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Sequence

February 12th, 2010 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Comics, The Morae River

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I’ve been working on “A Social Dispute” lately, trying to get it finished. It’s taking more time then I thought it would. Needless to say: comics are hard. I’ve always had a profound respect for the people who produce them but trying them myself has made me really realize the amount of work it takes to produce s sequential story. I’ve had the privilege of working with Matt Silady on this endeavor and he’s been helping me along as I stumble around in this medium. I’m hoping to have the second page up soon.

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Re-visited this drawing with a new take on color. I like him better now. Expect more work up on brynnart.com in the coming weeks as well!

Our Work is Never Over

February 1st, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Sketches, The Morae River

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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.

Anyway, I’m off to do more sketching…

A Social Dispute

December 22nd, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Sketches, The Morae River

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!

The Black Mardik

December 20th, 2009 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Announcements, The Morae River

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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.”

Carry On…

December 19th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Announcements, Life, The Morae River

December is finally here and I’m officially finished with college! It seemed like forever and no time at all. I’ll miss seeing everyone in the program all the time. I really did have an amazing time but Im glad to be done with it…

On to other things.

I’ve begun more writing on the Morae River recently. I’m really wanting to dive deeper into families and explore different species and how they are evolving in the area. I’m starting with the mardiks and will be introducing three new species on the blog hopefully later this month. I’ll also be generating family tree graphics for the families I’m exploring. For right now I’m exploring Pernixids – the family that mardiks and balas belong to. Most of the species on the blog now will be getting makeovers and adjustments as I move deeper into Solturna. I’m hoping to generate more plant species as well and start to put them into families as well. Plants seem to get neglected…

The project has become a lot bigger and I’m hoping to shed some light on where Orcura sits in relation to us. Many viewers have been asking about it but I am a bit reluctant to give it all away at once. Either way, Im glad to be working on it again. It really is where my head is most of the day but I did need a small break to think about where I wanted to carry the project.

Expect new dinosaur work on brynnart.com soon as well as some other projects in January.

the photo above is one I took going over the golden gate not too long ago…I’ve only been over it twice in the 4 years I’ve lived in the bay area.

Exit

October 12th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Announcements, The Morae River

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APE is around the corner and Im getting excited to be around an amazing collection of people this weekend. The Morae River book won’t be ready for APE but It will be here for the show at the end of this month. Its really starting to look finished now and Im excited to hold it in my hands. I will have prints and a few smaller items for sale at my table this weekend. If you like comics and art, I recommend you come out and see whats up. It’s going to be a really great event!

The Morae River exhibition will also be hosting a donation which goes to RiverNetwork.org, an organization that helps restore rivers in America. Im hoping it all works out, I should be receiving all the paperwork soon to make it “official”.

Midterms are almost over but are taking up more time than I’d like. Im ready for this semester to be over…

Gateway

October 3rd, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Life, The Morae River

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It seems as if I have 20 deadlines approaching all at once. The Morae River content for APE is coming along nicely and will be done in time for the convention. Its the book Im most worried about. It should arrive on Monday but That may not be enough time for me to look it over and order 10 more to be here by the time APE happens…heres hoping. The show at CCA will be the easiest part out of all of this. Its just printing, mounting and cutting up foam core boards. Its actually quite relaxing and fun. I am excited to see it all work out. Not to mention I have friends and family coming out to see the show up. I’m excited to see everyone!

Other than that, the semester is picking up pace and turning out to be a very difficult one. At this point I really would rather be drawing but I have to finish this last semester in order to graduate this December – which I’m more than excited about. I have a huge amount of reading to get done every week. Its all very interesting but I do have trouble with vocabulary.

I thought I had gotten off of coffee for good but Im back on it again due to all of this reading and writing I’ve been doing. Green Tea, while better for me, just doesn’t have that zing I need in the morning… pours herself a cup* Cheers!