My art life

I am a visual artist, and I base everything I do from drawing. I started it at my childhood, maybe before I was able to read and write.

Page updated: 8/3/20. 

I like to stylize!

That still doesn't mean I would think myself as a very good artist...

I draw mostly horses, rats and cats, and some other animals as well (occasionally). In animal art I am very perfectionistic and interested in anatomy, shading and just generally like realistic art. Sometimes I stylize, but todays less than years ago (and I miss those times). I draw mostly on paper, digitally I'm not as experienced. I also wish I would do more paintings, but currently I can't, because of my own reasons.

I have a gallery in deviantART. 

I also have an artblock these days. Currently, instead of flat art, I am very, VERY interested of doing art in miniature scale - model horses. And not only horses but also rats, cats and animal dolls. Someday I need to do other species as well, because my dolls need dogs.

I'm also a hobbyist writer. Started writing stories at 2011, and I do that for myself only, most of the time. Very rarely I allow others to read them.

In my horse art I often stylize, exaggerate things that happen in real world. I also draw what I see and what I think is worth drawing.

My doodles can have a message. I can show my opinions via them. And before scrutinizing some of my doodles and their topics, please read this: I don't like everything I draw, and I don't draw everything I like. This is important to understand! Perfect example: some riding styles and equipment. Most common traditions in the equestrian world are not what I want to support. My personal interest in riding is bitless... But anyway, don't look at my doodles like "it draws that > it accepts that". It's not automatically so.

I am bad with references, I don't usually use photos while I draw. Sometimes that still happens and I try to improve with that. 

I would put a small gallery here. I haven't made actual artworks for ages, mostly I just doodle and sketch things (like model horse tack designs) to spend time and do something clever too. (Wow, that can give a bad image; art really is my life, but I'm not good at showing it...)

("Gallery" updated: 8/3/20. Added works which were made after 2018. I guess I have been abandoning this page for a while. I also removed a bunch of older stuff.)

2014 and earlier

Drew this when I had a flu or something.

Shading things.

2015

Colorpencils and white ink on black acrylic paint.

A6 mechanical pencil doodle. I don't actually like this pic but something there says "publish it".

Heavy horse with watercolors.

Another heavy horse with watercolors.

Watercolors... Stopped doing this before I ruin the whole pic.

Awesome colorpencils. Were not mine. I know the anatomy is ridiculous, but I LIKE A LOT to do those... random things.

Again those awesome colorpencils. Wanted to color and shade eyes.

Derwent Inktense colorpencils.

Watersoluble matta acrylics on newspaper. Used black and white and played with them.

Watersoluble matta acrylics.

Mechanical pencils and shading craziness. Anatomy fail.

Rollküred horse in Micron markers. And a rat sketch.

I do not draw people! But I draw dressage caricatures although I don't like dressage as a thing.

Rollkür.

2016

Is that some kind of gaited horse?

Draft horse with long back, short legs and short neck.

Small tree painting made while I did a huuuge painting of a bigger tree.

Saddlebred.

Saddlebred. A sausage.

Dressage caricature. The drawing is very small, hence the quality.

Another dressage caricature.

Third dressage caricature, never got finished.

Devil pelargonia. Practiced drawing flowers because of work.

Racehorse. Inspired by Cigar mold.

Cat sketches I drew, for most I used own photos as references.

A pony boy.

Skulls. Bit.

Skulls. And again a bit.

Permanent marker horse.

A character that is a crazy punkrocker. He is also an animal freak.

Saddlebred.

Watersoluble acrylic eyes.

2017

Arabian stallion.

Jumping mare drawn with Sakura Brush markers and Colortime markers.

First washed doodles with Colortime markers. I want to have that green guy as a model.

Colortime markers. The red-nosed guy should also become a model once!

...Colortime markers, partly washed.

Colortime...

Colortime...

Yet Colortime!

Ballpoint pen mare.

Bad rider and a horse that is a perfect 'conformation flower', alias horse with horrific conformation...

Conformation flower that I want as a model.

Some high-stepping roman nosed guy.

Angry draft. Sakura brush marker.

Dancing tekke.

...twisted TWH.

Friesian caricatures.

Two arabs and a gang of akhal-tekes.

2018

A mare with some anatomical issues on her back. Ballpoint pen.

A finnhorse. I want him as a traditional scale model.

Three horses (a gaited, a finnhorse, and an arabian) and riders during a lesson... And every one of them has some problems.

An unwell dressage horse.

A TWH.

Marker over a highlighter sketch.

Original drawing from 2016, digital coloring from autumn 2018.

Original drawing from 2015, digitally colored at autumn 2018.

Original drawing from 2012 (just look at those anatomical errors...), digital coloring from autumn 2018.

A little mosteasy mare and her rider.

Cheap markers and water on a ballpoint pen lineart.

Watersoulble calligraphy markers.

Mosteasy riding.

Watercolor.

Mosteasy.

Derwent Inktense colorpencils over a cheap marker sketch. I never finished this since I had no idea what I was doing.

Derwent Inktense colorpencils over a cheap marker sketch/lineart.

2019

A standardbred gelding drawn with Ecoline Brush markers and tank brushes on watercolor paper. I drew this with a photo (and it's edited versions) which I took ages ago.

Watercolors.

Watercolors. For some reason, people seem to like this red one a lot, while I personally prefer the previous one much more. They were painted on same paper.

"Something spotted", painted during a trip away from home. I asked a friend to suggest some ideas to draw, and a spotted horse was one of them. Watercolors over a mechanical pencil sketch.

A sensitive mare and a not-so-skilled rat rider (who has a way too large ear...). Ballpoint pen and watercolor.

Mechanical pencil and watercolor.

Another idea suggested by a friend; an arabian. Various markers and watercolor over a mechanical pencil sketch.

2020

Lyra Aqua Brush Duo markers (red, black and blue) with a bit of white acrylic paint for glossing the eye and nose. I tested if some cheap paintbrushes were worth using. This doodle then traveled to USA for my friend and fellow model horse hobbyist.

Color ideas for model horse saddles. I enjoyed shading these.

A fineliner mess.

I still think that model horse photography would cause some landscape paintings done by me, as I need backdrops for my horsies!