Drawing challenges

Hey guys! Long time again from the last time I wrote here something ^^'

There have been so much things that have happened but still I feel like I don't have anything special to say. But I thought that since (btw, have you noticed how much I use the word 'since' on this blog <___<) I have a lot of drawings to publish here, this time I will keep this article more drawing related. Here are something I have drawn lately.

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This is a drawing that I have decided to draw a long time ago. I read Yotsuba&! (Kiyohiko Azuma's manga) in library couple years ago and there I found a picture like this:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fb0ea5856a37cc912e34018f7aef7775.jpg

It was very hilarious and reminded me of my own characters

so I decided to draw it using my crazy revolutionary trio, Sokko, Bunny Joe and Handersim :)

So this is the first drawing where I have used base.

I also wanted to try some new coloring style (like always when I draw something random)

 and I shaded it with a Copic marker brush I downloaded to my Photoshop.

 I will also put this to DA later when I have introduced Handersim better. 

But to you, oh dear readers, I show this earlier to thank you for being so interested of this blog ♥

Here's something that I killed time with at my summer job. It's Musician Melody ♥ 
Not my own character, barely not anyone's character..
 It's from the card game 'Old maid'
and I always do everything to get his family!
He is gorgeous! He is lovely!! I LOVE HIM! ಠ益ಠ)

I drew this in my workplace also. I read Astrid Lindgren's book Mio, my son.
It is a good book. Mostly because there is one character I like a lot.
One day I wondered what kind of pictures there are
of  my very favorite character of the book,The King of Fareaway land
(A. k. a: My father, The King = 'Isäni Kuningas' in Finnish).
But Google image search only showed me the actor of the King
from the movie made of the book.
 I didn't like the appearance of it and decided to draw him myself to forget the one I saw.
This is my version of Astrid Lindgren's The King of Fareawayland. 

Here is my OP OC Pirate crew, Seven brothers pirates.
They are created for my doujinshi project (Not for From Vast Seas. but for upcoming Tiny Stories. They will also appear in Tocky's bonus story, Me and Past). I have taken inspiration from a significant Finnish opus, Seven brothers (Seitsemän veljestä) The Characters are not related to the characters in the book with any links.
Only common things are that they are brothers, there are seven of them
and they are all reckless wretches!

From left to right:
Sami and Krisu (cooks)
Joonas (navigator and doctor)
 Nikke (captain)
Eikka (vice-captain)
 Jaakko(sword man)
Jussi(cabin boy)
 I wanted to name them with Finnish names but I'm still not sure if it's profitable...
I'm afraid they are too strange and hard to read for you who doesn't speak Finnish D:
What you think? Should I change them? The edited names would be from left to right:
Sam and Chris, Jonas, Nicky, Ezra, Jakob and Joby.
What do you think?

 Unfortunately I still want to tell you the news of my personal boring life.

At my holiday week I had lot of hurries which kept me on my toes and away from drawing new pages to the doujinshi. 

Our mom has got that crazy idea that me and Kaura have to wash and clean our pier from all the dirt that has become burnt.

It takes forever and makes my hands hurt -_-

We have been doing it everyday, except a couple special days when we were not home. On Tuesday afternoon me and Kaura went to sleepover with our old school friends on one's summer cottage. It was pretty fancy place but there happened nothing special. We just played some card games and board games and that's it. 

On Saturday our whole family went to an agricultural exhibition. There were so much people and stalls and everything to look at, but we were there so many hours that we still had most of time for relaxing and resting in the shadow (It was very hot that day).

Everyday when Kaura and me have slept on home, we have slept on our dad's trailer that he takes home every summer. We stay up very late every time, of course. We have so much fun there. We watch movies, talk and laugh and of course we draw. We have the tradition to give 'drawing challenges' (as we call them) for each others there. Kaura tells me what I have to draw and I tell her what she has to draw and then we both draw the thing we are told. It's very funny. We usually use our OP OCs in those challenges.

I'm gonna show you some of them! Tadadaaa!
I apologize in advance that some of the texts in the drawings have been written in Finnish. I will translate them in descriptions.



Kaura told me to draw our OP OC fellows in fantasy world.
As you can see, I have drawn these extremely fast and cutting corners.
From left to right:
Beautiful nymph of water and forest, Eruna
 Will-o'-the-wisp, Kaura
 An elf warrior, Bunny Joe
 Little hobbit, Sokko.
Lovely elf princess, Jellie
 Timid troll, Tocky
Wise wizard, Handersim.

Here are our OP fellows in the film-industry.
From left to right:
 Handersim (an actor): "I wanted to be a grip..."
Bunny Joe (the camera man) "When we start shooting?"
Sokko (the director): "Smile, Handersim!"
Tocky (the catering): Who wants some coffee?"
Kuzan (the grip *lighting and rigging technical): "Need some help down there?"
Kaura (audio engineer): N- No thanks! I'm fine!"
Jellie (The producer): "We have 10 minutes left! Chop chop!"

