i have whatever the opposite of a midas touch is and managed to make that hyperlink non-interactable. well. luckily my career doesn't depend on having savvy marketing skills

a comic page, set in bright spring colors, of a fairy and a goblin discussing a goblin legend about a grub that grants wishes

i posted a 5-page preview of the fairy & goblin comic i'm working on over at patreon 🧚‍♀️https://www.patreon.com/otava

Photos of Iran I recently discovered from scanning old negatives.

I am full of so much grief and anger. I don’t have the right words.

thank you!

a watercolor study of a city underpass just after the rain

study of a photo i took several years ago

If you want revenge, then dig two graves. the first one is a practice grave to get a feel for it and the second is your main or "show grave"

being closeted is a suffocation you can’t actually conceive the extent of until it relents; shit is still going to be on fire whether you feel like your body is yours or not, whether you’re seen and loved for who you are, the thing is gaining those things after a lifetime of lack feels pretty good.

clapping, hooting, hollering

moi! voi ei, pahoittelut kun jäi viesti eilen vastaamatta! forest weddingit myytiin loppuun, mutta omasta jaksamisesta riippuen koitan tehdä pari lisää huomiselle. pistän viestiä klo 14-> eteenpäin jos mulla on niitä huomenna kun tuun kujalle pyörähtään, niin navigoidaan sulle kopio

Picture of me at my art alley table in Tampere Kuplii

Tampere Kuplii @ Tampere university building rn! Come say hi, buy some comics!

kiitos! en valitettavasti postittele näitä kun erä on pieni ja coneihin korvamerkattu, mutta pyörin kupliissa ilman pöytää myös sunnuntaina kävijänä, jos satut paikalle niin pistele täällä viestiä ja voin navigoida sulle kopion jos niitä on vielä jäljellä :) 👍

are you tabling on sunday also? i'll definitely come wander around then - if not i'll likewise try to find a spot to come see you upstairs :D 🤝

i can hold onto a copy for you for sunday if you can't make it! i'll come wander the aisles in the afternoon 🫡

photograph of a table with a variety of art prints and comic booklets laid out, in the left corner is a text blurb announcing the date and location of my artist alley table at tampere kuplii comics convention

I'll be tabling at Tampere Kuplii zine artist alley this Saturday 28th, with new & old goods ranging from comics to little art prints and stickers 🫡❤️‍🔥 come say hi!

a digital illustration containing 5 stickers, clockwise from the top left: a bleeding hand holding a rose with the words "i'll hold you regardless" written around it; a little bird under tall leaves; a black adder with a star on its forehead; a sullen devil; and at the center of the image, a red devil smiling down at us as her metal collar is being tugged at by a blue hand

a small buncha stickers

a digital illustration of an equine woman answering a rotary phone, she seems to be working at an office of some sort

a digital illustration of an equine woman who's answering a hamburger shaped landline phone. she's discovering she's overslept, as she looks at her alarm clock on the bedside table

while i'm horsing around, here's a little set of cards

cropped black & white comic panel from my latest erotic horror wip. safra the maid is walking through the forest barefoot, carrying a bundle of laundry

a small & tranquil update of the erotic horror wip to contrast last month's concerning goop www.patreon.com/c/otava

fulltime in comics, partner is also in the art field & we try to split living costs in half. my income is fractured between comic sales, patreon, royalties, cons and freelance contract work. basically you hope the other person has gigs/sales going on when you hit a dry spell yourself 🤞 shit's hard

gouache painting of a warmly lit dressing room, where two equine women are getting ready for a show. the one further off is looking back at us with a skeptical expression, while the woman at the front is focusing on applying her make up

dressing room gossip

gouache painting of a warmly lit dressing room, where two equine women are getting ready for a show. the one further off is looking back at us with a skeptical expression, while the woman at the front is focusing on applying her make up

dressing room gossip

oh shit, i hope everything went well & the recovery is swift! 😱

thanks tuisku! :]

thank you!

illustration on a blue background of a mythical tree with the sun setting behind it. the goddess inanna, with the planet venus on her forehead, descends from the sky. on the ground by the river rests a rose and a ring post made from reed

inanna and the huluppu tree

illustration on a blue background of a mythical tree with the sun setting behind it. the goddess inanna, with the planet venus on her forehead, descends from the sky. on the ground by the river rests a rose and a ring post made from reed

inanna and the huluppu tree

Jia Youfu

If you want to read voices of young artists in Iran, please support the comics anthology "Young in Iran" published with @comicsworkshop.bsky.social It's 264 pages, 6x9 inches, and was censored by Kickstarter. Take a look: www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/saw-shop/p/y...

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

eight new pages of the erotic horror comic wip on Patreon 🫴 this one has goop in it www.patreon.com/posts/haglan...

100%, real desire is always a little possessed and specific to the point of grotesque, so how can you even contain that in something that's written/interpreted to be entirely polished and pretty? You need that stank