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E. "Papermonkey" Jokinen
@paperiapina.bsky.social
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Formerly a chronic art student, currently possibly a forest troll roaming the woods of Finland when not busy geeking out about dinosaurs or imaginary creatures in variety of headworlds.
Cosplaying as a warehouse worker by day.
Minted in 1987. (they/she)
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Just found out the pachycephalosaurid from my dinosaur project thingy's formation has been described (the species is now named Brontotholus), so I went and dug up this concept drawing I did of them four years ago (sept. 2021)

Happy to have a name I can google now!
A watercolor drawing of a family of pachycephalosaurid (domehead) dinosaurs, with two adults, presumably a male and a female, and three chicks.
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Slapped some colors on this with my Beam Paints watercolors.

I should use my watercolors more.
A pencil drawing with some light watercolors on it portraying an Einiosaurus with two birds, one perching on its curved nose horn and the other flying in the process landing on its brow. The dinosaur has golden brown head with darker brown frill horns and lighter colored neck and nose blaze marking. The birds have similar color scheme.
October 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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I use these cheap wooden pencils that you can get by dozen with just couple euros, but I do have a fancier pencil sharpener with a hand crank that keeps the pencil tips needle sharp when needed!
September 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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There was a chance of rain, so I went to take shelter to a coffee shop, and while there ended up cleaning this up a bit.
A cleaner pencil sketch of an Einiosaurus with two birds. One sitting on its nasal horn and the other flying in the process of landing on its brow.
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Felt like sketching some dinosaurs for a change! So here, have a couple birds perching on a not-quite-bird.
A pencil sketch of an Einiosaurus, with two birds. One is perching on its nose horn while the other is flying and in the process of landing on its brow.
September 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Had To doodle a reaction image when I got the final art last night.

Look! It's my Arcanth! It's so so SO pretty! So soft and shiny and amazing! It's like magic! ✨️

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
September 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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"Mmm? No no, I'm listening..."

Long time no Arcanth! Mainly wanted to show how far to each direction their wrists bend, and suddenly spawned a full body sketch.

They're paying so much attention to whoever they're listening to, swears!
A pencil sketch of Arcanth, a lanky fantasy person that looks vaguely kinda like an anthropomorphic ungulate or something. They are sitting on the ground presumably, their right hand resting on a knee in a way that makes their fingers touch the elbow of the same arm. The other hand is propped on the other knee, with a hand propping up their head, looking backwards. Their expression is sleepy, with closed eyes and drooping ears.
August 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Had a thought at work.
A photo of a post-it note with some numbers scribbled on its left edge, and a ballpoint pen doodle of a sitting cat with bead eyes blowing a rasberry. Around the post it note there are also a ballpoint pen, a white cloth rag and part of the handle of scissors.
August 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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A small dinosaur doodle at a coffee shop after work. It's been a while since the last time!
A marker doodle featuring an Einiosaurus, a Dromaeosaurus walking next to it, and a tiny, fuzzy theropod of some sort sticking out behind the Einiosaurus' head frill, riding on its back.
August 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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For some reason bluesky keeps crashing on me if I try to upload more than one photo at a time, but maybe I can include couple more shots in a reply...
Photo of the same mini as in the previous post, but this time zoomed out, showing the hand holding it. The thumb is covered in paint smears. (Also, while the thumb looks otherwise kinda dirty, that's just my vitiligo.) Another photo of the zoomed out mini, this time showing it from the back, so you can see the character's tiny, fuzzy tail sticking out of the clothing.
August 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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My DnD group is starting our new campaign tomorrow in an IRL session at our GMs place!

And, being great at being in time and totally not leaving things to the last second, I just got my new character's mini painted!
A photo of a satyr miniature. The character is floppy eared and has three horns. They're wearing mostly blue clothing, they're holding a green rose in their hand, and the most detailed paint job has been done on the grass, sticks and stone on the base instead of the character. The base's rim is also painted gold.
August 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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ArtFight attack for @bearhybrid.art !

