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Concept breakdown - Woodcarver

Guidelines for our redwood giant!

He's a very complicated character and for that reason we've got a cheat sheet for his roots and branches to ensure he looks mostly consistent in each panel that he ...

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Archive #2: 01/11/2016



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Monthly News Letter #2 01/11/2016

Hello! One more month has passed by and... Well, oddly enough it hasn't been much different from last month in certain aspects that you've been able to see from our messages:

Elli's computer failed ...

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Concepts of Small Troll's ACTUAL trolls.

Well of course by "Small Trolls" we do refer to Jáhko and Veeti. But nonetheless, we always knew there has to be some actual trolls in the story, and right plenty of them too. And now we finally had ...

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Fairy Ring Colored

Earlier you got a post featuring the process of how the lineart and base were done for this artwork, and here comes the second part finishing the picture. x3Like mentioned before, the theme of this pi...

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Halloweeny Wallpaper

Here you go! x3 Our Halloween-themed thing here, it's also available for a nice 1920x1080 Widescreen wallpaper right in the attachments for your magical foresty needs!For our 10$ tier patrons the re a...

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Creature concepts

Happy Halloween peeps! Despite the computer issues, I have some concept art for you of a couple of monsters you might already know.

Rávgas are a type of nixie or a water 'fairy'. Their lore in ...

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Year In Hereafter Monster Concept

Aright, this is... definitely from the grosser end of monsters what we'll see in YIH, and he'll be one of the major villains in the story. And once this oozy mess appears, it will not be a good time f...

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Year In Hereafter character concept

One of the entities we will encounter on the road! For the sake of not giving out any spoilers, I'm not going to elaborate any more on what this entity is. :3

The full resolution illustration is...

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Staalo Beast

Or at least that's a possible name to call it... We still haven't quite figured out the best possible English name for him, but this beast will present a more antagonistic role in Small Trolls. :3 The...

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Fairy Ring - inks

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Fairy Ring

Happy Halloween! Tried to think of a Tistow related one to post and this should fit perfectly. ♥


For anyone unfamiliar with fairy rings, they're a naturally occuring ring of mushrooms,...

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Archive #1: 04/10/2016

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Year In Hereafter Extrachapter: To Lapland

A small glimpse to Mikael's life before the events of Year In Hereafter, and how he decided to venture to the North.

LENGHT: 8 pages

You can either download the JPG-fi...

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Small Trolls - Veeti Sculpture

Phew! Haven't touched ZBrush in an awful long while, and now I took a few hours to practice some face and hair. Could've sacrificed an extra hour to just polish him up a bit, but... Sometimes there's ...

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News Post#1: First month of Small Trolls and Patreon!

This has been an interesting month! And a little bit rough at the same time. Mostly rough...

As some of you might be aware, Karo has been busy doing a full-time job for the past two mo...

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Panel progress

Panel from one of the upcoming pages with the progress included.

Karo's sketch, my faint one on top of it before I start doing lineart and finally Karo's colours. ♥ There'll be a big change in the...

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Loksley

Or, as known to some, Squirrel.

As much as I love Jack and Omar, there isn't a single character I've been as involved with as Victoria Loksley. She has a very colourful history which involves a guil...

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Rain - Step by step

Added a downloadable version of this image because the preview doesn't really cut the mustard!

Here we go! Got all of it saved!

This is the image currently in use on the main site's banner...

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Friendly neighbourhood shapeshifters

Half of these have been on view on my Twitter but the rest are new!

It'll become evident later on in the story, but most of our readers know that our serpent baby shares Jack's ability to shapeshift...

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Serpent concepts

These are fairly old concept paintings I haven't been able to share.

Slightly older Erwil on the right and our red friend is going to remain a secret.

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Erwil

Step by step of this skinny little thing! ♥

Creepy feet.

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Support wallpaper - Wheat fields

We've got two different versions of this for y'all! Our little apple thieves in the wheat fields.

The attached Zip file contains the wallpapers in the following dimensions:

1600 x 1200 Sta...

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Small Trolls: Creature concepts

Elli: "Some of the beasties you'll get to meet in the first chapter. Our dragon-tree friend wasn't supposed to have a head. He does now though. Good on him. There's lots of orher critters like the...

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Small Trolls - boys & Piki

Elli: Sketch dump of some concept art and ideas for the boys and Jáhko's pet goat, Piki.

Piki's name stands for "pitch black" or "sooty" in Finnish depending on how you want to tra...

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Reading little Veeti

Nicknamed Gumroad Veeti because his sole purpose was to advertise our Gumroad shop. Here's a step by step of 'im!

Elli: "Karo made the sketches for him and I only needed to go over his face and ...

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Wallpaper freebies - Rats & Reflections

Two old Support wallpapers from both of us which you can now download for free!

The Zip file contains both wallpapers with the following dimensions:

1600 x 1200 Standard
1920 x 1080 Widescr...

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Solitude

And to surprise everyone, this was Veeti at first in the original intended artstyle. Quite different huh! Even his personality was supposed to be a lot more violent and... Well, evil.

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Southern End

Countering concept art to "Serenity". As mentioned, this would've been more or less the graphical theme through this character.

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Serenity

Year In Hereafter's first idea was to make the journey through Tuonela individual for every person. In this case, we would've looked at it through the eyes of two different characters.

Frankly, ther...

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