Ekwara Day Art!

Here’s all the Ekwara Day art from your prompts and questions.  A couple of these I’ve already posted, with a little more explanation of how it fits into the setting.

When I took the prompts, I said I needed to handle shipping logistics and payment once these were done.  If you would like your picture mailed to you, please send me an email with the filename of your picture and your mailing address.  I also need two dollars to cover mailing and supplies, if you’re in the US, and if you’re outside the US, let me know, so we can work out the exact shipping cost.  My email address is coyotepuck@gmail.com

Onward to the art!

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Grevicans

Here is a post in which I write about grevican biology and gender roles.

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This post has nothing to do with owlbears

I think it works out best for me to do daily posts without a set format, though I’d like to include art and sketches as often as possible, and talk about various worldbuilding things along with whatever’s going on.

Except nothing is really going on.  I’m just working a ton on getting myself where I want to be on my art list, before December starts up.  Today I’m tackling more of the icons, and the last bit of another commission.  I’m also working on sketches for new art, which is really fun.

I want to do Griffon Day next, but I had a really fun idea for a Day I want to do some time.  The theme could be all kinds of things, or it could be mostly open, with a few guidelines to give it some structure.  I like the idea of a theme, because those have ended up being pretty cool.  No one else could see these prompts, though.  I draw art cards from all the prompts, shuffle the cards, and mail them randomly to everyone who participated.  Everyone would get a surprise card!  I need to figure out how to do it so that I get paid enough for my time with it, though, because art cards plus shipping for everyone is a little more than I can tackle for free.  I will have to think about it.  I suppose I could do it as a sale instead of for tips.

I figured out how to make simple papercraft bobbleheads.  I was sitting around bored, when I first moved in to the new place, plotted out the design, and made some prototypes.  I haven’t done anything with it, since, because I’ve been lacking my light box, which I had to leave back home.  Well, I broke down and bought another one.  As it turns out, it’s half as bulky as my old one, which is a serious convenience for taking it along to cons.  The lack of this equipment has been putting a serious slowdown on my productivity, and I’m really happy to have one, again.  I’m going to use it to fine-tune my template, and then make some bobble-headed critters!  Not today, though.  Today’s for work!

Ekwara stuff!  I’m thinking about the grevians a lot, lately, because I’ve been fleshing out Aldus’ and Pel’s (she acquired a name!) character designs.  Grevicans are a little odd, as far as their biology and gender roles go, and I’m trying to figure out how to present it within the story.  I think I’m going to do a separate post for that, behind a cut.

I finished this for Newenglander, yesterday.  Once upon a time, Alice was not a giant, talking rabbit, and had trouble reaching books on the top shelf.

Sparrow says, “You, sir, are drunk.”

Another Grevican

Aldus’ traveling companion and partner in crime, who doesn’t have a name yet, despite having been a character in the setting as long as Aldus.   I will come up with a name for her soon.  More about grevican biology soon, too.

Aldus and the Imp

Aldus knows the best policy when encountering imps is to smile, nod, and keep walking.  Aldus is a grevican fellow, a little like a hyena, a little like a canine, a little like a marsupial and a little like a human.  This particular grevican is restless by nature, though he does have a family to wander home to, now and again.

Trying to hammer through an art block.