my coping strategy

My latest illustration for Helsingin Sanomat, it is about how studies suggest all kind of things, but how little explanations are given about the results (where the study is based on and how the results are gotten). This seems to be pretty common especially when talking about some products that should improve health.
(My poor translation of "terveystädin aamurahka" would be something like "health freak aunt`s morning curd (or yogurt..?)".)


If you are feeling down and stressed: 1) Buy tasty ice cream 2) Go to a toy shop and buy some random stuff that you secretly want to have, hehe!

...Huh it feels like I am horribly busy constantly! We are having our winter "holiday" (which will be full of school work, eeeh....) next week and I`d just love to sleep and be lazy... It would be great to do some personal projects and draw coloured illustrations, but at the moment I can`t simply find time for things like that. Sometimes school is kind of killing me these days, eeeeh, but luckily my school mates are awesome. Every school day is so much fun that some rubbish things can`t ruin it for me, hee hee. :----)
Cheers, little foxes!

about getting old (and wrinkly!) and other stuff

Last year I started my "dance dance"-birthday tradition with photobooth, haha! My signature dance looked like this when I turned 19.

On Thursday I had my 20th birthday, straaaaaange... : D I am not a teenager anymore, I am confused! Does this mean that I am getting old..? Hehe... I had really nice time anyway, among other things I went to an Italian restaurant (we were having a long school day and everyone was hungry) with a small group of my classmates and my good friend Saara paid for my dinner. Besides another friend of mine bought me ice cream as a dessert, it was so good!




Some edited sketchbook material! I have been doodling quite much but sadly I seem to be able to draw something proper very seldom... On this page you can find a random self portrait ("maanantai Nöörre"=Monday Nöörre (my nickname haha)) and I also drew a picture of Saara ("punk Säärre" haha, I love to create silly nicknames with ä and ö haha!), who is possibly the coolest (and the funniest) girl alive. : D We ended up having a pyjama party last Sunday night and when we went to school on Monday she tried a new hairstyle (because she thought that her hair looked like messy and crappy in the morning) with her front hair up. In my opinion it suited her pretty well! :--)




A birthday card for another dear friend of mine. Squirrels are awesome!




I am getting more furniture slowly but surely! I just had to take a picture from my favourite corner, there is basically all my favourite stuff from my apartment haha.... So sadly it is still a bit empty here but I am sure that during my 4 years here I`ll manage to get more than enough all kind of stuff to spread around and make my apartment super cozy. :-----)




Cheers!