2015-01-08 n.08 (739) – David – I haven´t drawn this character for years, even though I used to spend too much time with him. He´s student at Arkabas´ Star magic school. A less fortunate one.
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Arnay
2015-01-07 n.07 (738) – Arnay – I like this OC character more and more. Cheerful and supportive even though he lost his father during an occupation a month ago. One day he will be a great leader.
The Magic in me
2015-01-06 n.06 (737) – The Magic in me
An archer
2015-01-05 n.05 (736) – Ireen tried to learn archery. Not a usual skill for dark elves.
Istaghavrae
2015-01-04 n.04 (735) – Istaghavrae – I wanted to draw this poor boy from http://askadrider.tumblr.com/ for some time. So finally it’s here! (He belongs to awsome http://aiffe.tumblr.com/ and http://kavos-plz.tumblr.com/ )
Goldenrod, oh my
2015-01-03 n.03 (734) – Goldenrod, oh my – My friend Kabka http://kabka.tumblr.com had her phone stolen, so I made something to cheer her up *giggles*
Mana
2015-01-02 n.02 (733) – Mana – a christmas gift for my friend Nebea http://stinohra.deviantart.com/ She wished for her OC Mana with a pink teddy bear.
Happy New Year!
2015-01-01 n.01 (732) Happy New Year, everybody!
My first picture this year – chibi Salm and Mortifer
Last pictures of 2014
Ok, here is a compilation of my last pictures of 2014. Some drama chibi vampire pictures:
And my attemps to do something with Galliawyr´s hair. Oh… uhm.
Kestrel and Goldenrod
2014-1230 n.365 (730) – Kestrel and Goldenrod once again. Doing some bro magic. Being cool and stuff. *facepalm*
Grr
2014-12-29 n.364 (729) Grr!
Stay with me
2014-12-28 n.363 (728) Want to tell deep stories with chibies. Not sure if it’s a good idea.
Watch out!
2014-12-27 n.362 (727) – A comission for Katherine. Her tarnen adventurer Vesner Avozor having adventures as a kid. If you want a chibi of your character too, support me on Patreon 🙂 http://www.patreon.com/lysandra?ty=c
Ludde
2014-12-26 n.361 (726) – a christmas gift fot Limpan http://buslimpan.deviantart.com/
Page 42 + News
Happy new year 2015 everybody!
I am sorry about the month delay of the comic. My work has been killing me – last two months were horrible and there is still no end to it. But is used the free time the holidays gave me and here we go:
Since I had no time for “proper” art like comics, I tried to sketch and practice anatomy and composition in the meantime.And I guess it worked – at least for my confidence. After a long time this is a comic page I am satisfied with.
Speaking about practice, here are my sketches from last weeks:
My teacher, I had a notebook in the lesson and… it came out… looking like a serial killer. But the teacher is really nice. Erm.
Nothing to say about these pictures. They are totally random.
Elharin. My bad mouthing baby. Poor half elf kid living in Capitol. I guess that he has no chance to make it into the comic, but I guess that he was unforgettable for my RP players.
More or less random pictures again. I wanted to practice coloring gray layer with another layer set to overlay. It came out better than I expected.
This bastard is my favourite. Expect stories about Niathan in the future.
This red haired thing was supposed to be someone… but I can´t remember now. Whatever.
Oh yeah. Vampire Faerlin. I guess that he will make it into more pictures… He´s enjoying the damnation and bestiality. A melodramatic idiot.
More lineart practice.
Not happy with this one. I hope that I will get my coloring skill back one day. I used to color way better then I do now and I lost the skill. The moral story is – when you want to draw “like a pro”, never take a longer pause from it – or never do just one technique. (Before someone comes with “but your coloring is good” I just leave this and this here…)
That´s it. More compilations in 2015! I wish you a good New Year´s Eve party!
Unnamed
2014-12-25 n.360 (725) – Unnamed – I guessed that I should make some friends for Etherasil, so this is one of his victims. He used to be known as Aess’ness, but he had lost his name. And yes, this strange anatomy is correct. He is a mummified undead. A killer war-golem made from a body of treacherous noble dark elf.
Etherasil
2014-12-24 n.359 (724) – Etherasil – there are few important characters, whom I really dislike. Ether is one of them.
2014-12-23
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2014-12-22
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2014-12-21
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2014-12-20
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Good mood
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Vampire Hurrr Hurrr
2014-12-18 n.353 (718) – Faerlin really enjoys being the vampire beast…
Red hair
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Niathan with a cup of tea
2014-12-16 n.351 (716) – I guess that I may say that this is Niathan having a relax time with a cup of tea. But what is he wearing…? Nevermind. The collar is warm.
2014-12-15
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2014-12-14
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Nancy
2014-12-13 n.348 (713) – I started this portrait as a really random sketch, but is ended up as something inspired by my English teacher´s girlfriend Nancy. A super awsome former opera singer, now an opera-singer-lecturer. I admire her so much, but I dont know how to talk to her : D (And my every attemp seems like fail. I´m so sorry, Nancy.)
Elharin
2014-12-12 n.347 (712) – This was supposed to be Elharin, but maybe in some earlier years of his life, because his hair colour is all wrong. Elharin is a half elf living in Capitol (super racist area against all non-humans) and he is a really nice boy, but his vocabulary… oh… my… Since he is really used to vulgarities shouted at him, his language… It was a challenge for me when I played him as a NPC. I´m not used to talk like this at all.
2014-12-11
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I was at the city of my university for some days – that was the reason for my delay. I´ll try to upload new things (finish sketches I started there) as soon as possible.
2014-12-10
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2014-12-09
2014-12-09 n.344 (709) – Super quick chibi dragon today. Sorry, no time for drawing.
2014-12-08
2014-12-08 n.343 (708) – I tried to draw a portrait of our teacher while attending a class. Oh, well…
Weekly news (8.12.15)
I decided to do a weekly news blog post (and I am forcing myself to do it for two weeks) because it would be nice for you to know what is happening (and what have I done in last week) and a great mood boost for myself (that actually something IS happening).
So what’s happening?
Not so much. You may not know that I work as a graphic designer / teacher at university. And I study English lecturing at another university, which is about three-hours drive from my home, so I spend too much time travelling every week.
The end of the year coming, which means finishing projects at my work and exam period at my school. Unfortunatelly, I am buried with work. I didn´t have time to make a comic page, but at least I contined with daily doodles, so here they are:
Sharess with a little story how he met his apprentice.
Crispin, the lord of vampires
Sad Lightbearer
This was supposed to be a sad-elf-with-blood-kind of comic page, but I had time only to finish the first part. Maybe I’ll finish it later.
And then I had even less time than before, so series of chibies is coming:
I dont think that I will have time to draw another comic page during the week (because I´ll have two exams and should read two books for finishing other classes), but I’ll try to at least draw some nice chibies.
2014-12-07
2014-12-07 n.342 (707) – This vampire Faerlin is for Aiffe. Because lack of vampire elves is too damn high!
2014-12-06
2014-12-06 n.341 (706) – Ireen and Elenwen – that is how they look like after a theatre performance. Even though he shouted at her (in the performance), kidnapped her and threatened her with death… He still loves her, right?
2014-12-05
2014-12-05 n.340 (705) – Ireen and Elenwen – two actors in a Persephone-and-Hades alike play. They date each other in real life.
2014-12-04
2014-12-04 n.339 (704) – Every emo elf needs someone to hug him.
Bloody sunset
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2014-12-02
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Crispin
2014-12-01 n.336 (701) Crispin – thousand year old vampire and a captain of royal guard of Laweren. Don´t ask how this did happen. The young king is too naive.
Sharess
2014-11-30 n.335 (700) Sharess – I wanted to draw someone special for my 700th picture of Daily Doodles! So here is Sharess, the famous assassin from The Guild. He is one of the reasons why tarnens are so feared. There is almost nothing known about his past (he chose this tarnen-queen-mocking code name when incoming to The Guild) except that he must have been a nobleman and that he s not an outcast.
And – yeah – I love this character so much, that THIS ONE is the tarnen on the wallpaper of the main page! Nah, I sketched a page when he met his apprentice for the first time. Why are you so stupid, Andarien! You should run when you see a tarnen with a weapon!
…and now try to imagine Sharess slowly approaching the boy and then wiping the blood from his hands into the boys hair and walking away with grace.
I told you to run, Andarien. I told you.
The Lightbearer
2014-11-29 n.334 (699) The Lightbearer – This shy girl is the one who can walk through eternal darkness. And she can lead others through there with her Light. She’s one of The Creator’s servants.
In her free time, she loves to read romance books, to spy boys and to chit chat with other weird looking creatures girls.
Salm
2014-11-28 n.333 (698) Salm – okay, I had to draw him too. It wouldn´t be fair if Mortifer had his picture and Salm didn´t. He is a profesional assassin, a castaway nobleman with serious gambling issuess. But don´t worry, he is quite a nice guy if there is no bounty on your head.
Mortifer
2014-11-27 n.332 (697) Mortifer – I have finally drawn the main hero of my comics too! Half dark elf with amnesia and constantly grumpy mood.
Don’t tell him that he’s short! It could have bad consequences.
Imnairi
2014-11-26 n.331 (696) Imnairi – This young man is a light elven mage specialist, trained to deal with blood, black and psychic magic. Very complicated job depending on purity of body, mind and energy. (Alcohol cloud probably kill him.) Still Imnairi is a troll who loves to trick common people with behaving according to the prejudice against light elves (going to extremes like putting flowers everywhere) and to test how far he can go before they realise that he is making fun of them.
