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Tistow - 60 - revisal

I hope you'll find this interesting!

I mentioned before we were gonna pass the text for page 60 before releasing it, but both agreed we didn't like the flow. It didn't carry Jack's anger over...

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Mr. Denholm & Ahku

Jack's grandparents meeting for the first time.

The idea for this bit of story was that they'd meet during the construction of the Canal that sits between Tael and Fjoldi. Stephen Denholm tra...

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Young Ahku - concept

And her partners in crime.

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Sotka's Lights - 06

I -was- gonna make this a silent page but. Since it's school, why not a history lesson?

If you're not familiar with the Tistow-verse map, you can find it here:
2020-03-01 14:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Sotka's Lights - 05

Gotta fix the text a little still, it's tad misaligned in places. I might still work on the shadows as well, the characters feel like they're floating on the ground in two of the panels.. :'D

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Sotka's Lights - 06 - lineart

Lineart for page six! This is a dialogue-less page. I've got to add some kids to the very top panel, but I want to sort out the colours first.

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Sotka's Lights - 05 - lineart

Included the placeholder text. ♥

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Sotka's Lights - 04

I'm so chuffed I've managed to finally finish this scene.

I'd love to hear your opinions on how things look so far with this style. Especially if it's clear enough to read as is.

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Sotka's Lights - 03

Say hi to happy little Jáhko. ♥ For a moment.

I've shared some concept art of this before, in the Tistow-verse Fjoldi magic is called 'colouring'. It's typically mixed with other instrumen...

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Sotka's Lights - 02

Colours and text. ♥ 


SNOW. I've felt like complete garbage today, which has made working really difficult. But I'm glad I had a chance to work on this for a moment.

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Sotka's Lights - 03-04

Hup!

I've wanted to draw this scene for a long bloody time.

On a more miserable note this is the sort of abuse I was subject to as a kid as soon as I learned to read. I just wish I had ...

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Sotka's Lights - 01

I made some revisions to the script and realised I could combine the 12 pages I've got of Sotka here on Patreon into this story. They bind together well.

This is, lineart and colour wise more...

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Snow

Had a go at colouring some of the panels.

It's weird to think when we started doing ST I wasn't terribly confident at colouring in general. I still feel like I'm bumbling in the dark half of ...

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Sotka's Lights - 01-02

Hup! Both this time!

Since that word is so hard to translate.. But it stands for that hard heavy snow on trees.

This is a short story for Small Trolls I wanted to draw ages ago. And I d...

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59-60 Amended panels - colours

Bit different one this time! I thought I'd keep the old one on Patreon so you can compare if you fancy.

I ended up flipping a few panels because they felt  a tad.. Off. It did mean redoi...

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59-60 - colours

Not completely finished but almost there. Still got few little bits and pieces to fix.

My margins are massive. There's a bunch of stuff in the smaller panels I know will end up getting hidden...

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59-60 - Inks

Whei~ new round number. We're finally at 60! That's actual pages without any dividers. I've not been doing cover art for the chapters since that messes up the numbers and breaks my code. Not sure i...

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59-60 - Thumbs/Pencils

Slightly cleaner version. This is meant to be the same market spot where Jack stopped for a gawk in chapter 1.

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57-58 - colours

Eeey done! Text left to do. I might release these on Thursday and Friday if Mark has a chance to fix them. ♥

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57-58 - inks

More progress! This is mostly coloured now actually but we're not quite finished. I can't wait to share these once the text is done!

2020-02-05 01:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post

57-58 - thumbs/inks

Partially inked pages of the next spread!  ♥

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55-56

Yaay we've got 2 new ones! I've been struggling to find the time but here we are. ♥ I'm still terribly busy with work but I'm trying to force myself away from client stuff in the evenings. I'm li...

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Sotka's Lights

This is pretty big. It's only slightly smaller than the original, for anyone who fancies squinting at the detail! Same goes for the progress piece below.

I had a blast doing this. I'm feeling...

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Sketch to Finished - Gallops

Yaay, there's music, some transitions as well as captions inbetween. I'm still very new to DaVinci Resolve but it's such an easy program to use.

Here's a clip of the progress. I noticed a few...

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Snow

We've drawn the boys a lot as deer (..and sheep) but here's another shapeshift! 

I've been a bit indecisive with Jack's equine form but I'm quite fond of this. It's a form you'll get to ...

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In the System

I wanted to briefly talk about this as it's been such a huge thing in my life in the past couple of years and affected my mood massively, but if you don't want to read about something a whole lot m...

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Pon

Didn't have a chance to post this before, something leftover from December!

I got a permission from the brilliant Rober Russell to use his music in my clips, so I'll be doing a bit more editi...

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Filly - Progress

Happy holidays everyone!

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Yuletide - Progress

Progress video of this sketch. ♥ Unfortunately I didn't seem to capture the very first sketching version, but most of its there. I had to hide the layers because this file was attached to somethi...

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Happy Yuletide

Back from Sweden! 

I had an incredible time. I met so many cool people, got to see so many amazing things and talk all day about characters, world building and concept stuff in general. ...

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