Something Drawn

I love bird watching. I’ve not gone so far that I’d actually take notes of the birds I spot but I like to stay up to date with what the birds in our garden are up to. We’ve put many birdhouses in our garden and try to make the area safe for birds to nest and feed in. Whenever I spot a little bit rarer species of a bird I’m always about to burst with joy. Sadly, this often happens in company where the others don’t quite get the coolness of bird watching, so I just.. burst within myself and if the bird is a particularly cool one I’ll make sure to discreetly text my dad to let him know about it. (He’s most likely the reason why I’m into birds.) 

Anyway, for a long time, I’ve felt the need to learn to draw birds. Not just your generic bird characters but actually recognizable bird species. I’d like to study their shape and colours and learn to capture what’s most characteristic to each species. I believe this will take a while but I feel it’d be a fun extension for my bird hobby! :) So, this is my first try at these drawings. It’s very simple and boring but it’s a good start for my drawing journey! The Blue Tit has always been one of my all time favourites. I like to think they’re wearing blue hats that are two sizes too small for them. The other birds just don’t have the heart to tell them about it. 

jennieveliina:

Trying out some new things with PS~

This is a small drawing for Deen of her OC from her graduation film : ) I’m sorry if it’s not 100% accurate, I did it mostly from memory!

A lovely drawing a friend of mine did of my grad film’s main character. 

Thank you so much, Jesmo~♥

A Pokémon card I drew for my little sister as a late birthday card.

My sister’s boyfriend and I spent one evening coming up with fitting attacks for her card. Some background info about our choices: Her internet nick is “Hayenni”, her birthday’s on 14.2. (HP 142) and favourite pokémon type water. She likes to jokingly push her glasses on her nose while correcting someone and she’s also a passionate baker. Everything she makes is always super delicious and cupcakes are the current favourite thing to bake. Chirping/tweeting/squeeing in a cute but confusing way is her way to communicate 20% of the time and I’m sure she could sleep through an earthquake and not feel a thing. My sister’s the only person I’ve ever seen fall asleep so easily. It’s like she has an on/off switch. Also, her weakness is dogs, which is something we have in common.

A birthday picture I drew for my good friend Laura. :) We got to know each other through Pokémon 12+ years ago and being a pokéfan is still something we have in common.

Happy Friends Day! As we Finns say. :) 

I like the idea that you can celebrate Valentine’s day as a day for couples or as a day for friends in Finland. Guess it depends on the person really, which way they want to celebrate it. 

I’ve seen lots of people carrying flowers from my window today. Such beautiful flower bunches some have chosen for their significant others. ^_^ If I was in Finland already I’d try to meet a couple of friends for a nice cup of hot chocolate or something and if my sister happened to be in the same town with me, I’d take her for a birthday lunch as she was born on Valentine’s Day. 

I’ve not been okay for a while. I feel like I’ve lost an important piece of myself but can’t figure out what the piece is.

My mission for 2013 is to figure out what it is that I’m missing and attempt to build my “inner jigsaw puzzle” back together. 

I’ve not draw much for myself for the past year or so and realised drawing stuff for myself was what has always kept my spirit up when I’ve had hard time.

What should take me half an hour, now takes me two hours. That’s how rusty I am with personal drawings. Which is strange as I’ve done nothing but drawn all year. In fact, I drew and animated so much I inflamed a tendon in my wrist and had to spend months trying to heal it. But I’ve not drawn even a single, honest drawing for myself. Nothing, that feels like my own. Nothing, that actually cheers me up.

I’ve decided to change this. To find my missing “puzzle pieces” I’ll aim to draw something regularly and when I do, I will post it here.  When I’ve finally found my missing piece I can look back at everything I’ve drawn and feel happy about the journey. :)

Hopefully I can think of less cliché subjects in the future…

A quick Moomutt drawing to cheer myself up. Every time I’ve had hard time with stuff lately I’ve tried to lose myself in plans about the world of my Moomutt characters. I’ve also been trying to develop the characters a bit. I’d like them to have hands that can hold things so I’m thinking of turning them into more monkey-like creatures with thumbs and tree-climbing skills. I need to actually do some anatomy studies for that once I have the time. :)

Some bear doodles I did for fun. I have this idea of an illustration about a hibernating bear sleeping all cozy-like in a  den. 

I’ve been dreaming of wearing a hat like this for a while now and have been searching for the perfect yarn to make one from. I think I’ll try a green one first. If it ends up looking good on me I might knit yellow and red ones too! 

Danventure Time! A birthday present for my boyfriend. Seeing that my last post was also a birthday present for him, it’s officially been a full year since I last drew just for fun and not for school. Oh well!

The original Adventure Time picture can be seen here. 

A birthday present for my awesome boyfriend. It’d be the best to ride a pet Rancor to places.

More alien-creature designing. I grew quite fond of this one while drawing her. 

Been on a Star Wars mood with the BF for a change (ha, what change?) and have had various SW-related chats about stuff with our SW-loving friends as well. There are so many awesome species and creature in the universe I’m about to burst of excitement every time I start to look for more info about them. This time around, I’ve taken a liking to Togrutas, which is also the species I drew today. :) Love the design. 

A quick unicorn for today~

Owls, as requested. ^_^ <3