Study Guide Cover

The art teacher of mine asked if I could draw the cover picture to the autumn newsletter of our school (later it was changed as a study guide but what ever, I was asked to draw a cover for that autumn newsletter) and she told that a rowan branch could be a good topic. I got a model branch to use, kept it in a same position with one hand same time than I was drawing the scetch of my picture with the other hand (that was about to kill my wrist and few fingers!) and after that I did the final lineart and erased the pencil lines. That time I didn't have a lightbox yet (now I use the glass surfaced table that used to be on the balcony with a lamp and it's damn handy that way). The original was A4 sized and done on white copy paper but they took the original and didn't give it back to me so I only have this printed version. It's A5 sized and it was printed on yellow paper. I did the whole thing for free. And they didn't even credit me!

China ink, a real branch as a model, white copy paper, several hours.

Projects and such

Hey hey again folks!
I've been doing lots of stuff lately so I haven't had time to update this blog very often. However I've drawn my scetchbook almost full in eight weeks and I'm quite sure it has also payed it off - with that amount of drawing + all the other scratchings, I just had to learn something. Drawing is mostly practicing but the reason I do is the fun, not really the development. That's why I've done the projects and oh, there will be more of them too.

Now when the school is about to start, I've kind of returned to the normal schedule and stopped staying all nights up an sleeping half day. It usually helps me to start new things and get something really ready. At last I've came back to my 77 Glorious Songs Project with few new songs, and there's more to come too. I've also started a new project which I call just simply "The Elf Quest collaque", because it just tells it all about it. Maybe I create an entry for it later and then start to publish the elves I've drawn. Now I've drawn just one, but I'll do more.

I don't really know how much of free time I will have in future because I'll start highschool in few days - really, the day after tomorrow - and it's my first year and I'd like to start other hobbies as well, not just only draw and paint. However, I try to find time to work with my aquarelles and china ink.

Take care!

Vasta scetch + others

Tools used: Open Canvas 1.1, Wacom tablet
Time it took: ?

Random scetches, killing time and boredom. I like the big Vasta picture, though.

The Mistress of The Sun Palace

Tools used: Open Canvas 1.1, Wacom tablet
Time it took: Who knows. An hour maybe.

Myrdiel from TToN.

Myrdiel

Tools used: Open Canvas 1.1, Wacom Intuos 3 -tablet
Time it took: Nobody knows, under an hour

The character: TToN character Myrdiel is the mistress of the Palace of Sun. She was a puppy of a shewolf called Milyé, but like the other puppies of her, she was changed magically as an elf by great shamanwitch, old lady called Eukko. She was the first one who was changed so all didn't go as it was planned and she turned out like this, an animalistic beastlike creature in a body of an elf and a wolf. She's neither of them, she's a monster.

She's not stupid though, she's really intelligent, cunning, wise and sharp. She lives with her loyal followes in dark mountains, in an old palace which was originally her sister's, Sargiel's. Sagriel however was killed by Myrdiel and when the mountain elves who followed Myrdiel chased the pleasant folk of Sadriel away.

In the land that all happened, blood fest always creates demons, little dark creatures who live for blood, betraying, lies and so on. They darkened the mountains and the palace, even the valley in between the mountains. Myrdiel and her folk moved there and Sadriel's clan went in the Sungolden valley, near the sea. Since then the mountains there have been a dark, dangerous and mysterious place, where nobody should go without a very good reason... Some go there for their curiosity, "braveness" but really, it's pure stupidness to go there unless you're in their side.

Death eater

Time it took: Several hours
Tools used: White Nights aquarelles

This is done to Cedu. He asked me to draw a death eater to his website Darkmark (http://darkmark.tk, sorry it's in Finnish). So, this is a kind of commission, but because I support dark Harry Potter fansites, I did it for free of course. So, a free commission. I don't do payed ones because a) noone buys them b) I'm not good enough to do so.

I guess that the first picture is the real version and this last one is either Photoshopped wrong or a former version and made of a photo... I guess the last one.

Death eaters © JKR

Eveshade II

Time it took: 15-30 minutes
Tools used: Black ballpoint pen, White Nights Aquarelles.

Illanvarjo/Eveshade again. It's fun to do these.