
Winter is coming. Get good shoes before you hit your head on the icy road.
Illustration for Terveydeksi -magazine (magazine about health).
I just finished doing illustrations, cover design and layout for a book called Noora ja nauravat tähdet (Noora and the smiling stars) by Finnish author Tittamari Marttinen.
It’s a very nice book for young girls. Noora is a little girl who’s mother, the janitor of their house, falls from a tree while picking up apples, breaks her leg and has to stay in hospital for some time. Noora takes care of the house with her friends, finds an old film star, dreams about a dog and finally gets one (named Kuura).
I’m very happy with my works for the book. I’m specially pleased with the cover: I took my normal style a bit further by softening a backround (and parts of the foreground too) trying to make it look a little bit like a painting.
Hopefully Noora will have a whole series of books.
Four illustrators of my agency were asked to do illustrations for in-bar-ad-campaign of Pernod. They gave us quite free hands, within certain brand-concerning rules of course.
I did this piece about captain of a shipwreck floating towards a fire-erupting iceberg. The flying fish show hin the way and big wave is helping him to get there. I tried to give impression of refreshment, adventure, fairytale and a little danger.

Here’s too illustrations about energy usage of small houses for two different magazines.
First is for a magazine of Finnish energy company and is about checking energy usage at one’s home (heating, water usage, etc.)
Second is for Osaava kodinrakentaja -magazine (Handy homebuilder) and is about stopping energy leaks at one’s home.
It’s been a while since I posted anything here. Now it’s time to catch up.
Here’s some illustrations I have done for Anna magazine during last months.
First one is about worst midsummer memories. Midsummer is a big party time here in Finland and many people spend it with family and relatives, usually in the countryside. This woman had to go to sauna with the whole family of his new boyfriend, naked of course.
Second one is about the woman who speaks nice even though she has just divorced her unfaithful husbend.
Third one is about borrowing money from friends and possibly losing them because not paying back on time.
Fourth one is about importance of daydreaming.