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Juuret - PDF

What it says on the tin! This is the Bonus comic Mika and I drew together for the Kickstarter campaign. Click on the download link at the bottom to get to it. ♥

The story takes place on the day wh...

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New Cast sketches

I've not done updated cast images in aaaages. Here's some coloured ones!

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YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 358 WIP

  Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 358 of Year In Hereafter! 

  - Mika  

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Ch2 - 6 - inks

Ah Mrs. Goodwill. You're a pain in the backside.

Note to self

  • Tapestry for page 4

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Ch2 - 5 - inks

Couple of things still need amending, but I'll do that for the coloured version. Starting to feel a wee bit more comfortable inking in general! ♥

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Ch2 - 4 - colours

I really like the dialogue on this page. It's mostly interaction between Anna and Alfie. ..Mostly Alfie talking but still.

Let's see how long that suit stays white.

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YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 357 WIP

  Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 357 of Year In Hereafter!    

- Mika  

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Chapter 2 - Diaries & Letters

Right, this is something we've been contemplating from the beginning with Mark (my co-writer) but haven't talked about until it felt more relevant. Jotting my thoughts down on this.

There's a lot of...

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Soot and drum - steps

I had saved more steps of this but they got lost in the end, eugh. But here's 4 at least!

Jack and his new roommates.

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Ch 2 - 3 - Colours

This was fun! 

I keep forgetting about Jack's freckles. He's not got just the few odd speckles afterall, but he's completely covered in them. Need some kind of memory trick for them.

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Ch 2 - 3 - Inks

Bit more context to the pencils now that the wisps are there. ..Except in the first panel since that's painted in during the colouring step.

Note to self:

  • Mrs. Goodwill's tapestry
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Ch 2 - 4 - inks

Alfieeee~ Love drawing them both.

I'm really looking forward to sharing the text version of this eventually. ♥

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Ch 2 - 2 - Colours

MORNING SUNSHINE. Shout at the pigeons guv.

And our morning lady. Despite the fact I went and coloured one of these Annas AGES ago, she fits in without any amendments.

Notes to self

YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 355 WIP

  Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 355 of Year In Hereafter!    

- Mika  

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Ch 2 - 1 - Colours

Whei, one done! Quite enjoyed this. Day light scenes still feel a little strange but this is really fun. ♥

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Ch 2 - Page 2 - Inks and WIP colors

It's gonna be interesting to see how this'll turn out. Not done daylight scenes in.. Ages.

Uh note to self

  • Feathers panel 2.

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Ch 2 - Page 1 - Inks and WIP colors

Some colour! And the inks have been finished.

Still a bit to do but we're getting there!

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YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 354 WIP

  Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 354 of Year In Hereafter! 

- Mika  

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Info about our next Physical Rewards!

Hello!

We're currently planning for the next Patron Physical rewards, and we're looking to send new stuff out closer at the end of 2018. We'll also be sending the new Traditional Art Rewards al...

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Juoksa's book: Serpent Stone

Happy folklore Thursday everyone!

Wanted to share a snippet from Juoksa's little book of folklores.

Adder stones or hag stones, are related to druidic folklore here in the UK. They have simila...

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YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 352 WIP

 Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 352 of Year In Hereafter!  

- Mika 

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Sketches of misfortune

Yup. Braid will see misfortune.

We'll get to it :3

-Mika

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YIH CHP 8 PAGE: 351 WIP

Sketches, inks and raw colours for page 351 of Year In Hereafter!

- Mika

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Rooftops - step by step

Here they are! Unfortunately I don't have the colour steps left anymore as it looks like I merged the serpent's and Jack's layers at some point in the process. Sorry about that, it would've been inter...

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YIH Volume 1 Book cover

I tried to have a throwback to Chapter 2. I'm still keen of the colour setting in that one and I tried to draw Mikael and Veeti the way I used to, their design has seen a lot of development.
Alas. ...

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Wallpaper - May - Rooftops

This one got quite a bit of attention over the weekend. Here's a wallpaper version of it for y'all!

There's two versions of it for you to download, if you need a different dimension just let me know...

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Ch2 - 6 pencils

Page 6. Mrs. Goodwill is back and just as charming as before.

Going to start adding greyscale values to the pencil stages.

Note to self:

  • Mrs Goodwill's glasses.

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Year In Hereafter Chapter 8 Previews

All righty, here are some shots from the next chapter now that the artwork is done! 30 pages, and we'll be updating this one 3 times per week simultaneously when the book funding campaign is running.<...

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Ch 1 - 32-34 inks

Technically not a WIP anymore as most of you will have seen these finished in the PDF. But I thought I'd share them! Last 3 pages of Chapter 1.

The last 2 were originally not in the script, the whol...

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Rat boy - Jack

I’ve mentioned before that a big theme in Tistow is going to be ‘identity’. I’ve not felt the need to write any of this down to explain before as I’d like people to find out for themselves a...

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