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Today's image is again pretty general in tone. I forgot when this was made, I'd say probably slightly after the Japan spring trip since the background gray is from a paint marker I bought there. I definitely forgot the context and am not even guessing that. There are some old skool glitter effects anyways! Small blue text in the bottom is more legible in reality but I suppose the scanner light angle flattened it somehow. Sorry about that. Made with the usual tools + the paint marker. Original size about 9,5 x 5 cm.

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The Excel series continues (earlier posts here and here) with another blackletterish version. The lines at the letter endings on the upper part were possibly supposed to give more of a spiky look but it does look a bit hairy. Fortunately the lower word has amazing 3D shadow effects to take the attention away from the hair. I kind of like how the uneven letter heights and placing gives the words a slight expressionist typography look. Made with felt-tip, ball-point and gel pens. Original size about 8 x 6 cm.

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It's time for the fabulous 30th posting. How time flies! Because of yesterday being team day at work this is a bit late from the usual schedule. On the other hand, there have been so many lapses from the usual schedule that I'm not really certain it exists anymore. Anyway, the word was made quite recently, I forget the original context though. The word itself doesn't give any clues. It's finnish and means "yes". The letterspacing is a bit uneven for such a short word but I promise to do better in the future. Made with ball-point and gel pens on top of very nice Posca paint marker (or what the word is for those). Original size about 10 x 6,5 cm.

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Sir Spend-A-Lot Returns once again! Earlier posts here and here and here. These aren't chronological, this one is from 2006, I believe. Probably from a trip to Barcelona and Lisbon. There are some other markings on the bottom of the page to show some hint of how the page looks in the actual sketchbook. I had to clean up the page a bit too (because of markings on the other side of the sheet seeping through), but hopefully it's not too noticeable. Made with ball-point and gel pens. Original size about 13,5 x 6,5 cm.

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I don't remember exactly what was the source of this word but it would probably be top secret anyway so no big loss there. In this word I went to a chiseled sort of look, but it might have been a bit too blocky after all so I added the green stuff soon afterwards. All this has very little to do with the game of football. Made with felt-tip pen on the base and gel + ball-point pens for the details. Original size about 7,5 x 6,5 cm.

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This week's posting is the first one made on a post-it note if I remember correctly. The text contains the names of myself and a friend from work in a nicknamish form. This was drawn during a team assignment at some sort of big team meeting day, we had a two-person team. The ends of the words were the same so they have been connected. The red slogan was "inspired" by some Pepsi Max video that tried to be tough but didn't dare to actually use curse words. Original size is the same as a post-it-note of that shape. Made with felt-tip-, ball-point and gel pens.

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To continue the Excel theme that started two weeks ago, I now post a second image in celebration of that wonderful program. There are a few more Excel-letterings still waiting for posting after this. This one has a blackletter shape but apparently I thought flat letters would have been too boring (though the letterforms themselves do look pretty nice) so some dimensionality has been added with the colors. Made with felt-tip and gel pens. Original size about 6 x 3,5 cm.