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LauraJohanna
@annahojarual.bsky.social
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🖋 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
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annahojarual.bsky.social
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! 🕯🇫🇮
inkpainting of a murky forest.
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
A photograph of the Oulu Central Library Saari (Island) a photograph from inside the Oulu Central Library Saari. Concrete staircases and glass walls. A pile of books
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
part of a comics page, where a woman sits and looks at an empty paper. Abstract black and white shapes in the background. two plattera of differen nigiris: salmon, torched salmon and avocado.
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#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.
A weight lifting bar, with 55kg on it.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
a blcak and white inkdrawing of a woman falling, lots of messy splotches and splatters around her a taped page attached on a plywood board. A mess of black and white ink all over it. a page taped on a plywood board. There are five taped silhouettes of a woman falling, hitting the ground and rolling over.
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
A flowerpot with soil and a dead peace lily. Next to it is a little blue vase with a golden pothos cutting in it. a hand holding a golden pothos cutting. One curly root has grown from the stem. The golden pothos, potted and sitting on a plant shelf by a window. There's other houseplants next to it and small stringlights running on the shelf.
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
#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
an inkdrawing with several female figures moving about restlessly.
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
A paper with three inkdrawings of a woman taking of her shirt.
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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.
The front and back sides of a freebie leaflet, describing the rough plot of my upcoming comic called Raven. a set of seven postcards with a brown undertone and a black & white image on top. the backside of one of the cards, with hand drawn lines and address rows. There's my tag @annahojarual and my website address laurajohanna.art, aswell as the name of the art on the card.
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
Late night crafting. A new page for a short comic about (pre)menopausal madness. Should be ready by December.

#comics #sarjakuva #indiecomics
a sketchpad page with drawings masked with a blue masking tape. A fountain pen and a pen knife on top. inkdrawing of a horned skull.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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
inkdrawing on a sketchbook page. A woman in a top and a skirt, standing and stretching her elbowes to cover her face. an inkdrawing on a sketchbook page. A wolan wearing a top and a skirt, from the waist up, stretching her elbows to the sides, hands behind her head.
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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.
a wooden zine rack with three zines on the shelves. a white mittelspitz puppy eating a chewing bone
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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thewormling.bsky.social
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
annahojarual.bsky.social
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
white mittelspitz puppy sitting on a wooden floor. white mittelspitz puppy sleeping on a wooden floor
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM