nikury

nikury

@nikury.com

šŸ»ā€ā„ļø Finnish illustrator → NL šŸ’œ Meowgical art adventures ✨ Also playing WoW since 2007 (=^dェd^=)つ— ā‚ŠĖšāŠ¹ā™”

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Hello Bluesky! (=^dェd^=) šŸ’œ I'm Nina, or Nikury and I'm a Finnish illustrator. I love drawing cute animals and fantasy stuff (cats being my favorite theme) + making stationery, pins and other items. I also love playing World of Warcraft ā™” #art #worldofwarcraft

You know what I hope will come in the future? Website/app that'll pull posts from everywhere & organizes them in feeds if you like (like art, wow). RSS style, but for social media & newsletters. It partly exists already as you can use RSS with some social medias, but nothing good yet I think šŸ¤”

Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to just check one website/app a few times per week & not miss anything. And not needing to use multiple social medias to post or follow ppl.

For posting it'd ofc need to be something everyone uses, otherwise you're still stuck needing to spread posts everywhere. But it'd anyway be amazing for following people & keeping up with friends/family šŸ’œ

Teepublic has new sticker types available & they were kind to send me some samples ^^ Love all of them, they feel similar to RB stickers & are very nice quality! šŸ’œ For reference I got them in size small & they're here on A5 Hobonichi.

Btw forgot to mention shipping stuff: RB ships from multiple countries (EU, US etc) & TP from US, but there were no extra customs fees when I got the TP stickers. So they're great to order from if you're from EU & US (with the recent tariff nonsense gahhh). For EU I recommend RB, for US both šŸ’œ

Teepublic has new sticker types available & they were kind to send me some samples ^^ Love all of them, they feel similar to RB stickers & are very nice quality! šŸ’œ For reference I got them in size small & they're here on A5 Hobonichi.

Sneakily already started my 2027 Hobonichi as I wanted to put these in there hehe ^^ So rusty doing special lettering, but this page was so fun to do & turned out pretty cute anyway. Thinking of making a similar system to Traveler's, putting multiple inserts in one; planner, notes & sketchbook šŸ’œ

I saw on Reddit ppl saying they had Etsy listings taken down lately if outside links were mentioned in photos/descriptions. So can be good to check your listings 😬 Had a few listings with my website link in the photo & mentioning my social links in the description, so quickly removed those.

Not sure if these kind of things concern also personal or creator accounts, but seems like the update is intended for pages using ads. Though I personally have zero trust that Meta is not going to or haven't already been scraping things, even if I opted out earlier this year.

At least based on this (tried switching from creator to personal) the update might also concern creator accounts as it seems those also have Meta business tools.

Not sure if these kind of things concern also personal or creator accounts, but seems like the update is intended for pages using ads. Though I personally have zero trust that Meta is not going to or haven't already been scraping things, even if I opted out earlier this year.

It's one of those days again that I'm wondering if I should just leave IG already. It went so bad anyway recently here in NL. For a moment we had a nice chronological following feed without ads, but now there's sooo many ads it's very annoying to browse so I don't really go there so much.

Sometimes I'm sitting here thinking how many people have thought my name is Finn. I had in my IG etc for long time "Finn in NL", but Finn = Finnish. Once got a dm starting something like Hi Finn & realized that some might have thought it's a name šŸ˜… My actual name is Nina.

Letting you know I've stopped shipping other items than stickers to US for now because of new regulations 😿 You can still find stickers in my shop nikury.etsy.com?sect... as I ship those in regular stamped mail šŸ’Œ

I'm so tired of this.. Trying to stay positive, but every month it gets harder. Have lost so much in terms of income (US was my biggest market) & also mental health these past two years. There's a reason why new art has been so sparse as I don't really create well when not feeling well 😿 sorry

Have tried thinking of ways to survive, but it's difficult. Few things I've been talking about are planner sticker sheets (can still ship), snail mail club & new POD things. Maybe those could help me. But hoping to do pins again too, though every month that dream just escapes further it seems šŸ’”

Was going through all the artworks I've created to see what I could add to Artiststore & damn there's so many Halloween themed ones. Not that it's that bad as I love Halloween šŸŽƒšŸ’œ But might be interesting as I'm planning to launch it just before or after Halloween šŸ˜…

Needed to order more inks & was sweating how much it's going to cost.. But haha €11.53 excl VAT wat šŸ˜ Have been printing from prev bottles for agess already. Damn I love Ecotanks 🄰

Find of the year šŸ˜šŸ’œ I'm not even BTS or Oreo fan, but these are amazing & lactose free (it's so hard to find good lactose free treats here)

If you're in NL & have Dekamarkt nearby they were on sale there for €0.89 šŸ˜³šŸ’•

Ohh I saw Vograce now has a POD service at @artiststore.bsky.social that you can integrate with Etsy šŸ‘€ I have been thinking of making more POD items again, but it has been difficult to find good printers. And at least based on previous orders, Vograce stuff should be good.

What's also exciting is that they offer so many cool items that others don't offer, like special effect keychains & pins šŸ˜ If there's items you'd like me to add, let me know! Will definitely need to see if I could work on that in the fall/winter since my big sticker project is planned for 2027.

It's the time of the year that makes me reflect on the past. And this year I've realized how much time I've spent on totally useless things. This year has been already challenging with the US/EU rules adding lots of admin burden, so really need to be focused on important stuff šŸ’Ŗ 1/3

Few useless things were listening to nonsense Etsy/social media etc advice & using a planning system that doesn't work for me personally, plus not having clear focus with my business. Next year I want to finally focus on planner stickers & starting to build a planning system that works for me. 2/3

Lately so many obstacles, but I hope staying focused can turn things around šŸ’œ Have wanted to do planner stickers for years, never having the time. It also fits good with changing shipping things (can still be easily shipped worldwide). Ofc still wanting to do pins, but it needs to wait now. 3/3

Loving the Coiled Isle more than I thought I would. It feels a bit spooky, which is perfect for the Halloween season ahead šŸ‘»šŸ’š #worldofwarcraft

New Moomin character quiz is here & I got Snuffkin again ^^ šŸ’ššŸŒæ Second closest match was the Groke : DD

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...and I'm still looking for the design I can be 100% happy with, but maybe that day never comes? šŸ˜… Cats have been my favorite subjects since the start of my career, so I'm happy designing cats either way. The cats in the 1st post are from 2017-2024 & I wonder which style is your fave? (2/3)

Here are some of my inktober kitties from 2017-2018 ^^ I still really like the look of fineliners combined with copics/watercolors/ink. Should maybe do more final pieces using those as well ^^ (3/3) Ending with shameless self-promo - you can find the kitties in my RB: nikury.redbubble.com šŸ’œ

Here's a look into how I designed cats in 2024 🐈 Did a study of British shorthair, then sketched my own ideas without references, then continued digital combining both my new ideas + old cat designs. And the result is the style you see above in the 2nd+3rd pic ^^ Also sneaky KS peek in 4th šŸ‘€(1/3)

Ohhh I wish our exterior looked like this and was in such a place šŸ’œ Haven't really done anything inside WoW housing since I don't use it at all, but it's nice to have a cozy exterior for when I teleport to the house and also for others in the neighborhood to enjoy ^^