Shela
2014-11-25 n.330 (695) Shela – This young man is a teacher of illusions at Arkabas’ Star magic school. (Ilusions are only magic he can perform.) Oh man, he thinks he’s so cool… So much that he had to get himself a tattoo. But he’s so afraid of needles and pain that the tattoo is just an illusion. Surprisingly, Shela usually hangs out with Zallender. The old dragon must be really amused by this kid.
Ireen
2014-11-24 n.329 (694) Ireen – Don’t ask questions. Just hug him.
The Hound and the Beast
2014-11-23 n.328 (693) The Hound and the Beast – Kestrel and Goldenrod. There are many nicknames that were given to Faerlin and Rotundaliss. Nevertheless, there are no names which would make them more likeable and their ideas less stupid.
Nimoe
2014-11-22 n.327 (692) Nimoe – the chronicler, a history teacher and the one who was supposed to kill the tyran Vallas according to an ancient prophecy. Look at this nice lady, what do you think happened? (Hint: It included Dalmayr.)
Goldenrod
2014-11-21 n.326 (691) Goldenrod – I am not sure what the hell is he doing… And I hope that at least he knows it.
Mira with a wolf friend
2014-11-20 n.325 (690) A character of Limpan http://buslimpan.deviantart.com/
Zallender
2014-11-19 n.324 (689) Zallender or Zall – the teacher of demonology at Arkabas’ star magic school. He is fair, but quite choleric. It may be because Zall’s also a dragon. If you make him angry, he will glare at you with his dragon eyes. If you piss him off, he may turn into a red fire breathing beast and eat you.
Iaron
2014-11-18 n.323 (688) *spoilers* Iaron is not yet born son of Dalmayr. But I wanted to draw the complete family, so here he is! He is unbelievably talented for magic, but still humble because of his problems with making friends.
Nadja
2014-11-17 n.322 (687) Nadja – she is a fairy, a daughter of the Master of Forest. Now she´s living in Arkabas’ star as Lex’s wife. And she is probably the most scary creature in the land.
Lex
014-11-16 n.321 (686) Lex – there is also another STRONG reason why Natali can´t find a boyfriend – her threatening grandfather Lex. The second judge of Arkabas´ star, the headmaster of magic school… And yes. His personality is even more horrible than his looks.
Natali
2014-11-15 n.320 (685) Natali – Kata’s daughter obsessed with finding “the right man of her life”. She spend whole childhood finding a new father (with objections of her mother), and after growing up, she replaced this activity with a search for a boyfriend.
Sorry Natali, you try TOO MUCH! Warning: with a high probability of becoming an overly attached girlfriend.
Kata
2014-11-14 n.319 (684) Kata – The second judge in the Arkaba’s Star, also a teacher on a magic school. She’s strong, independent, kind to students… and sure can kick asses. You wouldn’t like to meet her in a battle. Or if you forgot your homework from elemental magic.
Ariana
2014-11-13 n.318 (683) Ariana, Dalmayr’s wife and mother of the twins. Lady in her 40s, never ever letting her family forget that it was a political marriage. Super annoyed. You can imagine that she is staring at her daughter’s decollete: “Please, just don’t.”
Page 41
Finally another comic page. It took me ages to draw. You know, when you have finally some free time, your body decides to take it from you with an ilness. It happened to me… but no whining. I wanted to make a strip about it, but we will see.
Taranis
2014-11-12 n.317 (682) Taranis is a Sennah’s twin. Nice hardworking boy, who wants to prove out. However, he is too shy and his damaged self-confidence doesn’t help either.
Savil
2014-11-11 n.316 (681) Savil – Dalmayr’s arch enemy, a sarch mage serving to The Destructor (the main evil entity in my comic). Nah, guess who looks cute (and super annoyed) today?
Dalmayr
2014-11-10 n.315 (680) Behold! Dalmayr Ir’Loth, the ruler of the dark mages, the infamous Arglin’s last apprentice. And the main top consumer of coffee in Arkabas’ Star.
Sennah
2014-11-09 n.314 (679) Since Nalin got a picture, I had to draw his girlfriend Sennah too. She is an over-confident battle mage. Her hobbies are travelling, weapons and beating misogynists.
Nalin
2014-11-08 n.313 (678) He is called Nalin, even though it is not his real name. A healer and a white mage. A nice person who feels that since he was rescued from a street as a child, he should return the favour by helping the less fortunate ones.
A green dragon
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2014-11-06
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Scary vampire
2014-11-05 n.310 (675) Beware! Beware! The teeth!
Coming home
2014-11-04 n.309 (674) Denzealiss hugged by his brother and a little nephew, after he returned from Imperial political imprisonment.
