DeceptiGeek

to punish and enslave

I just love Starscream... Since the original series. I also got laser eyes! Or laser eye surgery, what ever, no more glasses though! Transformers - Return of the Fallen was the first movie that I watched with my new eyes, thus, the logo with the glasses, how clever!

I forgot my previous note to the office and I'm away seven weeks so I had to make a new one. It's a bit empty, but I didn't want to add anything else and I'm all out of narrow notes at home so...

I'm also sick which is always nice when on "vacation". Let's see how many notes I manage to produce at home now that I'm supposed to be the housewife for the rest of the year :p

Until next time!
"I will rule the universe, even if I am the only one left in the universe." -Starscream

The winter is coming...

Damn, I had it ready in time, but didn't have time to upload it. Or maybe I just forgot, anyhow... The Death is coming! With a bus apparently... I gazed outside the office window after lunch and five minutes later I had this ready. I almost started to draw something Game of Thrones related as the phrase was the first thing that popped in my mind but then I pictured the Death waiting for a bus freezing his balls off :) Death and winter is also often related as the winter is seen as the death of nature. and stuff...

Many things happening this week. My winter tires for the bike should also arrive and I'm having a certain Service Management administrator course this week and hopefully I'll get the certificate too. Two weeks to go and I'm free for the rest of the year!

Catch you on the flip side...

...wrrrzzzzz…

... said the falling DJ robot

Finally something... It's not much, but it's something. A robot obstacle course. Or agility course if they happen to be robot dogs.

Seems like my last three weeks of working this year (starting on next monday) will be as busy as the last couple of months, great! Well, at least the night activities are over so I might be busy, but it's just within the office hours. And then I'm off to father month, seven weeks of hell, as some might call it. I'll be playing the homemaker and she will bring the food to the table.

Oh yeah! I'm going to have a laser eye surgery on the last friday so the free time is half day closer! Good bye glasses and contact lenses!

still alive...

... I managed to start new note last week but I'm still extremely busy. It'll take at least the next week the note to be completed.  I run between different locations and do much work with other people at the moment so it is nearly impossible to even touch the post-it stack that's lying in my desk :p I hardly have any time to even briefly check FB or read any news during the day... This must stop! :) The +2000€ extra in the last salary was nice, but I must admit that I am tired.

I know that I could just bring the notes home and finish them in 15-30 mins, but that wouldn't be the same now would it? :p I've got many ideas for notes, but I'm still trying to keep the outcome as random as possible.  Sometimes it's hard to empty your mind and start from the blank if you have persistent ideas floating around your brain. That may be the other reason why this is taking so long... Anyhow, next week, something new... finally...

Fart art

Brrraaapp!

22:00 - Two hours to go and the week ends... I made it in time... sort of!

We all know the feeling when the sudden strong sneeze fires up the fart at the same time, ehm, right? Imagine if we were dragons ;p

As always the note has been ready for several days, but I didn't have the time to update the blog. It seems like the pace at the office will remain like this for several weeks (BUSY MODE ACTIVATED)... lucky me! We are ...- 22:06 - crying baby alert, damn - 22:15 -... We are moving to new location (again), this time to the main office, yay! This should be our final post. And there is also a two day seminar I need to participate in so I don't promise that the next note will reach here in time so bear with me :p I hope that I have time at least to finish it -___-

Damn I'm slow. Few sentences and +-30min :p The writing consists of Internet browsing, crying babies, lots of deleting and rewriting, skipping songs in iTunes, spell checking, more coffee etc. So much trouble for talking (writing) to empty walls.
-22:27-

aaargh, the tags!!!
-22:31-

-Good night-

Very tired -___-

...coming home

Yeah, this one was not one of my best days now was it?  Last week I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion anime and started to draw something. Good series, a bit depressing at times. I tried to maintain the Post-it art randomness, but this just happened. It took only few minutes to complete the whole thing. <Depression alert> I guess sometimes I really feel like I'm drowning. There is no real free time... busy, busy, busy... no time to relax and breathe even at home.

A bit happier note coming up next week, I promise!

Did I just skip a week?

Oh my, I just noticed that I haven't posted anything last week, sorry!!!

