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Omar and a city wisp

You might've seen this guy before.  It's a normal wisp but it hails from the long gone marshlands that Tistow's been built on. Urban cities might lack na...

Tistow synopsis: Papers, please

I'm glad to say that now that I've got a better computer, I feel a lot more comfortable sharing some of the promised script drafts with y'all.

This is a snippet from the very first chapter of the new main story. It's a more solid version of my ramb...

Fairy queen process breakdown + tips on this kind o'stuff!

In case you can't see this file the way you can't, it's available for download here. :3

This is something I've been working on a few days and we might want to make out prints of this one, and I thought I'd give you some personal tips about my favor...

Bottoms up - Page 34 preview

Welcome all new Patrons! Here's a little treat!

This is a preview of page 34, the bottom half of it.

Like in the past, the very first draft is by Karo. Second part is Elli's sketches on top as quick guidelines (except maybe Veeti, need him to...

Complete Spritesheet for the platformer demo

(It's a very big file. You might want to consider downloading it if you want to take a very close look.)

And so, here are all of the sprite artwork made for the game!

Obviously there are BG artworks and other nitpick to be tended to, and I'm ...

Archive #4: 01/04/2017

New to our Patreon? Is the amount of content overwhelming?

 Don't worry, here's everything published on the page so far so you can search back easier!

If there are broken links, please let us know. :3 2017-04-03 10:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Monthly News Letter #6 01/04/2017

Spring comes, and now there is a Kickstarter.

This past month has passed by so quick, and a lot has happened!

As some of you know, Karoliina and Elli have been working with Aaron Sullivan for a comic project called Odi...

Support wallpapers - April

We've got 3 different graphics for you in total! One of them which is a dual screen one.

You can find the fullsize versions attached to this article. We hope you enjoy them! ♥

Sketch requests - March - part 1

Part one! :D More to come.

We've got a bit of a personality swap at the top. Then Jack's.. ..Favourite past time in his favourite shapeshift.

Last one's of the boy's in a more modern setting in school uniforms. I'd say they're about 14-15 her...

Sketch requests!

We're taking sketch requests from all our Patrons! If you've got anything you'd like to see, just comment in this post. :3 We'll be posting all the drawn suggestions into one big post like last time.

Shaped by time

Oh I do believe this is one of those very rare sketches of adult Veeti in the realm of Tistow!

This one was actually drawn by Karoliina this time, since I do work on initial concepts of Veeti, which after Elli grabs the concept and polis...

WIP - 31

Another panel from page 31. This time a half done one. Veeti's missing inks but the boys are finally starting to climb down for new adventures.

WIP - 31

Page progress of a panel from page 31. Karo's layout at the top and Elli's inks at the bottom.

Growing up

Hello! It's been a while since we've posted, but here's something for your patience~

We are currently working on a new layout for the Small Trolls website. There's lots of work to be done, and we're finally planning to make an about page...

3D - Jack and Rat

First time using Blender and Sculptris! It'd be nice if I could finish them but the brave old laptop can't quite handle the details.

Really good fun learning to use these programs though! Would love to make more.

- Elli

Stállu's pal

Slightly different looking hound from the one you've seen in the story so far. I can confirm that he's not the only one of its kind.

Challenge the Stállu

Stállu in Sápmi folklore is a giant human-like creature who eats people.  It's a clumsy and dumb beast who can easily be outwitted by humans. It's awfully fond of challenges that test its strength.

This might be an actual scene from an upcom...

Monthly News Letter #5 02/03/2017

February is over, and March peeks behind the curtains! Spring is making it's way. In Britain it's been rainy, and in Finland the skies are pushing an enormous amount of wet snow. Yes, it's that time when all the cars throw this brown slushy stuff 2 m...

Character Spritesheets done!

Auch! That's officially Jaakko and Veeti done then! And for those unfamiliar to the subject, this is what a sprite sheet looks like. Obviously not with a background like that since it's harder to clean up, ideally it'd be either transparent, or pure ...

Small big forest things

Some props for the demostages! Some will need light animation and such, but so far, these will do quite nicely for background assets.

There is ONE more character I need to draw out, a few animations for Veeti I need to finish, and some background a...

Rough stage presentation. What is it?

All right. Here is pretty much the conceptual image for the game. Now, I will let you ponder about what this weird mess of pieces if if you really want to, but I have a few, powerful words to say:

If you are a Maplestory player, especially old scho...

Concept art - smiles

Can't be unhappy and grumpy all the time!

Miss Grey, Jack & Beth. And the Rat of course~

Little 2D Platformer plans

Hullo!

Now, Karo has been talking about taking a game development course for a few months. The biggest thing of the course is that we all need to try and build some sort of a Demo, something worthwile to put on our CV's and apply for internshi...

Layabouts

Of sort. I'm really enjoying drawing these two and I can't wait to do so in the actual comic.

Elizabeth and Jáhko.

Figure practice - Kids

As previously promised on Twitter! I've done a lot of figure and anatomy practice since I started taking commissions and here are some of them. Kids this time!

- Elli

Concept sketches: Ladies

Tistow related sketches again!

Little Beth at the top making an effort to look proper. 

From left to right: Miss Grey, Ingrid and Miss Fallow.

Beth

More of this little girl.  The bottom right sketch is from Karo! ♥

When we first started talking about doing Tistow years and years ago, she was meant to be the main character over Jack and Loksley (Bowline Runners).  She was going to l...

Woodcarver Dummy - Part 4

And here it's finished and fully rigged, enough to use as a reference to draw him in the comic pages. And in the future, this should be something I can start sculpting further in Zbrush. Therefore this model is left without textures and his trees and...

Beth, Rat and soot

More Tistow stuff! This time we've got a wee girl called Beth.

She made a brief appearance in the original Tistow story as a flower girl, but we've since changed her age and looks slightly. She continues to be the character who'll introduce the rea...

Wisps in the city - what nature

More concept art!

Wisps need something to care for. So any plant, flower and even rotten fruit gets smothered in attention. You could say they go a bit loopy because of this as there's not enough flora to go around for them all to look after.