Hello friends,
I’ve been feeling pretty much unmotivated to work on my comics for a long time and I decided that maybe connecting with you / seeing that someone actually reads this and cares, would be a huge help to me to get back to it.

If you want to come and say hi, I made a discord (and I will be posting there some stuff I haven’t posted on tumblr). Thank you!

english Aeltarnen
https://discord.gg/hWaeVes

Hey friends! I’ve finished one (kinda private) comics project for local magazine Abicko that took up most of the year. I did the coloring for the story of Jirka Tesař and it was fun! It will be eventually fully published online (czech only, sorry) and most of the issues can be seen here: 
https://www.abicko.cz/kategorie/7664/co-ciha-pod-vodou

Even though my mind is always set on my own comics story, there is another private comics comission. (Which will be published in English!) Each chapter is drawn by a different artist, and the first has been already published! https://www.comixology.eu/Shadows-Over-Venice-1/digital-comic/776191
So as soon as I finish drawing 40-something comics pages I’ll get to my own stories. 

Now, is there still anyone patient enough to wait for more pages of my webcomics? Let me know, I could use some support with my never-ending project!

Hello my dear readers!

I’m sending you greetings from my current residence in the comics underworld!

I know, I KNOW that you would wish for some new comic pages, but that is the one thing I can’t provide at the moment.

Why?

Because I am entangled in some private comics projects (as a professional comics-artist-wannabe I am) so I am currently working on two secret comics!

The first is a coloring of a really cool comics written and inked by my comics partner Jiří Tesař which should start to be published in a local magazine in autumn.

At the second project I participate as an artist of a chapter of a graphic novel written – again by my friend Jiří Tesař. It is a wonderful project connecting several local artists and will be published in English!

Both of these projects are occupying all my comics creation time (I’m not complaining) so what I create in the meantime are some sketches for fun and practice. And that is the content I’ve been lazy to upload on my web for a long time.

So this is the news – I’m going to upload more and more new pictures

and also – I decided to merge English and Czech (my-native-language) sites together to make it easier for me to just update and upload stuff.

Expect some commotion on the site and don’t miss new pictures in the Gallery and in Fanart!!

I am sorry, that I have been inactive for a long time on all my sites blogs. It was due to health problems and trying to cope with my job and life.

Things are becomming better, so I hope to be more active soon.
I also want to return to working on my comics in November when I finish a coloring comission for a local magazine.
Thank you for your patience!

Hello my dear readers, I would like to announce that I am taking vacation until the end of august. Please don’t expect any new pages until then (and of course there will be no charges for the patrons on patreon). There may or may not be any pictures in the meantime. We will see.
I’ve had too much personal trouble hapenning in my life for several months and I finally decided that it’s time to oficialy have a brake.

Thank you for your patience, I love you all!

I made a lot of progress on the next comic page, but it is not done yet. The perspective has been quite troublesome, so I had to make a 3D model of the background to give me a better idea how to arrange everything. It took me almost a whole day to remind myself how to work with 3D software, but  it is definitely worth it. I’ll upload the WIP page with 3D model for patrons to see it.

The page 74 should be finished on wednesday at the latest.

Hello my dear readers,

I am sorry that I haven’t been active much during the last month. It is finally changing for better, so I am getting back to drawing. What happened? I had to finish some courses at university and I’ve had too much work at my part-time job, I am teaching English in the meantime and I am preparing to start another part-time job soon. To top it all, I have to deal with some health problems. Too much stuff is happening at the same time.

But I want to finish another comic page during the next weekend. In case I am not able to finish it, I will show some previews.

Thank you for reading and your patience!

Please enjoy some recent pictures:

I am sorry sorry about the delay, but there will be no comic page this week (2.5.).  I unexpectedly decided to visit a local con Animefest and didn’t manage to finish the page. Please, enjoy a portrait of Mortifer instead!

He looks a bit tired. He was maybe on a con too?

What happened since the last blog post?
Page 70, 71 and 72:

And some illustrations:

Sorry, not able to finish it this monday. But I am working on it!

Here, look at my beautiful cat!

Are you distracted enough? Now I can start with the bad news. Sorry, there will be no comic page this week. I am awfully busy with my school and work. But the worst should be behind me in a week and the next comic page will be on time! (And maybe the daily doodles will return too!)

Thak you for being wonderful and patient fans!

There have been two new comic pages published since the last blog post:

And unfortunately no daily doodles. But more will follow soon!

I was able to publish the next comic page this week, but unfortunately I didn’t manage to do any daily doodles. Too much work, too much stress. I am sorry about it. I am hoarding unfinished drawings on my desktop, let me give you at least a preview:

Not too much, right? I hope that the next week will be better!

