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Had a dream which inspired a cute interaction in Book 2 where Eldoron interacts with a regular Earth bound Magpie, but Eldoron curiously sees his own features in it and tries to mimick/interact in response.

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A massive improvement from my attempt to illustrate the first several pages a few years back! The introduction featuring the bog buzzard and the tri-winged jade beetle

Note these are official pages from Book 1. please do not copy, trace, or steal! Copyright belongs to Susan Soltau/Dragon Half Freelance

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Set up an official Patreon for those who want to support this project more financially just so I can pay the bills and focus as much of my time and effort on illustrating the pages for Book 1. If you are able to pay $3 per month, you will get access to behind the scene stuff like WIPs and storyboards.

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UPDATE 1/12/24 AND PAGE PROGRESS COUNTER FOR BOOK 1 (UPDATED 2/29/24)

Publishable Pages ~ ~ 7.5/468

Storyboards ~ ~ 25/468

Clean Lineart ~ ~ 7.5/468

Color ~ ~ 7.5/468

Final Layout and Adding Dialogue and SFX ~ ~ 7.5/468

I have officially completed the script for the first book. I can finally start illustrating! Hoping by the end of 2024, I can begin streaming them!!

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My final piece of 2023!! I wanted to not only make sure this project is still a thing, but also that page illustration for it is occurring for certain this year!! The book cover for the first part. Included binding, back cover w/ synopsis, and the inside page. Certainly some room for improvements, but I'm pleased with this. It feels official!!

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I wanted to go over the logo one final time so it pops on any cover art while remaining readable. I realize down the road a professional logo designer may come in handy for further improvements. However I find this suitable for web based publication!

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The end of 2023 was really rough for me and my family so I needed to take a break from some REOD related things. However I managed to keep working on finishing the script and I’m about a week out from my personal deadline to complete it. Nearly 85 pages now. When finished it will be close to 500 illustrated pages! Dang! Book 1 is one if the shorter books in the series too!

I am working to finalize the looks for everything and everyone too. Messing around with a color palette for Rajin which has been tricky but I think I found a concept I like!

Rajin is an ancient ship built thousands of years ago weaved together from the ether and stars themselves. It was only discovered buried in ruin by Eldoron and his crew while out on their adventures/ important missions. Rajin is made from a material that they coined as Runanium because it acts as this nearly living shell, a conduit for concentrated magic that glows through it like blood in our own veins. Tried to make it look the part as this almost organic thing built from darkness and light long long time ago while magic was at its peak but isolated to one part of the vast Universe.

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Most effort I have put into a character sheet without using assist tools. Hexel/Hex (full name Hexillion the Third). He is a Paratorsid….an alien dino hybrid character. Though his race is known for extreme aggression and violence……..often invading other worlds or battling amongst themselves. A similar being crashed onto Harana (Ian’s home planet) with such intents. Paratorsids are also hive like with a monarch and drones. Hexel is part of the monarchal lineage, but his family was betrayed forced to evacuate when he was still an egg. Switches and power plays are common in their culture.

Hexel was raised on Youndre where he was able to break from the toxic generational cycles and behaviors. Trish was able to relate heavily to Hex’s life and where he comes from. He puts his efforts into helping others, learning tech, and getting into inventing with the goal of increasing QoL. All of this led to helping Ian with his prosthetics.

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