Drunk Duck is up!!

Hmm, after a bit of googling I actually found drunkduck comic hosting again (and my comics intact) but behind a completely new link!!

Here's the link:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/

I'm gonna fix the links in all my sites etc when I have time.

For those who'll rather read the updates on my comics there, here are the new links:
Taint of Exile: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Taint_of_Exile/
Tari Uyest': http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/twod/

The new pages of TWOD will be there in a few minutes.

A real update!

Hi there!

Some sad and otherwise busy times have kept me from serious drawing.
I'm slow in my work now, but I thought that by keeping it slow with out any stress I will not only do better, but also feel better about it.
So, I'm very sorry for the long breaks in updates, but I hope you will enjoy unrushed pages and thus so the wait will be worth it :)

BUT i actually updated TWOD!!!
It's two pages of which the second one will be up tomorrow (it's a timed update).
These are the pages I began working on during the time of mourning after my grandfathers death more than a month ago. I feel relaved to have them done and online. It's like one chapter has now ended and the next is just beginning.

Since DrunkDuck has been down for a very long time the updates can be found only at Smackjeeves now. Please enjoy them!

April updates

April update for both of my comics will be couple of days late. The other is already done and the other is missing only the finishing toutches. However, RL causes me to be a bit late with them, but they will come in a couple of day!!

Last update for year 2012!

Page 22 for chapter 3 for Taint of Exile is the last update for year 2012 and it's up today!

Now I'm off to celebrate Christmas, my birthday and the new year. See you on year 2013!

Finland 95 years old and new page on TOE

Yes, there's an update on Taint of Exile!
And it just happend to be the independence day of Finland and this is the 95th year :)

TWOD: Part 02 page 06

New page in TWOD!

Progress is so slow for reasons mentioned in my previous entry, but at least I got a page up for one of my comics!!

Two new pages on TWOD

Yes, I have done two new pages for TWOD!
The first of the two will appear tomorrow and the second a week later.

TOE will still be on a break, because I want to feel a bit more confident about drawing again, before attempting to paint the next page.

The pages of TWOD do not need as much work as the pages of TOE so to find my confidence again the first one is an excellent tool!

TWOD: part 02, page 03

TADA!!!

Tomorrow there will appear a new page for TWOD!

Sorry for the slowness and etc. Things are as they are and currently I'm again unemployed ^^'

Let's hope I find work soon enough and the kind of work I enjoy!

Part 02 page 01

The first page of part 2 of TWOD is up for your enjoyment during the Easter (if you celebrate it).

Easter means a long weekend here in Finland due to havin a national holyday on next Friday and following Monday. During that time I won't be able to work on pages, but luckily I have still some that I have not yet uploaded :)

The update on smackjeeves-site will take a while due to having some pwoblems with even getting the site open, but on drunkduck you can find the new page already.

I'll try to get the page up in smackjeeves by tomorrow latest.

An Update Tomorrow!!!

Which means I have a new scanner!! :D

There is an update tomorrow in TWOD. I have more to come, but won't upload them all at ones to buy myself a bit of time to get back into business.

But nevertheless I'm back!

Thank you for your patience guys!

Next update on 28.11.2011!

For those who use some other way of indicating the date, I'm talking about November 28, 2011.

I'm sorry, but I had to do this when I realized that it is completely impossible for me to find time to get any proper updates done on time in a week.

Hopefully I get more than one page up for you on that day ;)
It is possible that there will be an update for TWOD as well, but nothing definite on that side yet.

New page for TOE!!

The problem with the scanner is not completely over, but I can at least scan.

I still have problems with making proper scans because the program I'm supposed to use won't function. Only now my computer recognizes my scanner so I can do simple scans. The result not good and to make the colors even tolerable I have to fix them by using my corel-program.

So the colors aren't that great, but at least we got forward with the story!!

TOE's update schedule for now will be every other monday. Today's update is counted as a monday update. It was supposed to be updated tomorrow morning, but I got mixed up with the dates so you got a new page a bit earlier than ment.

Updates on next week!

Hello and sorry for the long wait.

I have next week free from work so I hope to be able to work on the pages more. The next page of TOE is only missing its last layer of color aka shadows XD The following page is also half way done. Also a character design needed for the page after that is done so I can actually think of sketching it as well.

