Chilipuutarha

Again?!

2012-02-14T05:09:00.003-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day. Now go spend your money, let's not forget what this holiday is all about.

SNOW

2012-01-19T00:04:00.000-08:00

HELLO HELLO HELLO GREETINGS FROM FUCKING FINLAND!

It's not really cold here, just A FUCKING BLIZZARD. A wet, painful, hellish BLIZZARD. OH HOW I LOVE to be waiting for a bus for half an hour, with my face freezing off while "Ode to Joy" keeps on playing repeatedly because my hands are too bloody frozen to change the song from my mp3-player and I can't feel your legs and just keep on thinking:

"It's only -2 degrees, wonder what'd happen if it was actually COLD?"

80th post. Party hard.

2012-01-15T06:53:00.001-08:00

How organic.

See?

2012-01-10T15:29:00.000-08:00

I may not have achieved much at school this year, but at least I have stereoscopic photographs. Prepare your eyes for a few more:

I really like that last one. I think it has the best 3D effect.

Christmas is all around me.

2011-12-24T05:08:00.000-08:00

This is a Christmas post. Here, have Fairytale of New York. Yes, there has to be some traditions. Now go and read The Hogfather. Watch The Snowman. Eat heads off of all the gingerbread men you find. Oh, and talking about traditions, I just found somebody has posted this online. (Psssst, it's better on paper, buy the book.)

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÄÖ

2011-12-14T02:28:00.000-08:00

We had a two day font design workshop at school. I only finished the first version of capital letters, but I quite like the slightly distorted forms and bad kerning. (And thank gods for the video game name generator, I spent almost an hour looking for a suitable name. Too many valid options.)

It doesn't feel like December. I only just got adjusted to it being November. Christmas is coming too soon and there's no snow outside. Nor inside. Although that's probably just a good thing. I like winter, why can't it be winter? It's SUPPOSED to be winter now!

Bluesit päälle käy, voi tätä elämää.

2011-11-30T05:09:00.000-08:00

Funny little people with big heads and dark eyes. Not the most original stuff, but i really REALLY like these kids. I'm never going to draw anything else again.

Well maybe, but not for a while.

Well, in fact, I already did, but that's not the point.

Just shut up already.

I'll link you Pieksämäen asemalla blues, because I'm stuck at school and it's 00:33 and my bus isn't coming for a while. Sorry, if you don't speak Finnish, dear reader. You are missing a lot. Instead, have a poem from Charles Bukowski:

the

spirit

wanes

the

form

appears

A man walks into a bar. Ouch.

2011-11-17T13:05:00.000-08:00

I might be selling a poster or two of this at my school's Christmas sale. I'll see.

Oh, i think it's my duty to follow the traditions of my blog and link you this. I like it a lot.

Not yet Halloween.

2011-10-17T13:05:00.000-07:00

I coloured a perfectly okay black&white picture just to be able to post it and call it new. Took me almost five minutes.

Really I just wanted an excuse to link you this. I think I'm in love.

She sounds like Nick Cave's mentally ill sister being possessed by evil spirits. It's a good thing.

Fishushi

2011-10-05T01:26:00.000-07:00

Why isn't my life more like Scott Pilgrim's? I want my life to be more like Scott Pilgrim's.

Also his flatmate is the coolest guy ever. EVER.

Almost forgot.

2011-09-29T13:51:00.000-07:00

I just realised that I've had more posts during this month than the whole year from January till August.

Let's celebrate it with some more school drawings and dead parrots.

That's all.

Onko kuvittelu totuutta oikeaa, onko totuus onttoa kuvitelmaa

2011-09-29T13:46:00.000-07:00

More schoolwork. The crow was holding a golden letter, but somehow lost it along the way.

Hello, the cat broke its leg.

2011-09-26T10:46:00.000-07:00

Here be the owl.

2011-09-25T14:41:00.000-07:00

I went outside today. Like you know, OUTSIDE. Then I drew some things I saw. A birdskull and a pile of rocks. "Kalmisto" is a nice word, it has "lm" and "mis" and "sto" and it starts with a "k".

I did these too. Pictures from a weird photo book I bouhgt some years ago. Cut&pasting by me. Yay.

As promised.

2011-09-23T06:01:00.001-07:00

The two of my favourite plays from Martin McDonagh. In fact I think The Lieutenant is my favourite, The Pillowman comes as a close second and The Skull in Connemara is my third favourite.

And just because I can, some words of wisdom from another great man:

"With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree."

Hunter S. Thompson

There's no gif for this feeling.

2011-09-20T14:36:00.000-07:00

I have no drawings to post. I've spent last weeks going around telling people how there's nothing in the world that impresses me anymore. Going on and on about how everything is boring and nothing feels like anything and there's no point drawing if everything I can come up with is a blank piece of paper.

AND THEN I SAW AN AWESOME MOVIE. Sure, it was no In Bruges, but The Guard made me laugh aloud in the theatre and I've been smiling for several hours now. John Michael McDonagh, you win at life.

Martin and John should have more siblings. Can't wait for Seven Psychopaths. ALSO WHY HAVEN'T I STILL GOT MARTIN'S LATEST PLAY? I ordered that book over a year ago. I need it.

And Brendan Gleeson is damn awesome too.

Guess what - I'm gonna draw something now. It's going to be awesome too.

Haha. Haa.

2011-09-13T13:22:00.000-07:00

A sketch of a picture I made for my silkscreening class.

OH GOD, it should read "sweet dreams, my bear."

No, that's a stupid idea. I won't do it.

Y'know, I've found the greatest thing since Tukevasti Ilmassa! QI! A quiz show about quite interesting facts that may or may not be quite accurate (and you probably know the answer to many of the questions), but it is incredibly amusing, anyway. Besides they have guests like Jimmy Carr.

Talking about great stand-up comedians, you all should go and listen to Doug Stanhope's "From across the street". Or any of his gigs. There's even some on Spotify. He's very funny. Like the story about Subway breakfast. Ha ha haa.

Oh, is that the sound of my (only) four readers leaving me? What, you too, mom?! Well, I guess it's too late to stop now. Go on, have some Sean Keane. Gets better the more you watch it. Such a great stage personality!

And since I'm neck deep in shit already, let's finish this post with a classic.

Good night and see you in the morning.

2011-08-19T17:28:00.000-07:00

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I JUST HAD AN IDEA!

Thank you, Internet. Thank you, Entervoid, And most of the all, THANK YOU ORION-THE-MUSE.

Sometimes, life just gives you THE FUCKING LEMONADE.

2011-06-14T03:51:00.000-07:00

OH?

2011-06-09T04:53:00.000-07:00

It's the girl from my last post - before she got her hands cut off, obviously. (I guess she's still got her eyes too.) First time she met that skull-headed spirit.

Oh, hey, guess what guess what guess what?! Great news! Martin McDonagh is making a new movie! Christopher Walken in a McDonagh film, damn that's going to be awesome.

And Aki Kaurismäki made a new film too, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT. (Old news, I know. "Olds"?)

Cute little things.

2011-04-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

Some drawings I was going to post in, what, January? Well anyway, here they are.

After the Koi-Koi I made for school last week (you can see pictures of it in my girlfriend's blog here) I'm incredibly fed up with things that are "cool", "trendy", "fashionable", or most of all "youthful" (whoa, I had to actually look that word up from a dictionary). Some people can pull it off nicely, sure. But it's just not my thing - I'm all into being immature and old-fashioned, thank you very much. I like monsters. And zombies. Dinosaurs. And repetition. And robots. And skeletons. And repetition.

So, here.

It's the guy with a mouth again! No wait, you haven't seen him before, have you? He first appeared last year in a poster I made for school...

But which one was first?!

I grew up watching my brother playing Monkey Island. I even have a small toy skull named Murray.

Drew this at Linnanmäki amusement park.

I don't think there's anything I can say to make this okay.

My brother wants to be a lakota. Can't blame him for that.

Edit: Almost forgot! My duty in this blog is to link you some bad music! So, it being Sunday 3rd of April, it's Fantômas' "04/03/05 Sunday" from the album Suspended Animation. Not Tom Waits this time, what is this?

Happy Valentine's Day.

2011-02-14T04:19:00.001-08:00

Haters gonna hate?

Happy birthday, us...

2010-10-27T14:30:00.000-07:00

I've had this blog for over a year now. That's a lot longer than I thought it'd survive. I was going to post some comics to celebrate this, but then things happened and time passed and I have nothing to show (I have some twenty pages of nonsense SOMEWHERE, but haven't scanned it yet and possibly never will) so instead, look at this background image I made for my animation (which you are not going to see either, sorry).

Doing it wrong, Jim Davies

2010-10-25T03:10:00.000-07:00

Just posting pictures I made during summer, calling it an update.

I read some nice books during summer (I was supposed to read something sophisticated but ended up with The Godfather, Naked Lunch [which I still haven't finished, after several years of reading], Post Office, Crooked Little Vein, The Rum Diary and Orpheus Emerged, but at least I had fun reading) one of which was "The Cat Inside" by William S. Burroughs. If you have to tell us about cats, please do it his way. Not the way Jim Davies did it. (Just an example, not that I had anything against Garfield, I just think it's the worst comic ever, but hey, I'm sure you find your cat funny, Jim.)
So, here's a cat.

I'd like to add that even though I find Garfield incredibly annoying (and enjoy Martin McDonagh's plays) I like cats.

HA!

2010-10-10T07:15:00.000-07:00

Ha, I forgot to post this. Then I uploaded it, didn't have time to write anything and didn't post it. Just a doodle. Not much to say about it.

I still don't have anything to write about, so, hmmm, go and read a book, or something.

Oh hey, watch the Helvetica documentary, now that was good.

Hello.

2010-08-28T16:37:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes at dusk, when you were trying to relax and not think of the general stagnation, the Garbage God would gather a handful of those choked-off morning hopes and dangle them somewhere just out of reach; they would hang in the breeze and make a sound like delicate glass bells, reminding you of something you never quite got hold of, and never would."

-The Rum Diary

Trying new things. Like rooftops, weird coloured skies, lights, skinny young men in black suits and short girls in dresses.

No, really, I quite like this.

Meren rannalla haitari soi, hai ei siitä pitänyt - haita risoi.

2010-08-12T01:53:00.000-07:00

I thought I was smart using the pattern from my teacup as a tattoo design, until I went through my blog and realised I've already done that at least once before. Oh well.

Never compromise - a shark who said "fuck you" to evolution

2010-07-30T23:34:00.000-07:00

No drawings today, but look at this clip I just found on YoutTube! A new video of a prehistoric shark! Isn't that just the cutest animal you've ever seen? After penguins, of course. Awww can you see how its teeth are almost nonexistent and how it's never going to get a proper bite? Keep your kittens and puppies, next Christmas I want one of these. A sixgill shark like in this video or a frilled shark.

Also!

"A sixgill shark—a species often referred to as prehistoric because of its resemblance to sharks living hundreds of millions of years ago—is seen biting on bait at a camera trap deep off Australia. It's part of a project to learn more about deep-sea creatures and possible correlations with human sight and brain development."

Someone gets to study sharks AND human brain? That must be the best job ever. I bet the lucky bastard gets to ride dinosaurs at work too.

In fact, this is almost a relevant and art related post. Prehistoric sharks are one of the things that got me into drawing. Someone linked this video (from 2007, never mind the idiotic female voice calling tha shark ugly, can't you see it's obviously trying to smile and be as presentable as an old sick shark can be when you go bothering it with a camera) on the Entervoid forums and started a long picture thread of weird sea animals, so while following the conversation I also got into the whole Entervoid-thing and thought I might take drawing seriously and maybe one day be even 10% as awesome as James Stokoe (I found Entervoid through his work - his Deviantart account is here but unfortunately the last updates are fom 2008), whose new comic book, "Orc Stain" is out soon. Just a little commercial break here.

Helle vaarantaa vesivärimaalaukset

2010-07-25T08:07:00.000-07:00

Practising with watercolours. Thankyous to Pilvi for helping me find masking liquid and to Tir-ri and her awesome watercolour walk-through which I've wanted to try for ages.

Keskiviikko

2010-07-21T04:13:00.000-07:00

I made this about a month ago but forgot to post it. So, here it is, then. Inspired by the Jekyll & Hyde movie they made in the 30s. The stroy is simple yet haunting and has been my favourite horror story since I was 14.

Nyt lienee heinäkuu, eikö?

2010-07-18T13:00:00.000-07:00

This blog has been rather dead lately due to an illustration thing I'm working on, a school project and social life (not lying, shut up).

Meanwhile, be entertained by other dead things:
George Carlin

Now he's gonna be one bad ass zombie once the day comes...

Vuodenkahdeskymmenestoinen keskiviikko

2010-06-02T03:09:00.000-07:00

Too many freaks, not enough circuses.

Vuoden kahdeskymmenesensimmäinen keskiviikko

2010-05-26T08:56:00.001-07:00

Atropa belladonna, also known as deadly nightshade.

