#Perinnet

[shepscapades]

Souls in the Sand: Concept Art

As I’ve mentioned here and there, I’ve spent the last two years developing an original story inspired by a small Origins+Empires server a few friends and I started planning. The more I developed plans for my empire to be a sprawling overgrown cityscape of ruins and stone framework inspired by the nether, the more I built up this backstory for the character I wanted to play, a small deerfolk boy named Esra. From there, and over months of working and reworking the story and its characters, I’m proud to say I’m coming up on a 100 piece gallery for my Masters Exhibition to display this story in the form of a song-inspired comic, titled: Souls in the Sand.

Over the next month and beyond the date of my exhibition in April, I wanted to start sharing my work here! I thought it would be fitting to first share all of the concept work I did for the characters last semester as I took each character from their old lineup and reworked them from scratch to see if there were any designs I could make more unique or appropriate for the story. This process consisted of four stages: silhouettes, full-body mock-ups, face and head shapes/designs, and experimenting with the final characters’ designs with a set of unique expressions that best fit their personalities and narrative role.

Since each character was reworked separately, the “new” concept lineup is a little disjointed (and some of the characters’ faces actually ended up different from their full-body designs), but I thought it would be fun to line them up to compare the overall cast to their old designs. With each character(s) I post the concept process for, I may share little bits of the work I’m doing or talk a little about their narrative roles as I go, but for now, have Esra!

I know I don’t post original work here often, but I wanted to share parts of this journey with you guys because it’s been very meaningful to me! And I hope all of the work I’ve been doing may at the very least serve as a bit of inspiration or encouragement for us to keep making silly minecraft stories, to keep drawing the characters we love, and to keep being creative in whatever way is meaningful! <3

[fratricideknight]

ok i'm trying to decide on my knight name. as you may be able to see, they all include 'ri' lmaoooo. please please give me your thoughts... if you have any other suggestions for an english male knight name, please drop them!!!

Riperto Valerian Corinne Rienn Trill Jarin Akarius Maurice Richard Arthurius Reinfridus Berengarius Urien Rainerius Malgerius Terrin Guarinet Bricet Perinnet Berinon Galterius Frideric Thierri Christofur

turns out there are many, many names with 'ri' in them somewhere. this is a culled list.

my favourites so far are Valerian, Trill, Maurice, Arthurius, Rainerius, Malgerius, Thierri

[shepscapades]

THAT'S SO COOL!!! Esra is so cute! That's amazing

HEHE THANK YOU!!! Esra is both a cute AND silly little guy <3 he’s everything to me, I am wiggling him around like a slinky hehehe

Here are some of my favorite panels so far with the sillay :]

[shepscapades]

how's your current project going?

WAU THANK YOU FOR ASKING! My exhibition reception is this coming Monday, so the past few weeks have been me scrambling to make sure orders are in, writing my thesis, organizing all the bits and bobs, everything that would make any normal person stressed beyond belief! /silly

All of the artwork is officially done though :) so I’m very excited to share more soon!! For now have a silly warmup of the Souls cast uhhh uhhhh dancing!! Celebrating the completion of all of this work! :D