My Left Lifedrawing

This time around I tried again to draw in a slightly different way than usually. The change of techniques is obvious but I also tried to force my hand to move the pen differently almost every time. The time available certainly varied from 15/10 minutes in the gray ones and 5 min in the rest. My "style" is of course visible still but in some of these I think I succeeded. The model is the same in every drawing but her slender look is really portrayed only in couple of these.

My favorites are the ones with the green tint. I think they have a certain playfulness and almost a flirting quality at least when juxtaposed with each other.

Little Shop of Lifedrawings

Good to be back ;)! Actually I should be doing stuff but I'll give the good ol' in-out for the blogi and be off me way.

So croquis it is after a while. Towards the end of the session I tried to keep it simple. The color blotch is a warm up drawing that I did on top of some water color remains from the burlesque session...

Next time I'd like to go to a bit more traditional in the sense that I'm gonna pick up some charcoals if they haven't already crumbled at the bottom of the drawer.

Burlesque lifedrawing!

Last night I attended the Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art-School featuring Miss Sugar Kane (FIN), which was part of the first official Helsinki Burlesque -festival. So it was drinking and drawing a beautiful woman, what could be better! The mood at Dubrovnik (the bar) was inspired and fun.
I think I should have stylized more but they turned out ok. After all, Miss Sugar Kane went through the drawings and picked mine as the one to win the men's festival t-shirt yay :)!

The "winner" -pic is the one at the bottom of the first layout and those on top of it are a warp-up drawing (mind model :) and some of the fast first ones with Miss S. Kane. I myself do like the middle one of those with it's baby doll -face even though it's not "accurate".

Thank you very much to Mira and Saija for inviting me!

Night of The Living Doodles

Yep, that's right...some scary random and fast doodles!

A Fistfull Of Life Drawings

I'm here...and updating!

My drawing felt a bit clumsy today. I sincerely hope it gets better tomorrow at work. It's gonna be a busy day (and night).

The model had a bolero -type clothing on her in case the pics are too vague :)

Sketching for life.

So Xmas came and went. I got a pile of Mauri Kunnas picture books as a gift among other things...I wouldn't have believed that I'd been that nice :)

The new year 2008 (still no flying cars or teleporters...disappointed!) arrived and I will throw in a new gear in my "professional" life. I've had the feeling for several years that I've been a bit on the backburner for several years. I'm going out to find the true potential in me if any :)

Year 2007 had many nice surprises for me and the year 2008 will probably and hopefully hold some new ones! I'm not making any actual New Year's resolutions but I promise to myself to start before it's too late.

For the blog I'm gonna start doing more images "with a point"...but to reset that, here's some more sketches ;)...

Oh yeah, Happy New Year 2008 everybody!

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

It didn't have the best day for drawing today. Again here's a collection of some really quick ones and the other ones where I went ahead with a bit more painterly style...hit and miss :)

Phantom lifedrawing

A somewhat different mindset with these lifedrawings. I added some color in a couple of them. There's also a collection sheet of really fast doodles which were done while the model was moving. The model had some really dynamic poses.

For A Few Scribblings More

Trying to break the silence here so I'll post a couple f recent sketchbook doodles. These I did last weekend when I was in Turku and visited the Cosmic Comic Cafe tere. I'd never been there so I had a pint, read some comics and drew something. Nice place.

Back To the Life Drawing Part II

A different model, different poses and some quite funny. Don't know if these turned out just the way I'd liked.

Oh, and I finally went to see Ratatouille...it was great, the Brad Bird/Pixar -recipe's cookin' that works. The end credits sequence was great and the same guys have done an animated short in the same style to the DVD. I guess it's officially the first Pixar -produced 2D -short. It really would be cool if Lasseter&Co would finally pick up the long lost pencil under the animation desk were it rolled during the last dark days of Disney's feature animation.

Back To the Life Drawing

Let the images move for themselves.

A quick comic

Little...black humor.

Doodlecollection part X

A bunch of doodles and scribbles, yam yam.

Lifedrawing - attack of the clones

Today's lifedrawing went better then last time, I think. So here's a bunch of graphite and ink ones.

Doodling while waiting...

Something to keep things warm. It is starting to get chilly again here. A non-sketched pen drawing into the sketchbook without a particular idea (I have too much of those)...of course it could also be the start of a story since it was the first page.

Oh the agony! I'm waiting for my new computer to arrive hopefully already this week yeah! Maybe it will give my creative output a boost and I'll get something meaningful done.

Life drawing strikes back!

I felt that drawing didn't go too well this time but here's a couple of the penciled ones. The ink ones weren't OK enough.

Doodlecollection again + animated doodles!

The Animatricks Animation Festival is over for this year. Five days of animation screenings and I went to most of them...whew. It did get a bit tough at some point...Anyway it was great to see a lot of good animated shorts from Finland and other Nordic and Baltic countries.
The Master Class held by Paul Driessen was very inspiring and gave tools for thought. I didn't get any actual animation done on that too short of a day but maybe I'll do at least pencil test versions of the ideas I wrote down.
But! Here's at least some animated stuff ;) While I was waiting for the second last screening I doodled some sequential stuff to the festival catalog's note pages! I just couldn't resist testing out..would it actually move. It would use some inbetweening but hey it's just a doodleman!

Oh and the usual collected doodles page here too---

Doodlecollection

These I my favorite and most common posts, doodle-pages. These are again some recent and not so recent doodles from various scrap papers.
I'm actually quite busy this week watching animation at the annual animation festival Animatricks here in Helsinki. I'm also helping out with the festival team. There's gonna be a Master Class on friday held by Paul Driessen, a veteran dutch animator. I hope that's gonna ignite some motivation in me to do some animation finally by myself. After all, it's another passion of mine.
The festival started today and is gonna last until next sunday. So if you're in the neighborhood, go and watch animation! See more info here.