Trolls

You know, I'm a real master of accidents. For example, I have a woodcarving in progress at school and on the previous lesson  few days ago I made a big, bleeding wound to my left thumb. Today was the turn of my right hand: I got a huge, needle sharp stick stuck deep under the nail of my little finger. Even better, I couldn't get it off myself no matter how I tried so my teacher had to pull it off. I felt a bit embarrassed.
Now the nail/finger is having an inflammation on it's way.. It's all hot and aching. (pulsating pain) This day hasn't been very nice otherwise either, because I was supposed to go the library to return some books and get new ones but I traveled 60km to town just to notice that the library is closed until Monday because of some stupid education stuff the library staff is having. I'm reading Michelle Paver's wonderful Chroncles of the ancient darkness at the moment and I finished reading Soul eater (the third book) yesterday. I would have borrowed the next book today but now I have to wait over the whole weekend. I'm so excited to know what happens next that it feels almost like torture.

But today I was also thinking about what should I draw for my dad's father's day card. There's only a week left until the Finnish father's day. I want to do something real special this year- something my dad would really like, 'cause I really like my dad. : D I've been thinking about drawing our dogs or my dad's favorite book/movie/game characters... I don't know. I'm still waiting for some great idea. But I should really make something up already, so that I have enough time to do it properly. I think I'll color it with pencils, 'cause I really need to focus more on the traditional art techniques.

Now I'm going to go and watch a movie with my dad : ) It's our weekly thing that if both of us are home we watch a movie together at Friday night.

But before I go, here are today's sketches. Trolls this time. Troll women, to be exact.

Some poetry

A few of my poems translated to English.


There's nothing more beautiful

Great cushions of velvet
so full of life

The master of smooth symmetry
has sewn them together without a seam

They are warm of life
they foam of speed

after moving like they are meant to move

eternity as their rythm,

more perfectly than anything in this world
that has ever been born or built






Traveler

My treasure is lost
My harbor I have to leave

My bearer has grown away from me

and I have no map

I find myself
a rather tired, defenceless explorer






Song of praise

Between the green deeps,
over the stone mounds

ever closer to the home of my soul

You will take me, my little friend

lift with your origin strength
carry with your stark spirit

to the grass and blooming trees

your hooves of rock
your mighty muscles

they know which way to go




As you maybe noticed, the first and the last poems tell about horses. I wrote the first one when I was watching a galloping horse and Song of praise describes some feelings I have about horses and riding. I tried to express how important they are in my life, so the journey in the poem symbolises life.

This can't be happening

Noo... D8 I missed my bus because of that exam. It took much longer than I thought it would.. And the next bus goes so late that I won't be home before midnight! (I have over 100km way to home)  : ( And my school's burglar alarm gets on in the evening so I can't even wait here the whole time. I don't know what I should do.

Well, since I'm not going anywhere for a while I can spend the time I have before the alarms here in the computer class.

Later: My mom saved me and came to get me with her car : D Parents are good to have.

Here's the pretty smile of my little crested boy Uni 8D

Time flies

I've been ignoring this blog again for far too long. Now it's time to write at least something again : D (And in the previous entry I promised to try being more active.. ha!)

The pictures, they shall come first!

Here's my best Chinese crested pic so far, and I'm quite proud of it. Though now I see so many mistakes that  I should have noticed when I was coloring it : <  But that's how you learn!

I made this T. Rex for my little brother (It's a birthday card- he turned 10.) who's completely nuts about dinosaurs. I think it looks ok, but it could have been better if I hadn't done it in a rush as I did.

This, in turn, was made for my friend's birthday : DD She's really interested in astrology and she's a Leo in horoscope. I like this pic a lot, even though it's so simple and everything.. I just felt so nice and relaxed drawing it. I wish I'd always feel like that when I draw.

Oh wow, my first artsy thing in this blog that isn't a drawing! This is something I had to do for my arts class at school. We were all given a photo of a leopard and told to cut it to pieces. Then we had to make a new picture of those pieces and this idea just instantly popped to my mind. Maybe because I had been watching the movie 101 Dalmatians that week.. Hmm.

That's all the pics for now.. And then a little something about other things.

