Inked Art Dump

 Thought I'd share some pieces with y'all.

I used to draw horse and equines quite a bit. I've been doing some studying up on them because I wanted to draw characters with equines again (as you'll see below). This is a brooder, a quasi-unicorn from The Legacy Incarnate. They're supposed to have a very similar build as a Friesian horse. I'm working on illustrating different horse breeds, heh.

The vaporous villain Vapor, spewing her ash across the countryside.

Caemorr and Sabra riding north, Caemorr on her brooder stallion Thurr, and Sabra on a gelding named Honey. It's been a long time since I've successfully illustrated a rider on an equine, and I'm pretty pleased with this. I had to research side-saddles for Caemorr, as she prefers a side-saddle due to her right-leg prosthetic.

 “Do you know what the letter says, Hakaan?” Zaenth said, jamming the end of the barrel against Ķervak’s throat. “It says my grandson is DEAD! And your Sabarah is responsible for it!”

This is intended to be an illustration for one of the short stories in The Legacy Incarnate anthology (Book IV.V). 

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Goals and BV Excerpt

 I'm starting off this year right: by sitting down and blogging! I have some good stuff to share with y'all.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had finished drafting Book V of The Legacy Incarnate: Incarnate Truth. However, I kept chewing and chewing on what I had written for the climax and aftermath, really unsatisfied with a lot I had written, and I finally decided to dive back in and add a few more things to round it out. I normally don't do such heavy revision right after drafting, but my mind will be much more at peace once I finish these last touches. Then I'll set the manuscript aside and focus back on E'lsra and the LI anthology (Book IV.V). 

Here's my author goals this year:

Sabra Digital Painting

 This art piece has been months in the making. It started out as a pencil piece in my sketchbook earlier this year, and I decided to paint it digitally. My goal was to reduce contours and focus on filling in the color and shading. As you can see, a few things changed between the pencil sketch, including the removal of the vury cape and some modifications to Sabra's face. I agonized over the background for some time, with only general lighting to go by. My original intention was some sort of explosion, so I finally settled on an explosion of light. After working on it off and on for several months, I'm pretty happy to have this finished and to be able to share it with you all.

I intend to eventually print this on cards to use for promotional material, such as selling my books in person. It was also nice to get back into the digital art. My Wacom Bamboo tablet doesn't work with my new laptop, and so my brother let me borrow his Intuos. It's a nice tablet, but I've still been discouraged not using my little one much anymore.

Thanks for reading!