Graphic representation technique course works

 

Graphite

 Dry watercolor

 Wet-on-wet watercolor

 

Scratchboard technique

collage

 

 Ink and guache washing technique

   

Final work: illustration for a fairy tale about the birth of the mountains in Lapland. Acrylic on canvas. This was displayed at the Rovaniemi Design Week exhibition at Lappia-talo.

Hak

Ink on A3 illustration board and Photoshop. I saw a bird wing like pattern somewhere in the background of a TV program and I liked the colors. Inspired by them, I started sketching, taking the vision into more mechanical direction, and the idea kept developing, turning into this.

Book illustration

Application work for University of Lapland. Atmospheric scene illustration of a passage from John von Düffel's Vom Wasser. Graphite and watercolor on A3 illustration board. About 8 hours of work excluding research, thumbnails and preparatory sketches that took a few hours as well.

Update May 20: Passed, they invited me to the entrance exam.

WIP

Proposal work in progress, trying to figure out a suitable color scheme.

Proposal graphic

Certain people told me they would like to see more of my kind-hearted design-esque illustrations instead of the more -- peculiar personal works (shouldn't call anything "personal works" I've been adviced, designer produces "pitches" and "proposals" when not doing commissioned works). Asking feedback for my sketchbook doodles, this one immediately got one saying "finish that one, I like it!"

Another print image

Haven't decided yet if this is going to be another t-shirt print, but I just had to post this.

Anyway, back in the academy I didn't always realise how sloppy some of my works were, at least people seldom said too critical things out loud. A while a go my mind was blown by a quote I stopped by when I was reading Naomi Klein's No Logo (awesome book by the way). In it the anti-adverticing artist Rodriquez de Gerada commented:

MTV-sukupolvi on tottunut siihen, että kaikki on kiiltävää, puhdasta ja hohdokasta. [...] Jos uhraa aikaa näyttävyyden hiomiseen, työ ei jää huomiotta.

(Don't know the original quote, but probably something like: "The MTV Generation is used to everything beign shining, clean and glamorous. ...If you put effort into refining the work, it won't stay unnoticed.") I should have realised it earlier. Not saying the work above is a masterpiece or anything, but I'll keep trying.

T-shirt design

I think I outdid myself here. Rendering the model made my arms sore after hours of intense drawing, but it was fun to make this design. I was browsing the site Design by Humans and got inspired. I always wanted to combine drawings and photos so I edited out parts of the model from my photograph and changed a something spicier instead.