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evelmiina · 6 days
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Acorns and Ulrik went to sewers, among other things. Although my doodle a day book is not specifically Elden Ring themed some days I don't have much else going on
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evelmiina · 19 days
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life drawing! 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 minute poses
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evelmiina · 20 days
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Just so you know, tumblr is currently using art for AI training and the only way to stop them is to go into your settings and turn it off 'third party sharing' manually (on each of your blogs)
Hey thank you for messaging me. I noticed this yesterday and opted out. I am very skeptical it will have much practical effect, but it is better to opt out in any case and spread the word. I had a few thoughts, this button thing has been a move by some other sites as well. Deviantart did it but from the look of it definitely just seemed like PR move to protect the company (DA is now pretty much haven of gAI spam and they have their own model as well). The button option conveniently washes their hands from any data misuse, as in 'hey if your data was used in training we don't know how that happened, because you opted out so not our fault'. But it's what we have so definitely opt out.
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evelmiina · 25 days
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the smallest and scratchiest Messmer doodle and my cat
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evelmiina · 25 days
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Hi, Eva! Love your works so much! How did you develop your shape language? Do you also simplify shapes as what we see in your illustrative works when you do studies from life/movies/any resources?
Hey thank you for your message! Glad to hear you like my works When I study I will definitely simplify the subject just to be able to draw/paint it, but I try to be aware of not stylizing too much from the get go. I do have my own biases though and there's habits and sometimes strong inclination to draw certain way. Like the way I use some tools I'm familiar with. I usually make decisions on the fly, like sometimes I want to draw very stylistically from reference and other times I think there is something interesting but I set out to figure it out while I draw it. I think when I really try to be focused and observe earnestly what I see it helps me to imagine better and come up with new shapes and ideas. I've noticed it's important to me to not expect too much from a sketch or exercise, or it turns into something performative where the focus shifts from my desire to do things and figure it out, to expecting someone to see it and being evaluated. Anime and feeling of movement whether it's animation or dancing and acting have definitely influenced a lot in my shape language. I'm aiming for certain level of clarity and design without losing freedom. I always feel like it's kind of battle between emotion and discipline in myself, or having sort of contradicting approaches too. I think I have distinctly western influences from storybooks, golden age illustrators and animation but I don't particularly follow western animation design principles like line of action or squash and stretch. I always feel like I don't want to say "too much" or that some expressions and designs feel too descriptive to me. Not to say I don't like or admire it in other people's work because I do, it's just that I have strong sense of what feels just right amount of ambiguous to me that is hard to explain. I think anime character shapes are more defined by symbolism and graphic composition of the drawing in frame than western characters and that appeals to me. It is more kin to comic panels whereas western animation would be more closely kin to film composition. Obviously there is variety and overlap but that is what initially influenced me.
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evelmiina · 1 month
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brushpen on paper sketching
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evelmiina · 1 month
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evelmiina · 1 month
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Some artists I've had in my mind lately, just sharing the inspiration
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Ayami Kojima
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Harry Clarke
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Hitoshi Yoneda
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Stepan Kolesnikoff
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John Howe
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Nobuteru Yuki
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evelmiina · 1 month
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sometimes I gotta learn stuff I don't want to tho I did these doodles when I thought about learning Blender
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evelmiina · 1 month
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Last week sketching. I tried doing an hour before work and some evenings, which is a real improvement for me. For some years now after work, I was very done with drawing/painting for the day and I rather played games or watched something, but currently I really enjoy drawing.
I want my drawings to have better structure overall, it's something that I especially hated studying so I never did it. Overall I'm not hugely into studying, because if I don't have clear idea for illustration or project I want to do it for, I don't really see point in doing grind for grind's sake. Right now I think it's more pleasant because I'm interested in doing better character illustration, and I know what will help me get there. Body rotation, hands and different angles especially fascinate me, because I want to be able to do interesting shapes and expression with those. First image is all from imagination but rest are referenced from photos.
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evelmiina · 2 months
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These ended up being full circle -beginning of the year and ending of year drawings in 2023
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evelmiina · 2 months
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I think this is 2019. Digital painting based on photo I took
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evelmiina · 3 months
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Hyvää joulua - Happy holidays !
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evelmiina · 3 months
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Friend asked me if I'm depressed, but I don't think I am at the moment. To be honest this year my overall mental health has improved, more stability and motivation in life overall. Being a little isolated and far away from my friends still sucks, but I'm making more art for myself and I have a nice job for now, which I'm thankful for.
I feel like it has been long time bubbling under, but I need to make my own stories even if they end up being stupid and bad. I've aspired and succeeded in finding work in entertainment arts and I've strived to become a better craftsperson, better painter and designer, to keep finding work. I still do want to improve and I adore 2D animation... but there's always some sort of underlying frustration or need to make my own things. I don't think I'm yet at place or if I ever will be, where I could just fully commit to it, for now it is just something I'm slowly trying to care for.
Maybe in part rise of image generation AI made me find determination to keep making my own things, a resolve and peace in seeing what matters. I still need work because I need to get by, but ideally I wish to work with good people and artists first, not bend myself over backwards to correspond to whatever I try to anticipate the industry needs. In a way I never have- I feel lucky to have just made things that resonated enough that I found work, but I always struggle because while it is my personal work that gets me hired, the job is not that. The job is painting and designing polished work and I am so frustrated with myself when I don't excel at it. I find myself trying to mould into being someone I'm not, someone I imagine has more tangible skills than, or an ideal of myself that I will never be. Put it this way if it makes any sense, I am not fully kind to myself and therefore I have often imagined if I was more disciplined or did so and so, I could be this or that. But this train of thought near took all the joy of creativity out of me, and convinced me there is no point in making things for myself, unless it was according to some ideals and expectations of myself.
In short I simply need to keep making bad things too. It is probably the only way I can better accept myself. I don't know where I stand in sharing them or how to approach sharing my personal art online, but all I can say creating is fun again.
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evelmiina · 3 months
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evelmiina · 3 months
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I did a lifedrawing sketch demo with Zeet Studio, our model was cosplayer of Juno Hoslow from Elden Ring. It was super fun and quite challenging to try sketch armors in few minutes per pose. I added some details and hatching afterwards and this is the result.
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evelmiina · 4 months
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2023 works
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