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Concept Art – Faux Equinicus, Zabraith

Michael DeAngelo — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:30:48 +0000

Hey there folks! I’ve got an interesting, quick art post for you today. Sometimes, when you’re working with a concept artist, the concept you’re originally working toward is not the result you end up with. Case in point, today’s post. We’ve mentioned before that Azot sometimes outpaces how stylistic I can be with my characters and my story, and with Equinicus, the clockwork steed of one Maximus Xanders, we ran into that. Equinicus is more refined and has a little less “zazz”, but there’s no stopping Azot sometimes. So, rather than change everything we had, I decided to take a good thing and run with it. That’s how we got to Zabraith.

Zabraith is the work of a rival tinker, who saw Equinicus and decided to try and copy him. Of course, Maximus was working on his version of Equinicus for years, if not decades, and this one was kind of hurried into being. Still, for something put together so quickly, it’s not too shabby as a facsimile. It hasn’t shown up in any of the Tellest stories yet, but you can be sure we’ll see it in an upcoming tale. Of course, as with the design being a twist, the story will likely have a few as well.

In this full color version of Zabraith, you can see the peculiar scheme that the inventor / tinker went with. It almost looks like armor in a way. It’ll be interesting writing about this creation, and I’m excited to get my chance.

Here’s a little fun fact. For about a year, I had lost track of what this “Faux Equinicus” was called. I happened to find it after a little digging the morning I scheduled this, so that’s fun.

Alright, we’re taking a little break from concept art for the rest of the year, but early in 2022, you’ll get some new artifacts and items to be impressed by. Stay tuned till then, as we still have plenty of other beautiful art to show off!

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Art: Maximus Figurine by Skence

Michael DeAngelo — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:01:20 +0000

Well now, we’re about to wrap up a segment! It’s always a little bittersweet when our time with an artist runs out. On one hand, we managed to get a lot of impressive work out of them. On the other one, sometimes we don’t know when we’ll have the opportunity to work with them again. In this case, we already have some cool ideas to run with as it pertains to Skence, but we’ll have to save that for later in the year.

As for now, we’ll finish up this segment with his (in my opinion) most impressive piece for us: Maximus and Equinicus.

Skence started off with some sketches, (including that really funny one right above #5).

After that, we moved on to a black and white sketch of the duo. Rhianna’s painting served as an inspiration for the clockwork steed, and he did a pretty cool job of capturing it.

Finally, Skence added some color to it. Obviously, this Maximus is older, but he preserved a lot of the color from the cover from The Tinker’s Tale that Leo so lovingly crafted. I was very happy with this final piece. Skence did an awesome job. Cross your fingers for more collaborations with him in the future!

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Art: Equinicus

Michael DeAngelo — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:01:46 +0000

And now we’re going back… wayyyyyy back. While last week we featured a new artist, this week we’re going to look at the OG. With the release of The Enemy Within, Rhianna Brennan made her mark on Tellest with a beautiful cover.

For a gift from Rhianna to me this year, she really upped the ante.

Rhianna is a big fan of horses, and she really loved the idea of a clockwork horse. Equinicus also features prominently in The Tinker’s Tale. The best part is, this is old school painting. It has texture – it almost pops right off the canvas. Now, even though its sitting above our couch, you get to see it too!

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