Last week was hell, literally. On Tuesday and Wednesday I worked from morning until 23:00, damn you system updates! On Thursday morning I slept few extra hours and also left home few hours earlier... thanks flexitime ^___^... and slept rest of the day.

On Friday our department had an annual party so take a wild guess how the next day went... It was fun though. We had a small competition with activities like archery, disc golf and some weird petanque-like game. Later we also had sauna and chimneyless sauna options. I haven't been in chimneyless sauna in years, ah that gentle smell of smoke sure brings back memories.

Anyhow, thus I forgot the whole blog thin :p Oh, and let's not forget the other major issue here:

someone is trolling my last note!

Warriors

Now I just wish that the tribal idea would have come earlier and that I could erase the left part of the note :p I wonder will there ever be a note that has one clear vision from start to finish? I doubt! Even though I would have an idea what, or how, to draw the note the idea changes and evolves during the process and finally I end up with... something...

I kind of like how the tribal warriors turned out though.




oh... and an Arecaceae!!!

Snake

It's funny how adverts can sneak in to your heavily fortified brains like a pro ninja and suddenly, when you least expect it, shout "TANK!" and disappear leaving behind just a smoke sceen and gentle smell of fart. I'm blaming the Youtube and world of tanks ad for this. Anyhow, it started out as a snake, then the whole thing got out of hands and now I've got a tank in it, win - win!

My way or the highway!

I'm siiinging in the rain... actually writing, and in the office... but it's raining outside... however, I finished the first novel of the The Death Gate Cycle series and it was great I tell you! Now I'm finally free to post some serious ART.

Quite accidentally this started to look like, ehh, helicopter view of some modern higway-bridge-thing. I was almost finished so I added the train tracks to the only available space I had left to strengthen the image that I see in my head. I curse the day I drew those car-like lines and ruined everything :)

I'm running  out of notes! Our office is moving within a month or so and they emptied our office supply room as 99% of the people from this building has already left. There is about 15 persons working in the sixth floor of a six storey building. Storey, story, store... I think it's storey right?

I spy with my little eye...

you got something on your face

It's funny what you can create with just few curves and some decorations. I've been so busy at the office that my next note has been half finished for a week. However, I just finished one at home so I have something to post next time too :p

I also started to read a book, the first novel of the Death Gate Cycle series. I've read the whole series once when I was a teenager ... approx. 15 years ago... and I remember that it was the best fantasy -thing- that I've ever read so I wanted to test if it's still as good as I'm older and more into sci-fi nowadays... so far, so good. And thus it may take some time before I draw anything at home as all my time goes either with my son or reading :)

This just in!

...tap tap tap tap tap tap...

I love the smell of fresh (automatic) coffee in the morning! At 0600 the alarm clock kindly reminded me to wake up, hop on to my bike and go to work. It was not until my first sip of coffee that I could start to talk to people and smile. Before that it was more like murderous glances with failed fake smile and deep deep growling sound "mornin'".

It's about 300+ days until my next summer vacation, sad really...

B&W

say cheese!

Not the prettiest one but I wanted to try something else. I did this at home just when my vacation started while watching Samurai 7 anime series.

Drawing the outlines was a quick job, but colouring all that black with the 0.4mm pen took some time.

Sad news, the vacation is over and it's back to the office starting next monday :( Well, for some it might be good news as we return to our former schedule.

Emptying the archives

another location change

We moved again for another location. I miss the dull scenery from my window... Now I sit one floor above exactly at the same spot, but it's not the same window and the angle is wrong!

beware of the bubble net!

It's a bubble man's web! I did this while doing some online e-learning course. I guess the bottom left corner was supposed to be some kind of explosion, but it turned to a bubble-like thing and I just continued the theme. I never published it before because it's quite boring... no idea in it and it doesn't look anything near cool or interesting.


I've bee in summer vacation for few weeks so the updates haven't been regular and well planned :p I have still few doodles that I haven't taken pictures of so I have enough material to cover the two remaining weeks of vacation that I have left.

Coming up as soon as we get home and assuming that my crappy Lumia 920 still works!

Smaller than three

old one from the archives. Done while watching something cheesy, figures.

...there was nothing...

I just wanted to draw a hand and somehow at some point Plato and the allegory of the cave popped to my mind. Is there another reality behind the palm of his hand? Is our reality just a mere shadow of the real deal?
Well, I'm his god anyways so he is screwed.

yeah, I have no idea...

...

I have no idea what it is, I like it though. I've been so busy and thus, tired, that it starts to affect my mermory, I don't remember any agreed meetings or even the simplest shopping list that I've received via phone just minutes ago... Two more weeks and my summer vacation finally starts.

Embryo

...that you Neo?

For those who wonder the changing image quality, my Lumia 920 had to be repaired once again so I've been taking some of the photos with my old HTC Desire Z. I got the Lumia back last week and so far so good... nothing's broken... yet. And I must speed up the posting process if I've taken this week ago already, sorry sorry!

I'm happy how this turned out. It's pretty much just how I planned it to be from the first draw. This took a while to complete as I'm doing my job at few different locations nowadays and I don't carry the post-it notes with me :)

I also found my old post-it stash and there is at least one picture never seen here ... so stay tuned!


Oh yeah, guys, girls, please tell me which is your favourite doodle so far?

I was thinking moving this blog to tumblr... what do you think, should I?

Out of ink!

that's not a solution!!!

Sorry for the late post... I blame summer :)
It's dead! I just filled the remaining empty spaces with anything that came out from the pen.
Let's hope that the suicidal frog doesn't make the jump... He'll get over this sudden (sad) change of events eventually. He-hey! Two posts a day, what a treat... thanks to the ¤#*$*@¤ crappy mobile app... oh, I managed to remove it, HA! I don't usually have many images ready at once, but this one I started as a test as I noticed that the pen is not working properly... I still managed to get it work at times, but in the end the ink just faded away... anyhow, this was done in 10 to 20 minutes while working so I took a photo of it while I posted the Noir. Thanks to some crappy Blogger app I managed post this accidentally. It took me a while to find the button to revert the post so some lucky ones have seen this one few weeks ago :)

I was actually thinking if I'd buy a bunch of real artist pens and try out this "flow of mind/random lines" theme to a bit bigger paper. I still don't want to plan anything ahead, but I find myself enjoying more and more of these pictures that turn out representing atleast something recognizable :)

Ps. remind me not to use the Blogger app for Android EVER again...

Noir

Self portrait :p

I use jackets with high collar quite often and sometimes I wear my Fedora with them... and I look like this :) Ooh, now you know that I have a beard, GZ! And yeah yeah, I know, I 've seen  these picture and I know that I don't look exactly as cool as Indiana Jones! Just let me have my fantasies...

I got the inspiration from some Noir movie that I watched recently, I forgot the title already. Some times later I did this while watching a Zombie movie... forgot the title of that one too... Zombies in Africa anyways, boring as hell.

Been busy and I haven't had the time to post this earlier... it's been ready for several weeks :p I go my bike back from the repair shop and I've been hammering the suspension in the nearby forest ever since. The summer is so short up here in the North that I just can't sit inside and play around with computers all day long. Soon it's cold and dark again, hrr!

Gotta catch 'em all

3...2...1... *dead*

A bit blurry photo, well, I'm too lazy to take another one right now so it'll have to do. I watched a Red Planet while doing this and I guess that the chase scene was inspired by the movie as their Mars robot... thing... went rogue and started to chase and kill the crew one by one. And once again I regret that the final idea came after I already doodled it full random things :)

Oh yeah, the half marathon is over, I'm alive and my legs are intact.. success! I have two new notes coming up, but I'm not sure if I want to continue them or not so bear with me. The other one is a traditional office doodle, but the other one stole my attention in such levels that I'm not sure if it can be called a doodle anymore :p

Missed a spot

Been busy, sort of... and sick. Two days to go ... a half marathon, scary shit! Also the snow's gone for good so I've also been cleaning the yard, assembled the new gas grill etc.

The views have dropped dramatically I see, well... it's not a real interesting art that I'm doing here now is it? And I don't do this for views and publicity anyways, so... let's keep on rocking.

I wanted this to be a galaxy, hence the spiral thing in the middle, but then a "bubble" emerged and everything went wild.

Cthulhu

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

I made this for my friend, he took a Cthulhu tattoo few weeks ago. We laughed about the different cute and funny ideas that we had for his tattoo. In the end he went for the serious look so I wanted to create something similar that we talked about.

The Cthulhu worshippers chant "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" so I imagined him relaxing at his manor which lies just in the outskirts of the city of R'lyeh :) And this is actually a portrait of the exact moment... And for some reason I pictured him to be a British nobleman... Anyhow, I have more coming, until next time o/

Universal

here comes the sun

I started this before my vacation and felt like it's ready few days ago. Three weeks and this is all I got :) Well, 1,5 weeks if you exclude the vacation :p

I got the main idea from the icon in my iPhone's USB connector. The rest is just random fillings done during everlasting meeting calls and while solving very irritating technical issues. Even though this doesn't have a real idea I still kinda like the right part of the drawing.

I've been really busy at the work and at home... I hope that the life would get a bit more ... leisured (is that even a proper word?) in the future :p

oh oh, yeah, and the snow is almost completely gone. I've already started to biking to work. Few more weeks and the forests are MTB accessible ^___^

Sunset

Murder scene

The winter has been dark and cold so I wanted to create something brighter and happier.... sunset and a meadow, which later turned to a murder scene . I miss summer and I can't wait for the snow to melt away so that I can fully open the MTB season.

I'm quite satisfied how the body and the environment came up, but I'm not sure about that blood ... pool... thing and the trail of blood from the knife. Well, what has been drawn cannot be undrawn or something :p Originally there was a sleeping man... I guess it was the darkness outside the livingroom window that killed the harmony.

Throne

-Do not disturb-

Something straightforward for a change. This was done rather quickly while waiting the computer to process some heavy stuff at the office. I'm pretty sure that this is a future me, Anon the senior. The stress has liberated me from the tyranny of the shampoo and I enjoy the morning news in the throne room :p ... this could also reflect the level of interest that I had for the task at hand :p

I've been enjoying my winter vacation so there are no new notes created in a week or so. We have been travelling around so I haven't had the extra time to doodle while watching movies at home. I'm also trying to spend time with my son as much as possible.

I have only one picture in the reserve and we are finally in the present. HOORAY! I'll update it here as soon as possible... From now on I hope that I'll have time to do at least one update per week. It seems that my workload has been rising at the office and thus my drawing pace has dropped :p

Fish bowl

Finding Nemo

It's a shame that the great ideas always come late. After filling almost the whole picture with random shapes in an ever lasting status meeting I drew a _thing_ that started to look like a fish in a bowl... or in a cylinder. All in all I like how it came out, although I would like to have an magical eraser so that I could fix at least the upper part of the damn thing :p

This fish in a bottle theme is also something that I might try later to my sketchbook now that I have more clear idea how it should look like with that little fisher on top of it and all.

Post-it Art v2.0

Wide

I also have these wider notes lying around and I decided to give it a go :p It all started from the grumpy face in the bottom left corner... and it stayed in that shape for the whole week or so until I started to randomly build it upwards while watching Stargåte SG1 from the Netflix.

I actually had a pretty clear plan for this one for some reason; wide screen TV and some kind of news anchor guy inside it... and this is the result. Plus I actually regret drawing that goofy looking skull. It should be much more serious.. like the one in my second blog post :p

Curves

What is it? Well, I don't know, but I still like it. Part of me wants to experiment these similar things, shapes... the whole 'Post-it Art style' on bigger canvas but if I do will these things then become just mere scetches? I fear that I'll ruin my whole point keeping these doodlings separate thing from anything else that I do :p

Few more doodles to go and we are finally in the present... meaning that I don't have anything old to show you and I'll update the blog when ever I get new doodles ready. Which can mean basically anything from daily to bi-weekly updates.

Back to basics

It's a mess

Doodling in it's purest form :) Lots of lines and shapes... and a funny skull. It may seem like nothing but these are actually the ones which take lots of time. There are times when I wonder if this more than just doodling as sometimes I find myself thinking so much about the picture that I do not have a single idea what the meeting is about or what I was doing before drawing the lines :)

Woof woof

yo dawg

This was supposed to be an alien (can you spot it?) but as always things get out of control and here we are. I proudly present to you... a beast!, dog, thing!

