Love story

Vuonna 2021 piirretty katselmus taaksepäin.

I drew this in early 2021 as a short looking back-comic.

For ones using image descriptions: everything in this comic is drawn/written by hand in ProCreate.

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A lot has changed lately, for better.
I went on a date on a island.
And it was a start of a love story.

(Image description: First page has a red-and-brown upper part and blue middle part.
Upper part has a red wall and a gravel road I’m walking on from left to right, looking up and smiling. I have semi-short grey hair with a bit of waves and black shirt, blue pants and grey shoes. I have a blue hat. On the right side there’s a text ”A lot has changed lately, for better.”
Middle part has a greenish small island on a sea, with a couple of birches, one red house and another yellowish. There’s also an info board. Above the island, it says ”I went on a date on a island.” Beneath this all, it says with bigger letters on white background ”And it was a start of a love story.”)

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that went through first dates and
shoes that got wet at the swamp
to our home.

(Image description: Upper part of the second page has three little illustrations. Middle part has text and beneath it there’s another drawing. First drawing in the upper row has my girlfriend and me standing next to each other when we were on our first date. Background is blue and dark grey, as sky, sea and asphalt. Second drawing has wet and dirty grey shoes, another one on its side. Background is light brown. Third drawing has white hooks on grey wall and two set of keys are hanging from the hook.
Beneath it says
”that went through first dates and
shoes that got wet at the swamp
to our home.
Beneath the text there’s an illustration of us sitting on the sofa side to side, me leaning my head on hers and our cat laying on both of our legs. Our another cat is curled up next to me.)

The last wisdom tooth removal

So yeap, my last wisdom tooth got removed in the very end of January. Here’s a comic in finnish about how the next week or so went by. Translations are bolded in the image description! (Btw, I had the stitches removed afterwards – that’s why the last panel. It went well, too!)

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Image description:
1. panel: First day: Nubba is lying on a dark/black couch, holding a ice pack against their cheek. Nubba has red hair and blue skirt, and behind them there’s a cream colored pillow. There’s a speech bubble above them saying: ”It went so well, I don’t mind the swelling at all since this was the last one!”
2. panel: Second day: Nubba is looking at three mugs/glasses full of smoothie on the table, Nubba is looking annoyed. There’s an orange text box above them saying ”I will lose my mind with this sh*t.”
3. panel: Third day: There’s a paper on the dark brown table, and a pink ball point pen. There’s written text on the paper saying: ”The list of foods I wanted to eat during getting better, and that I will eat once I’m allowed:
-sushi
-hesburger’s soy tortilla
-french fries
-nuggets”
4. panel: Fourth day: Nubba is looking at themselves in the mirror. There’s a thought bubble beneath Nubba, saying ”This swelling will probably never get better. My cheek will be forever like this.”
5. panel: Fifth day: Nubba is looking at their phone and grinning, there’s a speech bubble above them: ”Oh, so it can take up to week until it get’s better…”
6. panel: Sixth day: Nubba is holding their mouth a little bit open, stars are sparkling from the swollen cheek. There’s an orange text box above them saying: ”Will the dentist’s tools be able to fit in my mouth, when I can’t get it opened more than this…?”

January Diary

January was weird. Here’s a comic diary kind of post… this one is in finnish, but I have texts in english too 🙂 (I bolded the translations of the text parts in the image description, which you can find in the end of this post, so if you read in english but have no visual impairment, you can find the translations pretty easily, not needing to read the whole image description.)

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Image description:
Digitally drawn page of a comic diary kind of thing. Upper left corner has Nubba with white skin and red, short hair on a ponytail. Next to them is a text ”January was a bit… weird.”
Under them is a pile of text, that says: ”Don’t misunderstand it! January had a lot of lovely moments: I visited my friend living in another town, took my second tattoo, made ACTUALLY some work with my bachelor’s thesis… …BUT…”
Next to the text there’s an illustration of two friends hugging each other. Other one is Nubba and other one has long brown dreadlocks. Under the text there’s an illustration of Nubba hugging a toilet, for a change. They’re huffing and the toilet has worried face and a speech bubble that says ”it ain’t easy being a toilet”.
Under this illustration there’s a huge text that says: ”It sucked.” Next to this illustration there’s a text that says ”I also got a stomach flu*, and had to cancel my day visit to Kouvola and meeting with ten close friends or family members. (*Maybe? It might have been because of endometriosis or medication, too…)” Under this text there’s another that says ”The rest of the month I was horribly busy. I didn’t even have time to panic, that…” Next to this text there’s an illustration of Nubba standing next to book pile and a laptop, handing over some papers to someone outside the picture and having speech bubble above them saying ”I need your signature”, other one having a speech bubble saying ”ok”. Nubba is also looking to their phone, which has a message ”Hey, this thing need to be done today! Can you?” and having another speech bubble, saying ”Sos, I really don’t have time. I must delegate it”
Under this illustration there’s a text saying ”…I had a wisdom tooth removal on the last day of the month! It all went well. Now to resting and healing!” Next to this text, in the bottom right corner, there’s an illustration of Nubba lying under blankets with swollen up cheek. They’re holding their finger up in the air and have a speech bubble above them that says ”It was the last one. So never again!”

Valomerkki

Here’s a comic from a while back! Sometimes (especially with some illness affecting on bowel) it can take a while. In public restrooms, it’s not very pleasent.

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-Nubba

Image description: Digitally drawn four-panel comic. Background is grey room.
1. picture: A woman sitting on a toilet seat, resting her head to her hand and looking at her phone.
2. picture: A word *KLIK* is written on the panel. Room is darker. The woman looks up, still resting her head.
3. picture: The woman waves her hand in the air. Room is still darker.
4. picture: A word *KLIK* is written on the panel. Room has lighter tone again. Her hand is still halfly in the air. She has a droplet on her forehead and a thought bubble next to her. It says ”Have I really been here this long…”

 

Holiday comic

Hi,

I was quite sick for this fall, so yeaaaa. I wasn’t able to put up comics in here. Sorry for disappearing for so long!

I hope your holidays went well, or at least tolerably! Mine went very well – here’s a little atmosphere comic of my Christmas Eve morning travel to visit my family.

Let’s keep thumbs up for the next year!

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-Nubba

Image descriptions: It’s an eight panel comic with colors, digitally drawn, in two pages. First panel is the whole first page.
1. panel: Nubba with Harry Potter-woollen socks and Gryffindor mittens and a dark pair of shoes and coat steps out of turquoise door. They have red hair, backpack and a white bag. There’s yellow light coming from the right and Nubba’s breathing is a visible cloud in the cold air. Background is yellowy wall and a dark grey ground and hallway.
2. panel: Their legs are walking down concrete stairs. Background is grey in different tones.
3. panel: Blue buss is stopping and opening front door. Nubba is standing in front of the door waiting to get in. Background is a grey ground and a dark, blueish grey behind the bus.
4. panel: Panel is across the page. Nubba is standing in the middle of a hall, staring at a screen on the wall. There are people with their bags, standing beside the walls.
5. panel: Nubba is hopping out of a train. Train is yellowish white and has green markings and a green door. Background is lighter and sky is light grey, ground a bit darker but still light grey.
6. panel: Nubba is holding their backpack in their hand and is opening a door of a grey car. Background is now violently grey with a dark grey building and grey railways.
7. panel: Nubba is getting out of car, their hand is on top of a car door. They stair at the house behind the car and them. House has a light on outside the front door and a red car on the yard.
8. panel: Nubba is hugging a woman with red frizzy hair, she has white pants and a light red shirt. A brown haired woman is behind Nubba standing in the doorway wearing a pinkish violet coat. A red dog is standing and panting in the foreground. Background has light toned room with three pictures on the wall on the right and a chest of drawers and a mirror on the left.

Quick introduction

Hello, here’s a quick introduction of me!

I’ll try posting every monday. Some pauses will surely come every now and then, since I have some health issues in my hands, but I’ll try to maintain a regular posting rate. 🙂

(I will be posting in english mostly – probably. If I’ll post in finnish, I’ll add translations!)

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-Nubba

Image description: A three panel comic, where in the first one Nubba is on the right side and her speech bubble on the left says: ”Hi, and welcome to my comic blog! My name on the internet is Nubba, and I post my comics here and other art to instagram (@artofnubba). I have two cats and I love to get lost in the forests here in Finland!
So here’s a little intro of what two themes will be probably most visible on my blog. (But since I’m a mess, when it comes to inspiration… You never know what it’s going to be next.)”
Middle panel: A young woman looks very distressed. Next to her a title says ”endometriosis”.
Last panel: A girl is lying on the ground and a young woman is getting up. Some sort of stream is flowing from girl to the woman. Title says ”well being and mental health”. On the other side of the title, there’s a girl crouching, and there are an enormous amount of speech bubbles (without text).