Tove Janson, the creator a The Moomin trolls, is a big inspiration of mine. A great storyteller and illustrator.

She was born and lived in Finland, but her native language was Swedish.

Testing photo posting from phone. If all works well this should publish on my blog first then crosspost to Bluesky.

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Somewhere in Sweden 2002

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So many attempt trying to find a abstracted version on Kojima that both was simple and captured his appearance. Never done drawings like this before.

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It’s the big shell.

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It’s the Dead Cells, this was all free hand and took forever.

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Another trace but pretty nice to do something a bit low effort after work. Also I am getting better at using procreate.

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This took a while, decided to trace over the T2 frame after a few freehand attempts.

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Still debating whether to commission someone or try to draw these article illustrations myself. This was pretty fun, inspired by 22irum, I’ve never drawn in this style before.