Mauno was a very special walrus indeed.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
I'm not the other anything.
Remake.
I'm sick. My dog isn't quite alright either. I needed something to not think about. And there it is!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Just go ahead let your hair down
There are several reasons why I usually just paint or colour by computer and do the sketches on paper. This one illustrates many of those reasons.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Paint it blue
I'm horribly deprived of sleep, so I was supposed to go to bed early today. Bollocks. Kept flirting with Painter instead. Apparently much, much more flirting is required.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
We share the same biology regardless of ideology
Worked too long on his snout yesterday, then rushed it to just GET IT DONE today, so I wouldn't have to think about it anymore. So there.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
More art therapy.
I'm so out of practise with painting.
And I can't get what people see in these dogs. I can't get what I see in them. There's something adorably piggy about them.
Monday, June 15, 2009
We cats know who we are.
I was feeling pretty crappy earlier. I still do, but speedpainting gave my hands something to do and my mind an opportunity to ease onto something less complicated.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Jam it!
Now there I was, walking down the aisle of our local grocery store, minding my own business, when I suddenly remembered that I'm running out of jam. I eat oatmeal almost every morning. With jam.
The moment I step in front of the jam shelves, it catches my eye. It's so small. So beautiful. It looks so inviting. The price is only 2€ - which is an obscene price for such a little squirt of jam - and it calls to me. Who ever said that package design counts for nothing?!
I mean, just look at them. LOOK AT THEM. They are beautiful. If they don't look striking to you now, then imagine them lined up with all the other unimaginative, conservative jam-jar designs you see in Finnish grocery stores! Our local store only had papaya-lime and coconut, mango they'd ran out of :/ I very nearly bought the coconut -jam as well... probably the next time I go there, I'll have to buy that too :/
The jam itself was good, though the flavour was not quite as intense as I would have liked. I'll have to try it with ice cream some day.
Oh yeah, and although it was at the top shelf and not quite at eye-level, I was also intrigued by Schwartzkopf's Got 2 Be Smooth 'n' Chic products:
I'm not saying it really appeals to me on a personal level, but the whole Marie Antoinette -thing makes it stand out.
The moment I step in front of the jam shelves, it catches my eye. It's so small. So beautiful. It looks so inviting. The price is only 2€ - which is an obscene price for such a little squirt of jam - and it calls to me. Who ever said that package design counts for nothing?!
I mean, just look at them. LOOK AT THEM. They are beautiful. If they don't look striking to you now, then imagine them lined up with all the other unimaginative, conservative jam-jar designs you see in Finnish grocery stores! Our local store only had papaya-lime and coconut, mango they'd ran out of :/ I very nearly bought the coconut -jam as well... probably the next time I go there, I'll have to buy that too :/
The jam itself was good, though the flavour was not quite as intense as I would have liked. I'll have to try it with ice cream some day.
Oh yeah, and although it was at the top shelf and not quite at eye-level, I was also intrigued by Schwartzkopf's Got 2 Be Smooth 'n' Chic products:
I'm not saying it really appeals to me on a personal level, but the whole Marie Antoinette -thing makes it stand out.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
In a flash it was gone
We're currently having a class on Flash at school. Today was the second day of the course, and... well.
Behold, the first Flash-animation I ever made. (CLICK HERE)
Don't be too hard on me - I actually did have a tablet, but no drivers, so it behaved like any mouse would. The assignment was, in all simplicity, to make an animation with several animated objects in it. This baby was slapped together in about two hours, during which I spent too much time going: "Oh, so that's how I should have done it in the first place. Another quarter of an hour down the drain!"
Behold, the first Flash-animation I ever made. (CLICK HERE)
Don't be too hard on me - I actually did have a tablet, but no drivers, so it behaved like any mouse would. The assignment was, in all simplicity, to make an animation with several animated objects in it. This baby was slapped together in about two hours, during which I spent too much time going: "Oh, so that's how I should have done it in the first place. Another quarter of an hour down the drain!"
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Tastes like winter
Not exactly on thursday, this post, pardon me for the delay.
