Cover illustration

Siipisulka, a collection of angel themed spefi short stories, is now available 💚💙💚💙 Get yours here:
Aavetaajuus shop (the book is only in Finnish unfortunately)

And now that the book is out I deliver an only slightly cropped version of the entire illustration I made for the book in October xD! I loved, loved, loved doing those wings.

ps. I will be selling my stuff in Å-fest next weekend! If you’re in Porvoo, come say hi!

Siipisulka

The mystery wing I was drawing months ago is finally ready to revealed! My first official book cover illustration in the speculative fiction collection of angel themed short stories. Follow Aavetaajuus for more updates on this project!
I will post the entire illustration when the book is released! Unfortunately it will be in Finnish, though :/

Merea & Uzure

 I’m going to call this done, been working on this way too long. This was a year end gift for myself that got way out of hand :’D I apparently love doing huge pieces that make my rickety old computer sputter and die every half an hour.

Merea and Uzure, again two critters from the past of the world of that comic. Merea is the one with burning coals for hair and coincidentally is something akin to a grandparent to my darling black metal dragon. A living, breathing weapon of mass destruction in a skimpy metal bikini, here to set the world ablaze just the way I like them ♡♡

Uzure on the other hand... is also related to a certain someone, but maybe I wont spoil the fun yet (｀▽´)

I apologise for the lack of updates in this blog, my life has been crazy for the past year or so, and it won’t get any better just yet, because I’m going to Japan next week! For a bit over two weeks, so less art more tedious vacation pictures! Yay! After that particular hurdle I hop we can get back into a more orderly art life.

Weedy Sea Dragon Merman

Here’s my Disco Seahorse just in time for Mermay :’D He is a weedy sea dragon, a magnificently weird fish indeed, this sure was a learning experience. And those colours. Wow.
This guy is also a part of the Heavenly Bodies series, so he has a secret backside, and he will become bookmarks some time in the future ^^

Caterpillar Boy of Book-loving

When I was still young, (and so was the Internet), there were a lot of insanely cute and slightly disturbing caterpillar boys in the dark corners of the web that I hung out in. I loved them. I still do, but haven’t seen any in a long, long time.  Maybe there is still a caterpillar boy nook out there somewhere, that I just don’t know about…   /sigh

Anyway, this book loving little fella is also going to be a bookmark, that I will be selling in Desucon Frostbite in Lahti, Finland, this weekend! So, if you’re around, do come say hi, I have tons of other stuff too. I’ll be there on both Saturday and Sunday, as I am not on the Artists’ Alley, but in the Trade Hall (which are both conveniently in the same hall, actually).
 And for all of you internationals, who can't be in Lahti, I also slapped him to my Redbubble Shoppe!

This baby is also a part of the Heavenly Bodies series I’m currently working on, check out the Heavenly Bodies tag for more!

And a bonus Homer, because he is the sweetest and cutest cat ever. Such a cuddly boy :'3

Art Summary 2017

This year went by so fast! It became the year of pale babes completely by accident.
But I kind of managed my goal of a halfway decent pic per month, yay! Next year I’ll try to have a few from which to choose from... That’d be nice.

 Thank you to all my lovely followers for yet another year <3 I hope next year will be kinder to us all than this one.

Shura finished & announcements

Shura. From the front, and kindly he gives you a glimpse of his backside too. This and the centipede will become bookmarks, hopefully in time for Sarjisfestarit next weekend! Me and Rikkisu​ will be sharing a table at Zinefest in Tiivistämö (not Oranssi, as there are two spots!)

Shura is a total babe who came to me in a dream, one of the best I've ever had. I’ve done a piece on it too, it is buried somewhere deep within my blog. Originally he was a male witch elf from Warhammer (my own AU of course, since in canon there are no such things, which is stupid), nowadays he is so much more!

I have more of these bookmarks planned, too, I call this series of floaty boys The Celestial Bodies (cue absolutely no laughter).

 As for the rest of this Autumn, I will sadly have very little time to draw as I am attempting a swift garduation from the University . Thesis will take a lot of time to get done, I fear... But before that I will attend one more event the Pagan Autumn Fair in September of which I'll tell more closer to the event!

A batch of scroll-prints

I made a batch of huge prints for Ropecon and Worldcon! People have been asking for these, so I shall deliver!
 They are 60 cm high, except Laughter who is a tiny 55 cm~ The width varies a bit from piece to piece. As a bonus there's an A4 sized mini-Ninavel for scale. There's small and big prints of all these other darlings, too!

