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!
Friday, May 29, 2009
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
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
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Curse
The Song: Disturbed - The Curse
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
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
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!)
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
Korpiklaani - Happy Little Boozer
Led Zeppelin - House Of The Rising Sun
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Supernatural
Dio - The Last In Line
Rainbow - Run With The Wolf
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Lost Rune Of Thunder
Judas Priest - Wheels Of Fire
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!
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