Windmill works!

Dr Sketchy: Acrobat girl

2011-09-24T01:28:00.000-07:00

Pilottes!

2011-08-22T11:31:00.000-07:00

Burlesque banner

2011-08-22T11:30:00.000-07:00

A website banner for Finnish burlesque performer Olivia Rouge!

oh the heat

2011-06-05T10:03:00.000-07:00

Summer is officially here.

Neil

2011-05-26T01:28:00.001-07:00

Gaiman. He looks tired.

progress

2011-05-22T10:56:00.000-07:00

aand one could go on forever from this point on but I chose not to.

Game of Thrones: the Starks

2011-05-13T14:32:00.000-07:00

I started reading this Song of Fire and Ice book series last year, fell in love with it and whaddayouknow, BBC started broadcasting series based on the books! Naturally I'm eagerly waiting for every episode, although it's not so good than actually reading the story (and some of the characters don't look anything like they should, if you ask me!)

Teräspekoni

2011-03-15T15:32:00.001-07:00

Had to. xD

scissor sister

2011-03-15T15:10:00.000-07:00

Uhh.. live dangerously, run with scissors.

Plantess

2011-03-15T14:23:00.000-07:00

A pic that never got finished since I lost the idea... but actually I like it more that way.

Johanna

2011-03-15T14:02:00.001-07:00

Found one pic from last fall.

Sexbomb

2011-03-15T12:46:00.000-07:00

It is what it is.

Rob Swire sketch

2011-03-13T13:24:00.000-07:00

I found the band Pendulum few weeks ago and have been hooked since. I was surprised that there wasn't so many illustrations of Rob Swire on the web since I find his distinctive face features quite good subject for caricature. So here is.

Meeting in a dream

2011-03-08T11:34:00.000-08:00

A scenery from my dream again. This was seen A few seconds before waking up this morning. The blue was immensive.

Mamie

2010-09-30T13:22:00.000-07:00

I tried out a technique in which you draw a picture quickly without thinking too much about the outcome and proportions, and then you paint it. So here's Mamie, a character from a story we're working on. A bit Jessica Rabbit-ish I think. :S

Bloody pig

2010-09-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

This was a dream I had. Gotta love my dreams!

mermaids

2010-09-21T11:30:00.000-07:00

Just pointless goofing around...

War hogs!

2010-09-21T09:16:00.000-07:00

A loyal hog

A wild hog

Made some sketches of outer space war hogs for a friend's project.

Face

2010-03-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Illustration of a friend

girls

2010-03-13T01:26:00.000-08:00

Dr Sketchy - Edward Scissorhand

2010-03-12T15:21:00.000-08:00

Golden characters

2010-03-12T15:08:00.000-08:00

Sketched characters from Golden Compass the movie while watching. I'm a sucker for glamorous hairdos and old guys with moustache...

Mrs Coulter - Nicole Kidman

Lee Scoresby - Sam Elliott

Lord Faa - Jim Carter

People of the bars

2010-03-12T15:00:00.000-08:00

Sketches from a bar drawn in few seconds. Merry people.

floating head

2010-03-01T15:08:00.002-08:00

Queens

2010-02-27T04:34:00.000-08:00

Went to see the Tease Queens and other burlesque performers the other night, and the shows were marvellous! Inspiring.

Moments of 2009

2010-01-17T04:34:00.000-08:00

lego art

Long pause to posting!

Anyway, 2009 was such a great year! One of the best years I've had, and that's mainly because of my great friends, new and old ones. I wanted to make a little compilation I've seen around other blogs of the past year to remember the moments which tend to fall to the farest corners of memory...

In 2009...

- I won couple of competitions...

Pepsi Co Finland wallpainting competition in Tampere. Will be hanging there for at least a few years! :)

The Sink from Tuuli Juntunen on Vimeo.

And The Sink, which won Ainemaatio 2009 - animation competition arranged by MTV3, against drugs and alcohol. We visited and got a tour around MTV3 studio in Helsinki and...

- I was on TV! My fifteen minutes of fame in Huomenta Suomi being interviewed of the competition. I was very nervous and I'm glad I survived it almost with honour. But I liked being in the make up before the show. x)

- we founded Nasta Design osk, a cooperative society(?) (=osuuskunta) with my mates which consist of wide variety of talented graphic designers and few producers! Things have started quite nicely and website should be released soonish...

- I got fired for the first time in my life. The recession cut half of the stuff in the mobile

game company I was working, including me.

- I got a new job in a new game company as graphic artist :)

- I bought the awesomest mug of all times...