The first page of TWOD's second part has been ready for a good while, but with the cover art still undone (I have a little trouble getting it the way I want it) you still have to wait for it.

I hope to get some pages done next week, but they won't be brought online right away. So there will be updates now and then during the summer :)
However, all in all I have only two weeks of vacation in the whole summer so I quess for the most part I am tired after work. I have so many new things to learn all the time and it's surprisingly tiring when you feel that you still just don't get it. But it's remarkably relieving when you realize you actually understand something!

Have a happy and warm summer!

TWOD update in DD

Amy character picture

Finally I was able to upload the pages in drunkduck, so they are up now.

Page 19 of Part 1 will be up in a few days. No promises when page 20 (the last page of part 1) will be up. Hopefully it will be soon anyway.
After page 20 we have a kind of "closing words" for part 1. After that the first part of the story is finished.

Between part 1 and 2 so far hidden pages at the homesite will be published. I'll also proof-read the information and world map pages because I seem to have several stupid mistakes there.

Also after the first part I will give my full attention to TOE for a good while.

TWOD update

Tomorrow morning a new page of TWOD will show up in smackjeeves.

However, in drunkduck I wasn't able to do the uploading so it will be up there later. I will try again on tomorrow or the day after.

This was just a quick note pointing out that updates are in SJ, but not yet in DD :)

Fanart

For your enjoyment while waiting for updates I want to show you two TOE fanarts. (There is one more TOE fanart by Cahir-the-whicher at the gallery.)


Viator by Cahir-the-witcher

 First here is child Viator by Cahir that was according to her inspired by my art shown in this blog.

Viator is being extra cute here! However, you will still need to wait for a while before we'll see bits of his childhood in the comic.

The other fanart is by my sister. When she gets back home during summer we can scan the picture properly. However, the current version has been taken with a digital camera.

Aamu and Saturnin by Lehmu

This fanart shows well the relationship (or lack of it) between these two. Aamu has a huge crush on the high-shaman when he is completely oblivious.

It is Aamu's feelings which we tried to show you with Kaj in the First Aside.

Update on the situation of TWOD.
I have finally started to work on the pages again. I have recovered almost completely since my last blog-update. However, I won't have time to become 100 % well before the pollen and allergies come.

So, soon my allergies will steal most of my energy. We'll see how that affects the comics. I know I'll be slow at work just like always during the pollen season.

I'm happy I don't have hay fever!! I consider myself lucky!

The two next pages

As the title hints I have been working on the two next pages of chapter 3 of TOE. I have them almost sketched so very soon I will start to make the finished line art.

I won't be working on new pages of TWOD untill these two are finished. However, after these two pages I think I might work only on TWOD for a while to get the first chapter finished. It's only five more pages.

I'm also thinking of making a seperate piece of art of the people in the meeting in chapter Loyalty. Kind of a portrait of the group. :) Let's hope I find time to work on that.

Now I have to also spend time on looking for a new job. I still have about three weeks left of the current one, but I still have nothing after that which forces me to look for work. Lets hope for the best :)

Part 1 page 16

I decided to put an update on the situtation of TWOD so I could try some more features XD

This is the current situtation of the next page of TWOD. It's pretty much half-way done :)
I hope to get the last five pages of the first part done by the end of this year. That would be a good point to take a short break from the comic. Don't worry, this break is just the kind where I will ready some stuff for the release of part 2.

One of the things I will be doing between chapters is to finish the new character pages which are half-way done, but still hidden from public. The next chapter will introduce two new characters and with Amy included they form the main trio of the story :)
I also hope I will get the smackjeeves and drunkduck sites built more to my liking and change art for banners and such.

This kind of preparations will take place between chapters.
I also truly hope to spend more time on TOE as well!

I don't remember did I ever mention this, but I will mention it now.
I received a fanart for TWOD from Cahir_the_witcher!
Go check it out now!

Loyalty: page 13

The next page of TOE is all the time under work, but I have a lot of problems of getting it right. It is a page I like personally which is why I would like to be satisfied with the outcome. However, I'm feeling like giving up and just get it finished and forward with the story...

Hmm... Maybe the fact that it's page 13 has something to do with it? Not that I believe in that stuff.

Let's hope I get it up before Christmas. Though, it might be fool's hope since I'm starting to get quite busy and I still have all the Christmas present to do... Not to mention the cards to send!