I can see you!

Yes, I know, once again... it's been a while :p About the "regaining the motivation", I'm almost there.

I mean, I have significantly reduced the "unnecessary" online and gaming time and
regained the motivation for working out, mountain biking, artsy stuff and being outside in the nature and hanging out with the family... The nature part is a bit cheating as even though we live in a large city it's basically just bunch of different buildings in a huge forest so you just need to step outside the door and there you are :p

The downside is that I haven't "had the time" to update the blog. Nowadays, if I even start the computer during the weekdays, it's closer to 21.00 or 22.00. It's 9pm or 10pm for you 12 hour clock weirdos. And during that brief moment I either pay the bills or browse my next mountain bike... I think that it'll be this one.

Chip

Yes yes It's been a while I know, now let's move on. I was supposed to post this a month ago but oh well... We sold our house and started to search for a new one. After going through hun... a LOT .... of houses we finally found a potential candidate and bought it, yay. It's bigger, in one level and it has a garage o/. It's a bit further away from the office so no more bicycle commuting... well, at least I should have more energy saved for the MTB trips right? The thing is that the closest actual forest with more than ten trees in it, is over six kilometers away and I'm used to basically live in the forest all my life, that sucks :p And I'm not so keen in sitting in overcrowded trains one hour per day either... What have I done! :o

So, my excuse for the lack of any activity in general is the new house process thing... running in the banks, checking the houses and packing. It sucks. Until next time faithful minions o/

Domino effect

I did this about two months ago just before we got twins and I had a combined paternity leave and summer vacation. Seven weeks worth of sleepless nights.... oh, and the amount of poo is incredible! I managed to draw one note while on vacation, but I didn't have time/motivation to upload it to the blog. Coming up later...

Now I'm back at the office and its time to get back on the old and vague schedule ^___^

Super Mario?

1Up

You know what, I'm not promising anything anymore :) New note at the end of the week my ass...

Yeah, I was planning to draw a monkey hanging from a branch... and I ended up with this guy crouching in a basement. He looks a bit like me so maybe it's a self portrait, I don't know...

I find it difficult to draw any details in the outskirts of the stack of notes. Every time when I try and fail, like those fingers up there, I want to quit doing these and start using bigger canvas where I have more room and I don't need to make use of every millimeter I can find.

...let's keep on doodling o/...

I'm back!

It's been a while. Happy new year to you all and stuff \o/.

"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" ... the answer is zero -___-

The seven week paternity leave was rough as hell. Not because I needed to take care of the kid but mostly because none of my friends are at work during the day so I was forced to be alone with my son most of the day... and it gets boring really quickly. There is a certain limit how many times "what does the dog say?" "woof woof" is amusing. :p For some vague pregnancy reasons I also needed to take care of the kid after office hours so majority of my time went with the kid... and rest of the day 20:00-> I spent with Netflix and World of Tanks :p

So, the picture, I don't like it.I forgot it to the office before the leave and I tried to continue it afterwards but I quickly ran out of ideas and interest. I like the few faces in there though.

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!

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!