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Published: 2016-09-30 21:50:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 819; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 4
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Description ... Gee. Finally got to finishing this one. This thing has been sitting on my desktop for... months? I guess I started doing this sometime around right when Summer starter to creep up behind the corner. I was supposed to get her with the set of the four earlier pieces I drew with this style, but somehow I left her to wait for too long and totally forgot.

She's a minor character in my webcomic and she has made an appearance in a few pages, but she has a slightly more significant role to play in the story later on.
This is my rendition of Kalevala's character, Tuonen Tytti, and she goes by the same name in the comic.


New to Year In Hereafter? Well here's quite conveniently a link to it.
You can also support me (and my co-worker ElliPuukangas ) through our Patreon.  

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Comments: 3

Korpikuu [2016-10-01 13:27:40 +0000 UTC]

Lyhykäinen Tuonen tytti! Beautiful.

Have you perhaps read a lot of Kalevala while creating this comic?

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MikaelHankonen In reply to Korpikuu [2016-10-03 09:57:15 +0000 UTC]

Quite a bit yeah! But so many things are inspired by totally random internet articles regarding Kalevala that I just found, the poems itself do not offer the main inspiration. Thank you! ♥

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Korpikuu In reply to MikaelHankonen [2016-10-03 10:10:33 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I don't doubt that at all. Reading Kalevala back in school was not the funniest thing to do.
Though many years later I learned that I actually have lineage to a old Vienan Karjala's village called Vuokkiniemi. One of the most important poetry singer villages...
Wikipedia says it became famous due to Elias Lönnrot visiting there in 1820 and 1830. He collected most of Kalevala's poems from Vuokkiniemi and thought it was Karjala's most important village. My great grandparents weren't related to those most famous poetry singers mentioned in Wikipedia's article, but I still find it pretty awesome that I have roots to a place like that, rich with epic poems and folklore. ^^

No wonder my imagination is a bit wild.

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