Ink my love. Improvising a lot of this, might regret some choices later on but hey, that's what the white ink / Poscas are for and so on. #comics #sarjakuva #ravencomic #wip

Another stopmotion, now with a bit more thought. But just a bit. Creating useless nonsense makes me happy. #stopmotion #skull #animation

A fantasy story MUST, almighty gods! Here they are: The Caster, The Guard, the Scribe, and The Weaver (Spider Mother). Plus Chance (the cat) making things interesting. They all have their roles in running the stream of souls (life & death). They'll be an important background factor in Raven & Toad.

Yay, managed to draw something tonight! Pencils for my Raven comic's little handout, can't wait for the inking part! 😍 But I need to edit & print these to a proper paper first, oh how I miss my scanner/printer now... #sarjakuva #ravencomic #comics #indiecomics #pencildrawing

Had 3 hrs just for myself. So far I've eaten kebab & candy, washed dishes & laundry, took a nap and made this silly stop motion. What an exciting Friday night.

Another morning & skull study. After 5hrs of sleep not a good one, but something anyway.

No *tobers for me, just plain old October. One day at a time. Try to hit 7-8 hrs of sleep on most nights (I often wake up unvoluntarily at ~5am so good luck). Artwise, push forward all the projects at least a bit, aim to finish the 2-page Raven trailer. Texts are ready, next up: pencils.

Another breakfast skull study page. I'm not going to say I'll make it a habit, cos I'll just jinx it and never do this again. #sketchbook #skull #inkdrawing #fountainpen

Breakfast sketching. Borrowed the skull from work (yes I will return it in time, yes it's been sitting on our livingroom shelf all summer) #skull #sketchbook

In another news, a Bubbly Baby has been born! I had a dried piece of sourdough from 2023, and enough time has passed from the last try to keep this sludge alive, to have another go. This is day 3, I've fed it some random dark flour so far. Now changing to whole grain wheat. #sourdough #hapanjuuri

Second draft, now in size A4. There's going to be a lot of introductional text (that I still need to write) and I want the drawings to have enough details & pull to make the whole thing still interesting to watch. Fingers crossed! #comics #sarjakuva #ravencomic

Raven & Toad -comic will probably be ready somewhere around 26/27. But I'm taking part in Oulu Comics Festival via friend and want to bring something related to the table. So I'll make this 2-page freebie, a trailer, if you will. #sarjakuva #comics #indiecomics

A little side project (as if I don't have enough of those already). Improvising and letting it grow how it wants. It's a nice process of making one page and giving it some time, until it makes sense how the next page should be. I'll come up with the texts later. #comics #indiecomics #sarjakuva #art

Cool textures from nearby bus stop. Guess they didn't finish washing off a tag. Everyday aesthete thanks.

The digital version of my artbook is now available with a paid Patreon subscription or via Ko-Fi and Gumroad (PWYW) - link in bio.

Mushy brain.

Back at home from my (work)trip to Iceland. Full days, impactful nature experiences. I aimed to paint/draw something everyday and (to my surprise) succeeded. Here's a drawing and a painting I made on the plane home. #inkdrawing #sketchbook #landscapeart #watercolour

The lavafield at Grindavík. As an outsider it's quite impossible to comprehend that this mass of rock hasn't been here more than few years. We had a chance to collect a few pieces of lavarock to take home and it felt really special. I know, it's just rock. But like... baby rock! #watercolour #lava

Painting based on a selfie taken at windy lavafields in Grindavík yesterday. Painted with watercolours, finished with a fineliner and white Posca. #sketchbook #watercolour #painting #mixedmedia #selfportrait

Behind a waterfall. Ink, watercolour and some white Posca. #watercolour #painting #waterfall #art #sketchbook

A watercolour painting (+ some fineliner) from this morning. #waercolourart #watercolour #landscapeart #sketchbook

A little watercolour and ink sketch based on the photographs I took earlier today. This isn't proper aquarelle paper but I tried. And if I have time I'll keep drawing/painting landscapes of Iceland all throughout this week. #watercolours #painting #aquarelle #sketchbook #landscapeart

Beautiful scenes from #Iceland. The mountains never look as amazing in the photos as they do in real life but here's a try. Tried the fermented shark (from Iceland) and whale meat (from Faroe Islands) today. Wow, is all I can say. #naturephotos #photography

Traveling with -3 hrs time difference. I've had trouble sleeping for a long time, waking up at 5 am or so. Now I woke up, 8 am at home time. But it's freaking 5 am here. No mercy.

Took the kids to pick lingonberries and explore a swamp 🍂 Found a perfect berry spot, and some cortinarius caperatus (kehnäsieni, does it have some common name in English?). The mushrooms were served for lunch. Promised the kids to bake lingonberry pie later on.

