Other Praha blogs / leaving for Poland

Hey!!


Go check out these blogs, its other people from our school studying in different departments. There's some animations, interior design, sketching, adventures.




Germán's Blog


Teemu's animation/photo blog


Avigael's adventures in Praha




It really took me too long to get this done.


In other news, last week has been crazy so no new drawings. School had its 120 year anniversary, we got to see Pulp Fiction on a big screen, etc. I started to work on a storyboard & different ideas for some animation that I want to start working on next year.

Tomorrow I will go to Camerimage film festival in Lodz, Poland. So I will be gone for about one week. I will see if theres a chance to update the blog or not.


Off to see Corpse bride.


Cau!

6th week / first snow

Ahoj, ahoj.


So friday/saturday night it finally happened. First snow was here for 30 minutes or so, before morning traffic.



First snow


Second snow



Great.




Life drawings >



Tobacco-colored paper. I love it.



Tobacco paper + 4 beers.



Finished.



This one is charcoal + white, black, brown pastel.



Leftover pastel colors. I have so many more.


2 drawings are missing because of last thursday's Velvet Revolution anniversary, classes were cancelled.


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Figurama05 >


I finally managed to go to the Figurama-life drawing exhibition, a couple of days before they closed it down. It was held at the Police Museum, close to I.P.Pavlova metro station. I saw the drawings/paintings at Figurama book, but the real thing was of course a lot better. Some really really amazing drawings there from different universities.




Roba and Pekka at the gate



Exhibition building



Chayenne, Roba and Graham at Figurama05



Chayenne



Amazing



My drawing... it was nice to see it again.



Zdeněk's amazing work.



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Last sunday we hit a local restaurant/cafe Velryba to some sunday sketching with Germán and Teemu. We ended up spending 8 hours in that place, Teemu even had time to have lunch and dinner without getting up from the table.



Sketching with ink and hot chocolate.


More


Tiny drawing, photo taken using inverted 24mm lens close to the camera.
The lines are normal ballpoint pen.


Another one.


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This is what I see every morning when I come back to the dormitory >


Tik!

When I leave >


Tak!




Bonus pictures!


I don't know.


Flatmate Radim at dorm


Dorm kitchen


Taking it easy at Product design department, Velvet Revolution annvrsr.



Hanging out with bara at nice statues.


Nice statues part two.


And finally!

Here's the official panorama at Letna park of week 6 >

5th week, drawings / nonsense

Hei


I'm sitting in the horribly cold basement/computer room of our dormitory. No school today, everything here is closed because of the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, 17.11.1989.

So you can forget my promises of monday updates. Its more like monday evening photo editing, then update sometime during the week once the pictures are up for everyone to see. Jussi Kemppainen has been my lifeline in Finland, getting the pictures up to my website each time, on time. Almost. So bear with us.

Maybe you were wondering what I look like. I thought it's finally time to put up a picture of myself.



Dorm


In the bar with Joshua

Yes! I always wear the hat!



And then let's start with the actual work >


Sketch, wanted to take photo before I ruin it.


Ruined.


Devil guy


Quick head studies in the end of the class.


Graphite + patience


Started by blacking out the paper during the break, then erasing with sponge, and adding some light with pastel. Our paper is not white so erasing is not always sufficient for final highlights.



Radim holding the drawing to be photographed.


There's a GIF sequence of old woman-portrait I made last week. Teemu was king enough to take a picture every few minutes. The total work was about 20 minutes.

size: 1 megabyte.

And here's the result once more >




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Last friday we went to the Zoo in Praha, our intention was to go sketch some animals, take some video footage for animating walk cycles and in general to spend a nice chilly friday afternoon outside. It turned out that the Zoo was too big to see through in 4 hours and we were so happy to see all those animals that no one sketched anything during that day. I was too busy to even take pictures, these are the only ones I got >



Here's Pablo, Teemu, German and Avigael


Giraffes!


What more can I say? It's giraffes!


I was walking to school the other morning, and I swear everything was so pink! Standing at the Metronome looking at empty, pink Praha. Seven-something o'clock in the morning.



Here's the Metronome ticking away in the nice afternoon light. People come to sit down and skateboard/rollerblade here.


Tik!


Tak!



Other views from Praha include standing at the worlds biggest horse statue:


After sunset panorama. Statue not included.

And another view from Letna park-Metronome statue:


Sorry but each time I go there, its panorama time.


Dormitory pictures!


Foggy dormitory building


Foggy scary tree outside my window


Scary nighttable beside the bed



That's it!
I hope the washing machine finished by now.

See you.

4th week, drawings!

Cau everyone!


First week of November is over. There are only a couple of weeks left, but even that means more practise than I ever had before in traditional drawing/painting.

On top the drawing course we have been talking about sitting down to pose for each other for some portrait painting/drawing. But since everyone has their own departments with their comings and goings, its hard to find the time.

My Czech is getting better and better, although it is still understanding some words here and some words there. M o r e p r a c t i s e .



I found some really cheap pastels from the art shop the other day, so I\ve been using them a lot. With the box comes a huge amount of strange bright colors, so when I run out of the more normal ones, you can except some crazy colors in the future drawings.

Maybe I could grind the leftover pastels and mix them together and then with water.

I tried also to play a little bit with the proportions of the models. The drawings are the same as before > 100x150cm/3hours, except the last one which is a 20 minute portrait. I just happened to walk across classroom with some portrait drawing in progress, and took part in the final minutes of the class.













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Drawing class and animation department >


Class taking a break


Marie and Pablo on a break


Keiko, Pavel and Teemu on the animation department attic.