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We made this really kickass flag for Prince Magnolia's webbed site page. It changes when you hover on it. I am in love.

#looks blurry here because it's tiny #it belongs on the sidebar so yeah #unicorn! very cool!#this is probably the flag of the kingdom of Rarian #the first one that is #the second one is just for Sorrel lmao

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I think maybe we are kind of good at making interfaces look pretty. Also, the flower petals actually fall. Yay particle physics!

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Drew a new image for the webbed site!

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How it started vs How it's going;

#Book Four is not going badly for her whatsoever #Heralds of Rhimn

Got the outlines for the Frostbiter kids mocked up! Based off of these sketches done earlier. Might redo Gildhe's face and tidy up some outline widths, but otherwise they're pretty cute.

#Heralds of Rhimn #Children of Snow

New pagedoll for our funky little site.

#did we reskin the Gail chibi yes #but did it turn out good also yes #main site is just going to be us presenting ourselves like this #we're all getting personal side sites for self-expression

More headshots! Crislie's Da & Ma, Eustais & Avalin.

#Heralds of Rhimn #writeblr

Got some of the gods drawn! Thah and Fraihz simultaneously look very old and very young, and I think that means we drew them right.

#writeblr #Heralds of Rhimn

new mep meme new mep meme

#writeblr #digital art #drawing #artists on tumblr #heralds of rhimn #we're going to try and challenge ourselves to actually draw out some character stuff for fun more often #makes for more faces we can paste onto memes if we want ehehe

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We still feel like making book covers, so we did some very low-quality sketches of Meparik and his siblings to collage into a cover layout! From left to right; Karah, and Merlie, Mep and Gildhe, Lonnie and Verlin, & Delise and Alevar. Good kids.

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They are Arranged! They make a lot more sense once we put 'em together on the page. This is why Lonnie and Verlin are side profiles.

Eventually they'll get drawn for real!

#small regret; i have placed two redheads and three blondes immediately next to each other i just realized #but i can futz some things #maybe un-blonde some of them #Delise is definitely textually blonde but mayhaps we can change Karah and/or Merlie #at least Gildhe and Alevar are different shades of red #this is a pre-Heraldry Mep so his hair is brown #small and humorous tragedy of a different sort; the pickpockets are all on the left side together #and clearly Mep is the kid who is not pleased to be dragged into the family photos isn't he

We still feel like making book covers, so we did some very low-quality sketches of Meparik and his siblings to collage into a cover layout! From left to right; Karah, and Merlie, Mep and Gildhe, Lonnie and Verlin, & Delise and Alevar. Good kids.

#sketches #Heralds of Rhimn #you guys might recognize their names from the books!#honestly? kind of like how these turned out given that they're meant to be just shitty little ref sketches to clean up later #Lonnie probably needs her proportions adjusted tho #anyway this is for Children of Snow

Got the cover for Starlit Prince done!

#Heralds of Rhimn #writeblr #booklr #book cover #digital art

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Outlines for Prince Alaezel and Alluari! Going to have to fiddle around with the line weight in some parts (we haven't thickened his silhouette like we usually do yet) but it's a really promising start.

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Final progress for the day until we go to bed! They're in an observatory <3

#book cover book cover book cover #this is gonna be a good good book cover #other fun thought; big buggy cartoon eyes are still a signature of our HoR style (and general style most of the time)#but slowly working on adding more detail in certain ways #this is the first time we've given a HoR character tear ducts and we're still deciding if it's a thing we want to carry over to other art

Outlines for Prince Alaezel and Alluari! Going to have to fiddle around with the line weight in some parts (we haven't thickened his silhouette like we usually do yet) but it's a really promising start.

#Heralds of Rhimn #writeblr #digital art #sketch #linework #wait shoot we also forgot some of his hair decorations #well at least we caught that before we got too far along!#also please admire lil' statue Alluari with me #she is a very serious goddess but . . . also very cute as a fountain #going to be some decor on the sides of the base too

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Cover revamps! Did a lot of very minute but very good changes.

Crislie and Navaeli got their proportions adjusted. Navaeli no longer looks like a bug-eyed alien, and Crislie looks more powerful.

Crislie's outfit more closely matches her chapter header artwork.

Ember Warrior's background got overhauled to match the new way we draw forests. Soft and leafy!

Improved the snow in Winter Herald.

The latter three book's backgrounds got blurred out a little to bring focus on the character in the foreground.

We thickened the lineart around the characters to make them stand out more too.

Added the series order to the titles!

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Direct comparisons between where each cover started and where they're at now!

Cover revamps! Did a lot of very minute but very good changes.

Crislie and Navaeli got their proportions adjusted. Navaeli no longer looks like a bug-eyed alien, and Crislie looks more powerful.

Crislie's outfit more closely matches her chapter header artwork.

Ember Warrior's background got overhauled to match the new way we draw forests. Soft and leafy!

Improved the snow in Winter Herald.

The latter three book's backgrounds got blurred out a little to bring focus on the character in the foreground.

We thickened the lineart around the characters to make them stand out more too.

Added the series order to the titles!

#indie books #writeblr #book covers #our books are like a video game we can roll out patches on any time we decide we want to lmao #now we just have to do Starlit Prince #and update these covers in other places yaaaaay

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The great thing about being in charge of our own book design stuff is that we can, in fact, decide to go through a ridiculous amount of effort to create custom headers for every chapter.

We've gotten about two thirds of the way through Shadow Herald's headers right now. Downside; every time a chapter takes place in a new location, we have to draw that location. Upside; every time we draw a location, we can reuse it later. My gods do the shop interiors take forever.

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Since we like making things harder for ourselves, everyone also gets cute winter outfits for Book Two!

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Just for fun, we can compare the PDF headers (in color, sized precisely to fit the page) to the EPUB headers (monochrome, brought in to better fit unpredictable screen sizes, frame brightened up to be easier to see in both dark & light mode.)

Decent book design requires a lot of practice.

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