Working on a new species for The Morae River. I’ve been focusing on humanoids for the last couple of weeks and I needed to get back to this new species. She’s been sitting on my mind now for a while and I’m excited to get started. Yes, this is what the beginning usually looks like (lots of side views, oddly) and while I don’t usually like to post these sorts of sketches, I am really wanting to share more of my process. Hopefully, it will inspire me to create more sketches to push things further.
This particular species is from the Shenzabl Plains, a realm not yet explored or defined as of now. If you’re a follower of the Morae, you might know what family ( and perhaps genus) this species might belong to. I am still trying to decide where she sits in the grander scheme of things – as far as who she’s related to but I’m leaning toward Barduspedids. Which is a newer term not present on The Morae River blog. I’ve been going through my writing, trying to clean things up and so far its proving to be quite the task.
I’ll be moving back to humanoids once this species is posted to the blog. I’m now shifting my focus to culture building for the next few weeks. I’ve had some ideas floating around for the last year or so and I’m beginning to write and sketch them out. This is not related to The Morae River in anyway. As far as I am concerned, there are no indigenous tribes that inhabit Solturna or even Orcura. This particular culture, The Alatu, are completely separate from anything I’ve created thus far. I’ll be posting sketches and writing about them soon.
A new piece in the works. I’ll be posting the final to this soon. I’m trying out the process of designing a culture around this particular character.
In other news I’m currently working on the Morae River’s website. Its turning out to be a huge website with lost of different menus and pages for each species. It’s taking a lot longer than I anticipated but I think once its finished it will really showcase the work quite well.
One of the best animated shorts I’ve seen in a while. The drawings are gorgeous and the horse is just so perfect. Check it out and enjoy!
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A new piece in the works – “Rust”. Here is the sketch for it. I’ll be uploading the final soon. Brynnart.com is also getting a make-over today. I’ll be launching the new site tomorrow morning.
The New Year has been really great so far. Im currently working toward exploring the Shenzabi Plains for the Morae River project and its turning out to be a very interesting biome thus far. I’ll be posting new spceis as well as updates for the older ones in the months to come. (click these for larger views)
Trying to produce new work that isn’t related to the Morae River project as well. The images up top were for a community activity at CGhub.com. It was lots of fun and I’m hoping to get some more finished illustration like this one out soon. I thought I’d include the pencil with the finish. I will also be dabbling in humanoids a bit here and there to keep things balanced. Looking through my website I’ve realized its all animals
EDIT* Another piece new to BrynnArt.com – “Expedition”
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Expect more updates soon.
Here is another image of a small side project I’ve gotten into – putting moss into glass containers.
New work up on brynnart.com today. I found out it went “live” this morning. You can see all of the images at Wired Magazine. click on these for larger views…
I’m still working on some new renditions for the Morae River blog. I’m hoping to have the Black Mardik up soon. I’m hitting some snags here and there though. I thought perhaps I’d show a Black Mardik with prey, but of course I have to design the prey and all that goes with it; thus the process gets longer…
Anyway, Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you enjoy your New Year too!
A six page sequential piece I’ve been working on. The sixth page is excluded. These are the sketches for it. Expect to see the finishes in The Morae River’s online store soon!
In progress post of the new species of Mardik that will show up on the blog soon!
Here is some info on the species:
“The black mardik is the second largest tree climber in Yabun forest as well as the second largest mardik. These mardiks are social and live in large troops of up to 30 members. The whole of the troop is made up of smaller family troops, each governed by a dominant male and female. Dominance is decided through some intimidation but is mostly carried through bloodlines and offspring. This species is the most numerous species of mardik in Yabun Forest. While each female only has one cub at a time, she can give birth up to 6 times a year. Black mardiks are great mothers and even better babysitters. The entire troop collectively looks after the young that is produced over the year. Because there is so much help with looking after young, breeding females can focus their attention on feeding and having more young.”