On to the packages!
The assignment was to design a box for pastilles by the name Routa. Routa is a finnish word for frost, the kind that freezes the ground. All we had to work with was the name, some compulsory information that the package must hold, the manufacturer should be Fazer (and thus their logo should be included) and that the box itself should be the size of a Fazer Salmiakki -box. What kind of pastilles the package would hold - that was for us to decide.
(Sorry for the crappy quality of the picture - I took it with my cellphone.)
Here is my take on Routa. I was quite sure that the first impression for most people would be that these pastilles should be cough drops, as many such pastilles in Finland, at least, are given a very breezy image for their throat and voice clearing qualities. I wanted them to be something different - I associated Routa with certain clarity and intensity of the flavour, and most of all, Finland. So I chose very finnish flavours - blueberry, cranberry and cloudberry - and tried to keep the breeze and snowstorms to the minimum, without forgetting the origins of the name.
I also wanted to keep the packaging quite simple, with few colours and few elements. The logo itself was fun to design, and I think I succeeded in keeping it simple, yet including the qualities of the name. With the intense and sort of delicious, bright colouring on the berries I wanted to bring out the intense, sweet and delicious taste of the pastilles.
I got very good feedback on this and feel quite happy with the outcome, myself. :)
Oh, and on a sidenote - we also had to construct the packages ourselves. I bought a box of Fazer Salmiakki -pastilles and tore it apart, measured it, then proceeded to draw it in Illustrator. Then after a couple of tries on the constructing part I added the layout on the construction, then printed it on carton and cut it out and constructed the boxes using a utility knife, ruler, an ordinary blunt knife (the kind of utensil you use for eating, this time for creasing), and two-sided sticky tape. One of the criteria when assessing our packages was that the box should be well-constructed - it should open, close and stand upright without toppling over or leaning to side or anything.
The course was fun and I'm hoping we get to design more packaging at school in the future :D
As an added bonus - a friend of mine is going to Japan as an exchange student for a year, so our class prepared a little booklet for her to remember us while she's there. It included problems and things to do, such as crosswords and sudokus, as well as poems and, naturally, drawings. This was a page I did for the booklet - it actually doesn't look that much like the Iriomote cat, but it's the thought that counts, eh? On the other side was a short description of the species.
On to the packages!
The assignment was to design a box for pastilles by the name Routa. Routa is a finnish word for frost, the kind that freezes the ground. All we had to work with was the name, some compulsory information that the package must hold, the manufacturer should be Fazer (and thus their logo should be included) and that the box itself should be the size of a Fazer Salmiakki -box. What kind of pastilles the package would hold - that was for us to decide.
(Sorry for the crappy quality of the picture - I took it with my cellphone.)
Here is my take on Routa. I was quite sure that the first impression for most people would be that these pastilles should be cough drops, as many such pastilles in Finland, at least, are given a very breezy image for their throat and voice clearing qualities. I wanted them to be something different - I associated Routa with certain clarity and intensity of the flavour, and most of all, Finland. So I chose very finnish flavours - blueberry, cranberry and cloudberry - and tried to keep the breeze and snowstorms to the minimum, without forgetting the origins of the name.
I also wanted to keep the packaging quite simple, with few colours and few elements. The logo itself was fun to design, and I think I succeeded in keeping it simple, yet including the qualities of the name. With the intense and sort of delicious, bright colouring on the berries I wanted to bring out the intense, sweet and delicious taste of the pastilles.
I got very good feedback on this and feel quite happy with the outcome, myself. :)
Oh, and on a sidenote - we also had to construct the packages ourselves. I bought a box of Fazer Salmiakki -pastilles and tore it apart, measured it, then proceeded to draw it in Illustrator. Then after a couple of tries on the constructing part I added the layout on the construction, then printed it on carton and cut it out and constructed the boxes using a utility knife, ruler, an ordinary blunt knife (the kind of utensil you use for eating, this time for creasing), and two-sided sticky tape. One of the criteria when assessing our packages was that the box should be well-constructed - it should open, close and stand upright without toppling over or leaning to side or anything.
The course was fun and I'm hoping we get to design more packaging at school in the future :D
As an added bonus - a friend of mine is going to Japan as an exchange student for a year, so our class prepared a little booklet for her to remember us while she's there. It included problems and things to do, such as crosswords and sudokus, as well as poems and, naturally, drawings. This was a page I did for the booklet - it actually doesn't look that much like the Iriomote cat, but it's the thought that counts, eh? On the other side was a short description of the species.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Judge the book by the cover - I do
Oh my, I haven't updated in ages. I've been meaning to, several times, in fact, but I've been busy with numerous projects...
As I have already mentioned in my personal blog, me and a student colleague of mine are working on the visuals for a fashion show. It's a show organized by our school's fashion design students, and linked to a bigger event. Very interesting, but challenging and time-consuming as well.
My class is also working on the illustrations and all sorts of amusing problems and assignments for a magazine directed to children. This is, for our part, nearly done.
Also I'm having a course on package design, and have been, for the past few days, designing a series of packages for candy drops which, for the purpose of the assignment, go by the name Routa. I actually just finished the layouts and shall print and construct the packages tomorrow - however, I'm not posting them here just yet, the deadline is on thursday so I'll post them here then ;)
I've been so excited about graphic design lately, and really thought that I'm just where I'm supposed to be! We made a few visits to printing offices and editorial offices last week, and I couldn't have been happier. I was on the verge of mental orgasm when I saw all the cool stuff you can do to your work when printing - oh the metallic shine and reliefs and glitters!
Speaking of mental orgasms, I don't know how I've never found it before, but anyone interested in packaging design - or graphic design in general - should definitely check out The Dieline. I've been crying tears of joy and swimming in pools of inspiration for the past week, spending my free moments geeking over the innovative and cool designs presented there.
And now, for something else than orgasms entirely - my schoolwork.
The assignment was to redesign the cover of S. H. Steinberg's 500 years of printing. Sadly I didn't use as much time on this as I should have, but I sort of like the clean-cut feel of it anyway.
Here we were to choose a book the cover of which we disliked, and redesign it. I hate the cover of the copy I have, so here's my take on Anne Rice's The Interview with the Vampire. I've always hated Claudia with a passion, though.
Aaand here's a close-up of the illustration. Sorry for the ugly watermarks, I'm that paranoid. I would have liked to work on this more, but didn't have the time for it. I actually made this with vectors at first, then realized that I can't get the look I want with them (d'uh) and so I went and digitally painted over it.
That's all I can show for now, I'm afraid. I'll come back on thursday with some candy boxes!
...well alright, have this work-in-progress-chihuahua-on-acid.
As I have already mentioned in my personal blog, me and a student colleague of mine are working on the visuals for a fashion show. It's a show organized by our school's fashion design students, and linked to a bigger event. Very interesting, but challenging and time-consuming as well.
My class is also working on the illustrations and all sorts of amusing problems and assignments for a magazine directed to children. This is, for our part, nearly done.
Also I'm having a course on package design, and have been, for the past few days, designing a series of packages for candy drops which, for the purpose of the assignment, go by the name Routa. I actually just finished the layouts and shall print and construct the packages tomorrow - however, I'm not posting them here just yet, the deadline is on thursday so I'll post them here then ;)
I've been so excited about graphic design lately, and really thought that I'm just where I'm supposed to be! We made a few visits to printing offices and editorial offices last week, and I couldn't have been happier. I was on the verge of mental orgasm when I saw all the cool stuff you can do to your work when printing - oh the metallic shine and reliefs and glitters!
Speaking of mental orgasms, I don't know how I've never found it before, but anyone interested in packaging design - or graphic design in general - should definitely check out The Dieline. I've been crying tears of joy and swimming in pools of inspiration for the past week, spending my free moments geeking over the innovative and cool designs presented there.
And now, for something else than orgasms entirely - my schoolwork.
The assignment was to redesign the cover of S. H. Steinberg's 500 years of printing. Sadly I didn't use as much time on this as I should have, but I sort of like the clean-cut feel of it anyway.
