Dark Fantasy

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Poetic Library:
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and poems written over the years

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Short News:

9th of April, 2013

  • Art Exhibition at Lappeenranta's Main Library starting 10th of April until the end of the month!
  • Selected 27 large sized high quality prints for sale, all personally signed!
  • On the opening day 10th of April I'm also holding a 1 hour lecture about Digital Expression at 18.00, in the Music Hall, the lecture will be recorded by Vanir Productions and will become available online (with English subtitles)!
  • Welcome to listen and take a tour on fantasy and dark art! :)

27th of February, 2013

16-19th of January, '13

  • Lots of updates, new frontpage banner, compiling a Make-Up Art portfolio which I reveal soon, adding new commissions and personal works to galleries
  • Removing the Pencil Works Gallery,
    I no longer work with pencils in general and it's been there for ages
  • Illustrations and development of my fantasy saga ' ORDERA' restarts soon with Radical Publishing, it's been a long 2 years of wait but all is well and the first book will be out as soon as possible!
  • I'm holding an art lecture at Kouvola (Kansalaisopisto), in Finnish on February 13th, 18.00 - 20.15 !
    It's free and you're welcome to come and listen and meet me up there and see my works, while I talk about Digital Art and the challenges and views of being a professional artist.

9th of July, 2012

  • New Gallery revealed, it's that cute BLACK DRAGON-icon!! So take a look at Works In Progress. You'll see a whole series I'm currently working on and some other unfinished paintings.

8th of July, 2012

3rd of July, 2012

  • Sorry, sorry, sorry for my absence! I'm updating a lot of works done this recent year, firstly today the Digital Paintings -gallery!!
  • I'm now also a professional MAKE-UP ARTIST!! I graduated from Finnish Make-Up & Styling Academy called Headhouse this summer :)
  • The London Olympics 2012 are soon on and I was priviledged to participate creating huge posters for the event working with Picasso Pictures.
  • There's going to be a new gallery here and some layout changes for the next couple of days
  • Thanks for your long patience and have a beuatiful summer!!

28th of June, 2011

  • Big interview in local newspapers Etelä-Saimaa and Kouvolan Sanomat! See them here and here

16th of June, 2011

18th of April, 2011

28th of January, 2011

  • Updated Commissions -gallery, 13 new works! Take a look :)

13th of July

  • Radical Publishing presents a massive preview of Ordera at Comic Con 2010 at San Diego convention center!!
    Check out the official poster with the new gorgeous logo:

4th of July, 2010

  • Ordera's long saga has proudly joint with Radical Publishing and the first novel 'Exsilium' will come on out as fully illustrated in 2011, hang on until then!!

June:

  • Was interviewed to a weekly Finnish magazine NYT( # 4-10.6.2010) by friend and photographer Tatu Lertola. Enjoyed our conversations very much, thank you :)

    Digital version of the article here!

22nd of May 2010

27th-29th of April '10

16th of February '10

  • Exciting new things happening! as I've broadened my genre from fantasy to surrealism, and to celebrate thit great occasion I've set up a gallery for the first works, take a looK at them at Dark Surrealism -gallery (it may not always be 'dark', but it works for now)

  • More paintings will be added in next few days to also Digital Paintings-gallery!

25th of January 2010

20th January 2010

6th of January 2010!

29th of December '09

  • Ordera's site gone through plenty of updates! Finnish versions following very soon!

23rd of December!

  • spending holiday, update delayed, sorry but you have to wait until the 27th day to see new stuff! Check out my Facebook -page until then, you find the link at the bottom of this page!
  • Also don't forget about Ordera's Fan Page in Facebook! Join as a fan and support my project :)

21st of December 2009

  • Happy holidays everyone!! I'm updating the site between 21-23st of December so stay tuned to see a lot more new artworks and news from these last couple of months!

    In the meanwhile, take a look at this little winterly holiday card I made for you all, enjoy it!!

21st of October:

17-19th of October 2009

8th of September '09

19th of July '09

  • Updating Speedpaintings gallery

15th -17th of July '09

1st of June '09

April 22nd '09

  • Updated biography a bit & changed the banner

March '09

  • Article written to It's Art forum Think Digitally - read it here
  • Latest piece received a an Award from It's Art forum!! :)
  • updating CV, Prints + added widget to frontpage to ease up updates
  • finishing up tutorial about new painting "Marked Traveller"
  • concidering adding a blog here, since there's so much to talk about beside the visual fireworks ;)


18th of February '09


25th of February '09


18th of February '09

  • Major update on site within a few days, new additions to paintings, comics,speedies, mixed media,cv and awards, stay tuned :)

Visit Ordera's new website!

- Characters now available to review!! Prologues opening soon in English!

Go there now!

6th of January '09

  • First off, my site's gonna be changing during this January - since now I got a new website provider and LOADS of storage room
  • So there's gonna be lots of new features, pics and info especially about "Ordera"
  • The book itselfwill be out soon in Finnish and through online purchasing, but I'll do my best to add English content and information to special Ordera's upcoming website.

