So I talked about having been hired for illustrating a children's book and it's finally gone into print :3

Now, most of you know this is not the first time I've been published. I've been attached to most of the HSD releases up until now and likely will in the future too. This however is the first time I'm the sole contributor of artwork for a given project, so yay me!

The book called "Korvatunturin katastrofi" (ENG: Disaster in Korvatunturi) is, as mentioned before, a children's christmas story based on mostly finnish versions of christmas and santa clause lore, with a few touches to bring it into the modern age. It's currently only available in finnish, but will be translated into english and several other languages for next year's christmas season.

For anyone interested in taking a peak, here's the official facebook page to keep you up to date on current and future developments:

https://www.facebook.com/DisasterinKorvatunturi/

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Concerning my personal experience with the project: It was an interesting deviation from everything I've done so far. Those of you who know me from my early days are aware I have a far more adult focus in my usual work, tech, gore, violence or raunchiness all running rampant through my various galleries, so this was a an interesting thematic 'vacation' to take.

It was also my first taste of a truly professional work pipeline, keeping up to date with the author and developing a style alongside them that would match the story best, actually rendering the images and all the various touchups and alterations that had to be made to best suit them to the various publication channels ... interesting stuff.

So yeah, that's what's been eating my time since October, but I feel the result was well worth the invested time and so does everyone else who's seen the work, so I'm not 'that' badly miffed about missing out an opportunity to work for myself ;3

Thanks for hanging around and stay tuned for future updates!

LYA!