Animal sketches

Random animal sketches. Ink and watercolor on moleskine sketchbook.

Easter meditation WIP

This Easter I thought it would be appropriate to explore some spiritual matters and meditate through art, seek peace of mind that way. So, Revelation work in progress:

Color and lighting experimenting in Photoshop. Still needs work on details, and outlines have to be removed for credibility.

 

About two hours of work and still going...
 Second stage: added round top, blocked character forms and worked an underpainting
Original red pastel drawing.

Hand study

Charcoal and chalk on recycled A3 paper

March life study

 

Chalk and guache on black paper, 160x100cm

 

Charcoal on litoposter

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.

Color study 2

Life study. Guache on black paper. 150x100cm. 1 hour.

color study

1 hour color study / speed painting. Chalk and guache on black paper. about 100x140cm.

By the way, I'm going to use this blog as an art experimenting channel from now on. The graphic design material will be displayed at the tumblr blog

Life drawing

 

 Compressed charcoal sticks on litoposter.

Sanguine pastel pencil on paper. 150x100 cm

Painter 11, 4 hours.

After months of intensive anatomy studying, I tried to draw this without a reference. Looking critically now, the construction is a bit hit-or-miss. strange shoulders, too beefy arms, flat head, somewhat implausible neck angle and as a whole a bit illogical character.

December life study

 

3 hours, charcoal on litoposter.

 

Sanguine pastel on litoposter.

Skull embrace

Life drawing. Some proportion mistakes here and there admittedly. Still a progression though.

Life study 3

Sanguine pastel pencil on litoposter. Tuesday's life drawing workshop at the university. I tried the renaissance artist approach for a change. We had one hour to draw this but I finished the hair and the cloth afterwards. A classmate complimented that this looks very realistic.

Figure drawing

 

Artist life down at the university: figure drawing.

Comic night

Another university student and I couldn't get to the 24 hour comics day event so we instead held a  late night comic drawing event listening to Vangelis and this is what I produced. Just a stream of consciousness as I could not concentrate on scriptwriting. 

Edit: The guy commented that this is rather scary. I hear that quite often, even though my works are not scary to me and I never intentionally try to make them scary, they just come naturally like that I guess. I thought the Frog comic was rather sympathetic but even that has been called a bit scary.

Study

Formulaic practise using Andrew Loomis' method, and analysis of Zsa Zsa Gabor's face.