Happy New Year! 09 is here, and to start things off big, there are two updates today.
1: Gleaming Scythe is now on
Deviant Art. We'll be posting, and coordinating with our artists who use
Deviant Art, to bring you images and art prior to The Black Paw website going up. There will be pieces by
Cyril Van Der Haegen,
Matt Frank, and
Robekka Art Studios. Here's a direct
-Link-2: Next, here's a glimpse at the nature of The Gleaming Scythe character design
process. Not all characters go through this three step process, but the majority do. In the below example, the "in-between" artist was Christina Vincent, but Oray Art Studios also did a large majority of the early concept images. These images are of Shriker; Leader of The Black Paw. For more information on him, see this
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On the far left is the original drawing of Shriker done by The Black Paw writer, Usen Wareagle. The center image is the slightly modified, and better rendered re-imagining as done by Christina Vincent, and the image on the right side is the Final character design by Robekka Art Studios.