#Lutren

[temiree]

As an April Fools' joke this year, I did the same thing that I did last year with Kingdomblade, where I did my best to mimic their style in a drawing and then have them post it to see if anyone notices (partially fueled by me being confused as the artist of Beyond the Western Deep a few times)! This was the result of me copying @kobbers's style, with me specifically drawing their character, Dakkan. :3

I'd say it was a success! After she posted it on her page, there were zero skeptical comments questioning whether she drew it. :D

Click here to see the comic I did last year in Kingdomblade's style! Headshots I drew of Dak while I was practicing her style are also available on my Patreon.

[tdcpresents]

Our Western Deep Volume 3 Kickstarter ends in just five days! It's been an awesome campaign so far--the hardcovers are fully funded and we've already hit TWO of our stretch goals, unlocking the Music of the Western Deep digital album for all our backers and netting all physical tier backers a brand-new emote sticker sheet and our wonderful V3 promotional print by Kosperry. With just five days to go, we're aiming for our next major stretch goal: the TWO PIN SET, adding the sharp-toothed, succulent-slinging lutren rogue alongside burgeoning assistant-ambassador Janik! If we hit $30K, every pin backer gets upgraded to the two-pin set for free, and we'll add the pins to our BackerKit store for everyone to enjoy!

Let's finish this up strong! We know we can do it!

head to https://www.westerndeep.net/kickstarter and check it out!

[kobbers]

Another tag game! This time from @meg-noel-art and @finrays (at least... it seems like it’s the same one? :v)

Favorite Color: Blue!

Currently Reading: About to start volume 12 in my run through the TMNT IDW Collections. Volume 11 had Triceraton POV in it so I enjoyed that immensely. I continue to enjoy the creative ways they integrate elements from previous TMNT incarnations into their ongoing one. :]

Last Song: The Beast Beneath the Waves... love love love Nolan’s lutren sharkhunter sea shanty, I am still obsessed sorry.

Currently Watching: My Adventures With Superman, and recently started What We Do in the Shadows! Enjoying both so far!

Last movie: Uuuh. It’s actually been a hot minute and I honestly can’t remember. Surely it wasn’t the Netflix Monster Hunter movie...? :S At any rate, I’m trying to push my butt out of the house to watch one of several new movies and haven’t been successful yet.

Currently working on: mostly Western Deep stuff, less fun comic art and more “necessary book-making logistics” type stuff. Also a smattering of fan projects of varying secrecy.

Current Obsession: my brain has actually broken and is attempting to be obsessed with like 4-5 different things at once, which means I’ve actually been way too fractured lately to like... turn around and make anything about it. I can also feel myself self-censoring a bit because I feel so unhinged and random with all this stuff, heheh

No-pressure tags: I will... buck my usual refusal and toss a couple out - @capybonara and @temiree - but feel free to ignore if you’re too busy or just don’t wanna!

[apieters]

Loving the current stages of Beyond the Western Deep by Alex Kain and @kobbers . Captain Kenosh of the Lutren Sea Guard is another one of my favorite characters, and I decided I had to draw some fanart of him. But what kind of fanart?

Well, that leather-wrapped ricasso on his longsword—and the use of James Horner’s excellent score in the fan-dub of the first half of the comic—just screamed Braveheart. I decided that I had to make a parody of the movie poster and draw Kenosh in Mel Gibson’s pose. I sketched over the movie poster to capture the pose, and used it to guide the composition of the poster.

Warning: Spoilers Ahead!!!

There were a couple of variations on the background and Kenosh’s costume. For the background I was torn between Deltrada Garrison, where Kenosh revealed his true colors, and his current location in the highlands of Aisling, so I decided to try both of them.

For Kenosh’s costume, I felt it was appropriate to have him continue to wear his new Ermehn scarf, given his current membership in the Sratha-din. But then what? In the first two variations, I have him wearing his current get-up—the surcoat of a Lutren captain with the addition of the Ermehn scarf. But then I asked, “What if Kenosh decided to take his loyalty to the ermehn further?” So I decided that in both versions of his costume he tattoos (dyes?) his fur with Ermehn facial tattoos—and in the last versions, he “goes native”and gets the torso tattoos as well, which of course means he has to rip off his shirt and show off some rather impressive abs😸.

If Kenosh did decide to get tattoos, he would obviously need to choose another tribe’s tattoos or use neutral, non-specific tattoos. But his reasons for siding with the Sratha-din are personal, so I went with the idea that he would choose the tattoos of one of the members of the Sratha-din. I imagine that Kenosh would be flexible with the face tattoo traditions, and so unlike other Ermehn, he would feel free to mix and match tattoos to show his loyalty to particular members of the Sratha-din. The two he seems closest with are Hardin and Bevan, and so on the left side of his face, he turns one of the scars Rathik gave him into the tattoos of Hardin—and presumably, Oran, Hardin’s father that Kenosh slew personally. And then, to show his compassion for Bevan, Kenosh openly tattoos the forbidden marks of the lost Evyn-din on his face. The torso tattoos are a design favored by both Hardin and Rathik. While it may be that Kenosh is yet again identifying with Hardin, I would like to think that he is giving his due respect to Rathik, whom he saw for the last time buying them all time by making a last stand against the pursuing Canid soldiers, despite their…differences of opinion just prior.

And the font was chosen to emulate the movie poster. There didn’t seem to be a faux-losophical line I could use from the comic itself, so I decided to write my own little couplet and ham it up. But I do think that it captures Kenosh’s attitude toward the Ermehn conflict well enough, so there it is next to his face.

If anyone sees this, let me know which one is your favorite costume/background combo. There is a version where fully-Ermehned Kenosh is pictured with Deltrada as the background, but it wasn’t my favorite, so I’m not going to post it, but if anyone wants to see it maybe I’ll post it in the comments.

Kenosh and Beyond the Western Deep are the property of Alex Kain and @kobbers —check it out at https://www.westerndeep.net/ !

[temiree]

This sketch is for Kobb, with her character Dakkan going back to his Redwall roots and enjoying some shrimp ‘n’ hotroot soup for the first time in years. :3

He looks satisfied~

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