Trey Hodges

Friday, March 03, 2023

Lore of the SilverHand

Lore of the SilverHand is the feature for the month of march. I've used Moon Princess to study watercolor; I'm using this character to practice inking. These images above are where I am in design currently, but he needs work to get to where I want.

The story so far: In the fantasy world of Yal Lenor, Lore is a Cursed Wanderer originally from the Land of Gryphons, started as a Mercenary, then an Imperial Legionnaire; but became disillusioned and deserted. While roaming the wilds became cursed by a Unicorn. Now, he wanders the wilds, trying to avoid various factions while being pulled into a myriad of adventures.

This character of Lore was inspired by the solo adventurers of the past; for example Conan, Witcher, and Vampire Hunter D.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Moon Princess Enemy Illustration Mock-Up Version 2

More refined mock-ups for the enemy illustrations. More refinement to be done; but the concept idea is pretty solid for me. Next year I hope to show the watercolors of these illustration. That is a long time. haha I look forward to them... This ends the month of moon princess work.

For the month of March: Lore of the Silver Hand.

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Friday, February 24, 2023

Moon Princess Enemy Illustration Mock-up

Start with the bottom two pages to get the initial idea down. Then I work up the princess of different ages and make a composition standing in front of the enemies to see if it works at a larger scale. Now I'm redesigning the princess and working on refinement.

Trey

Friday, February 17, 2023

Moon Princess 4 Seasons

Illustration using the seasons as a start. Some edits, revisions and basic tightening is needed but I like the images.

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Friday, February 10, 2023

Moon Princess Long Illustration MockUp

So, for this week, I'm using the second row of the pen thumbs to make the blue pencil sketches. The bottom is the images on one page to see how they work together with notes on how the larger images should be produced. I think I will go thru perhaps two more round of revisions before I even think about the watercolor versions. So we probably won't see the final image for about a year. I know, I know the process is long, but progress is a process.

Next week will be four other images from the pen thumbnails (top) page.

See ya next week, Keep Shining

Trey

Friday, February 03, 2023

Moon Princess Illustration Thumbs

This month, the focus is Moon Princess.

When I start making an image, I usually start with small thumbnails. Working out an image in thumbnail form is one of the most fun part of the art process. The top image is a quick digital mock-up. So the plan is to do all of these in watercolor sometime in the future.