Promo art and cover for Noodle Strings! Noodle Strings comes out TOMORROW. Subscribe to my substack for automatic updates! https://telimo.substack.com/
More Noodle Strings characters! Eve is a combination of spunk, sweetness... and mayhem? Jaivon is the kid that never really sits still, asking about every little thing while never staying for the answer.
Time for some Noodle Strings character introductions! The first characters I’m going to showcase are Aden and his mother, Marlee. Aden truly believes he is a superhero. Marlee encourages it. Hilarity ensues.
My webcomic will be going live on May 16, completely free for all to read. I will be posting character designs and other promo art in the next coming days. For regular updates, please subscribe to my substack.
I did these character designs a few years back for a story that has always been in the back of my mind. It is one of those stories I always imagine being told best as an animated series rather than a comic. I’m making some current artwork of them now and I just realize I never posted this. These aren’t the final designs for them.
Those who want more background information on these characters, please continue reading below.
It’s set in a fictional world where humans must work a dedicate balance in a world full of magic, spirits, and various fanatical creatures whose intelligence rivals that of humanity. Only a selected few of humanity has the power to manipulate magic and of those who can, even fewer can become the nation’s witchdoctor. The witchdoctor is one of the most important people of any kingdom, tasked with keeping vengeful nature’s spirits at bay, diagnosing and fixing curses, and confronting any evil witches, sorcerers, or magical beasts who wish to bring harm to their kingdom’s people. Due to their importance in society at large and the need to exchange ideas and offer assistance to other witchdoctors, they can travel freely between kingdoms without prosecution and are given significant privileges and accommodations wherever they settle.
The training to become a witchdoctor starts in childhood. Once chosen, the child leaves their home for Arithea, a witchdoctor trainee camp that will serve as their primary home. They are partnered with another trainee and a teacher whose task it is to build up their magical ability, learn to speak to spirits, and teach them the various ways of the witchdoctor. During this time, the witchdoctor trainee is taken to various kingdoms and expose to different peoples, cultures, creatures, and other witchdoctors.
This is where we meet our characters, who are all in the same trainee group.
Kadai isn’t your typical witchdoctor trainee. There isn’t a lot of things she cares about in this world, other than what “me, myself, and I want’ as she like to say. Use to taking care of herself, her independent streak puts her at odds with the other trainees and particularly so with her trainee partner Rashin, who is all about rules. Unlike Rashin, the only reason Kadai a trainee is for the free food.
Rashin is probably one of the most ambitious witchdoctor trainee that Arithea ever had. He was a stand out in his village, and no one was particularly surprised when he was chosen to be the village’s witchdoctor. Rashin wants to prove himself to world, being very aware that as a Chiwara, that he is viewed as another simple beast in the majority human dominated environment that he is surrounded by. His ambitions are almost always at odds with the laid back Kadai.
Maadi is a very controversial witchdoctor teacher indeed. To the other teachers, he is way too laid back for the students own good and treat them too much like kids rather than a witchdoctor they must become. But Maadi is very confident in his methods and believe no other teacher can bring out the full potential of their students like he can. Even if they fall a little behind the other students with his sometimes lackadaisical approach, they will definitely catch up in time with his teaching methods…right?!
My first drawing for inktober! I'm late and wont be able to do an ink drawing for every day in October, but I want to do a few more before October ends. This is a redraw of a inktober I did a few years ago. If he wins, he gets to keep your head.
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