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It's cold outside in Malmö town, and I'm staying indoors, doing my best to keep warm while working hard at finishing my submission to the Swedish Comic Sin number 2 anthology.

This while baby-sitting the family dog for over a week.. it has it's challenges, like paws running across originals, but we're getting by...

For some reason I decided to put long, curly, wavy hair on the female main character and a just as flowing, frilly dress on her as well.. It's turned out it's a lot of fun to draw and ink with the brush.. but it takes a lot more time that I'd thought, and I still have my day-job, so.. well.. Not a whole lot of sleep, and way too much candy and coffee, but it's getting close to being finished :) Fun fun fuuuun!

Happy Valentines Hearts Friend Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Friends' Day! (if you're in/from Finland)

Happy Every Heart's Day! (if you're in/from Sweden)


Just a quick pic I drew to honor my loved ones.. There's quite a few of you.
And, even if I don't see you very often, I think of you and keep you in my heart. All of you.

Love, peace, respect
over n' out

Fanny

Fanny is officially a "crazy fish lady" and "mother" of six..

Finally.
After years of longinly watching fishtanks, I have my own filled with lovelies again!

When I was a kid, I had a fishtank at my Dad's.
Then tens years went by. Fishless. Due to my living-situation(s) over the last few years, I've been unable to keep an aquarium. But, when I got the news I DID get the rental-apartment I applied for my first thoughts were:
"YES! YES! YES! Independence! I can do whatever I want! I'm going to have FISHES AGAIN!"


I was SO excited!
I went to Dad's basement, dug up the fishtank and fixed it up. Replaced some parts of the pump, filled it with water and plants and let it stand and become "fish-ready" for a week before taking that belonged trip to the zoo-store to pick my babies up. :)
The picture above shows the fish-less tank. It stands, tastefully, in my kitchen. (please spare me the sushi-jokes.. it's not funny -___-') That way I can enjoy their company while having my breakfast! :)


This is what I brought home with me from the store!
Fish-food. water-cleaner, rocks, holiday-food and two bags with fishes, wrapped in news paper. I felt so sorry for them! And wanted them out of there as soon as possible, but you can't just throw them into the tank. They might get a chock from the difference in water-temperature.


"Hello! Hello! Let us out! .. Please?!"

To make sure the fish won't go into chock, you place the bags (still closed) in the tank for (at least) 15 minutes so that the water in the bag will get the same temperature as the water in the tank.

Here's Snape. He's pretty agressive. For being a fantail fish.

Happily swimming around.



Here's Luke. Or Leia.. I don't know.. They both look the same. That's why they have similar names XD


Picture (above) taken with flash. Sadly their colors don't show so well.. Here's Naruto. I HAD to get a goldfish, just to give him (I suspect it's a her, actually) the name Naruto. For the heck of it. Then there's Nypon (swedish word for "rosehip", named by Malin) and Stephanie, becuause I felt I had to name something after someone in the Stephanie Plum-series.. I suspect Stephanie is a male.. Ah, well, what to do..


Stepanie and Naruto.
And, yes, those are pokémon glass-balls.

I've had them for almost two weeks and we're getting by fine :)
Fintail fishes doesn't have a proper stomach (just an intestine) and thereby need to get fed twice a day. Hungry little fatties. They also need a lot of cleaning, the messy little buggers, and they "re-arrange" the sand all the time.
But, ah, still, gotta love them. They're cute, and good company.
Guess I'm a nerd. Nothing new, though.

Have a great day!

Love, peace, respect and pretty fishes
Fanny

This little piggy..

Contribution to the Nasse's Necrozine quote anthology.
I hope they'll like it enough to put it in the book :)

A fun draw!

My quote reads "Har du kramat din avtryckare idag?"
(swed. Have you squeezed(actually; hugged) your trigger today?)




Tried out a new way of coloring. Turned ot quite well :)
Inked with artist's brush and pelican drawing ink. Greyscales in Photoshop.

Peace out!

Not quite winter, not quite spring

Malmö sure is cold and gray this time of year.. Not cold enough to actually be called winter, but not warm enough for the spring flowers to bloom. Even though most of the snow's melted away, there's still plenty of ice and the roads are slippery.

Today, I'm off from my daytime-job and has spent it doing laundrary and my book-keeping, which actually isn't as hard as I've thought it'd be.. Just keep things simple and you'll be alright ;D (talking about the book-keeping here, washing clothes is a piece of cake! *housewife-skills*)


"Västra hamnen" (west harbour), Malmö. Today.



Also, I'm "dogsitting" today. My Dad's and his ladyfriend Ann's Rottweiler/Setter-something named Roxy, who is just a total doll.. She's quite a handful, but a lot of fun..


Look at her eyes! Like Cleopatra! :D So pretty!

Ribersborg, Malmö.. Just a few minutes from my apartment! :)

She's such a good, sweet dog. But, ah, when she plays.. she plays hard.. ;D
(to the right, a Golden Retriver that was down at the beach)





Haha! Ninja-dog! XDD A laugh-out-loud picture, indeed!


My own, personal stalker. Fallowing my every step in the tiny apartment.


But, ah yes, she's a good dog, and it's really nice to have some fur:y company once in a while :)) I want a pet sooo bad, but I can't right now.. T^T
Oh, whine whine whine.. I can always "borrow" my parents and friends' dogs once in a while.. but still.. it's not the same.. My goal is to have a pug in five years or so, though :3 Can hardly wait!

Meanwhile.. I'm working on fixing up my aquarium so that I can get my fishes soon! X33 Hopefully, next week! *longing*


Well, now, it's back to the drawingtable for me, and I wish all of you a great evening!

Peace out!
Fanny

Gosh, I'm soooo bad at updating this thing! Ah, well, anyways, here we go:

Hope ya'll had a great holiday and new year's celebration with friends and/or family! :D I know I sure did! :) I spent a lovely three weeks in Colorado this winter, and it was ton's of fun. (update on this later) But, now I'm back in lovely Malmö again, and already it's back to work work woooork! :)

My "regular-grown-up"-job's going great so far! I really enjoy it, and my colleagues are a lot of fun. :) Also, I think it's good for me to get all that exercise and workout (honestly, working at a grocery store is HARD work!) since I otherwise spend most of my time on my butt: drawing, reading and writing.. And I still have an unhealthy relationship to candy.. :/ Ah, well.. I can't be all saint, gotta have some flaws ;D

ATM I'm adding the last touches at the zombie-comic. It's been hard, long work, but I think it's looking GREAT! I hope the writer of the script'll be as happy about the outcome as I am :)

"Don't shoot! I'm not a zombie!"
But, looking at my reference pictures of Amsterdam makes me really want to go there. It looks like a very different, interesting town! The houses are just amazing, all crammed together, more or less on top of one another.. A pain to draw, but it looks really neat! :D

Anyhow, I better get back to work..
Here's the tune of today.. Listening to my old The Knife CD :)



Love, Peace, over 'n out!

WIP

Work in progress.

Two pages completed. Four more to go. YOSH!


And, some encouraging cute korean boys to keep me going! <3


I better get going to my day-job so I can spend all night drawing (again)!

Fight~o!
Love, peace, over n'out!
Fanny