 And! It seems like people can visit the creator's alley of Worldcon even without having the membership to the event! So if you want to come and say hi to me there, I'll be having a table with Pihlajatar from Friday to Sunday ^^

Postcards!

My first set of postcards fresh off the printers! They’re printed on 300g/m2 cardstock and have an exquisite matte finish~ You just need to touch them to understand the height of sublime the surface possesses~~~
Want to have one? I’ll be selling them at the Dark Market of Lumous Gothic Festival this weekend in Tampere, and they’re available in my Tictail-shop, too

The Red Shroud

The Red Shroud, 2017

I love making these, it is so relaxing and stimulating at the same time. And moreover helps me to process the more esoteric and abstract levels of my ye olde comic, one that will hopefully one day be reborn…



Slapped it into my Rebubble too.

Elric of Melniboné

A mermified Elric of Melniboné for Marriakhan over in Tumblr​ as my part of the mini art-trade for Mermay :D He is very confused about the situation and about how to use Stormbringer underwater.

I’ve coincidentally been re-reading a bit of the good old Elric books and gushing over him as he is ...just a lot of things that I really, really like; e.g. broody, cruel, skinny, pale and with a big fucking sword of Chaos. And did think I’d like to do a tiny bit of fan art of him, and now I got the opportunity! Elric is also the reason I know Marriakhan since we "met" when I commented on an Elric fan art piece of theirs many, many years ago...

Marriakhan drew my derptastic elven sorcerer-druid Liehu, as a beautiful perfect little mer-elf!

Yukicon

A batch of new and old bookmarks and prints ready for the artists’ alley of Yukicon (Messukeskus, Helsinki)! Stickers are on the way.

I’ll be there on Sunday 10-16 on table nr. 21 with these lovelies and a ton of other art! See you there~

Art Summary 2016

 I decided to finally make a summary of my own too, since it has been a productive year for me. Though, far from the level of productivity I would like to reach. A proper piece for each month would be so nice, here we still have a lot of silly little doodles for many months. Well, let’s see how it goes next year!

 Thank you all who have been a part of my life this past year, and I sincerely hope next year will be better for all of us!

Ninavel progress animation

I was so busy with everything else after posting the picture of Ninavel, that I completely forgot I had taken a few wip shots of it in order to make a tine little gif of the painting process! So here we have it.
 Next time I'll take even more. This one doesn't really show the progress too well, but then again I did have a few very long work days while making this...

Höyrymarkkinat

First prints of my magnificent Ninavel, and some new bookmarks for the Steam Hellsinki Christmas fair today! Both are an extremely limited run this time, so if you see something you like, come and grab it~~

Gaze of the Wood

Gaze long into the wood, the wood will also gaze into you.



Also available in my shop

The evolution of the glove

This week I haven't had that much luck with my inktobers, I've doodled, but nothing is satisfactory; luckily there are other things on my agenda, too! Like the progress of this mystical glove I've been slowly working on:

Soo, hopefully very soon, I can finally reveal this baby in all their magnificent glory! I've tried my utmost to keep all of the picture as glimmery as this glove; the glove of gloves!

ps. I hope everyone remembers Taidekuja, that I'm arranging? Time is drawing near, and soon we will start to unveil our sellers and programkeepers; follow us on facebook for example to keep yourself in the know~ 

Working on new stuff

A few small sketches of characters in my next comic project~ and the colourful one is a npc from a Storium game I’m narrating. Storium is funner than fun, I can definitely recommend checking it out!But our game is private unfortunately :(

 Also as promised a better picture of the Blood God scarf, so here you go ~

Red things

Blood shenanigans by one of my oldest characters. Relevant to that comic I used to draw. Relevant to the art book thing I’m doing.I might tweak this up for it but now I’m done with Sai crashing with this one.

 Done in pencil, ink & Paint Tool Sai

Abstract experiment

This being revamp of an old experimental abstract comic I made for a graphic storytelling course.
 I'm still not sure if this a disgusting act of cultural imperialism from my part or a step into the unknown possibilities of kanji-abstract-comics :'D

 How does this make you feel (I have a real urge to hear how this makes people feel :'D)? And has anyone seen something alike before? I tried to search for comics that use kanji as a form of visual expression with little luck...

It is based on Japanese, btw, which is kind of not the best way of doing this, since Chinese language consists only of kanji without the okuriganas (ie. hiragana & katakana in-between the kanji), but unfortunately I haven't been able to study Chinese just yet. So Japanese has to do for now...

 Oh yeah, due to pressure from a lovely friend I also made a facebook page :'D Feel free to like it and follow me there too~