Ormfrid Vilda Osklund
@ormfrid.bsky.social
Artist of strange and whimsical fae themed illustrations and comics from Olympia, Washington. (she/her)
Had fun going down to the Olympia Zine Fest earlier today~! Attended this workshop where we made little mini-folded zines inspired by tarot cards. Here's the one that I scribbled up. ^_^
June 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Had fun going down to the Olympia Zine Fest earlier today~! Attended this workshop where we made little mini-folded zines inspired by tarot cards. Here's the one that I scribbled up. ^_^
Here's a new three page short Billowslandia comic that I did up for Summer's issue of Oly Comix Cult's zine with the main theme of "The Beach Episode" and one of the sub-themes being "Barnacle Disease".
May 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Here's a new three page short Billowslandia comic that I did up for Summer's issue of Oly Comix Cult's zine with the main theme of "The Beach Episode" and one of the sub-themes being "Barnacle Disease".
Of course the page of my 3 page comic I spent the least amount of time in inking turns out to be the one I've so far taken the longest time in coloring. >_<;
May 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Of course the page of my 3 page comic I spent the least amount of time in inking turns out to be the one I've so far taken the longest time in coloring. >_<;
Heading downtown for the Open Draw get together thing at Decay @ 2pm. Hopefully get coloring done on a comic submission I need to finish before the end of the month. Again and always with me and cutting deadlines super close. >_<;
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Heading downtown for the Open Draw get together thing at Decay @ 2pm. Hopefully get coloring done on a comic submission I need to finish before the end of the month. Again and always with me and cutting deadlines super close. >_<;
Heading to downtown Oly for the Night Drawer for the first time in a long time. This time... going to try drawing something all digital like, since I've been able to somewhat mimic my hand-drawn style with my tablet properly... hopefully it will go well. For example, here's a new digital comic page.
May 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Heading to downtown Oly for the Night Drawer for the first time in a long time. This time... going to try drawing something all digital like, since I've been able to somewhat mimic my hand-drawn style with my tablet properly... hopefully it will go well. For example, here's a new digital comic page.
I say "new"... because it's a thing I've had for over a year but didn't have a computer capable of hooking to it till now (borrowing a Win 11 laptop from Luke). Hopefully I'll have some new art to post again soon... after this pause I took due to computers and art supplies being broken on meh. >_<;
May 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I say "new"... because it's a thing I've had for over a year but didn't have a computer capable of hooking to it till now (borrowing a Win 11 laptop from Luke). Hopefully I'll have some new art to post again soon... after this pause I took due to computers and art supplies being broken on meh. >_<;
Went downtown earlier today to go to the drawing thing at Decay but no one was there to let us in... so we moved over to Schwartz's (a little coffee shop on the corner of 4th ave). Getting used to using this "new" digital drawing tablet together with a free software called Krita.
May 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Went downtown earlier today to go to the drawing thing at Decay but no one was there to let us in... so we moved over to Schwartz's (a little coffee shop on the corner of 4th ave). Getting used to using this "new" digital drawing tablet together with a free software called Krita.
Haven't been doing art as much the past few weeks, mostly writing... lots of wurds that I probs won't share but hopefully will make me better at it in the end. Found free software called FocusWriter I'm really loving. It is stripped down to minimal elements but also really customizable visually.
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Haven't been doing art as much the past few weeks, mostly writing... lots of wurds that I probs won't share but hopefully will make me better at it in the end. Found free software called FocusWriter I'm really loving. It is stripped down to minimal elements but also really customizable visually.
...but I still feel somewhat uncomfortable with the word "talent" just because I grew up in a religious context with people literally telling me "God has gifted you with talent so you need to use your talents for God"... which always felt crappy and belittling of my own efforts or agency, yeah.
April 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
...but I still feel somewhat uncomfortable with the word "talent" just because I grew up in a religious context with people literally telling me "God has gifted you with talent so you need to use your talents for God"... which always felt crappy and belittling of my own efforts or agency, yeah.
To be fair... I was feeling super distraught and grumpy this morning when I made this post... and I think I was just being overly irritable/cynical about things like this...
April 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
To be fair... I was feeling super distraught and grumpy this morning when I made this post... and I think I was just being overly irritable/cynical about things like this...
I mean... It can feel nice to me when I get complimented for being talented sometimes too... Maybe I'm just in a bad mood around it lately or being persnickety here? Maybe I'm overthinking it all? It just feels less like a compliment to my own effort... and more like one paid to "God" or "nature"...
April 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I mean... It can feel nice to me when I get complimented for being talented sometimes too... Maybe I'm just in a bad mood around it lately or being persnickety here? Maybe I'm overthinking it all? It just feels less like a compliment to my own effort... and more like one paid to "God" or "nature"...
To be fair... I don't usually hold it against people who use it as a compliment... it's just... I feel like I can see the problematic implications that statements like "you're so talented" can lead to. For all those it encourages... it can also lead to a lot of discouragement, elitism, or apathy...
April 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
To be fair... I don't usually hold it against people who use it as a compliment... it's just... I feel like I can see the problematic implications that statements like "you're so talented" can lead to. For all those it encourages... it can also lead to a lot of discouragement, elitism, or apathy...