What started out as a messy coffee shop doodle to escape the heatwave, and evolved into a limited palette watercolor portrait once I discovered a single Beam Paints paint stone within my pencil case. This was fun!

(For the Horde!)
A portrait of a tauren done with pencil and dark blue watercolor. She's smiling and wearing a fancy necklace. Her mane covers most of her face, and no eyes are visible. Her right horn is broken.
July 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I did an ArtFight!

Here's Morkant, a character belonging to @ibenkrutt.bsky.social ! Such a fun character design to draw!
July 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Doodled a mömmöth.

I just really like the shapes. And fluff. But mainly the shapes. They were just very pleasant to draw.
A pencil sketch of an anthropomorphic mammoth dancing while holding a drum on one hand.
July 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Dinosaur fashion!

A quick doodle portrait of grandma Flying Blade posing with some special regalia, including a cape and scarf of woven plant fibers decorated with pieces and beads of nacre and tassels made of Einiosaurus tail manes.
A messy pencil sketch with some watercolor colors, portraying a troodontid dinosaur of white and gray feathers, wearing a bright green cape and a scarf, with rounded rectangular pieces of nacre on the front of her neck, and hair tufts of dark brown and white, presumably from the manes of Einiosaurus cows. She's holding her hear up proudly and smiling.
June 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I did it! I did a colors!

Anyway, here's the new DnD character, now flavoured with colored pencils.

This is Kuisma, my first multiclass character as a sorcerer/warlock combo (their patron is a unicorn, hence the extra horn on the forehead).
The same character portrait as in the quoted post, now colored with color pencils. Their skin is colored pale with golden brown patches on forehead, cheeks and chin, indicating fur. On their forehead is a darker marking surrounding the root of the forehead hord, and their long hair is the same color as the forehead marking, except their bangs, which are white. Their eyes are brown, as are their bigger horns, which have a darkening gradient towards the tips. The long, fuzzy ears are the same brown as their facial fur, but with darker tips, and the two earrings on the left ear are golden. They are wearing few blue short sleeved shirts layered on top of each other. There's some blue on the background too, helping define the white part of their hair.
June 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Wanted to make a proper portrait for the new DnD character!

The downside is, I accidentally made the pencil lineart so pretty, I'm now afraid of coloring it. The curse of being a traditional artist!
A pencil drawing of a satyr or faun character from the shoulders up. They are looking to the left and up with a hopeful smile. They have three horns, two more normal, wavy goat horns on the sides of their head, and a smaller, smooth horn curving upwards from their forehead. They have long, slightly wavy hair flipped over to the other side on the forehead, and their ears are even longer and floppy, hanging on and slightly past their collar bones. There are two earrings on the left ear. If you're looking really closely, you can see the pupils in their eyes are horizontal slits, like in goat's eye.
June 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I felt they needed a hairier face.
A close up of the face portrait of the satyr character from the quoted post, now with more indicated facial hair! They have a round-ish face, long nose and big eyes. Their hair is long, and their floppy ears are even longer, hanging past their clavicles. There are two earrings on the left ear. They have two wavy goat-like horns growing from the sides of their head between all the hair, with their points pointing directly upwards behind their head. They also have a small horn growing from the center of their forehead and curving upwards. Some pencil crosshatching indicates hair growing along the bridge of their nose, the entire forehead, cheek bones and chin as well as the back of their jaw. Besides the portrait the photo also includes some flowers from their tattoo detail that gets partially cut out of the picture, and on the upper left corner there's a detail shot of their almost-human eye with goat like horizontal pupil.
June 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Pondering a new DnD character for our group's next campaign now that the (s)tabby cat's adventure is finished.

