maknien's sketchbook

[Zyklus]

Heey Juuso! (Olli here). Cool sketches and nice characters, especially the robots, but dont you ever color / render your sketches? I mean some of those are so good that they ought to be taken from "just" sketches to finished pics!

[maknien]

Thank you Olli. Making a finished piece is way too time consuming for me right now. Too bad. Don't have much time to draw, so I will examine different techniques a little and do some more small things for a while.

Here I have some of the BIG pile of doodles I did in OpenCanvas this evening.
It felt so quick to sketch something with oc that i just draw page full and then closed it (without saving) and start with a new one. NOT AN ARTISTIC ACTION. Here is something I clipped to photoshop and also one eventfile.





http://www.pox.fi/~maknien/mjamja.wpe

Plah. A bit wretched update... I hope i'll get some relief with school stuff next week and proper stuff done and posted.

[bumskee]

beautiful stuff mate, those gestures are looking very good.

[P E N Ricklund]

My little finnish boy is gowing up
Loved that watercolor/clipart, very nice.
And keep on working on those small gesture drawings. They help. They are like santas little helpers

Hope every thing is good. From what I see here, it is

Hugs!

[Nike]

Hi there!
It was nice to meet you!
Awesome stuff you've got there! Love the little gestures...and that Mucha museum drawings - strong lines!

Keep the good work!

cheers,
Veronika

[OleOlsen]

hey marknien you are getting awfully good!! YEAH baby!

[maknien]

Bumskee: Thank you muchos muchos
Pencilator: Thanks my swedish boy! I will.
Nike: It was really nice to see you too. Then let's wait for the next ws Thanks for the reply!
OleOlsen: Thank you very much.

Here more quick oc doodels done tired as a noodel. eh - heh.





And WPEs:
http://www.pox.fi/~maknien/mjamja6.wpe
http://www.pox.fi/~maknien/mjamja7.wpe

[maknien]

Did one character face plate in OC. I tried to achieve also some expressions. Maybe I should pick up some references and study facial muscles first...



WPE: http://www.pox.fi/~maknien/mjamja08.wpe

[Tigermilk]

Hey man! Really nice to look through your SB. First time I did that I think!
Very nice face structure and compositions. I can tell your pretty good with lightening and shadow.
Keep it up, your obviously working out your own style here, and it's clearly developing nicely!

Tiger

[johnny78]

interesting faces. But it seems sometimes that you are afraid of nailing down the lines (?). Or is it your prefered style?

And the watercolor pic looks extremely sweet.

[tensai]

aww these last images are suweet! love this one http://www.pox.fi/~maknien/oc-doodles02.jpg.
looking good, keep it up

[paarma]

Thanks for the welcome.

I dont see why "posting here scares the fuck out of you." You're stuff is solid. I enjoyed browsing through 'em. You've got a nice painting kinda feel to your sketches ...and of course the "red baron" -stuff was great.

keep it up!

[maknien]

Tigermilk: Thanks!
Johnny78: Thank you. I know what you do mean. It's about balancing between finding the right form and drawing strong lines.
Tensai: Thanks.
Paarma: Thanks! Without those kind of replys I would still be afraid heh

Well, I started studying anatomy FINALLY! Found www.saveloomis.org and then I just started sketching and thinking what I draw and why.

[maknien]

[antihero]

Great Loomis Studies (aren't they Loomis?). The perspective-figure-studies are fantastic, so are the face-sketches. It really looks like you've been desperate to get your hands on anatomy stuff...
Oh, and on a sidenote, very sweet painting-style on the digital sketches you've posted some days ago. Looking beatifuly lose. Did you use painter or photoshop?

[maknien]

Antihero: Thanks mate! Yes i'm currently turning over the leaves of Loomis figure drawing. Greeeeat tips and references. And for digital painting I use photoshop.

Here's some muscle stuff:

[Egets]

you have nicely found your own style and it looks really cool !!!

[Bohh]

WOW. Excellent Loomis studies. I wish I was at your level.

[Zebz]

Lovely, lovely studies. Just foudn this thread! What a gem! Keep up the great work! I love your use of line, mate.

[maknien]

Egets: Replys including words "own" and "style" warms my soul... Thanks!
Bohh: Thank you very much. You'll just speed your work routine up a bit and here you are
ZebsFree: Thanks mate!

I just came from Jyväskylä city today, and I decided to start studying colors for real. So after a long break, colors:



I think I'll continue with this one:

[maknien]

Spent some more time with this one:

[Hiipi]

Damn nice Juuso! I should try some enviroments like that too... Do continue.

[Odds]

lovin' those anatomy sketches... keep working on the muscle structures etc, but your gestures are lookin' pretty solid!
keep it up-

[hurricane]

what hiipi said

great colors, cheers!

[maknien]

Hiipi: Thank you very muchos Jari. I would love to see you work on some real cool castle scenes!
Odds: Thanks! I sure will get back to "real" anatomy. Maybe with Hogarth Burnes or Bridgman's books.
Hurricane: Hey thanks mate! I really appreciate your words about my color stuff. And you know why he

Still sticking with very basic brushes and tryin to get the color palette right.
Here:

[dCepT]

Enviros are looking great, man!
Just dropped by to say good lookin' and keep 'em coming!

peace

d-C

[OleOlsen]

hey maknien, those muscle studies look keen, and those enviroments are commanding
greetings

[maknien]

dCept: It is nice to see you here! And thank you for the reply.
OleOlsen: Thanks man. Whole new territories for me

Color scheme sketch of an idea about 2 guys and a totem stickin out of the water.

[maknien]

Here's some real RANDOM stuff.

First a page from my lifedrawing sketchbook (During this page he staid still)


An UGLY photo of quick trashcan thing with acrylics:


And speedpaints on photoshop:

[poopinmymouth]

Oh man, what cool stuff! It was great seeing your sketchbook in Prague!

I really dig your color work in your paintings, very nice indeed.

Happy Independance day!