{"id":3517,"date":"2016-05-12T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2016-05-25T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T11:32:00","slug":"art-reveal-lord-of-thunder-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/art-reveal-lord-of-thunder-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Reveal – Lord of Thunder Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well folks, the time has finally arrived. \u00a0It’s time to make things official.<\/p>\n

We’re working on a new book. \u00a0Yes, yes, I know. \u00a0It’s quite a surprise. Actually, it’s “at least” five new books, but we won’t get into that just yet. \u00a0Suffice it to say, we’re ready to draw back the curtain on one of these books, and this one will serve as the relative flagship release for our other books in this set.<\/p>\n

These five books are going to be sequels to the Tales of Tellest that we Kickstarted two years ago. \u00a0As such, we knew we needed a face that was going to be… electrifying… to introduce us to the new stories.<\/p>\n

That man is\u2014no, not Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson\u2014Bolt Thunderfury:<\/p>\n

\"Lord<\/a><\/p>\n

The protagonist\u00a0of Son of the Storm<\/em>, Bolt has already had an awesome story in his life, but he’s got more. \u00a0This follow-up, Lord of Thunder<\/em>, is the tale of how he and a group of ragtag heroes managed to save a group of people from annihilation. \u00a0We’ll be getting the full details of the book to you soon, but for now, we’re really excited to show off the beautiful cover that Leo made for it.<\/p>\n

\"Lord<\/a><\/p>\n

Here you can see the rough sketch we began with. \u00a0Leo knew what we wanted right away, and there was very little that we needed changed from one form to another. \u00a0Seeing as this was the initial sketch, you can only tell very basic things, but it’s starting to come together as to what might be causing the mysterious people issues.<\/p>\n

\"Lord<\/a><\/p>\n

Alright, so things are a little more clear here. \u00a0That big guy front and center? \u00a0An ice giant. \u00a0The guy in the top left corner is an avarian, a birdman in the world of Tellest. \u00a0We’ve got a dwarf in the foreground, who may be a little familiar to readers of the first book. \u00a0In the background, two more folks. \u00a0And on the right side, our hero, Bolt Thunderfury.<\/p>\n

\"Lord<\/a><\/p>\n

Leo made a slight change that we ultimately opted out of here. \u00a0He thought that Bolt and our dwarf looked a little too similar in their poses, but we didn’t mind. \u00a0We wanted to see that dwarf’s face, by gum! \u00a0And then you can also see our other two characters with more clarity. \u00a0One of them is called a delver\u2014they’re the dark elves of the Tellest universe. \u00a0The other is a haudron, a half-giant. \u00a0But whose side are they on?<\/p>\n

\"Lord<\/a><\/p>\n

And there you have it. \u00a0That’s our final version. \u00a0You can click on it to see it embiggened. \u00a0We’re so proud of it being the first big reveal for our next big push.<\/p>\n

We also wanted to give a shout out to Matthew DeAngelo, the man who ultimately inspired a lot of what Bolt Thunderfury is. \u00a0His birthday was yesterday, and we’re proud of him too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well folks, the time has finally arrived. \u00a0It’s time to make things official. We’re working on a new book. \u00a0Yes, yes, I know. \u00a0It’s quite a surprise. Actually, it’s “at least” five new books, but we won’t get into that just yet. \u00a0Suffice it to say, we’re ready to draw back the curtain on one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[346,349,145],"tags":[321,1313,1311,362,1312,1309,1308,284,1310],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lord-of-Thunder-3-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-UJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}