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All artwork done this month was from Jurak’s Day and its ‘continuation’, except for the portrait of Zaresh. Nitocris’s full body art had a few iterations, but I’m just showing the latest. I’m not entirely pleased with Zaresh. Jurak from Jurak's Day Jurak's Day Attack Example Nitocris (portrait) from Jurak's Day Shizar Nitocris from Jurak's Day Color portrait of Zaresh

I felt the need to get Chatzu’kuan done. She just…needed to be rendered into life. So I commissioned AR Sullivan for art of Chatzu’kuan. Chatzu’kuan not from any particular point in the series, but of a future state version of her. After she’s figured herself out, basically. This is also a quasi-companion piece to Spellbinder’s art. I wanted them to be posing so they could be ‘next’ to each other. The background didn’t have to be consistent, though. I wanted...

Spoilers for everything major I’ve written beyond Amethyst Shards. Do not read if you don’t know what I mean by this.

All artwork done this month was from book 11 or some ideas for it. King Khar'ma'tsesh of Sawapash Xe'quadj and Cha'yu'ra's plants Broken robot arm The Sun incarnated as an actual Sun The Tree as an actual living tree

I commissioned AR Sullivan once again, this time to do Kulaszar! Kulaszar…who is a Shafien, as in, a shapeshifter. He does have a ‘normal’ form he takes, but…he also can take the form of anything else and has changed into some very interesting shapes in the past. I wanted him in a basically ‘normal’ state but showing off his abilities in the form of tentacles. He makes himself tentacles often so it made sense to me. Given his abilities, though,...

This is part three of my Hogwarts Sorting. Here I finally sort some side characters: Marcus, Jessica, Ramulein, Nefertiti, Chatzu’kuan, and Robo-Knight! I don’t think any of these are controversial. These were pretty easy to figure out, all things considered. Marcus & Jessica - Ravenclaw Marcus and Jessica are both unique individuals driven to creative professions. Beyond that, they have shown curiosity and a desire to learn more of the strange world they have been thrust into. They're weird Ravenclaws,...