Paperin taitteessa

 My new exhibition is open! It's in Rikhardinkadun library, second floor, on these amazing, cute shelves UwU 

Open until the 30th of October! The opening hours are Mon-Thu 8-20, Fri 8-18, Sat 10-16 and Sun 12-18!

Exhibitions all over the place!

 

The Group Exhibition arranged by the Helsinki Comics Festival is still open until next Tuesday AND right after it my solo exhibition begins at the Rikhardinkatu library! This was a bit of a coincidence as I had reserved the library space already sometime last winter and the groups exhibition opportunity came up only during summer, I still decided to do both, because of course I would :D

SO! Group exhibition, Sarjakuvia pimeältä puolelta, open until 29th of September! The spot is Geezers Creative space on the second floor of the Molotow Finland Shop! Opening hours are Mon-Fri 10-18 and Saturdays 11-16. Adress Teollisuuskatu 16

AND! Next one will be a solo exhibition by yours truly where I focus on all the small comics and books I've done over the years. There will be some books I bound in the bookbinding school almost 20 years ago and some comic page originals from the upcoming Pillars of Heaven part 3. So all in all I think it will be a nice exhibition of (mostly) stuff that's never been on display before :3

The exhibition will be on officially 2nd of October, but I might be able to set it up a bit early, I'll let everyone know if that happens! I already printed out the posters so I don't want to go change it anymore.

 The venue is Hyllygalleria Hyvinpieni on the Second floor of Rikhardinkatu library, opening hours Mon-Thu 8-20 Fri 8-18 Sat 10-16 and Sundays 12-18! Address is Rikhardinatu 3! There's also a hugely interesting book art collection on display in the same floor as the little gallery!

Helsinki Comic Festival

 Fashionably late as ever, I am.... Helsinki Comic Festival is this weekend! I'll be sharing my table with the wonderfully dark Alexandros Kyparissis and rikkisu  and the table is number 24, noted on the map.

The three of us will also undergo a group interview on Saturday at 11 on the Merikaapelihalli Stage on the first floor (didn't fit in the picture). 

Unfortunately The Pillars of Heaven part three will not be published at the festival for obvious reasons. I hope I'll get it done by the end of the year... Still, I hope you'll find something dark and bloody at our table to suit your fancies.

Sarjakuvia pimeältä puolelta

 

And the exhibition is officially opened, please drop by if you have the time UwU It is on the second floor of a very nice shop of art supplies :3

Exhibition incoming

 

Sorry, I've not been active here at all, time just slips by quite easily these days. There's been a lot of stuff going in my personal life, and everything else has fallen to the wayside....

 Anyways, this exhibition snuck up on me quite fast and we have the vernissage already next Wednesday. There's going to be stuff from me, Rikkisu and Alexandros Kyparissis (he's only in Instagram)

https://sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi/nayttely/sarjakuvia-pimealta-puolelta/

So, if anyone's free and around, please feel cordially invited to come say hi to us, or just check out the exhibition whenever you happen to have time. The shop is open mon-fri 10-18 and sat 11-16

Page 118

 I'm sorry I'm late! July was A LOT. There was so much stuff going on, some of it good, other not so good, that I just couldn't find the time to finish this page in time : ' ( Hopefully August will be a bit less hectic... But here it is.

 Readable in Tapas & Webtoons

Ropecon 2025!

 

Oops I almost forgot to post this!

Ropecon is already next week!!! I'm so excited! We're going to be sharing a table with @kaarinart_ at the Taiteilijatori in hall 6,  ON FRIDAY ONLY! It's open 15-21 The rest of the con I'm going to play roleplaying games UwU

...the hall is just so huge I'm going to die xDdd

New shiny, sparkly Nat30 sticker is ready to roll in Ropecon! Why settle for a Nat20 when you can roll a Nat30, in one of my fav rpg systems Dungeon Crawl Classics or DCC for short hehe! Suitable also for trad DnD players who want to make their d20s jealous UwU (maybe they'll roll more crits, who knows)

The Pillars of Heaven part three progresses

 ...slowly but surely xD I've been able to ink some pages here and there during the last week, and I finally dare to feel a little bit hopeful about maybe getting this done by Helsinki Comic festival in September;;;;;

Wish me luck ;;;;

Lakkasuolla...

