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The winter card is relevant to the Small Trolls pages that I've posted so far. ♥

Fjoldi don't bury their dead if they can avoid it, they're cremated. They therefore don't have gravestones o...

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Happy Winter!

Happy midwinter everyone! ♥ Here's this year's winter card's design. I've unfornately not got the actual physical cards yet, but I'll share pictures as soon as they get here.

I hope y'all h...

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Page 50 - inks

Well, in part. Missing one BG and the bottom panel. I reeaaally like coming up with background characters to draw (even if half of the time they end up behind bubbles).

There's a cameo appear...

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Wilds - silhouettes

I occasionally do silhouettes of character designs to determine whether or not I can tell each character apart just off them. It's always been quite important to me to get some kind of idea of a chara...

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Cap'n Sotka

Captain is a white peacock that lives on the farm where I help out with horses and ponies. He's fun to observe and he's given me many ideas for Sotka's antics. Unfortunately he's a bit difficult to ph...

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Sotka - 7-12 - roughs

Gosh these are a bit rough. The comp's themselves work, but say, page 9 I'll definitely need to rethink Sotka's pose and angle.

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Sotka - 1-2 - inks & bases

..Ignore the terribly coloured SFX ahaha. I decided not to ink too much of the BGs as I would like to try and see how airy I can make things feel, so I'll be painting most of it. I'd still like there ...

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Sotka & Jáhko - pages 1-6 - roughs

Small Trolls stuff! This is the 'short' that I mentioned a while back. The comic is 22 pages long and features Sotka and Jáhko.

The story was originally going to take place before Jáhko meets Veet...

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Eustace - Bonus comic - roughs

I drew this setup earlier this year but never got around to actually uploading it here (it's a rough so I'm not 100% sure how clear it is what's going on exactly. But we're on Jack's loft). I'd like t...

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Queen of rats

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49 - colours

Almost there! But not quite done. This did make me think I might like to change some bits on the previous page colour wise, hah.

I'm so sorry Alfie.

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48-49

Progress shot! I've actually more or less re-colored the right side page now. Trying to get the mood to match the left side better.

I've been watching development diaries of Hellblade tonight while ...

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Page 48 - Progress

This page was a challenge. One of the things I'm quite content with in general, is working with values in BW. However like I've mentioned before, when it comes to turning them into colours there seems...

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Happy winter - painting notes

Happy yuletide everyone. ♥

I have a few notes about this sketch colouring wise. I'm quite pleased with some bits and pieces. They might be a bit hard to spot but I had great fun putting some of th...

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Nay kisses

Felt poorly this weekend, so here's somethin' awkward sweet an' proper pissin' soft like.

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Address reminder for Christmas cards

Hi everyone!

Just a last reminder to all active patrons to update your address if you haven't already. ♥

Best regards,

Elli

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48 - 1 - colour WIP

Work in Progress of page 48. Characters aren't quite done but the BG is getting there.

One thing that I've changed about the progress while I've practiced painting, is the fact I merge most of my la...

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Sketchcote

One of the value practices I've been doing to work on my colours (funnily enough, even though this is BW, it's helped) and shapes. I've done a lot of studies on paintings in general recently and will ...

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In between

Concept stuff! ♥

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47 - step by step

This page was a very trying one. It's really tested my patience and skill. It did force me to do a lot of painting studies though and I feel much better about colouring now. I feel like I've still got...

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Keek! - Page 47

I've had an absolutely horrible time with this page colouring wise and it's the reason I've not updated on the website. I've spent the time getting other work done instead and lots and lots of colour ...

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Kurre

Concept art. ♥ I've mentioned this before, quite a long time ago now, that my grandma, mum and I have occasionally discussed turning one of Nanny Hammarström's books into either a comic or a childr...

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Missy

Concept art of a character I can tell you very little about. But she'll appear in this current chapter and plays an important role in the story. ♥ I look forward to drawing her.

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Beth and Jack

You might remember this, from almost 2 years ago now!

Beth's been sitting on the bench for quite a long time now, but I've finally had the chance to do newer concept art of her. She's going to becom...

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Odie previews

Got a permission from Aaron to post couple of Odie pages here. ♥ Left one is from issue 1 and the second one is from issue 2.

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Secret pond

Little something to pass the time inbetween jobs.

I've been pretty swamped with work this month and I've still got catching up to do before it ends. I'm finding it a bit challenging to find the time...

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Christmas plans for Patrons (and rats)

Hey everyone!

I have some Christmas card plans for our Patrons! This is something we've done every year previously and I'd like to continue the tradition. So all I'd like to ask, is that you make su...

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Arriving in Tistow - art blocks

Uh, spoilers potentially? I mean, if I had not taken a break from updating, we'd long have confirmed who Alfie's mum is. 

Alfie and Morrie are both Taela and we have a lot of diary related stuf...

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Foal sketches - Stream progress

I'm so happy with these lot. ♥ I had a lot of fun during tonight's stream.

We had folk chipping in on picking colours for them. Really good fun and made me very happy that people were taking part....

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11-14 - colour WIP

Gosh there's still so much to do on these. I've really struggled to get them done and the mood right. 

I've been working on them during the Livestreams but I feel a bit awkward about doing more...

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