portraits

getting practice with more extreme values

Characters / people

This basically how I feel every month: #swollen

Portrait. Colorized digitally.

This is a princess series that I did back in 2014. You can see how she had a makeover a couple of times.

This is one of my favorite pieces. This was inspired by Repo! The Genetic Opera, but it means a lot more to me as well. Feelings of desperation and also a feeling of self control that really isn't there. Forcing myself to smile and all the while, feeling hollow inside.

one of 26 drawings made to explore the writing and drawing.

Portrait. Markers on paper.

Portrait. Markers on paper.

Streetstyle from Helsinki Finland. You know the Moomin tales by Tove Jansson. The friend of Moomin is Snufkin. A wanderer that has all the belongings with him. This fellow feels like real life Snufkin.

I had to edit about 60 corporate headhsots at work. Ended up doodling out about 10 of these on the back of a contact sheet during a meeting!

Pencil black drawing.

I took a screenshot of Rap Monster for the MV of Fake Love. there's a series of screenshots i took to paint of the members in the video.

March 2018

Nights of weird dreams captured in Ink

4th portrait from the collection “Women of the word”

I feel like my drawings got a lot more dimensional and interesting once I was able to achieve variable line width. I love loading different colors into the pen and going HAM on paper that totally can't handle it. My sketchbooks crackle when I turn the pages. They buckle and heave and are exhausted from their tribulations.

YlyaYod sketch 022, 2017 pencil, watercolor pencils 210 x 297 mm. N022

YlyaYod sketch 018, 2017 pencil, watercolor pencils 210 x 297 mm. N018

Collage of watercolor, colored pen and crayon snippets.

First in a series of portraits of friends in tiny format (2.1 x 3.1 inches) mixing coffee, watercolor, pencils and markers.