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mai-col · 3 months ago

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Heya! Your artsyle is so cool, and I thought "That looks french" and lo and behold, you're at the gobelins. The french touch really is something in art i guess. Care to share your fav inspirations? I'm a fan of a lot of things, and I don't draw according to most of them, but old ass comics like Thorgal have my heart!

Hey fellow frenchie !

(this might be a long one, do NOT ask me to talk about things I like or do so at your own risk ; now, BUCKLE UP)

As a kid, I also read a lot of old comics (never Thorgal, which is weird for a fantasy nerd, but I'll come back to it later), I absolutely adored Franquin's Gaston Lagaffe (and still do) ; we also had a whole bunch of Astérix and Tintin (classic french kid education ^^).

(this has to be one of my favorite images EVER)

Also, honorable mention to F'murr's "Le Génie des alpages", this page lives rent-free in my head :

Now, FANTASY : then, boom, at 10-ish, I discovered Le Tendre & Loisel's "La Quête de l'Oiseau du Temps", which was WILDLY inappropriate for my age, but I think a lot of illustrators and artists my age have similar stories, and it made a huge impact on me and still allows me to flex to all the old dudes that populate comic festivals in France (but that's a whole other can of worms), soooo I guess things turned out all right.

A few years later, I also got into Dufaux & Rosinski's "La Complainte des landes perdues" (same artist as Thorgal !) and Bourgeon's "Les Compagnons du crépuscule" :

(I have trouble finding pages of La Complainte's OG series because there were a ton of spin-offs, but the first 4 books are a banger, as far as I remember)

Concerning "Les Compagnons du Crépuscule", I first got into Bourgeon's work through "Les Passagers du vent", because if there's one thing I'm just as obsessed with as fantasy, it's SHIPS and adventures at sea [intense look towards Black Sails and The Terror], but LCC left more of an impact on me, I think.

A personal note about La Quête and Les Compagnons du Crépuscule : these comics are OLD and I have complicated feelings about the way they depict their female protagonists. Yes, they're not the absolute worst I've seen, they do have a mind of their own and some cool moments (oh boy is that bar LOW), but eeeeehhhhhh growing up as a girl and going "ah, so THIS is the role I can have in a story that I otherwise like a lot ?" was not... super fun, let's say. (another can of worms for my queer ass to open later)

Fast forward to 2012 and my very first year of art school : I got super obsessed with Cyril Pedrosa because my aunt lent me her copy of "Trois Ombres", which has the disctinction of being the first book that made me cry :

(ooh look, a ship, whoops that was an accidental coherent segway)

Around the same time, I also really got into Mathieu Bablet's "La Belle Mort" because I was right in the middle of my Tekkon Kinkreet (the animated film, not the source comic ; it took me a while to get to it) phase and these backgrounds looked so good :

BUT the biggest thing for me that year was that our comics/narration teacher, Joseph Lacroix, was a huge Mignola fan, and, well, you can guess what happened...

He showed us this :

And boom, brain chemistry altered (@totheredandblack this one's for you 👀)

I also need to show you his own work, because every time I bring him up in french comic festivals, I get a blank stare -

- and he was also a huge influence on me along with Mignola (maaan I wish I could draw battles and skeletons like he does)

Also, let's circle back to Mignola : I love Hellboy like everyone and their mother, but my real soft spot is for his Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser adaptation, which I stumbled upon at the Cité de la bande dessinée's library in Angoulême back in 2013 :

(here, have two pages as a treat, because I couldn't choose between a cool action scene and the page that has a 'who doesn't chill next to their bestie while they're taking a bath' moment)

(we're almost done I swear, I only have two left)

Number 1 : Around 2013-2014, I discovered Jake Wyatt's work (he has a tumblr, @jakewyattriot , but he seems more active on instagram nowadays), and boom, once again, brain chemistry altered.

(just in case not everyone here knows about Necropolis, just LOOK AT THAT)

Number 2 : in 2020-ish, while I was working on Les Songes du roi griffu, I was kinda struggling with mountains, and I remembered an artist my dad had told me about, Cosey ; I still haven't fully read a lot of his books, but his backgrounds are incredible (it's also interesting to see how his line changed over the years, which is actually true for a lot of the artists I mentionned above).

That's it ! @laserbobcat thanks a lot for your question and for giving me an excuse to yap about artists I like 👌

(edit : I forgot to mention it, but I got out of Gobelins in 2018 ; I'm no longer there but I keep the description as a running gag ^^)

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firetfly · 11 days ago

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ladykailitha · 6 days ago

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Spellbound Part 13

Here we are at the penultimate chapter! The climax I have been building to for several chapters is here at last.

