Tooele, Utah

(1h, from Google Street View.)

Fruity Raincoat Kimono

Sunday Coloring

(Sketching from photos and testing how to color faster.)

Revelations

This is apparently what I draw now.

Tämmöstä sitten. 

Blade Runner Study

| Study on Blade Runner's Scenery |

Started some time ago and finished during todays Work in Progress meeting.

New Business Cards

| Until the next ones | 

I decided to make some new business cards quick for an event. Although I ended up not making it to the place itself, I somewhat like the design even if it is a bit spa-like with the palm tree on the logo and all. The picture is one from the heap I took on a cruise in Miami and even if it might not read graphic designer visually straight away, it is fairly clean in design and I feel that it represents the look I strive for at the moment (maybe less palm trees, though). The paper could be thicker and more glossy and the printer is a character (sometimes I get smooth colours, sometimes I get porridge), but I think I'll use these until I get another spur of enthusiasm with business card designs. Oh, and these took about two hours to make (with printing and cutting).

Reworking Sketches

| Reanimated |

For the past two or three weeks I have been participating in these Work in Progress-meetings with some of the members from Finconauts (a Finnish fb group for digital artists). I think I have learned a lot or at least taken into use some of the techniques that I knew were around, but didn't apply too much myself. Here is the original sketch:

With the notions I got from the meetings, I adjusted the angle in which the huge bird is (to make it more threatening), added some feeling of atmosphere and distance with the slight use of fog and flying particles (might need to work on these a bit more). AND for the setting I first created a mock-up in 3D with Blender to get the "camera" right and test the lights. I found that to be really helpful as I felt that I didn't get everything right and it actually stopped me from working on this for a while.

I would love to colour this, but we'll see if I'll get around to that.