Long time since the last update! Wishing you a splendid and deep year of the Horse!
8th of February, 2014:
11th of November, 2013:
27-28th of September 2013:
- Updating my CV here after a long time and adding new images to Dark Fantasy -gallery!
- Unfortunately had to cancel an art exhibition reserved for January 2014 at TaideTupa Pikku-Selma, Kuusankoski, Finland.
25th of September, 2013:
- The publishing contract with Radical Publishing (Radical Studios) ended and now 'ORDERA' is ready to find another publishing house. The story consists of 4 parts and now I'm currently developing 4 prequel parts to complete the saga.
28th of June, 2013:
- A cover art commission for Candlewick Press is revealed at the Commissions - gallery, check it out!
- Just confirmed a new art exhibition coming up in January 2014 at TaideTupa PIkkuSelma, Kuusankoski, Finland, very big show coming up! :)
- I apologise the delay for releasing the recorded lecture about Digital Expression, hel at Lappeenranta in April - the video will be up for viewing as soon as humanely possible
- More updates and works will be added during July!
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.
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!
