My geeky christmas

The drawings I've made during the holidays... so far. 

My preciousssss, the best X-mas gift ever. ^___^

Merry Holidays!

 Merry Holidays, what ever you are celebrating, if you're celebrating. If not, merry winter... and new year. ^_^ ♥

Traditionality!

A wall painting. We got to paint walls at an art
class at work. The best thing ever! I loved loved
loved it! ^___^

An acrylic painting I made for myself.
50 x 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 inches), about
1 week of work.
Lady of fire: my power painting! =D

Girls girls girls

Her knight(ess) in shining armor.

Well, not really an armor, but a leather outfit. =P

I started drawing this months ago and then slowly been adding to it. Today I inked and coloured it with coloured pencils. 

... The background was so boring that I had to repaint the whole thing in Photoshop CS2. ^^;

Halloween 2

HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!

... so, in the end I finished all my Halloween pictures, which makes it three pictures. Which is a little silly, but Halloween is my favourite holiday to draw. ^__^

Armaros, my demon. And his kitty. =3
(Markers & Photoshop CS2, 3 days)

My boys Jesse & Gabriel from the
"Get over it"-story. ^_^
(Pencils & Photoshop CS2, 5 days)

Girls and love

Hamster-chan (© Zardra) &Wolfie (© Shuji.)

♥ ♥ ♥ 

Photoshop CS2, 9 hours

Inspiration!

IT'S BACK! ;D
I've been so silent and haven't shown anything new in a long time, so here's a little treat. I hope you like! ♥

The oil painting I made for
the art exhibition at work.
60 x 80 cm. Oil and real
feathers. XD

Baaad boyyy! XD

The Pain and Pleasure crew, heights! =D

The Wild Love crew, heights! =D

More to come later on. If only there was more time for a day. ^___^

Birthday artses.

Been productive, woah, it happens! XD Very random art lately though. And I even drew a naked man! =P ... and a small weird dragon, haha. Oh well, these are both birthday gifts for friends. =D

Maija, my co-worker asked for a dragon, here's one for her. hihi ^_^

Tundradrix had an "Alan Rickman" themed birthday party
last weekend, which is why I drew her an Alan Rickman
themed picture. ;P
Nottingham Sheriff, because I love Alan in that role! 

PINK art

Made this following art challenge, because I... felt like it. X3 I've been so uninspired that I grasp every idea that's remotely interesting. This one was. And so, a PINK Xir'ag was born. X3

Soookeehhhh

And Co. =P

I just reread all the Sookie Stackhouse books (for the third time XD) and have been watching the True Blood season 5. I don't really like the series anymore, because it has nothing left of the original story, but it's still... a must to watch, I can't stop... I guess I really like the actors and actresses, not always the characters. Though most of the characters are either completely different from the books (Sookie, Pam, Eric, Bill, Alcide, Tara) or they don't even exist in the books (Lafayette (He was in the books for about half a page), Jessica...). ^^;

And then I had this horrible urge to draw Sookie with "all her men". If you've only watch the series, one of these guys is a complete stranger. But in the books... YUM! Or maybe I should say rawrrrr. ;P

THIS FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS!
These are, of course, from left to right:
- Quinn the weretiger
- Bill the vampire
- Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress and a 1/8 fairy
- Eric Northman, Sheriff of Shreveport and a vampire
- Alcide, a werewolf and the packmaster of the Shreveport pack.

Ah yeah, the picture is drawn with markers and coloured in Photoshop CS2. ^_^ Took about 3 days. The colouring is a little hasty because I just don't have the patience to sit in front of the comp these days.

A new tutorial

I made a new photo editing tutorial! (Level should be Easy, but I don't know if it is, please let me know!) Because blogger resizes everything TINY, you can see the big view here at my DeviantArt gallery. =)
No new art this time, been taking photos too much... though I just scanned two new drawings too, wheee! \^_^/

Books inspire art - part 1

MacKayla Lane from the "Fever"series by Karen Marie Moning. Both girls are the same girl... she changed a "bit" during the series. I'm not gonna tell anything about it, so I won't spoil anyone.

I love the books and highly recommend them. ^_^ I love almost all the characters in the books, but Mac develops the most so she was the one I wanted to draw (first). And she's just fierce! :D

The picture is sketched with pencils, scanned and painted in Photoshop CS2 with my Wacom Intuos 3.

B & W

Now that I look at it, the background looks like a planket he's laying on... it was supposed to look like wind. Ugh. X3

Anyways, yes, Xir'ag. Been a long time again since I drew him. I think his eyes just keep on growing. Is it a good or a bad thing?

... I like how his hair turned out in this. Hurraa. 

Pencil shaded and painted "over and under" in Photoshop CS2.

Spring

Doesn't look exactly like that here yet... =P There's still some snow on the ground and the lakes are frozen, but it's definitely spring. ♥

For some reason my artblock is worse than ever. I haven't drawn anything in a long long long time and have no ideas what to draw if I wanted to. ;_; Hopefully the urge for art returns in the summer. Until then, I am sewing, knitting and crocheting new summer clothes. =P

The girl is fierce!

