Wow, it's been a while since I've last painted huh...
I don't have much to say about this. I've been deep in yet another one of my blue periods (both figuratively and literally) and I just needed to paint something. Anything.
This took like 2 hours. I'm getting faster, I think.
Ha. It's her again.
I have been incredibly busy, but I couldn't miss the opportunity to draw something for her on her birthday. To be honest, this was incredibly rushed, but I'm happy with it still.
Speaking of birthday, what a birthday huh? I first created Haki on the 13th of March, 2013, which means she turned 13 this year. She's been around for more than half my life. Crazy.
Who's that yellow fucker, you might ask? It's her, on her first (very garish) (human) iteration. My plan was to draw all of her designs throughout the years, but unfortunately I was short on time. I might continue that project later in the future, but for now have her first and her latest.
I actually started this one a whole two months ago, but progress stalled due to real-life happenings. This was something I started drawing on my brand new laptop, one with a pressure-sensitive screen! I was so happy. Then turns out it was a lemon and I had to return it and wait another month and a half for a new laptop. This one doesn't have a screen to draw on, but whatever, I'm just happy to have a new machine.
I kinda hate how much I draw her. I need to draw other people, but... drawing her makes me happy. In this case though, I had to, I'm sure you can guess why if you've looked at my new banner.
For Art Fight, again! This is AngelicCure's Allegra Harmony. I tried something more animesque here since I thought it would fit her character.
This was for Art Fight 2025! This is rayofsunsart's Amara. I'm really proud of this one!
I am finally trying to battle my severe burnout. Haki finally has a proper reference sheet! Or rather, an up to date one—I had one before, obviously, but it just didn't reflect the character (or my skill level) anymore.
Not so much a reinvention as just a refinement. She still has a chunky, multicoloured jacket, but now she wears it hanging off her shoulders, held in place by armbands (much like Kurisu Makise). I like the idea of her wearing a halter neck top and exposing her shoulders, it emphasizes her brash confidence.
Other than that she remains mostly the same: limiter, simple tight-fitting pants and government-mandated gloves (the jacket and top are detailed enough so I need to avoid distractions elsewhere), wild black hair and vivid blue eyes.
There's an alternate version showing even more but uh, this website is PG-13 so this is the most you'll see.
I completely forgot I had painted this at all. Damn.
It's Haki aight... I just wanted to paint something. The way I painted her hair makes it seem she has multicoloured hair, and maybe here she does have it, but it's really just black.
Yet again: when you have no ideas for a piece's name, just get whatever you're listening to at the time. Always works!
Not the best thing I've done, but I needed to ground myself to reality again, and I like doing that by painting. The feeling of a wet paintbrush on paper is therapy to me.
I accept my fate, doing nothing but drawing exclusively her for eternity.
Really proud of this one, the crisp lineart, dynamic pose, interesting colours, clean everything and the awesome glitch effects I added in the end. Click here to see the process for the untouched piece in gif format, and my initial attempts at a final composition.
This is what happens to you when you live in Finland.
in reality it should be "this is what happens when you have pamnesia" but attributing his pain to being Finnish is way funnier
"Burn my Shadow" doesn't fit as a title, it's just the song I was listening to, of course.
This has been scanned and unfortunately digitally altered to bring the colours back to life after my printer's scanner killed them. The upside to this is that I get an incredible level of detail.
"A ray of light on this chaotic 2021 Internet / A smile for the geeks drifting in the electronic sea" Trying to back to a more painterly approach instead of the cleaner stuff I've been trying to pull off. I actually started this piece shortly before the New Year, so... nothing like a drawing of some severely mentally ill Reiwa-era girl to send the year off, right?
Perhaps a return to form after months of a severe creative drought. Or not, I don't like being optimistic.
The gloves over her hands are what separates Korin from it's destruction. How cool is that?!
Commissioned work for someone. If you are reading this, thank you a lot!
Mamimi Samejima cutting wood. I don't think I should ever draw again, my art has reached it's peak with this one. This is my final, tearful message to the world: Mamimi does carpentry. Goodbye everyone.
Quickly cobbled together before Shiori Novella's debut because I liked her design. More of a loose approach on this one, bordering on kinda sloppy. (the coat... eugh)
I didn't know what to name this, so it's named after the song I was listening to. I am very creative. This was originally conceived as a physical piece, a painting on a few new sheets of thick cardboard I bought. However my hopes were dashed when I realised there was no way of transferring the digital sketch over: the cardboard is too thick for my light table, and the graphite-transfer-paper-thing trick doesn't work on such a dark surface. I should look for a mini projector or something one day... In usual me fashion, there's also a fucked up glitch version.
I designed tiny baby minigure versions of Emmet and Lucy from the brick movie a while ago but they weren't that good so I remade them.
Yes, the brick movie interest is still going after... what, 8 months by now? Not as intensely as before, but it's still there. Autism sure is very fun.
