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You know I did kinda see this coming. Young boy shares a house with three attractive magical ladies? That premise just screams ecchi comedy.
UPDATE: Woooww this really blew up while I was gone! Happy April Fools’, people! The outrage has been pretty amazing so far
You know I did kinda see this coming. Young boy shares a house with three attractive magical ladies? That premise just screams ecchi comedy.
I’m not supposed to be drawing now but I had a dream about vampire girlfriends which I felt was kinda rad
I’m taking a break
Just a little heads-up in case you don’t hear from me for a while. Not expecting pity or anything, but I’m in bad shape. Lately I’ve tried hard to ignore the problem, but turns out forcing oneself to be creative and productive and cheery and awesome will take it’s toll after a while! I just ended up failing to meet my own standards and hating myself for it. My self-esteem is buried very very deep somewhere right now.
So my plan is to sit down and chill, and not even think about drawing for a while. Same goes for the comic. I hope to get back to business in a month or two, but time will tell what happens.
Until then, thanks to all my followers for sticking around, you’re awesome people and your kindness has never failed to brighten my day <3
Hi Maaria, I'm curious- what is your technique for writing the chapters of your stories? Like before the drawing and inking- do you write out the /full/ chapter (or three or so) and then draw them out?
Hi! Thanks, that’s a good question. I already sorta covered this in the FAQ but might as well go into more detail
I start out with a general idea of what’s going to happen in each chapter and try to write down most of it before I start thumbnailing. Emphasis on “most of it” - if I have every detail already set in stone when I begin sketching and inking, it’ll start to feel stale and boring. Flexibility is more appealing to me. The story evolves in my head constantly so there’s a whole buch of stuff I’ve added or changed on the fly, sometimes at the last minute even.
This episode with the mafia kids for example I originally estimated to be just one chapter (40-60 pages) long, but ended up writing so much material it had to be split into a two-parter, and now it’s actually becoming a three-parter! It transformed from simple action shenanigans into something more meaningful and exposition-y, which I felt was an improvement but demanded a lot more pages to really work the way I wanted.
Basically this is why having complete creative freedom is awesome. You can just mess around behind the scenes as much as you want, doesn’t matter as long as the pages get drawn on time hahaha
mä ja maaria ollaan tosiaan frostis lauantaina, tulkaa sanoo moi ja tilaustyöttää jotain, mul on printtei postikorttei pinssei ja tarroi jeejee! löydytään tost pöydäst mitä jeff-kun ystävällisesti osoittelee
Ouuuhhhh yes come see us at Frostbite!
I WON’T BRING ANYTHING NEW SORRY! But I might do a couple of commissions to sort of compensate for that. A4 character drawing with pencil and markers for maybe 20€ a piece??? If you’re interested come talk to me and if possible, bring references too C:
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Fanart of Jon from the webcomic Phantomland. There was a flashback scene of him looking all disheveled and I felt possessed to draw a scandalous NSFW version of him. Maariamph forgive me!
Daaaaaang scandalous indeed!! Quite flattering how the character, and particularly this version of the character, would end up getting such an adoring response from the readers haha. This is awesomely drawn with the anatomy and lighting and everything. Really fleshy and 3D feel to it! I love how you did your research with the details and even the background is straight from the comic!
Most of all thank you so much for reading and putting all this effort to fanart, I’m super impressed ;;