Hello! Just another overdue update on the progress that’s been made over the
summer. Due to outside circumstance I haven’t managed to get through as much as
I would have liked to, however things are still moving forward and developing
well. The sequence of events in D’rosk’s story are almost finalised, I just need to work out the timing of
the scenes so that they match in with Laythan's and Rheeven's stories. I could
do with visualising the action scenes in a little more detail but that will
come naturally as I listen to good music. So far his story has been inspired by
some of the great songs in this inspiring music compilation -
Action and
Adventure Music. So you can already tell the sort of grand scale the action
is going to be on.
I have mostly been doing artwork while I've not had a story to write and
there are some more characters I can show off.
Kalare
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| Kalare for Hadron Gateway |
This is Laythan’s mum Kalare. Though she doesn't feature much in the story, she
does pop up in one of Laythan's few remaining memories so I worked hard on
getting her right rather than defaulting to a generic mother figure. Seeing as
she was a young single mother who had to keep her little son alive while travelling
in a rough environment I had to make her look tough instead of homely She still
has a kind face because I wanted to make it clear that Laythan had a tough but
very loving mum. She has a short stature and although Laythan doesn’t really
take any of her facial features, he still has her dark brown hair and bright
green eye colour.
So what do you think of her?
Next is a long awaited example of the illustration style plus what it will
look like on screen with the textbox.
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| Illustration Style Example for Hadron Gateway |
The line work is going to be black and I intend on making it quite thick. The
colour is going to be applied with plenty of texture rather than going for dull
flat colour with cell shading.
What do you think of it? Is it vibrant enough?
