Art of 2019

This year has been mostly comic, which has sucked all the colour from my art xD I hope 2020 will give me enough time to also do some big paintings long with the comic!

Thank you all my lovely followers, friends and cats for 2019, and I wish us all a better 2020!

Page 19

Whew, I'm late and having trouble with Webtoons, which is the new place I'm trying out for my comic but finally I managed to upload the 19th page! I feel just like our warm gem armour -clad young hero looks like in this teaser x'D

 

 

Read it here!

Situation with Smack Jeeves

So, Smack Jeeves suddenly changed its layout and structure completely, and in the process broke each and every link to each and every comic. This huge change came without any forewarning whatsoever, and I am quite frankly disappointed and a bit angry.

Here's a functional link to the comic

To add to the annoyance from now on I would need to upload pages at a smaller resolution and I'm not sure if my handwritten text remain readable at a smaller scale, either. Nor do I want to suddenly change the resolution this drastically.

 I need to rethink where I will continue my comic, a thing which I really wouldn't have the time and energy for right now. Feels like social media is getting drastically shittier which each passing day, month and year. First Tumblr implodes on itself,  while all American owned channels try to sanitize the internet, not to mention the hidden algorithms that try to force you to pay for exposure... I'm seriously getting a bit sick of all this, I really love painting and drawing, but these hindrances keep piling up and getting in my way.

 I'm sorry for whining, this has been a frustrating year, and it feels like things won't get any better ever again. Not to mention how useless it feels to worry about art when the world is literally burning around me... :'D

Page 18

 

Suddenly, out of the void, a new page appears! I honestly didn't plan for the comic to update this irregularly but, life just is what it is xD

Read it here!

And now that you're here I'll tell that I won't be attending any christmas markets or the like this year, but if you really want to have some of my stuff...

My Storenvy is again open now that the strike is over

And my Redbubble is also always open

Thank you 🖤 hopefully I will have more art to share soon!

The Road goes ever ever on

Here's an invitation I drew for my mother's retirement party! She requested an invitation with the lyrics from The Road goes Ever on from Tolkien's the Hobbit, with a picture to complement it. I was only too happy to oblige for it was mum who read me the entire Lord of the rings out loud when I was a child and I am forever grateful for that. It made me who I am basically xD
So this was a really happy commission to do!
Now I hope November lets me continue the comic, too x'D

October commission

 A progress photo with Ikuturso-Homer!

And when it was finally done!

It’s probably impossible to tell from the pic but it is almost 60 cm in diametre and done on fabric. It will be a decoration for a shield carrying pouch!
Sorry for the silence here on the blog, life has been hectic xD And I can't update this blog from my phone so I keep forgetting it exists :'D 

A visit to Helvetinkolu

Hello! I recently visited Helventinkolu National Park and completely forgot to share my vacation pictures with you! My sister who lives abroad is visiting Finland, so we had to make a ruska-trip even though I've been way too busy for my own good. A day of hiking  in the woods really helped with that!

17th page!

 

 

September was a disaster, but here's a new page :'D

And hey, I'll be at Pakanalliset Syysmessut 13th of October, see you there ^^

Busy busy busy

Page 17 has been slow going, and I’m sorry ;’( September decided to be uncooperative to put it nicely and I’ve had very little time for drawing ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡ but I’m trying my best to get you the page before the end of the month!
Even if I wish I could be like Homer and just #zzz to the end of days

Thank you Zine Fest!

 Thank you Sarjisfestarit, Zine Fest, everyone who visited our table and especially my magnificent table buddies Yölamppu & Rikkisu for an amazing weekend 🖤🖤🖤

Homer, on the other hand, had a pretty shitty weekend, but now everything is ok again. zzz


Next I will be attending Pakanalliset Syysmessut in Argoksenmäen Holvikellari, Helsinki on Sunday the 13th of October!

And hopefully there will be another comic page coming your way soon!

Zine Fest!

Hello, and apologies for my silence, August turned out to be a real adventure. And by adventure I mean busy as hell, leaving me with very little time to draw :(
 I hope soon this will be over and I'll be able to continue Paths of Avarnight updates!

But before that, we will be in Zine Fest of Sarjakuvafestivaalit this weekend! Please come say hi if you're there too ^^

I did also have a tiny bit of free time to go on a small adventure to Raasepori castle! It was small and cute, and I'm happy I finally got to see it ^^


EDIT: I only now noticed that I had completely forgotten to post the link to the latest page to Paths of Avarnight here! Oh no :(

 Read it here!

Kave!

Here's a Kave I painted for the second Youkai exhibition / doujinshi ^^ K ave is a being who cuts away at the moon to make it narrower, the name is an allusion to the word narrow in Finnish, which is kapea.
I had a really good time with this, might want to do more of these later, too 🖤

16th page is also coming along nicely, too bad I won't have time to work on it for the rest of the week xD I love my life!