Vuoden kahdeskymmenesensimmäinen sunnuntai

2010-05-23T06:53:00.000-07:00

More digital colouring stuff.

Vuoden kahdeskymmenesensimmäinen perjantai

2010-05-21T02:19:00.000-07:00

Vuoden kahdeskymmenes perjantai

2010-05-14T10:25:00.000-07:00

First I spent a long time colouring this picture with markers, pencils, ballpoint pens and felt tip pens, and once it was ready I grayscaled it and slapped some "overlay" and "colour" layers on it, and it just turned out so much better.

Good thing I'm such a patient person, otherwise I might feel a bit annoyed right now. The first one is the original, the other one is the photoshopped version.

Vuoden yhdeksästoista maanantai

2010-05-10T11:33:00.000-07:00

But that is madness! Why would anyone make an instrument like that?
Maybe they just got sick of hydrocrystalophones.

Vuoden seitsemästoista tiistai

2010-04-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

There should be text. There will be text.

Vuoden seitsemästoista sunnuntai

2010-04-25T07:28:00.000-07:00

"The Pillowman" is probably one of the weirdest, saddest, most disturbing things I've ever read while also being one of the most beautiful and brilliant (and no, I don't think everything McDonagh writes is brilliant, some of of his plays were only 'very good') stories I've known. It's cruel and horrible but oddly comforting at the same time.

I just realised I forgot to go and see "The Adventures Of Prince Achmed" today. I hope they are going to show it again some day. Because it looks so good.

Vuoden kuudestoista lauantai

2010-04-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

More modern day Bride of Frankenstein.

And something completely unrelated:
A stonefish.
Which causes, according to Billy Connolly, "the worst pain known to man".

Vuoden neljästoista keskiviikko

2010-04-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

Penguins have been my favourite animal since I was 5 years old. I think Madagascar (and sequels) really captured the true nature of penguins. (Unlike Happy Feet or March of the Penguins.) Also, Adelie Penguins are the best. Just look at them walking!

Vuoden kolmastoista keskiviikko

2010-03-24T14:46:00.000-07:00

I've got nothing to say, I made a picture with a lunatic panda and a weird bird of paradise, isn't that just lovely.

Started reading McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan" yesterday. It's very... McDonagh-like. And good. I doubt it'll beat Lieutenant or Brugge though. McDonagh's plays and movies remind me of The Pogues' first three albums. Which is why I'm linking you "Connemara, let's go".

And because I don't want to be seen as a rebelling teenager, here's some Dubliners too.

Vuoden kahdestoista maanantai

2010-03-15T10:41:00.000-07:00

Vesihiisi sihisi hississä.

Vuoden kahdestoista sunnuntai

2010-03-14T10:31:00.000-07:00

My phone. Keypad was impossible to paint, and the rims may have to be re-done, but it's still better than it used to be. Well I like it.
Would it be better if it looked more like copper? Hmm.

Vuoden yhdestoista torstai

2010-03-11T01:00:00.001-08:00

School work.

Kymmenes perjantai?

2010-03-05T03:34:00.001-08:00

Martin McDonagh's play "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" is awesome and I'd sell my soul to be able to see it onstage. I also consider this project rather interesting.

Drawing not related.

Vuoden yhdeksäs sunnuntai

2010-02-28T07:12:00.000-08:00

Experimenting with texture brushes and digital colouring. Lineart seems a bit too heavy in comparison to the colours, but damn those colours turned out nice.

Vuoden yhdeksäs lauantai

2010-02-27T07:52:00.000-08:00

I always loved the visual style of The Good The Bad And The Queen. I even bought their album because of the cover. (And because at the time I thought Paul Simonon was the coolest combination of a painter and a bass player ever. C'mon, he painted stuff like "Egg, bacon, frying pan".) In fact it's one of the two CDs I've bought during the last two years. My CD collection is ridiculously small since I always get everything from library or listen to music from Spotify.

Vuoden kahdeksas keskiviikko

2010-02-24T10:05:00.000-08:00

I need a bigger scanner or a smaller skecth book.

Vuoden seitsemäs perjantai

2010-02-12T09:13:00.000-08:00

A character from a project that I'm never going to even start. Radioactive zombies in steampunk Prypjat. (FINE, all it ever was was an excuse to draw zombies and steampunk stuff. And radioactive stuff.)