Some news
Hello, my dear readers!
Sorry for not uploading comics recently. I had some hard time at work, too much school work and some personal issues. But I relaxed on vacation last week plus I attended Akicon and had some great workshops in there, and I hope that I am relieved enough to slowly work on the comics again.
I hope that you are not too puzzled about why I sent here (and in the gallery on the main page) pictures almost every day – I want to keep my daily doodles going. The worst thing for the artist is to let your hand get lazy and to let it forget how to hold a pen. The daily doodles sketches usually take me only about twenty minutes to do. If you are thinking about trying to draw daily too – I highly recommend it! Drawing daily (at least twenty minutes) really can improve your skill in a long-term run. That I can prove in my daily doodle archive – which I keep from december 2012! Almost two years of daily doodles. I am proud of myself – at the beginning I thought that I would give up after a month.
I´m having some major exam next monday, so I am not sure if I can finish the next page in a week, but we will see. Please stay tuned!
An old brush
2014-11-03 n.308 (673) I came across my former favourite brush for lines to make my B/W manga style. I tought that it was lost for forever, so I had to celebrate it with this sketch.
Here is the setting for you too, in case you were interested:
Coffee
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This was actually painted with coffee (and ink for the lines). I thank Yaniko for her wonderful workshop of coffee painting!
2014-11-01
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Ink lady
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The forest door
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Archer
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Ink
2014-10-28 n.302 (667) Ink and a brush, that´s it.
A FLOWER
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2014-10-25
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A family
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2014-10-23
2014-10-23 n.297 (662) An unfinished landscape. Unfortunatelly I stopped liking it, so it won´t be finished.
Vampire Faerlin
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Poor Faerlin, changed into a vampire…
Tarnen for Katherine
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A small chibi comission for generous Katherine!
If you want one too, just pledge 5$ on my Patreon 🙂
Thank you!
Morti in a forest
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Mortifer
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Tarnen in white
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Fluffy coat
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…I wish I had a coat like Faerlin.
I won’t let you destroy my world
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“I won’t let you destroy my world.”
Idiot
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“For every jerk, there is another, bigger one. That´s usually me.”
(Quick sketch of Niathan for poor Stinohra, who had a bad day.)
Sketchdump
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And this is what it looks like when I am at school for too long.
Tarnen warrior
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Deadly tarnen warrior.
Colored version is exclusive for 3+ pledgers on Patreon!
A Ghostly Lover
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[[MORE]]
The ghostly lover comes to let the pain
remind you of your mistress’s life ended in vain.
Having fallen in love with a human woman, Denzealiss tried to give her an eternal life through giving her half of his elven ageless soul. Unfortunatelly, she died and stayed attached to his soul, invisible for everyone else. Ever since that she begged him to commit suicide to let them both go to the other world. Didn´t he promise her that he will stay with her in life and death?
The Lightbearer
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Where are you going little girl?
…deadly black eyes! The monster is coming near!
Yes. She is getting these reactions a lot. Harmless elven girl who can go anywhere through the darkness.
Taranis
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Please, welcome Taranis, son of Dalmayr Ir’Loth. (Yes, this bastard has children.) Taranis is nice kind boy and – attention ladies! – he is total looser when it comes to asking for a date single!
New title and new site
Finally. I can say that the site migration is done. There is still some work left (re-uploading some images to the gallery, creating new banners, etc.), but the main content was moved to
It was an exhausting move, but – since I am used to work with websites – it didn’t take so much time. If you find a mistake or any error, please comment in the guestbook! I will repair it instantly.
I made a nice new logo for the comic and the new site, which you will see probably everywhere from now 😀
Once again – what is new?
- New name of the comic – Aeltarnen – it is nice, short and unique. Please feel free to use tag #aeltarnen when you sent anything connected with the comic.
- New home site – Aeltarnen.com – don´t forget to track our new RSS http://www.aeltarnen.com/feed/
- New blog – I connected this site with my daily doodles tumblr, so expect new pictures almost every day! And more photos and blogs about comic making and illustration.
How can you help?
You can support me on Patreon! I would be very grateful and it would help me to invest more time in the comic making!
Chibi Nalin
2014-10-08 n.282 (648)
Nalin is just so unlucky kid. His mother committed suicide and his father… Nalin pretends not to know about him. He was living on his own in the streets until a mage discovered his unusual talents for magic and took him as an apprentice.
A nice and shy boy. Lucky that he has his strong and confident girlfriend.
Chibi Faerias
2014-10-07 n.281 (647)
Faerias Kernadeel. The best example of a fire elven mage. Arrogant, insensitive and always drunk.
Chibi Saihlin
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Saihlin, famous elven outcast working as a healer among the poor of Capitol. Used to be a general, but… bad luck. Drinking green tea. As allways.