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For those of your who haven't already seen it, this is the trailer video for DevaShard:At First Light , the first book in our comic book series.
Showing posts with label devashard: at first light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label devashard: at first light. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Creatures of Bhumi
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Beyond the animals that roam the lands of Bhumi, there are older, darker creatures that have taken this land as their own since before human memory.
Terrifying Ice Dragons scour the open tundra of Im-Himna occasionally ravaging the nearby settlements and terrifying the inhabitants.
Further South beings have harnessed the giant insects that roam the lands and are now commonly known as the insect riders.
In the bowels of the Earth nameless blind and grossly deformed monstrous creations make their home.
Whilst in the land of Umbrastra rumours continue to persist of a great bone dragon whose impossible life continues to strike fear into the hearts of all...
Ice Dragon
Insect Riders
Creatures of the Underworld
Bone Dragon
Beyond the animals that roam the lands of Bhumi, there are older, darker creatures that have taken this land as their own since before human memory.
Terrifying Ice Dragons scour the open tundra of Im-Himna occasionally ravaging the nearby settlements and terrifying the inhabitants.
Further South beings have harnessed the giant insects that roam the lands and are now commonly known as the insect riders.
In the bowels of the Earth nameless blind and grossly deformed monstrous creations make their home.
Whilst in the land of Umbrastra rumours continue to persist of a great bone dragon whose impossible life continues to strike fear into the hearts of all...
Ice Dragon
Insect Riders
Creatures of the Underworld
Bone Dragon
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Animals of Bhumi
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What kind of world would it be that didn't have animals living in it? Well an empty and rather boring one for a start.
Bhumi in fact is a world filled with a myriad of animals and other creatures. Many of them are similar to those of the Earth (as Bhumi itself represents Earth in an ancient mystical time, before the world was torn) and some of them are vastly different.
I don't want to reveal all the different exciting animal inhabitants of Bhumi now and spoil the excitement of discovering them in the books to come, but here are some of our early concept drawings of a snow dog:
What kind of world would it be that didn't have animals living in it? Well an empty and rather boring one for a start.
Bhumi in fact is a world filled with a myriad of animals and other creatures. Many of them are similar to those of the Earth (as Bhumi itself represents Earth in an ancient mystical time, before the world was torn) and some of them are vastly different.
I don't want to reveal all the different exciting animal inhabitants of Bhumi now and spoil the excitement of discovering them in the books to come, but here are some of our early concept drawings of a snow dog:
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Lands of Bhumi
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After putting together our map of the world and then separating it down into different lands and looking at what the characteristics of each land and it's people would be, it was then time for us to start working on our concept art.
Of course this meant creating the actual close-up look and feel of all the different lands, so that we could have our main characters traveling through them and interacting with the people of each land.
Today, I am featuring some of this concept art so you can see for yourself how we envisaged these areas in our mind and put them together on paper.
Im-Himna the icelands
The Half-Light City
Broken MoonGate
Bridge from Dahka to Umbrastra
The Province of Dahka
The City of Rhimn
After putting together our map of the world and then separating it down into different lands and looking at what the characteristics of each land and it's people would be, it was then time for us to start working on our concept art.
Of course this meant creating the actual close-up look and feel of all the different lands, so that we could have our main characters traveling through them and interacting with the people of each land.
Today, I am featuring some of this concept art so you can see for yourself how we envisaged these areas in our mind and put them together on paper.
Im-Himna the icelands
The Half-Light City
Broken MoonGate
Bridge from Dahka to Umbrastra
The Province of Dahka
The City of Rhimn
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Bhumi
When first working on the concept of our new series DevaShard, one of the earliest decisions we took was to create our entire world first before working on the stories in detail.
This meant drawing up a map for the full world, then we had to work out the trajectory of the sun and three moons we had decided on and what effect this would have on the weather patterns and climates of the different parts of the world. Through this process we could decide whether different areas would be green and fertile, covered in ice or raw deserts. Finally we divided the world up into the different lands and outlined the appearances, clothing, customs and history of the various peoples of our world.
We decided to call it Bhumi , which in Sanskrit means both the ground and the Earth.
The images that follow are the full map of Bhumi and then a close up on each of the different lands.
This meant drawing up a map for the full world, then we had to work out the trajectory of the sun and three moons we had decided on and what effect this would have on the weather patterns and climates of the different parts of the world. Through this process we could decide whether different areas would be green and fertile, covered in ice or raw deserts. Finally we divided the world up into the different lands and outlined the appearances, clothing, customs and history of the various peoples of our world.
We decided to call it Bhumi , which in Sanskrit means both the ground and the Earth.
The images that follow are the full map of Bhumi and then a close up on each of the different lands.
Monday, March 31, 2008
The Creative Process
What lies behind the full creation of a comic?
This is something I myself wondered about many times when I was a kid.
As an adult my questions got a little more detailed. Did Jim Lee draw and colour his pictures? What on Earth did an inker do? Did Stan Lee write every comic book? Who comes up with the ideas for all these comic titles? And a whole bunch of other stuff.
Well it wasn't until one year ago when I was lucky enough to be one of the few people in the world to get the chance to work in a comic company that my questions were finally answered.
Well now I'm here, I thought I would share with everybody else exactly how the creative process of creating a comic book from scratch works. Heck I even got myself into a few of the pictures...
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
This is something I myself wondered about many times when I was a kid.
As an adult my questions got a little more detailed. Did Jim Lee draw and colour his pictures? What on Earth did an inker do? Did Stan Lee write every comic book? Who comes up with the ideas for all these comic titles? And a whole bunch of other stuff.
Well it wasn't until one year ago when I was lucky enough to be one of the few people in the world to get the chance to work in a comic company that my questions were finally answered.
Well now I'm here, I thought I would share with everybody else exactly how the creative process of creating a comic book from scratch works. Heck I even got myself into a few of the pictures...
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Introduction
Well, I decided to start up this blog as we have been working on developing our very own series of graphic novels for the last year and that seemed like a pretty interesting thing, so I thought people might like to read about the process and what goes into creating a comic book / graphic novel from scratch.
Our first series is called DevaShard and this is an image of Issue 1:
Our first series is called DevaShard and this is an image of Issue 1:
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