There's Whiskey in the Jar

Oh wow, the days just fly by. I shall finally present to you a compilation of things bought in Scotland .

The candy is obviously already gone, there were three kinds, blue ones (pictured, but from a bad angle) with the Skottish flag (Saltire) with the taste of Irn Bru (Iron Brew, it is the colour of rust), a special Skottish soft drink. The other types of candy I bought were blue raspberry thingies (one of my favourite among the British sweets I've found), and hard apple sweets, which were supposed to be sour, but I failed to notice that. They were good nonetheless.

The oatcakes are made of oatmeal, and taste just like that, porridge. I really like them, Roomie isn't too impressed. I should try making some myself.

As I might have mentioned earlier, there was an art material shop in Glasgow, and it had a big sale going on. The big pad is one with special bleedproof paper, so I can use my cool supermarkers on it without fretting about if it goes through (also endlessly cheaper than Bristol board, that I have been using previously). The drawing above is drawn in that pad. Then there's some refill for my mechanical pencils (even the 0.3 ones were only 50p each, which is a fraction of what they are normally priced at) and one tiny piece of linoleum (for printing).

Above the lino you can see a piece of rock and a flower, both stolen from mother nature on Arthur's seat.

Points to you if you can guess what's in the box, saying Caol Ila 12.

Gimme an S

Our bathroom window is.. how do you put it, well it has a broken surface (intentional), some kind of relief pattern, so you can't see through it clearly. Moving on, looking through it I wondered about how both of our neighbours manage to dry a lot of white sheets at the same time, until my sleepy head realized that the "white sheets" in the middle must be our lawn and the roof of our shed. Then I realized it must be snow.

And snow t'was.

We're having a friend from school over for lunch today (a young British lady), let's hope she hasn't run into too many problems with her bus and train. Britain usually doesn't take snow very well.

Garlic

Finnish Friend will come over tomorrow, and then we'll all go to London on Thursday to visit museums and galleries, yay! This basically means that we got a reason to cook something delicious for dinner tomorrow, yes!

Shameless Self Promotion

I find great fun in designing characters. Especially when they turn out well. I like his tail.

Would be nice to continue on my comic (well, the other comic (and this one too)). I enjoy looking at the result. It's just a bit sad to get great visions of pages, but you still have at least another 150 pages to go (actually no idea) until you reach them. I have recieved a lot of positive feedback though, that's really what keeps me going. That, and to have seen some finished projects in printed form.

Namely Treebone. 160 pages of anthropomorphic swashbuckling adventure. It is ugly and embarassing, but still a really fine little comic.

I still have a few copies left, hey. Give me a shout if you'de like to buy one!
(Preferably if you're Finnish or know me from uni or something)
The cover looks like this.

All right, that's enough self promotion for now, I think! (:

Serenade

Laalilaadadaa. I bet his song is stunningly beautiful. He is a quite dashing gentleman, after all.

Junkshop

At last, some pictures from Margate. I liked Margate, it was a beautiful town with steep streets and a long seaside promenade.

The Turner Contemporary Art Museum can be seen in the distance.


Gentlemanly fishlike lamp post.

Posing raven.

This junk-shop was really interesting. They had everything from
meatgrinders to crutches. Very interesting, and quite inspiring too!

Our guests will leave tomorrow, and then we'll have to get used to dinners without wine. Oh, poor us. For my next project I think I'll be doing one or two 2D animations. Wish me luck with drawing hundreds of pictures. I've drawn comics before, so this is the next step, I guess. The next difficulty level in the game of Art.