It's been three weeks since Ropecon, and a week since I returned from Worldcon. That's plenty of time to recover enough to finally write something about those two events which both took place in Helsinki, at Expo and Convention Centre. Honestly, it feels to me that Ropecon was a little warm-up before "the real deal", Worldcon. The three days ...

Sure, my plan was to make this commission a cute one. That's what the client wanted after all. But somehow, the way this little fellow turned out has even more of cuteness than I intended. Needless to say, I'm very happy with this painting of mine and I hope the client is going to like it as much as I do. Then, of course, the work-in-progress pictu...

One of the most pleasant commissions I've ever received! Honestly, I've enjoyed every single commission I've had a chance to create so far, but the subject of this particular painting was something that I can imagine myself painting just for the fun of it. The instructions I got from the client for this painting were: wolf, forest, full moon, blue ...

It's been 9 months since I attended an event for a first time to sell my products (Kitacon 2016). Now, let's take a look at how it all started: As can be seen above, my first representation wasn't that appealing but at least all the products were there. Such thing as a table cloth hadn't even crossed my mind and so I ended up using a blanket that I...

I'm not even sure why I'm so excited about it. Must be because moms are amazing. Sebastian's story will definitely not be the last story I create where the role (and the importance) of a mother is on the spotlight.Now I'm officially too tempted to talk about the story plot and need to change the subject. Let's talk about the change that is happenin...

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." by ― Maya Angelou Here you can find work-in progress pictures of a commission I finished a few weeks ago. My job was to design a character according to the client's wishes. In the pictures below you find the fi...

 "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." by —Eleanor Roosevelt Here are some work-in-progress pictures of a commission I finished a few weeks ago. This time it was something I've never done before: a painting of a wedding picture. I liked the warm sunshine and peaceful feeling in the reference photo and the only things I made...

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." by ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire  Over half of the illustrations for the story of Sebastian are done and I'm getting to my favorite part of the story! Here are some work-in-progress sneak peeks for you, enjoy! I want ...

 This commission was finished in one single day. I did work on it all day long but it was still nice to get it done so swiftly (I'm used to spending several days on my paintings). I guess I was overly excited to paint the unicorn since I forgot to take the picture of the sketch before starting the coloring. Click on the picture on the lef...

I was supposed to create two designs for fabric bags that I would start selling. However, I got too excited with my ideas, planning super-detailed designs that could not be used for their original purpose. I even ended up actually drawing one of them before I realized it was way too complex for the small fabric bags (see some demonstration pictures...

Since my previous blog destroyed itself, I decided to put all the recent Sebastian work-in-progress pictures into one single blog post. It can clearly be seen how there's something happening to the happy world of the young giraffe boy. I don't go into the details because I want to keep the storyline as much of a secret as possible. When the story i...

On this blog post there are pictures from the process of the creation of a commissioned watercolor portrait that I just finished. When it comes to portraits, I enjoy the challenge of making the artwork look like the original photo, so that the person is easily recognized. With this particular painting it was fun to make the surroundings more fantas...

At the end of January I travelled to Lahti to attend Desucon Frostbite. Of course, as the purpose was for me to sell my products there, I had to take all of them with me (In the image above you can see my working space while I was preparing for this event). With a heavy backpack and a suitcase I travelled all day by taxi, by train and finally the l...

Before Christmas I received a commission of an A1 sized watercolor painting. The client wanted to have a front view of the head of a stag and a transformation effect I often use on my paintings, meaning that the living creatures smoothly transform into water, plants or other elements. That was basically all the instructions I got and the rest was u...

I have a handful amount of videos. I always try my best to record the unfolding of a painting, or the process of making a painting. unfortunately most of my work is time consuming, therefore, sharing it as speed videos or time-lapses is so far the best way for me to share my work process with you guys.  Watercolor painting time-lapse - Aurora ...

SOMETIMES THE EMERGENCY IS ABOUT CHRISTMAS CARDSJust when my Christmas holiday had started a friend of my mom was in a desperate need of two special Christmas cards for two very special people. I had made a couple of pencil portraits for her before and now she was asking if I could create these two emergency Christmas cards because she wanted to gi...

 It's Sebastian work-in-progress update, of course! As you might know, I haven't had time to work on the illustrations as much as I thought I would, but slowly and steadily there has been some progress there too. I'm offering you all the sneak peeks I could find, being careful not to reveal too much. I only have 8 illustrations left now and ev...

The commissioner wanted me to create "Alice in Wonderland"-themed drawing for their friend. The man in the drawing had to resemble one of her original characters and there were a few items the commissioner wanted to include into the artwork, but everything else I could decide on my own as long as the drawing would maintain its theme. Below you'll f...