Here we were to choose a book the cover of which we disliked, and redesign it. I hate the cover of the copy I have, so here's my take on Anne Rice's The Interview with the Vampire. I've always hated Claudia with a passion, though.
Aaand here's a close-up of the illustration. Sorry for the ugly watermarks, I'm that paranoid. I would have liked to work on this more, but didn't have the time for it. I actually made this with vectors at first, then realized that I can't get the look I want with them (d'uh) and so I went and digitally painted over it.
That's all I can show for now, I'm afraid. I'll come back on thursday with some candy boxes!
...well alright, have this work-in-progress-chihuahua-on-acid.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Artpadster
Artpad is a source of some frustration as a tool, but sort of fun, nevertheless.
Watch me do it.
I do practically nothing these days without some sort of rough sketch as a base. And I love painted dogs (aka. african wild dogs) with their great big ears.
Still keeping busy.
I do practically nothing these days without some sort of rough sketch as a base. And I love painted dogs (aka. african wild dogs) with their great big ears.
Still keeping busy.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Let this be my statement
Doubleposting with my personal blog, but anyway.
I've been so busy trying to fit school and other things into my schedule and every now and then find some time to relax a bit, that I haven't had time to blog too much, though I have loads of things to show you. Hang in there!
I've been so busy trying to fit school and other things into my schedule and every now and then find some time to relax a bit, that I haven't had time to blog too much, though I have loads of things to show you. Hang in there!
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Colorama
Holy crap am I into colors right now. Especially my Copic markers - I haven't used them in ages and found them again while doodling the picture for January 8th. And by the way, I haven't missed a day yet with the sketches!
Here be sketches from January 4th to January 7th.
January 8th. I decided I wanted to draw a giraffe and a friend of mine told me that it should be green. Who am I to argue? I won't take responsibility of any damaged retinae, though.
9th. Bright colours.
And this would be a bonus I drew today at about... 3:30 a.m.?
This spring is going to be so busy with school and all the other things I have going on right now. I should be doing schoolwork so I don't have to panic with them later, instead I'm still up and about at 4 a.m. drawing green giraffes - what's the matter with me? :D
It's just that I'm starting to get my flow back. And it's only been a little over a week that I've drawn daily - it's really working, just drawing and drawing without too much pause. I'm feeling optimistic and ambitious about drawing in a way I haven't for quite some time!
Here be sketches from January 4th to January 7th.
January 8th. I decided I wanted to draw a giraffe and a friend of mine told me that it should be green. Who am I to argue? I won't take responsibility of any damaged retinae, though.
9th. Bright colours.
And this would be a bonus I drew today at about... 3:30 a.m.?
This spring is going to be so busy with school and all the other things I have going on right now. I should be doing schoolwork so I don't have to panic with them later, instead I'm still up and about at 4 a.m. drawing green giraffes - what's the matter with me? :D
It's just that I'm starting to get my flow back. And it's only been a little over a week that I've drawn daily - it's really working, just drawing and drawing without too much pause. I'm feeling optimistic and ambitious about drawing in a way I haven't for quite some time!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Oh nine!
Happy new year everyone!
One of my resolutions for the year 2009 was to start drawing a picture every day. Doesn't sound like much at all, but I drew so little last year that it should be illegal.
So here be the sketches for the first three days of 2009, + a pudgy little thing with a high opinion of himself.
Oh, and I made another blog as well. Shy out loud would be where I post my thought's and everyday things, so I can keep this one more focused on my sketches :)
One more thing, I got a little something from Neetta:
Thank you so much!
One of my resolutions for the year 2009 was to start drawing a picture every day. Doesn't sound like much at all, but I drew so little last year that it should be illegal.
So here be the sketches for the first three days of 2009, + a pudgy little thing with a high opinion of himself.
Oh, and I made another blog as well. Shy out loud would be where I post my thought's and everyday things, so I can keep this one more focused on my sketches :)
One more thing, I got a little something from Neetta:
Thank you so much!
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