Vuoden kuudes perjantai

2010-02-05T12:46:00.000-08:00

Vuoden viides sunnuntai

2010-01-31T08:30:00.000-08:00

The bride of Frankentein's Monster in modern times, ridding the world of the undead that came after her.
DON'T TRY TO TELL ME YOU WOULDN'T GO AND SEE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS.

Vuoden kolmas tiistai

2010-01-18T14:09:00.000-08:00

Oxygen. It's good for you. Unless you're one of those anaerobic little things.
Then again, if you are you're probably a bacterium of some sort and I probably don't like you anyway. Go breathe some oxygen.

Vuoden kolmas sunnuntai

2010-01-17T04:24:00.000-08:00

Ah, tango.
"If you're tangled up, just tango on."

Or maybe theyre dancing pasodoble.

Vuoden toinen sunnuntai

2010-01-10T13:10:00.000-08:00

It's radioactive. It also reminds me of "Repo Man".

Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?

One fine movie. I've occasionally thought about getting a job as a repo man just to get to quote this movie ad nauseum. Untill I figured out that I can do it even if I'm not a repo man. Ha-ha!

Back to school tomorrow.

Vuoden toinen perjantai

2010-01-07T16:06:00.000-08:00

Dear mister action movie person,

When you run out of ammunition, please do not throw your gun away. It can be re-filled and recycled. Or you can use it to beat your opponents forehead in two if that's more to your liking.

Ottiatuota,
Omadhaun

I decided to try something new with colours. Like giving someone brown hair. Not red, black, gray or white. Brown.
I don't like it.

Yhdeksäs torstai

2009-12-31T06:32:00.000-08:00

It's been a very good year. Possibly the best I've had this far. Hope it didn't suck for you either.

I was going to make a "best of 2009" list, but it would have been rather boring for me to write and for you to read, so I'm not posting it here.

Also - I bought an accordion. And I know where you live and found out which busses will take me there tomorrow morning. Happy New Year.

Only kidding. I don't have an accordion. Although I do have bagpipes. Really.

Kahdeksas tiistai

2009-12-29T02:03:00.000-08:00

I have a new sketchbook. It's beautiful and pretty damn close to perfect. Hardcovered, charcoal paper for pages and kraft paper on covers, 13.2 x 18.2 cm, some 90 pages. There's nothing better than starting a new sketchbook.

Kahdeksas maanantai

2009-12-27T14:09:00.001-08:00

He is a gravedigger and he doesn't mind his job.
Have you ever wondered how RICH gravediggers in westerns must be? There's always only one gravedigger/coffin maker per movie and about 20-200 bodies per town per movie.

I wouldn't mind a job like that.

Kahdeksas perjantai

2009-12-25T07:41:00.000-08:00

Colours come from the song "672" by The Dresden Dolls. I had a good feeling about this picture but then... it went... kind of away. Oh well. At least I'm happy with the skin tones.

Seitsemäs tiistai

2009-12-15T13:55:00.000-08:00

I could spend hours watching acrobats doing stuff while standing on their hands.

There's something about that balance that's just amazing.

Seitsemäs torstai

2009-12-10T10:13:00.000-08:00

Mmmm, typography.

Kuudes maanantai

2009-12-07T13:22:00.000-08:00

It's from my favourite fairytale, Raul Roine's "Kauneinta maailmassa" ("The most beautiful thing in the world" or something). Check it out if you can. It's the most beautiful story I've ever heard. I've wanted to draw this since I was about seven years old.

"Kauneinta on maailmassa se, mitä tavoittelee, mutta ei saa. Kauneinta maailmassa on kaipaus."

Oh, and by the way, it's Tom Waits' 60th birthday.
Downtown Train
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Falling Down
That short instrumental clip at the end of "Downtown Train" is pretty awesome.

Kuudes lauantai

2009-12-04T15:13:00.000-08:00

It's Saturday now.

Finished. Now that I bothered to colour it I kinda wish I had spent more time on the lineart.

Kuudes perjantai. Yhä.

2009-12-04T13:42:00.000-08:00

Victory rolls are made of win. I know they're kinda misplaced, but, yeah.

Oh, thank god, I'm back to normal. I may read 'Hogfather' this month, but other than that I don't really care about December. Fairytale of New York never was my favourite Pogues song either. (Rainy Night in Soho, Sit Down by the Fire, Pinned down and Dark Streets of London are. And pretty much everything before 'Peace and Love'.)

