What better way to show his affinity to cold as a kiddo than to give him an ice pop?  That was a brilliant idea that Cristiano brought to life in his great style.

The line art barely does it justice, too.  With the shading and everything in place, Olig really pops. He’s a great final member of this group, for sure.

And in full color?  Magnificent.  Cristiano took the concepts we were building with Hozure, made it his own, and did an absolutely fantastic job with it.

We gave him a neat little background like the others in his group for consistency.  But we also have one more cool little piece…

Here’s all our adorably QQ babies in one place.  It made for a fantastic design on a T-Shirt, which I happily wore at Wizard World Comic Con this year!

While we don’t currently have anything else to show in the “babies” line-up, we’re always hard at work thinking of new ways to show off the cuter side of Tellest.  We hope to see you soon with more of these kind of things!

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We’ll start off with the sketch of Kelvin.  Now a lot of people who have seen the Reinforcements box art will notice that it’s an older Kelvin who we featured, and he didn’t have the green domino mask.  So why give him one here?  Well, when Kelvin was younger, he wore the green mask as “The Emerald Adder” – and sure, there’s no reason why he should have had it with him if he was babified, but hey… I’m having fun with this so it works!

Then let’s look at the next step, a black and white version.  You should totally check out Cristiano’s artstation site at the bottom there too.

Here you can see all the green you’d expect, mixed with a fair amount of brown that really works for the character.  Some day I’ll get a version of this where he has his green cloak, but the cloak itself won’t have shrunk, haha.

And here we have the full version with a nice background that’s reminiscent of his adventurer card from the Reinforcements pack.  Cristiano did a lovely job with this one.  Just don’t forget—we have one last piece of the set to show off!  Stay tuned in a few weeks and we’ll be back!

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We’re leveraging the talent of Cristiano Reina once again, and he comes right out of the gate with another awesome look at one of our characters.  Suja is a troll assassin, but she looks positively adorable rather than deadly in this piece.

The color Cristiano uses just 100% pops, making Suja look like she’s having a great time.  Her outfit is perfect, and she has just the right amount of sass.

So it’s just a quick post today, but of course it’s an awesome one.  Suja leads the pack with her confidence and snarkiness.  I’m very excited to show off our other two characters!  Check back in about a month and we’ll have a new one to show off!

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So, regrettably, Hozure doesn’t really have the availability to work with Tellest anymore.  He got an incredible job offer, and that meant that we had to move on from his exact style.  That said, I think we found worthy successors in both Dennis Van Kessel, and in Cristiano Reina.  The latter was the one who we picked up for these cute little chibi versions of our newest QQ Babies.

He did a remarkable job bringing our characters to life.  That said, there were still a few things we had to tweak here and there…

While Bho’zak is an orc, he isn’t the traditional green-skinned one you might see from older fantasy works.  He has brown skin, so we needed that reflected properly.

Here’s our little orc geomancer in all his glory.  He’s just the first of our four box art characters to be turned from an adult into a baby, and we could not be more enthusiastic about the new style.  Cristiano did a great job, and we’re excited to show off the other adventurers.  Check back in a few weeks to see them!

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When we had the box art for Quantum Quest done, it was time to really show off the game at the convention (we’re talking like three years ago now).  I thought a shirt with some cute Tellest Babies-style artwork of the box art characters would go over really well.  We called on Hozure, who did the previous Tellest babies art, and he set to work.

From there, we put things to color, making our adorable little characters pop like crazy.  I absolutely love how Vaulen doesn’t have a helmet, but instead a cooking pot.

“We’re going on a trip!”

I put together a small background for them, but we didn’t actually have a transparent version of the image, so there’s a little bit of aliasing going on.  Still, I think it looks really good, and I’m very happy we ended up with this cute little concept to include in our push for Quantum Quest.

In a few weeks, we’ll have a look at some new baby characters, and we’ll be showing off a new artist who is producing them for us (hint: he’s already worked on something else that’s QQ-related).

See you then!

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