E. "Papermonkey" Jokinen @papermonkeyism - Tumblr Blog

It appears I've gotten quite a few new followers lately, so I'm finally making a pinned post.

Hi!

First off, this is a personal blog of a former chronic art student in their mid-thirties, who's possibly a forest troll. While my art might be cute, I do not aim my material at kids (my target audience is me), so do be aware that by following this blog you run the risk of seeing things like 3am brain farts and doodles of orc boobs.

If you want just the art without the brain barf, you might prefer my bluesky (@paperiapina.bsky.social) or my twitter, though that's mostly left for archival purposes (@Paperiapina) or DeviantArt (deviantart.com/paperiapina)

It's all Queer in here.

I have a chronically hyperactive imagination that has spawned multiple headworlds, including but not limited to:

The DINOSAUR PROJECT THINGY: Working title "the Herd". Follows a small clan of troodontid dinosaurs called the Singing People and their herd of cows (domesticated Einiosaurus). Based on Two Medicine formation. #the Herd #dinosaur headworld

ENTICA: At the beginning of the pandemic I resurrected an old headworld from my highschool days nearly two decades ago, and what started as a fun little nostalgia trip to my old fantasy furries has now turned into a sorta speculative evolution worldbuilding project. #Entica

WINGBEANS: Doodled some funny little griffin-y things. People seem to like them, and I find them fun to draw, so I keep making them. #Wingbeans

WURR: A comic project featuring mutated monster dogs I started in 2007. Currently on hold for life reasons. #wurr

ARCANTH: Working title (a name of a character) of a fantasy story thingie I want to make. Really needs a better tag, though. #Arcanth

SIMON'S ZOO: What if mythical beings had a magic zoo. Has things like vampire janitor and centaur animal caretaker (half the tag is probably Pony the centaur, because I like drawing her) Kinda on hold? #Simon's zoo

I tag my adventures in tabletop RPGs as #Paper plays DnD

I tag posts with myself in them as #the Papermonkey

I chronicle my experiences as a pet invertebrate owner in the tag '#Bookshelf bugs'. I currently have a small colony of Armadillidium vulgare isopods of the Magic Potion color morph.

ALSO! With so many new followers here, it means there's a lot of people who haven't yet seen my tattoo! To remedy this, you may now bask in the glory that is the chest dinosaur! (the flowers are my mom's favourites)

#dinosaur headworld #the herd #wurr #Entica #Wingbeans #Simon's zoo #the Papermonkey #Bookshelf bugs #Arcanth #Paper plays DnD

It's the monthly market day, which means it's time for the summer's first marketplace crepes! Omnomnom!

#shut up paper

Spent the first day of Pride month yesterday by an adventure to a farm animal yard place with some friends!

My phone's memory is now about 50% photos of the muppet convention the llama+sheep enclosure, as I tried to get good photos of the horns on those two white sheep.

Was a good day! I also had a waffle!

#photos #reference #also look at those spurs on that rooster!

Holy shit!

Just finished today's DnD session with my friends.

My character is a satyr sorcerer/warlock multiclass, coming from a huge extended family of sorcerous satyrs who get their sorcerer powers from having a unicorn as their great-great-great-great-great-great-etc aunt, said unicorn being famous from meddling with the lives of her army of niblings. Good natured, even if sometimes mildly overbearing about it. Out of the entire family, my character is the only one who's also made a warlock pact with said unicorn. (The character is also a scaredy cat who likes to avoid getting into danger, but to be fair, their AC is entire 12, so. Squishy. Also Edlritch Blast has a range of 120ft, so they prefer to stay faaaaaaaaar away from melee.)

During our adventure thus far I had the mission of figuring out why this aunt had been silent for the past year, and, long story short, we managed to save her from trouble and restore her. Yay!

Meanwhile, over in the main plot, we were just recently betrayed by an arch fey that we thought was a benevolent ruler of the realm that turned out to be the secret BBEG behind so much shit, and she shunted us into an alternate future timeline where she's an evil overlord type deal. Cool. We're still in the process of figuring out how to clean up THAT mess. But that's besides the point.

On our way to meet up with the rest of my extended family, we get attacked by a cursed, evil unicorn! We fight, but during the fight my character figures out this unicorn is my aunt! 😱 She's been corrupted!

She's trying to kill us, but I definetely don't want to kill her, and there's no way to choose to do non-lethal damage with a spell attack.

So my character runs closer, Misty Steps the final 30ft, and headbutts her (first time ever using the satyr racial feature ram attack), doing entire 3 points of damage, which turns out to be JUST ENOUGH to knock her out.

The battle took us over an hour in game! And *I* got to do the final strike, on my own greatgreatgreatetc aunt using my own family's natural attack!

There has not been many DnD moments that have felt quite this hype in game, holy shit!

#shut up paper #Paper plays DnD #I'm sure it doesn't sound as amazingly and epicly cool as it felt in the moment #but holy shit was it such an awesome moment!#even the distance to get to the headbutt range was exactly precisely my max movement + Misty Step (35ft + 30ft)#we started the campaign as Wild Beyond the Witchlight module but our GM has homebrewed tons of extra material for us #apparently the module was the first half of our campaign and the other half (plus each character's personal quest) is all homebrew

This is apropos of nothing really, but there's a tattoo studio in my town that I've been keeping an eye on that's close to my usual haunts. I remember their portfolio being pretty professional, with neat art, the owner has experience spanning multiple decades, and it's in a pretty convenient location. In the past I had considered maybe going there to fix some details on my wrist tattoo, as I remember them advertizing tattoo fixes at some point.

Then, a while back, there was this meme going around on in instagram where people would make AI portraits of themselves doing their jobs, and the studio owner took part in that. Changed their profile picture to it even.

Which. Okay, so I know they're an older generation than I am, and probably not as online, but still. You are a tattoo artist! That's a really bad look!

Still thought this was just a person partaking in a meme they didn't maybe understand fully, but I just saw the studio post a photo of a new tattoo. Of a spider. With twelve (12) legs.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be going to that tattoo shop actually, the wrist tattoo is just fine, the slightly uneven ink bits are on the far side of the wrist out of view anyway...

#shut up paper #twelve legs!#even if you count pedipalps that's too much #😬

Update: knee survived the trip to the coffee shop! I'll wait to see if it's still okay in the morning, but for now it's feeling like a knee again.

I'll refrain from doing the full 10+km rounds like before I borked it, but I think my normal walks are fine again, in moderation. I'll stick to routes next to bus lines so I can bail in case it starts clicking or feeling funky.

The weather is too pretty to stay fully indoors anyway. Wanderlust be wanderlusting!

#shut up paper

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IT'S! SO! GREEN!!!!

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It's so GREEN and SUNNY that my phone camera has trouble handling the saturation!

In other news, I took the knee on a test walk (how could I not? Just LOOK at how pretty the weather is!), and it's holding up pretty well! Went to my regular mall coffee shop, as it turns out I did in fact have enough points for a free ice latte. Extra treat! Also luckily there's this short cut that also happens to be a super pretty scenery path through a forest, which was extra convenient. I'll probably take a bus home to not push my luck with the knee, but I just felt like celebrating just a tiny bit.

#photos #well okay the short cut is the second shortest route to the mall #but the shortest route is just straight asphalt #which is A: boring and B: hard #the forest route with its dirt paths felt better for cushioning reasons #(and pretty reasons but that's besides the point)#(totally)

IT'S! SO! GREEN!!!!

#photos

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Making myself a treat!

First time using an airfryer to bake anything. Let's see how this goes!

(Supposedly a pancake-y thing, if it works.)

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Success! Airfryer pancake surprisingly edible! A bit thick (both in size and in consistency) but not bad!

#got an airfryer as a yule present from my family #been wanting to try to bake something with it ever since

Making myself a treat!

First time using an airfryer to bake anything. Let's see how this goes!

(Supposedly a pancake-y thing, if it works.)

