Portraits

I obviously enjoy drawing people most. And I love drawing portraits. That's why most of my freehand doodles are heads floating in space, but that's not the point I'm trying to get across. What I'm trying to say is that a lot of times innocent people become unaware victims of involountary modelling, whether it be at Starbucks or Stockholm's central station.

Sometimes Starbucks are pretty empty, at least on summer mornings, or maybe it's just a Warsaw thing. With no faces sticking around long enough, I just may end up doodling that mutated double-tailed mermaid from Starbucks' logo. (Yes, that fishy lady has two tails in case you haven't noticed before.)

Or some other faces I felt like drawing at the time.

But for better or worse, people will eventually come in the end.
Being interested in animation, I very much enjoy drawing in more stylized, cartoony style.
The following are based off actual people:

But I guess I do have the Florence Academy on the educational part of my CV so sometimes I try to make it more realistic, yet still stylized drawings; and sometimes I try to draw realistically but end up with cartoony anyways. Obviously I've got a lot to study and I can't pretend I don't. ;)

Speaking of school work, I copied two portrait Bargue plates at school during my first year. This is one of them, the unknown woman of Seine.

Sometimes, very rarely, I draw self-portraits. I made following quick (some 20-30 minutes) work yesterday when having an exhausting, very extended (in terms of time - it lasted a couple of hours) anxiety attack and was trying simply anything to refocus my attention.

They say that Photoshop is supposed to make people on the pictures pretty, I think there's something wrong with my version. ಠ_ಠ ;)

Blah, that's a downer way to end a post but I'm out of more pictures that I wanna submit, haha.
I guess good news is that I'm working on two bigger portrait projects - they're nowhere close to being finished yet, but hopefully at some point this winter I'll get them done. :)

Hope you liked it all, see you next time!

A good evening

Mindless, nonetheless enjoyable doodling while watching "Once upon a time" and breeding pokémon to fill that damn pokédex.
If it wasn't for some leftovers from my cold and multiple panic attacks I'd say it was the most relaxed evening (spent alone) that I've had in a long while. But hey, calming pills worked eventually too, so who am I to complain!
Hah, one of the good sides of nobody reading my blog - I can write whatever the hell I want... hehe.

Hopefully I'll wake up healthy tomorrow and then -- back to school getting some serious drawing done!

Pencil figure drawings

A few pencil drawings I did last trimester before I took a break from school for a bit. Sorry I'm not really gonna elaborate more on the drawings but I cought a cold and whatever I would write probably wouldn't make much sense anyway. ;)

Pencil on toned paper, 3 hours for each pose.

Classy drawings

...Or should I say, drawings with a classical subject...

Long time no update... but my new scanner arrived two days ago, and after a very rough day yesterday I needed something zen to do, so scanning stuff seemed to be a great option. ;)

Stockholm's Nationalmuseum holds two awesome exhibitions this season - "The Four Seasons" (very cliché, I know, but I still liked it a lot) and a show on the great russian Peredvizhniki. I wish I had a chance to see the latter at least one more time but alas, it closes in a week or so.
I also enjoyed sculptures from their permanent exhibition, it was mostly not so crowded on the day I visited it so I grabbed a stool and treated myself with some drawing (until I felt the need to treat myself with some food).

Sketch of Johan Tobias Sergel's "Queen Sofia Magdalena"





Drawing of Per Hasselberg's "Snöklockan".
Damn, I freaking loved that marble sculpture and I wish I could do it justice with my drawing - I didn't succeed but maybe one day when I become a rich artist (hahaha, get it?? "Rich artist"!) I'll get myself a copy of it and try drawing it again. Sounds like plan to me.
(I was happy for a moment when I found a copy of it outside of Gothenburg's Palm House, unfortunately swedish weather did not do it good... :()




A veery quick sketch (I was hungry, ok?) of a fragment of Francois Rude's "La Marseillaise".





Sketch of Denis Diderot's bust portrait by Jean Antoine Houdon.
I obviously enjoyed discovering all the different plains more than putting them carefully on paper. ;)


I also made a little study of Rembrandt's "Hendrickje at the bath" -- unfortunately I had to return the album to the library before I was able to take it to some more decent stage, but I got a hold of a Rembrandt album to have on my own so I think I'll get back to it at some point.
(Also -- ugh, comparative measurement is haaard...)

That's it for now...
Will post something again soon (and I actually mean it - I have the pictures scanned already)!

Snow White

A friend of mine told me she had a dream that she was watching a picture of Snow White that I made in her dream. She asked me if there's a chance she could see it come to reality and I figured, why not? :)
It feels strange though - I made quite a lot of sketches and fiddled around with the idea for a while, but as soon as I scanned the picture to color it I got kind of tired of it and after barely couple of hours I felt like I really just wanna be done with it already. But still, it was nice since it's been a while that I actually made a finished picture. :)

The pose is very very much inspired by Alfons Mucha's "Two standing women" (from his tableaux decoratifs, no. 45).

First I was thinking of a Snow White in a veil.
I also randomly drew her playing some medieval guitar or something, heheh.


I kinda liked the pose but meh, obviously didn't really work for me.

I tried with a profile portrait, but I wanted to come up with something more creative.
I was stuck and clueless, so good thing I got that Mucha album on my shelf, it got me going right away. ;)

Anyway, nice to have it done, nice to have done it.
Tomorrow my boyfriend and I are going for a trip to Stockholm, I hope I'll bring back sketches galore!

Monsters from under the bed

...Or from the clouds, really! I was on a train and started doodling monsters based on shapes of clouds out the window. I've never really drawn any kind of monsters before - I rarely have creative ideas for them - but clouds turned out to be a really cool starting point that worked really well for me :) well may not look dashing, but at least I had a lot of fun! And that's what drawing should be in the first place. :)

That one in the bottom is unfinished but I don't think I'll get around finishing it anytime soon, so what the heck. ;)

So if you're out of ideas what to draw, I'd definitely advice cloud shape monsters! ;) (Or gesture drawings, of course. ;))

Gesture, gesture!

Time for a new entry! I neglected this blog a little too much. Sorry! But now I'm back and promise to be good better. :)

Last spring I attended a gesture drawing workshop with Glenn Vilppu and I fell in love with it! Gesture drawings, I mean, not Glenn Vilppu -- though he was great. So now whenever I don't know what to draw - gesture drawings come to the rescue. Sucky thing about them is that they're so much freaking harder than they look! lol But they're still incredibly fun.

But well! Here is a compilation of some of my sketches. :) I'm sorry the scans are so crappy - my scanner is small and that sketchbook isn't...

The workshop took place in Visby - Sweden's medieval town - and our models were awesome and posed for us in their clothes they use for Visby's medieval week!

A little action poses now:

(Ah, there's Glenn sitting in a chair, waiting for everybody to get back from our break. :))

Series of 1 minute poses (if I recall correctly):

And some of my doodles from imagination:

Pillows/bags of potatos, I love them!

That would be all for now! Hope you liked!