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LauraJohanna
@annahojarual.bsky.social
🖋 Creating art & comics using traditional mediums in my freetime (🔞 incl. artistic nudity)
🎮 Scifi & fantasy RPG (now playing Elden Ring & Castlevania SOTN)
Other interests 🪴🐠🏋‍♀️

❓she/her 🇫🇮
🔗 laurajohanna.art
Snow's gone, at times it's pitch black outside. Took some photos of a path nearby and painted this using one of them as reference.

Also, first week without coffee.

And, Finnish independence day! 🕯🇫🇮
December 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
You know what? Today I lifted 100kg for the first time (hipthrust, five ugly reps). By accident, cos I counted the plates wrong. But yay!

#gym #weightlifting
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Once again, trying to ditch coffee for tea. Day one.

Why? Tea is better for me, it's less expensive, and most importantly uses less water to produce.

Why bring this up? Might be easier to hold on to the promise by making it public. Want to join in?
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Visiting Oulu Central Library Saari the first time after its renovation. Still a concrete brutalist marvel. May have overestimated the time I have for reading...

#booksky #concretebrutalism #architecture
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
All pages done! The art, that is. Time to add the dialogue.

Also, sushi-Sunday! Kid made the rice, I cut the fish. Not the prettiest but the flavours are there 🤝

#comic #artsky #sarjakuva #sushi #foodsky
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#gym night! First full body training in six weeks (oops, been doing upper or lower body only) and I was still able to increase either weights or reps in each exercise. Amazed.

Also found out you _are_ supposed to add the weight of the bar to the sum (duh), making my numbers instantly higher.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Page 6/8 of my pre/peri/whatevs menopause #comic. Took a bunch of reference photos of myself yesterday, jumping on a bed and roll over less or more graciously. A humbling experience! It'll be interesting to see how many details I lose when scanning&editing

#sarjakuva #indiecomics #comics #menopause
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Not the best time to plant things, but this little peace lily gave up, so it's time to golden pothos show how it's done. I always try to keep a cutting ready for situations like this. Godspeed!

Also, time for seasonal lights.

#houseplants #plantsky
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Snowy giant spruces.

Would be interesting subject to draw studies of, maybe with white ink on black paper, but I'll try to stay focused on the comic right now.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Snow ❤️❤️❤️
Lucky to live in a place full of little forest paths, and now with the dog in the house I get to explore those paths allday everyday. The landscape is always different and so soothing especially when it's dark. And it's almost always dark this time of the year.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#comics update, the corner of page 5/8 of my side project. I drew this page yesterday evening, dead tired, and it didn't turn out that well, no surprise there. But I didn't want to redraw it cos all the other pages are the first draft too and I want it to show. But I kept going and now, even with
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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check this site if you want a ton high res pictures of ancient art for references that are public domain (not sponsored)
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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HYLLYY 10 VUOTTA! 🎊🎉🎇🕺

Näin on, pyöreät paukkuvat ja sen kunniaksi synttäripostaus täynnä listauksia viimeisen vuoden parhaista lukukokemuksista, suosituimmista teksteistä ja pahiten ohinukutuista julkaisuista. Ja onpa siellä myös iso liuta vastauksia ihkaoikeisiin lukijakysymyksiin! #sarjakuvat
Hyllyy KYMMENEN vuotta – Klassiset listaukset, sekä iso liuta lukijakysymyksiä ja -vastauksia!
Sinä päivänä opin, että musteen osuttaminen suuhun on tosielämässä vaikeampaa kuin sarjakuvissa Kymmenen vuotta on jo varmaan ihan asiallinen ikä blogille, eikö vaan? Minusta se ainakin tuntuu ihan…
hyllyy.wordpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Back at drawing. Starting page 4/8 of the (pre)menopausal comic. Using self refs for this story cos it feels very personal and is based on my own experience, but I'll back it up with scientific sources.

Soundtrack: Josén Pimeä Puoli - Ohikulkija LP

#inkdrawing #indiecomics #sarjakuva #figurestudy
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
At #oulucomicsfestival Comic Oasis, super fun to talk to people and my face hurts from smiling (a good thing). I'll be here until 6pm, come by the table to say hi!

#sarjakuva #indiecomics #oulunsarjakuvafestivaali
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'll be at #oulucomicsfestival sales event, Comic Oasis, on this Saturday at Valve, 11 am-3pm at table V2. Come say hi! I'll bring a bunch of the free-to-take Raven-leaflets (limited amount!) and you can buy postcards based on my acrylic paintings from last summer. Even drew the backside by hand.
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Breakfast/lunch drawings. White underscribble, fountain pen and brush pen on top.
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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I’m stoked to announce that we have a lil art book brewing, featuring works from 100 artists celebrating the style of HR Giger. The 240 page collection is made in official collaboration with the HR Giger Estate, and the campaign is up NOW. Visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi... for more, thanks!
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Late night crafting. A new page for a short comic about (pre)menopausal madness. Should be ready by December.

#comics #sarjakuva #indiecomics
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Some of the last pages of a little sketchbook (A6, 120 pages). Started 11.9. and finished 7.11., so almost exactly 2 months. I'm aiming to use up all the sketchbooks and random sketchpads I have before buying new ones.

#sketchbook #inkdrawing #figurestudy
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Early morning gym hour. Leg day, 3 weeks since the last one. Added 2.5kg to squat and did full reps, have lost one of my straps and had to do RDL's with 15kg dumbells my weak ass wrists can handle (instead of the usual bar+47kg). Win some, lose some.
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Getting ready for #oulucomicsfestival, I made this magnificient zine rack yesterday! It's a bit wobbly, it's a bit rugged, but it works. Besides this double-zine 'Sounds from the Deep / Yours, Helen' there'll be an assortment of postcards for a few coins & a free Raven-leaflet on the table.
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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OUT NOW!

The first issue of my anthology comic series, SCRAMBLED EGGS is now available from Patreon, Ko-Fi and Gumroad (link in my bio):
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This itsy bitsy boy joined our family today ❤️ He's a mittelspitz and we call him Piki (pitch/resin). Finnish spitzes are often called pikinokka (pitch-nose).

He's been such a good boy all evening, and seems to have a relaxed personality.

#mittelspitz #puppy
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM