{"id":2678,"date":"2015-09-17T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2015-10-05T07:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:02:20","slug":"art-prodigy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/art-prodigy\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: Prodigy"},"content":{"rendered":"
I tend to forget just how expansive my books can be. \u00a0In retrospect, I probably should have started with the novellas before I began something as vast as The Bindings of Fate<\/em> and the two books that followed. \u00a0There were a ton of characters, and events happened simultaneously across Raleigh. \u00a0I also tried to give every character their fair shot\u2014even the villains of the story.<\/p>\n Case in point, Prodigy. \u00a0Sure, he seemed\u00a0a bit of a bumbling fool from time to time, but look at what he was up against:\u00a0Rangers with metal skeletons that were trained by millennium-old elves; Warriors who could heave weapons with their mind; Thieves who wielded vampiric swords that could leech the life force from your body. Prodigy wasn’t some useless pawn\u2014he was a loyal, determined soldier who was outmatched at every turn, and still did his best. \u00a0At the end of The Bindings of Fate<\/em>, he succumbed to those odds, but… we never really saw him die. \u00a0And you know that what’s true of comics is true of Tellest…<\/p>\n In any case, we’re doing Prodigy a solid now. \u00a0RedPear has stepped up to the plate and given this villain a proper portrait that really captures him not for the alleged vile acts he’s committed, but for the person he is. \u00a0Check it out:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n As always, we started out with a sketch. \u00a0The northerners are definitely of a hardier breed, and Prodigy is every bit the barbarian that you expect him to be.<\/p>\n