Perjantai. En tiedä mones, ihan tyhmä otsikointisysteemi mulla muutenkin.

2009-12-04T10:59:00.000-08:00

I don't think I have anything to say that could save this situation. It's RGB snowflake against CMYK snowfalke. I blame school. And Yoko Ono.

Also, I just realised that Christmas is coming yet I don't feel angry at all. Not even a bit annoyed. I almost feel HAPPY about it. Like I don't remember ever feeling like this. I've never really liked Christmas, it makes me nervous (I'd like to give nice presents but I never find anything nice and end up giving people shitty gifts and feel ashamed, I hate Christmas carols, I can't stand all the lights and stupid decorations, etc). But now... I think I just wanna drink glogg and knit socks and listen to Fairytale of New York, read that Christmas story in Sin City and that Christmas story in Transmetropolitan. (Especially listen to Fairytale of New York and read Transmet. There's no combination like listening to the Pogues while readin Warren Ellis' comics.) I can even think about Santa Claus and not go all "IT SHOULD BE NUUTTIPUKKI AND HE SHOULD KICK AND BITE AND BE MEAN AND DRUNK, THAT'S WHAT HE WAS LIKE BEFORE THEY MADE HIM INTO THIS DISNEY-LIKE USELESS LAME 'SANTA'!"
This is kind of what I feel like when it's Halloween, but kinda different since it's Christmas. Really weird. Maybe it'll go away.

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Haha. I love the video.

Viides perjantai

2009-11-26T14:00:00.000-08:00

There's a background jam on Entervoid. This here is Blake's room. Well the other half of it anyway.

Neljäs keskiviikko

2009-11-25T12:42:00.000-08:00

I drew something cute and it isn't zombies!

Kolmas maanantai

2009-11-16T12:49:00.000-08:00

This is probably going to be the cutest picture I've ever drawn (except for sealife, but you can't really beat prehistoric sharks). It's not even close to finished as you can see, but it's orange, there's an old train car, and Cait has a yellow dress. Those are my two oldest characters I still haven't discarded, and they're probably my favourite ones, and I still can't remember the last time i drew them together.

Kolmas sunnuntai

2009-11-15T13:26:00.000-08:00

VL gin is an imaginary brand I made up 'cos I needed to have a bottle in a comic panel, and like with SodaPoP, things got out of hand. (Well not quite as much. I don't have that girl's whole life figured out, but you'll see, I've thought about this stuff way too much. I came up with a drink recipe for a drink called "Sweetheart".) So now I have the whole product planned. VL gin is cheap and strong, and it's marketed with elegance and class, although the ads still make it very clear that "with this stuff, you won't remember even the most unforgettable party of the year".
Kind of a very conflicting fucked up brand. I bet it'd sell.

Here's the (rather old) SodaPoP ad I ended up making when i needed a label to a random soda can in a comic panel. SodaPoP is medusa lemonade. And it comes in lovely flavours like strawberry-ginger, classic lime, blueberry-pepper, orange-cinnamon and banana-chili.

Toinen keskiviikko, myöhemmin

2009-11-11T11:56:00.000-08:00

Couldn't stand the idea that the first thing one'd see opening this blog was a Christmas card sketch. So here it is - a monster I found in my tea cup last week. I forgot to throw away the yerba leaves, and two days later THAT thing had migrated in MY tea cup. It didn't say anything, but smiled, and I knew it knew that I knew that it knew that I was scared of it, and it just smiiiiiled.
I threw it away and washed my tea cup. I won. Ha.

(Really, my tea cups don't normally have weird mould-like alien life in them.)

Toinen keskiviikko

2009-11-11T06:07:00.000-08:00

And I'm not even early.

Toinen tiistai

2009-11-10T13:19:00.000-08:00

It seems like I didn't have zombie virus after all. (I was sure I had it. First a brain-bowling fever, lungs slowly shutting down, and then then body temperature dropping - CLASSIC zombie virus. But no. I'm fine now. No zombie apocalypse this week either.)

Things I do when I don't draw:

This was the first one. It's a notebook I made. The pages are made "old" using coffee. That piece of glass isn't that bright really.

About 7cm x 5cm. That piece of glass isn't that pale really.

You can see trough the piece of glass.

About 5cm tall.

About 9cm x 6,5cm.

About 12cm x 17cm. For my dad, hence the scale pattern and hooks.

I have more. Beware.

