Author name: Marta Tod

Few years ago I got a DM on Twitter how someone stole my art, and I think they’re back. It’s 5 in the morning and I can’t sleep so I might as well write. The cat is confused because this human usually sleeps at this time, but this was the peak of my week so […]

We’re in September. Got a few more days of summer left, but I think the worst is finally over. I wanted to share a few more pages that I did for the comic. It’s coming along nicely. I was thinking about how to continue posting the pages. The solution came while re-reading “Lord of the

Reniard gets to flaunt his naked titties and say “fuck” now, because Stijn drinks copious amounts of alcohol. tldr: Webtoon implemented a new content rating system with age brackets. Because there’s “mild to excessive consumption of alcohol” in Blood Bound, it has now gotten the “Mature” rating. If you read the comic, you know that

I’m learning Java Script and to try and make it as fun as possible I made a little game with my sweets drawings. Check out the mini game The game is simple: you pick 3 ingredients and mix them together to try and make one of the nine possible desserts. It made me think about

The comic is still on hiatus, but I’m back to drawing Book 4 and here are two of the pages from the beginning of it. Norrim and Stijn will arrive in Gorblath, and Kiln, Samar and Reniard will find themselves in Western Amberlands at the beginning of the next chapter of my story. I still

If you look through my comics, there’s at least one meal or a piece of food or someone cooking somewhere in a panel. My grandma thought me how to bake. She took care of four kids during the summers, in the 90s, which often meant including us in house work. And that meant helping with

If this blog post makes little sense, it’s because I’m writing it while dealing with a tension headache (that I got by carrying too much stuff from the store today, along with two massive books from the library). I’m barely drawing lately (I want to, but there’s always something going on – the house, the

Recently, to give my mind a break from longer projects, I started drawing sweets themed stickers. So far, I got an ice cream, an apple and poppy cake covered with chocolate, a rainbow cake and some apricot jam filled donuts. (And a few more sketched out.) It’s something I can do while low on energy,

Today, as part of the Stripotetke’s “Kod kuće” (“At home”) exhibition, a group of Serbian comic book authors – Stripoid – organised the D.I.Y. Comic Fest. People from the group got to present some of their comics, the zine we worked on together – and I finally got to meet some of the folks in

I’m seeing artists in a couple of Discords I’m a part of saying how they’re feeling low, doubting themselves, some even wondering if all of it (being an artist) is pointless. And I know that feeling. It sucks. But we’re in the northern hemisphere. It’s the middle of winter. Give yourself a break. The New

2023 is coming to an end in a few days. I didn’t achieve everything I planned to, but I met some cool folks along the way and learned a lot. This is my gift to myself for the New Year – “Conan the Barbarian: The Life and Death of Conan” and “Devil’s Reign”. I want

I have trouble sleeping lately. No clue why. Maybe it’s the peaceful quiet of the night. Maybe it’s the gloomy autumn. (Maybe it’s the sugary midnight snacks… Guess we’ll never know.) New obsession dropped I was reading “Empire of Vampire” and it’s a good book so far. Too bad I stopped reading because I became

In the past few days I had the pleasure to read Headcases #1 that AJ O. Mason was kind enough to send me. I also read the memoir of Mathew Perry, and am getting ready to read Terry Pratchett’s biography (let’s hope I bought enough tissues). Let me start with Headcases #1 A comic book

I didn’t post for a while, but now I’m back. I’m finishing the docs and files to start submitting one of the shorter comics to publishers. It’s way past time I was planning to have these materials done, but it is what it is. One of the publishers with open submissions requires 6 sequential pages,

It’s raining, I’m drinking black tea and relaxing a bit before I dive into my comic pages to pick out what to add to the portfolio. When I said this year would be fun, I had no idea exactly how much. Because I underestimated my health situation a teeny-tiny bit (and by that I mean

We took on a new project that will last until September at least. The good news is that we were promised to get paid well for it. I’m sceptical until I see this first payment. If all goes well, this will help a lot with my finances and my plans for the future. The bad

This week I printed out some test pages from my comic in full size. Just to get the idea how large they actually are and how much detailed I should make my drawings. The results were mixed. I definitely need to draw more detailed characters and scenes in my comic as I have the space

Everyone I talk to is getting sick from the flue or whatever, and I got stuck in bed for a couple of days, too. Dear health, can you not? But the good news is that yesterday evening I finished the pencils for Book 2 pages 36-40 or Episode 10 for those reading on Webtoons. I’m

As 2023 approaches tomorrow, I’m trying to finish pages 33-35 and push another update before the year ends. Which seems like it won’t happen and the update will be on January 1st or 2nd. We still didn’t decorate the tree since we just got it yesterday, and if you’re thinking “but Christmas was few days

Huge thanks to the Webtoon editors for featuring me for the 2nd time this year. The comic is now at 4000+ subscribers after being featured in Today’s Hot Series at the end of December, for almost a week! I’m looking forward to 2023 and what it will bring. In the meantime, getting ready for my

“Blood Bound” hit 3k on Webtoon a few months ago, which I didn’t have time to write about. It’s awesome to see so many people read my comic, and to see all the lovely comments people leave. As well as all the comments about the plot itself. Can’t wait to show you more as I

As I’m going through a complete mess in my private and work life, I barely had time to check on the comic in all the places I was publishing it. Tapas was a bit easier to follow because the app notifies me when I have new comments or subscribers, but Webtoon still doesn’t offer these features so it’s kind