Minna Turunen
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Minna Turunen
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Programmer by day, webcomic artist by night. 🇫🇮, she/her ✨Comic: https://tapas.io/series/Book-of-Change/info
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Hello! 🩵
I'm Minna. Excuse me while I unpack my bags a bit.

I spend my free time working on a webcomic "Book of Change". It is a weird mix of sci-fi themes, talking magical books and bitter sweet feels~

I also love to share comics, art and writing related posts.

Comic: tapas.io/series/Book-...
My cousin's three-year-old's overjoyed reaction when they received a "Taikuri tarra" (Magician sticker).

They haven't read or seen the comic, but they love the pins in my bag. One of the pins has my characters on it.

They were just happy that they got a sticker of a character from the the pin. 🧡
Happy #webcomicwednesday everyone!
We've got a question for you webcomickers:

What's one thing that someone has said about your work that has never left you?
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I don’t think confidence comes purely from having skills. I also think it has a lot to do with your mindset.

That's why I put together 5 exercises that will help you grow your artistic confidence! Watch it on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/tutori...
Love the dynamics between these characters!!! ~~~ ❤️
Worst part was that I decided to change it AFTER the flat colors.

So had to also fix up all the color layers on every new round of tweaks. -.-"
Had to show my descend to madness while working on the most recent BoC page.

- First version: Hmm, Murmeli's hair is not quite wild enough.
- Second version: That looks too weird.
- Third version: Needs a couple tweaks to look perfect.
- Forth version: ...send help.

[ #boc-comic #webcomic #wip ]
Ehdottomasti näin!

Juonen kehittelyn kannalta tärkeimmät ideat yleensä syntyvät kun rupeaa miettimään "mitä tästä seuraa" tai "jos tämä JA tämä, niin mitä tarkoittaa".

"Entä jos" tilanteiden miettiminen auttaa paljon hahmojen syventämisessä vaikka idea ei pääsisikään lopulliseen sarjikseen mukaan.
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Good excuse to wear something untill they detonate when you FINALLY manage to obtain something that you really really like. XD
Getting new glasses is always a challenge...

When I don't need a new pair, there are many nice frames available. But when I try to buy new ones the frame fashion has JUST changed to something I don't particularly care for.

I somehow always manage to be out of sync with the trends. :"D
Don't table at cons, but working on my webcomic on a snail phase. Basically updating a page spread a month.

Tried first updating every two weeks, but that was a bit too much to juggle with full time job. Ate up all freetime and page quality started to suffer.

Slow is better than burn out.
Awesome!!

Congrats! :DDD
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It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
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Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
Had awesome day at the Helsinki comic festival today~~!

Met many awesome artists. Gave out a bunch of stickers (cats and crows ran out).

Also had the winner annoucement for the Zine Fest competition!

"Book of Change" won 3rd place! :D

Many friends were there to cheer and give congrats!
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FESTIVAALI ALKAA HUOMENNA!

Ovet aukeavat lauantaina klo 11. Merikaapelihallin ohjelma päättyy klo 20, jonka jälkeen siirrytään festarijatkoille.

Sunnuntaina ohjelma alkaa klo 11 ja päättyy klo 18.

Lauantain ja sunnuntain ohjelma on nyt kätevästi yhdessä paketissa – löydät ne postauksen kuvasta.
Taivaallisin Verkkosarjakuva -kilpailun finalistit suurten fanfaarien kera!

Book of Change - Minna Turunen
Magicats Vol 1 - Anna Pitkänen
Mielikuvituskaveri - Erkki Waan

20.9. klo 15:30 Merikaapelihallin lavalla selviää vuoden 2025 Taivaallisin Verkkosarjakuva.
Saavu paikalle jännittämään!
I'm at Helsingin Sarjisfestarit on Saturday 20.9!

No booth, but I'll be handing out stickers to those lucky (or unlucky) to ask.

Also... "Book of Change" got picked as a finalist for Zine Fest: Taivaallisin verkkosarjakuva competition!

See you there!

[ #event #zinefest #helsinkicomicsfestival ]
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don't you love it when you drew something you completely forgot about but someone hung onto it

anyway this resurfaced on the Patreon Discord today (thank u ursul)
Taivaallisin Verkkosarjakuva -kilpailun finalistit suurten fanfaarien kera!

Book of Change - Minna Turunen
Magicats Vol 1 - Anna Pitkänen
Mielikuvituskaveri - Erkki Waan

20.9. klo 15:30 Merikaapelihallin lavalla selviää vuoden 2025 Taivaallisin Verkkosarjakuva.
Saavu paikalle jännittämään!
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Helsingin sarjakuvafestivaalien yhteydessä kustantajien edustajat antavat kahdenkeskistä palautetta sarjakuvataiteilijoille. Yksittäisen esittelyajan kesto on 15 min. Varaa paikkasi portfolioklinikalle 👇

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I like writing comics specifically because the process is sometimes like

1. whoa I got an idea that would be really cool to draw
2. now I just need to create a world around it to lead to that happening and I’ll get to draw it in several months