Happy Valentine's Day.

Haters gonna hate?

Happy birthday, us...

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

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!

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.

"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.

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

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

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

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?

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...