Dead By Candlelight

A birthday gift for my bestie, Matt. 8)  I’m so glad to have been requested to draw this evil prick, I’ve needed an excuse to draw him for a while~  Bonus gif because there were specific requests that didn’t quite come out in the whole drawing.  Also, how could I not???  Happy birthday, buddy!

Gift - The Housewarming Pineapple

Obviously, the art block is still quite real, but I managed to push myself into making at least this gift for Muge's cousin and his girlfriend.  They moved into their new place and we spent Saturday there for dinner.  It was a really nice time, and doing this taught me of the history behind why the pineapple is a "near universal" symbol of hospitality.

It's a big hard to see it in a photo, but the sections on the pineapple shimmer gold :P  That gold and silver shimmer watercolour palette was probably one of the best things that came in those sketch boxes I got.

Failed Anniversary Gift

This was supposed to be more cute-morbid than straight up brutal like this, and it's not even done, because omfg xD;  I was having a really bad episode the week I was attempting to get ahead on this, so I guess it just showed through on that.  Either way, I figured I should post it anyway, for reasons?  I still rather like it, even though it's definitely not what I'd intended.  And I guess it's good to get this stuff vented in a kind of productive way...

Mother's Day

I'm a deadbeat daughter and forgot to buy a card for my mom while I was at work, but at least I can paint kinda alright I guess

Doorsona Ovimikko

Happy monthiversary to the magpie. :P  He enjoyed the sketch so much I figured I'd do it for this month's gift <3

I'm really sorry about how shitty these doors came out.  I know I can do better, but nothing was working out and I just didn't have the time to figure out how to make them nicer. :/ Fuckin awful and frustrating lol

Also half-assed gradient background engage PFT but it looks awful on the white and with the legs cut off it's awkward to be transparent whatever I guess.

Let's hope our one-year gift turns out a lot better than this hahahahaha

WiP - Muge's Doorsona

In my attempts to rely less on line, I've decided to do up this baby for our 10th. ;P  Shhhh, I haven't told him~

When Sketches Break Meta

What ya drawin the first two sketches simultaneously and the one turns into this...

woops :P

Doorsona

My beloved magpie's Dark Souls III doorsona ;)

The Latest Valentine's Day Gift Ever

Harakka (or "magpie" in Finnish) is Naali's husband.  I've been working on this piece for longer than it should have taken me, but I was using a hugely different brush and style, so I was pretty uncertain about it.  Taking a lot of inspirations from the Darkest Dungeon style, thought a lot grittier and dirtier (intended).

It's actually the latest Valentine's day gift on the face of the earth too. :D  I was visiting my beb in Finland during the actual day of Valentine's, so I wasn't connected with any of my tools for digital stuff.  I had to plan it for my return and with how far departed from my normal style it is, it took me longer than I would've liked. ;3;  But it is done and he said he loved it, so tentative success! <3

You can see him proposing in another illustration I've done here ;P

In Maggie's Loving Memory

My birthday gift and contest entry for Heichukar~  We were to pick one of her OCs and do a piece of them. <3  I'd been meaning to do a Corien one for quite some time now, and this became a good opportunity for it. :P  So, super happy birthday to you!  I hope you like it and it lives up to Corien standards ;P

Slowly but surely I've been piecing this together of the past three-ish weeks -- and then as fast as possible over the last one lol.  The beginning stages were rough, I couldn't quite get my eye on something I liked - then this came out of nowhere. :3    Armed with many Bloodborne references and a personal lore-keeper, I got in many little things to add a good finish.  Wooo~

My hand almost fell off when I did each individual leaf behind the grave ;____;  I knew it would be hellish lol  BUT I DID IT, AW JE

It's quite possibly The Best and Most Complete Thing I've Done For Years™ lol

Belated Yulemas Gift

I have no idea why I sometimes think I can paint...because I really cannot, lol.

In any case, this is for the mother of my magpie ♥  She says she is fond of willow tits and though they've lost their fluffiness in translation from pencil to paint, I think you can still see what I was going for. xD; I really like birch trees, also...just saying. and the colour blue lol

I can't wait to give this to her when I arrive to stay :3

Height Check

Excuse me while I hack off my left arm from how bad it hurts thanks to this (and the progress on Mag's reference sheet looool)

Anyway, this was only gonna be Magda and Illian, but damnit Oliver just wanted to be there too so here he is <3 The contrast between the three of them pleases me so so much.

I also own Mag's shirt lol  The designs are tiny trees casting colourful shadows and I love it so much.

Magda © Me / Illian © Heichukar / Oliver © Erneli

Trade - Damic

It's a day late, but!  I feel I make up for it in quality ;)
Lmfao or not, idk, I just hope she likes it and that I managed to do Damic a bit of justice.  Holy crap, dat cape tho <3
Good smol pretty thing *pat*

Lineart - Daaammiiccc (Birthday Trade)

So, I suggested a birthday art trade with Erneli sometime before Yulemas since both of our birthdays are in January. ;P Hers is actually today!  And I was hoping to have this done today!  We'll see how that goes... lol

I do plan to colour it (and have started), but I really enjoy the lineart.  First lineart in a whiiiiile that I like. <3 This is her bby boy Damic, he is smol and noble~

The Birthday Magpie

Happy birthday to my lovely magpie <3
It's been a very long while since I've taken out the coloured pencils, so I'm sorry it's not terribly good :I  Part of me almost thinks it should've stayed black and white, buuuuut I wanted it to be special so!  Here it is!

I'm at least super pleased with the magpie :P  Naturally, I'd fuck up the fox though lol

Kindle is OFFENDED

Practice, practice~ Still trying to work through this funk I'm in :I  And I really like Kindle's design and colours, so he was a perfect victim! I hope Erpa doesn't mind o3o

This honestly wasn't even supposed to be as paint-y as it is XD It was supposed to just be a silly coloured sketch buuuuut I got pretty into it.

Oliver for Erpa

This one drew my Magda last night and I didn't get the chance to properly thank her so I sketched up her Oliver. :D

It would have been a tablet drawing if I'd had time, but I didn't.  And I couldn't wait, so I took advantage of my breaks at work.  Yeeeee~ I hope I did alright. :U  I did it from memory so if there's any inaccuracies, I am sorry. I hope she likes it.


Oliver © Erpa

Lovely Sketch

 

Wasn't the best day at work, but I made myself sketch something.  I'm really bad at keeping up with sketching when I don't have a very definite concept planned out beforehand and that's something I'd like to improve with myself.  I need more spontaneous sketchwork in my life tbh.

Count the Magpies [2/3]

There we go, finally finished.  It took me entirely too long on that, but with me being pretty sick it's not surprising.  All in all, these are pretty fun and the result is satisfying. C:  I hope Muge is as happy with it.

WiP - Count the Magpies [2/3]

I wasn't able to completely finish this before I wanted it done (today, for our three month), because I was super sick.  But we also really couldn't do anything at all because of it either.  Hopefully tomorrow I'm feeling better so we can, and right now I'm feeling alright enough to slowly work on finishing.  Thanks to working while getting progressively more sick last night, my bosses were able to see I wouldn't be able to make it in tonight and I got that out of the way as early as possible.

But yes!  This is the work in progress of part two (of three) to this. :>  I'm real excited to get the series completed, I'm very pleased with how they're turning out.  I'll do a nice collage once I do so everyone can see part one.

Or you could hop over to DevArt or tumblr and see it before that.  Up to you.