Stickers now available in my shop ✨

Photo of a white dude's hand holding a sticker with an illustration of cute bird sitting on a skull saying „Make the rich pay“. The skull has golden slime (liquid gold?) coming out of it's eye-sockets and nose-holes 🤷‍♀️

Street arty pals! I finally added stickers to my shop:

https://shop.jfml.eu/product-category/stickers

Go get some while they’re hot! 🔥 ^__^

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Back to Linux!

Ich hab mich letztens bei der LinuxHeld*innen-Aktion von LinuxGuides angemeldet und vor der Vorstellungsrunde versucht rauszufinden, wann ich eigtl das erste Mal Linux benutzt hab.

Ich kann mich irgendwie erinnern zu Schulzeiten mal so eine Schachtel mit CDs oder so gehabt zu haben, kein Plan, ob das Knoppix war, … ne das war irgendwas von RedHat, wirklich benutzt hamwas aber nie.

2008 hab ich Linux / Ubuntu das erste Mal im Blog erwähnt, anscheinend Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Aber schon 2009 ging’s dann zurück zum Mac, weil das T40 gestorben war. Ich weiß, dass ich dann zwischendurch immer mal wieder Ubuntu oder Linux mit auf ner Dual-Boot-Partition hatte aber auch als dann Wifi einigermaßen funzte waren externe Monitore, Grafikarten und Sleep-Modus immer noch kein Spaß (letzteres krieg ich auch 2025 mit keiner Distro auf Susis altem Dell hin) und ich habe mir lange eingeredet, dass ich Dank Adobe Creative Cloud (würg) und Unity-Plugins/-Assets (brech) halt MacOS / Windoge brauche.

Ich weiß garnicht mehr, was dann der Auslöser war* aber ich hab dann irgendwann auf Windoge angefangen mir Inkscape / Krita und Scribus beizubringen, das war nach 15+ Jahren Adobe-Software schon hart, aber ging. The Shadow (2023) hab ich auf jeden Fall mit Scribus (und vorher 2021 das Storyboard dafür mit Krita / Inkscape gemacht) gesetzt und aus der Zeit stammen auch die ersten Inkscape-Vektor-Arbeiten. Wann genau ich den Umstieg auf Linux gemacht habe weiß ich leider nicht mehr genau, wahrscheinlich so Ende 2023 / Anfang 2023? Ich hatte ja zweimal so Razer Blade-Laptops, auf denen ich auf jeden Fall tw. am Ende Fedora laufen hatte. Im März 2022 schreibe ich im Tagebuch, dass Valheim unter Linux nich so geil läuft, und im April 2023 gibt es einen Eintrag über Probleme mit externen Monitoren bei Fedora, dh das kommt einigermaßen hin. Bin dann Mitte / Ende 2024 auf Bazzite umgestiegen und das läuft absurd stabil.

So, ich hau das jetzt schnell raus, bevor es wieder in den Entwürfen verschwindet!

* Ich glaube, das war alles noch vor Adobe-AI-Rotz, Unity-Enshittification etc. Ich vermute, es war dieses „Dark Patterns und andere illegale Dinge (gab’s da nich sogar Gerichtsverfahren in den USA?), wenn du versuchst dein Abo zu kündigen“ bei Adobe?

Happy belated „International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day“ (May 27th)

Rather abstract vector illustration of a super cute (light blue eyes!) Jackdaw on a rose background with a white frame.

Feathery friends! 🐦‍⬛ Yesterday, April 27th was apparently „International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day“ so here’s my jackdaw greeting card, who is part of a small bird series* and part of a much bigger bird poster / puzzle** ^__^

* https://jfml.eu/2023/08/illustration-bird-greeting-cards/
** https://jfml.eu/2023/09/illustration-birds/

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„City Whales“ A5 print added to the shop

A black girl is running through a city at night with two owls following her and whales floating through the starry sky! There are buildings on the whale's backs!

Hello ^__^ 🐋

I added a tiny (A5) print of my illustration „City Whales“ (from my children’s book „Fox of Friendship“) to my shop, slowly working through my backlog …

City Whales

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„Sunny Day on Harris“ v2

Illustration of a traditional Scottish cottage on a flowering meadow (Machair), surrounded by the sea. It's a beautiful day, there's sheep and birds and mountains in the background.
Variant of the previous illustration but the door is now on the long side of the house, before it was somehow going through the chimney.

We’ve just returned from a week on #Harris with the most amazing weather!

So here’s „Sunny Day On Harris“ again (we were to early for the #Machair, though). I since realised that the original version of this doesn’t work (you can’t have a door in the chimney!) so here’s a variant.

Which one do you prefer?

… Interesting there’s some colour-profile (I guess) weirdness going on here, the new version is much more desaturated than the old one. Looks good on my PC and on Mastodon and Pixelfed, so 🤷‍♀️ Edit: Lol, it’s only in the WordPress editor? The final post is fine. Wtf.

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Gingerbeard A5 print now available in my shop!

Abstract vector illustration showing a split view of a night scene on some islands: Above the water there is the moon, clouds and people camping on one of the islands with a campfire, a boat and and owl. Underwater, there's a diver and two whales.

Stopping on an #island for the #night with a nice campfire and some whales in the deep.

This one is ancient (2011) but I still like it a lot ^__^ Tiny A5 #print now available at my #shop:

Gingerbeard – A5 Print

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„Sleeping Guardian“ print now available in my shop!

Illustration of a mound with trees on top and the ocean in the background. In the hill there's the entry to a grave with two glowing eyes in the dark and a black fox sleeping above the cavern entry.

Dear Blogvoyagers! ⛵

I reopened my #shop and added this #print: 🐺

Sleepy Gaurdian – A3 Print

Looking for feedback, #WooCommerce is quite the beast with shipping zones and taxes etc. If something doesn’t make sense, please tell me ^__^

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Return the Wolf

Vector illustration with outlines (new terrain for me!) showing a bird's eye view of a rural landscape with lots of forest that forms the head of a wolf (the ears are mountains, the eyes and nose are lakes etc). It's night with a moon, no cars but public transport (train and bus). Around it is written: „Return the wolf, let nature heal.“

This illustration is inspired by a #documentation on the benefits of returning #wolves to #Scotland, they could hold the deer (and sheep!?) population in check so natural forests could regrow! Just imagine the #highlands a huge forest!

Check out my portfolio for detail images and a process video.

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Envelope character with a long letter coming out of it that is also a character on a pink background with more envelope characters, some of whom are cat envelopes?
Sneak peak of my second newsletter: it shows a photo of original Space Invader sketches, followed by a text about how I went to a videogame exhibition in Edinburgh. The next picture is a photo of my project „Utopia Still“ being exhibited at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg followed by a text about setting up the exhibition and being at the congress.

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If you haven’t signed up yet and would be interested in me #writing about what I’ve been up to and getting my illustrations to your inbox now is the perfect time:

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Wolf Witch – Process Video

I love watching other artist’s #process videos and I finally managed to do something similar for „Wolf Witch“, that I posted last week!

It’s just a video (made in #Blender because I know how 😹) of the different versions I saved while working on it.

Do you enjoy watching videos like this? Anything you’d change?

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