vield

Hi!

I once asked my Mum if I'd ever had a dream job growing up, and she told me I'd wanted to be Snufkin from the Moomins: https://moomin.fandom.com/wiki/Snufkin

These days, I'm an artist working primarily in non-digital media: https://imgur.com/a/EEbOtvx. I especially enjoy using all kinds of watermedia (watercolours, watersoluble graphite, ink, gouache, and so on). I fund my financially unsustainable art career through my second job as a full-time software engineer. :)

Outside of work, I engage in old-fashioned hobbies, such as reading, sports, and tabletop games:

- In books, I especially like crime fiction or non-fiction, but will occasionally sample other genres as well. You can find some of my reading history here: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books-read/vield.
- My sports of choice are long-distance running and hula hooping.
- Regarding games, I play Dungeons & Dragons with friends – my character is a baker by training and will often feed the party croissants and muffins. In real life, I actually prefer cinnamon rolls. Apart from being a baker, my in-game character also happens to be a psionic gith wielding a mind-powered bread knife for a weapon, so in that respect I am also different from my in-game persona. My new favourite boardgame is Azul (but I would also recommend Splendor and Patchwork). You can find me on BoardGameArena.

My favourite Postcrossing cards are those that feel like I've just had a mini conversation with the sender :)

If you'd like some card inspiration, here you go:

- Drawings on cards! I always like seeing other people's artwork. If you don't know what to draw, draw a bird :)
- Nature, trees, any other kinds of plants
- Animals (cats, birds, border collie / German shepherd dogs, all other kinds of animals)
- Old photos, pictures of ordinary people (as opposed to e.g. royals), pictures of ordinary buildings (as opposed to e.g. cathedrals and castles)
- Dungeons & Dragons, tabletop gaming
- Art / illustrations from the 1900s/2000s (especially work by "relatively unknown"/indie artists that I might otherwise not have encountered)
- Art cards made by you
- Any card that you'd like to receive yourself, or think I would like to receive :)

P.S. Nice stamps will be appreciated and cherished.
P.P.S. I love postcards but also enjoy greeting cards, letters, and other snail-mailable items if this is something you would like to send. Your paper ephemera may be used for sketchbook inspiration!
P.P.P.S. I would like to hear your book recommendations, if you have any :) I'm especially interested in books originally written in Finnish, French, German, or Swedish, and would like to read them in the original language.