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!

Gwuenevere and her First Spell

 

A short mini-comic about Gwuenevere casting her first spell at 32. It did not go well. 

Ink and ink wash for the majority of this sketch. Acrylic paint and ink for the crystal.

 

And a special blurb that inspired this below! Warning, it's a bit rough, so mispellings and typos abound! CW for self-injury, body horror, and near-death.

Old stomping grounds

 Well...

 

....it's been a while since I been here and I am surprised that a few posts are still getting views on here.

Anyway, since I left Twitter (for personal reasons I will not mention here), I also gave up a platform for posting my rough sketches. I like posting on Tumblr, but I like to spread out my content on different platforms. DA, Insta, and my portfolio are mostly for my finished completed work or polished sketches.

So, maybe a possible revival here??? Just for the sketches?

Anyway, here's something I have done recently. I'm writing an objectshow comic about living object people living in a fantasy world. Here's the carrd for one of my stories set within it: Rise of Relics! Also, if you are wondering what the "Not for the use of NFTs" watermark is for: it's to hopefully slow the scrapping of my art by nft art thieves.  

 I do not support nfts nor have any intention to create or profit off them. 

So yeah, enjoy my art! You can find me on other places, too! Check my about me page for more information!

Hi Again!!!! Some stuff from my sketch book.

Let the art dump begin...

Edit: Thank you blogger for almost messing up my post. Sorry if the feed/paragraph/the post thing on the blogger reader list thing jumbles up this post.  I was not expecting it to do that. Since almost every sketch has a caption under it, blogger shows the captions on the reader list thing as one paragraph. Sorry about that!

Rats

Yakmen sketch

Yakmen again with rat sketches

More rat sketches

Character sketch for Yakmen and his guardian form.

Nakim sketch and...

Nakim art for a class assignment in Computer Art Applications. This is my first time using Adobe Illustrator.  It is very different from using Photoshop.

Cindercost Vulture

Venticardia

Me...I am awesome!

Cute little fox bird.

Sketchy Creatures....

(The new Blogger interface looks nice, good job Google.  Now let's see how it loads pictures and whatnot...)  Ok, some sketches, one new and two old ones.

New dragon/lion thing I came up some time ago.  I managed to flesh it out a bit.  It was originally a wingless cobra dragon.

Very old unfinished drawing for Vistalgia (dragon-form).  I actually like her old style. I might go back and finish inking it.  (Those wings..what was I thinking?!)

Dog beast thing.  One of my first ink tests on using the Wacom tablet and Photoshop.

Half a Story

Classes at SCAD begin on the 10th of September and I am nervous and excited!  Soon, Pixar, DreamWorks, Disney, Cartoon Network, and other animation and/or broadcasting studio will know my name!

Sorry, there's going to be no sketches today.  Instead I'll share an excerpt from a short story I been working on earlier this week.  The story is still very early in its development and it is subject to change. (following excerpt is copyrighted to Amari J. Harkness)

Anyway, here we go:

The Shades seem so out of place here in Heaven.  Their dark hide, their unusual tallness, and the way they...flock together, darkening the celestial skies of God's kingdom.  Their darkness is not of evil, evil was almost nonexistent since Jesus' return to Earth and Satan's banishment to the Void.  Their darkness was of sorrow and pain only the Shades can feel and the angels can sense.  The  righteous, children of earth, are somewhat spared from their gloominess.

I pity them.  These creatures really don't belong here but God allows them to freely room about.  They don't have their own homes or careers, no friends or family, not even a pet to care for.  They live in these large flocks but they have yet to recognize each other.  The Shades stand alone in their own space, even when they are close together they will never acknowledge each other.  They seem so lost and alone and fearful of their own existence, cursed to live in eternity in never ending sorrow.

I want to help them.  I want to redeem them.

But...my king, my Maker told me "For these creatures to be redeemed they must face their memories of their past and conquer the uncertainties of the future.  The process will be emotionally and spiritually painful.

"They missed out on  life, not just due to laziness or any of their own sins, but thanks to those who negatively influenced their own lives.  The Shades are actually people who become the embodiment of their own regrets, fears, and shame.  At one point of their life, they became desperate and someone took advantage of them.  They were deceived, broken, and hopeless; they were stolen from me.  I remember when I judged them, every single one of them, and it breaks my heart and soul to see them not even review their own lives.  It's like they knew they were doomed, but it wasn't until death and judgement when they realized it.

"They accepted their fate and became the creatures of pure sorrow.  You don't know how much I want to save them, too."

The King's Father wants him to wait before reaching out to the Shades.  Almost every day, if there are days in such a timeless place like Heaven, the King would appear before his father about this issue but the answer had always been the same, "Wait, Son, Wait."

The King have been doing this for over 900 years and his father still says, "Wait".

But I intend to help them.  Today, I will approach one Shade and I will help it to face it's past and future.  I don't know what to do if I become successful or not, but I'm going to do it!  It saddens me to see the King so heartbroken over the centuries.  But once I get the Shades seeking redemption, I'm sure he'll be happy...

......................................................

Yeah.  Loosely based on Christian theology, but there will be time-travel, angelic eldritch abominations and paradoxes (maybe).  The story takes place in the last few years during the 1000 year reign of Jesus on earth and before Satan breaks out from his chains (Revelations 20:1-10).  I don't have a name for the protagonist yet (well except for Metatron or maybe cough*Lucy' power*cough).  I do have some interesting ideas for the main character(s), some of which may involve the aforementioned madness. 

Yay Paradox Dragons!!!!!

It's kind of nice to draw Vistalga again. I changed her design a bit and I'm growing ever closer to her final design:



Vistalgia...this is the first time I drew her in action!

Vistalgia and Seriegian.  She threating him for some reason.

 

Garvil again (copyrights to Neopets, Inc.).  'Ello Govner!

I came up with this very strange and interesting idea about the neopet universe, that those creatures are actually some sort of horror-beast-god things from another universe.  Their true forms are unfathomably large creatures whose ages range between eons and millennias.  If these creatures were to appear in Neopia, their paradox forms would be percived as completely and utterly impossible to comprehend.  Meet the eldritch Krawk-god. (krawk species copyrighted to Neopets, Inc.)................................yeah I been reading too much Homestruck.

New character/creature

Well...the camera decided to die today so no new sketches.

I do have a new concept character/creature/thing in the works:

Behold a "right" Hand of God!!!  A Powerful dimensional Entity who is capable of creating universes, bending time and space, and tearing asunder reality itself.  There are two types of these mysterious creatures: Alpha and Omega.  Impossibility and Probability.  Logic and Insanity. Both existed since the beginning of time, drawing each other  into existence, like this:

M. C. Escher's "Drawing Hands" from Wikipedia

Its design is inspired by Avatar's Thanator and from Inception's soundtrack "Time", "Dream Is Collapsing, and  "Mombasa".