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January icon commission 2 timelapse

Another icon commission from January! These dramatic colors were so much fun to work with, I definitely want to do more exaggerated work like this in the future <3

January icon commission timelapse

Had the pleasure of working on some really fun icon commission last month! <3 Here's a recording of the process on one of them! :)

Eel mermaid design (timelapse)

This is one of those projects I have been wanting to do for such a long time (or redo, this is based on very old designs I did a few years ago)! I have been working on this since the beginning of the year and even though last month was extremely busy I was able to make it happen!

This will be a part of my personal project "Mermaids of Finland" where I design and illustrate Finnish aquatic animals as mermaids! Focusing on endangered species first, starting with the European Eel.

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January stickers part 2 (timelapse)

Continuation to the previous post - rest of January stickers, and a closer look at all of them in one canvas as usual!

January stickers part 1 (timelapse)

Catching up with the updates this week, thank you all being so patient with me! Running a one man business (especially in the creative field) sometimes mean becoming my own tax pro, which is what has kept me busy once again... 😅 But I promise I have art to post as well so I hope you don't mind the end of the week spam again! Starting with the first part of January rewards. :) How come we're already a month into 2025?!

Hamster studies

At the start of the year our family grew with 2 new members as me and my girlfriend adopted Roborovski hamster brothers! I have personally never owned rodents before but having a partner that is very experienced with them and knows the breeder we got these little guys from makes me less terrified of screwing up everything as a first time hamster parent. 😂 Here's me trying to figure out how t...

WIPs!

I have a couple of client projects going on that I can't share on Patreon, but I have been working on those that I can as well! Here are wips of a couple of icons and a character design sketch for a color palette challenge. I'm far from my comfort zone with the colors I'm going to use for it but I'm excited to try something different! :D

Food series timelapse 1

I mentioned that this year I would put more focus on personal art and at that point I already knew that there's this one project in particular I want to pursue as soon as I find the time to do so!

One of the things life never prepared me for is how difficult it is to decide what to eat - and I love cooking! So I started this project of illustrating me and my girlfriend's favorite meals to hopefully help us with the task with a visual library at hand. My ambitious dream is to eventually ...

Secret sona reference sheet (timelapse)

And here's the rest of the process as well as a reference sheet! I'm actually really happy how this turned out and I'm glad that my friend who I designed this character for liked it too! I had actually been wanting to design something bee themed for such a long time so I knew I had to take this opportunity to do exactly that and added keywords such as seraph and fox to the mix.

And that marks ...

Secret sona trade (sketch timelapse)

Our tradition is to have a Secret Santa type of mass art trade amongst friends but this year we did something different! I guess you could call this a "secret sona" as we designed new personal characters for each other based on purely the likes of your pair or how you see them etc.! Here's a sketch and initial design process of what I did for a friend, more to follow in the next post! ^^

December stickers time lapse (2/2)

The remaining part of the stickers as well as a collage of them all!

December stickers time lapse (1/2)

I hope everyone's 2025 has been off to a good start! Let's kick it off here with the timelapse recording of last month's sticker rewards for the Caught on Camera tier. :)

Flying practice (timelapse)

After lots of travelling involving visiting family for the holidays, December has almost come to an end! My schedule has been thrown upside down by all this, but I'll spam everything in the next couple of days. Starting with this piece that was part of an advent calendar I made for my girlfriend this year! The lore behind the idea of this drawing is that we recently played Dawn of the Dragon, and I did NOT find the flying easy at all 😂 So here are some quickly designed dragon sonas to go w...

Character page commission lineart/color (timelapse)

The rest of the process of this character page I finished recently! ^^ Took me a couple of tries to figure out how to carry out the cozy vibes I was going for haha, at first I was about to do something more illustrative but felt like a pattern background wrapped everything together much better.

Character page commission sketch (timelapse)

Here's the first part of this character page process! Several different character busts and full bodies on same canvas always create some challenges, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't fully enjoy the problem-solving that comes with designing the layout according to them! 💛 It's actually one of my favorite parts of illustrating something like this. :)

Icon commission timelapse

Another icon commission process from November! ^^ As you can see it took me a couple of tries to get the background colors and the shading right, but I had fun learning some new things!

I had to change a backup location of some files recently which unfortunately caused some delay with updates, but at the same time it led me to discover some files I had forgotten about already! I hope character...

Wintery icon commission (timelapse)

Timelapse of a recent icon commission from the current waitlist that I've started to pick projects from! Loved painting some winter colors 😍

November stickers part 3/3 (timelapse)

And finally, the final part of last month's stickers! :)

November stickers part 2 (timelapse)

Part 2 of last month's sticker rewards for the Caught on Camera tier! For some reason I had some troubles with the framerate of this but managed to finally render a presentable version. 😅

WIPs!

Sketches and work-in-progress snippets of various things I'm working on at the moment! I'm toying with the idea of making holiday themed designs that would be up for purchase this year, but it's something I'm working between other paid work so let's see how many I will manage to finish! I do have lots of ideas for them, and the cinnamon bun inspired squirrel seen here is one out of many (I'm still indecisive what to do with the jackalope lineart haha)! The other wips are from works that I'll ...

November stickers part 1 (timelapse)

Getting back on track after an absolutely crazy couple of months and posting these in their usual schedule again!

I'm currently working on the rest of the November rewards for the Caught on Camera tier and will have everything finished and sent out during the first half of next week! :)

Reference sheet sketch (timelapse)

It was starting to feel like this is going to be a longer process to record as it tends to be when it comes to bigger reference sheets so I'll post at least the sketch process for it separately! :) It took me a moment to decide on the composition, but having a clear end goal in mind in terms of the main aesthetic helped a lot. It's going to be based on something nostalgic for many 90s/early 2000s kids (this will make more sense when it's colored or at least that's what I'm aiming for!) so I'm...

Completed fall YCH timelapse

My memory is deceiving again but here it is finally! The fall YCH from last month as a completed piece along with a full length timelapse to go with it. I have drawn these characters many times before (fun fact - I designed the turquoise dragon a couple of years back! 🥰) so I could just let the inspiration flow. It felt so good to pour all the feelings of my favorite season into this piece!

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October stickers timelapse (3/3)

The final part of last month's stickers! These were all such a treat to draw, as you can see the whole month was filled with all kinds of prompts! 🤩I have already started working on this month's rewards and those seem to continue the same fashion of being an absolute treat to work on! 😊

October stickers timelapse (2/3)

October sticker rewards timelapse (1/3)

Finally posting these from last month! Halloween time ended up being busy for me (which is absolutely a good thing, I loved to have a chance to spend time with friends!) so I have some backlog to catch up on. Here's the part 1, the rest will soon follow!

Connecting icons timelapse 🍂

Finally posting after a few days of excruciating migraines. Whatever you do, please try to squeeze in a break or two especially at times when life keeps giving you lemons and don't be like me and let the stress build up. 🫠 I'm just happy it's over now! So I'll be catching up on this week's posts more tomorrow when I'll finally get to the last month's rewards.

But first, here's another pair of icons from the latest batch I finished last month! :) It took me a couple of tries to get t...

October icon timelapses part 2

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃🦇👻 I bring you another round of season appropriate icons! There's still a couple to this batch that I'll post during the remaining part of the week. I hope everyone has a fantastic day whether you celebrate something associated with the season or not!