If anything, I often am made to feel like I LACK talent... constantly wrestling against my shaky handed clumsiness and inability to grasp lots of basic art fundamentals so many other artists seem grasp so seamlessly... despite my struggles to the contrary. >_<;
April 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If anything, I often am made to feel like I LACK talent... constantly wrestling against my shaky handed clumsiness and inability to grasp lots of basic art fundamentals so many other artists seem grasp so seamlessly... despite my struggles to the contrary. >_<;
Just a random irritated thought... does anyone else get annoyed when someone calls you "talented"? I guess for me it feels similar to how religious minded people in my life often would say "God has gifted you with talent" as if my own personal work & effort put into developing a skill meant nothing.
April 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just a random irritated thought... does anyone else get annoyed when someone calls you "talented"? I guess for me it feels similar to how religious minded people in my life often would say "God has gifted you with talent" as if my own personal work & effort put into developing a skill meant nothing.
Like... not being able to find music, large spots of dead air, record players mangling records, cds skipping, computer equipment malfunctioning, audience calling in to complain, logsheets and stuff missing, the kind of dream where you wake up literally hyperventilating in tears, that kind of dream.
April 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Like... not being able to find music, large spots of dead air, record players mangling records, cds skipping, computer equipment malfunctioning, audience calling in to complain, logsheets and stuff missing, the kind of dream where you wake up literally hyperventilating in tears, that kind of dream.
For the first time in a long while... I had a panicky stress dream about DJing live on the air. Reminds me that, while I love the radio and it was what brought me to this town in the first place, it was a major source of stress in my life... one I set behind me for pretty solid reasons... sadly.
April 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
For the first time in a long while... I had a panicky stress dream about DJing live on the air. Reminds me that, while I love the radio and it was what brought me to this town in the first place, it was a major source of stress in my life... one I set behind me for pretty solid reasons... sadly.
Woke up after only a few hours of sleep around 2am last night... been up since and it is 10 am now... head swimmy... bit of a headache... but decided I'd brew some coffee and stay awake anyways... try again for better sleeps later tonight. >_<;
April 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Woke up after only a few hours of sleep around 2am last night... been up since and it is 10 am now... head swimmy... bit of a headache... but decided I'd brew some coffee and stay awake anyways... try again for better sleeps later tonight. >_<;
went from... tired and groggy all day... pushing my ink pens thru to finish an illustration I was working on... finally trundling home to where I could get rest and now... many many hours later... nearly 4am... sleep is just... broken... and out of sight... blerg...
April 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
went from... tired and groggy all day... pushing my ink pens thru to finish an illustration I was working on... finally trundling home to where I could get rest and now... many many hours later... nearly 4am... sleep is just... broken... and out of sight... blerg...
Me and my multicolored lil' winged wurm friend.
April 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Me and my multicolored lil' winged wurm friend.
I've decided lately that... whenever I get something that sounds like a telemarketing call... I will respond by promptly switching over to making disturbed hissing noises into the phone until they hang up on me.
April 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I've decided lately that... whenever I get something that sounds like a telemarketing call... I will respond by promptly switching over to making disturbed hissing noises into the phone until they hang up on me.
Having some fun re-coloring and shading some old artwork. Here is something from 2016 of an antlered owl.
March 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Having some fun re-coloring and shading some old artwork. Here is something from 2016 of an antlered owl.
Like... Olympia Arts Walk is seriously not until towards the end of next month or something? April right? Yeah? And this is March? We're in March right? I think... hmmn... oh dear... I was even looking at the events listing for Arts Walk online yesterday and somehow didn't even notice this detail.
March 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Like... Olympia Arts Walk is seriously not until towards the end of next month or something? April right? Yeah? And this is March? We're in March right? I think... hmmn... oh dear... I was even looking at the events listing for Arts Walk online yesterday and somehow didn't even notice this detail.
For some reason I totally had it in my head that Olympia's Arts Walk was today? And then I was bummed when I woke up an was feeling a little too "bleh" to drag myself downtown... but apparently my sense of time is as terrible as ever... and there is no arts walking to be had today after all... >_<;
March 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For some reason I totally had it in my head that Olympia's Arts Walk was today? And then I was bummed when I woke up an was feeling a little too "bleh" to drag myself downtown... but apparently my sense of time is as terrible as ever... and there is no arts walking to be had today after all... >_<;
Here's something I need to ink up eventually here... but thought I'd share this little line-up test I did of this two part illustration's blue-line roughs. The design for Wibbly Lanterns & The Prumbrill Hen... a Fae Librarian of the Lantern Towers who discovers joy in becoming a Magical Mime Girl~!
March 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here's something I need to ink up eventually here... but thought I'd share this little line-up test I did of this two part illustration's blue-line roughs. The design for Wibbly Lanterns & The Prumbrill Hen... a Fae Librarian of the Lantern Towers who discovers joy in becoming a Magical Mime Girl~!
A colorized version of the second submission for spring's "Amalgum" comics zine... there were several theme words for the zine listed and apparently the organizer mentioned that "Turtle Feet" & "Diary" hadn't been used yet... so I drew up a submission covering both of 'em...
March 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A colorized version of the second submission for spring's "Amalgum" comics zine... there were several theme words for the zine listed and apparently the organizer mentioned that "Turtle Feet" & "Diary" hadn't been used yet... so I drew up a submission covering both of 'em...