We're going to have a feywilds game, so I'm making a satyr, who will be my first ever multiclass as a sorcerer/warlock combo!
A sketchbook page doubling as a character sheet. The top half of the page has two full body drawings of the satyr, one from behind and one from the front. They have long, floppy ears hanging past their shoulders, and in addition to a pair of more normal goat horns they also have a small horn on their forehead, as a mark of their warlock patron, who's a unicorn. The furry bits are colored in, being their lower half from waist down, their forearms and upper half of their face including the ears. They have a dark dorsal stripe and eight white spots in two rows framing said stripe, and they have a large upper back tattoo of a flying magpie, and have flower tattoos on their left upper arm. In the middle of the page there's a detail shot of an eye, that looks like a human eye but with a horizontal goat pupil. On the bottom half of the page there are detail shots of their tattoos with notes in Finnish (above the magpie tattoo reads "selässä" meaning on the back, above the flowers reads "vas. olkavarsi" meaning left upper arm, and below with an arrow to the flowers reads "kiertää käsivarren ympäri" meaning circles around the arm. On the bottom right of the page is a detailed shot of the face of the character.
June 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Work mood this morning.

(I'm a warehouse worker for those new here. Got to handle a bunch of the FLUFFIEST and SOFTEST shirst for a customer return today.)
Photo of a post-it note with a ballpoint pen doodle of some sort of dog nosed monkey creature wearing a t-shirt and hat with a visor. They are handling a fluffy green long sleeved shirt and smiling blissfully. The t-shirt is colored orange with a highlighter marker and the fluffy shirt is partially colored with green highlighter. Next to the character's face there are three sparkles drawn with pink highlighter, and a thought bubble saying "Mmm... somft..."
June 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Was feeling dinosaurs while watching a nature documentary on TV, so ended up doodling down an idea for the dinosaur project thingy.

Couple Singing People on a walk while keeping an eye on a giant looking for a snack on a lake shore.
A photo of a rough sketch on a sketchbook page of a scene in a lake shore. On the foreground to the left is two troodontid dinosaurs walking. One of them is looking ahead while the other is looking to the side on the distance, where a large theropod, possibly a Gorgosaurus is walking and minding its own business. In the middle ground between the dinosaurs if a flock of stick figure shorebirds.
June 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Coloring!

I dug up the first color picture of the (s)tabby cat for color reference, now that we're about to enter the final battle of the DnD campaign, and looking at the drawings next to each other... Man, she's grown so much! I'm honestly quite proud.
A mostly colored marker drawing of a tabaxi character (an anthropomorphic cat person). They're standing proud, with a smile on their face, with one hand on their hip and the other hand on the brim of their fancy hat with big feathers. They're torbie colored, a mix of grey and orange tabby, wearing clothing and gear in bright greens and browns. On their belt they have two seords and there are bunch of daggers and partially hidden dagger hilts visible. Their flowing cape and hat aren't colored yet. A photo of two sketchbook pages side by side. On the right is the drawing in the previous photo, and on the left is an older drawing of the same character, dated december 2023. In the older drawing the character is standing somewhat awkwardly, with a cautious/confused expression, while holding a curved sword in one hand, but not at the ready. They don't have the cape nor the hat, or any other weapons seen in the newer drawing, and they look a little more scrawny and very unsure.
May 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Making a level 14 character art for my DnD character. The stabby cat has grown so much over the year and half the campaign has been going!
An inked lineart drawing of a tabaxi (an anthropomorphic cat person) character standing as if posing for a camera. They have a short cape and a fancy "pirate" hat with showy feathers, there are two swords hanging from their belt and there are multiple dagger hilts visible here and there. They are smiling and looking at the camera, one hand on their hips and the other holding the brim of their hat.
May 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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An orange dinosaur cat inspired by my forearm tattoo.
A small marker drawing of small fluffy theropod dinosaur of bright orange color and stripy tail, and a small monstera leaf floating above its head.
May 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Felt like doodling something before bed, and this mammoth person showed up.
A photo of a marker doodle of an anthropomorphic mammoth. They're pictured from waist up. Their arms are crossed underneath their trunk, and their eyes are closed, maybe they're napping? My thumb is visible along the upper edge of the sketch, showing the sketcbook to be pocket-sized.
May 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM