Decided to use up most of the colored paper laying around and made some notebooks with blockprint designs. Also made a few foiled covers. So many possibilities! Everybody would get a notebook gifts from now on heh.

Some hand-printed garments from recent months. Working on new designs for future ~collections~ haha

I dabbled in making my own paints for the first time. In a little over two months (somewhere between March and May) I made this many (see photo with the open tin case)!! It was very satisfying and I learned about pigments a lot. Few additional close-ups with the more succesful attempts at making granulating paints.

Watercolor binder recipe:

▫️8 parts distilled water
▫️4 parts powdered gum arabic (note that the liquid version would require different amounts of gum and water!)
▫️1 part linden or acacia (robinia) honey (they are the lightest, it won’t interfere with the color)
▫️1 part glycerine
+ preservative: few drops of clove essential oil or for better results, sodium benzoate.

Mix
gum arabic in warmed water. When it dissolves, add the rest of
ingredients and stir until it mixes well together. Let it sit for about
24 hours, store in the fridge.

For the amount shown in the photo, I used tablespoons and stored it in a small jar. It was enough to fill ~72 half pans or 36 full pans.

The brainrot doesn’t ease up! Two pinups with Jayce and another Viktor.

Watched season two of Arcane in November and it blasted my third eye open. I began drawing again after a year of huge frustrating art slump! I love getting obsessive brainworms, not gonna lie. Love the codependent scientists and Machine Herald’s form - here are a few finished pieces with them (and some more sketches on tumblr and bluesky) and a photo of originals (A3 size each).

Woah… no post in a YEAR?! That’s pretty depressing. My desire to draw sadly has been nonexistent, but I got back into printmaking. Got myself a hand block printing press (from Ritualis Press) for Christmas last year and got into testing various inks and lino types for fabric printing. It felt like learning it anew all over again, heh. Since designing prints for my day job isn’t as exciting as it once was, I tried to emulate the joy of creating a cool t-shirt again :P It’s pretty neat! I still have some things to test, but here are the results from past months.

I’ve been dying to draw something since the 2nd season came out and decided to try something different than usual. Vintage matchbox labels’ designs were always a favourite of mine, so why not make it fanart? Turns out it was SUPER fun to do and after printing and putting them on actual matchboxes they look even nicer! I’m so happy with these <3

Designs commissioned by medicine brand back in 2017, right before I started to work there full-time as in-house graphic designer. Still like that blue tiger a lot :)

Wow, I’m so behind with news on this blog! Time to make up for it. Few patterns of mine from last months.