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Hiatus

2011-04-28T06:08:00.000-07:00

Most of you probably have noticed this by now but I really haven't managed to make studies or practice lately. This makes me a bit sad, but my time and energy are running out even without any extra activities! I will try to start updating regularly once my life settles down a bit. See you in a bit!

acrylic practice

2011-03-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

fishthings

2011-03-14T12:33:00.000-07:00

I seriously have no idea what I was thinking :'D I still think it's kind of fun to look at anyway

daily doodles

2011-03-13T12:15:00.000-07:00

reffed from some mag lying around

what is this monstrosity ohlordy

this and that again

2011-03-12T06:07:00.000-08:00

Oh my gosh I haven't done any proper sketching in a long time! Whenever I have some bigger art project going on I start to procrastinate and nothing happens. Here are some doodles and schoolworks I've done recently.

This is a part of illustrations aimed for children I'm doing for my photoshop class. I have no idea why but this style is really hard for me? I'm stuck with the next 2, nothing seems to work eaugh

this one was for a competition. I liked it back at the time, but I do see it's faults now. It also seems like it was too ambiguous for most people but I won't bother explaining it here :P

oh yeah, my illustration was in the cover of newest Spera!

polymer gravure things

comic previews! The first chapter should be out next month. It's a slice of life/fantasy story aboyt a flowerboy haha. (click for bigger)

aaaand then some fanart paintings.

Shadow of the Colossus

5th generation pokemons

black swan

this and that

2011-02-27T13:38:00.000-08:00

These are pretty much reposts from my LJ-account. Sorry about that! I need to get back into the habit of sketching.

Radio säteily stuff I did with Anni.

works in progress shots of a webcomic I'm planning on doing.

another lithography

brb crying forever

2011-02-18T11:38:00.000-08:00

I swear this polymer gravure class is going to make me go crazy. If you're wondering what's up with these, somehow the blackest areas have turned to white. LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT IT.

black & white

2011-02-11T12:46:00.000-08:00

I was doodling some girl who started to look vaguely familiar; then I looked into a mirror.

trying to make the same face haha

Oh and hey, if things go well I'm gonna upload a little comic on Monday.

some sketches

2011-02-09T04:32:00.000-08:00

I haven't actually been able to sketch as much as I wanted :T The first sketches were 30 sec drawings.

I actually based that b&w drawing on the vector doodle below. Maybe I will learn how to use illustrator properly one day.

Monograms and stuff

2011-02-05T10:41:00.000-08:00

Okay so, typography isn't one of my stronger points. We had a monogram (a sign that has both of your initial letters) workshop over a few days at our Uni and I was actually looking forward to it. Unfortunately our teacher wasn't really able to TEACH us since she couldn't speak either Finnish or English very well. I wanted to do my monogram with some kind of traditional calligraphy, but the teacher rejected them because "they weren't me". Okay, how the heck would she know that? Anyway, she only approved the designs I thought were pretty boring while some of the other students did some fantasy dragons or something. Okay maybe I'm just bitter haha.

Anyway, here's two of the things I ended up finishing. I'm still no good at doing vectors on Illustrator either.

Lately I've been doodling more on Photoshop, I think I'm slowly getting more comfortable about using the program eventhough I still have no patience to do anything very detailed.

Hari the flowerboy is my character.

Yonder © J. Tierney

Traditional printing is pretty tiring (physically)

2011-01-28T13:44:00.000-08:00

We started our lithography course, it's pretty exciting! I've seen many works that have blown my mind made with lithography printing so I can't wait to see what I can do with it. If you don't know how it works, the video below explains it pretty well.

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Here are the doodles I made for the first print, notice how they're mirrored in the final print. (click for bigger view)

I painted on the limestone with ink-like stuff called tusche and added some crayon.

I think it looks darn sweet myself, especially for the 1st try with the medium. I will try to make one more design during this class! I'm sort of bummed that I will most likely not get many chances to wotk with lithography after this semester though. The equipment is always there at the uni, but the printing paper and colors are expensive. And I actually have no experience on preparing the color and I would probably just DESTROY EVERYTHING I TOUCH and all that.

some speedpaints

2011-01-24T14:24:00.000-08:00

I haven't really had any time to do sketch studies lately, so here're some speedpaints I've done recently.

Serra©LMP

animal sketches

2011-01-16T14:55:00.000-08:00

Not very impressive post this time – I've been kept busy by private commissions and other personal projects.

I did these and some other sketches at the Natural history museum in Helsinki, it was really crowded and I didn't have an eraser with me so I didn't get to draw as well as I wanted.

sotc speedpaint

2010-12-29T16:46:00.000-08:00

I'm not really sure how I should go about learning digital painting. I have certain artists that I look up to that work digitally, but their overall style is very different than mine and I get nervous about using them as reference. Especially with color pieces! I like sketching with solid blacks and whites digitally though because it's so fast (finished pieces are a different story). Maybe I should start doing yoga or something to gain more patience. Haha!

bones and arms and legs

2010-12-29T09:40:00.000-08:00

My floor is flooded with these sketches! I'm too tired to scan everything, but I'll make another post once I've made more full body sketches or something like that.

These were referenced from a book called Anatomy for the artist by Barcsay. It's a good book for figuring out the shape of things and how limbs and other body parts can move. There are downsides though, for example eventhough he is very good at drawing male anatomy his females look really bizarre. I actually had a laughing fit over the way he draws breasts (if you've seen Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" you know what I mean)! And he tends to draw all the faces looking the same too, but you can easily practice drawing them from somewhere else.

Couldn't resist drawing my sleeping fat cat!

Collabs

2010-12-28T10:36:00.000-08:00

This doesn't really have anything to do with my drawing studies, but I thought it was pretty interesting. I traded sketches with Eva and we both painted each other's lines. The first one is my colors on her sketch, and the latter is my sketch with her colors.

Makes me want to do collabs more often! If I only wasn't so lazy. Talking about being lazy, this post is actually a filler. I'll try to overcome my hate for scanning loads of sketches and make another post tomorrow.

ssssskeleton

2010-12-26T09:46:00.000-08:00

The plan is that I'm going to post my sketches at least a few times a week and practice drawing whatever I think should be useful. The main things I want to focus on are backgrounds, anatomy, faces, perspective.

I managed to get the scanner at my Helsinki apartment to work so let's start with some skeletons. I've never drawn them before, just some lonely bones.

The skull looks pretty derpy... :D Anyway, I'm gonna start posting more starting tomorrow. The first posts are going to be (boring and) referenced from a book called Anatomy for the artist unless I mention something else.

This seems like a good idea at 2 am

2010-12-18T15:43:00.000-08:00

Helloooooo-!
There's nothing much to see here yet(because my scanner is currently 900 km's away from me) but I will start posting sketches here in a short while. Why? Well.
I've always been an intuitive drawer, or so I tell myself. My fast sketches usually end up looking better than pictures I spend hours upon hours on, and I rather draw straight from my imagination than look up references. I've actually always managed to avoid using references, and this has resulted in some wacky anatomy and other serious problems(not that using references is the way to go in all situations, but it sure would help me figure out how everything works). I have finally decided to actually take time and STUDY how stuff works(believe it or not, I've been in art schools for almost 5 years and I can still honestly say this), and I think a journal that will show my progress will keep me motivated. Comments, tips, critique & etc will be most appreciated! Cya guys in a bit.