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This is a sketchblog or an artblog or more precisely "what-ever-I-will-make-up-in-my-mind" blog of a one graphic design student from Lahti city, Finland. I love drawing, photographing, animals & nature, Batman, videogaming and russian nesting dolls but I hate bananas.
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I'm always ready for work & commissions!
Feel free to contact:
Jenna Tähtinen
jenna.tahtinen{at}gmail.com
http://www.jennatahtinen.com/
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I'm always ready for work & commissions!
Feel free to contact:
Jenna Tähtinen
jenna.tahtinen{at}gmail.com
http://www.jennatahtinen.com/
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Here’s a little something I made this morning. Just wanted to test things and try something different. I was inspired by Shane Prigmore and especially his Coraline designs. Damn, it’s hard for me to make something simple enough. The pose was just too stupid and odd in the sketch so I decided to change it for the final version.
It’s A-ME, when I was about 4-7 years old. I think I was very lucky to live around woods and rocks. I was adventuring in them almost every day so it is certain that I got a lot of little injuries. When I didn’t have bandages, I used birch leaves to stop my wounds from bleeding. My father used to make me bows from a willow tree.
And I’m going to NYC on the next week! How awesome is that!
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Tässäpä jotain tänä aamuna tehtyä. Halusin kokeilla vähän jotain erilaista inspiraation lähteenäni Shane Prigmore ja eritoten tyypin Coraline leffan hahmosuunnitelmat. Kyllä se voikin olla vaikeaa yrittää tehdä simppelimpää kuvitusta. Luonnoksen asento osoittautui photarin puolella liian kummaksi.
Kyseessä siis omakuva, 4-7 ikävuoden kieppeiltä. Pidän itseäni edelleenkin todella onnekkaana siitä, että sain varttua metsien ja kallioiden ympäröimänä (siihen tulevaisuudessakin pyrin). Metsissä tuli riehuttua päivittäin, joten pieniä vammojakin tuli usein. Ne paikattiin koivunlehdillä silloin kun laastareita ei ollut tarpeeksi lähellä. Isäpapalla oli tapana väsätä jokaisena lapsuuden kesänä uusi jouskari pajupuusta.
Ja hei, meen ensi viikolla New Yorkiin! Kääk. Odotan kyllä jo innolla, että pääsen ottamaan kuvia paikasta.
Spring is coming! I’m happy to inform you that all you lovebirds can now order wedding invites with my peacock pic from the just started, Finnish webstore for invites called Kutsupaahtimo.
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Kevät on tulossa ja ilokseni voin ilmoittaa, että häitä tai muita vastaavia juhlallisuuksia suunnittelevat parit voivat nyt tilata kutsukortteja (ja kiitoskortteja) tällä kuvalla Kutsupaahtimon verkkokaupasta.
(Jenna Tähtinen)
I saw this kid on pinterest and I drew him to my sketchbook. He looks like a little fancy pants troublemaker.
Procrastinating with my school work again. With girls & walrus. I hate myself when the critique day comes.
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Taas yllätin itseni tekemästä jotain muuta kuin koulujuttuja… Tyttöjä ja mursua. Toivottavasti selviän tulevasta kritiikkipäivästä.
The postman brought me some new books, I thought that I could introduce them to you once again in different posts.
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by Austin Kleon
Every artist is working under the influences and they need to gather their inspiration from somewhere (even if you’re not ready to admit it). The truth is that nothing is original. This book teaches right from wrong in this case and gives you precious tips (especially if you are beginner) about how to work as an artist.
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Ja yleisön pyynnöstä; postaukset nyt myös suomeksi!
Jokainen taiteilija saa vaikutteet töihinsä joltakin ja kerää inspiraationsa jostakin (vaikka et olisi sitä valmis myöntämään). Totuus on se, että mikään ei ole omaperäistä, kaikki on enemmän tai vähemmän jo tehtyä. Kirjassa neuvotaan miten “varastaa” ideoita oikeaoppisesti ja se antaa myös muita hyviä vinkkejä luovalla alalla työskentelyyn, erityisesti uransa alussa oleville. Alla olevasta linkistä löytyypi lisäinfoa kirjasta.
“Art is theft.” -Pablo Picasso
Summary of my stuff from last year.
JANUARY: Nothing much. But I got a brief from…
FEBRUARY: ..young singer Dimi/Dimitra Salo who wanted covers to her record.
MARCH: Was a pleasant and enjoyable time with silkscreen printing and I made up this “Padre Muerte” guy. I was pretty proud of him, and I still am. I’m glad that I got a few of them sold at my school’s Christmas fair. Too bad that t-shirts with this pic didn’t last quite good in a wash.
APRIL: This kitty was made for After Effects course.
MAY: Sketches from my A3-sized sketchbook. I had just bought it.
JUNE: Originally I made this for dA’s cubism competition. After voting I was told by judges that it doesn’t quite fit in “cubism”, so it never got anywhere. Also one of my favourite works from last year.
JULY: T-shirt that I made for my internship place.
AUGUST: I started doing some drawing challenge and I failed…again. Maybe I will continue it on someday.
SEPTEMBER: Just an interesting test work from some of my doodles on sketchbook.
OCTOBER: Skull for my website (still working on that!).
NOVEMBER: One of the Christmas cards I made. At first I wasn’t that sure of that pic and I was hoping that I’ll get a better idea for the cards but time was running out and I had to do something, so I decided to finish it anyway. Suprisingly they were selling really good!
DECEMBER: Really, really, really busy month. And it still going. That’s why I failed with this Batman calendar thing. :-( But I’m still going to make the rest of them when I have time.
Illustration I made for work. I’m not gonna give any more clues about it before it’s announced. More info then. :-) This was my last piece in the year 2012, click for little higher res.
I wish to you, my followers, awesome & creative new year 2013!
Day 7. James Gordon / Batman advent calendar
This blog has reached over 200 followers! Thank you people! :-)
Day 3. Hugo Strange / Batman advent calendar
At first I wanted to make something really cool and little more realistic stuff for this calendar thing but it would have taken too much time. I need time to do something else too. 8-)
Day 1. Batgirl / Batman advent calendar
..is mad.
It’s 1st of December and it’s time to start my Christmas calendar! I’m going to draw one Batman character every day until Santa comes. D: There’s little clues added in these pics that will give you some hints about the next character… This one is too easy. But can you guess him/her?