And another page is here! Should they go inside? Taranis doesn’t think so!

Do you like to comic so far? If you would like to help me in its creation, you can become my patron on Patreon!

I didn’t draw many pictures last week, because I spent most of my time trying to work on my thesis and on the comic page, but at least some pictures are here:

Faeron Khandarleii, the most famous adventurer on Kierth! (You will see him in the comics one day!)

Morti is not happy that Nyara kind of confiscated his hair.

And Dalmayr bored more than usual. With his inviolable coffee.

And also some enthusiastic words from Sennah.

I’m sorry, no comic page this week. At least I made this wallpaper-ish Mortifer! The high resolution image is available for my patrons on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lysandra?ty=h

How I love this color scheme!
I usually can’t stand my own wallpapers, but this one seems to be a good one. Probably will stay on my desktop for a while, reminding me that I should draw comics!

The last week was full of school, work, consultations and other unpleasant things, so I had to make myself happy with wierd linearts and one scary Dalmayr:

I really like the direction my art is heading.

It’s here – the page 65 of the Aeltarnen webcomic! The next one will be probably on Monday.  I will se how busy I’ll be with my thesis over the weekend.

And here are way too many daily doodles which I made during the last month and a half. I am quite happy with that background practice. And now I am trying to force myself to practice full-body portraits to become comfortable with them. Still quite challenging.

Hello my dear readers,

I am sorry that I have to announce my need to slow down the production of comic pages. I am not able to keep up the speed at the moment – I am in the middle of my exam period and I am also entering the last semester of my studies. So I need to use my free time to write a thesis and pass state exams and so on. I am really sorry about that, but making comics while working and studying is a too much demanding hobby for me at the moment.
I don’t want to put my webcomics on hiatus – I will still be working on it, but in a slower speed. I have also sacrificed the daily doodles (making it rather casual sketches). Please, wish me luck with the exams! The sooner I pass them, the sooner there will be a new comic page!

Since the last blog post, these two pages have been published:
 

And I have one more prepared for the next monday. There will be no Alltarnen strip this week again. Sorry, too little time and too low mood for making jokes.

But (!!!) I am still making drows for that wonderful challenge called Drowcember. Serisously, if you like dark elves, look at it. It is a pleasure.
So here are the drows I have drawn since the last blog post:

There are still two more to draw, the end of the month is getting near!

Sorry, there will be no comic pages this week! My exam period started and I am now buried in my textbooks and school projects. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to finish this week’s page and the next week page will be late too.

Please wish me luck with my exams!

Here, have some nice drows instead:

And a drow city:

How she loves to torture him…

The last week was very busy, but I was able to do some sketches:

  
One fanart of Diexemor:

And I joined another challenge – the Drowcember:

I was able to finish the next comic page – it is already visible for my patrons on Patreon. So the next update will be on time.

Hello!

I’m sorry I’m going away now and I can’t take my drawing laptop with me – so there will be no new comic pages. I’ll try to draw some traditional daily doodle – and upload them as soon as I get near a computer.

Have a nice week!

But at least enjoy this photo of my lovely cat:

And the sixth Alltarnen strip is here:

On Monday I publish  page 60 of the regular comic:

I also polished the website a bit and added few daily doodles in the meantime:

And I added a link to my patreon – any support would be appreciated!

I made another Alltaren strip. A bit late, but here it is:

And here are the latest daily doodles:

Sorry for the delay, I’ve been traveling and I wasn’t able to finish the next page in time. 

It’s here again. The parody strip:

And I made more daily doodles:

Then there were prizes for my tumblr giveaway:

And this very special thing for the magic meat week:


And of course I made a regular comic page last monday:

Time is always my enemy. I wasn’t able to finish another Alltarnen strip because I promised a lecture about comics at Akicon http://akicon.eu/. The lecture was about preparation of hand drawn comics into a print – scanning, cleaning, texturing, lettering and so. And I wanted to make a special strip for the demonstration. You can see the result here:

I’ll have another lecture about lettering tomorrow, so there may be another random strip. We will see…

And what is more important and fills me with joy – I finished the OC october! During this challenge I had to draw a different original character every day. It was quite hard and it stole my time from drawing comics, but it was definitely worthy.
Here are the characters I’ve draw during this week:

I need to make a new blog post. The last one about my sickness was too apocalyptic. I’m not completely ok now, but I managed to finish a quotation for the third chapter and a quacking which will be published tomorrow. (On regular Monday.)

I really like this page. If you compare it with the previous quotations, you can see my improvement. Yay! It seems great.

This month I am still working on that challenge – OC october. (You have to draw every day one original character you made.) I decided to rather draw character I have played in many RP campaigns – those I played too many times or those I haven’t drawn yet. My other original characters already have  enough space in my comics.