Yeah, you heard me right, this was made in Kid Pix! Who knew some kiddy painting software from the early noughties would be so good for computer vomit?
People have varied interpretations of what this piece represents. Someone says she's been shot by a cannon. Someone else says this is a stomachache.
I know what it's about, but is it any fun if I tell you? Listening to your theories makes the process better.
Lucy from The Lego Movie. I've gotten quite a bit of derision for my obsession with the funny brick people movie, people calling me annoying and childish and gasp cringe, but you know what?
Embracing your inner cringe is the true way to happiness. Probably. I made that up, but the sentiment is valid, isn't it?
The two bastards again. I love Haki's dynamic pose here, it conveys her energy better than anything I've ever drew.
Matti looking like a wooden slab as usual. The man is probably physically unable of expressing anything that is not mild irritation.
Matti smile challenge (impossible) Sometimes I just don't have much to say about a piece. Sometimes I just want to draw my two favourite bastards, okay?
I painfully painted a painful painted girl inside a painting in this painting. I need painkillers.
She did nothing wrong, by the way.
Fan art for one of my favourite manga, Asper Kanojo (also known as That's My Atypical Girl). Author Souhachi Hagimoto gave me props on Twitter and it's safe to say I died from joy that day.
Experimenting with incorporating glitch textures into character art.
Maybe I should've done something more Disappearance of Hatsune Miku-y.
If you can't read Portuguese, it says "Insert a generic motivational phrase here". A quick but deeply satisfying typography piece inspired by my hatred of inane motivational bullshit.
Getting the "motivacional genérica" to be corrupted but still readable was pure luck. This element of randomness is what makes glitch art so awesome to me.
I swear to God, this is not fetish art. She's just painting with her feet because she literally has no arms. (also i can't draw feet for shit huh)
It's Rin Tezuka. I find her character fascinating and (some might describe this as worrying) relatable. She's just like me, for real for real.
Except I have arms. You can see the initial thumbnail here, and a GIF of the painting process here.
My favourite grape-soda-drinking, totally heterosexual war criminal and supreme leader.
Both this and the Rin Tezuka piece were part of an assignment for my illustration class (and yes, the assignment was specifically to draw fanart).
You can see the initial thumbnail here, a second thumbnail here, and a GIF of the painting process here.
Me when I'm awake at 2 in the morning playing Spore and I begin to contemplate the life choices that led me to this point.
Don't you hate when the wind blows and your hair starts flowing in a geometric, sorta angular way? Pisses me off.
Probably heavily inspired on an album cover designed by Phil Lee. Not a big fan of the music, but I like the pretty lights.
Sometimes you unfortunately have to channel the embarrassing 13-year-old girl inside you into your art. I apologise.
A more story-focused piece: Haki and Matti as teenagers, in different parts of the world, waiting to get home from school. Matti in the sunny Finnish countryside, Haki in a dingy bus stop in the middle of Korin's long winter darkness.
(this is no longer canon lol)
She has quite the blank expression doesn't she.
A quick experiment with crispy lineless art. I really love this kinda stuff, even if it unfortunately resembles corporate art (everyone's favourite!).
This was for an assignment. A piece where both traditional and digital methods were essential to its production: first, aimless watercolour blobs and some random lyrics on paper (you can see it here!), then that was scanned and messed with in Photoshop for the final composition.
There two versions of this, the original one is blue and white. I like the contrast between red and black better, it looks more striking.
Misaki Nakahara from the funny schizo anime my favourite anime, NHK ni Youkoso!
I wanted to try something akin to digital collage but instead using the cutout for blocks of colour in the image. Drop shadows were applied to each piece of "paper" you see to create a bit of tridimensionality. The composition is pretty boring but the collage effect makes up for it. I should try this again.
Haki had short hair for the longest while. I changed it to be long as of a few years ago, I think there are not enough tomboyish characters with long hair.
She looks kinda awkward here, frankly. I think it's just the awkward anatomy—the human body truly is my greatest enemy. And her hair is too blue.
Her shirt is great though, I want it. And I think I did a good job with the colour palette.
I made this for someone else's "draw this in your style" thing a while ago. The character was rendered without lines (a painful process if you're as precise as I am), while the plants in the background have the colours slightly outside of the lines, creating a sort of print effect. I think it turned out pretty well.
A fun experiment using tape to mask parts of the drawing. Despite using so many random colours without proper care to how they work together, I think it ended up being surprisingly cohesive.
This is from when I was still in high school. Unfortunately, I couldn't bring many art supplies. No problem for me though! I still had a blue pencil, a blue highlighter, and a blue pen.
I've heard from others that the person without a face over there is quite unsettling. It wasn't my intention, but I embrace it.
Probably my favourite piece I've ever made. Took over 10 hours of tapping away on my iPad's screen, but it was well worth it.
It's kinda sad that it's half a decade old.
