Oh charcoal, don't tell ink but I do so adore you! Same pose, 180° rotation, from Croquis Café. The first one is untimed and the second one a 5 min drawing. #art #charcoaldrawing #figurestudy #figuredrawing

#figuary drawings from days 12, 14, aaand... something. Only one week left! Phew! The 5 min drawings have been quite awful, the 1-2 min sketches feel more alive and relaxed. I try to concentrate on the torso this year. #figurestudy #croquis #pencildrawing

😑😑😑 Oulu nyt oikeesti mitä

So, no new projects huh? I jumped into the rabbit hole of pasta machine printing. Now I have a machine of my own, Sirkka, and I made the first test prints yesterday. This is really fascinating! Lots to learn, lots of ideas... #artgraphic #grafiikka #art #printing #etching

Great night at the #gym! Been going only 1-2 times a week now, cos I walk so much daily with the dog. Increased weights +5kg in lunge and leg curl, and RDL'd two good sets with my body weight. So pleased! The progress is slow but into the right direction.

#figuary #figuredrawings from days 5, 7, 8 and 9. The first two images are 1 min poses. The third is two 5 min poses but the second was a total disaster and I quickly sketched it again (after giving the first version a piece of my mind like a 5-yr old). The last pic has 1 to 2 mind drawings.

#ravencomic update, pages 34-35 quickpainted. Thirteen pages left, I should get through those in three-ish weeks. So, it's a goal to start the final pencils in March! Here's some messy panels from today's pages. Fight fight fight! #sarjakuva #inkdrawing #indiecomics #comic #comics

Two more pages of #ravencomic quickpainted. I'm now on page 33 out of 48, and Raven finally meets Toad. A quick recap: they're both spirits of dead people, implanted by accident or sorcery to the bodies of two animals. No, this is not a romance story. Toad is out to kill Raven. #comics #sarjakuva

New(ish) art purchases going on the wall. The one against the wall is a painting by @thewormling.bsky.social and the one the floor is a print by @kiertotie.bsky.social Buy from living artists, pls. #art #decoration #interiordesign

#figuary days 3&4, drawn with charcoal. The number next to the drawing indicates the minutes used. #croquis #figurestudy #figuredrawing #charcoaldrawing #art

Taking part in Croquis Café's #figuary again, so expect a lot of figuredrawings in the coming weeks. I'll skip some days if I'm busy otherwise, but try to draw on as many days as I can. Using mainly charcoal. Here's some photos of day 1 & 2. #figuredrawing #figurestudy #croquis #charcoaldrawing

Lots of messy details but we're on page 31, Raven has climbed up a tree and is now looking at a city far away. And there's something important hidden inside the tree...! #sarjakuva #comics #ravencomic #indiecomics #b&wcomics #inkdrawing

"oh I'll only draw in black and white" #oilpastels #art #artsky #figuredrawing #selfportrait

This month’s artbook is now available to download from my Patreon, Ko-Fi, Gumroad and Bandcamp (link in bio). It’s a warts and all document of everything I created during January 2026, and features my recent exploration of colour, figure and line over 240+ pages.

Hooray! I finally managed to open the Raven-comic's project folder and continue it for one spread. Quickpainted pages 28-29, they seem fine to me. To remind, this round is a checkup on compositions and contrasts etc., next up corrections and then final pencils. #sarjakuva #ravencomic #comics #art

Some marker drawings from today. Tiny faces drawn early in the morning, and studies of yours truly in a linen shirt drawn just before bedtime. #art #figurestudy #markerdrawing #inkdrawing #sketchbook

Been feeling real crafty today, finished the cardigan and made two wooden buttons for it (I had two and needed four). Here's the button process. Used a birch log, a saw, a puukko knife, bunch of sanding paper, a drill, and paraffin oil. And only cut myself twice. #woodwork #crafts #handicraft

Morning #croquis using #charcoal, 1, 2, and 5 min from Croquis Café, model Ivy. The last pose was a difficult one: laying down with slight foreshortening. I've always struggled with these, probably cos all the bits are so far from each other, there are no central anchor point (if it makes sense).

Some recent #charcoal drawings: a study, a croquis, and an improvisation. I try to limit myself for black and white for a while (cos of the b&w comic), but want to use other mediums besides ink. Charcoal gives that deep deep black and is quick to use. Ink & acrylics always need a bit of setting up.

#charcoal #croquis and #figurestudies Charcoal ❤️. There's an element of randomness when drawing with what's essentially just a stick of dust. The line light be thin, or thick, the stick might crumble. Made loose dust with a cheesegrater and used it for underdrawings using a brush.

Finally all the 55 knitted squares have been steamed and the yarn ends fastened. Phew! Here's the 'square burger', colour palette and a sketch for colour design. #knitting #crafts #käsityö #neulonta

Exactly 55 knitted 15 cm by 15 cm, made of leftover or unraveled yarns, to be turned into a patchy cardigan. Now they need to be steamed and the threads fastened off. Might take a couple of days... Pattern: www.kotona.com/articles/pat... #knitting #handicraft #neulonta

More #figurestudy and #croquis drawings from yesterday and today. Again the same model, Aaron from Croquis Café. The first one was untimed, I think I managed to draw the difficult pose from last time ok. The three latter are 30-45s and 1-5min.