Well, the last week I finished these:

Six more to draw! Phew.

Sorry, next page will be published on friday. I am ill now and can’t draw 🙁

I haven’t written any news article for a while. Many things have happened – my school started again, my websites were infected by some kind of spam, so I had to delete everything and to build them again. That slowed my drawing a lot. I still haven’t recovered everything, but the most important sites are running. And now I am ill.

So what is new? Since last blog article, I finished the second chapter and started the third:

I also made two new strips of that parody Alltarnen:

And I am still participating in the OC October.  (A challenge in which you have to draw a different original character every day.) This challenge is killing me. But here are my results up to date:

Another comic from the Alltarnen parody:

And I drew another OC:

Now we are only one page before the end of the chapter! Are you looking forward to reading the next?

I decided to join OC-tober – a challenge where you are supposed to draw a different OC you created every day of the month.  I don’t usually do challenges, but this one is perfect.

So for the day 1 – here is my first OC ever:

And the rest of my newest daily doodles:
     

Finally some news. The last blog article I wrote was published about a month ago. What happened in the meantime?
Quite a lot! Some pleasant creative stuff and some unpleasant personal things. I was too exhausted to write a blog, but finally here it is.

So what happened? I had to leave my daily job (to be able to take care of my family members after some surgeries) and become an externe. The good point is that I will have more time for studying and drawing comics. At least I hope so. The bad point is that I lost my regular income. So if you love my webcomic, this would be the best time to support me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lysandra?ty=h

I spent last month drawing, travelling, partially moving back to my family, and taking care of my eighteen years old cat who unfortunately died in the end. It wasn’t a happy month. I hope that future will be a bit brighter.

Now the creative stuff:  I finished drawing the second chapter of the story – The Bandits. I’ve published five pages since the last blog and there are two more to go in the next weeks. Then we will proceed to the next chapter.

These are the new pages:

Page 51

Page 52

Page 53

Page 54

Page 55

Expect two more! Then we will start the next chapter (oh, how much I love the next one!) and another surprise…. story. Whatever that thing is. The surprise thing will come probably on friday. You will see. It can’t be missed.
Or you can already see both of it on my patreon. https://www.patreon.com/lysandra?ty=h

As you can see, I decided to return to the standard page format. So expect regular page size or double size.

And with a huge help of my friends, I uploaded most of my daily doodles archive on the web. It can be seen here:  http://aeltarnen.com/dailies/

My daily doodles could be also followed on tumblr as well as the webcomic.
The webcomic – tumblr – aeltarnen.tumblr.com
Daily doodless – tumblr –  elfpluscats.tumblr.com

You can also follow the webcomic on Tapastic http://tapastic.com/lysandra
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/Aeltarnen-296815660369128/timeline/
Or Twitter: https://twitter.com/aeltarnen

I’ll be without internet until 17th August. Enjoy the comic page! See you in two weeks!

Finally some news. It’s been a month again, so what happened in the meantime?

My Wacom Companion stopped charging, I had to send it to Germany to have it repaired and couldn’t continue working on the comic. I later got it back, made a comic page and the issue happened again, so I sent it to be repaired few days ago. I am working with my old Intuos now, it doesn’t feel the same at all and I can’t produce decent line art. So I guess that I will again just make pencil sketches or environmental practice until I got the Companion back. I don’t like being limited to working just on one device to be able to produce comic page, so I am thinking through changing my comic page process.

I was able to re-new my pencil skills, so I could always do a pencil line art and colour it with whatever device is available. But the problem is that I’ve been travelling a lot and I am not near any scanner most of the time. (That is why Companion was super useful.) I found a new great process of making sketches – sketching in the computer, printing it out with soft blue lines, drawing over it with a pencil, scanning it, and then erasing the sketch layer with some correction filters. It is super great for making a nice compositions, and it would be wonderful for comic making (since I would be able to leave enough blank space for the bubbles, prepare correct perspective etc.), but the problem is that I need not only scanner for that, but also a printer. *sigh* It would be much easier if I didn’t have to travel so much.

What other thing I wanted to change was the comic updates. Since I have so much trouble with finishing the pages in full scale of them, I was thinking about uploading them frame by frame more often. It sounds terrible, I know, but it wouldn’t be so bad, you will see. At least – more frequent updates. Yay?

Anyway, I am going through an exam period at my school, which doesn’t mean that I have more time for drawing. But I am super angry, that I have to spend so much time at my school tasks, learning for the 17 subjects I have to pass, etc. So it makes me do other staff for myself and the comic. I was thinking about writing down more world building stuff. I’ve been working on the world of Aeltarnen since 2000 (unbelievable isn’t it?) and starting the first version of the comic in 2003. So I have a lot of things that I like about the world and the characters that couldn’t be shown in the comic. And other people can learn them only through playing an RP with me or from my stories (and there hasn’t been much of them that I would translate into English) or from the Aeltarnen Wiki (still not finished and unreleased). That made me to think about releasing some posts about the world and minor characters from time to time. They will be here in the blog and I guess that I will post them also on my Patreon and on the Aeltarnen tumblr.

