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This illustration was done for marketing materials for a recently opened shopping mall. The assignment was basically to visually design and show the different members of the consumer family and their pet moose who are regulars at the mall. Each character’s design had to elicit a specific personality and interests.

Nothing beats roasted squirrel and moonshine. No sir. These are for U16’s CTT activity. The first one is based on Adam Duncan’s sketch. And the second is just a quick color sketch for the next in line. It depicts a girl with a big butt.

Well, here’s another one of these girlie speedpaints - fairly loose one this time around. I liked the lighting and all the reflected light in the reference image.

Here’s a few designs for U16’s “The Many Faces of Spaceman Mini” activity. Winner of the acitivity gets a Spaceman Mini of his or her own, so take part. I suspect it’s going to be a bloody battle though…

The first one is based on my old spaceman design from a previous post.

And these two are just a little kinky. I don’t think they’ll be going into mass production. I might do a couple more, maybe.

The original Spaceman Mini basic design is copyright Scott Vanden Bosch.

A caricature of Charles Bukowski’s best known character - or at least the only one that I remember by name.

Or maybe it’s the author himself?

For U16’s Literary Illuminations activity.

Here are a few quick caricatures I’ve done of fellow Stylus members over the past few months. Not really funny ones, but at least couple of them have decent likenesses. But they were fun to do.

Here are the reference images…

…And the caricatures themselves.

 

Check their sites too. In order of appearance. Kiel’s, Jim’s, John’s and Dave’s.

Couple of images for U16’s CTT activity. The first is based on Adam Duncan’s image. Consider this the result of fucking typing a thesis for at least eight hours a day for (almost)couple of weeks.

And my sketch for the next in line… Consider this a preliminary sketch for another project to come.

Well, here’s another one for U16’s Western Activity. It’s a saloon scene with a mountain man reuniting with the civilization after months of beaver hunting. So naturally the first thing in the agenda is some whiskey and, um, beaver hunting of another sort.

Well, old west gun fighters were known to meet premature deaths. If you were too good of a gun, though - a piece of lead might not have been the thing that proved fatal in your lungs…

Inspired by a girl I see smoking outside my window every work day. She always looks like she’s freezing her skinny ass off getting her regular dose of nicotine and tar.

Did this for Unit 16’s Western Activity, but it also fits Illustration Friday’s theme for this week: “Pet peeves.” How convenient! Not my pet peeve, but then again pretty much all public, indoor spaces in Finland are smoke-free these days.

I barely have any time to draw these days, but here he is anyway: Everyone’s favorite barbarian - trespassing hell.

Traditional inks, each of the characters was drawn separately and then the final image was put together and colored in Photoshop.

Bah, I’ve been totally unmotivated to draw for the past week or so. Feels like a much longer time. Oh well, nothing to kick me out of the stupor than being forced to participate to a forum activity.

So here’s a couple for U16’s Character Tag Team activity. First one is based on Gavin Mouldey’s sketch. And the second is my sketch for the next in line.

Pencil sketches! Watercolor paintings! Photoreferenced nudists! In the order they were created!

I think I could get the hang of this watercolor stuff with some more practice. Fun, except when the results turn out bad, hahhah. Or when you’re trying to get a decent scans of them…