- we ate and made a LOT of sushi...

- I took lot of pictures, mainly of our cat...

- I had best summer in a long time! It included grilling outside, setting a bonfire, riding a

merry-go-round, hanging in the parks and being silly with friends, staying up late (and going to

work in the next morning), seeing from the 14th floor the hardest rain and thunder I've ever seen...

- I also had the first birthday party in almost 10 years. x) With dear Kiiki, who also had

birthday in the same week. Actually we celebrated our birthdays several times during that week... I was really touched for the presence and the presents of my friends.

- I found the fascinating world of burlesque and attended a few burlesque parties. So much of fun! And I love dressing up.

going to New Year Extravaganza!

- we started our thesis work, an interesting animation series project involving (surprise

surprise) burlesque! And other weird stuff... more of that later.

- I visited Särkänniemi with my friend. Last time was when I was a little kid. Although I think

sailing with the ship to get there was the best part. The downside of the trip was that we also got in a car accident but only the car of my friend was hurt. This was the second time for me to be in a car accident and it sure didn't decrease my car driving reluctance. :P

Poor car...

- I visited London for the first time! One dream come true.

This year I have to concentrate more on realizing dreams, small or bigs...

- I twisted my foot in the slippery street and was trapped to my home for a month. Like a granny. I have never really hurt mylimbs, and this was first time to actually get the walking sticks. Damn boring.

- I had a wonderful traditional Christmas at the home farm (like always).

Lot of other things might have happened also but I forget.

Birthday Girl

2009-07-26T04:31:00.001-07:00

Birthday present picture of a friend based on Alphonse Mucha's painting. (pasted the frames from the original work) This was extremely fun to draw!

Light sketches

2009-06-28T08:50:00.001-07:00

caricatures

2009-05-29T08:27:00.000-07:00

Read an interesting article by MAD artist Tom Richmond about drawing caricatures. Had to try it right away... still long way ahead!

Quick caricatures

2009-05-28T00:14:00.001-07:00

I found some oldish caricatures from my sketch book which I've drawn quickly while watching some movie... fun stuff. It's a mess.

I assume these were drawn while watching some red carpet pictures of famous people. Nevertheless, I don't think Johnny Depp walked there dressed as Sweeney Todd, so it must have been there earlier. :P

Blacksad comic review

2009-05-27T23:19:00.000-07:00

From the comic course: we had to draw a comic review with the style of the reviewed comic. I fell in love with Blacksad series in the minute I found them... cute and angry animals in funny places! Plus, I like detective stories and suspenders.

On the Radio

2009-05-11T07:43:00.000-07:00

Fruits of the comic course! I'm interested about the idea of creating animation or illustrations to music, and as I'm not that good at creating dialogue, I wanted to make my comic based on some lyrics. I happened to listen to Donna Summer's "No more tears" in the train and I instantly pictured some old ladies listening to the song in the retirement home, bored and dissatisfied with their lives there, and thirsting for some action and romance. The song was too short to end the comic coherently, so I added another of her songs to end things happily.

I guess I wanted to say with the comic that when one really tries to achieve their dreams, although everything wouldn't go as planned, one might ultimately end up with the desired results through other routes. The important thing is to try.

Mother's Day Card

2009-05-10T02:52:00.001-07:00

My mom is a huge The King's Singers fan, so I made her a Powerpoint-card where the men start singing to her (mouths moving) when clicked. Buuut she didn't manage to get the sounds to work, so it was kind of pointless when they were just opening their mouths like fishes on a dry land... But she was very pleased with the picture AND with the information that I ordered her their cd which would arrive anyday now.

24 hours comic (2007)

2009-05-03T15:11:00.000-07:00

I came across the comic I drew in "24 hours comic"happening in the bookstore Bukra in 2007, where you were supposed to draw 24 pages of comic in 24 hours. Well, I spent only 19 hours, then I had to sleep.The comic is preeetty random and confusing, but that's just my thing. And I really didn't know how to place my frames, seems quite cramped.

Pages from improvisation comic

2009-05-03T08:09:00.000-07:00

Found these few pages I've drawn about three years ago for an improvisation comic. When it was my turn to draw, I could never take the storyline very seriously so it usually ended up to be like this... This was my favorite character, can't remember his name unfortunately. Here he has been kidnapped by savages in an unknown island.

Birhday card for a friend

2009-05-03T08:01:00.000-07:00

Agh, tacky... D:

Valentine card

2009-05-03T07:49:00.000-07:00