And it’s a new week and so that means more sketches from Steve Prescott for the 2-page Tribe spreads. Lots of good feedback from the previous ones and so I hope to hear more from you folks on these pieces. One thing though: there’s no need to add snark to your comments on this work we’ve been presenting- please try to remember that Steve (and any of the other artists) are paying attention here, so you have a chance to really get your ideas across to them. Don’t waste that for a cheap dig- at best, they’ll ignore you, at worst they’ll stop reading everybody’s posts. And that being said: the vast majority of your posts have been useful, courteous, and thought provoking- thanks!
Here are Steve’s notes:
uktena. You asked for a cherokee lean but I was having more fun with zuni and hopi – with a touch of some cherokee. The cherokee ref I found (despite all my books about native americans) was surprisingly bland. I mean, it was cool but it was almost “generic” indian-looking stuff. Anyway, if you want me to pull back on the hopi look, I can – just let me know!
Silverfangs and Stargazer. Hope you don’t mind – I took some very
slight liberties with Albrecht’s armor – just to make it look good
here in this piece. It is essentially the same components – I just
changed a little of the designwork on them.One little note – I think I’ll paint the falcon on the Silverfangs piece separate (instead of the overlap as to combine it into one vignetted shape). That way, you can move it around to where it would work best according to page layout and text wrapping, etc.
I like all of these.
Uktena: Great to see both pictures of this tribe are going to avoid the stereotypical Indian look in favor of one that communicates an actual ethnicity. I’ve always thought of Uktena as more southwestern than southeastern, so the focus on Hopi and Zuni doesn’t bother me at all. And that hair is very Hopi.
Silver Fangs: Very badass and awesome, except something about his face (muzzle, specifically) seems slightly off to me. I don’t know what. Maybe it’s just that his enormous shoulder armor, combined with the perspective, makes his head and jaws look small. But still an excellent piece.
Stargazers: A nice calm shot of a wolf in a place no actual wolf would ever be, (where being in Lupus may be fairly foolish, depending on where that temple stands), which nicely sums up a lot about this tribe’s behavior. And the statue/makara/chimera/balustrade is suitably South Asian. Very nice.
Rich: Is it better for us to comment on the images on their own links, or is it better to post them all together here? Which do you prefer us to do?
I was wondering the same thing 🙂
Either way of commenting is fine- we’re reading all of them.
Thanks.
It looks like we’re commenting individually on this batch, and general questions on this page, which is probably how it should work best. 🙂
I truly apologize, and I know I am 3 months late, but I recently posted comments in the section “elbow deep in guts”. It’s unrelated here (which is why I apologize) but I see no other way of bringing attention to it in case the team still wishes to hear our thoughts on that topic. In hopes that I may have made some helpfull point over there.
I Won’t do it again 🙂
the uktena looks like a scary, powerful bruja and basically i am in love with that witch archetype for werewolves so bad
I’m a bad man, but the Uktena sketch makes me think of a tribal Queen Amidala…