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I call them the postal pals or something

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Souls in the Sand: Concept Art

As I’ve mentioned here and there, I’ve spent the last two years developing an original story inspired by a small Origins+Empires server a few friends and I started planning. The more I developed plans for my empire to be a sprawling overgrown cityscape of ruins and stone framework inspired by the nether, the more I built up this backstory for the character I wanted to play, a small deerfolk boy named Esra. From there, and over months of working and reworking the story and its characters, I’m proud to say I’m coming up on a 100 piece gallery for my Masters Exhibition to display this story in the form of a song-inspired comic, titled: Souls in the Sand.

Over the next month and beyond the date of my exhibition in April, I wanted to start sharing my work here! I thought it would be fitting to first share all of the concept work I did for the characters last semester as I took each character from their old lineup and reworked them from scratch to see if there were any designs I could make more unique or appropriate for the story. This process consisted of four stages: silhouettes, full-body mock-ups, face and head shapes/designs, and experimenting with the final characters’ designs with a set of unique expressions that best fit their personalities and narrative role.

Since each character was reworked separately, the “new” concept lineup is a little disjointed (and some of the characters’ faces actually ended up different from their full-body designs), but I thought it would be fun to line them up to compare the overall cast to their old designs. With each character(s) I post the concept process for, I may share little bits of the work I’m doing or talk a little about their narrative roles as I go, but for now, have Esra!

I know I don’t post original work here often, but I wanted to share parts of this journey with you guys because it’s been very meaningful to me! And I hope all of the work I’ve been doing may at the very least serve as a bit of inspiration or encouragement for us to keep making silly minecraft stories, to keep drawing the characters we love, and to keep being creative in whatever way is meaningful! <3

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pearl built a catbus so i drew her in the ghibli style

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i love pearl pearlescentmoon. shes a humble farmer but she wont stop challenging people to deathmatches. shes pointedly ignoring the fact that shes the goddess of sunflowers. shes a cleaning lady but her side gig is as the queen of a frozen citadel. she committed quadruple homicide including her oldest two allies and then paused, looked at the camera, and said "i dont feel any remorse! :D" she makes her friends soup that poisons them. she and her girlfriends keep killing each other. she even runs a post office.

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Sketchbook doodles (mostly last life minus gem)

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Grian, Jimmy and Pearl but as avian avians

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Can we have tamacrafters boat boys being weird about each other?

Caught in 4k being a little freak

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"You saved me. You saved me, Joel, so now I can kill you!" but make it tamacrafters?

Etho never felt so alive

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For you, Jimmy Hermitcraft TCG card

AHHHH LOOK AT HIMMMM THE JITTIES IN FULL DISPLAY!!!

And omg the little blurb about tango HEHHE AO CUTE!!

Thank you so MUCH!! This is so cool! I love the pic you picked, it’s one of my faves! 🤩🤩

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THE BIRDS ARE FIGHTIIIIING

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Happy 3 years to 3rd life smp!

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[image ID: tango’s latest thumbnail, for his season 10 episode “Steam Punk Smart Factory Auto Crafting!”. he is standing in front of his factory’s autocrafting setup, leaning down with his butt poked out, looking back at the camera. a chat message from scar is on it that says “Look at how nice Tango’s Butt is”. /end ID]

I feel like not enough people are discussing the Choices that this thumbnail is btw. so you know. just putting it out for the world to see,

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And the thrilling sequel:

Fake dating except they don't figure it out until their kids' 5th birthday

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Fish Politics, or something.

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I just wanted to draw baby Revenge

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This happens once every few lifetimes

Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?

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