Today's figure studies, model is Aaron from Croquis Café. First one I drew this morning, the second one at lunch and the last in the evening. Thought of scrapping the last one, it's pretty awful. I had difficult time concentrating I guess. #figurestudy #pencil #sketchbook

Today's #croquis. The first one was drawn in the morning, three others late in the evening. All refs from Croquis Café, model in the three latter ones @emilymetalskin.bsky.social who always has such subtly challenging poses! Not my best work, but there are lines/shapes I like. #figuredrawing

Early morning gym before work, first of this year. Didn't want to come, zero motivation, but here I am. Short term goal is to RDL my own bodyweight, only a few kgs to go.

Morning #croquis: torsos and legs. 30s-5mins. The belly part of the torsos is still bit lacking, but I'll get it eventually. Note to self, 30 seconds is enough for one but not two legs! #figurestudy #pencil #sketchbook

Figure studies from Croquis Café, model Bella Donna. Didn't time these, but maybe 2-10 mins each. I struggle with the length of torso, so that's what I was consentrating on. Also the scale of head/neck. #figurestudy #art

#figurestudy drawings, first of 2026. I'll try to do these a couple of times a week but no promises. Video/photoref from Croquis Café. I'd really like to steer these to just a tad more realistic direction, but lose the scale and with the heavy linework they end up cartooney. Sigh.

Happy New Year's Day 2026 ❤️ Spent the eve with family: sauna, a game of Carcassonne, New Year's show from tv, good food, and some sparklers & lightpainting closer to midnight. No promises or resolutions, but I'll try my best to NOT start any new big projects, just push forward the old ones.

I've had this reference photo from Croquis Café sitting in my phone for way too long. Didn't want to carry it to 2026 anymore, so this might well be my Goodbye to 2025 -painting. Happy new year 2026, keep creating love and with love ❤️ #art #acrylicpainting #figurestudy #love #happynewyear

Saw the new SpongeBob-movie with the kids today (fell asleep the half way). The best thing was a 7mins Ninja Turtles anti-AI shortie they showed before the movie. #noai #ninjaturtles #turtlepower m.imdb.com/title/tt3704...

It's done! The #perimenopausal #comic I've been working on. It's in Finnish, translation in alt text. This is part of page one. To be published in 2026, I'll keep you posted. It's sooo nice to finish a project ❤️ #sarjakuva #vaihdevuodet #perimenopaussi #art

#artvsartist2025 This year I took leaps with the Raven-comic (still a wip but anyhow), got comfortable with loose and messy inkdrawings, found acrylics (again) and Poscas, and filled many sketchbooks. #artvsartist #art #comics #sarjakuva

#comics update: I've written all the texts to the perimenopause story, and designed the layout. Now's the time to handwrite them. I'm testing printing the texts and writing over them (not tracing), to get the size right & place on first try. I really hope it works. #sarjakuva #perimenopause

Both of my brushpens are out of ink. Swapped to using plain brush and ink, feels nice. #figurestudies

Seems like ages since I last drew a human being. Here's some studies from yesterday, used refs. Was supposed to draw some more but ended up editing the texts of my menopausal comic. Might have to change the order of two pages. #figurestudies #sarjakuva #comics

Continuing from the previous comic. #belzebubs

Snow's gone, at times it's pitch black outside. Took some photos of a path nearby and painted this using one of them as reference. Also, first week without coffee. And, Finnish independence day! 🕯🇫🇮

"The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

You know what? Today I lifted 100kg for the first time (hipthrust, five ugly reps). By accident, cos I counted the plates wrong. But yay! #gym #weightlifting

Once again, trying to ditch coffee for tea. Day one. Why? Tea is better for me, it's less expensive, and most importantly uses less water to produce. Why bring this up? Might be easier to hold on to the promise by making it public. Want to join in?

Visiting Oulu Central Library Saari the first time after its renovation. Still a concrete brutalist marvel. May have overestimated the time I have for reading... #booksky #concretebrutalism #architecture

All pages done! The art, that is. Time to add the dialogue. Also, sushi-Sunday! Kid made the rice, I cut the fish. Not the prettiest but the flavours are there 🤝 #comic #artsky #sarjakuva #sushi #foodsky

#gym night! First full body training in six weeks (oops, been doing upper or lower body only) and I was still able to increase either weights or reps in each exercise. Amazed. Also found out you _are_ supposed to add the weight of the bar to the sum (duh), making my numbers instantly higher.

Page 6/8 of my pre/peri/whatevs menopause #comic. Took a bunch of reference photos of myself yesterday, jumping on a bed and roll over less or more graciously. A humbling experience! It'll be interesting to see how many details I lose when scanning&editing #sarjakuva #indiecomics #comics #menopause

Not the best time to plant things, but this little peace lily gave up, so it's time to golden pothos show how it's done. I always try to keep a cutting ready for situations like this. Godspeed! Also, time for seasonal lights. #houseplants #plantsky

Snowy giant spruces. Would be interesting subject to draw studies of, maybe with white ink on black paper, but I'll try to stay focused on the comic right now.

Snow ❤️❤️❤️ Lucky to live in a place full of little forest paths, and now with the dog in the house I get to explore those paths allday everyday. The landscape is always different and so soothing especially when it's dark. And it's almost always dark this time of the year.

#comics update, the corner of page 5/8 of my side project. I drew this page yesterday evening, dead tired, and it didn't turn out that well, no surprise there. But I didn't want to redraw it cos all the other pages are the first draft too and I want it to show. But I kept going and now, even with