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  🖤🖤🖤

Post-Ropecon & Tictail

Hello everyone, and thank you for an amazing Ropecon!
I got a lot of questions about getting my stuff online from somewhere, so in the case some people who took my card end up in here, then here is my Tictail shop:

Riiight here~

I will also research the cheapest possible way to send out the new big prints, since a few people inquired about that, too. I’ll let you all know when I add them to the shop!

Oh yeah, AND! I forgot to mention, but Worldcon, is on next week’s weekend! I will be there on the Creator’s Alley from Friday to Sunday, and what is more, you don’t need a membership to enter the hall where the alley & traders are! Anyone can come! Yay :D Come say hi if you are around!

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

Spring Announcements!

First, thank you all you who came to say hi in Tampere Kuplii, you made my weekend <3

Then, to the other things! My next con will be the Stockholm International Comics Festival in May! My first con abroad, very exciting! If you happen to be around, please come say hi! I will be sharing a table with Rikkis in the Small Press Expo.

But before that I will have a small exhibition of originals for the Feather&Scale graphic novel! I will have more info on that soon, so stay tuned~

And lastly, something not so nice. My nemesis, the Finnish Post Office will rise their prices yet again in the beginning of April. Therefore, all of you who haven’t yet gotten my graphic novel from the webshop, you should hurry before everything gets worse. I put both the graphic novel and our colouring booklet on sale, just for you lovelies ;> Thank you for all your support so far!

Feather & Scale!

It is here, finally!

 Feather & Scale is an accordion book graphic novel, and a study of nonlinear, cyclic storytelling. Two creatures, Feather and Scale, leave their safe homesteads, meet each other and multiple possibilities open up: how do they react to each other and what happens to them?

32 pages, 7 cm x 12 cm.

Printed on 160 g/m² glossy paper. Each accordion book is handmade by yours truly <3 

Apart from the title, the graphic novel is textless, therefore, readable by anyone anywhere~

Available internationally on my TicTail shop and in conventions I will attend; next one being Tampere Kuplii, you can find me in Pienlehtimarssi18.3.-.19.3., with the amazing Viivi Rintanen and Rikkis ^^

ps. I also added a few of my favorite pages and panels to my Redbubble, since I won’t be able to sell prints abroad from the TicTail thank to Finnish postoffice being monstrously expensive

The Day After

As my comic work is winding down, I need to start worrying about graduating from University. I’m supposed to be doing research for my seminar work, but instead. Instead I started writing a short story about a meat eating nightcrawly elf having a serious case of blood orgy hangover. Whats-more I did a fucking painting of him, too :’D My thesis is so fucked.

 This is known as the Hangover of Severan, or in Finnish “Severanin darrapäivä”

ps. it is also in my Redbubble

pps. Some of you might've noticed that he shares a name with my former rpg-character. He is a spiritual descendant of my assassin-acolyte, but reimagined in the setting of the City of Cities, where meat eating elves roam, among other things 

Mizane the Librarian

I was casually flipping through and old sketch book and stumbled upon this old sketch, then realising I had never properly scanned and posted it anywhere! So I did, and in the process added some colour to the background which I found to be just a tad too bland for my tastes.

 The magnificent beast in question is Mizane, the offspring of a star crossed romance between a cat who fell in love with an elf. The parents were very happy for a time, but poor Mizane was bullied and hated all over elfdom for his mixed heritage. But with unwavering determination he overcame all who tried to hurt him and became a venerated librarian, finally rising to a position of head librarian in a small, remote side library full of old and valuable tomes.
 He is also just about as outrageous as is his sense of fashion. Truly a wonderful piece of booty! I hope I'll one day be able to do a little comic about him!

ps. I also added it to my Redbubble, since don't we all need a bunch of stuff with cat-elf stripper-librarians on them?

A trip to rainbowvomit-land

Time to puke some rainbows~

I made shirt-able version of my sweet, innocent unicorn boy (whom I drew for that colouring booklet), frolicking away without a care in the world. Here to snatch all your hearts <3 With shōjo bubbles.

…And speaking of bubbles, this baby is of course available in my humble Redbubble shoppe~

And a happy little unicorn boy cannot indeed do without a friend, so I also updated my second illustration for the colouring booklet, a crafty karakasa. 