This drawing challenge is drawn by Kaura.
I told her to draw Kuzan and Kaura dancing and it turned out to be very
challenging drawing challenge thanks to their height difference!
But she totally nailed it! XD

Kaura told me to draw these known fellows as Big Hero 6 characters~
As always, Left to right:
Handershi (Handersim as Tadashi)
Hirokko (Sokko as Hiro)
Bunnymax (Bunny Joe as Baymax)
Kuzabi (Kuzan as Wasabi)
Goura (Kaura as Gogo)
Jellie Lemon (Jellie as Honey Lemon)
Frecky (Tocky as Fred)

I told Kaura to draw these characters as Alice in Wonderland characters :3
I like this one very much <3
From left to right:
Jellie as the Red Queen
Tocky as King
Sokko as Alice
Kaura as Cheshire Cat
Bunny Joe as White Rabbit

 There's a lot of more drawing challenges we have drawn but I can't find them or I'm just too lazy to put them here... maybe next time if you still want to see more :)

Oh, and just to let you know that I'm not such a yokel who doesn't be knowledgeable about timely things: Yes, I have a Pokemon GO. :I I haven't really managed to play it because there are no pokemons where I live.... It sucks to live middle of nowhere! x'D

Midsummer magic

Last weekend was midsummer. It's very important and significant holiday on Scandinavian area (especially in Finland where I live).

Almost as significant as Christmas! It's joyful and exciting holiday including all it's traditions.

At midsummer we use to eat well, drink, celebrate greatly.. 

The certain thing why it's celebrated is that sun doesn't go down that day because we are in north. The certain traditions in midsummer are midsummer pyre and midsummer magics. Midsummer pyre is a bonfire, which is burned in every household at midsummer night when sun is almost getting down.
Midsummer magics are funny  games that especially single women and children play on midsummer evening. They always are related to finding out something about your  future spouse. But I will tell you about those in continue.
Anyway, I think you are more curious to know about my midsummer day so I will tell you about it.

Ok, at the very day me and my sister Kaura woke up early, 7 AM. The morning was like any other morning but we had so much things to do that we were excited to start cleaning up and get prepared fot the midsummer day. We were glad that the day was very hot and it was not raining like usually it was at Midsummer.
As always, our cousin Eruna's family were going to come visit us and eat a banquet with us. I was a little bit in a pique that Kaura got all funny and creative works like making decorations and making a bath whisk. But I got all the boring ones like peeling potatoes and cleaning the house inside...

Kaura's decorations

Me enjoying the sunny day.

Mom cleaned her yard and garden and dad got his favorite job: making food.
We ate very tasty, fancy and expensive food that day. As meal we had moose steak and grilled ham, grilled corncobs, smoked salmon,  mushroom sauce, salad with mint, cherry tomatoes and feta cheese, cream potatoes spiced with garlic and new potatoes from our own field.

Dad's making food

While after eating meal it was time for dessert. We had a very pretty meringue cake decorated with just picked blueberries and strawberries, rhubarb pie and rocky road made by Eruna's family. As drink we all 8 drank coca cola (Eruna's family have a special habit to drink much coca cola) except our dad who had some quality wine.

Yummy!

After the dessert our cousin's family went to their own summer cottage (our neighbor house) to celebrate their Midsummer evening. Eruna went there too, but since we had an idea to sleep in tent that night, she came back to our place after a while.
When she was gone, me and Kaura set up a tend that our dad found from attic. While setting up the tend, mosquitoes ate my legs full of little itchy red bumps! I should have used some insect repellent...

On the left I am setting up the tent. On right Kaura and Eruna inside the tent.

When Eruna came back it was already late evening. It was time for sauna. (*Sauna:  Finnish pronunciation is a small room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions. -Wikipedia)
I have never liked to be in sauna because I hate the hot air, it's a bit agonizing~ XD
It was 80 Celsius degrees in our sauna and of course we had our bath whisk which we use only in midsummer sauna.

We are in sauna.

This is what we do with bath whisk.

And of course when it's about the sauna it always means that we go to swim too! We live at the lake that where we own a beach and a pier. Eruna jumped straight to the water which I always wonder how she can do it.. Water is so cold, tho!) in my opinion, dipping process can take several minutes.. I hate cold as much as I hate hot...

Eruna just jumped to the water and I suffered a little eternity!

We came from sauna and it was time for the climax of the whole midsummer! And now I'm talking about the midsummer pyre! We lighted up our bonfire and it turned out to be at least 5 meters tall and it was very beautiful! Like a Christmas three.

As I mentioned before about 'midsummer magics' well I ca't explain it well with these poor English skills of mine, so I borrow some text from other sites:
There are various magical tasks and tricks for young girls (and boys) to perform on Midsummer Eve in order to know whether they would soon be married or to get a glimpse of their future spouse. 



There are plenty of different tasks, but we use to do only two of them. The first goes like: if you pick up 9 wild flowers and put them under your pillow, you can see your future spouse in your dreams. The second goes like: if you throw the bath whisk on the roof, it's head points you which direction your spouse comes from. These tasks are funny even though I'm not superstitious. This midsummer tells me that my spouse comes from south-west and I saw Bastille from One Piece in my dream... We went to sleep very late, it was 4 AM o'clock. At night me, Kaura and Eruna went walking to outside. It's always very quiet at midsummer night, when people are all celebrating or sleeping. We went to a motor road and it was silent and empty. It was exciting and scary to sit middle of it. When we heard some cars coming from far in the forest, we ran to hide. We cut through our uncles just fielded field and run as fast as we could! It was so scary and fun! Some midsummer magic tells that if you run through a field naked at the midsummer night the first who comes to you is your future spouse. Ps: No, we were not naked. x'D

My future spouse! xD