Working on Sylvania the Elven Ground Staff!

 

Working on Sylvania the Elven Ground Staff #WIP!

I was inspired by a sponsorship ad in Lifering’s exit interview episode I have seen a while ago on Youtube.

Her war-object design is based on Sylvania of the Spirit Keep. I incorporated a few elements from her elven design, such as her chest plate, hip guards, and pauldrons, into her staff from the game.

I had some troubleshooting on her staff design. Polearms usually have a blade at the end for a long-range strike, like halberds, spears, or tridents. The blade-like protrusions on the head of Sylvania's staff don’t look like they are made for striking from the side.

 

 

For something that looks close to her staff weapon in Raid, I was able to find the Fangtian Ji, a Chinese spear from the Song dynasty (960–1279AD), designed for striking opponents directly or knocking them off their horses with the spear tip or side blade. (see also the Dagger Axe for a better context of her design).

Sylvania does not do this in the gameplay footage in the ad, she just strikes the ground with an AOE attack. So, I think it’s a staff weapon for casting powerful magic.

In this design, I exaggerated the blades and lengthened the spearhead. It made her look very intimidating in my style. A powerful and high-ranking war-staff!

Massive Sketch update!

It's been awhile since the last update.  Here's a big sketch update to make up for that.

Some Stuff I found on the internetz

Hey, sorry if I dropped off the face of the earth!  Anyway, I'm back and I found some pretty interesting things on the internet:

So...You're a Cartoonist? by Andrew Dobson (2025 update: yeah no) and I am ARG! by Andrew Richard Gregoire are autobiographical webcomics based on these artists' artistic and sometimes very weird lives.

MS Paint Adventures by Andrew Hussie is a site dedicated to his comic/rpg/animated/ interactive story games. He has about four stories on the site, of them PROBLEM SLEUTH  (complete) and HOMESTRUCK are the longest.  Don't let the art style fool you, these stories are funny and rather enjoyable.  He also have a downloadable soundtrack to HOMESTRUCK created with help from his fans. 


I made fan-troll based on his troll characters in the comic:

G1v3 M3-Za all 0f y0ur-Za 1n-valuabl3s-Za.

And lastly Soulless by Kaarina Makowski and its a very interesting sci-fi webcomic about...well go see for yourself.