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Inktober day 4: Dodge (1970 Challenger) A quick one today bc busy day. My tea that I made before starting the sketch was still hot when I finished inking. 🔥

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Fashioctober (fashion October, *not* fashy October 😭) day 3: School uniform (Willie's summer uniform)

I tried some flat colouring, which looks surprisingly okay. Not entirely sure about the wall and the bag, so under the cut is a version with those parts in not flat colouring ... :3

I got almost excited today, thinking maybe I just can't draw anymore, and actually never could?! Which would be a relief?? But unfortunately it looks like I just need to practise a bit and get back into it 😐 This is still not great, but it's a little bit better than the previous ones ...

And just the lineart, because I still think that one looks the best:

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FAMILY PORTRAIT

When I was 8, I drew a very disturbing dog family, and this is a remake in my current style. I basically haven’t drawn in a year, and this was fun ^^

The house is based on the hut where my great-grandmother grew up with her many sisters and brothers. The father was a shoemaker and alcoholic, and most (if not all) kids moved to the city to work in the factories before they were even teenagers, if I remember correctly.

The original drawings, that I drew with crayons on the back of my mum’s bank statements in 1989, when I was 8 years old:

I drew them in that order, and tacked the pages together, so it’s kind of a funny little horror comic in the shape of a series of portraits of a family. A child psychologist would probably have had a field day with it. ^^;

Now that I redrew them as an adult, my brain wanted to make more sense of it than just “it’s funny/creepy”! The mother, who looks completely normal (for a dog-human/werewolf/furry or whatever), has a little pendant with a satanic cross around her neck. And maybe they’re involved with terrible, unspeakable demonic entities or forces that disfigure their bodies? Maybe the father is the unspeakable entity, and the children have inherited features from each parent to varying degrees?

I used my great-grandma’s hut as the backdrop, because in this type of historical family portraits of peasant and worker families in Finland, they usually posed in their Sunday clothes in front of their home, which may have been a tiny hut in the forest like this.

To me personally this family portrait is kind of the story about how abuse, addiction and pain runs in families, and how children inherit it and carry it on in different ways. Some become abusers in turn. Some turn the abuse against themselves. Some pretend to be ‘normal’, but still carry those demons inside, and avoid close relationships out of fear that they’ll emerge. Some become selfless saviours and helpers devoted to fight injustice. Some become artists and tell the story of their abuse and pain over and over. Some manage to truly overcome it and break the cycle. And of course the same individuals can go through all of these things throughout their lives. And here that story is told through the lens of lovecraftian horror, and within one single image ^^

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Plastober week 1: Opposite hues, day 1: Mirror My favourite opposite hues, popular in the latter 90's, the official Aeroflot colours 💙🧡

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Loretober, day 1: Baba Yaga