Great deal of great things

All my babble of how I'm going to get a grip with drawing was obviously for nothing, so as you can see I'm postponing the start of my picture-a-day-project for now. I've had so much on my mind lately, that... it's really no excuse, I'll try to better myself. :I

For the past week and a half we've been doing some life drawing at school, we've had this really nice indian man posing for us :) My teacher was obsessed with drawing itself rather than drawing the model, which was actually very interesting and inspiring. He challenged us to do work that actually looks like it was done by individuals with different personalities, rather than just transferring the subject to the paper as it is. Currently all my more finished work is with the teacher since he'll need to grade it, but have some one minute croquis while you're here, though they aren't, surprisingly, that interesting. I have probably over a hundred of sketches like these in my sketchbook right now.


Otherwise I haven't drawn very much at all... But have this half-assed sketch of a pup :)

Back in Vantaa - back in business.

Summer whizzed past faster than I imagined, and to be honest I haven't picked up a pen and drawn even nearly as often as I should have. I practically did NOTHING during the summer when it comes to drawing.

Now I've returned to Vantaa and after two days of on/off cleaning and relaxing, I've decided to get a grip and start drawing, and I need to remind myself to do it every day. So I've actually thought about setting up a picture a day project - not sure if I should pick a theme for it or if I should just draw something. Then I'd naturally be posting those here. That would also be starting from next week.

For now, I don't have much, but enjoy the little I have.


I told Sanna to tell me what to draw, and she asked one of her characters. This would be Jiro - I had enormous trouble with her, as she is an anthro catwoman, and I couldn't for the death of me get a realistic enough look with the characteristic lips still there. So I settled with the fastest and most impulsive of the sketches I made. I associate this one with Marvel, for some reason...


Part of a current WIP.

Time ticks by

I'M IN SUCH A HURRY

But I'll keep my promise


For Dear Day's topic "Fetish".


For Dear Day's topic "Roadtrip".


And finally some cuddly raccoon dog cubs, I'm very pleased how this came out.

MORE LATER GOODBYE

Freezing summerdays and work

Well, not to say that the days are actually that freezing - it's just that I'm TERRIBLY cold at work at times... :D

This post is actually just a filler, nothing new to show you. Simply to let you know I haven't forgotten about lasitettu.net or this blog - it's just that I've been spending most of my time down at the countryside, and most of that time at work. I haven't got a scanner there, and not that many sketches, either, which is due to a Lot of work and a slight block.

My daily schedule at the moment consists of going jogging at 7:30 am, then to work at 9:35 am, then working from 10am to 6pm and then doing various things until I get to bed - I've been studying music, for example, and reading Kaari Utrio's book "Bella Donna - Beautiful woman through the ages" (interesting, if a bit on the feministic side at times), singing, of course, and playing a bit of Okami :) I've been drawing, too, though mostly at work behind all sorts of slips of paper.

However, I'm heading to Vantaa this weekend to party, relax and meet some friends :) Its my goal to post you something then (one reason I'm posting this here - I can't get out of it).

By the way, I'm interested in knowing if anyone actually follows/reads/ever comes across this blog - by all means introduce yourself :)

Heading for the countryside!

Just thought I'd let you know that I'm heading for my parents' place today! My summerjob starts next wednesday, and it's relatively close to where my folks live, so I'll be staying with them for a couple of months. I won't have a scanner or a tablet there, but I'll be coming to Vantaa every now and then, so that I can post you some sketches :)

Wow it's hot and sunny here! Have a great summer!

It comes to this...

Howevermuch I used time and effort to create a fancypants sketchblog for lasitettu.net, it seems it wasn't meant to be, since eventually one does get fed up with 30 comments of spam per post per day. So I thought, why not try Blogspot, as many of my friends have found it to work well.

So, without further ado, lets get down to business. A few sketches from monday and tuesday - I was supervising the entrance exams to the graphic design line in my school, and spent the six hours a day reading Harry Potters (for the umpteenth time), joking with my friend (with subdued voices, naturally) and drawing.

I've been quite taken with bears after studying them a bit for the Piglet Brave illustration.

This is... uh... the God of Morning Breath?

And this goes straight to the WTF -department.

It's an ostrich! Lady! I actually like this so much I might remake this into something I put more effort into.

And now for something completely different. These aren't actually so much sketches, these are parts of my Piglet Brave -illustration. Since most of the spreads had only one chapter of text but some had two, I needed something to make up for the space that was left when there was less text. Here be couple of those space-fillers.

Page 2. The cat and the rooster were about to build a house right under the tall birch tree, where this owl lived.

Apparently, I won't add more, since Blogspot won't let me :C I'll give you anuther one of these later.