If you're familiar with the Welsh wassailing custom of Mari Lwyd, or the Slavic Devac, this might look familiar. The Yule Goat is also a Scandinavian folklore figure and we're borrowing this mythology for Tistow as well.
In Tistow, people celebrate yule and its many guardians and keepers. Young me...
2017-12-14 17:36:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The spirit of the river and her beast (appears in Tistow's royal crest), the hippocampus. At least according to the dockside folk. Posher folk up the river might disagree as to what she and her companion look like.
Statues of her appear all along the stretch of the river but this is one of the con...
2017-12-13 19:50:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Forgot I had this! This is from some time last March.
We were contemplating on the type of terrain, rivers and old volcanoes that the land would have and how they would've shaped it.
Something we'd like to include on the inside cover of the 1st chapter (and the title page) in the background,...
2017-12-12 20:01:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya!
The Kickstarter surveys have started going out now and there's still one more reward tier I'm going to send off this weekend. We're sticking to our promise to provide any Patron who's pledged over $7 in their life time (even if you're not an active Patron) a free print, sticker sheet or the ...
2017-12-09 17:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Jack included this time for height comparison.
I'm still rather unwell but I'm trying to do a little bit more every day.
2017-12-07 16:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Both fellas will make a brief appearance in Chapter 2 so I'm trying to get their features down before that.
William Hook, the pubkeeper's son. He's a little younger than Jack but will be showing him the ropes.
John Loksley, son of the infamous gang leader. Vily little bugger, old enough to w...
2017-12-06 23:58:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying out a wee bit different type of colouring for Chapter 2! This is a cutout from actual panel. Anna will show up on page 2 for the first time. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing yet, hrah! But it'll get there. Something new and exciting. ♥
We've been sorting out a schedule for the next bit o...
2017-12-05 02:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The couple who run The Anchor pub, where the Bowline gang spend most of their spare time, known as Mr. & Mrs. Hook. Or Bill & Mrs. Bill depending on who you ask..
Bill is one of Loksley's gaffers and like a sturdy barn door, everyone and everything needs to go through him before bothering ...
2017-12-03 13:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Little scribbles from me to go with Mika's pages on Veeti's future in Tistow!
We've been planning this out since Small Trolls started running and it will still be another year at least before we get to the point in the timeline where he'll show up.
Veeti and Jack are pen pals throughout the ...
2017-12-02 22:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little synopsis of what these are all about, which was repeated in the last post. But since it's for $3 patrons, while this is $1, I'll include the same drivel here:
I wanted to push a little reset on creativity and draw other stuff for fun and practice, so I took a spin to vis...
2017-12-02 15:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Realised I haven't got many up to date cast sketches. Here's a height comparison!
From left to right: Tag, Legs, Morrie, Anna and Jack.
Tag and Legs you've already met. There's another two 'named' urchins who you'll meet in the 2nd chapter. They do all sorts of odd jobs for the gang. Scaveng...
2017-12-02 05:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostOur situation about "busy" has not changed much since last summer. This is evident from Small Trolls taking a break, while Tistow and Year In Hereafter were picked up for a more active role...
2017-12-01 15:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostNew 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: &nbs...
2017-12-01 14:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Been a while since I've made any posts here! I've been concentrating on the new chapter of Year In Hereafter, and since the current one is still running, I've decided not to give any previews of it yet. So far, YIH Chapter 7 has 48 pages, 24 finished. In other words 50% of the artwork is done, thus ...
2017-11-30 17:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Couple of folklorey bits related to our sewer dwelling critters. You might've seen the graphics around before!
The Queen of Rats is a folklore creature in Tistow similar to the famous Rat Queen of the London sewers, that toshers (men who made a living hunting treasures in the sewers in the 1...
2017-11-29 20:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The river Effra is Tistow's life blood and it's a concept I'm looking forward to sharing and expanding on as we get further into the story. This means its more obscure residents, which only Jack and children can see, are fittingly marsh and water related creatures that have adapted to a more urban l...
2017-11-27 10:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
We managed to reach all our stretch goals! How amazing is that. ♥ And with the extra funding we've been able to add the bonus comic to the physical rewa...
2017-11-27 09:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Or rávga as Jack calls them. Some of you might remember these water nymphs from the old comic and they will be making an appearance in the reboot as well.
The Effra nixies, like their forest and marshy cousins, lure people into the treacherous waters they call home. They love human trinkets (espe...
2017-11-21 18:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
If I had to pick seasons for our protagonist, it'd be these two. I don't get the chance to do much concept art of Jack and his shamanistic side, but the importance of nature is a huge part of his character. Especially in a city with so little of it.
I've attached a 16:9 versions of these images to...
2017-11-05 23:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post
You can find the campaign here! We're already funded so that's freaking amazing news! The goal was small but it only took 2 hours in total to get to the first goal. Thank you so much everyone!
St...
2017-10-31 23:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We're coming up to November now so I've got some more news for y'all!
We'll be running the KS for the whole month and I'd like to offer something extra for our Patrons.
If you'd like to help us reach our goal, anyone who's donated at least a $7 in their lifetime will get a free print o...
2017-10-28 19:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Ta-dah! Some early reading for you lot!
This part is technically happening simultaneously with that's going on at the website right now, so I figured it'd be fun to share this! The rest of the chapter focuses on Mikael, Sakari and Ieva, so all of that will be left secret. : 3 I'll let you see...
Another leg of this journey. ..And it doesn't look good for Jack.
Really looking forward to this Act. A lot happens in a short amount of pages and you'll get a much better idea of Jack's character.
2017-10-19 01:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
These have got some colour bases already but there's still some way to go before I can call them finished hahah.
Jack's got a little bit of exploring to do around the docks!
2017-10-17 22:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hulloo, I've been swallowed in this for the past month
I wanted to share something just for a laugh. I've been editing the first 214 pages of the story in a very excruciating manner, but in all necessary ways.
- I've been recomposing all the panels and bordering them up. In most of the colo...
Hullo 'ullo! Been a while.
Here's a little teaser for a Small Trolls short comic we're intending to print into the back of the first ST book. This little bit will reside a few years later than the first chapter, which is the year 1841.
For a fun change, this short will be inked by Karo...
Got some good news!
I've managed to reach the deadline I set for myself page count wise. Here's a couple of WIP of pages from Act 2 (numbers 10 and 12 respectively).
This means that I can run the Kickstarter as planned throughout November. The goal is fairly small (around £600 in tota...
2017-10-11 19:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post
..Yeah we already have some. I'm not happy about having to remove some of them but you might find me using bits and pieces from them in the new panels and future pages. Especially those crowds and individual background characters. I'm not about to just chuck them in the bin.
Why've they been remov...
2017-09-28 01:23:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Related to this post from last month!
To those eligible and who want to pick their reward to avoid duplicates, respond in this post or send us a message privately. ♥
The bookmarks are FINALLY he...
2017-09-23 12:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks a bit different to the original batch, dun it? I mentioned in a comment further down that the 6 pages that were made available to read, have had slight alterations done to them. And this is one of them as you can see.
We had another look through the firs 6 pages with my editor and decided to...
2017-09-19 00:58:51 +0000 UTC View Post