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Not a big dragon. Drake, in fact.

We've been posting Jáhko as a dragon recently. Well, Veeti has his ambitions too.


But it is made an evident fact that Veeti isn't quite as talented when it comes to changing into beasts....

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Copperbeast - Wallpaper download

Here is a Progress PDF of this picture being done in 28 steps! If you're a $3 patron, you can go grab it. :3<...

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Copperbeast - Progress PDF

PDF download here! If you want to see the 28 steps of how I got...

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Small Trolls - 46

With text this time! We'll try to stagger the next update a little bit but we're so looking forward to giving you 47.

Bit of info here that I wish we could've shared with you ages ago. Though most o...

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Sister's Dress

And here's Veeti doing some secret tailoring stuff at about 12 years of age, which gets him excited about tailoring! When it earlier was a chore and a pain his mum pressed on to him, now he's excited ...

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Soot and gaslighting

Another Sotka. The grey and turquoise hues work much better than the original warm browns. It feels like it fits him better as a character.

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Jol - sketches

Right, last one. Then we've got a good chunk of these wildlings to deal with. There's a tiny detail on this guy you might recognise and connect with an old illustration.

I've been going through old ...

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Sotka - revised colours

Had another go at colouring Sotka. Decided to change its colours from earthy to more fitting sky, soot and gaslight one. You've seen Tytti and Woodcarver so far as more humanoid creatures, so here's S...

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Tytti & Woodcarver

As.. People. Of sorts.

Little collab from both of us! Mika drew Tytti and Elli drew Woodcarver.

Tytti's realm is the watery grave of Death, known to the Fjoldi as Saivo. Very stern maiden of t...

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Sotka

Concept art of this little ratbag in the sky. Sotka is one of the dragon creatures in Tistow. It's a mischievous little sprite, loves to observe people and finds life on earth endlessly entertaining.&...

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Small Trolls Page 46 sketch

More! We were late getting last month's page complete, but we wanted to make the sketch for the next one, and finish both in tandem!

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Cast Scribbles

I started this as a practice for characters I don't draw much, yet, but ended up adding to it. They've all got their traits set but I've not actually drawn half of the cast as much as uh.. ...Well. Ja...

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Glacier Gear

Väinölä might be the land of eternal Summer, but there might be a chance that won't work out while these three are visiting Kalevala's lands. Mmmaybe.


Anyway, it's about time I begin t...

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YIH Chapter 9 progress update, 30% done

Hello 'ello!

 BTW, I hope you all will enjoy your rewards who are getting them! I sent out 17 letters and 33 traditional artworks this Monday, which is a crazy amount of suppor...

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Hound of the wilds

Jotting down some notes and sketches for bonus comic material. You've met Stállu's hound so far. This fella's not dissimilar.

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Old pals

Don't think I've ever shared a sketch of these two together in the YIH AU.

We figured it's likely that Anna's the one that introduced Jaakko to the barracks, where they both tended to the goats, cle...

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Ch 2 - Page 8 - inks & colours

I've fallen a wee bit behind on finishing pages because of other commitments. But here's 8! 

One thing I love about Tistow is experimenting with all kinds of different things. And lately, since...

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Witches Shrines (Year In Hereafter)

These single stones are scattered throughout Väinölä, and their purpose remains unknown. What these were built for, by whom, when, nothing's certain. But no person thinks fondly of them.

They're ...

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Ch 2 - Page 8 - sketches

Since I mentioned this before, here's what 8 is gonna look like. Still got to tidy everything up with pencils before I can move on to inks.

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Revised page - 7 - colours

Gosh this turned out a bit different than I intended. There's a couple of things that still need fixing. Namely Alfie's boat.

And Anna's dress. What is that hole in her patterns..

Page 8 went ...

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Sketch Request Submissions

That time of the week! You're welcome to submit as many as you like and we'll pick a few of them to draw. ♥ 

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Sketch Requests #5

Here we are, we're taking a break from sketch requests this week and we'll be getting back to them next week if nothing comes up. :3 Thank you again everyone, I had a lot of fun with these!

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Small Trolls Page 45 sketch

Hooray! We got the ball rolling for new entries, thank you all~
Working pipeline is the same: Elli does the main scriptwork, inks and lettering, Mika handles paneling, sketching and colouring. Ther...

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YIH Ch 8 Cover + Chapter progress breakdown

There's the progress for the cover artwork. Below here will be a big blurb about how much time Chapter 8 took to make, and about things that made my work a lot easier this time round.

(And nope,...

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Patrons of Small Trolls as trolls quite small

Our dear friend and a long-time patron, mister Flik, tossed us a request in the latest "Sketch request" post, suggesting us to draw random patrons as small trolls.

While it's a lovely idea, we ...

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Sketch request submissions

That time of the week! You're welcome to submit as many as you like and we'll pick a few of them to draw. ♥

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Missus Harmonsuo

Sketch request by Hawk Hunting, "That powerhouse sorceress whose name I forgot, so i just call her Mrs. Harmonsuo"

x3 And here you have her~ She's very green.

- Mika

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YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 364 WIP

  Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 364 of Year In Hereafter!  

  - Mika  

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Sketch request submissions

That time of the week! You're welcome to submit as many as you like and we'll pick a few of them to draw. ♥ 

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Tower - rough

Before I lose this for good. This feels a bit ambitious but it's something I'm going to very. Slowly. Work on over a longer period of time. Whenever I have a moment.

This is more or less all of the ...

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