Also, here's some random cool mushrooms. #mushrooms #mushroomsky

I've decided to learn to eat mushrooms (yes just the regular kinds). Me & the kids have foraged them twice this week, the "hunt" is so much fun! So far we've found bearded & rufous milkcaps and brittlegills from our nearby forest. And one big viper! #mushrooms

New A6 sketchbook, 1st pg. I'm travelling all of next week and trying to decide what to pack in the pencil case... I've a small watercolour travel kit, so that'll come with. I'd like to take the fountain pen but will it explode in the plane? And will I run out of ink? Do I pack the ink bottle too??

Inkdrawing/painting using a tape mask. A first, quite fun technique! Thank you for an inspiring reference @1kwordsartandphoto.bsky.social ❤️

Some tired studies of upper torso & arms. Fountain pen on bamboo paper, a nice combo. #figurestudies

Continuing the series of Conan & tragic ladies. She must be carried, Coco!

Process of drawing/painting this giant in a forest. The cheap bamboo paper quite graciously took the beating, and nothing's bled through. All warped from water, but that's ok. Didn't tape it down properly. Might add a couple of details still, now that I'm looking at it... #art #inkdrawing

The more I've read old Conan's, the more fascinated I've become with Conan's troublesome relationship with the women in the stories. He saves them from danger, wants and doesn't want them. He acts like a grumpy manchild and an honourable knight. The women are either too much or not enough for him.

Inks kinda wednesday. Quickpainted two more pages of my Raven comic and drew a classic Conan the Barbarian -lady. The latter is drawn on bamboo paper and I really like the material. A bit tinted, cardboardish. I was very heavy handed with the ink and none bled through! Nice!

Anyone know of diy instructions for making a small stand for zines and such, from e.g. plywood using a lasercutter or the sorts? Preferably something that could be put together when needed and then taken apart for storaging. #diy #zine

I've been reading and studying the art of 80's Conan the Barbarian comics. The stories are awful, but the art is so fine! Here are some, admittedly humouristic, studies and adaptations of Coco. #conanthebarbarian #inkdrawing #comics #sketchbook #ink

Had a real strong and clear vision about painting toad eyes, so that's what I did. Here's the result and the path to it. Watercolours, ink, and metal foil on 300g Fabriano cold pressed paper (25% cotton). If you want to give one of them a loving home, send a DM. #watercolours #painting #art

Awful pressure in the frontal sinuses, a little goodbye kiss from the flu I had last week. Art out of pain.

#comics update: lots of drama on this spread. Some adjustments needed, but Raven's finally here!!

#comics update, I'm at page 19/48 quick painting the whole thing. Can't wait for the real thing! #sarjakuva #indiecomics

Some art! Or drawings, anyway. Faces scribbled with Pentel pocket brush and some pigma micron today and the other day.

Back at playing #veilguard. I have a permanent joke about rpgs having these generic "go pick me X flowers" -tasks. So far Veilguard has had two actual flower-picking tasks. Good job. Maybe there's a 3rd one coming? (I will finish the game, although even after ~50 hrs I'm still not into it)

My scanner/printer broke last night, of course, when I had to print a bunch of stuff (lyrics to a singalong, another story). Anyone with a #canon #pixma TS5150: the little green light lights up (so there is power) but NOTHING HAPPENS. No 'scree-scroo-crinck-cronck-bzzzz' and the screen stays black.

Studies of hands. Summer holiday is over, bummer. Can't just leave a sketchbook laying on a table and think I'll return to it in a minute and an hour passes by before I pick up the pen. Time is more precious again. #inkdrawing #sketchbook

Hey artists, quote with your woman art

Cleaned a plant shelf and gave some long overdue love to these darlings: changed the pots to 4 cocoa plants and to 1 nearly dead angelwing begonia, and pruned a butterfly orchid, that has grown new roots finally! I'm prone to kill any orchid so this is a small victory. #plants #plantsky #plantmama

Photos of #clouds from today and a couple of days ago.

A bit obsessed with drawing fabric rn. There are issues here (the head/neck) doesn't quite fit) but moving on. Also, found an easel I thought I had lost, so less hunching over a table when drawing in the future. #art #charcoaldrawing #figurestudy

For one of my projects I wanted to learn how to draw thin, sheer fabric on a person. Started by doing some studies of a scarf pinned in different ways. Then of a hand holding the scarf, and finally full body figure studies with a sheer fabric worn and pleated in different ways. #figurestudy #art

#aquarium post, a very preggo #amanoshrimp See all those eggs under her belly? She moves her body to keep the water flowing and the eggs clean. The eggs won't develope, though, cos they'd need brackish water.