Hello!
If you’ve found your way to my blog, whether I’ve sent it to you or you’ve come across it randomly in your digital travels, welcome!
The purpose of this blog is three-fold.
- I want to have somewhere to use as a portfolio of my various works
- I want somewhere to post about my thoughts and my experiences
- I want this to be somewhere to hold myself accountable and productive
It might take me a while to fill in everything I want here, but that’s okay. This is supposed to be for me to enjoy, not for me to stress myself more than I do usually.
This blog will be somewhere for me to talk about my mental health journey, some of my life experiences, my art journey, and just other things I might want to write about.
With that little caveat over with, I’ll start with who I am!I’m Hans Emil Eid. As of time of writing, I am 26 years old and live in Oslo, Norway. I’ve been a bit adrift in the aether when it comes to aspirations and interests for most of my life.
When I was a child, I wanted to be a chef. When I learned that chefs aren’t the same as bakers, I wanted to be a baker. Then I wanted to work vaguely ‘in media’, which is why I majored in media and communications. I went on to do a game programming bachelor, and failed two classes in my third year and gave up on that as well. Then I came to work at a recycling plant, working with hazardous waste, doing various tasks involving sorting, securing, handling, transport, storage and logistics around anything from spray cans and paint buckets to hydrochloric acid and cyanide.
This job broke me. I worked there for three years. In the first six months I had my first full panic attack. Within a few months I began seeing a therapist who diagnosed me with moderate depression and avoidant personality disorder. I left that job a year ago, two years after starting therapy.
In November 2022 I was diagnosed with ADHD, and prescribed medication. That’s when I rediscovered a passion that’s always sat in the back of my mind as ‘just a hobby’ because I could never focus on it long enough to learn the fundamentals.
I rediscovered art.
I began learning the fundamentals I’d ignored for so long.
I found a passion for character design, for concept art, for deriving fiction from real-life references.
That’s the journey I’m currently on.
Folio and Foliage 