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Old lady sneak peek

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Cal

since chapter 2 is wrapping up fairly soon, I thought I should show some of the character design i’ve been working on for the next. starring: OLD LADY geezer represent mainly working on face stuff and tattoo designs. simplifying things.
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, cape, chapter, character, conclusion, lady, old, silne, staff
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Tattoos IN THE WILD

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Cal

throwing around a few more tattoo ideas. based off a bit of maori stuff. more or less. i imagine if these people were real they would tattoo themselves all over the place and try to show them off (like we
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Posted in BLOGTagged color, concept, daughter, design, family, father, maori, tattoo
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A tablet aside

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Cal

no page this week unfortunately. still got a doodle for yall (patented rob liefeld tinyfeet™) i hadn’t really drawn sago (ch 1 character) since I got my new tablet. the main reason why the two chapters look a bit different
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Posted in BLOGTagged cintiq, clipstudio, concept, ipad, sago, screen, studio, tablet
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Tattoos: part 2

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Cal

Body markings mainly serve an out-of-universe purpose of helping the audience to more easily tell non-human characters apart, but also have justified reasons in the world. Tattoos are extremely common for Arkan characters and are basically coat of arms for
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Posted in BLOGTagged avato, culture, otigo, rene, tattoo, tattoos
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The butterfly effect of technology

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Cal

An idea. Technology doesn’t progress in the same sequence in Motherland as in real life. People in real life often take for granted that technology progresses as it currently does. Many feel it as this inevitable thing but I disagree.
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Posted in BLOGTagged alternate history, butterfly effect, history, technology
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Character concepts 4 – armor again

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Cal

Did some more concepts. looking again at a lot of real life designs, these have elements influenced by a variety of asian and middle-eastern pieces from cultures like the Mughals. It’s difficult to come up with original designs that are
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Posted in BLOGTagged armor, cuirass, feudalism, history, knight, mid-asian, mongolian, mughal, resin, spear
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Character concepts 3 – armor

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Cal

(click to view larger) some armor design concepts. on the whole metal is rarely used in Motherland due to a variety of factors, but the majority of regions have access to substitute materials. these alien ‘resin’ compounds are mass-produced from
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Posted in BLOGTagged armor, concept, concept art, cuirass, guard, helmet, history, metal, military, pauldron, plate, resin, soldier, weapon
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Character concepts 2 – helmets

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Cal

this is close enough to a character concept in my opinion. it can be pretty tough sometimes but it’s always fun to have to design clothes and armor and such with non-human parameters. Of course the motherlanders aren’t that different
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Posted in BLOGTagged armor, chain, chainmail, concept, concept art, crest, greek, guard, helmet, mail, military, norse, plate, resin, roman, soldier, viking
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Character concepts 1 – Lain

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Cal

I’ll probably end up posting quite a few of the character concepts I do on the site. I think it’s interesting to show, honestly I enjoy inventing new characters and scenarios more than drawing old ones over and over. This
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Posted in BLOGTagged allano, ausrea, character, concept, concept art, crown, female, jewelry, jos, lain, outfit, sago, tattoo
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