5/52 Fur Bearing Trout

This week is another treat from lumberjack culture. A hairy trout.

Jonah

Today I had a pretty good day. Worked only few hours, weather was lovely, I met up with the Norwegian one for watching her eat food... But most importantly, I made a new friend. His name is Jonah. Currently he is helping me with the art stuff, so he gets distracted from missing the ocean.

Thanks Rachael! :D

Water

For Illustration Friday. There are many uncovered mysteries in the depth... :)

some whales...

...are just cuter than others!

A snippet preview of what is coming to my etsy store THIS SPRING! ;) Shame about the blue whale fella as his tail fell off :(

Edinburgh Reef & a wee update

After way too long I am actually posting it here: the Edinburgh Reef site which is part of my degree show is live. And actually has been live since 13th of May! You can admire there some illustrations, the story of Rufus and Henry Pearce and other miscellaneous things!

Apart from that there have been some gentle visual amendments to my portfolio and the actual contents of it have changed. Next step: Eelcat update!

The post of April

I am very stressed.

I thought that you little humans would love to see what I am up to in those dreadful times. Well, here it is:



The story of Rufus and Henry Pearce. Not yet complete. Hopefully will be soon! Will come complete with a whole website dedicated to them two.

humpback and killer

I felt I really needed to post something, so here it is. Most of my life has been focused around my last - now less than - 2 months of college. (In theory, this is when the Final Hand In is :)). Past couple of weeks were mainly dissertation focused, and I am frankly just a bit fed up with it all. So as a treat to everyone, these are further two pages of the Drawing Journal - and there are PLENTY more, so I might start posting them more frequently again. I can't wait for when all the stress is over and I can spend more time having a web presence...

Long time, no see!

Christmas had me very busy, so did New Year... I am mainly focusing on my college project at the moment. I got this idea that it would be so nice to animate some things, but I never did flash before. It seems to be quite easy to leart though. Here is my test animation, which only consists of few of my sketchbook drawings put into one!

July

I just had to do at least one underwater one! And here it is :)

Since there were no mentions of Riennahera lately, it's about time it happened. So: it is her blog's birthday today!

Other than that, Harry Potter was pretty brilliant. I wanna go again!

The Hub

One of he most characteristic buildings around. You can see it from the illustration studio at college, and last year I had the pleasure of working in there :) First one of the more properly "underwatery" buildings. More is yet to come!

Today is going to consist of doing some college work (this is the "plan" for pretty much every day, whether it goes according to it or not is an entirely different matter) and doing fun things in the afternoon with Riennahera.

ROVs

Remotely Operated (underwater) Vehicle

After questioning Pete what you'd do to investigate deep sunken things - apparentely this is the way!

Pics from Wiki. I unfortunately haven't got one at home to do lifedrawings of.

(Although now that I think of it, I think I do have some photos of similar things from Stockholm's FANTASTIC diving museum :) )

I am very sad to report that unfortunately, St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh has drowned in a fishtank.

My second attempt ever of painting architecture (the first one was funnily enough the very ame part of the very same building).

Trying to catch up with July posts ;)

3x3 part one

Something Being Saved.





The last post of May 2010 ;)

Underwater Girl and Eel

This is a painting I did a few days ago. I'm really into this sort of color schemes now, so I think there will possibly be a series of underwatery paintings :)

This is also available on my Etsy shop! A great debut ;P

It was painted with acrylic paints on board.

Eelcat painting

...This and some more Eelcat related pictures are in the art section of Malin and the Eelcat. :)

Amal

Drawing originally done on Isle of Skye, during last year's EUSAC Skye Expedition. It landed in my sketchbook/dive logbook after Amal just before the dive bombarded me with tons of new signs (mainly describing parts of ship that I had no idea what they were anyway). Then during the dive I have been shown all the parts and had no clue what they were (with the exception of an anchor).

This is Illustrator version of Amal tring to show me stuff :). It was used on Edinburgh University Sub-Aqua Club flyers for the Sports Fair.

Killer whale high fives Poseidon

This is a design I made for the competition Edinburgh University Sub-Aqua Club has every year for a design that is to go on back of club hoodies. This year I was lucky and my design won :) Apparentely the idea has been kicking around the club for two years (?) but nobody has ever actually done it. I just couldn't resist I suppose :).

Drawn in Illustrator.

Mum & ray

This is a gift for my mom I painted in January. I can finally put it up here because she finally got it :) (Thanks go to my dear friend B. who played the role of delievery woman ;))

It was painted from a photo and in the background there are some fishes from Deep Sea World and a ray. I think the one in top left corner could have been a shark, but not sure...