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· Calendar Illustrations Happy Otter – JWW 2021 Calendar “In the Wonder World” This illustration of May was finished a while ago, and here’s finally the blog post where you’ll see the finished illustration and all the work-in-progress material.
· Calendar Illustrations The King of the Forest – JWW 2021 Calendar, “In the Wonder World” I’ve painted several different deer, but this is only my second moose. My first painting featuring a moose is actually an illustration in the story of Sebastian; you see, Sebastian’s teacher is a moose. This moose that I
· Comic Diary A Day in My Artist Life – Comic Diary, part 9 
· Calendar Illustrations JWW Calendar 2021 – March At the moment, I have finished 5 of the total 12 calendar illustrations for my 2021 calendar. This blog post features March, the dragon!
· Calendar Illustrations 2021 Calendar “In the Wonder World” – February The illustration of February was very simple and took me only a few hours to finish. My main idea was to have a dark pond/lake in the middle of a forest, with everything dark and still. I wanted the scene to radiate sile
· Calendar Illustrations 2021 Calendar “In the Wonder World” – January After several years of trying to finish my calendar well in time, it seems this year I actually have a chance to do so. This is all thanks to the fact that Corona-virus has given me plenty of time to focus on my art crea
· Comic Diary My Wonderful Artist Life Comic Diary – part 8 I finished this portion of comic diary a while ago but completely forgot about it for a couple of weeks! Here it is finally, sorry for the wait!
· Commissions The Creation of My Biggest Watercolor Painting Commission Nine rats living in a fantasy forest; the most detailed large-scale painting I’ve ever done so far. The painting process took me about one and a half months from start to finish, though I should point out I did not work
· Commissions The Creation of a Custom Wedding Card While I was still working on my biggest single watercolor painting commission (a blog post about that will be up later on), I created this simple custom wedding card for a family member. It was nice to make something sma
· Comic Diary My Wonderful Artist Life – Comic Diary, part 7 This time you’ll get to know more about how the story of Sebastian was created. The finished book is available in Finnish here on Wonder SHOP. I have recently finished the English translation of the story and will let yo
· Comic Diary My Wonderful Artist Life – Comic Diary, part 6 The incident where I asked a stranger to drive me to the railway station is here in this earlier comic diary update.
· Comic Diary My Wonderful Artist Life – Comic Diary, Part 5 Lately I’ve been sharing details of my early artist career, and the events that lead to the decision to pursue such a path to begin with. There are so many things that have happened that I simply cannot share every deta