Ha! Oh my god the whole hockey thing in here has been a total farce. First all the actual tickets to the game are made ridiculously expensive in favor of advertizing the paid TV-channels that show the games to the point that the seats are empty in the games, and on top of that they tried to geoblock the games in Youtube (as you can watch the games legally live from Youtube) so that they'd be visible to everyone else except for Finnish people (FOR OUR OWN GAMES), and now that people used proxies to get over the block (which isn't even illegal), the channel owners are crying theft because broadcast right were sooo expensive to them and people didn't pay it when they could watch it for free! Legally!
http://yle.fi/uutiset/ilmaiskanava_vetaa_jaakiekon_katsojia_mtvlta/6089652

I'd say all of this could have avoided if they had concentrated on the marketing and ads, and kept the tickets affordable and shown the games from TV free, like they used to be.

Ha ha, holy crap man:

I love how they did all the scales in the body by just moving the brush.

Also, I started playing Magic The Gathering! I've been collecting the cards for the art for about a year or so, and found out that my local Fantasiapelit game/comic shop in Helsinki holds booster drafts on Friday Night Magic every week. And I signed up for this Saturday's "Avacyn Restored" pre-release too.

Also unfortunately I've been feeling vaguely woozy again, making me fear that the inner ear problem might return soon... I really hope not.

Well, here's the actual thing: http://doodleloser.tumblr.com/post/21327215034/reblogging-this-again-cause-i-finally-got-to

Here's some new pages from the Gore comic: http://www.drunkduck.com/Gore/


( Monsters, fanart, stuff )

So yeah, yesterday I had to be taken to a hospital with an ambulance when I suddenly started feeling very dizzy for no reason, and after some time it became clear that it wasn't just from lack of blood sugar, but constant vertigo so strong that I couldn't sit or stand up or walk.
In the hospital (where I had to wait for several hours >:V ) it was diagnosed to be benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, so now I have ten days of sick leave and I walk like a drunkard.

Hopefully this leaves sooner and doesn't repeat so that I can get back to work and draw, this state doesn't feel very good.

...My god.

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If anyone's interested in getting a new Scroll of Resurrection to their account, I can totally hit you up. http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3793433/Earn_Legendary_Rewards_with_the_New_Scroll_of_Resurrection-07_03_2012#blog

A single character immediately boosted all the way to level 80 -- DING!
A FREE upgrade to Cataclysm -- regardless of your friend’s original box level
An optional FREE character move -- to your realm and faction so you can play together
7 FREE days of game time -- available immediately

You also get a flying mount, a Swift Windrider for Horde and same gryphon for Alliance I think (and if you later purchase more game time, I get one too).

Anyone in here up to a quickie trade or two? If yes, then please link to a character ref/what you'd want me to draw!

ARgh, I got pissed after seeing someone whining about how you should use spoiler tags when another commenter had used one scene of Deep Blue Sea (the one where Samuel L. Jackson gets offed by a shark) as an example in their comment because now that they knew that part there's no reason for them to watch the movie anymore. Really? Are you seriously serious?
The movie is over TWELVE YEARS OLD so if you didn't want to get spoiled I dare to say you had plenty of time to watch it, and you got to know one character death in the movie (which, though importantly played, wasn't really even a major conclusion to the whole film or something like that), so the rest 100 minutes of it are totally worthless now and will offer you no emotional response or entertainment?

Jesus Christ, I really don't get that.

I REGRET NOTHING


( Lifedrawing sketches(/BOOBS), duck, dogs, fanart, comic, SO MANY DOODLES )

OH MY GOD LET ME GO. I've been sitting overtime at work for the past four hours (for practically n oreason). Let us gooooo!
God damn clock is almost nine in the evening and I still have an hour or more to ride the bus back home. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUU--

And honestly I have kinda weird relationship with Tumblr. The replying system is such crap, I can't stand when people constantly go back and forth and get even longer and longer and longer and LONGER walls of text when they reblog their replies and RRRRRRAAGHHHHHH there's been so many times when I've considered just deleting the whole thing but then thought that it's still good to be in places with my art so I ended up just unfollowing bunch of people.

Gore got recently featured on DrunkDuck's front page, yaaaay!
Though personally I wouldn't make a positive judgement about something that has only eighteen pages it still did put a real smile to my face for the rest of the day and beyond :D
However...