I was planning to draw the whole head but I feared that I might ruin the good start so it ended up like this. Maybe next time... this actually inspires me to try to draw some kind of old Indian statues head... with the tongue and all, you know? Maybe I'll do a Post-it version first and then a real one to my sketch book once I've practiced :)

Cheesy way

It's a... space, kind of. This is what happens when the milky way meets its expiration date, cheese. I don't like the things that look like space ships but there they are, enjoy :)

Wroooom!

I was daydreaming during one hour status meeting. It's me driving around the sunny city :)

I've always drawn quite traditionally. I mean, I have always tried to have somewhat realistic feel to my pictures even if they are more cartoonish or manga like... But the more I do these post-it doodles I find myself enjoying this style where these mysterious shapes form something recognisable :)

Unsee

Ok, I love this one, it's just perfect! :) It's perfect because I didn't plan to draw this bearded Fred Durst looking guy, the whole face thing was an accident. At some point I noticed the face like shape and tried actually hard to think how to change it to look something different, but what has been seen cannot be unseen, right? Finally I screwed up the "chin" part, it started to look like beard and I gave up, drew the eyes and man do I love it now :)

This is Post-it art!

This is Post-it art!

Another one made while watching BSG. It started out as something with tusks, but quite quickly it turned out as some kind of roman or spartan warrior. The big round thing around the dude was just some randomly shaped cog like thing... but now all I see is a big round shield.

I'm not sure if I like this one or not... I like the "soldier" and how it is built from small cogwheels and "random" shapes. And look at that cute little hand holding that spear ^___^. But then again the picture as a whole feels kind of unfinished ... and what the hell is that thing in the bottom right corner supposed to be?

The ones I draw at home I usually draw in my lap without any pad or support. I hold the Post-it stack against my knee while watching movies and series from the computer and I just draw. Thus, it sometimes leads  to ugly and unintentional shapes but my Post-it art motto is "never start over, it goes how it goes". I may fix the unfortunate slips by drawing over them or "thickening" the lines, but I do not want to start the same drawing from the beginning... at least for me as a creator it would destroy the core idea of the drawing. And besides, sometimes these unfortunate slips force me to change direction and stop thinking the final results too much and I end up with something cool and totally random.

Love?

I think that this is one of the coolest post-it drawings that I've made, but I don't like the fact that it is too ... pre-planned.

This one I made while watching Battlestar Galactica series at home and it actually started as a skull drawing test. Few days later I started to add random shapes around it. Pretty soon it started to look a bit grim and nightmarish and I continued to follow that path knowingly. I was planning to fill the whole note with random lines and shapes, but I didn't want to ruin the "feeling" and I stopped. It however took me several evenings to do this as I was REALLY careful how to continue. Fortunately there's four BSG seasons :)

------- Love-------

Well, that's the word that I still feel when watching this... The love is beautiful, but oh so hard, merciless and grim thing. Due to my fiancé's long and, eh,  difficult pregnancy I was a bit depressed when I did this and I felt that I needed to make a point ... that love is dead or love you to death, what ever. Maybe I was listening to this when I got the idea, who knows.

I do not approve this!

What is the meaning of this?

New office location and what do I find? A thick black marker on my desk... I used it to make evident that I did not approve this non-Post-it-art-standard pen!
 
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The purpose of this blog is to publish my so called Post-it art. I have one Q-Connect fine-liner 0.4mm pen (provided by the Company) and lots of Post-it notes, also provided by the Company. I do not use any colors or different pens, the idea is to keep it simple... mainly because I do majority of this stuff at the office and THEY do not pay me for doing the Post-it stuff to the internet :p (note for boss: I update the blog at least outside office hours!)

I try to include a story behind every drawing if it has any. I feel like I need to write something here, it's a blog after all, right? And I like to blabber anyways so... enjoy... and please comment for the sake of conversation :)

I have several notes already done since I started to record them digitally (to FB, duh) at the end of last year. I'll update them here one by one as I want to include the stories and keep the individual blog entries short.

ps. and yeah, you guessed it, I'm not a native English speaker :)