Life drawing

Hi :D

I hope you don't mind, that I bore you with my recent life drawings *laughs* There's not much I can show you at the moment. I work on a lot of different construction sides at the same time so there is a lot of "Work in Progress" stuff but nothing finished yet :O

Sorry for the ridiculous censor bars *laughs* I did them for photobucket, where I host my images, so they don't delete the naked people again D:

Most of them have been drawn with color pencils :)























Bye bye
Kathi

This&That

Hey everyone :)

University really knows how to keep me busy! I'm working on some really nice projects :3
Over the last weeks I collected some smaller drawings from my sketchbook on my harddrive but I was to busy to get a general idea. But the easter holidays finally give me the time to make a longer post for you :D

The first thing I wanted to show you is a birthday card I made for my dear flatmate, who cut her hair short.



Actually, I did the final card together with my two other faltmates, everyone drew 6 heads and we placed them together on the card I did even 3 more and while talking on the phone with a friend I colored them in Photoshop.

The next thing is a speedpaint (with photo reference) I started with my boyfried to show him, how I paint digitally. This one, I also finished while talking on the phone *laughs* I always need something to skribble X3



Every week, I go live drawing. I'm really not so good at it so it always frustrates me, but I feel like I get slowly better. These two drawings are already a few weeks old. Each of them took me 10 minutes. I think, I had a good day *laughs*





I really like how the next two drawings turned out. I drew both out of a feeling, without thinking too much, just what I had in mind.



The second drawing is based one something I saw from the night train. I saw the man on the cleaning machine in front of the giant train for a very short time, so I used my phantasie to finish the picture.



The last few drawings are concepts for my JAZAM! Comic project. By the way, my entry got accepted :) It will be part of this year's JAZAM! *happy*


This is Elsbeth. The main character of the little story :) she's a daydreamer, likes to built castles in the air and to go on adventures.


And this are her buddies Hendrick and Wasseli. They're not what they seem to be ;)


OK... this one is very random ;) this is Elspeth's bag. I just like, how the drawing turned out (with photo reference) that's why I post it here.

I hope, you had nice easter holidays :D


bye bye
Kathi

Workbook

I love having a workbook :) I use the small book for almost all the courses. It may look a bit unorganized at the first sigh but I like to skim through older work and ideas before I start something new so that system is perfect for me. I also glue everything inside I drew seperately.

I really put some effort in a lot of these drawings because I think of them as good practice in skribbeling my ideas and also in life drawing.

Here are some of my favorite drawings I drew and glued in the workbookI have here in Finland and what I use for studying on the university of Lapland:

Let's start with berries :D

I tried to simplify four different kinds of berries for a project:

This was a first naturalistic drawing I did. I wanted to get a feeling for the characteristics of each berry.



A bit more simplified. I really don't like the black lineart here :O



And the final :)

In the end we didn't use them for the project but I don't regret doing these drawings. It was a good opportunity to practice a bit with color pencils.





I tried to develope a font for the same project :) Maybe you can guess now, what this project is about ;) I found some very pretty letters in sketches from the famous finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. I tried to develope some more letters and fitting numbers. Calligraphy is definitely not my biggest passion *lol* most of the numbers look very clumsy but it was worth trying.



A bear :D I had to build a bear out of wood and fabric for another project. The final thing turned out very weird because it was just an experiment and I didn't have much time and experience but I'm pleased how this drawing turned out :)



This drawing has been done for the same project as the bear but the idea was not realized.


And now time for ducks :D When I went to the Wildlife park here I was very fascinated of the pretty ducks they had there. I really wanted to do a project about them. In the end, we decided to do something else but as you can see, I really ejoyed drawing all different kinds of ducks (and swans):













This is a picture from the Kalevala, the Finish national epic :) It is said in the Kalevala that the world was born from the egg of a duck:


OK :)
That's it for today. Sorry for the flood of pictures :O Believe me, it's just a small part of what I'm doing here, I'm not lazy at all :)

bye
Kathi

Life Drawing, 1st session

Today was the first life drawing session in the university of Lapland for me :)

We drew 3 poses, each 40 minutes. This was a really new experience for me, because we drew in a really big size (around 100x60cm) and with charcoal which I usually never use.



1st pose:


2nd pose:


3rd pose:


I really like the Atelier we worked in today. A beautiful big room with big windows, a lot of light and really cool equipment :D



Bye bye,
Kathi

Ruska

I'm going to spend the next 4 month in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lappland, as an Erasmus student. I just arrived a few days ago and now, we're on a trip through the wilderness of Lappland.
It's really beatuiful and I'll show a lot of photos I already took and still going to take in one of the next post :)
Today, we weren't allowed to take a camera with us but watercolors and other art supplies. It was pretty hard to draw outside when it's only around 7 degree but after a few hours we moved to a little hut in the mountains and made a fire so the whole trip became really nice.

This is what I made today :D



I started with some huger paintings (size around A4) but they turned out pretty crappy because I'm not used to watercolors and the paper was not made for this medium. But then I swiched to tinier paintings and my sketchbook and I think they turned out pretty cute.


A blueberry, whitch are growing everywhere you just have to pick them up while walking *omnomnom*

A dead trunk in a blueberry field.


Mushrooms <3


And some autumn scenery.

I had such a great day :)

Bye bye
Kathi