I flakked your blit in Westfall..

Anyone who knows where the title is from I salute you for youtube crawling and WoWing. Now about that update! (no blits were harmed in the flakking of this update)

Well, Tomorrow I'll most likely be off for a while down at the lake for some quiet R&R but you can expect me to begin the outlines for the first volume of Web of Souls aside from the usual conceptualization sketches if the trip truly is a go. If we'll make it is still up in the air but here's to hoping. I'd also like to take a moment to introduce my associate, Dimmi, Who will be doing much of the background art and landscaping as well as updating and blogging here with us about the project.

I really look forward to working together on this project with my teammates as both are fantastic folks and very good friends. With the concept alphabet safely in the hands of our talented illustrator, Eric, I have high hopes for seeing the final results of a new written language all our own with a faint breath of a numeral system included. I also have some layout design sent to Dimmi and I simply cannot wait to see the amazing landscaping she'll blow us away with when she finishes.

With the very beginning process and practice getting under way I'm excited to say the least. It will be a long hard road to finish this project but I hope to see it blossom as surely as the honeysuckle vines under the summer rains. On an aside from work, I will be taking along a few of my favorite novels and a couple I've yet to finish so that I can ravish them as they so deserve.

See ya'll when I get back,
Katinka

Lali ho!

So as I said yesterday I was working on Sihle's design next and indeed I wasn't lying! So why isn't the precious thing showing off and strutting her stuff with the other four? She's getting her own separate post is why!

I don't know why I have such a love of giving characters parts of themselves to hate and despise but I do kinda think everyone has one thing about themselves that they dislike or that causes them distress. I guess a character just isn't complete to me unless they have one self improvement goal at least.

I do believe I promised some fun facts about the five sisters too. Part of me wants to crack a joke about a pop quiz later but knowing me that quiz would be filled with random myth critter trivia and nothing truly useful (unless knowing how to dissolve gremlins proves useful to you, in which case I highly suggest calling a professional metaphysical exterminator or wishing the goblin king to take them away.)

And now what you're here for!

Random Fellpool Factoids:

• Alaqua's lacerated cheeks were initially sewn up by Jarona to prevent the continuous puns Alaqua would make about 'tongue in cheek' humor.
• Sibylla is often referred to as 'bright eyes' by prince Tomi.
• Sibylla isn't hot tempered as most would assume but she has a fiery spirit and a strong will. She is the only one of the sisters who will stand toe to toe with the prince until one of them backs down.
• The Fellpool are not actually sisters but they share a blood relation through Akako's magic.
• Each of the sisters has a different style of dress though their outfits never change.
• Jarona has a lovely voice and used to sing the young prince to sleep each night. It was on his sixteenth birthday when he asked her to not sing for him anymore that she stitched her mouth closed and became silent.
• Each of the sisters has a nose piercing of some sort.
• The elements the sisters command are inherent, they are not stolen powers. The existence of a water element amongst them suggests they are of varied origins.
• While Sihle enjoys pain as much as any physical sensation Randa's body piercings would drive her mad with sensation.
• Each of the sisters has a specialized fighting style as well as powerful elemental magic. Their weapons are specific to their fighting style.
• Sibylla's breath sparks when she speaks. When angered she has melted boulders and other various objects with sudden bursts of fire breath.
• Alaqua's amorphous nature cannot be classified as true shapeshifting as she must always return to her original form rather quickly. Her specific ability is known as burst shifting (a sudden and mild form alteration such as: becoming a puddle and reforming, reshaping an arm into a jaw that stretches seven feet further than her arm normally could, or stretching herself or her tongues great lengths.)

That's all for now! I'll be burying myself back into my work again soon and probably teaching my dear partner Eric how to use this blog

CHILL OUT!

Or not.. I suppose a welcome is in order as we kick things off with a grand hello and opening of this blog! I, Katinka, will be the first to admit that not quite everything is set up but that IS the point of this blog isn't it? This will serve as an archive and as a bit of a behind the scenes or 'making of' for the project Web of Souls.

I may not have much to post just now but I do enjoy sharing artworks so here comes the first round of wonderful things to show! Be warned this is an art dump (and remember, all images contained within this blog are the sole property of Kayla Steed and Eric Babbs).

Randa: The Sniffer

Queen Akako

King Fudo

Alaqua: the Licker

The Blood Bound Sisters

Sibylla: the Watcher

Jarona: the Listener

Miranda Moon

and last but certainly not least we have Octavia!

The final Fellpool is lacking a conceptual design as of yet but worry not as I shall soon be working upon dear Sihle's appearance and she will have the next post all to herself with a list of fun facts for her and her sisters.