Sketch #104

Theme: Dying

Dying

This work by Juho Paaso-Rantala is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Finland License.
Based on a work at yuho.wordpress.com.

Sketch #097

Randomness.. slightly art nouveau again..

You light my shadows one degree darker

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 #088

CMX – Suojelusperkele (Guardian perkele)

Se tunteitasi rakastaa ja hengittää keuhkoissasi. Se silmiesi takaa katselee, se rakastaja kaaoksen. (It loves your feelings and breathes in your lungs. It watches behind your eyes, the lover of chaos.)

 

Suojelusperkele

Sketch #065

Theme: Precious Treasure.

 

Precious Treasure

Sketch #059-061

Three themes: Night, Stars and Hold My Hand. 60 min photoshop speedpaints.

 

Night

Stars

Hold my hand

Sketch #058

Theme: expectations. 

I’m little pissed off right now.. had some problems with my connection, browser, or java and I completely lost an oekaki. I suspect it’s the Chrome’s fault, I don’t quite a trust this thing yet.  Now it doesn’t render Kupoli.com at all, even though every other browser works just fine. I say, this Chrome is cool, it’s fast and smooth, very minimalistic, that’s what I like. But. I’t a piece of motherf*****g s**t-eating c***sucking **********. Perkele. Doesn’t do java by default, lags when there’s too much flash, there isn’t “home”-button, and you actually have to add google to a bookmark, I somehow imagined there’d be a more intuitive way to get to the iGoogle in Google’s own browser. Hell, in FF I can add Google Reader and GMail plugin directly into UI. Why is there no integration like that in Google Chrome. 

Anyways I just wanted to test it for a while but seems I should not try to do anything relatively important like drawing with it. Oh, and it seems there’s already the expected google-free version out there, SRWare Iron. From what I saw it’s even much faster and java works great. Though I still don’t want to test oekaki with it..

 

Expectations

Sketch #055

Theme: Happiness.

Candles, comfortable clothes, chocolate and a good book. Could one ask for more?

 

Happiness

Sketch #054

I got even more inspired by this phrase..  so I drew this. I think there are no “normal” classes, at least not after elementary..

I’m not any of these, but maybe combination of some..

Freakshow