 

Drew a card. Of a cloudberry... Moor? Swamp? Whatever you English speakers might call the particular type of habitat these guys live in. Please let me know xD Wikipedia didn't help a lot.

It's for a birthday :3

Page 117

Whew, another page done! I wanted to hit myself when I realised I had messed up the speech bubbles in the page before this one! How dumb can you get!!!! I fixed it now...

Read the latest page in either Tapas or Webtoons!

And now we get a first glimpse of Narya's private quarters :3 Next month there's going to be only one update again most probably, I'm trying to get The Pillars Heaven Part 3 done asap after all...

#pathsofavarnight #avaryonpoliulla #elfart #darkelves #darkfantasy

 

Merry Juhannus and drawing comics

 

Progressing with the next page of PoA! I'm going to try and post one page per month as long as I'm also working on The Pillars of Heaven part three UwU 

Have a very nice juhannus too, everyone! I'm also going to take it easy for a few days after today : D

Desucon approaches

 

Desucon starts tomorrow! I got new prints too :D And all the new stickers and stuffs I've shown earlier! I'm sharing an artisan table with Chika in the trade hall for the whole weekend, 10-18 on Saturday and 10-16 on Sunday! Come say hi if you're around :3

The Pillars of Heaven 3 update :3

 

The Pillars of Heaven part 3 is progressing quite nicely during my two week unpaid leave I took from work to work on this project! Despite me also getting sick in the middle of it, but then I got better :D

I’m starting to feel a little hopeful I might somehow get this whole thing done in time for Autumn’s Comic Festival ;;;; Wish me luck

New batch of vinyl stickers :3

My stickers arrived and they look great ❤️ Dark Elf Esteem & Witchmer will be available in Desucon at mine and Chika's artisan table Saturday and Sunday next week! There's more stickers to come for Ropecon too >:3c DICEstickers to be exact, so keep your eyes peeled

And I'm also making prints and postcards of Dark Elf Esteem which will hopefully be done in time for Desucon UwU

Page 116!

 

Again I made it in the nick of time xD BUT I did get the second page done! 

Read it in Tapas or Webtoons!

We are finally approaching Narya's own private chambers, this is so very exciting : D And we meet Sa'an Thiarana, whose story I probably will never have time tell in detail, if only I had all the time in the world... Poor Thiarana ;;-;;

Anyway, in June I will be focusing half of the month on getting The Pillars of Heaven part 3 as far as I possibly can, trying to get it done by September. Therefore, there will probably be only one update on Paths next month, I am sorry 😦 But I'll try my best!

I'm also attending Desucon with my friend Chika! Come find us in the trade hall :3 i'll post more info when I get my new stickers >:3c

Dark Elf Esteem!

 

He is finally done! My long overdue ode to the Dark Elves again represented by my lovely male witch elf Shura UwU

So yeah, when I think of dark elves I always think of the druchii first and foremost! But don't worry, I do want to make a drow elf esteem at some point too, let's see how many years that takes me : D

Anyway! I've already ordered stickers of this bad boy and will also be making at least a print of him at some point :3 I'll put the sticker up in my ko-fi when it arrives, and you can also hopefully get it from me in Desucon and Ropecon this summer!

If you want to see an unblurred version I recommend visiting either my Cara or my Bluesky accounts!

5th Chapter begins!

Welcome back to Avardark, and we'll see how poor Narya's day continues when they and their entourage finally make it back home. Exciting stuff, let me tell you : - D

Read it in the usual places Tapas & Webtoons

Comic con Finland Schedule!

Here's my Comic con Finland schedule finally! I'm sorry for the excruciating wait and for all the lost nights of sleep waiting for this info to drop xDdd

I accidentally ended up being there everyday, but at very random hours, so I hope you'll be able to catch me if you feel so inclined UwU 

I will have a very limited selection of stuff because of the short hours, comics, stickers and a few small prints! If you really really want something bigger of mine, drop me a message and I'll see what I can do :3

Thank you to Tampere kuplii for arranging this opportunity UwU

New stickers!

