More visualization practice! Here’s a rundown downtown area in the Hachitsu kingdom. Architecture in this kingdom is mainly made of wood, and buildings are stacked on top of each other with boardwalks. Both Sasha and Cecilia are in this picture!
I’m challenging myself to start drawing backgrounds well, and visualizing the imaginary spaces my stories take place in. Here’s my first attempt! Joel in a messy shop. I’m also gonna do a bunch of practice showing off what the four kingdoms really look like, since I haven’t really drawn them before.
This is the first MAP Part I’ve done in forever, hopefully this allows me to do more in the future! The characters I used here are Clay, Sato, and Mana. They’re Kitsuga, a moth and fox-like species that are only 3-inches tall and are spirits of Spring. Clay is Sato and Mana’s father; he’s the tall white one with blue eyes. Sato is the younger white one with yellow eyes and Mana is the youngest brown one. Clay was the king of the Kitsuga, but he recently died fighting to protect his kingdom against a plague of pitch-black bugs. Now that he’s gone, Sato has been trying his best to take care of his family in his place. Clay still watches over him, though..
I recently got a bunch of posca paint markers! I also discontinued my old sketchbook in favor of this little journal which I’m having a blast filling out!
This map (multi-animator-project) part was finished around 3 weeks ago, but I procrastinated posting it so much that it took me this long to do it lol. I’m proud of how this one turned out! I changed up my animation method slightly for inbetweening, and that resulted in it being faster/a higher frame rate than I initially intended. Hopefully I can learn from this and figure out how to animate actions without so many frames! Otherwise, I had fun experimenting and making this. The character in this part is my main OC Mae, and she’s just been knocked out of the sky by a crow soon after first leaving her kingdom. When she hits the ground she notices a needle beside her, which ends up becoming her signature weapon.
I made a thank you card!
Asha’s birthday was on June 27th.
The brothers! Joel and Jeremiah’s birthday was on June 20th!
This is late, but Ruben’s birthday was on June 11th! Here he is happily studying at the cabin, working on transcribing some of the Human’s writing. If you look closely, you’ll notice that he has a love letter from Asha open next to the candle..
New characters! I’m working on expanding the other three species.
Stradda is the receptionist of the secret Kameshi village, she greets newcomers and shows them around. She’s married to Petal! She was the one who birthed their litter.
Petal is the mayor of the secret Kameshi village. She holds the belief that part of the reason the old Kameshi kingdom fell was because only men were rulers, so she says that it’s time a woman takes the reigns. Her dress is a recreation of a faded tapestry from the old kingdom that she keeps in her office. She’s a very tough fighter and is distrusting of other species. She wants to protect the village by keeping it a secret from outsiders and the other species.
Dandelion, Star, and Comet are Stradda and Petal’s three babies.
Speckle used to appear in magazines, but is now a worker at the community pantry for the Kitsuga. She packs prey that hunters bring in and store them. She has a daughter from a one-night stand, and is currently dating Eden.
Eden is Speckle’s girlfriend. She came out of her cocoon with crippled wings and had to have them amputated when she was younger. Because of her lack of wings, she can wear clothes that fully wrap around her back and doesn’t have to worry about them restricting her flight. She’s a fashion designer who’s very interested in Seiki fashion. She wears dresses, socks, shoes, and other pieces of Seiki fashion that are uncommon for the Kitsuga.
Wind is a 15 year old Kameshi whom Bel found in the forest. He was the one who informed Bel and Scamp about the secret village and brought them there. He’s trans, and is on his own searching for the village so that he can have help finishing his transition. Living alone in the forest it’s hard to have everything necessary for that. He chose his name “Wind” because he has the special skill to predict the weather and the ferocity of storms.
Garden is a 14 year old Kameshi, and the son of the secret village’s main guard. He was given his own farm and spends most of his time cultivating crops for the village. He’s Wind’s romantic interest, and has mutual feelings for him as well. They spend a lot of time in his field together.
Valor is a low-level Hachitsu knight. He’s very interested in the past of his kingdom, back when their government was a monarchy. The knight system was one of the few elements of the old government that stuck around once they switched to a democracy, which is why he wanted to become a knight! He’s trans, and was born with the queen gene, a gene that only those born female present. His large size helps him be a strong force. He helped Mae meet with Charlotte when she first came to the Hachitsu kingdom.
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