Made a rough size and age sketch sheet of my Calderian Earthenkind, with a human (5'4") to show scale. Upper section shows Eightenate's size at age 25 due to her stunted growth next to an Adult Earthenkind around the same age. Bottom section shows normal growth over years.
Hello!
I'm Penwrythe (she/they). I'm a Black NB Bisexual artist who dabbles in character design, comics, and other 2D art. I also have an interest in animation and 3D art creation.
So, over the past year, I've been working on Eightenate character model for a World of Relics style guide. The goal of the style guide is to help develop a consistent aesthetic, themes, style, and visual worldbuilding concepts for the overall look of the setting of World of Relics, and its sub universes, Rise of Relics and The Mundane Realm.
The goal of the Eightenate model is to test out how my designs translate to 3D space, while keeping my 2D painterly/comic book style. This means months of learning NPR styled shading and modeling, from Anime-styled renders to Arcane and Spiderverse styled shading. I'm still learning most of this stuff, as a lot of this style of 3D art and design is still new and developing. But once Eightenate's model is complete with body and facial rigging, with a plan on how to keep Appeal of my 3D models intact for comics, the process of asset creation of my future comics will go by faster.
Currently, the status of Eightenate's character model is the following:
There are a few corrections I need to do for this model before moving on to rigging:
Hello!
I'm Penwrythe (she/they). I'm a Black NB Bisexual artist who dabbles in character design, comics, and other 2D art. I also have an interest in animation and 3D art creation.
I made corrections on Eightenate's sword, shown here in a previous post. Check it out:
The reason why I went with this design was due to the environment that Eightenate lived in was incompatible with the original hooked sword from her previous sheets. The original sword design was for breaching and bypassing the armor of war-fitted objects like war-torches and other polearms and fighting against swords by using the hook to redirect their swings.
But Kingdom of Calderia is largely populated by Earthenkind made of multiple layers of solid stone, which includes Eightenate - despite her stunted size. I don’t think that hook design will survive long in this setting. So I went with a thick stone sword with a wedged blade, designed to still breach armor and stone, wedge between exposed cracks, and act as a tool for breaking through barriers or aid in climbing. And some additional traits like punching with the bolted hilt or stone pommel.
Also, there’s a bit of an additional worldbuilding note for Eightenate: because of her stunted growth, she is unable to grow spines on the underside of her arm. While most adult Earthenkind (of stony variety) grow spines upon coming-of-age at 20, Eightenate was five years late in that growth and lacked the additional offensive and defensive benefits she would have gained from them.
This sword was a gift given to her by an elder Earthen, who took care of her shortly after the lost of her past Guardian during her curiohood. The sword, once used in a higher position before Calderia’s downturn just years ago, was in poor condition and took a long time for Eightenate to take care of it. After some time, it gained a similar hue as Eightenate’s own chrysocolla core.
Next to be updated:
Hello!
I'm Penwrythe (she/they). I'm a Black NB Bisexual artist who dabbles in character design, comics, and other 2D art. I also have an interest in animation and 3D art creation.
Making a note to reorganize a few things between my socials.
First, make Blogger my archive, which means making all future art progress posts must be made there first before anywhere else. This will help with keeping track of projects more easily in one place. Once posted on Blogger, these posts will be copied and mass posted to all my other socials via Postybirb (with relevant edits if needed).
At this current time, I'm active on (in matter on priority for future posts):
Debating where I stay active or not:
Anyway, in a few days, on Tumblr I will retro-post a lot of my past art so the older stuff get more views on them. Moving forward, this will be only done once a year, with future reblogs/reposts to be made once every month. On sites like this (Blogger), just do a reminder post once a month, and have Bluesky and Reddit reposts once a month.
Hello!
I'm Penwrythe (she/they). I'm a Black NB Bisexual artist who dabbles in character design, comics, and other 2D art. I also have an interest in animation and 3D art creation.