Painted with watercolour, ink and a bit of white acrylic.

Here’s more info on the doujinshi:
https://twitter.com/sanmagumo1/status/1159678857026260992?s=21

Page 15

15th page is finally done an uploaded, yay! More pointy ears!

Hey and remember I still have the little sale going on in my Storenvy ^^

I'll do my best to give you the 16th page before September :')

Storenvy opened!

I have a new web shop in Storenvy now!

All of my comics & booklets and some of my postcards, stickers and smaller prints are already available! Sweet dreams is on sale for a week to celebrate this fine occasion  🖤🖤🖤

Thank you Ropecon & Sweet Dreams!

Hello my lovelies! My art booklet Kauniita unia - Sweet Dreams is finally done and published! Here's a few sample images:

Ropecon was the premiere for this new booklet and here's a few pics from there!

Thank you everyone who visited our table! We had an amazing weekend and it was not only due to the ventilation in Messukeskus (though it helped xD)
 Next I will re-setup a webshop to sell the Sweet Dreams booklet! Stay tuned!

Shh...

”Oi, this is not the next page of Paths of Avarnight?!”
 ”Shhhhh, I’ll just paint this tiny little thing real quick...”

14th page - into the dark we go

Despite everything, I managed to finish another page, and FINALLY we get some pointy ears! I had to live without them for like... 10 pages or something, whew.

Read the latest page here

p.s. I will have something exciting to share with you all for Ropecon, soon~~~

Who's this??

 I’m finally back at my drawing desk after what was probably the busiest week of my summer (I hope), next page will be done rather soon (I hope) and you will find out who this stranger is ;D Homer would rather have me #napping

Unlucky 13

It only took me forever, but the 13th page of Paths of Avarnight is finally up!

Read it here

 I'm afraid my pace will probably be a bit slow for the rest of the summer, too, I always keep thinking soon my life will be easier and I'll have time to draw more, but it just never happens xD Nevertheless, I will keep on doing my best (ง •̀ω•́)ง✧

Sneak peeks of sneaky bonuses

Some blood soaked high heels and tons of hair aka. All the good stuff Aka. the evil, little bonus I drew for my upcoming art booklet is nigh done, and it looks like the whole  thing will actually be finished by Ropecon ^^ stay tuned for more info 🖤

ps. page 13 of Paths of Avarnight also, finally, almost done!

Hello?

Sorry for dropping off the face of the Earth for a bit there… I think my seven years in the university (while wroking and doing art) and another teaching, working and trying to art finally caught up with me and I’ve spent majority of my June sleeping xD and taking care of this monster kitty boy, who is ever so eager to help whenever I’ve actually tried to draw xD
 I’m currently working on a secret bonus pic that will be a part of an art booklet I hope to finish by Ropecon and drawing the 13th page of Paths with a veritably glacial pace. I hope you can forgive me for being slow for a bit, I’ve never felt this old 🖤

Importent work

 

 

I’m having a survey of my old sketch books for important reasons, but Homer is having none of that shit >:| well, at least he has a chair from which he can screm at me, diss me and eventually handily step unto my lap 💕

Yet another page this way comes

12th page is up!

Read it here~

As I wrote in the comment for this page, my pace will probably slow down a bit for a while since I need to divide my attention to a few other artsy things for a bit! More info hopefully soon 🖤

Page eleven already!

Managed to churn out another page, whew. Even dad is excited!

~Read it here~

Comic updated!

This time two pages instead of just one, for somethings are too big to fit on a single page~
Read the next pages here

Or start from the beginning
Whew, I had a good time fighting with this spread, now let’s see how long it takes me to manage the next page x’D

Something big this way comes

Just a little sneak peek of the next page(s)!

8th page!

After two whole pages of dialogue, it is time to get some action, aka. read the 8th page of Paths of Avarnight!

Or if you’ve yet to read the comic at all, you can begin here

May is also officially the beginning of my summer vacation, which means I only have one job instead of many xD I hope it might help quicken the pace a bit too, but I also have a few other projects I want to work on… Nothing is ever easy :’D

7th page

The seventh page has finally arrived! Read it here!

I'm sorry for being so slow recently, I do wish fervently May will be easier on my schedule wise ^^'

Progress

Despite the best efforts of a certain Hinder-Homer, the seventh page is on its way! Expect it to pop up after easter!
 Well, I'll write another blog entry when it happens anyway xD

6th page

6th page is done & uploaded 🖤

Or read from the beginning 

This took a bit and I'm afraid the next one will too as there's Easter to deal with. Not that I really care much about Easter, but it is a long holiday, which means social obligations. I'll do my best to be prompt with the next page too!

Thank you Kauhucon!

Kauhucon came and went, and I had a blast! Thank you everyone who visited my table, it was nice meeting new and old friends ^^
 From here on I will not be attending any cons for a while, instead I will focus on the comic and getting myself in a good rhythm in making it!
See you in Ropecon!