get back :) First of all, Im bringing some new awards that I´ve won during the last couple of months:

- 1x 2nd place (won over at Buffyforums in the challenge Architecture of the soul)

- 3x 3rd place (won over at Buffyforums in following challenges: Wish you were here, Angry white female and Architecture of the soul)

- 2x 5th place (won in following challenges: Look away and Cannonbalz!)

- 1x honourable mention award (won in challenge They dont know me now)

- 1x "unique" award (won in challenge Beautiful) and 1x "runner up" award (won in challenge Between Scylla and Charybdis)

- 3x participation award (won in the following challenges: Mirror, mirror on the wall(paper), Angry white female, Between Scylla and Charybdis))


So that would be for the showing off ;) And now I also have a bunch of new wallpapers to share with you - you can find all of them in the R E C E N T section. Here they are:

- 5 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Blood, The End, What would Buffy do, Love is enough, Spoken from the heart)

- 3 x Angel (After the Fall, Miss you, Personal hygiene and other foolishness)

- 2 x Harry Potter (Someday, Always)

- 3 x past Slayer Series (inspired by past slayers mentioned on BtVS but also in the comic books - In the past, First of the Ones, White Doe)

- 1 x Leverage (Knock Knock)

- 1 x Firefly (Mals song)

- 1 x The Vampire Diaries (Legends)


And that´s all for the fanart at the moment. Im still in the process of getting the site back up, so there might be some broken links/other problems - if you encounter one or the other, please let me know! Also, if I promised to affiliate with your site and your link is still not up here, it is probably because of the sudden server crash and lack of time, so please just leave me a message and I´ll fix it immediately.
As always, thank you for your support and all the tag love and messages, you guys always make my day :)

may 27, 2011 - Multimedia update :)

Hi guys! It´s been a while since my last update, but you know how it goes, life just sometimes gets too busy. My semester is just finishing up so there´s a lot of exams waiting for me, plus we´ve been having some "real-estate" related troubles and all in all it was busy busy busy.
Anyway, here´s what I brought you today. I´ve won some lovely awards over at Buffyforums so I updated my A W A R D S section. Also Mindless Wisdom was chosen as The Last Tear´s Site of the Month for May and here´s the beautiful award that I´ve got - thank you so, so much Buffylover! It´s beautiful and very sweet :)


I´ve also managed to finally update the site with some more wallpapers:

- 4 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ironic, Wasteland, Architecture of the Soul, Complain)

- 1 x Grey´s Anatomy (Nothing)

- 1 x Misfits (Resurrection)

- 1 x Firefly (Head over Feet)

So that´s it from me for now, I will be back soon with some more stock photos and hopefully some more art as well. Take care and thank you all so much for the tag love! <3

april 23, 2011 - New tutorial

Some of you have asked for a tutorial that would explain some of the ways how to make the text look the way it does in my pieces. So, apart from being very flattered :), I made a T U T O R I A L on text effects and settings (which turned out to be a lot longer than I expected). Hopefully you will find it useful and easy to understand :)

I would also like to thank you all for the tag love and lovely comments, they made me very happy and proud, you guys are the best *hugs*

april 22, 2011 - Art update

I have a couple of new pieces that I made for several challenges over at Buffyforums, so I decided to make a little update :)

- 1 x The Vampire Diaries (Can´t hate you)

- 3 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Passion, Kill it myself, Nobody wins)

- 1 x Angel the Series (Frenemies)

- 1 x Twilight (Change)

Also a couple of you have asked for some tutorials, so Im working on a Full wallpaper tutorial and a tutorial on some fancy stuff to do with text, so hopefully they will be here very soon :)

april 22, 2011 - New MEDIA section

I´ve been very busy lately with searching for different stock photos to use for my art, and apparently somehow it didnt occurr to me that I have a huge collection oh photos that me and my bf have taken during our walks, mostly in Prague. So I figured why not to share these, especially as they´ve been so helpful to me ;)
So far my new MEDIA section contains only stock photos, but there should also be some new textures soon. For now I hope you´ll like the photos! ;)

april 10, 2011 - SOTM award

Hi folks! It´s been a while since my last update, life just got a little bit too busy for my taste and not much time for photoshop around these days. I have a couple of new pieces in progress though, so hopefully I´ll manae to finish them this week ;)
Anyway, this is just a quick update to (mainly *sheepish*) show off and to also say a huge thanks to amazing Lauren at Icy Aterlife, who has made me her SOTM for April! Thank you so much girl, you wouldn´t believe how proud and happy you made me feel :) Click here to see the beautiful award and here is what she had to say:

"Destiny is an amazing artist that I have recently met. She has inspired me with her artwork ("retro" included). This is an amzing girl. Oh-so-sweet, kind, friendly, funny and just amazing! Her art has it's own little twist to it and it makes me want to stare and stare and stare all day long!
Congrats to you, Destiny. You are truly an amazing person who deserves this award."

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