And on a different note; I will be present at the Artists' Alley of Popcult (in Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki) on Sunday the 10th April! I will update some picture of possible new goodies I'll have available closer to the date, but for now they will be shrouded in mystery~ 

Web of Heaven

Darkness between the stars – therein lie voids immeasurable. Ceaseless. An insurmountable boundary, within which, beyond which, fans out the Web of Heaven. Guardian? Ward? Or just a stray in the emptiness beyond all paths?

 Find more Lore here~  (and also on my Redbubble & Society6)

Visions of Endless Pasts

In the wandering of lifeless dust, within a hidden world of red, Blood God dreamt, of things forever lost, stolen futures and annihilated ends. Will anything remain before the wind?

Done in ink & secrets
More here


And I also made my very first t-shirt design (as in a drawing I've only meant to be a t-shirt... and not a piece of art)!

Find it here~

Society6

Suddenly I had a bit of freetime in my hands and I finally set up my Society6 shop. And yes, I know I already have a shop in Redbubble, but these All over print shirts are just too nice to pass up:

Please find my shoppe here~

I have new paintings comicg up as soon as I have time to sit and paint! I'll keep you all lovelies posted~  

PostTracon

 Sorry I was going to write a quick note about Tracon's craft tables you know BEFORE the con but was so busy with malfunctioning printers and print houses and the beginning of my lectures that it just slipped my mind. Well, I did find out that I can't really update my blog from my phone either, for I tried.
 But thank you all who came, and hope to see you again in the next event whatever that may be!

New stickers and a big (44 x 32 cm) Blood for the Blood God print! If you missed my table and would like to have something just write me a message, a poor artist-student is a poor artists-student after all~ (haltijakapala [å] gmail . com)

In other good news the new Tähtivaeltaja has a few illustrations by me! I am pretty happy about it ^^

 And a last bonus: a small picture of a Blood for the Blood God scarf I ordered for myself from my Redbubble store, it is a fine beast of a scarf if you don't mind me saying!

 From now on this blog might be a bit quiet for a while since I'm finishing my artbooklet and can't show you everything I put in it. Also a small comic is in the works, but I can't show you much of that either just yet... Thank you for your patience in advance

Lore of Blood

I’ve been doing some mighty fun things recently~ Doing abstract things is so relieving every once in a while…

 One can see more of these here~

New store in Redbubble

Greetings yet again!
 Finally, after  long and meticulous ponderings and preparings I have opened a new webshop for my prints, and even other, more daring things! In the end settled upon Redbubble, since the posting fees of Finnish post office are so vile no one (abroad) should endure them...
 But alas! Enough yammering, here have a look at my brand new shop!

Haltijakäpälä on Redbubble

And a thank you to all who came and said hi at the alley! I had a lovely day, hopefully you all did too!

Desucon is so soon

 I forgot to post a treasure map for Sunday last time, so here is a key to finding our table next weekend!

And here's more prints for Desucon!

This one is unfortunately not as big as I originally dreamed, but a manageable size nonetheless, I hope that in the not-so-distant future I'll have truly big prints of this darling:

 It's been a while since my last alley so I'm ridiculously excited!  Apart from the Alley excitement, I'm hella busy with my (unfortunately non-artistic) summer job and (unfortunately non-artistic) summer courses...
 But I'm planning on a new, yet tiny, art book, and resurrecting my old, old comic. I'll keep you posted! Plus I'm trying to re-open my printshoppe as soon as possible too, but I'll probably migrate it to someplace other than Storenvy so it will take a bit... I'll keep you all posted on that too.

 ps. I'll be taking preoders until 7 pm on Saturday the 6th! So message me either in tumblr or to haltijakapala [å] gmail . com before that ^^

Sorcerer

 Here it is, all done!
 The print will be available for buyings in Yukicon, Espoo, next weekend. I also opened a webshop for my prints, where one can see and purchase my print anywhere in the world, you are most welcome to have a look here:

Art of Haltijakäpälä

 There's also a contest going on in tumblr to celebrate this fine ocassion , but one does not indeed need to have an account in tumblr to participate; I also accept entries via email! So in order to enter just send me an email to haltijakapala@gmail.com to let me know (no need to give me your address or anything else just yet, only after you've won :3)