Or on my other tumblr blogs… I wish I hadn’t been so organised. Ehm. What tumblr blogs I actually have?

• Daily doodles – updated daily with new doodles
• Aeltarnen tumblr – updated with comic pages, news and world building info
• Elven stories – I am posting short stories and poetry from time to time
• Lysandr-a – my main account (you can send me messages there!)

What else happened during the last month – I wrote script for another comic. It will be released probably after I finish the chapter 2 The Bandits. It’s not about Mortifer or Salm, but some other heroes who will be involved in the Aeltarnen’s story later. I’ve already finished he cover, but you will see it later. (…and there are some sketches from the story on my patreon for the subscribers.)

Okay, that’s enough of making a wall of text. Thanks for reading!

Finally some pictures from the last month:

I made some more sketches:

Some chibies:

Some black pencil sketches:

Some random images:

And of course more sketchy images:

And then I discovered the technique with printed sketch, so it became even better:

I made some elven portraits:

And chibis (that’s what oveload with school work does with me):

I practiced painting environments and working with colours:

And of course I made a tumblr giveaway:

And the images for the winners:

So many images. In case you want to see sketches for most of them, subscribe to my patreon. Drawing daily is challenging, and one doesn’t feel improving at all, but when I look back at my art from previous years, the improvement is here. So I strongly recommend it 🙂

It’s been a month since the last comic page, so I think that I should write some news post again. I have some bad news and some rather good news. The bad news first:

My Wacom Companion stopped charging few weeks ago. It turned out that it is an official technical fault of Companions made until 2014, so I sent it to Germany for repair. I should get it back in approximately two weeks, which means no comic page until then. This problem is also the reason why I have drawn so many pencil sketches lately. *sigh*

The other news: I turned 28 (oh gosh, I am so old, time is running so quickly), but this year I am too busy with school and work that I even didn’t throw a party. Buuut I took it as an opportunity to update my art progress sheet. It’s been six years since the last update, and now look at it – I’ve been taking drawing seriously since 2003 – and it is also the time I originally started the first version of my comic. It feels like I am getting somewhere. Have a look at it and be amused with Mortifer with a dove. Yes. I really drew that. It was a wallpaper and it was epic.

And now a summary of pictures I drew since the last news update:

I bought Studio Clip Paint and it’s excellent for digital painting. Need to practice landscapes more when I get my tablet back.

…and also great for portraits.

Not many chibies this month. Cos drawing them on paper doesn’t feel the same.

I created a new character called Sall Faech. I didn’t expect to have such a pleasant character of a Laerin heritage (aka water elf). Laerins are the most violent and cruel tribe of elves. And Sall is a pleasure to write. Quite intelligent, sympathetic and good willed. I guess that I shouldn’t keep prejudices against own creations. (What will I do next time? Dark elven mages loving cats? Nope, that’s my life motto. Dark elven mages hating cats? Damn. Already have done it.)

Too many sketches.

These two are quite old character. One changed for the better, the other for the worse.

Aaand one gift for http://askadrider.tumblr.com/ created by awesome  Aiffe and Kavos-pls

And another for wonderful Tracey and her webcomic Biotopia.

And the last are my sketches from school. My pink highlighter is running out of ink. I have no clue why.

Finally some news again. There will be not much to say, but I have some pictures!

So what is hapenning? Erm… Well, when you think that things can’t get worse, please, don’t underestimate their power to suprise you. *grumble grumble*

I don´t want to complain about my life, so here, look at these nice pictures:

And now I see that I forgot to announce the next comic page together with the pictures from my blog for some time… Okay. Time to do it.

I wasn´t able to finish the next comic page on time, so I made these chibies:

I also made a tumblr for my short stories, if you are interested, it is here: http://elvenstories.tumblr.com/

And here are pictures:

I am not sure if I can dectibe Etherasil as a villian, but… you will see. He will be in the comic.

The Unnamed is a sad walking corpse. It was unusually good RP character, believe it or not.

My Christmas gift for Buslimpan,

A set of chibies.Vampire Faerlin is a pleasure to draw.

A set of Galliawyr´s hair. He has some serious issues with his hair.

Some gifts for Kapybara

Designing a new character

Drawing some old characters

And finally gifts for Ask a drider and Stinohra.

That´s all. I think that I have been productive 🙂

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.

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!