Sketch dump

2026.11.14
Characters: Miriel, Aava
License: CC0

A collection of miscellaneous sketches from the past year or so that I thought were worth sharing, presented in roughly chronological order. Mostly it's a lot of Miriel, who tends to be my main muse these days.

(content warning: some nudity and suggestive pinups included)

Plein air

My new hobby is going outside with my gouache kit to sketch scenery from life. Here's some of the best ones from the ~year I've been doing it.

A ski hill in summer time, forest-covered except for where a ski slope goes, and with a ski jump tower at the top, seen across a lake

View over a thawing lake in springtime, little puddles forming in the melting ice

A fountain made of concrete and red brick, surrounded by plants and tiles and building of similar brick

A street junction with signs and traffic lights, road trailing off between tall apartment buildings

A fallen tree and a log resting on top of a rock, the background left unpainted

The facade of a red brick church with aluminum roofs, partially hidden behind a tree

A bramble of tree trunks growing in different directions out of one common point in the ground

A tree with vivid red leaves, a road turning behind it and more trees in fall colors in the distance

More gouache stuff

Person in a yellow raincoat rowing a small wooden boat across clear green water on a sunny day

Bust portrait of Miriel the elf wearing a hooded coat with rain falling around her and very dark clouds behind

A leafy tree growing on a lake shore, reflected from the water

Aava the mermaid sitting on a rock, wearing a frilly pink dress and playing a traditional Finnish kantele

A green-skinned woman lying in a meadow of pink flowers

Outfit swap

Summer pinups

Ink drawing of Miriel the elf bathing in a small stream surrounded by rocks and reeds, seen from a high angle.
She's naked, standing up to her thighs in the water, lathering soap on her arm.
Her hair's unbound and wet, falling over her face and shoulders in sticky curls.
The drawing's made using a black fineliner pen and shaded with hatching,
but with a bit of orange and purple added in for her hair and arm tattoos.

Ink drawing of Miriel, an elven lady with red braided hair,
standing in front of a large bush of rhododendron flowers with hands on her hips.
She's topless, wearing only panties and stockings with a garter belt.
The drawing is mostly black and white but using colored pens to add a bit of color to the flowers and hair.

Digital painting of Aava, a pale mermaid with black bob-cut hair,
lounging naked in a pool of water by moonlight.
She's leaning back on a rock and looking towards the viewer with a sultry expression,
dark makeup on her face, finger resting suggestively on her (considerably large) breast.
Rivulets of water are dripping down her body and the water surface around her shimmers with ripples.

My wardrobe

What if Miriel wore my actual real-life clothes? (Most of these I've actually sewn myself!) ...And what it would actually look like if she lived in my apartment in the summer months when I was drawing this.

Three digital sketches of Miriel the elf wearing different clothes: a polo t-shirt with red flowers and purple shorts; a v-neck t-shirt with green fern patterns, a long green skirt and sneakers. In the last one she's topless with green shorts slouching in an armchair, sweating and looking exasperated.

Post-ArtFight dress designs

Ink drawing of Miriel the elf wearing a pink halter-neck dress with a knee-length skirt decorated with rose appliques.
She's walking away from us along a path with a wooden railing next to her, turning her head back with a smile.

Ink drawing of Miriel the elf wearing a green dress with short butterfly sleeves
and a long skirt decorated with large yellow flower patterns.
She's standing in front of a circular window with trees behind it. Her hair is, unusually, untied.

Ink drawing of Miriel the elf wearing a revealing evening gown with a low neckline and a high slit along the thigh.
It has decorative gems and ribbons underneath the breasts and thin drop sleeves leaving the shoulders bare.
She's standing on a forest path that curves away from view behind her.

City trip

First of a series of ink sketches featuring Miriel the elf
wearing a long dress with flutter sleeves and large flower patterns.
In this one she's in a library between shelves, grabbing a book to take it away.
She's been colored in by painting, while the rest of the picture is black and white,
roughly shaded with hatching.

Miriel is stepping out of a modern-looking train onto a station.
Behind the train are trees, the tracks disappearing between them.

Miriel is facing away from us, leaning on a railing overlooking a beach.
Out on the lake there are islands and a sailboat.
Miriel's bent-over stance makes her dress curve rather appealingly.

Miriel is sitting on the edge of a small cobblestone bridge,
licking an ice cream cone and looking down into the water.
In the background, the bridge transitions to a path into a forest.

Miriel is posing on her knees in a field of grass and flowers,
viewed from a high angle that very much emphasizes the cleavage left exposed by her dress's neckline.
Her hair is billowing in the wind and she's looking directly at the viewer with a smile.

Sleep mode

Digital line drawing of Miriel the elf lying on the ground with her eyes closed and one hand on a book, seen from above. She's surrounded mostly by empty space, dotted with flowers. The picture isn't colored or shaded, but silhouettes are filled in with white. The rest is transparent.

An overlay to display on my PocketBook InkPad One e-reader in sleep mode. Here's how it looks on the device itself:

The same drawing displayed on a PocketBook InkPad One e-reader that's in sleep mode. The empty space in the drawing lets the last active screen show through dimmed and slightly blurred. It's a paper by J. Marsden and M. West with the current page talking about "extended Hamilton-Jacobi theory".

(Note in case somebody wants to do the same: this is not the actual format used by the device; see this forum thread for how to do this on PocketBooks.)