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F/Finland. Art blog. I draw a webcomic and lurk in a fandom or two!
If you have a question, check out FAQ tag first

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portfolio maarialaurinen.com
twitter @maariamph
e-mail maaria.laurinen@gmail.com

tags
#FAQ #phantomland #original works #fanart
Nov 3 '13

Anonymous asked:

What kind of screentones do you use in Phantomland? They look so good. I've tried to make some screentones with Photoshop but they totally suck.

Haha well I’m glad you like them, though honestly my way of doing this probably ain’t the smartest

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For clothes and other stuff I use a range of solid grays that I run through the grain filter. HOWEVER since it’s a dense cluster of pixels it can come out as a black mess in print unless you really know what you’re doing (1200dpi offset printing and prayers) so I don’t actually recommend this for anyone!

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For shading I use this simple pattern. Smart people would use only variations of this, only it’s hard to put two patterns on top of each other without causing the ever-annoying Moiré effect so I’m instead combining this with the grain stuff to get a wider range of shades

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Oct 31 '13

Anonymous asked:

You told that regular people have many differnet opinions about ghosts and their role in society, but does that apply to ghosts, too? Are there radical groups that believe that ghosts shouldn't even try to blend into society and instead aim to spark a kind of revolution to make them "the master race"?

Haaa that’s a good question, thanks!

I suppose they could be a glorious “master race” in theory since they’ve got all these physical advantages over the regular populace. Everyone’s aware of this, but it’s obviously a dangerous idea to talk about and many ghosts will reject it to begin with. Ghosts are a small minority and the government could easily wipe them out if they got too cocky!

Oct 31 '13
Webcomic will have a two month break while I attempt to finish Chapter 4 (my actual deadline for realsies or I might get in trouble)
I hope people aren’t too mad about the awful cliffhanger haha

Webcomic will have a two month break while I attempt to finish Chapter 4 (my actual deadline for realsies or I might get in trouble)

I hope people aren’t too mad about the awful cliffhanger haha

Oct 30 '13
Oct 27 '13

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My fanart got featured on NITW’s official tumblr and twitter, holy shit

(now I wish I had put more effort to it…)

Oct 27 '13
Night In The Woods seems pretty terrific is all

Night In The Woods seems pretty terrific is all

Oct 24 '13
Bought this shirt from muura’s skreened shop! Very comfy 5/5
(bullfinch has a funky name in Swedish, domherre - “sir of doom” when translated literally)

Bought this shirt from muura’s skreened shop! Very comfy 5/5

(bullfinch has a funky name in Swedish, domherre - “sir of doom” when translated literally)

Oct 21 '13

Suddenly I have a need for a proper website and business cards… it’ll be my goal for this week hufff huff

I have trouble deciding which of these designs to print. Maybe both??? (the skeleton one looks a lot like the pretty hate machine album and I’m sorta embarrassed haha)

Oct 14 '13
Oct 14 '13
Laaaazy doodling

Laaaazy doodling

Oct 4 '13
Quick Ryuuko to celebrate episode #1. This show is freaking ridiculous. I think I’m gonna enjoy it

Quick Ryuuko to celebrate episode #1. This show is freaking ridiculous. I think I’m gonna enjoy it

Sep 30 '13

lk1721 said: I’m from the U.S.A. so I don’t know where you might be able to get them in Finland, but they do indeed exist! Example: stickerobot.com/product…

Ahh it turns out there is a local sticker printhouse (in my home city no less) that makes all sorts of stickers with transparency and everything! Thanks a lot for the tip! :)

I’m so excited for stickers oh my gosh… it’s not like I don’t have more important things to work on right now but STICKERS

ACTION POSE STICKERS

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Already drew one

Sep 29 '13
Inspired by a discussion between me, ered and raakel. The series would probably be around 17% better if Eren had turned permanently titan

Inspired by a discussion between me, ered and raakel. The series would probably be around 17% better if Eren had turned permanently titan

Sep 28 '13

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Sep 24 '13
Lately I’ve been covering all my stuff with random cute stickers like a sixth grader because artist’s alleys have a wide selection of them and I can’t resist. Gahhh now I kinda want to make my own stickers too
I was thinking action poses or somesuch...

Lately I’ve been covering all my stuff with random cute stickers like a sixth grader because artist’s alleys have a wide selection of them and I can’t resist. Gahhh now I kinda want to make my own stickers too

I was thinking action poses or somesuch so the characters would seem to “live” on the surface you put them. Maybe they’re fighting other stickers, idk… These silhouettes would be difficult to cut into shape though. I guess chibi art was invented for the purpose but I think it looks kinda wrong with my characters

Character heads could be nice and simple but I’d probably like them better stuffed inside a rectangle or some other shape.

Another idea were panels from the comic (with blank bubbles you can fill in yourself??), or tiny pieces of artwork

I don’t know, what do you think?