S. Haltijakäpälä's Blog

 Yet another shindran elf is incoming on the next page of the Paths of Avarnight, but in what form? Only time will tell!

Anyway, again excited to get go wilder and wilder with outfit design, hehe

 It's nice to be on time promptly for once UwU

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 And I'll start the next page promptly too! Trying my best to keep the last few months of 2025 in good order! Finally getting to draw Sadh Waentia in all their nuiva glory (there's no word for nuiva in English, sorry. Aloof comes slightly close but it is still way too far off the mark. Just gotta learn Finnish y'all who don't already :<) really helps to motivate me though. And now their nice assistant makes an appearance too, so many elves

 Sadh Waentia enters the scene and is all business no time for teary reunions with their young shindra pupil, who they might've thought to never see again... Hard boiled :D

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Oh and also, I'll be attending Oulu Comics festival next Saturday! So if you happen to be from around there, please do come say hi :3 The event is in Culture house Valve, free entry too and a lot of nice program to watch (plus other tables of comics!)

 

A sneak peek of the next page~ Waentia is finally entering the picture! And I get to draw SO MUCH HAIR!!!!
ALSO. I'm sharing a table with Chika and Kaarina at the Oulu Comic Festival next weekend! Table K7 to be exact :3 Hope to see you there!

 I made it! Two pages in one month! I hope I can keep this up :D I'm going to start working on the next one as soon as I post this at least, so hopefully the rest of the year will be abundant in updates UwU
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And I'm so happy Narya finally managed to get some clean clothes on him, though a bath first would be ideal... But who's got time for that when there's someone scary almost at the door!

 I went to the Turku Comic Festival last weekend and it was tons of fun! Thank you everyone who visited our table :3 Definitely interested in participating again. The library too was pretty nice!

Now back to work with the next page 

 

...and finally another page of Avarnight is finally done, I never intended for the hiatus to last this long, but you all probably know how stuff's not been great recently for me... But I'll try to get back to regular posting of pages starting from this month.

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Oh, and I'll be sharing a table at Yuureicon in Alakulttuuritila Alimus, Pengerkatu Helsinki with Rikkisu this Saturday, aka. the day after tomorrow I think! I also finally got a restock of sold out magnets, and the new dark Elf Esteem magnets, so find them there! I'll also be brining some gory scroll prints to the event, so hope to see you there UwU I never get to display them, so I hope this event will allow me to display that stuff heh...

 My new exhibition is open! It's in Rikhardinkadun library, second floor, on these amazing, cute shelves UwU 

Open until the 30th of October! The opening hours are Mon-Thu 8-20, Fri 8-18, Sat 10-16 and Sun 12-18!

 

The Group Exhibition arranged by the Helsinki Comics Festival is still open until next Tuesday AND right after it my solo exhibition begins at the Rikhardinkatu library! This was a bit of a coincidence as I had reserved the library space already sometime last winter and the groups exhibition opportunity came up only during summer, I still decided to do both, because of course I would :D

SO! Group exhibition, Sarjakuvia pimeältä puolelta, open until 29th of September! The spot is Geezers Creative space on the second floor of the Molotow Finland Shop! Opening hours are Mon-Fri 10-18 and Saturdays 11-16. Adress Teollisuuskatu 16

AND! Next one will be a solo exhibition by yours truly where I focus on all the small comics and books I've done over the years. There will be some books I bound in the bookbinding school almost 20 years ago and some comic page originals from the upcoming Pillars of Heaven part 3. So all in all I think it will be a nice exhibition of (mostly) stuff that's never been on display before :3

The exhibition will be on officially 2nd of October, but I might be able to set it up a bit early, I'll let everyone know if that happens! I already printed out the posters so I don't want to go change it anymore.

 The venue is Hyllygalleria Hyvinpieni on the Second floor of Rikhardinkatu library, opening hours Mon-Thu 8-20 Fri 8-18 Sat 10-16 and Sundays 12-18! Address is Rikhardinatu 3! There's also a hugely interesting book art collection on display in the same floor as the little gallery!

 Fashionably late as ever, I am.... Helsinki Comic Festival is this weekend! I'll be sharing my table with the wonderfully dark Alexandros Kyparissis and rikkisu  and the table is number 24, noted on the map.

The three of us will also undergo a group interview on Saturday at 11 on the Merikaapelihalli Stage on the first floor (didn't fit in the picture). 

Unfortunately The Pillars of Heaven part three will not be published at the festival for obvious reasons. I hope I'll get it done by the end of the year... Still, I hope you'll find something dark and bloody at our table to suit your fancies.