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He uses a tablet, I believe. How much easier this makes it, I don't know.

nope, I use a mouse to edit linework and to define areas of colour.

Elves hunt bare-handed?

maybe I just wanted to draw someone punching out a deer. Is that so wrong?

He's an elven monk. Normal elves limit their fighting to sentient races and shooting wounded animals to save them the suffering. He tries to forge his body into the perfect weapon for fighting sentient races(dwarves), and in the process creates severely injured animals for his filthy tree cousins to put out of their misery. They can't become good archers if they never get any practice.

this is actually an almost perfect explanation of the character...

Nice, Fault. I like the colours.

thanks! Windows 7 paint is really good for colouring in backgrounds.

I was a little tired of drawing William talking to Olin in a tent, so I decided to draw Shift out hunting.

I guess this is considered concept art, since this panel probably won't appear in the comic for a bit.


THIS is what I want Chapter two to look like once coloured.

posting some... early concept art.


I'm trying to sort out the aesthetic for non-military goblins (I've been putting a lot of thought into civilian characters lately). an important idea for his outfit is that it has no pockets - all of his possessions are either hung from chains or stuffed in amongst the many belts he has wrapped around his scavenged clothes (I think these elements help to emphasize the thief-like nature of the race)

EDIT: I went and made a version with his colour scheme being less vivid.

Glad to see you're still working on this!

Also cool, I thought this was dead.

yeah... it's way too easy to get sidetracked and forget things during the summer months. Expect Updates to be far more frequent in the near future!

I think the art quality in this latest strip is better than the last one.

thanks. I've been trying to pay more attention to consistency and detail (particularly with the shapes of noses... they used to be quite inconsistent in the prologue and chapter one)

new paint only has four line thicknesses available.

Old paint had about six... it was a much better variety.

Personally I preferred having panel borders that were two pixels thick, but new paint goes right from one pixel thick to four pixels thick.

the rim isn't metal, only the studs are (I should've coloured them differently)

they're really more like epaulettes than pauldrons.

I'mma do it tommorow, if that's fine with you. I find I don't write very well at twelve in the morning!

EDIT: I was busy most of today, so I tried to get a little of it written a couple hours ago. But then I hit the backspace key while the cursor was out of the text box, and lost all that I had typed...  and by now it's too late to try and start again. I guess I'll do it the next day...