echoes

These are going to be on the upcoming issue of Tähtivaeltaja.
Illustrations for Echo, a short story by Elizabeth Hand.

I haven't been very productive lately, as you may have noticed. Still trying to cooperate with the light issue, I guess. Or maybe I'm just having a less productive phase. Once, when I was again complaining how I can't get anything done, someone told me that you don't actually have to be productive all the time. A good point but I always forget it, as most of the time I just think that I'm never productive enough.

Now I'm off to my balcony where I'm just going to sit in the sun and drink some rooibos tea, and not thinking the following:
- work
- money
- am I doing enough work
- am I adequate ( as in a person and an artist and as in everything)
- things I should have been doing today
- all the things that are unfinished (in life)
- life generally
- reasons for my daily headaches

the growing absence of darkness

"please don't go"


The days are becoming longer and longer and there's a ridiculous amount of light every day considering how little of it we had just a couple of months ago. It's a good thing, I wish it was summer already, but the light has also some negative effects, like the lack of creativity. It's been really hard for me to do anything creative for several weeks. I blame the light.
I work mostly at nights when it's dark, so if it was hard to do anything daytime at winter, now it seems almost impossible. But I guess this will pass, it's just the dramatic and quick change of light that seem to mess up my head.

I've been mostly drawing my graphic novel, it's finally showing some progress. I'll post something when I do some inking, the pencilled pages aren't much to show.

big yellow robots are a girl's best friend

I like the area below the speech bubble and left from the girl's knee. Everything else just came up as something mediocre. Oh well, moving on...

a boy with too much fear in his heart

Finished.
At first the girl was also supposed to sit on the roof outside her window but I just couldn't draw her there the way it would look good, damn frustrating. So she is in the window now, but it doesn't change the idea much so it's ok.

I noticed that I have developed a new addiction in things I like to draw. The trees are having a rest for awhile, now it's swirling clouds in every picture I start to sketch or even think. Wonder what that means...

just for the fun

Another work in progress
















Yeah, I know I'm quite far from the fountains of original ideas with this one, but I just had so much fun drawing this that I couldn't stop. And there is always room in the world for one more picture with giant robots and girls with gas masks in it, right? Yes, of course there is, I knew you would all agree with me.

more postcards

I was asked to do more postcards, so apparently people are buying these. These three new and also the old ones are being sold at Kuuomena, which is a gift shop in Trio, Lahti (Aleksanterinkatu 18). So if you happen to be somewhere near, stop by and check them out.


Oh, and then something odd and confusing. Someone in Romania has decided to write something about me, I have no idea what though, my Romanian is a little bit rusty.
Weird. Just weird.

some ink on a paper

work in progress





















A boy with too much fear in his heart.

Did some inking today, too much actually. It took almost the same time to clean it up afterwards as it took to ink it. Let's just say that there was an accident - or actually two accidents - with a cup, some Indian Ink and an enormous amount of stupidity.
But everything's fine now and the inks look surprisingly good considering I'm almost never satisfied with my inking. It still needs coloring though.