Jyri

Acerbic Artist, Melancholic Musician, Built Boulderer, Gargantuan Gamer, Delving Developer, and Casual Conversationalist.

New Painting: Toil

Dec 042012
 

Straechav's Sketches.

There you go. A new painting.

This time I am trying some things slightly out of my comfort zone. Not only it’s a full figure pose, but four figures. Additionally, a suggestion of a background. Very much out of my usual area of expertise. There’s still things here that I don’t like, at all, but I should stop fiddling with it and let it go.

There’s always the next time.

Not sure what I’ll do next time. Need to think up some suitably epic, or disturbing, idea. Maybe something less ambitious? No crazy perspectives and tilted viewpoints, for example.

New Art!

Dec 022012
 

Straechav's Sketches.

So, I’m not going to bother to post the actual artwork here anymore. Too much work. Maybe if it was automated on my blog, I’d bother. But right now it’s too much work for me. I’m lazy, I know.

But, I will still notify people of new pieces of artwork here, so you won’t miss anything. Aside from sketches, of which I won’t bother to remark on. I’ll just post mentions whenever I finish a new artwork.

That said, I’ve done FOUR new pieces since the last time I posted anything here.

In chronological order:

* Mortality (the first piece I managed to finish after the stroke, while still half blind.)
* Contemplating Future (Artsy fartsy black and whiteness.)
* Ignus (My new masterpiece?)
* Melt (Very… interesting piece.)

That’s all! I’ll try to post here faster than this. Four finished artworks is quite the pace for me. But, hey, I’m bored sitting home and doing jack shit.

So I keep painting.

Also, I’m trying to use only Photoshop — and additionally I am trying to improve myself as a painter. I think I made a big leap during this year (Regurgitate & Ignus, anyone?), but I figure I want to get even better.

So, I’m back. Sort of.

Nov 232012
 

So, I’ll be back to business now.

I can see a little better, and I think I can paint pretty much as I used to. I’ll see how it goes. But I also figured I might start posting more random shit in my Tumblr. It’s supposed to be an Art Blog, but at some point the “blog” part completely disappeared and it just had random injections of art.

So, I’ll start posting some random sketches, ramblings and whatever. But I’ll stick very closely to Art as a subject. I’ll leave the other ramblings for this blog.

If I feel like saying anything, that is.

It’s been an interesting experience this whole stroke. I am a still a little bit tense about it. It’s rather hard to ignore the fact that I am much more likely to get one now than anyone else I know. The next time might not be such a minor one, either.

Not that losing half of your field of view is exactly non-existent symptom, but as far as stroke victims go… well, it is.

Basically, I wish I could do something. Aside from taking blood thinners, nothing seems to be all I can do, since I live such an healthy lifestyle already… fun.

Well, this’ll be that last time I’ll talk about this subject. It no longer interests me. I’ll go back to painting something “grimdark” stuff (to borrow warhammer terms).

Later.

New Painting: Mortality

Nov 232012
 

Mortality

A preview, look at the bigger version at my art blog. I’ve decided to tone down the resolution of pictures I post here. Too much work to post everywhere. At least Tumblr and Deviantart automatically create decent resolution tumbnails for me – so I don’t need to bother.

So, go: http://straechav.tumblr.com

And view it with a dark back ground if posssible. That atwork needs a dark room… or a bright gamma setting on your screen. I suppose I should have made it a little less underexposed, but hey… I like it.

Update On My Health

Nov 182012
 

So, to make this short and sweet: I am home, I am well, and I am still partially blind.

There was nothing the Doctors could really do to me, since I am in excellent shape (due to working out seriously). I don’t even have much of a body fat, because of the climbing and the diet I uphold.

So, they released me. It doesn’t look like much is happening. I am not working this year any more, I’ll go back to work on next year. Right now I am kind of bored since I am not allowed to do shit. Working out is strictly prohibited.

Art frustrates me because I keep getting the feeling I don’t see the “big picture” properly. I can’t play many of the games I want to, because… well, no half-blind person should. Et cetera, ad nauseaum.