Lisbet Salander, the coolest female character in a book/movie in... ever!
I've been planning painting her for ages, years even, but the sketches were never good enough to finish. And then one day I just started making this like a woman possessed. XD

It's not the movie version, though I completely and utterly adore Noomi Rapace's version of Lisbet. (kyaaah, Noomi! ♥), I wanted to make my own version how I saw her when I read the books.
The story being "The millenium Trilogy" with the books/movies:
1) The girl with the dragon tattoo (the original name: Men who hate women)
2) The girl who played with fire
3) The girl who kicked the hornet's nest.

Honey (bloody) honey

This was supposed to be Drizzt Do'Urden. When Sajore didn't leave me alone I agreed to paint him instead. It was gonna be a really happy picture. And then he just glared... like THAT. Ugh, that vampire is sooooo irritating. :P But I just cannot stop painting him. Waaah!

As you can see. XP

He's growing up, my darling. ;_; I still love that second to bottom the most, he's actually psychotic happy there! XDD

Flames!

My dragonbaby, hihihi. *^_^*
I did this from the larger picture I did a few months ago... but now I don't know where to use this... I wan't to use it somewhere ;_;
Maybe my DA journal or something? It's too tall to be a logo here. Agh! XD

Rawrrrrrrrr

I'm getting my fourth tattoo tomorrow. It's gonna be a tribal lion... I've been feeling lion'ish, which should explain this picture. XD
... I used a reference, because I'm not that good painting animals. I tried to make this look really artistic and not so realistic, but I don't think I succeeded in that.

My arm hurts and I can't paint that well, waaaah... so I kind of gave up on this too early maybe. Then again, I never planned for this painting to be anything but a little doodle to satisfy my lion-urge.

Now off to sleep, have to wake early to tomorrow to be pricked by a thousands needles and black ink, haha! XD

Cancan-demon

So yeah, I drew more women. XD This is a faery/demon/thingie with burlesque/cybergoth inspired clothes. It all started from the urge to paint hair. I did this for 4 days... it seems that I just take longer and longer to finish a piece. I do hope it shows too. ^^;

This is a little frustrating when I really want to draw stuff, a lot, but then when I do, it's something like... animals or women or scenery. Nothing hot! And yesterday when I ashed in frustration of my boyfriend what I should draw because I had no ideas, he said "draw Trigun porn with Wolfwood and Vash".

HAHA! XDDDD

Thank goodness Ktiraam gave me one of her drawings for colouring, hurraaaa! Now I have something to do while I try to sketch something not so completely weird. Maybe some Trigun, hmmm. ;D

Music

I... this is gonna sound so weird and stupid, but oh well: I just started to listen to music again.

I realized that during the last year, somewhere along the way, I had completely stopped listening to music. Some might wonder how I could, but I think it has something to do with being depressed. I mean, I listen to audiobooks allll the time. But I had not listened to music in months, maybe even over a year. I had no urge to do so, so I didn't. But, last week I put on my iTunes and made a list of "dancemusic", "Soundtracks" and one with "ballads". And I almost cried while listening to one of my favourite songs, omg it felt so good to hear it again!

My darlings Sajore & Xir'ag
(put on that song on that link and then look at this
pic, maybe you can catch the emotion I had while
painting this. ^_^)

... While making this picture, I had my "ballads" list on. And I really think it shows. Actually, after starting to listen to music again, I have begun to wonder if I've been painting so little just because I haven't been listening to music. Music makes so many emotions and without emotions there really is very little inspiration and so, no art.
But now there is, art and music! I've finished 4 paintings this last week. And been listening to music. Hehe-he... ^^;

Happy Friends day

Valentine's day is translated "Ystävänpäivä" in Finnish, which makes it Friends day. I think this translation has changed the whole meaning of the day here. We celebrate it, not with our partners alone, but with everyone who are special and dear to us, our friends.
We buy gifts for friends and family or eat all together. Of course lovers wish happy friends day for each other too and can make up special plans, but that's just one way to celebrate it.

I like this way a lot more. The original valentines day makes you feel lonely if you're a single, and that's not at all nice. It's much nicer to celebrate all together. ^_^

Lately I've become sort of a hermit. I spend a lot of time alone, doing stuff just by myself. But I still think about my friends, they are dear to me and I miss them badly. Time spent with friends is always a cheer up, a happy moment. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ So Happy friends day for everyone. ^__^

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New year, new tricks ;P

So, it's been kicked to start: year 2012 has started well. ^_^
Artist vice, I've been painting about 3 nights a week. But I have this little problem: I spend a helluvalot of time per painting, so all I've been painting, are two pictures and one is still unfinished. XD

But until I get something new and fancy to show, here is the one new one:

The new one. ^_^
(yeah, that's me ^^;)