I once said that I really don't have good insight to my characters (or more like out-sight) and I really can't tell how my stuff comes off to someone who is not me, and this one thing is constantly surprising, hearing that the comic has comedy in it. Or humor. With friends I took this as that they know more of the characters than what has been in the comic or something, but apparently no. And this is weird for me because nothing in this comic is actually written with the intention of it being funny. Don't take me wrong, I'm not writing this comic with the intention of it being actually serious so the fact that people do find the comic funny is a good thing, it's just weird that people get such a different feeling from the comic than I do. Like, I never think "I hope people find this exchange funny" when doing anything to the comic.

I guess it's part of the fact that I'm really hard to find things funny with other comics too, and I'm 99% incapable of laughing out loud to comics or written things (during my older life [as in early teens to this day] I remember laughing at a comic or a book maybe three times, and the third is counted just because I have probably forgotten some instance) so I'm REALLY hard to sell the concept of "funny". Many things are entertaining to me, yes, but funny? Funny-as-in-I-would-laugh-funny is probably the hardest thing to find.

I've been considering if I might try printing the Gore comic as a little self-publication comic for the next Sarjisfestarit after I get the second part of it ready, or whether I should try to go a completely new, back and white story for that. Because the main first story is ridiculously slow and boring and also in colour in a way that doesn't really work in grayscale, it'd mean it'd be really expensive and thick, so it might be better to just do a part of the story not already done. Hmm.

Though there's the problem that when I work daily and are away from 8.45 to 19.00, doing anything after it starts feeling like a huge chore and unenjoyable, as opposed to my week vacation when I spat out pages almost every other day and really had fun with it.

Ahh, I haven't been to a sauna in a year, but today we warmed it up, as a Christmas sauna.


( Life drawings, fanart, doodles, historically almost correct knights, horses and so on )

Boy, has it been fun. First mail loses my book package, which I would mind less but the packet also contains a bill for those books, and it's not fun if I can't pay it on time.
Then my friend gets ill, and we have to cancel out meeting, and twice this week the bus driver has been SO SLOW (seriously driver, it's good that you don't drive stuck to the front car's bumper, but you don't have to keep five meter distance to it either) that when we get to Elielinaukio I just see my bus drive back away from the spot, and then this morning, my bus never arrives or it's 15 minutes late. And it just keeps raining water all the time.
Man.

Well, I did get presents and Christmas cards mailed though.

I just got this today:

Seriously, this book is the best. It's really good quality on printing side, and I just seriously love the Creeper comics. The storytelling is much more inspired than in most other superhero comics I've read from that time (though I admittedly haven't read as much DC comics as Marvel comics) as it doesn't rely on just narrating obvious stuff like most of Stan Lee's comics (I still get textmares from the Spider-Man Essentials) and has couple enjoyable visual gags too, like the, would I even dare to say Batman tv-series parody (not sure if that had already been done) with the billboard's effects that you can see under the cut.

And I dare to say that Ryder's poses are pretty much a mix between Bugs Bunny and the Leyendecker sock ads, some of them are just so enjoyably flamboyantly expressive and the rest of the time the pages are filled with (technically) half naked Creeper with even more over-the top poses, so it's like win-win situation.

...What are you even doing, Ryder?

...Are you holding a piece of paper ON YOUR SHOE?!
( OH MY GOD I LOVE THESE COMICS (some pics) )

True story from my childhood.

Sometimes I feel that the fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are both the grace and executioner of the series. Because despite the fact that I don't like the actual series (mind you, I don't consider it a bad show either, more like the spiritual kin of Batman The Brave and the Bold, as both realize that their material is pretty groan-worthy or plain stupid and acknowledge it and do their best to make it really fun), there's lots of great art and other stuff done by the fans that I do like. For example this:

But.. the problem is that when I thought "I really like this song, what happening is it based of", found out and decided to watch that episode because the idea felt interesting and the song was awesome... only to be blown off how underwhelming the actual episode was. The mood of the actual show almost always fall short against the fanart and other fanstuff out there. And like most of the times I have watched the episodes after reading through the episode list/descriptions, I always end up being disappointed since the actual episode never seems to be as interesting as the description, mainly because the episode is either predictable or then just plain boring.
I can't hold that against the show itself, since I've been watching cartoons through most of my life and after 15 years you really start to be able to predict some things you have seen done several time before, and the show really isn't targeted for twenty-somethings. So it's not the show's problem if I don't like it but at the same time, some of the fans should really rub two braincells together and realize that a show targeted for children doesn't necessarily enthrall every. Single. Adult. Too. You know, instead of saying "you're still in denial" and leaving it at that.