The Blog of the Empire - Page 12

Here is the art I did in January. It falls into two categories: The Lost related and interpretations of Tyra Tarkush characters. All of this art was done on the iPad Mini with the Apple Pencil on Procreate. My skills are improving with it. The Gem from The Lost The Yellow Robot from The Lost The Red Robot from The Lost The Green Robot from The Lost Bust of Yul'kel from The Lost Tzu'rla from The Lost Diamondae Binder (seen...

This was a semi-industrious year. We have scenes from Amethyst Shards, The Lost, random concept drawings, and other interesting stuff. January Mainly part of logo redesign ideation. Carathoukiea First sketch, it feels more like of the Empire than the Spine Deconstructing shapes, playing around Starting to lock onto the 'Tree'-like shape. February Dark Mausoleum Entrance Meeting Space March Concept of Malcolm Zfnoc's body Bar of Despair Sepulcher of Shadows Inside Lower Level Malcolm Zfnoc cloak concept April None. May Ra'uw'la...

2021 has gone by both quickly and very slowly. This was a pretty…severely mixed year for me. Extreme lows, and pretty good highs. I would say that I’m very happy that 2021 is soon to be over. There were some good things that happened during it, though. Here’s a list of the top seven Spine related ones… #7 Tarot Minor Arcana Assignment This was a continuation of last year’s work on mapping characters/things to Tarot card concepts. I did Major...

This afterword is about, well, the burnout I experienced around the time I began Amethyst Shards and how it impacted the book itself.

Finally, Amethyst Shards is here in print form! It’s the same print style as Emerald Haze’s print copy. Had to be consistent for these two. The interesting thing to note is that, since this is the tenth book, the Tyra Tarkush Spine number is two digits. It stands out. The entire spine is bold and tight. Print spine Title Page First page of chapters It meets my approval so now you can pick up Amethyst Shards in print form from...

Since Amethyst Shards is (finally) out, I wanted to talk about Balon Zfnoctewoohi. Balon, Balon, Balon. Balon who is the only member of the Trinity and the One to debut mid-series (excluding Dien who is like an evolution of Hequera). Balon who has only been in five books (half of the series) thus far but has has dominated so throughly thematically and plot-wise since her debut.