Here’s a treat for you all. Or … you know. A trick, if we’re going by Halloween standards. Since it’s old and painfully bad. This here? It’s concept art for the Lashima’s High Priest. Back when Lashima was Lieshal, the Goddess of the Morning Light. I told you, we’ve been through several revisions. This is not accurate anymore in the slightest, and we’ll just ignore the 18 layers of anatomy fail. The link sends you to my elfwood where you can read the info I posted when I uploaded this dude several years ago. Plus also, more extremely painfully old and bad artwork.

Here’s a treat for you all. Or … you know. A trick, if we’re going by Halloween standards. Since it’s old and painfully bad.

This here? It’s concept art for the Lashima’s High Priest.

Back when Lashima was Lieshal, the Goddess of the Morning Light.

I told you, we’ve been through several revisions. This is not accurate anymore in the slightest, and we’ll just ignore the 18 layers of anatomy fail.

The link sends you to my elfwood where you can read the info I posted when I uploaded this dude several years ago. Plus also, more extremely painfully old and bad artwork.

  1. 22nd October 2011
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World Building: Scripting

Took a light weekend, writing/creationwise after we got the logo/title settled.  Turned the prologue into a rough script and started on the script for the first chapter. We’re going with floating chapter length for this comic, aiming to be as long as it needs to be. There’s a general maximum length we don’t want to exceed, however.

Found a great google docs template that makes scripting easier and look nicer, and we have an english major friend helping us with a little editing and catching other such snafus. She’s also great to bounce ideas off of.

That side story is still niggling at the back of my mind. When I finish chapter 1 I’m going to have to write it real fast before going back and revising the scripts I’ve gotten written thus far.

Today, Vilien, the god of fire:

Vilien, vain in his boldness, birthed beings of living flame in hopes to rival his father’s creation. These flamewraiths live and die in a moment, constantly rekindled within the fires of their deaths. In a way they are immortal, and share in the agony and rage of their creator. A temple to him they built in the southernmost mountains, nestled deep within a volcano, and from this temple they rarely stray. Forever are they bound to the molten rock.

  1. 18th October 2011
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On Maps, World Building, and why any of this is worth it.

Stephanie -

This comic has been in process since 2002 or so. Back then, when the idea first crawled into my head, it was in the faintest of forms. It started out with a question, and an answer for that question, both of which are now largely irrelevant ( neither question, nor answer, made it into the final story). 

From that question and answer grew some ideas, mainly 3 characters, and from THOSE characters came others. There were discussions even then, though, about something that I feel gets taken for granted. That being, the world these characters get marched around in.

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  1. 15th October 2011
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Title Sample Text for Tears of the Moon
  1. 15th October 2011
Tears of the Moon: Creating Symbols

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David - Most of the past few days, comic related, were spent working on symbols and the map. I did some basic sketching of what symbols we wanted to represent each of the gods, but it’s terrible enough that I’m not going to share until Steph gets a chance to make them look pretty. But there are 7…

  1. 14th October 2011
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World Building - Characters

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David -

Today was oddly enough a slower day but I did get a lot done. Got detailed descriptions of the looks and personalities of the gods, as well as the framework for the same type of thing for the primary characters. Wrote down some notes (and changed the whole concept of) about books 2 and 3 that we needed to know for proper foreshadowing in book 1 as well as discussed the general ideas for the climax of that book.

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  1. 14th October 2011
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World Building Part 2

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Today’s efforts kind of skewed in a direction I didn’t anticipate, and sparked some additional story ideas that may never see the light of day as anything but an additional info page, but that’s okay. I also finished rewriting the Red City to properly fit into the world and fleshed out another city, though not the one I intended to at first.

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  1. 14th October 2011
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World Building Part 1

Sorry for spam, set up a new tumblr allowing multiple authors, so reblogging!

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David -
A long time ago, before my wife and I ever met, she had an idea for a comic. She had the basics, and a myriad of loose threads and seeds, but never went much farther than that. But it was something that always bounced around in the back of her mind.

We’ve discussed it several times in the past, done some brain storming fleshed the world and the storyline out some. The other day, it comes up again. We’re both in a position where we need a creative outlet and we want to tell a story.

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  1. 14th October 2011
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