Kuopion Kädentaitomessut (Kuopio Handicraft Fair) is in less than two weeks! 26.-27.9. to be exact, in Kuopio-Halli (Opistotie 4, 70200 Kuopio). Opening hours:Saturday: 10-17 Sunday: 10-16 I'll have the same spot that I've had the previous two years (P1/1) which is located right next to the Cafe Kässäkahvila by Savon M...

All 3 versions of 2027 calendar will soon be available for purchase, so I think it's about time to be done with these 2026 calendar illustration blog posts. Without further ado, let's get to the work-in-progress photos: The illustration of May. As you can see from the photos, the original sketch only had three birds sitting on the fox's tail. ...

I just realized it's been almost a year since I made this painting! About time I made a blog post as well, so here we go! The commissioner of this particular painting had earlier ordered a large 70 x 100 cm print of "Firefoxes" and wanted to have something that would go well with it on their wall. Thus, they commissioned me this painting that I lat...

4 out of 12 illustrations for the 2026 calendar have been finished so far. Enjoy the work-in-progress photos! :) January 2026 February 2026 - This is my favorite of all the illustrations so far, let's see if it will stay that way. ;) March 2026 - This illustration was "supposed to" be quite different according to my original plan, but as I started ...

Can I fit all the work-in-progress material of the 2025 calendar into one post? Well I'm about to give it a try and see if my blog can handle it. :D So, the theme of the 2025 calendar was seals. Thus, you're about to find progress pictures of 12 seal illustrations below. The process of creating all of them was the usual one; First I make a pencil s...

Phew! Last post of 2024 calendar illustrations when 2026 calendar illustrations are already on their way! Let's see if I can get all the seal illustrations here before finishing with the new fox illustrations (that's right, 2026 calendar theme is foxes!).  I must say, as this is my 2nd blog post of 2025 and we aren't even done with Januar...

 Only two weeks into 2025 and we already have a blog post?? This is very promising! It's been a while since I made a comic diary update so in case you want to refresh your memory by going through some of the previous updates, here you can find them all!

The 2024 calendar season is pretty much over and soon it's time for me to start working on the illustrations for the next calendar! But before we get there, I want to share all the work-in-progress material I collected of the 2024 illustrations. The 2024 calendar had a variety of detailed illustrations of squirrels, bunnies and ...

Having finished this comic diary update months ago, I think it's about time I finally uploaded it, eh?  Just one disclaimer before we dive into the diary; If you follow me on social media, you might've come across the news of me moving to Helsinki. Now, this comic diary update is not referring to my Helsinki apartment, but the apartment I'm st...

A quick comic diary update before I run to Sweden and Närcon! In case you wonder why I haven't been posting anything on my blog for a long time, that was because the blog refused to work and now after A LOT of maintenance (according to the website admin), it should be fixed. Surely, this blog post is a solid proof that it is so. Enjoy the...

Finally! The last illustration of my 2023 calendar!  I'm so happy about how this one turned out! I think you hear that a lot from me, but isn't that just a good thing? ;)  When I look outside around Christmas, it's the darkest time of the year (at least here in Finnish Lapland). But when I look inside, Christmas brings so m...

Another perfect horse painting! Needless to say, another favorite of mine.Of course there needs to be a shiny black horse in a horse-themed calendar. And what would be better than a shiny black horse with shiny stars floating around its mane and tail? I really don't know.A magical environment acts as the cherry on top of the cake; Purple and p...

This horse became more blue than I intended. My original plan was to make him gray, but it might actually have been too depressing of a color scheme. So the blue might just work better for this illustration. Other than that, I'm very happy about the feeling of flow and strong wind in this. It portrays the strength of the horse; he has faith in...

One of my favorite illustrations in this calendar! ?I have a lot of favorites in this calendar tho, but let's not go down that road now... ? At first I thought I'd paint this illustration of September with colors that are generally associated with Autumn (yellow, orange, brown, red) but then, since the horse in the illustration of Au...

I'm really reeeaaally happy about how this one turned out! Just like I imagined and even better! I'm particularly happy with the colors, they blend with each other in a perfectly soft way; the clouds, the forest, the horse... Looking at the finished painting I cannot help but wonder how on earth did I even do all that. ...

It is good to notice at this point how I, once again, mixed up the words "June" and "July". I wrote "July" into the cover picture of the previous blog post, which of course should've said "June". I get these two words mixed up in a regular basis, and I think I've even had to bring up this issue sometime in one of my earlier blog post...

Half way there with these calendar illustration blog posts, good job Jasu! ? I originally planned the "June-horse" to have flowers and leaves flowing out of her mane, and the ground she was running on was supposed to be covered with flowers as well. However, I ended up changing my plan since there were flowers in the illustration of May a...

It's Alex! The main character of my horse comic! ...and his mother, of course. ? Since only God knows when I'll actually be able to draw this horse comic, I take any chance I get to sneak the characters into my other artworks. I did the same with my 2022 calendar, where the month of May features the main characters of my dragon story...

Unicorns!! ??  That's the most important thing to say about this painting. Another important thing is that I wanted to make these unicorns a bit different from the traditional unicorns, which are usually portrayed bright white. Sure there must be differently colored unicorns out there. ? Below you can see the initial super quick...

Oh dear... It's been about one and a half YEARS since my last comic diary update! About time we fixed this. If you can't exactly remember where we left off (wouldn't be a surprise at this point), here's a link to the previous part of the diary.And if you need even more refreshing for your memory, here are all the 14 previous comic diary updates. An...