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STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM manuscript art challenge – Institute exterior

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Exterior of a skyscraper-type building, done in Sharpie markerAbout This Project: The rough draft of my novel STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM came out to over 800 pages of paper. I finished the pencil edits ice ages ago, but since it felt wasteful to toss out all the reams, I’ve given myself a challenge: I’m going to draw my novel (kinda sorta). Whatever’s happening on the printed side gets drawn on the other side–action, characters, or scenery.

Exterior of Jerimin’s workplace, done after copying some GIS skyscraper exterior refs. His world looks like Minority Report + Iria: the Anime. Like, if those two movies’ sceneries had babies it’d be his world.

#nottoscale

STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM manuscript art challenge – Parents’ apartment

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Sharpie thumbnails of an apartment interiorAbout This Project: The rough draft of my novel, STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM came out to over 800 pages of paper. I finished the pencil edits forever ago, but since it felt wasteful to toss out all the reams, I’ve given myself a challenge: I’m going to draw my novel (kinda sorta). Whatever’s happening on the printed side gets drawn on the other side–action, characters, or scenery.

Roughs of Jerimin’s parent’s apartment. #nottoscale

STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM manuscript art challenge – Institute Lobby

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Sharpie sketch of like a skyscraper lobby full of cafe tables oh and also there is a sketch of a rabbit on a teleporter up aboveAbout This Project: The rough draft of STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM came out to over 800 pages of paper. I finished the pencil edits eons ago, but since it felt wasteful to toss out all the reams, I’ve given myself a challenge: I’m going to draw my novel (kinda sorta). Whatever’s happening on the printed side gets drawn on the other side–action, characters, or scenery.
This shot: a rabbit teleportation demonstration, and some environment practice of the lobby where the main char escapes to (yeah the rabbit demo didn’t go over so well).

BLASPHEMOUS-inspired composition thumbnails

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Red-tinted thumbnails of monsters and their cultistsBetsyIllustration has a SUUUUUPER set of tutorials on drawing backgrounds (and a free downloadable eBook!) that are inspiring me to practice backgrounds more often.

She says it’s important to have an idea of what you want to draw going in (I think she calls it a tagline? Which means something different in writing, so I’m not going to use that term)–these BLASPHEMOUS (game)-inspired compositions are for the description “A monster smiles upon its cult of worshipers in a CAAAAAAVE!!” #allhailkingjulien

 

Giant headless thing stabbing at the Penitent One

BLASPHEMOUS-inspired art

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The upcoming (M-rated, gory, NSFW) game BLASPHEMOUS has really got my creative juices flowing…Makes me want to play with scale and groups of characters…and monsters.
Always monsters.

(Seriously, though, this game’s got some of the creepiest monster designs since SILENT HILL.)

Giant headless thing stabbing at the Penitent One A double-mouthed monster and its worshipers Sharpie compositions with giant monsters Giant hooded skull monster watching over its attendants

I’m thinking of turning the last one into a painting.