Toinen lauantai

2009-11-07T10:27:00.000-08:00

Colouring experiment I started ages ago, but only finished now. Not sure if I like it or not, but I wanted to get it over and done.
There are three Edward Hopper paintings there, you see? And coffee in a white ceramic cup, and a checkered tablecloth, and moon, and life should be more like that. You can't find places like that anymore. Not that I know if those ever really existed (except in Jarmusch's movies and Kerouac's "On the Road"). I'd like to think they did.

I have fever, not sure what I'm talking about. Go watch Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes". It has the most awkward café scene ever, with Iggy and Tom.

Toinen perjantai

2009-11-06T12:19:00.000-08:00

My mother asked me whether this is the same person I was drawing some days ago. She ment the one in my last post.
Somehow she always thinks my men are supposed to be women and the other way around. Need to draw more beards and bigger breasts, I guess. Might be fun.

...So the next one is going to be Ronnie Drew posing with Dolly Parton.

Keskiviikko

2009-11-04T11:55:00.000-08:00

Hmmm.

Hmmm.

Sunnuntai

2009-11-01T13:38:00.000-08:00

MERIVESIHÖYRYKALLIOOPPI osa 1
(Kuulemma se on oikeasti "kalliopeia", muka.)

SEA WATER STEAM CALLIOPE part 1

It sounds like this.

Lauantai

2009-10-31T12:09:00.001-07:00

Maailman paras tekosyy piirtää kaikkea yli-sympaattista. Ihan "lievästi" Tom Waitsin konserttielokuvan "Big Time" inspiroima, koska Waits on ehkä siistein ikinä.

A great excuse for drawing cute stuff such as zombies, ghosts and skeletons. This one is pretty heavily influenced by Tom Wait's "Big Time" concert/movie. Because Tom Waits in Big Time is possibly the coolest thing ever.

Almost forgot:
Part one of Big Time on youtube.

Torstai

2009-10-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

Ken: Well, it's, you know, the final day on Earth, when mankind will be judged for the crimes they've committed and that.
Ray: Oh. And see who gets into heaven and who gets into hell and all that.
Ken: Yeah. And what's the other place?
Ray: Purgatory.
Ken: Purgatory... what's that?
Ray: Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
Ray: Do you believe in all that stuff, Ken?
Ken: About Tottenham?
from the movie "In Bruges"

Luonnos jostain jonka saatan joskus toteuttaa kunnolla tai sitten en. Btw, olen aina ajatellut kiirastulen paljon ikävämmäksi paikaksi kuin helvetin, joten tässä kuvassa... eh... on vain tosi lame kiirastuli. Rauhallinen ylösnousemuksen päivä.
Olen vähän ajatellut että pakotan itseni piirtämään tänne jotain päivittäin. Paitsi ehkä huomenna.

A sketch for something I may or may not do properly someday. A rather anemic day of judgement.
I've sort of decided to post something every day. Maybe not tomorrow, but, y'know...

Ensimmäinen

2009-10-27T12:02:00.000-07:00

Törmäsin tänään koulussa paranormaaliin ilmiöön: lentävä leivänpaahdin. Ikuistin Toastissimon paon vapauteen jälkipolvia varten. (Kuvasta piti tulla julistemainen, überhieno ja dynaaminen, mutta... eh. JOS SIINÄ OLISI NÄTTI IHMINEN EI KETÄÄN HAITTAISI ETTÄ SIITÄ PUUTTUU TAUSTA D:)
We had a flying toaster at school today. Here's Toastissimo The Great. Got bored with the picture after a while and it didn't turn out very dynamic.

Ikävä kyllä, Mahtava Toastissimo väsyi lentämiseen aika pian.
Unfortunately, Toastissimo The Great got bored with flying pretty soon.Kiasma voisi haluta rahoittaa Toastissimon eläkepäivät.
I bet the museum of modern art is interested in taking care of Toastissim now it's retired.

I blog, therefore I am.

2009-10-27T11:32:00.000-07:00

Hyvät kanssaihmiset, saanen esitellä blogini. Koska minulla ei ole mitään sanottavaa, postaan lähinnä piirustuksia. Ja linkkejä, joita pidän joko hauskoina tai hyödyllisinä.

So I started a blog. I have nothing to say, so I'll be posting art. And random links I've found useful or fun. Don't know whether I should write in Finnish or English, so (at least) for now I'll use both. Please bear with my bad English.

Ottiatuota/Yours truly,
Vilma