Some recent doodles

Returned from a trip. So here's again collected doodles. Some are from my Moleskine that I just had to buy to see if it's worth it's reputation...hmmm, remains to be seen. Maybe I just hadn't found the right pen for it, pens being another bad shopping habit of mine besides sketchbooks. So the pencil drawings are from another sketchbook :) The texture in the book's paper is so heavy that it's a pain to scan in.

Mostly drawn in a shaky train while traveling through Spain.

Havuja perkele!

Now that I'm starting to be active again with this blog I'm gonna take a trip :) But since it's also the start of the second part of my summer vacation, I'll hopefully do some new stuff next week.

This character popped into the sketchbook while I was taking my pet turtle outside on a sunny day. It could have used some color (the sketch, not the turtle) but I wanted to post little something before leaving.

Beer me!

This sketchdoodle had been lying around for quite a while and the characters seemed funny enough to motivate me to do some quick and simple color. And hey, basically it's new stuff and not my usual 3 year old left overs ;)

*sigh* I still feel I haven't found my direction yet and hopefully the good stuff is on it's way...

Desperate measures

Well, this is starting to be like scraping the barrel now :) but what the hell this was supposed to be a "virtual sketchbook" from the outset anyways!

Some doodles on this page are at least from a couple of years ago.

Good old doodles in a pile

Hi everybody! I hope to keep at least with this "weekly" pace of updates.

This is again one of my "throw some old sketchbook pages in a pile and hope that something good comes out of it" -kind of post :)

Summer should be the time when you have the most free time but it sure doesn't seem that way! Or then it might just be that I lack some self-organizing skills...

Psyched!

Slow slow...

This one I colored up in my sketchbook while I was at the Werchter rock festivals in Belgium last weekend. Whew what a blast! I had great time and the bands were awesome, Pearl Jam, Muse, Air and uuh Tori Amos, wish I'd been that piano chair ;D

Original idea in this sketchbook page was to be a bit psychedelic but actually like my friend commented it turned out to be a gay god.After all, we did "sing" Bohemian Rhapsody several times during the trip...

Little Red Riding Hood

Again digging up some old "goodies" just to make a post :)
This was done as one pre-assignment when I was applying to school. The brief was to do a modern version of little red riding hood...Now that I look at it I think that the visuals are OK but the idea is wayyy off.
I don't remember the exact year but I think it's something between 97-99.

Megadoodlepage!

I thought that it might be a fun idea to do a really big collection of sketches and doodles. I included all kinds of scribbles and some stuff that otherwise wouldn't be worthy of a post. They span a period of probably a couple of years.
Idea was that at least I could see these bad and better drawings as a whole. Plus it could be something of an exploration of all the different "ways of approach" I've had. I could try to learn and find a direction finally...

Or maybe it's just a big page of silly/bad drawings, go figure :)

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Quick post of troll doodles.

Part II of oldie goldie -94

Last 5 pages of the spectacular epic sci-fi fantasy musical adventure comic.

A comic from a looong time ago..Part I

Well, this is again from 1994 (I think). No need for a translation since there barely is dialogue or a proper story for that matter. It's quite clumsy and seems mainly like a tribute work of a high school sci-fi/movie fanboy with various borrowed elements thrown together.

But still I feel warmly about it and amazed that I had had the patience to do 10 pages...seems impossible nowadays. It does have a couple of nice frames and moments.

Ok, have to do this in two posts, another one tomorrow so try to keep calm even though it had such a "cliffhanger" ;)!

Quick face sketches

I need some serious work out on this area.

Tree in a park

Still a bit slow around here but I think it's better if I don't take this too much as a duty. It might start to feel like work ;)

Ok here's just a little drawing of a tree (or part of it) I made today while sitting in the park.

Kid stuff

These are some products of some doodling at a bar with some like-minded people.

A Child Of Corn

Back again and this time with more recent stuff. I did this during our team planning half-day (I participated to the planning too :).

I like the "scary" stuff.

1994 comics nugget (of corn)

Whew, I'm finally pretty much done with the comic for a competition. It still would have needed a lot of tweaking but...Anyway it was great to draw some comics after several years but I wish I could have just concentrated on that. Drawing just on the evenings after work and any other activities sometimes was quite tough and because I drew so periodically, there are huge differences with the "quality" between pages and even between panels.
I'm not entirely satisfied with it but I learned a lot while doing it and it certainly was a step forward. I'm gonna do a better one next time :). Of course I'm only speaking about the art because I was happy with the script that Eija wrote.
I can't post any pages from that comic just yet 'cause the competition isn't finished so here's again some really old comic pages!
It's a really corny story (the opening line "there's 2 drugdealers inside & the door is open" made me laugh out loud) but think it doesn't look that bad even though I drew it 13 years ago.
It's of course in finnish but if there are foreign readers that actually want a translation on my deep and thoughtful script here, please leave a comment :) Pages are 1-4 starting from top left to right and second row from left to right.

Comics from a 15 year old

Wow, it's sometimes fun to run into the ooold stuff. The ones here are some of my really early ventures into comics. The gloomy execution bit I did when I was 15 years old...I must have had some issues :) But at least it's a complete "story".
The scifi/fantasy piece is done a little later, I don't know exactly when. However it's another of those really ambitious starts of mine that never got further than the first page.
I'll post some more pics from my early comics later. I'm actually working on a comic now after a few years break and I'm not sure if I've developed at all from the ones posted here :D

Brush test

Sheesh, it's been two weeks since my last post. I won't make up any excuses, it's unforgivable. This is just a small post but something newer anyway.
I dug up this brush that I had bought over ten years ago along with two others which I've been actually using. But this one was more expensive at the time and I guess it got buried in the drawers while I was saving it to be used for something better...So I popped it and used it for this quick doodle :) Brush is a really nice but darn difficult so I need to practice a bit in the future.