This is where all the witches get to have their turn. And I finally pull off the joke I have been holding on to foreeevvveerr!

Also kudos to anyone who spots the reference to Hellboy (2004).

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12

Steve went to make sure Eddie and the others were safe and let out a noise of distress when he recognized the Witch Hunter. Thomas Hagan had been a family friend. Their mothers had gone to school together. But while Richard Harrington accepted his wife’s witchy ways, David Hagan had not.

He had tried to stamp out any notion of magic and spells from the moment they wed. Then Marianne Hagan fell ill.

Steve had always thought that David had been poisoning her and that’s why he refused to let Mom look at his wife.

What he hadn’t known was that David had told Tommy that a witch had cursed her. But had left out the witch’s name. Probably to avoid actually being cursed.

Then Tommy died in his arms and it was a tragic end to what once had been a good friend.

“Billy!” Max yelled, coming out of the forest.

She was at his side in an instant.

Lady Melisande looked at her and smiled. “He’ll be fine, child. The idiot Witch Hunter managed to miss every single vital organ.”

Max threw her arms around Billy and he held her tight.

“I’m fine, Maxie,” he murmured. “I’m okay.”

She pulled away and then hit him. “Don’t scare me like that again!”

“Ow!” Billy cried. “Hey, I’m still wounded, you know.”

Robin came dashing up to them. “Come quick! The mayor is trying to sacrifice Chrissy!”

Max looked down at Billy, torn. She was a witch. Yeah, a witch in training, but a witch nonetheless.

“Go!” Billy snarled. “You take out this bastard at the source so he can’t hurt anyone else.”

Lord Eanathreal nodded. “We will take care of the boy child and see him safely back to town. You must take him out. We are unable to do so with all the cold iron.”

The four witches nodded and made for town as fast as they could.

With Eddie’s glamour shielding them from sight now that Steve and he had touched and his power had grown, they were able to sneak into the town square.

There Mayor Carver had set up an alter where Chrissy lay unbound, unmoving.

“I will cleanse this land of witchcraft and evil!” Mayor Carver was shouting a knife held in his right fist. “I will take revenge for the death of my son! I will sacrifice her to God so that others might live in Christ!”

The town just watched enthralled, captivated by whatever blood magic he was using.

“She was born for this purpose!” Mayor Carver continued. “She was christened Christine. The feminine of Christian, a follower of Christ!”

“His aura is gross!” Max hissed with a grimace. “It’s black and oozing blood.”

Just then someone joustled the group and pushed Robin out of the circle of Eddie’s influence, landing at the feet of the mayor.

Mayor Carver seized her by the scruff of her neck. “Come to watch your true love die, witch?” he chuckled darkly.

“Let her go!” Robin screamed, kicking and scratching to no avail.

“I will sacrifice you next!” he snarled, shaking her roughly.

When he shook her, the amulet Argyle made shook free from under her dress.

“A witch’s amulet?” he asked cocking his head to the side. “So that how she was able to escape my control. You vermin gave her an amulet of protection! But it is gone now and so to will yours!”

“No! Don’t! Wai–!” Robin tried to warn him.

But he yanked on the leather cord and it came off in a snap.

Suddenly a bright navy blue light sheered through every person in the town square.

Eddie’s glamour wasn’t even protection enough from the sheer brute force of will of Robin’s magic being released on the whole town.

It shattered into shards of black light that also pierced the crowd.

Mayor Carver dropped Robin and the knife, clutching his chest. He fell to one knee. “What have you done to me, witch?!”

Max stepped forward, eyes wide in awe. “Oh my god...” she breathed. “Eddie and Robin’s magic has penetrated his aura. It’s splintering.”

Steve grabbed her and pulled her close. “Don’t touch it! It might hurt you!”

Mayor Carver slumped to the ground and looked Steve right in the eye. “Oh look what you’ve done. You’ve killed me.”

Out of his stomach, a smoky black hand clawed at the ground. Then another, pulling at the ground as more of the arms showed. Then a horned head peaked from the fallen form of the former mayor. It raised its head, its dark red eyes glimmering in the fading light of the day.

The townspeople were finally broken of the spell and the air was filled with screaming and cries as they ran away.

Steve shoved Max behind him and drew his sword. Without taking his eyes off the demon that was crawling out of the corpse of Mayor Carver, he said to Eddie, “Hey, love. You think you make it look like there are a bunch of me?”