  • Latest special and beautiful It's Art -magazine's out now and I'm featured there with a massive interview and loads of artworks. Take a look and at the edition through HERE! =)

  • I'm proud to be part of the artists at new online shop for digital art called Kboomm.
    www.kboomm.com
  • So you can finally purchase some of my prints there - will be adding more and more artworks over time as well :)

 

19th of November '08

  • Read about Ordera's special prologue here!

  • I hope I can provide some more insight in English in days to come, but first it'll be presented in Finnish language through my website - so stick along and maybe there's a way to make both happen soon.

  • Ahh. First snow and lot's of things happened in my life during the past weeks. Guess the climate change isn't so bad after all... ;)

  • Finished an interview for It's Art Magazine for their first issue coming up in January 2009, looking forward to see this special edition they plan on.

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    21st of October '08

    Lots have happened in a month and much more still to come! Yay!

    • Updated Awards and Publications & News - categories

    • ImagineFX #36 has my big Speedpainting Workshop article, hopefully I'll be placing an online link for it soon

    • I'm now a member of the Skinnis.com, visit there!

    • Participating to a great challenge at Its Art-forum themed "We Humans", here's my entry

    • Black Halo Entertainment competes at Zuda.com with comic of Kahbi (World of Chi Chronicles), artist - me of course.
      - sign there to cast a vote for us! =)

    • Ordera makes its first 'public' stunt when I talk about it in a certain fantasy book reviewer's blog soon

    • Flame Tree Publishing's gonna include many of my dragon-related works to it's upcoming Collection of Dragons - book.
      - it also will include a small tutorial of one of my latest speedpaintings entitled "Eversor"



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    23th of September

    had to remove temporarily Concept Art-section because of a certain current competition's restrictions, please stay patient.

    19th of September 2008:

    Updated site:
    - added Close-buttons to the first page in Digital paintings, will be adding them to everywhere too as I find the time, so there's no more pop-ups! yeaah.

    - and added 3 new works to Digital Paintings

    bit later follows new works to Pencil Works & Speedpaintings -categories

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    18th of September:

    Massive interview with 'Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews' - read the article

    Made a Sketchbook at my profile at Itsartmag.com, looks very cool and added lots of unseen sketches there!

    New coverart commission for 3 upcoming fantasybooks

    Planning about adding special Portraits -category for the site

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    July 2008

    Interview with 2D Artist magazine
    Read the complete interview

    Working on conceptart for "Cockfighter" - the movie with Remington Scott

    - making comic for great guys of Black Halo Entertainment; the story of Victoria DeLorme

    23th of July

    - updated site, added new works to Commissions and Personal paintings -galleries, finally!
    - tomorrow adding new stuff to Speedpaintings

    - hurrying up for Exotique 4, got time to finish just one painting for it.. so I keep my fingers crossed :)


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    27th of June 2008

    - Currently working with director Remington Scott, making initial concept art for his amazing modern day fairy tale screenplay "the Cockfighter".

    - Scheduled interview with Corel Painter official magazine for possibly August'08 issue, awesome!


    - Added 3d artist Markus Vogt's homepage to my Links-section, thanks Markus!

    - Interview with 2d Artist magazine completed, looking forward seeing the article!

    - busybusy.. managing timetables and finishing unfinished projects asap. Not so easy to be a freelancer!


    23th of June 2008

    -- Decided to remove the Prints- possibility for temporarily, at least for couple of months. Unfortunately I don't have the freetime to manage printing and posting myself. Sorry for this, everyone!


    23rd of May '08

    -Added details to "Prints" -section.
    - Scheduled interview with 2d Artist magazine to this July's issue, yay!
    - Finished commission painting of Alexander the Great, will be added on site shortly.
    - currently working with upcoming MMO online game character concepts and "Fallen Angel" comics.

    13th of May '08


    Created a new category "Web Tutorials". You can see fast overviews how I create different quick paintings and moods. Currently just one process viewable, but hope you find it still enjoyable.

    10th of May

    -Refreshed some site appearance.
    - Updated CV
    - Added new works to
    Commissions, Personal Paintings & Speedpaintings, enjoy!

    (9th of May)
    Still updating... Totally Friday-night stuff, lol!

    May 2008,
    - I got the honour being awarded with Silver (Excellence) award in Exposé 6's Portrait (painted) category! This girl is too happy now!

    - Working with comic project "Fallen Angel" in collaboration with Gökalp Bayramli.

    - Getting ready working with Black Halo Entertainment's 2nd comic story of a complex twisted person named Victoria, so exciting!

    April 2008
    - Smirk& Dagger Games now have the piece "Din" in one of their gamecards as an illustration, check those cool games out!

    - Working on a remaked Alexander the Great painting as individual commission, it will be huge!


    March 2008
    Finnish metalband "Teräsbetoni"
    rides to Eurovision, got the pleasure creating a shirt for them!













     
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