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YIH Extra Chapter 2: Sweetshop

So, here, one-page sneakpeeker for you lot! Like for the first book bundle, it had it's own little 8 paged extra chapter "To Lapland". The second book bundle will have this one. :3

Don't really have much to add. Oh, except this: This little booklet will contain all the Patrons names in a pretty list when this goes to print!

PST: You might recognise the lady here to be from Tistow if you've been an observant fan~

ST: Act 8 Thumbnails/Roughs

It's been a while since we've had a concentrated few days just for Small Trolls with all the busy things we've had, and we're very happy to show you some proper progress on things! :3 After this, Chapter 1 will have one more act, and then we should be able to wrap up our intro chapter to Small Trolls.

In case you're new and you've not seen too many of these thumbnail posts or just haven't gotten the chance to get familiar with out working pattern in general, this is the regular pipeline of wor...

Computer repairs and prints

Elli's computer has hit a snag and needs to be sent off to be repaired. I'd like to sell off some of my print stock to help out with the costs and as I'm going to be computerless on top of that, I can't work on any digital sketch commissions for a while. Anyone who's interested in helping out will get these prints in turn. ♡ The prints are £8 each and £15 for both. Any existing patrons will get an extra mystery treat in their parcels. Postage is free! Either message us or email me on elli@...

YIH Chapter 6 sneakpeak

All right, here's a little sneakpeak for the next chapter's artwork. In case you missed it, here is the earlier post showing a few panels from here and there: https://www.patreon.com/posts/year-in-chapter-13893896

This will be the last thing that I'll be showing for the chapter before it kicks up on the website. Obviously, dialogue is still muted because I'd rather keep that under the covers.

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Tistow Act 1 - Pages 1-6

Whei finally got some greyscale valued pages for you all!

Finishing touches and edits will be done once the whole chapter is completed and colour added, but before then, we've got it for our Patrons to read at least!

Do let me know if you spot anything odd or if something's not clear to read. And if you want to share these with your friends, I don't mind! I'm trying to keep the pages somewhat gated behind Patreon, but throwing the first 6 pages out there isn't a problem at all.

Whe...

Sketch commissions - Friday

Friday's sketch commissions! Only got a few done tonight, unfortunately due to the passing of one of our ratties. :<

Hence the quite ratty themed sketches too. Thank you Flik for suggesting drawing Beth with Gabe. ♥ Loved doing all of these. Cheered me up a lot.

- Elli -

Sketch commissions

Most of last night's haul that was streamed!

I'm taking sketch commissions to pay off some unexpected medical bills. If you'd like one, prices are as follows:

£10.00 for one character (coloured)
£15.00 for two characters
£20.00 for two characters and a background.

These are quick to do and any help will go a long way!

You can either contact me via Twitter DM 2017-08-24 22:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Boof - thumbnails

Quite an old set of thumbnails now, of a scene where Anna's meant to meet Jackdog for the first time. Whether or not this scene will see any use, I can't say. For starters it was done with the wrong dimensions. *rolls eyes* And while I want to show Anna as a bit of a spiteful grump in this, I'm not too sure it quite fits (even with knowing the cause of her mood). 

So I'll probably end up scrapping it, but I wanted to show it to y'all anyway as it doesn't exactly spoil anything.

Anna...

Morrie

More sketches from earlier this year!

Jack has some unusual ways of trying to make friends with people and Morrie likes her Sundays off.

Sketch dump

Of various things. I've been going through my folders and trying to work out which of the less spoily ones I can colour and show.

..So here's some. Couple of Veetis and Jáhkos. Anna with a kid who you'll briefly get to meet in the 2nd chapter called Alfie. And even a little sketch of Anna if she was a member of Ieva's troops in YIH. x3

- Elli -

Physical Rewards - August 2017

These are the physical rewards currently available for our $10+ patrons! You still have plenty of time to sign up for our August send outs. :3

Those who've supported us for longer, you might already own most of these. So if there's one specific one you'd really like to obtain in August, please let us know so that we don't accidentally send out duplicates.

The bookmarks are double sided. They are still with the printers but should arrive just in time for the end of the month.

There'...

Miss Goodwill

Slightly self-indulgent late night sketching. Anna cheers me up whenever I'm feeling poorly and I've found myself drawing her a lot lately.

I said a while ago that Loksley's the only lady to wear trousers in public in the comic, but there's plenty of girls in the story who'll dress up as gentlemen to conceal their identity. Or in Anna's case to run away from her nana and to enter a men only private club for free drinks.

Whether or not the bottom ones are canon, I can't tell you. But draw...

Blighter

Karo asked me for my take on the Kalmahinen beasties in Year in Hereafter. I play a lot of WoW and I quite like blighted things, so here's my scribble of one of 'em.

Elli

Ribbons and rings

Let's see how the mobile app works. Bit laggy so far.

Update on the mobile app: It's pretty terrible to write with.

Credit to Karo for coming up with this! I've acquired some brass eyelets and ribbon to go with the bookmarks. Initially I kinda fancied the idea of using lace of some sort to go with the Victorian theme for Tistow (Karo has her own similar plans for the YIH ones) but I'm not sold on that yet because I haven't found anything fitting so far. Silver eyelets could be an option ...

Cast bookmarks - Morrie & Loksley

Yay we've got 2 more! These two were finished during a Picarto stream. Cheers everyone who showed up!

Casting bookmarks - Morrie & Loksley

Morrie's and Loksley's turn! Plenty of work to do with these two still, but we're getting there. I've had a nice restful week and drawing these has definitely helped with that.

