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.

Old scetchie

Time it took: Nobody knows.
Tools used: Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen -marker

There seems to be... Wagner with glasses. The pig. Wagner © Juba.
Then. There's some random no-ones characters. This is really old, I guess it's from 2008 or something. Maybe even 2007.

Eveshade

Time took: under an hour.
Tools used: White nights aquarelles, black ballpoint pen.

She's Illanvarjo or Eveshade, one character in my comic project TToN (The Tale of Nightingale). This picture was done to her character sheet.

Carcoal lady

Tools used: Derwent Charcoal pencils
Time it took: Who knows, around 30 minutes. Not more, but maybe less?

A random thing. Did 24/6/2009 because I had bought the new pencil thingies and I wanted to test them. I didi two little pieces of these but because I like this one much better, I published this one now. The another one, well, maybe later or not at all, we'll see.

Sleepwalker

A long time ago I wanted to do challenge works so I said to the friendly people in Vuotis.net forum that they can challenge me. Some of them did, like Albert and Yöfani and Sleepwalker... It took me too long time to finish these, but I did. All except one which I'm going to do soon. This one is for Sleepwalker and the idea was that I must draw her. I have never seen her, so I just did something up (she told some things about her so I could draw her).

I used few hours, A3 aquarelle paper and aquarelles, pencils for scetching (hoh, the scetch was on another paper). Click to see it full sized.

Carnivale 7

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Carnivale 6

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Carnivale 5

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Carnivale 4

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Carnivale 3

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Carnivale 2

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Carnivale 1

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Carnivale-series

What is this thing about? Well, let me tell you. I bought today a cd record, it was Jethro Tull's album Living In The Past. It inspirated me to draw so I did seven pictures called Carnivale. They are random, made with Open Canvas and they look very simple and they all contain only two colours: the drawing color and the white background. They took around 30 minutes or maybe even under that.

So. Here they are:

Carnivale 1
Carnivale 2
Carnivale 3
Carnivale 4
Carnivale 5
Carnivale 6
Carnivale 7

About updating this thing

Well, as you see I haven't uploaded any new artworks here for few days. Why is that? Because my newer computer has memory problems and because I wanted more hard disk space, we took it to repair and now it's there and all my digital artwork is in it's hard disk, so I really don't have any artwork to publish. And I haven't been making any either, I've been tired to death for some reason.
Tomorrow, however, will be the last day of necessary school work. After that I'll be free to choose myself whether I go to school or not. I've decided to go, as most of the people of my age do. After the summer holiday I will start highschool and I'm somewhat excited about that fact.

Right now I'm feeling quite creative and I'm quite sure that in next days I will continue to work with acrylic painting I've been working on with for months - mostly because of laziness and busyness and when my computer is okay again, I will work more with the digitals I've been doing and of course upload some works I've already did ready. So, I haven't forget this place. All I hope is that you, readers, which I would really like to have, don't forget me either. So, I wish you all have great summer/what ever season you are having there.

Take care!

The Hundred Themes

I had seen the idea of 100 themes challenge on deviantART and though that I want to modify it a little. That was back in they year 2007 and while I was searching the files of my old computer I'm now on, I found this file of my 100 themes. I don't know if some of them are the same as in the dA version which was not invented by me at all (and which I've used to inspire myself, too). While I was translating it I slightly edited some themes because there was some themes that weren't good at all and which were too similar to each other, so I made some new ones and deleted some old ones. The idea remains the same and the changes weren't really big.

But. Here it is. Shaimee's 100 themes from the year 2007. Originally written in Finnish, translated in English in 2009. Feel free to use it if you like and if you don't let it be. You can decide to take the full challenge as your project or just get some random inspiration of some of the themes or maybe just one. What ever. I just found this old thing and wanted that you guys see it.

1. Fear

2. Joy

3. The Lover

4. The Secret

5. Hope

6. Will

7. Belief

8. Wish

9. Love

10. Nightmare

11. Darkness

12. Beauty

13. Nature

14. The Sacriface

15. Ugly

16. The Flight

17. Imagination

18. Wisdom

19. Luck

20. The Dream

21. The Song

22. The Scream

23. The Sight

24. The Doll

25. Prejustice

26. Nevermore

27. Light

28. Paranoid

29. Summer

30. Spring

31. The First Snow

32. Autumn

33. Winter

34. Christmas

35. The Spring Rain

36. Thunderstorm

37. Death

38. Sick

39. More

40. Wannabe

41. Threat

42. Arrogance

43. Forty-Three

44. And

45. Mary Sue

46. What Once Was

47. Together

48. Sharp Metal

49. Just For You

50. Cry

51. Bride

52. She/He

53. The Sleepwalker

53. Horror

53. Again

54. Some Time

55. Bleeding

56. The Bless

57. My Lovely

58. Morning

59. Naturally

60. Them

61. Saved!

62. The Day

63. Teased

64. The Sea

65. Bonfire

66. Us

67. Tear

68. Evening

69. The Moonlight

70. Tomorrow

71. Coffee

72. The Rain

73. The Trees

74. Today

75. In The Library

76. Silver

77. Ring

78. The Sun

79. The Darkest Alley

80. The Wind

81. Violence

82. At Three O'Clock

83. The Street 78.

84. Light To The Darkness

85. After The Storm

86. Friends

87. The Past

89. The Witch

90. In That Summer

91. Eternity

92. Empty

93. Flowers

94. Shame

95. Far Away

96. Gold

97. Spell

98. Near

99. Always

100. The Most Important

The Curse

The Song: Disturbed - The Curse

Song @ Youtube

Lyrics @ Lirama

Tools used: Wacom Intuos 3 A4 tablet, Open Canvas Plus

Time it took: Several hours, something around 7-10 or something like that. At least 6.

