Sketch #098

I noticed that I should draw many other things than just characters and sceneries in order to once becom a successful concept artist. Amongst the many other things there are weapons, which I now tried. This is bullpup style modern assault rifle with special napalm grenade launcher, silencer and scope. Some things I should’ve changed are the tip of the grenade which is too pointy, even though it should explode easier like this, and the switch that controls fire mode (semi-automatic, automatic, burst) should be better, it’s somewhat messy.

bullpup

I <3 Blogging entry

My entry for the I <3 Blogging contest on WordPress and Infectious.

I finished the artwork few weeks ago but have been lazy fitting it on the template and upload. But now it’s finished and pending review in Infectious, in few days we’ll see if it’s accepted..

World without borders

Sketch #097

Randomness.. slightly art nouveau again..

You light my shadows one degree darker

Sketch #096

Argh.. my blog is totally falling apart :D Whenever I have time I’m just too tired to draw anything. Except at work of course but can’t really showcase those… at least not yet…

Something art nouveau-ish. Mucha-inspired. Based on the song Vesilahden Veräjillä by Korpiklaani, which is based on a Narva folklore of Hunnun Herra and Kirmukarmu. Hunnun Herra was a christian missionary who was found from a lake in Vesilahti. Kirmukarmu was a local pagan chieftain kind of man.. a warlord perhaps. He didn’t like Hunnu’s preaching so he nailed him on a tree and told him to give up his faith if he wants to live. A certain woman helped Hunnu escape but Kirmukarmu eventually found him. Then he tore off Hunnu’s arms and legs and he bothered Vesilahti no more.
God I love these Finnish stories about Swedish Crusades :D

Hunnun Herra & Kirmukarmu

Sketch #095

Some very random doodleing in bus..  fighting agaist drowsiness..

suffering

Sketch #094

Theme: Teamwork

"I think we're gonna need a bigger team"

Sketch #093

Some facial expression studies…

worries

update: colored this just a while ago.. just testing my colored pencils again.. haven’t used these since elementary school

Sketch #092

I’m not sure if this interprets the song Kirjeitä Paratiisista by CMX perfectly.. but it’s this feeling I got from these particular lines in the chorus:

Kaita polku paratiisiin kulkee läpi painajaisten
Hirviöitten, kummajaisten, kauppasaksavainolaisten

Narrow path to paradise runs through the nightmares.
Monsters, freaks, hounding hucksters

well.. that last word is bad translation.. “kauppasaksa” is very very old word meaning a travelling merchant.Vainolainen is old word too, it means some enemy faction which hounds and attacks the friendly faction. Soviets were “vainolainen” for Finland in WW2 in some “vainolais”-stories. Usually their evilness is greatly exaggerated in these stories. However, these words combined.. it doesn’t exist in Finnish language either so it’s pretty hard to translate. And huckster.. just sounded better than hawker and peddler and is equally old expression :D But hopefully you get the idea..

Kirjeitä paratiisista

Sketch #091

Some decor design for my future apartment. I’m fairly sure what kind of apartment I’ll get in civil service, and decided to do some planning on what the ideal though realistic decor would look like.

Sketch #090

This is the final judgement.

Aina se roiskuu ku rappari rappaa, mutku Tuomari tulee, Tuomari tappaa.