Warm-up

Here's a collection of warm-ups done before work. The drawings are in chronological order. At first I thought about just drawing only black and white sketches but when I realized that I can do that under 3 - 5 minutes, I thought of trying to paint over the sketches. I don't paint that much at all so I thought it would be nice to practice it during warm-ups. 

There are lots of ups and downs in these sketches. You can tell when I knew exactly what I was drawing and when I was struggling. I learned that one of my bad manners is that I keep drawing way too many details even though it isn't really needed. This happens especially with simple subjects where details are not necessary. I have to avoid this because that's often my downfall in my drawings. Pay more attention, observe and keep things simple. 

Photo references from Google were used in all of them.

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15(?) min

10 min

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10 min

10 min

15 - 20 min

20 min

10 min

20 min

20 min

20 min (my favorite, and a proof that anger is the best motivator)

20 min

The blog will be on hiatus for the next 3 weeks so don't expect anything new for a while!

Brush strokes

Planning to start another blog where instead of uploading drawings, I'll write about movies. Not really reviews, more like writings of my thoughts about films and pondering what things I find interesting in them. There will be talk about the usual stuff like characters, storytelling and what makes certain scenes so freakin' good in certain movie. Sometimes I might end up talking about film industry in general.

I already have over 10 topics to write about and have started five of them. Not so sure when I'll get the first one ready, since I'll be very busy with other things at the end of the year. I also have to admit that I'm not the fastest writer because I find it sometimes hard to put my thoughts into words. I also have bad habit of re-writing stuff more than necessary. But I surely hope that I will improve and that this whole project will work out!

And here are some quick drawings (10 minutes or less) where I have been testing some rough Photoshop brushes. Love drawing with them!

Sininen tiikeri

Blue tigers because I'm out of practice. And because it has been forever since I uploaded anything blue.

Next ones are sketches based on images that I found from google.

Happy Holidays!

I know that is a little bit too early but I don't care. Still, Happy Holidays!

Here's a bunch of random doodles done on weekends. Some of them are quite forced because.. well, I forced myself to draw something. After I started working as a full-time employee at Rovio I didn't really draw anything on my spare time. Because of that I tried to develop a habit to draw at least something on weekends to keep me interested in drawing and keep track of my skills.

There was many up and downs while drawing these. I also learned some very valuable things about drawing and myself. But that's another story for some other day..

Doodles!