Concept art for dark fantasy cartoon
I have been toying with the idea of making a Cartoon for some time, and Phill from GCHQ was one of them. I made three pages for the Phill story and then decided to do a Dark Fantasy story based on a role-playing game i GM'ed, instead. But after having released the pages for Phill from GCHQ as CC-by I suddenly had some people asking for more on my other social network: Diaspora, and now I am making some additional pages with Phill the crypto-spy.
But I still am working on the other idea, a gritty and gruesome story taking place in an iron/bronze-age world ruled by evil blood-magic and hungry souls. I already have made a Stemit-post with some drawing from the same universe. You can see them here. If you can see a certain Norse and celtic influence in the design you have seen right. The story is taking place in some cold northern realms that do look a lot like the Scandinavian, Northern English and Scottish countryside.
These images are not released as CC-by, as I have not yet decided what to do with them.
Can those wings lift the beast? :-)
No, it will just use it for speed. I thought of it as a hideous failure of evolution; the back being dragged over the ground on reinforced scales. But it is a magical beast too and in the world the dead can give you powers if they are paid in blood. Every bloodshed gives the beast more power and if it gets enough magic power it might get the ability to fly.
The girl defending the young ones killed the beast many years ago and unleashes a maelstrom of magic that killed her. She now resides in the realm of the dead as the God Shiirik with the body of a young girl and the face of the Shiirik beast.
On the copper breast-plate of the Kvinherje in the bottom image, you can see the Shiirik face (Its eyes are the breasts) as these female warriors worship this tragic deity.
Pretty savage lore – I like where it’s going.