Fun fact: Both of them are originally roleplay characters, Loksley who in part belongs to me. Their roles in RP were not dissimilar to what they'll be in Tistow. 

Much like Jack, Tag and a number of other characters who've not been introduced yet, they have been running around Warcraft's Argent Dawn server si...

Year In Hereafter Chapter 6 50% done!

Uff took me a while to do this post! I've finally gotten some colourings done, first off I just concentrated on getting linearts made and for the past few days I've been simply focused on finishing colours, and I'm finally over that half-way mark to getting this chapter done.
The only thing I've not sketched for this chapter is the chapter cover... And I'm still not quite sure what to do with that. Most likely something foresty~

Still a lot of work to do, but at least we are sure that t...

Cast bookmarks - Jack & Anna

After some fighting with CMYK and gamut warnings, finally done with these two. *groans*

The bookmarks will be printed without the dark blue borders.

Next up for the cast bookmark batch are Morrie and Loksley, then Veeti and Omar. If I have time before the print, I'd like to do one of the urchins (Tag and Legs) as well.

Elli

Casting bookmarks

I've been struggling with fatigue so getting anything done is great. I'd like to do a rain themed set of bookmarks of the main cast to eventually use as profiles on the website too.

Here's two of the 6 I've got inked so far! Jack and Anna. Colours will be added for the finished lot.

-Elli-

Small Trolls - little break

Hopp, change of plans everyone! This is Elli, hi!

Due to some financial related bits and pieces, we have decided to put Small Trolls on a small break, until 3rd of September to be more specific.

Some of you are already aware of this, but I've currently got two other comic projects sitting on my schedule, one of them being After the Gold Rush written by Miles Greb and the other one I'm not in a position to say anything about (let's call it Project Pinecone).

These a...

Swan and troll

Concept art related to the short story Goal that we announced. Not gonna reveal too much but we can give you their names: Njukča and Čohkal.

Soup Kitchen update

We've been running Patreon for almost a year now and it's time to do some small amendments to our tiers!

The only one that has changed though, is the Soup Kitchen. The amount of projects we've taken on has more or less doubled in the last 8 months which means we now have much less time to build buffers for Small Trolls (The other two projects we can't share much of unfortunately). Right now it's very unlikely we'll be more than one page ahead at any given time and we'd like to make sure our Pa...

Summer - Small Trolls Support Wallpaper

Hello there! Something different considering Small Trolls art this time, Karoliina did the lineart, and Elli filled in with the colours. 

We got a whole new site layout for Small Trolls, and we also wanted to make a summer banner for this year! This is already the 5th banner we've made, and we tend to make a new one by the seasons. In other words, it's the second summer banner, and Small Trolls is a year old thing! 

As usual, we're offering you these wallp...

Archive #5 30/7/2017

 New to our Patreon? Is the amount of content overwhelming?

 Don't worry, here's everything published on the page so far so you can search back easier!

If there are broken links, please let us know. :3

Comicpages & Downloads:  

• Tistow: Small Trolls pages 01 - 24 Beta read<...
  2017-07-30 15:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Pages 3-4 inks

We're going to look at amending our reward tiers soonish.

I'm currently juggling 4 projects at the same time, 2 which I unfortunately can't share with you. This means I'm too overbooked to look at mending the Small Trolls buffer for our Patrons. It's likely my schedule will remain like this at least until November.

We'll make an announcement about this as soon as there's time and let you know what rewards you'll be getting instead.

Here's the inks for pages 3-4 of Tistow!

Dockside Gate

Honestly? I wish this chapter was done already so I could start sharing it.

Here's the first colour drafts for the first 2 pages of the reboot. Missing a couple of important details from these, namely text related.

The year is 1853. Jack is 20. In the previous comic he was a fair bit older (year then being 1858-9).

The Discord channel is still open for anyone who'd like to join. Keep in mind that anything there is work in progress so if you're look...

10 Lumps of sugar

EDIT: Originally submitted a smaller strip of panels than I meant to. So that's fixed now. x3

Hello hello hello!
I really need to stop saying that three times!


I have been sketching (Plot inspired with Elli a year ago actually!) a new extra chapter! Obviously it will be available here on our Patreon as I've promised to have all of the extra chapters.

Anyway. The image above is a little sketch strip of this next short ...

YIH Progress Update

Hello hello hello!

So, YIH is nearing the state that I can start updating it again.

I just finished the remaining 16 pages to Chapter 5. Once I get back to updating I'm intending to update 2 pages per week, Wednesday and Friday, as I remember and believe those were the regular updating days before the hiatus. x3

Now, what comes to Chapter 6 (the one where we'll go back to visit Lapland and check what the Harmonsuos are up to), it is going to be ~30 page...

Tistow thumbnails - pages 1-6

I've tidied up the first chapter for beta reading purposes and created a Discord channel specifically meant for it. The plan is to have the first chapter available to read in its thumbnail stage + dialogue to anybody who's interested in helping me pick out things to improve on, or for anyone who's just keen to read ahead. Once the thumbnails are done we'll move on to inks and so on. There'll be a separate channel for that.

Feel free to pop in and out, the invite is open indefinitely and you're...

(semi)Monthly News Letter #8 19/06/2017

Prints. Prints. Prints.

It has been a long time coming, people. We finally took the funds we have saved from your generous pledges, and we've made things out of them.

And, the subtitle says it all, prints! Merch! Sweet stuff!

I'm going to bring everything into a sweet summary of what your patronage has allowed us to make:

First off, we got badges. Yep, those little things you can pin to your bag and stuff, and they have a pi...