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Want to know more about folklore and monsters from Finland but neither read Finnish nor have any Finnish friends? Look out for this book by my pal! Coming soon!

It's been 6 years in a back burner but finally I will put this ebook together. It has 55 monsters and creatures, old spells and eye-witness testimonies. Available soon in Ko-Fi and vie email orders!

No way it is a seriously made study book but just to give some information of these Nordic creatures in English, also in cases where such information doesn't exist in English yet. So don't shoot me!

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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Should I keep doing this Inktober catch up on Instagram or should I just accept that my grid looks horrific and delete my Instagram? Dilemma.

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💜 Boy With Luv MV

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✒ at least it's an open grave this time

Inktober 2024 day 1 - fude nib fountain pen

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It's this other time again too >:3c Generally the venn diagram of people who like timed figure drawing exercises and people who like BTS fanart is a pair of non-intersecting circles, but I don't let that stop me.

This year has j-hope as well because he's being discharged from the military this month. :3

💜 Save Me MV

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It's that time of year again! I haven't had time to scan anything so please forgive the limited image editing on my phone camera.

✒ cover page (fountain pen)

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Of all my online locations, tumblr is probably the only one I'm not constantly tempted to delete.

I'm trying to add my Inktober pictures to Instagram and I hate the way my grid looks with a deep sadness. I like the way the actual art I did looks in person, why does it look like trash as soon as I take a photo?

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I'm trying to add my Inktober pictures to Instagram and I hate the way my grid looks with a deep sadness. I like the way the actual art I did looks in person, why does it look like trash as soon as I take a photo?

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When I restarted this little book I went back and drew new versions of the old pictures to see if it looked different. I think I used to use harder lead in my pencils. You can see I didn't even make it past the layout sketch for the bluebell in 2017.

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A while ago I dug out a teeny tiny notebook (only 6.5x10.5cm) I'd never finished and started drawing in it. I remember I bought this book in 2017 while in a slump, hoping it would make me want to draw more, which didn't work but I did suddenly feel like using it last year.

The mushrooms are from 2022, but squint at the dates and you'll see there was a 5-year gap between drawing and colouring the lionfish mermaid because I sketched her in 2017.

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2002 vs. 2022

Last year I came across a set of season fairies that I drew when I was still in school. They were the first art I ever posted online and were the best I could do at the time. Since it had been exactly 20 years, I decided to redraw them and see the difference. I tried to retain some elements from the original set; each fairy is facing the same way and has a similar outfit and colour scheme. In 2002 I used coloured pencils because that was my standard medium for colour, so I did the redraw in watercolour because that's become my standard medium over time. (Maybe I'll redraw one in coloured pencil too.) Autumn is first because I drew her first back then! It was my favourite season. Autumnal fairies are still the kind I draw most, so the Autumn fairy was probably the easiest.

Winter is the one I changed most because she had a definite Christmas vibe in the original, which I remember being unintentional. (At the time I just couldn't think of any Winter plants other than evergreens.) I tried to make the new one match what I was aiming for in the past, rather than what I managed to draw.

Spring flowers are all very low-growing, so I moved the Spring fairy down to the ground. I'm really pleased with the mist effect in the background and how closely I was able to match the old colour scheme.

Finally, Summer! This one was interesting, I absolutely hated the season as a child (I had fair skin, light-sensitive eyes and debilitating hayfever) and I have strong memories of just bashing this one out to complete the set, so I had to figure out if there even was a flower that matched those generic 'flower' shapes I drew in the original. I hadn't tried very hard at the time, but in hindsight I thought her pose was more interesting than the others, so I tried to retain things like the bent legs by hooking them round the flower stem. She's also the one whose character design changed the least. I'm still not a huge fan of the season but I think the updated illustration might even be my favourite in the set.

Maybe I'll make some prints of these or some Redbubble products?

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Happy Hobi Day! He's not my bias but I could watch j-hope dance all day.

His trousers in this dance practice remind me of a watermelon and I love it.

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Picnic with friends, version 2.

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Here's a sort of bonus Inktober. I had half a page left and I was still disappointed about using the wrong midtone in this Inktober picture, so I redrew a Winter version with the right pen. Which one looks better?

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It's a good day for friends to visit.

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Inktober 2022 Day 31: dip pen and ink wash

Last one! As usual, finished with about 2 hours to midnight. I was screamingly busy at London MCM Comic Con for the last 5 days (including travel and packing/unpacking etc.) so I'm really pleased that I managed to keep going to the end.

This makes 5 of the Mirror Twins for Hallowe'en, so I'll probably get them printed as postcards like the 5 Tabitha drawings. Who should I pick for the next series?

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Carnivorous plant 3

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Inktober 2022 Day 30: G-pen