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Cranberry fritillary - Contest info
One of the prizes from our art contest that's running until the 20th of July! You can find more information about the contest here.We've ordered a print batch of this piece and will be using it as a prize, but if you'd like to purchase it off us or to receive one as a Patreon reward, ple...
YIH Chapter 6 conceptuals
Bigger resolution available for view at DeviantART (yep. Patreon should do something about image sizes so we wouldn't need to outsource things all the time)So! Next chapter won't be residing in Kalevala, but we're returning to Lapland instead for a little bit.In case you need a reminder ...
Website updates & the Ratman
Tistow's main website has been updated! We're only missing the Cast page now.I've added all Patreon related illustrations as well as some extra ones under the Stuff page. Patreon's got that nifty tags function now that allows you to view specific art on our page, but if you'd lik...
The blonde of the story
Made a very rough presentation of Veeti growing up through Tistow: Small Trolls and Tistow. Most of the changes seem to happen to his hair though... :3Bigger resolution available through DeviantART- Karo
Anna & Morrie - Layers
I've been rereading through my books about Victorian clothing for both men and women. The amount of layers and effort they put into everything is amazing.Here are couple of different layers for our two main ladies. I didn't want Anna to end up looking like a pauper next to Morrie, as the gir...
Small Trolls - 38 - inks
Lotsa trolls! Bestefar's so much fun to draw.
Goodwills
Plus Morrie. Who's not a member of the family but she's here as a comparison to Anna.Mrs. Goodwill is a little old lady who likes to stare out of windows and stick her nose into people's business. Blessed with old age, she's literally from another century and people find her hard to ...
More pages for Chapter 5 of YIH! And info
BIGGER RESOLUTION HERENow, I have to address the fact that I've been very unhappy with the fact that I had to quit updating in the middle of a chapter. I've taken some time to think about it, and I've decided to continue publishing Year In Hereafter a little bit differently:I will not st...
Year In Hereafter: Ending of Chapter 5
BIGGER RESOLUTION HERE!(Sorry, Patreon really doesn't show mercy for wide images)Well I wasn't expecting to draw this at all... I just got bored and wanted to see what would happen... (Karo writing here :3)I have hardly drawn anything YIH related since I announced the hiatus in the hurry of ...
Small Trolls - 37 - lineart
The first set of inks from Elli for this week's page.
Bestefar
Our resident senior troll! WIP from this week's update.
Harmonsuo Family (1839)
Some concept art for the second chapter of Small Trolls! :3 Fans of Year In Hereafter are familiar with these other characters we'll introduce here, though they appear in slightly different names.There's little Veeti on the left. (We're taking a little look to what happened two years bef...
Small Trolls 37-40 Thumbnails
Here are thumbnail sketches for pages 37-40~Now, in case you are new to how we work on things, I'll give a brief explanation of what happens:This is the "thumbnailing stage" (we sometimes use blue tone sketches instead of these which you might've stumbled upon if you've been thor...
Odie - Pages 1-3
First three pages of Odie (without dialogue this time) just for our Patrons!Odie is a Kickstarter funded oneshot written by Aaron Sullivan that you might've seen us bang a drum about last month while the campaign was ongoing.Elli's thumbnailing and inking and Karo is responsible for the colo...
Wallpaper Download: Long hee, dun khee!
A little bit of a different wallpaper download this time. I personally love this catch phrase and it's kind of why 75% of YIH's maincast is long haired I suppose...For now... (Not foreshadowing at all)If this is the one for you, then enjoy! :3- Karo
Page 36 - inks
Here's the next page Karo's working to colour! We've finally got trolls. ♥
Not a shonky shop
Even once in a blue moon Karo puts that little bit of nightly hours activity into good use and actually draws concept art of buildings! :3This was a request from Elli for Tistow's concept collection.Oh, and I have to say that I'm amazed that we're getting near to that 30 patrons. When we...
Turnagain alley - Jack's hovel
More concept stuff! Jack's little room this time. Whether or not he keeps the bedframes yet, not sure. It's a cheap and simple place after all.
Tistow - thumbnails - 01-02
Opp, exactly like the title says, potentially the first two pages for Tistow's new beginning. Whether they'll stay like this or not I couldn't tell you, nothing's set in stone. But I'll enjoy drawing those crowds for sure.If you want to read a bit further, you can find the script...
Page 35 - inks
Free for all to view! After a day at the A&E in Maidstone we're going to postpone updating on the website tonight. The page will go up in colours as soon as Karo's better.- Elli
Papers, please - Step by step
Step by step version of the support wallpaper.Jack's right hand caused such a massive amount of headaches. Karo was kind to lend me a hand and created the frame for me. It's likely we'll be using it for chapter cover purposes in the future too.
Support wallpaper - May - Papers, please
Tistow one this time!You can find the fullsize versions attached to this article. We hope you enjoy them! ♥
Page 36 - troll inks
Where Veeti meets one for the first time. ♥ See if you can work out who these three are.
Page 36 - sketches
We promised you some trolls last week. Rough illustrations over Karo's sketches. Next up will be the inked version of this!
Tag - Expressions
If you've had a chance to read the script draft for Tistow's first chapter, you'll know there's been a mention of some urchins already. This little fella is one of the two. You'll recognise him from the old story too!We decided against aging him (backwards) as we quite like the c...
Morrie - expressions
Morrie's turn! She only really got a mention on in the old story but she'll be making a proper appearance in the upcoming 1st chapter.Known as Miss Fallow, she works at The Anchor as a waitress and later on becomes a sexworker for a reputable house. She also acts as a fence for the urchins.
Jack - expressions
I had a huge amount of these back in the day but all of the sketches are so terribly old now, I figured it'd be fun to redo some of them.And it definitely was, so here's some of the main man-child, Jack. He's supposed to be around 20 in these, bit younger, healthier and not so hooked up ...
Monthly News Letter #7 06/05/2017
Localisation is UKFirst things first: If you are an eligible Patron who has given us enough for a little(or big) Patreon Reward surprise this summer, you have the chance to give us a wish of what you would like us to make for you! Just keep in mind that your request should be about Small Trolls, but...
Odie - panels
Couple of panels from random pages from the Kickstarter comic we're working on! Odie was successfully funded and even reached one stretch goal.We'll be working hard this to bring all the pages to life before the end of May. Other than the pages Elli's got a bunch of sketch covers to work...
A plaything, Nuorravuohta Demo
Hulloo!So. Here is the demo I was working on for the 3 months. Not gonna say much, obviously there are things that could be bettered and (hopefully not too many) bugs might occur. But so far it's been a pretty rock solid little thing! This wee plaything won't be worked further, as it was sim...