People have been giving me lots of good comments on this one. I worked with it hard and I think that the work payed itself off. The character is the most detailed character I've ever done without drawing line arts there. It's semi-realistic/realistic and the background doesn't completely suck even tough it was done a little too quickly.

People have been saying that I could add some shadows and highlights there and I think that they are right and I should work on those in my pictures in future. This picture taught me a lot about making realistic pictures and lightning. Even tough it might not be perfect and it definitely isn't such, I like it very much because it was useful for me to do and I think that the guys who look at it won't be really disappointed either. This might be the best picture I've ever done.

About the song then... I really did the picture first and then while I was drawing the background there, I listened to Disturbed and noticed that their song The Curse would fit on this one and so, I gave this name The Curse and this became the part of my project.

Chiquitita

The Song: ABBA - Chiquitita

Song @ Youtube

Lyrics @ Lirama

Tools used: Wacom Intuos 3 A4 Tablet, Open Canvas Plus

Time it took: Something between 2 and 3 hours

I tried a new technique to draw humans in this one and I'm quite happy with that technique now. When I had just done this thing, I though that it didn't went good at all. Still, there was some parts I liked too, like the shading of the people's skin and their hair. The background doesn't really look like I meant it to look like first, but I think that it's okay.

But. The dudes there look just definitely weird, I can't deny it. I can see some anatomy mistakes there, even tough they're stylishedly drawn, there is some of those and because of those their faces look strange. I didn't really plan doing this picture, I just found myself of scetching two girls and listening to ABBA's Chiquitita and then I got an idea of adding this picture to my project and I had to make a new theme that it fitted in it. It was good because I needed more themes.

77 Glorious Songs -project

The Art Project of Shaimee

What's it about?

The whole idea is that I'm going to pic up seven themes and eleven songs for each theme. Then I will do one picture of each of the songs. All of the pictures I will post one at the time with Youtube-links to the songs (if I can found those from Yt) and the lyrics of the songs too. However, on this post I will publish the links to the picture entries themselves that all of the project pictures can be found here easily.

DONE: 7/7 themes 41/77 songs 3/77 pictures

Themes & Songs

The Summer

ABBA - Summer Night City

Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

Gerry Rafferty - City To City

Neil Young - Comes A Time

Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive

Grateful Dead - Fire On The Mountain

Boney M - Daddy Cool

Secret Garden - Nocturne

Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree

CMX - Näkyvän Valon Olennot

Whitesnake - Summer Rain

The Space

Pink Floyd - A New Machine Part 1
Pink Floyd - A New Machine Part 2
Mike Oldfield - The Voyager
Pink Floyd - Signs of Life

The Day

ABBA - If It Wasn't For The Nights

Deep Purple - Black Night

Deep Purple - Child In Time

The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)
Cat Stevens - Morning has Broken (thanks to mom for suggesting it!)

Against will

Eric Clapton - Layla

Uriah Heep - Gypsy

Sonata Arctica - Replica

Ruokottomat tosikot - Lähtevät

Neil Young - Harvest Moon

Matti Järvinen - Pieni Sieni

Linkin Park - Don't Stay

Juno Falls - Last Love

Gerry Rafferty - The Royal Mile (Sweet Darlin')

Duran Duran - Falling Down

Gerry Rafferty - Why Won't You Talk To Me

The Feeling

ABBA - Chiquitita

Korpiklaani - Happy Little Boozer

Led Zeppelin - House Of The Rising Sun

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Pink Floyd - Sorrow

Supernatural

Disturbed - The Curse

Dio - The Last In Line

Rainbow - Run With The Wolf

Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Lost Rune Of Thunder
Judas Priest - Wheels Of Fire

The One

Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

The Who - Behind Blue Eyes

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (slight return)

Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Another Me

Shai is here, so beware!

Okay, here I am! You seem to be here too, and I'm very glad about that. You might not know what the heck is this Art Block thingie - let me tell you. Art Block is an art blog of mine. I did it because I needed to show my art work to the world, tell about my original characters and about my thoughts and such.

I have had several english websites before. I've had a personal which told about me and my characters and I've had a fantasy site about my fantasyworld and characters and I've had those with my art work and I've had also a normal text blog. Why don't I just simply keep those living things and let this thing be undone? Because I've noticed that a) It's easier to get comments from people if you have it in a blog form - it makes the commenting simple b) It's possible and easy to add the character information and my personal information and even my fantasy world information on a blog site and post art so people can comment it and post artichles that people can comment too if the system is like blog. People don't easily go to the guestbook and tell their opinions about this and that text or picture on the site. They might tell their opinion of the site itself, but the details don't get so much attention. I think that this system makes people think more about the things I've published here.

But as you see, I haven't published anything yet and this is the first entry. What will the future bring for you to see? Art, people, art. My drawings and paintings in traditional and in digital form. You have maybe seen them in deviantART or Storm artists, but I think that the blog system is maybe better than them too, because this lets everyone comment and not just the registered users. You have maybe noticed that I like comments. I don't say that you just have to make something up and comment something random to me if you don't feel like it or something, but if you have any idea how I could improve my art or it maked you think something or you have suggestions or... anything, you should mention it to me. It makes improving easier, you know, and all I want to do is to improve! 

Well. I guess that was that. Good day everyone, take care, support peace!