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 appears in.
2016-11-08 12:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostComicpages & Downloads:
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 on her once again just recently, so our struggle with technical difficulties did slow down Small Trolls for a while. But we got her computer to a working condition again (let's hope it won't break for a long time now) and we're just full steam pushing on new pages, thumbnails, and plans to fin...
2016-11-02 20:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the moment to make concepts for them! And yes, the very human like children are also trolls, they haven't grown to be of stone and moss quite yet. x3 And they all have names! We'll give them to you in the order or appearance: There's the children called Larkspur, Nightshade, Nettle and Cr...
2016-10-31 20:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 picture is a ring of mushrooms, called "the Fairy Ring." Funny thing is, certain mushroom species actually do grow out in this pretty much perfect circle formation. Elli found a piece of mythology from the medieval English believes, where it is believed that where elves dance, they burn a ring into th...
2016-10-30 13:48:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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 are process breakdowns and such~ We hope you enjoy this goodie and have had a blast of an October!
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Inking process (10$) * 2016-10-30 13:47:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the Sápmi relates to the souls of the drowned. And the Small Trolls/Tistow ones borrow that lore to some extent. They lure people into a watery grave in myriad of ways, but a poor soul that is confronted by a rávga has a couple of ways to buy their way out. These involve either tobacco or hair, bo...
2016-10-29 16:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 for YiH's cast. :3As always, full res attachment can be found in this post for those who might be curious about it!
2016-10-27 14:09:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in the attachment in case you would like a proper look!
- Karo
2016-10-25 17:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 There's a possibility he'll appear in Year In Hereafter too, and who knows, even Tistow's main story!
You can download the high resolution JPG from this post if you wish to take a closer look at the detail!
2016-10-23 11:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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, but have quite a bit of folklore behind them. I'd recommend reading up on them as there's a clear reference to couple of different stories in this picture.
I started with a rough sketch of the layout and focused on finishing the woods. The girls didn't actually get their lineart until after t...
2016-10-20 16:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostComicpages & Downloads:
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-files manually, or go here and grab a PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yme3cmx13pzzfnu/YIH%20-%20To%20Lapland.pdf?dl=1
2016-10-04 07:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 other things. So here's some rough monochromatic polygonal Veetiness.
Zbrush is a digital sculpture software used by pretty much every major (and minor) designer- and gamingstudio, and it's awesome to just play around with!
- Karo
2016-10-01 18:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 months to gather up some very needed extra money. Therefore a lot of our production has been jammed up and we've not had all the time and resources to do anything time consuming yet. She has managed to keep up with YIH's regular updates however, which has been great!
And on the othe...
2016-09-30 20:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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 theme as you can see!
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 guild called The Gutter Runners on Argent Dawn (WoW). She's in fact, a mix of two different roleplay characters.
The first one is her namesake, Ellie Loksley. Played by one of the old Runners GM's, also the same person who does all Tistow's script checks and proofreading. Loksley in WoW was a gang...
2016-09-15 01:06:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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. I wanted to have something a bit murkier to go with the theme of the comic but also something I could easily step into with Small Troll's coding.
So the layout might look a bit funny on its own, but it definitely works with the site itself.
So, the sketch. Omar's body changed shape so ...
2016-09-14 20:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Neither of them is capable of speech in their beastly forms, so showing their intentions and emotions needs to happen through expressions and body language.
Clothing is also an issue, as it doesn't magically reappear on their backs whenever they change forms. I felt it wa...
2016-09-14 19:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2016-09-11 19:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Step by step of this skinny little thing! ♥
Creepy feet.
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 Standard
1920 x 1080 Widescreen
2560 x 1440 HD
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 squirrels, mushrooms and fairies.
I can't tell you what the doglike-thing is for now though. But if you're familiar with Sámi mythologies, it's not difficult to figure out who he belongs to."
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 translate it. ..Joke being that she's a white goat. Jáhko's not very good at coming up with names for his pets. She's from Harmonsuo's herd of goats and was given to Jáhko as a git. His grandmother hopes it'll teach the boy to be more responsible.
Jáhko collects frogs and lizards and ...
2016-09-02 17:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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 hands to work out where exactly I felt I needed a bit more guides before I started inking. We lost the basket on the side but left the roll of cloth for him to lean against. Once they were done, I passed the file back to Karo to colour! I love how he turned out. I'd love to make either a sticker or ...
2016-09-02 16:41:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Widescreen
2560 x 1440 HD
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.
2016-09-02 13:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Countering concept art to "Serenity". As mentioned, this would've been more or less the graphical theme through this character.
2016-09-02 13:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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, there were hardly any plans to include the parallel world of Kalevala at first! It was supposed to be a very dark closeted journey through the river and then back home.
2016-09-02 13:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post