Evil Spirit on a stick

Clay Crawlers

I watched the Galactica season 3 on the Christmas holiday so now I'm definitely in alien/space mood. :) Here's a short glimpse of the lives and times of the distant clay planet dwellers.

The planet used to be a nice place, not a boiling rock facing the fate of being eaten by the neighbour star systems (wow I'm pro in stellar stuff- not!). A flaming giant meteorite crashed the planet thousand of years ago. Due the low oxygen levels the intelligent, highly civilized colony that inhabited the planet turned with the speeded up evolution these slow and sluggish clay crawlers.

The only reminiscence of the heyday of the intelligent culture is the slowly deteriorating humidity tanks on the backs of these creatures - the iron relics made by the last generation of intelligent individuals of the race, knowing their descendants would lose their mind and their lives also without these tanks on their backs pumping the precious liquids to their bodies. It's too sad that the final of the tanks are now so rusty that it's only a matter of time when the last clay crawler sees the red hot sky and the twin suns.

Color Sketchs

I thinking about painting these guys, made some very 'halolla päähän' sketches.:) It might help when starting the actual painting.

Some color tryouts:









Sketch-o-ramas:

Merry Christmas

(more lute players next year)

Golden Sparrow

I watched yesterday Jackie Chan&Jet Li movie 'Forbidden Kingdom'. It was very 1980ish movie I think :) Here's a character from the movie, The Golden Sparrow. I love the cool codenames characters have in chinese movies. My favorite movie in this genre is Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger. I really love that 'old folk's' romance between Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat.

Swan smoking a Liquorice pipe

The liquorice candy pipes may soon be illegal in Finland, because they might push children smoke cigarettes. Sounds like a gag from Monty Python, I think!

Kites and Cherry Blossoms