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The First Servant and Some of His Helpmeets 2009-06-05	Investigating the First Servant of Shame... the twins there are a female physician or nurse (top) and a male priest of their martial god, Saresh (bottom). The bottommost girl is the youngest of them all, a priestess of the maiden goddess Shemena. And the first servant is up there at the top, my attempt to extrapolate a three-quarters view from his portrait. I don't like the other two views yet (particularly the profile, it's too flat), but I'll get around to fixing them. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( Sifting the Vague ) • Medium( Sketch ) • Progress( Unfinished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) There are 11 comments for this image.
The First Servant of Shame 2009-05-22	Before Kor, there had to be another, and there were several. But before those several there had to be a first. The first servant of Shame, who allowed the Emperor to scar his face and continually scratch his corneas so that the fluid he dripped into them to keep them healing gave his eyes this milky look. He was the only other servant of Shame before Kor who went through every Correction available, and therefore could use them all. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Gouache ) • Progress( Finished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) This picture is in a series. See a step-by-step. There are 7 comments for this image.
The Admonishments - Coda 2009-05-20	The final image in the Admonishments (in fact the final page of the book). Kor in a portrait. It's unofficial custom for the servants of Shame to pose for such private portraits, which we will see again soon. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Gouache ) • Progress( Finished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) There are 6 comments for this image.
The Admonishments - The Master's Hand 2009-05-20	The next-to-final illustration of the Admonishments, hinting at what's to come in Black Blossom... that's the Calligrapher in the corner there, with the mulberry-colored stole he mentions once or twice in the Aphorisms. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Gouache ) • Progress( Finished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) There are 6 comments for this image.
The Admonishments - Five Months 2009-05-20	Illustration for the Admonishments, with added sloppy handwriting in dark red to represent an intimate, difficult conversation. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Gouache ) • Progress( Finished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) There are 4 comments for this image.
Dawn - The Admonishments 2009-05-14	Disappointingly, when I stripped off the masking from Shame in the front it took some of the sizing with it... it made working with the paint on him far more difficult. But I worked with what I had and I think it came out well enough. This painting was surprisingly close to how I imagined executing it in my head... but it took me four tries to get right. I discarded the first three attempts before I really grokked what I was trying to do. So this painting was a stretch in so many ways: the architecture, the lighting effects, handling the values and colors. I was happy with the result! Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Gouache ) • Progress( Finished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) This picture is in a series. See a step-by-step. There are 8 comments for this image.
Dawn - The World Gate 2009-05-01	I did this piece so many times and it never came out the way I saw it in my head. There were a lot of challenges: putting forth a sense of distance despite a relatively featureless plain, giving the correct impression of the size of the gate... even the colors gave me grief. But this version worked well enough for my intent. I purposefully chose a color scheme different from the rest of the book for this piece, a more naturalistic take on the colors rather than the black/brown/gray/red scheme or the purple/yellow scheme, because of how this narrator intersects the story. He's the only thing in the piece that shares a color scheme with the rest of the book... and of course it's the dark/red scheme. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Gouache ) • Progress( Finished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) There are 5 comments for this image.
Dawn - Darkening the Values 2009-05-01	Adding more oranges, more darks, more shadows in corners. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Sketch ) • Progress( Unfinished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) This picture is in a series. See a step-by-step. There is 1 comment for this image.
Dawn - Painting Begins 2009-05-01	Getting the values in place... I wanted a river of light, that effect you get sometimes when the sun is rising or setting where there's so much brilliance you can't really see. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Sketch ) • Progress( Unfinished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) This picture is in a series. See a step-by-step. There is 1 comment for this image.
Dawn - Background Pencils 2009-05-01	The background pencils for the Dawn two-page spread. I reproduce it here because some of the details got hidden in the final piece (like the gate in the wall there on the right) and I like them. I spent forever doing this, with t-square and oval/circular templates. Drove me crazy! You can still see my guidelines along the edges where I was determining where I would have to split it in half for the book. Filter list by: Universe( The Failing Gates ) • Project( The Admonishments of Kherishdar ) • Medium( Sketch ) • Progress( Unfinished ) • Aliens( Ainaidar ) This picture is in a series. See a step-by-step. There are 2 comments for this image.