For the first time here, we see that Basta is, in fact, a werebear.  In theory, if you didn’t know who Basta was, you probably wouldn’t know that was him there anyway—just a random bear who is about to really mess stuff up.  And then we have Catelyn, looking like she’s walking away from an explosion like a badass, so, you know… Two awesome characters.

Once we add some color, we can see that the details are a little more clear.  This is a shot taken right in the midst of a naval battle, with flames in the background, illuminating these two heroes in some pretty cool ways.  Catelyn and Basta don’t mess around, folks.

The next step shows the artist getting rid of some of the muddier, flatter details and bringing it more to life.  These pirates aren’t just part of the background after all.  Catelyn is the first of the two characters to have a big glow-up, and you can see in her swagger that she’s got a lot of confidence that she’s bringing to the battle.

Next up, we see Basta start to get some love, with his fur and face getting a bit more detailed.  While his boss and lover is cool and collected, it looks like this werebear is about to cause some carnage.  Heck, maybe he already did!

In this final shot, we can see more details than ever, with every tuft of fur on Basta’s body feeling realistic and lifelike.  And of course, Catelyn pops because of her companion as well.  As I mentioned before, x-Celebril-x really nailed it, and I could not be happier with this piece.  It’s already impressed a lot of people, and turned into a Tellest poster that people really seem to respond to.  We’ll see if we can make more awesome art like this in the future.

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We started off with some poses.  Going forward, Andrakidus’s character is going to change up a bit in that he’s supposed to almost feel like a teacher of sorts, so we wanted to get that across the right way.  We ended up really liking poses 1 and 4 with that in mind.

The picture ended up looking almost like a faculty portrait you’d see in a university.  We absolutely loved that, so we pushed x-Celebril-x to keep up the great work.  She delivered a fantastic final version of the character.

Sometimes you get incredibly lucky when you find an artist.  That’s the way I feel with this collaboration.  This was the perfect fit, and x-Celebril-x completely aced this first collaboration.  You can be certain that we’ll be using her for more commissions in the future.  Hope you liked this first look at our dracosage!

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