The Quick, the Dirty, and the Fail

I tried. I really did. No I really didn't, it took me an hour and I was thinking of something far dirtier. But I can't take anything seriously anymore, I'm still sick and I want to concentrate on the bigger challenge. ;D I'm sorry. I regret everything. 

The Quick and Dirty challenge

As it will probably take us all the rest of the year to add stuff and more stuff to these Kalevala thingies I'd like to suggest an inbethweener. Yes it totally is a word. At least now it is. Due to seeing Ruska's recent doodles I suggest that the subject is SUPERNATURAL. For those of you who do not compulsively watch the series as some of us do *cough*) it can be anything from the realm of supernatural. Ghosts, angels, monsters, muscle cars. And the idea is to really keep this quick & dirty. Nothing fancy schmancy or super finished.

Also Curtvile dear get off yer ass and take part. Thank you.

End of message. Nothing to see here, move along.

And yeah, have a faaabulous Valentine's all of you Dearies.
via http://letyree.tumblr.com/image/17398352494

Another entry for the same freakin' challenge! Prolific under stress only, me.

Iku-Turso, son of Äijö.

I don't know who is Äijö.
I'm too lazy to google.

Anyway, as Sari already mentioned, Iku-Turso is a (possibly tentacled and scaly) seamonster. Which means I get to draw tentacles and scales. And by get I really mean get to, they're perfect for my budding OCD. What I don't get is why everything I draw sorta looks like a penis.

Kalevala Crooz challenge

Hello! New blog member here. Tehe, I said member.

I'm Rusalka, I draw for a living so my life is awesome. I don't write for a living, because I'm basically Deadpool, verbally and complexionally. These super awesome people let me participate in this blog for gods only know what reasons, I suspect they secretly have a thing for me. I don't draw sexy females, but most of the men I draw look like women and all of them dress like them, so you'll never know the difference, provided you immediately forget this post. Lately my men have started to look more masculine, and I know this is wrong and I will attempt to fix my evil ways the day when superheroes come off their 3500-calorie protein diet.

Tapio, god of the forest. Has a trophy wife and bazillion daughters. Described as a sort of elf, and by that I don't mean the christmas kind, he's actually a surprisingly Tolkienist figure. Fancy clothes and all. So of course I threw everything I could possibly think of on him. There's still room for more. But the kitchen sink is clearly already in there. Two things: 1) I need an a3 scanner, and b) I don't even know how I'm going to color this. Dudes, I don't color things. I just don't.

Update on 18.02.2013:

Crown and "earring" done. This challenge is going to take me A LOT longer than the original two weeks. Hell, this just took me a day, and the beard is crap. I started by just basically throwing down the colors and shadows where I figured I'd have some, and this will be style of the bottom layer, done in Corel Painter, before I throw the whole thing to Photoshop and bling it up to my best ability. I'm gonna redo the face completely, it's boring me to death, but that's for the final round.

Aino, or not.

For you just tuning in, we started a conversation in a Fb group about a form of art that throws everything in it, including the kitchen sink. Examples can be seen here. After a bit we decided to give it a shot ourselves. Kalevala was picked as the subject of this little foray. So everyone's up to speed? Good.

The character I picked was Aino. The pretty girl who Väinämöinen had the hots for and who was given to him for marriage however she resisted. To make a long and tragic story short she died and turned into a salmon. As one does. And as I just watched the Prophecy I felt the need to make wings. So my Aino was supposed to sit on a rock half way through the transformation from a fish to an angel. Which she does except he turned into a he and theres tentacles. Which can sort of be explained though with the character called Iku-Turso in Kalevala. See it is Kalevala! Loosely interpreted but hey ;)

For this version I fixed the pose of Aino a bit.

Still have to add all the stuff to this as the point was to add stuff. So a LOT of scales and whatnot is still needed.

Here's the original sketch

Lemminkäinen, a very ruff sketch...

... and I haven't even decided on clothing either. And you guys had such great sketchies...
The sword is much, much too small. Have to work on that.

BTW, did you guys know that Lemminkäinen was a redhead? Not ginger, dark red.

Tank Girl in 45 seconds...

... well, not quite, but in 30 minutes!
Happened to see on Facebook how Alan Martin wanted to see new artists for Tank Girl. I'm neither familiar with the comic (although looks like something I got to check out asap) nor do I got hubris about my talent, but I still wanted to try to do my own version of her.

Got practically no time at all for this kind of thing right now since in the middle of comics production, so I cut some corners and used an old unpublished illustration as base and just althered her to my liking.

Tank Girl, doing some weapon maintenance:

Namor - The King of the Tea

So after a friend posted this video which to me clearly said Namor - King of the Tea (instead of the more commonly known King of the Sea) I knew I had to draw it. It was meant to be a fast sketch but I kinda started fiddling with it. Now I might have to color it at some point too. Bugger.

Matt Smith as Doctor Who

And while I started with the random posting I can just as well continue ;)
Here's a little painting I made of the 11th Doctor, Mr. Matt Smith. Such a lovely and weird face to paint.

A wild Lady Loki appears

Another totally random post. This is a sketch of Lady Loki that I did some time ago for the WeLoveFine.com Marvel Villain T-Shirt competition. I had very little time to work on this so I am not entirely happy with it. There is also a colored and more finished version of this that I might post at some point but right now at least I prefer this one.