#got an airfryer as a yule present from my family #been wanting to try to bake something with it ever since #(I am aware the baking paper thingy is too big for this fryer I did not remember the size of the thing when I got them shhhhhhh just ignore)#this photo covers like 40% of my entire kitchen btw #my apartment is basically a shoebox #which is why I don't like cooking much #this is the space I have to work with

I just sent off a thing and made it to a deadline! Yay!

Would like to celebrate with a treat, but my bank account has entire 18€ in it and I still need to buy groceries, so I'll just do a little victory dance here instead. Thank you for coming!

Still. Feels good!

Wonder if I have enough points for a free celebratory treat at a coffee shop...

#shut up paper #I'll get my unemployment benefits in a week so I'm fine #just need to make it to then before buying any celebratory treats #feels good to finish an art thing after such a long break!#was extra challenging as I needed to color it digitally yet I still don't have a functioning computer #(my desktop itself has also been relocated to my brother's place couple hundred kilometers away so no fixing it here)#thankfully the local library has an editing computer!#and a friend let me borrow a laptop and a tablet with a pen #the library computer had me long for pressure sensitivity SO BAD!#it only had a normal basic mouse #but I survived!#it's off my hands now (for now)

Oh, hey, it's the glorious 25th of May!

Happy Nightwatch day!

#GNU Terry Pratchett #for once these buggers are actually blooming early enough to take photos of in the correct date!

I'm just really liking how these fingers turned out in the sketch, so you get to see them again. Usually the top side of Singing People's fingers is covered by short fuzz, but grandma Flying Blade is balding a bit due to her age.

(The row of small nubs at the back of the hand are what's left of the quills of her primary feathers after they've been trimmed off. She prefers her hands free.)

#dinosaur headworld #the herd

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In art, just as in life, you never really stop learning. There's always something new you didn't know.

I've been meaning to do some kind of project thingy of my dinosaurs since at least 2013. All thos time I've kept saying that One Day (tm) I will make a thing out of it, and I have drawn a lot of stuff for it over the years! I've learned how dinosaurs function, how they're shaped and stuff.

There's this weekly comic drawing group in my town I've been to over this past winter/spring, mostly working on couple other projects (it's been a great excuse to get things done!) and I just now realized I could actually use it to get on with it and make the dinosaur project thingy!

So today I took my character reference folder, that's been sitting unfinished for few years now, and finally got around to start finishing stuff for it! Grandma Flying Blade is now fully sketched, with updated design and fixed anatomy and stuff.

And just today, I came to the realization that after ALL THESE YEARS I've never actually figured out what the bottom of a (raptor style) dinosaur's foot looks like.

I know they had fatty pads, but I had no clue about their shapes and sizes. The references were not easy to find either.

So that was a thing!

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Here's how she's looking now.

Thought she'd look older if she was balding in some strategic spots, and only realized after that I'd have to draw that too.

#shut up paper #dinosaur headworld #the herd

In art, just as in life, you never really stop learning. There's always something new you didn't know.

And just today, I came to the realization that after ALL THESE YEARS I've never actually figured out what the bottom of a (raptor style) dinosaur's foot looks like.

I know they had fatty pads, but I had no clue about their shapes and sizes. The references were not easy to find either.

So that was a thing!

#shut up paper #dinosaur headworld

I was supposed to be doing something completely different, but my pencil slipped and I accidentally a goat faun instead.

For the hoof people thing, with the centaurs and minotaurs.

Once again I'm met with the dilemma of "I need to figure out clothing" with the added obstacle of "but markings pretty though".

#hoof people

Man, I'm really liking Critical Role's campaign 4!

I have been waiting for these episodes where the tables get back together again! So much potential for interesting interactions!

But BOY is there a lot of crosstalk in this new one! The table explodes every time the soldiers are there.

That was So Much!

I love the characters, and the events and stuff are very interesting, but not recommended if you have a headache.

#shut up paper #I understand they're excited to be there #and it's fun!#but the audio processor of my brain is smoking #can't wait for next week's episode! 👀

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