I made some new stickers for Comic Con Helsinki next weekend : D I'll make a nice post about my time schedule there... soon! it's so random... Anyway, these lil' guys will be available there along with a small selection of myo ther stuff, mainly comics :3

Page 100 updated

 

...Well, I originally hated the palace I drew & painted for page 100, so… I ended up redoing it now that we're actually going to plunge back into the darkness and see how our poor Child of Shadow is doing. Which means I didn't get the second page of the month done in time, but it is already in the works so shouldn't be long! Sorry about this : D

If you want to click on a link to see it: Tapas & Webtoons

But most importantly! Vote in the popularity poll if you haven't already! 😄 It's open until tomorrow sometime xD

Something wicked this way comes~

 

....which is my very long overdue Dark Elf Esteem piece I've been promising for a year or something;;;;; but he's coming!

Again I gave all my love to Shura, leaving poor Maelener on the wayside (⁠╯⁠︵⁠╰⁠,⁠) one day I must draw him too... I'm sorry Maelener...

Shura is my male witch elf who came to me in a dream with Maelener all those years ago UwU 

114th page which is also the last page of Chapter 4!

 

And thus, the 4th chapter comes to an end! Maive sure is excited as hell 😄

 It's taken me forever to finish this chapter for which I am sorry, and i'll keep trying to get you pages as quickly as I can from now on! Maive at least feels the pressure of time, or sanity, or maybe even their ability to stay intact, running out... The screw turns ever tighter!

Read it in the usual places aka Tapas & Webtoons!

IF you want to read the chapter from the beginning start here! 

And also remember that the popularity poll is still ongoing UwU

(open until the end of April!)

Links galore! I completely forgot to mention Kauhucon here, but alas they had the most visitors ever this year nonetheless :3 Next up I should appear at random times in Comic con! More info to come later :D

Thank you Tampere kuplii and here's another page of PoA!

 Page 113 of Paths of Avarnight is done and ready to be read UwU Read it in the usual places Tapas & Webtoons!

Thank you to everyone who came to see our table in Tampere kuplii too! I had a great time, and I hope everyone did too despite the queueing madness :'3

OH yeah, and the popularity poll is open and will be open until the end of April!

Popularity poll o'clock!

It's March and the sixth anniversary of Paths of Avarnight! This, it is time for my traditional popularity poll! Yee! (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠) Time to decide who was your favourite this year! We have some new contestants too!

VOTE HERE!

As usual you can also participate in a raffle for either some goodies or a little sketch commission by me by voting UwU 🧡 

Wooden magnets!

Homer started feeling better but then I got sick too xD Now  I'm slowly starting to feel well enough to finally post these wooden magnets I got the other day! They turned out so cute! Six designs, all available in Tampere kuplii, unless for some odd reason this malady does not leave me until then... But I'm trying my best that it will! A lot of rest is on schedule for the weekend!

Page 112 and Tampere kuplii UwU

 Whew, I'm slowly getting back on track with my updates, I hope! So here's another page where Adal remembers things and there's a lot of running xD

Read it in Tapas and Webtoons as usual!

In case anyone reading this is in Finland, I will remind you that I will be in Tampere kuplii with my friends Kaarinart & Chika selling our comics and things 29.-30.3.! Hope to see you there 😄 The event is Free entry and we will be in the Trade hall UwU I will also be speaking about ElfQuest on a panel on Saturday 😄 Yay for elves!

