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 

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.

Endless Dragon Cave

Hello~~ I’m sorry for the lack of art recently, I’m teaching a course with two lectures per week and it has eaten up all of my time :( But only a few weeks left and THEN my life should be a bit more normal (I hope)
So instead of new doodles, have a video of a well over 10 metre long dragon cave drawing I did as a child 💖 I really want to do something similar again in the future, but with better art xD I've recently been (again) very inspired with emakimono picture scrolls. too

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.

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 ^^

The Fall of Aenaitha

I feel so empty after finishing this that I can’t think of anything to say about this one. I guess I also don’t want to try and explain this one too much, either. So, just here it is, and it has a lot to do with the world of my ye olde comic, but I don’t want to tell it all since it might be a bit of a spoiler. A lot of flesh eating went on in the olden times there, as Danil too had a bite or three.

And a few close ups, since the piece is so big~

...And another sneak peek!

There’s also a dragon! In the new big piece that  I'm orking on and it is going to be huge. Therefore, this is going to take a while and I’m naughtily going to spam you all with wips as I am getting there~

 I am intending on making a new batch of big prints, so stay tuned for that too!

Black Flame

Black Flame (detail), watercolour, ink, felt tip pen and acrylic, 2017

I finally finished this commission, took me only almost a year to finish. I feel so bad, even though the commissioner only wanted me to paint a dragon I managed to make it into a huge problem by trying to depict one of my oldest characters of draconian blood. I guess it is the freedom that made me keel over, I wanted to make something that looks like what I’d do… I did five tries, this is the last and I’m still not happy with it.

 Anyways, Black Flame, a character from that ye olde comic of mine that I always talk about, but a character that wouldn’t be in it for a good while even if I did actually start drawing it again from the start. But a crafty one this is, and I love them to bits; slumbering behemoth, keeper of the lightless flame and lord of all things black metal, because every comic needs a black metal dragon, right?

Want to commission me? My suggestion is don’t :’D I’m incredibly slow, therefore expensive and to top the slowness I get creative crisises, apparently. But do drop me a message if you’re interested in hearing me apologise for about a year ;>

ps. only two weeks left until Stockholm international comics festival! so exciting!

Painting dragons

Even if I am very busy currently, I’ve still had the time to work on a commission every now and then, progress is excruciatingly slow, but I wanted to share a little bit of it with you!
 I was tasked just to do a dragon, in my own style, which of course led to a creative crisis. After much struggling a passable redesign of my oldest draconian character Lightless Flame, Lord of all things Black and Metal. They too are a character in than ancient comic of mine, that I always talk about.
 It has been a great learning process to work on this piece!

 Not much else to report, preparing for the exhibition mostly. I'm nervous and excited!