Bäckahäst - the Brook Horse

Slight delay here! This week a lot is happening for me, as I will most likely soon will have my very own and very first business premises/studio. I also decided this is the perfect time to try soemthing different with my creatures and this weeks will be in form of a comic... But here is a preview for you :)

It does actually take a very dark turn. My mom is sure to e-mail me later how she did not like the comic ;)

 

6/52 Mermaid

Ok, at long last this is here! I had a funny week and a lot of work so this got quite delayed.

If you can find a little girl that does not like mermaids... I will not give you a prize, but I am sure there aren't many out there. :)

Some interesting facts about my current affairs are as follows:
1. I will be holding a stall at Stonyhurst Spring Fair 26-27th of April. It will be a first for me which is not going to be a craft market... It's a really big event, so wish me luck! Also if you are in Lancashire around that time pop by and say hello!
2. For that reason I want to bring out a few new products. I think the current focus is going to be some printed textiles/new screen prints, so eyes open! I am sure I will be posting wips on my facebook page. They will most likely be tea-towels :P

New in Shop: Unicorn Rainbow Tree Bags!

Available on black and natural cotton! Ihave been working on quite a lot of new items for the shop, but it's only now that it started to look like someting is finally coming out :) There is a lot of new jewellery on the way including some earrings! So these two are available on my etsy shop. Here's BLACK and here's NATURAL!

Suspend

Eelcat hanging in there for Illustration Friday! :) I seem to be going through phases of drawing dark black and white images and colorful cheery eelcat ones. This does not reflect my mood in the slightest though!

refresh

Malin is not so refreshed... Eelcat certainly is!

And on a side note, I am not refreshed at all either. I had the pleasure of waking up at the middle-of-the-night o'clock, courtesy of a little mousie. I think I could really benefit from an eelcat's company! (Or any other cat for that matter).

heights

Malin and the Eelcat make a grand return.
For IF :)

Prepare, Tuffberry!

Not much to say here really, getting back into drawing cartoony things :)

Also IF.

I just realized that due to my colour choice i might look quite dramatic... But no, she is not painting it with anyone's BLOOD. :P

Mr Pofkins

A bit of crossposting. This is a comic I am going to do during October! Click on Mr Pofkins to go through to the website...

Halloween and life of a drawing uncovered.

I know it is still over a month until Halloween, but I am preparing something special Halloween-themed :). This post is a teaser-trailer and my way of working UNCOVERED.

This is a rough guide how this drawing came to life.

1. Sketch number one. Legs are missing - appalling. (Human age equivalent 0-1 months old)

2. Sketch number two. A potential, needing refinement. (Human age equivalent 1-12 months old)

3. Refinement in progress. (Human age equivalent 1-5 years old)

4. Inking complete with extra thing happening on the side. (Human age equivalent 18 years old)

5. Colors done (above), and extras etc cleaned up. (Human age equivalent 21 years old. After that it's not growing up anymore, just ageing).

10 things

Courtesy of Liselotte. I got a letter D and then had to list 10 things that begin with D that I like. (And also I decided to draw them , but you don't have to). Comment if you want me to give you a letter!

Tuffberry

Just a quick doodle to not forget how to draw. This is a wee character that I created when I was 15. Or 18. It was so long ago I can't remember anymore.

Asleep

As per usual - last minute Illustration Friday! In theory I could do another one today ;)


The ones I do seem to always feature a black feline... hmmm. That includes last week's one which I have never actually coloured, but I think I will put it up here anyway as it's cute.

Back to Blogging!

For illustration friday theme safari! It's probaly not the most safaisque picture, but but but... I wanted to get away from shooting lions, which was my first tought :P

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.

swarm

...of cats. Poor Malin!

August

Continuing the theme of posting the images of months during an incorrect month - I present to you August. Outfit as seen on Riennahera last August ;)

Jam, baby!

I am thouroughly regretting not making any jams this year. Although last years delicious strawberry-rhubarb was a bit of a failure, as it never sealed properly (so I had to have lots of strawberry rhubarb jam within 3 weeks, which was best before time suggested by my jam master - granny J).

Instead I painted some... I really like the colour scheme in this one.

Wolf Hat & some website talk

Ohhh, he's angry!!! I wish I could be where he is. And have the hat.

I am really struggling for good walk areas near where I live. The closest thing is the Canal, and you can have really pleasant walks along there. I need proper FOREST though. One you can go in and get a bit lost. Back home there were loads of forests you could go into, finding old cementeries and walking surrounded by trees for hours! In Edinburgh - the local places are nice, but they all seem pretty busy. Pentland hills are great too (got lost there quite a few times, hihi), but then they are a bus drive away... The world seems to be against me today.

On the less interesting note, I am planning on changing a few things on the website, menus, portfolio bit etc... And I spent about 5 hours today messing with code, preparing it for the changes and there is actually almost nothing noticeable about it, apart from the portfolio bit which might seem a bit bare/cluttered now (to be changed soon). At least the actual changes will be now well easy to make... Once I get round to do them.

Mariella of the Forests

Came across this recentely.

Over a year ago I started writing this very complex fantasy story with a lot of separate plots that would eventually come together with a big BANG and... Thats roughly where it ended, in planning stages. In my great A4 hardbound sketchbook. I have a few designs of characters that were meant to go in it, some plot bits and bobs written down, but generally the whole story went 'on hold' because I decided to focus on Eelcat for the time being. And then... I looked at the sketchbook few weeks ago and really want to work on it again! Although I doubt much will come out anytime soon, as a warm up - here's Mariella, the girl that talks to dead people or something along those lines.

It's black and white acrylic paint, some arty pens and pink eyeshadow. Oh yeah!

(the study of medium it was done in suggests that it was in fact done about 1,5-2 years ago :P)

Recycled Saloon Canvas Bags!

This is going to be a fairly long post, prepare yourselves! I present...


This is a set of canvas bags I did a long while ago for a specific saloon/recycling event, which was organised by Alchemy Arts. (The Fi's sister :)). I have sold quite a few of them since on various occassions, but now that I finally got myself together and made the etsy store, they are all available on Etsy! I just really wanted to put a post together with all of them and have them all exhibited in one place - both ones I no longer have and ones that are still for sale. So, here we go!

Here's the first one of them - Malin and the Eelcat! Or to be more precise, Malin and Linda dressed as cowgirls. (If you click on the name it will take to to more photos).












Next one in line is the slightly shy Red Lady (number one, as there is another red beauty).















This one here is the Green Girl! Nature loving cutie.
















Then there is the Pretty Purple!






























And the Red Lady number two! (She's out of stock)


And finally, the Blue Bimbo... Or is it?!
















Model is obviously Riennahera :)


One last thing I'd like to say is that Malin and the Eelcat were finally updated (and I am intending to do it on more regular basis now - yes, again...)