 I will put up the popularity poll before that too so look forward to that also 😄

Page 111 just a little bit late;;;;

 I'm sorry the page is late! I've had a lot of trouble starting with my darling cat getting sick and now my own health isn't the best x0 So, pages might come a bit slower for a a bit, for which I am sorry, but there's just a lot going on... BUT I will keep working! Albeit a little slowly... We're almost at the end of 4th chapter too, finally x'0

I also love the fact that we haver a recurring character from devil knows how many years ago? 4? Who even remembers them? xD

Anyway, read for yourself in Tapas and Webtoons :>

OH and a heads up! I WILL do the character popularity poll each March to celebrate Avarnight's birthday 😄 Look forward to that too! I'm going to do it despite everything, because it's always been so much fun and I want something fun in my life for a change >:0

Little update

 I'm sorry I kind of vanished in the middle of Elfbruary for which I had really grand plans... Homer got really sick last week and we've been focusing all our energy on him ever since. Luckily he is feeling a bit better already, but we're not out of these woods yet, but hopefully at some point. Homer is also already 19 years old, so it was inevitable that something would happen to him at some point.

Anyway, I will be posting less regularly from now on quite probably and be less online all in all to focus on my darling cat who is probably the most important thing in my life :"D but I'll keep working on all my stuff slowly.

I probably won't have a lot of new stuff for Tampere kuplii, I just hope you can forgive me x'( 

If you read this far, I will also mention I do have a Kofi account if anyone feels like it, you can support us paying Homer's veterinary bills, I will definitely be grateful, but no pressure at all.

Page 110

 

It's been a really long day, but I got the page done! Read it in the usual places, aka. Tapas and Webtoons! I just wanted to post it before the weekend <:D

Nothing else to report today :D

Second #Elfbruary art

 

Some new art for #elfbruary today! I wanted to make a sticker with this very text and who'd be better to represent the golden elves as the most golden of elves my tiny lil' Liehu UwU

Liehu is my dnd 3rd edition Druid/Sorcerer character! He's 38 years old in game and 10 years old out of the game!  He has a cat familiar called Aya and a lynx animal companion called Kille :D Best of both worlds!

Liehu was found as a baby in the possession of some very evil death cultists and saved by two humans who adopted him and his brother (a half elf who most probably is not blood related to him).  His childhood was very happy and he is a very nice young man who likes to help everyone and make new friends. Recently a legendary magic sword was forced upon him be the ghost of a dead king and he's been very stressed about it, but looks like they were able to save the world from a really big bad (but our game has been on hiatus and things remain unsolved).

He loves flowers and flowy gowns, nature and his brother and fathers. oh, and he is 148 cm tall.

Drawn with pencil and ink, colours in CSP

Art without my sad anti-ai blur can be found in Cara!

ELFBRUARY IS LIVE!!! :D

 

Welcome to #Elfbruary ! UwU I'll start mine with posting this redo of Daenthia I secretly worked on all January whenever I had time from all my other deadlines, and I got him ready just in time!

Daenthia is a noble born high elf currently spirited away into a chaotic and scary endless labyrinth with his bodyguard and secret flame Veserian (of whom I will also try to finally draw a picture of ;;;;), thanks to spell gone awfully awry. Normally he is a splendid magus :D Anyway it's a solo rpg I've been playing for a while now, with my very own rules (which are ofc also horribly unfinished xD)

Anyways, look forward to hopefully a ton of less finished elven pieces from me this month xD 

You can find an unblurred version in my Cara (or blsky, I use the same name there too!)

Page 109!

 

Adal enthusiastically announces the newest page, that I got done at the nick of time... I was so sure I'd fail to meet my horrendous two page a month quota on the first month of the year xD But I did it! Yey!

Read it in either Tapas or Webtoons as always UwU

Well, let's see how next month goes as we're doing #ELFBRUARY and I'll try to keep the updates coming at the same time ;;; But please do join in on Elfbruary with your own lovely elves, as unfortunately my comic is currently in the non-elvish pages...

Announcing Elfbruary

My daily doodle AND this silly little idea we had on a discord server got way out of hand! But I am elated to announce that next month will officially be #elfbruary ! Because if mermaids have a month of their own, elves deserve one too UwU 

This I invite everyone to participate in celebrating elves next month! Draw original art of your original elves! Or fan art of your favourite elves! Write about them! Sing about them! Do anything that makes you happy UwU except no AI crap, let's celebrate creativity UwU 

I'd like to thank everyone who collectively came up with this fun little thing who are at least @ylvanaar @tiinatalvikki @artnaite @kaarinart and probably many others that I forget as I am dumb UwU