I've been in a pretty bad mood for the last weeks. I don't really know why. (Or actually there are lots of small things that I think might be causing it.. But I'd rather have just one bigger thing to blame so it would be easier to do something about it. Without having to change my entire life, 'cause that isn't of course even possible.) I'm so tired and tensed up all the time that I get real angry or real sad for even the slightest of issues and I hate it. (I've especially been raging for my mom, and I feel awful about it 'cause my bad mood isn't her fault. Even though she can be real difficult or annoying at times.) I'm been trying to get over it by sleeping more and focusing on doing stuff I like.. But it hasn't helped yet. Instead it has made me quite solitary, since "the stuff I like" means (at the moment) mostly reading, drawing, and watching movies. And sleeping, as was already mentioned. It's odd, for I've never really cared so much for sleeping before. I was always the kind of kid who wanted to go to bed as late as possible and get up as early as possible to maximize the time for playing and all.. Sleeping seemed like a waste of time. But at the moment I just _love_ it. I wish I could sleep for months, like the Moomins. : D (There's not much in the world I hate more than being angry/sad, and sleep is an excellent way to escape from that). But I'm quite sure I'll change my mind again when I'm back to my normal state.

Oh well, maybe I'll just try ignore the whole thing and wait for it to pass. I don't think it's such a big deal after all.

Agh, I'd like to write more now when I started but I guess I have to go to bed.. : C I'm going to have an exam  in Swedish tomorrow. I'll tell you how it went... maybe >8D One can never completely trust my promises to write here, or so it seems.

I'm alive!

Wow. It's been so long since my last entry.. I've been so busy with everything else that I just forgot about this whole blog. (And when I remembered it again, I was just plain lazy : D) But I think I'll try to be more active from now on, though I have so many time-consuming things happening right now that I can't promise anything. It's just two weeks to my first matriculation exams. I will have exams of English, philosphy and religion. And I'm going to move! My whole family is moving to the countryside next month. I'm really excited about the place, there's a little stable for two or three horses and lots of space. (I also like the house a lot) We are going to buy at least two in the summer, and I'm so happy to think that I'm actually going to have my own horse again.. I've missed having one since we sold our trakehner mare about two years ago.

I don't have time to write much more now, because I have to study for my practise exam tomorrow, but here come the pictures!

The colored version of my chinese crested lineart, my fursona : D

A pic made for my dad's birthday. It's John Marston from my dad's favourite video game Red dead redemption on the kentucky saddler.

A bull terrier

And some fluffiness

Excitement (plus some sketches)

There's so many exciting things happening in my life right now that it's hard to decide what to look forward the most. : D Firstly, I'm going to a nice field trip tomorrow! My school has arranged a trip to Jyväskylä (200 kilometres away from my home) to visit an event in the university of Jyväskylä where they introduce the university to senior high school students. We will also visit a chocolate factory. 8D The bus leaves at 7:00 AM from our school so I think I'm going to bed early tonight. It's going to be fun! My dad and my little brother gave me all their pocket money to buy chocolate from the factory for them : D

Another thing that I find quite exciting is that I've applied for the lions club youth exhange program. We had an info about it on monday and I returned the application form today. The exhange is going to be about 3-6 weeks in the summer and those who are chosen to participate will get 500€ for the tickets. (If they cost more than that, you have to pay the rest by yourself) There's four of us who are applying to it and they will only choose one or two.. So obviously I'm really nervous and excited right now.

And then the third source of excitement: father's day is only two days ahead! My dad is really important to me, and this year I have a perfect gift for him: the latest published album from his favourite comic book writer. I'm also making a card and a cake, like I do every year. : ) I can't wait to see his face when he sees them- he's not expecting a present from me this year. But I wouldn't skip father's day for anything. It's a tradition. And I think parents deserve some extra attention once a year. After all, without them we wouldn't exist. : D


Finally, some sketches from my notebook:

A horsie of course : D A bit more finished than the other ones, but I still call it "a sketch" 'cause it's done on cross-ruled paper. Ignore my psychology notes.

I like this lineart so I think I might make a colored version. With GIMP.

Ooh, colors! : D

Ratt. :3 I like rats. They make wonderful pets. I used to own two male pet rats (named Vihtori and Silvennoinen) but they died some time ago. : <  I have thought about buying new ones but I don't know.. Maybe in the future.

Pixx

Heh, sorry for the stupid title.

So, here comes my very first blog entry with art ! I don't have much time to write right now so this entry will be pretty much about these two pics.

Here's the first one:

It's Gin/Silver Fang (the version I prefer most is Finnish Hopeanuoli : D Basicly because I learned to know him by that name when I was little) from Ginga Nagareboshi Gin. (My favourite manga/anime) This is probably my first proper drawing of him ever. My fav character of the story is Ben, though. I should make a picture of him too!



And then the other one:

A shetland pony! I love horses. And drawing them. They're my most common subject to draw, I think. I like the way the pony looks but I don't like the background.. One should never make backgrounds in a rush. They turn out like this. : D Well, I'll try to make a decent one next time. : > It was very fun to color a black pony! I liked it a lot. I think I'm going to draw a lot of black horses in the near future. 8D


Both of the pics were made using GIMP.