I’ll stop whining, I am otherwise perfectly fine and I never felt any effects from the stroke, so I should technically be really thankful.

The vision has been coming back, so I am hopeful I’ll be back to painting and gaming as usual. I’ll start lightly exercising in a week or two weeks, and then I can start slowly ramping it up to normal workouts. Something to look forwards to.

So, yeah, take care people.

I’ll be back.

Trouble

Nov 062012
 

I’m posting this from the hospital, on my phone. Just letting people who care know what is going on. On Friday I experienced an stroke. I don’t know the English term for it. Aivoinfarkti. Not heart related.

This is very unusual because I’m young and live healthy and active lifestyle.

As a result of this, I naturally suffered brain damage. Which in this case almost blinded me. Right now I can see only half of my field of view. Right side is completely blind to me.

I don’t know yet how this will affect my art, but I am right now unable to read fast or to play any game that isn’t turn based.

That’s all. Thanks for reading, took me a long time to type.

New Painting: Bads

Jul 282012
 

I call this “Bads” because I listened to Oyaarss album “bads” on repeat while painting it. This is also my first painting where I used Zbrush to get me a base scketch. Basically I created an ugly model that roughly had the right volumes and then added light where needed.

I didn’t, however, go entirely with this “base sketch”. I took some fairly obvious liberties with the lights and shadows, purely for stylistic reasons and such. But it definitely gives me hope that Zbrush might become part of my regular workflow.

Even if in this case it slowed down my progress to twice the usual speed. I took far too long to fiddle with the “base sketch” and lights, whereas I would have normally just started painting and “go for it”.

New Painting: Threat

Jul 082012
 

I took a short break from studying ZBrush and 3D art, and instead painted a quick’ish new painting. It’s basically all very old style stuff from me. I couldn’t be bothered to go to the “hyperdetail” (for me, that is) level. It takes way too long to do for what I felt like. So unlike the last three paintings, I didn’t even bother to do anything but indulge myself.

Still, I like how it turned out. I was thinking “this is shit” and throwing the whole piece away about half an hour before finishing it. So the at the last moment, it turned out well enough. Still, it took me way too long. Eight hours of work, including all the breaks and retries as I tried to massage the painting in to something I’d like.

But, at least it occupied me for a while.

Oh, and it’s done in half and half in Art Rage and Photoshop.

Things I Like: Huoratron

Jun 252012
 

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The world’s most punishing dancefloor music comes from Finland and it’s under the name of Huoratron.

This isn’t the dirtiest or heaviest song from him, but it’s my favorite. I recommend all his stuff.

Evolving

Jun 242012
 

So, yeah, I’ve been silent lately.

But I am not completely inactive. I’ve actually been practicing new things and learning. I had a slight burnout. I also received an injury to my right palm while climbing. I don’t know the term in english, but let’s just say that I definitely pushed my tendons too hard. I have difficulty of making a fist with my right hand.

It doesn’t really matter as far as art goes, however. It doesn’t stop me from holding a pen, or brush.

Anyway, after I got over myself I started to look in to new avenues for my art. I think I’ve pushed myself as far as I want to go when it comes to digital painting goes. So what I decided on was digital sculpting, with ZBrush to be specific.

I have to say that after a few days of serious exploration of the program, I’ve decided that it’s definitely worth it’s price. However, I also decided that I need to learn a lot. I don’t think I’ll be able to use it effectively until months in the future.

Another thing to remember is that I am still working towards 2D art, not 3D. I am supremely uninterested in doing 3D art in the future. So my goal for ZBrush is to elevate my digital paintings, not to create three dimensional models.

Basically my thought can be roughly summed up to a sentence: “The building is only as good as its foundations.” In other words, the painting is only as a good as the sketch. And I think I can push the envelope if I use ZBrush to create my “sketch” for my paintings.

I figure it’ll take me at least six months before I can get anywhere with it. I can probably use it in somewhat decently in a painting in few months. My biggest concern right now is that I need to get a lot faster. If I don’t speed up in ZBrush, my paintings will take forever to complete.

We’ll see how it works out.

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