birds

Kiesi playing guitar

sketchin

Quick sketch in TVP Animation. It's a struggle to find time for sketching just for fun.

More Figure Drawing

vacation is over

Back from Costa Rica! What could be a better way to loosen up your drawings (after long vacation) than life drawing?

into the night

sailor duck.

I though I'd name him Donald ;). Little color tweaking in photoshop.

more markers!

100. post

Yesterday I was sketching while watching tv. I used fiber tip pen and watercolors for this old fellow. If anyone has good watercolor or aquarell tips and tricks, please let me know, my method is just guessing.

something from my sketchbook...

...and pieces of paper laying around my apartment.


That drunken fisherman was fun to watch, and to draw. Unfortunately I was a bit tipsy myself. You know, when you're not thinking about what you draw, you become a human-printer, drawing lines in your sketchbook without any planning.

I find myself drawing without thinking way too often, especially when I'm afraid of drawing. Sketching in public places is quite a lot harder than sketching in front of tv at home. When people see you drawing them they get uncomfortable, and sadly so do I at that point. And my drawings become a mess. Lines are just not flowing anymore. Drawing people from further away helps, listening to music helps a lot. It's funny that when you're wearing your headphones, you're in a different world, sort of unreachable. Then you can even draw the guy sitting in front of you in a metro.

I also get the fear of drawing when someone is watching behind my shoulder. I start drawing something that I already know. Or even only comfortable lines. This results in repeating myself. I really have to be alone (or at least feel alone) to get to the flow and learn and discover something new.

The first sketch of these result of a good drawing day, capturing the character with few strong lines. That drunken fishermans lines are all over the place. Finding the right ones by trial and error. Different approaches, both important I guess.

I wasn't going to show this but...

... here it is. This is a mood sketch for a short film idea I've had in the back of my head for a while now.

Seems like the summer is over.

don't drink and dial

I had a good 4 week holiday, and I've been back at work for 2 weeks now. I'll try to get back to blogging sketches more often.

doodlin in a meeting

Girl

Drinking couple of beers and sketching after work.

friday afternoon sketching

And the video is recording of drawing 30 sec poses non stop for 40 minutes. It's compressed to 2 minutes. I found out that I was a bit afraid when I knew that all the drawing will be recorded. I lost some confidence in the line. But I did learn something for next time: Less lines, bigger brush!

I'm not a big anime fan...

..but this friday afternoon sketch was fun to do.

Happy New Year!

I made a promise to myself to draw a bit more this year. I drew these sketches while watching tv tonight. Fiber-tip pen, 2-3 drawings on a A4 sized paper.

i got tagged

... I got tagged by Andrew, and so here we go.

Tag rules:

- You must link to the individual who tagged you and post the rules of TAG.
- Post 7 random facts about you
- Tag 7 bloggers and link to them
- Let them know that they have been tagged by leaving a message

7 random facts about me:
-I think know that canned tuna is cat food. And for cats only.
-I own 7 Flogging Molly band shirts
-I like sitting on the floor (rather than sofa) when I watch TV
-I often do my shopping subconsciously.
-I hate board games, in which you have to act, sing or perform in any way, even drawing.
-I lied my birth date in facebook
-I pay monthly to use public transports, yet I walk 40 minutes to work and back every day, taking the same route as the tram.

And the lucky bloggers getting tagged are co-workers and persons commenting my latest post:
Eliza Jäppinen
Teemu Jäppinen
Mel Milton
Ken Chandler
Andry Rajoelina
Matias
Matthieu Forichon

and then some sketches, the first one was for a game concept, the second was drawn while watching nature documentary.

more angry monkeys

I just had to do more!