Max’s eyes went wide. “Love? Ooh! That’s new! You’re gonna have to tell me all about it once you kick this demon’s ass.”

“Deal!” Eddie cried to both of them and Gawain skittered out from collar of his shirt.

Gawain chittered something and Eddie nodded, following his directions. He began to weave the air with his hands and suddenly there were five other Steve’s in his combat armor.

“Whoa!” Max huffed. “Also new!”

The demon had fully come out of Carver’s body and stood seven feet tall with long curled horns and large bat wings. It had goat’s feet and a scorpion’s tail. The rest of it was human enough to send shivers down Steve’s spine.

The demon spotted the six Steves and snarled as they surrounded him. The beast went for one of the Steves but it was the wrong one as the real Steve swooped in from behind and sliced at his wings.

The demon shrieked in pain and agony as Steve’s blow landed. It whirled around and swung its giant hands toward the one who had struck him. But before it could get close enough it was struck on the back again. This time with torches. It whirled around again. This time to face the gathered Watch, standing there with torches and pistols.

Then the other Steve’s vanished along with the Watch. The demon howled in frustration as its prey constantly eluded it.

Suddenly it let out a loud screech. Steve was on its shoulder, his sword deep in its back. But before it could swing around to dislodge its new rider, it was being pierced by a half dozen swords.

Chrissy moaned and Robin was at her side in an instant, helping her sit up. The true love spell glittered as a flutter of butterflies surrounded them in green and blue.

The demon tried to shield its eyes with its arms from the blinding light of true love.

Chrissy took in the situation in an instant. She yanked something off her neck and threw it to Steve. “It’s a crucifix, Steve!”

Steve used his magic to catch the small glittering object as it arched over his head. He could feel his magic draining. He wasn’t sure he could do it.

Then the air was filled with the cawing and shrieking of Max and Steve’s familiars. Both Zoomer and Circe went for the demon’s eyes. The demon swatted at them. Zoomer was able to bank out of the way, but Circe was struck full force of the demon’s power and crashed to the ground.

Suddenly Steve was filled with energy. “No!” he screamed and jammed the crucifix into the demon’s eye, muttering the spell he would have used on the redcap had he been given the chance.

“For Circe!” he cried as he was thrown to the ground, next to her broken body.

The demon exploded into shards of molten glass, Robin was only barely able to throw up a shield at the last second encasing shards within to prevent anyone from getting hurt.

Eddie stumbled over to Steve and clasped his hand, then he collapsed. The girls ran over to their sides, only to breathe a sigh of relief when they both had a pulse.

“Well, I for one am glad that’s all over,” Robin huffed, leaning against Steve’s back. “But how on earth are we going to get them to safety?”

Max blinked up at the skyline. “Well, how about a moving house?”

Robin looked behind her and sighed. “Right, in all the hullabaloo with what happened today, I forgot Bav could move on her own.” She got to her feet and then helped Chrissy to hers.

Bav lowered herself to the ground and suddenly she was big enough to have both Steve and Eddie on settees, separate but close enough that they could reach out and hold hands if they had to.

Beds were created for the girls and soon the entire house hold was sound asleep.

“Caw! Caw!”

“Shuuush!” Max admonished. “You noisy bird! Steve needs all the sleep he can get. He took on a demon today and shouldn’t be awake yet.”

“Croak?” came the concerned reply.

“Circe?” Steve murmured, slowly coming to. He opened his eyes and sitting on a new wooden perch was a smaller raven than his raven. She had a white patch on her chest and her eyes turned to him.

“No,” Robin murmured, “I’m sorry. She didn’t make it. We’ll have a funeral for her when you’re well enough.”

“She came through the window,” Max explained, “just before you woke up. I think she sensed you were coming to and wanted to be here when you did.”

Steve held out his arm and the raven landed on it. She tilted her head and croaked sadly. He stroked her breast. “How do you like the name Morgana?”

Robin clapped. “That will go great with Merlin and Eddie’s Gawain.”

The raven cawed her agreement and Steve let out a sigh. “It’s going to take some getting use to and I will probably call you the wrong name once in a while. So this me apologizing upfront.”

Morgana rubbed her beak along his cheek and croaked sadly.

He sat up and looked around. “Where’s Eddie?”

“Right here, darlin’,” Eddie murmured, coming over to the settee with a steaming mug. “It’s just peppermint tea until we can be sure your magic has evened out again. It was going pretty erratic after Circe died.”

Steve took the cup gratefully and sipped the warm liquid. “That’s because familiars are supposed to be for the life of a witch.” He looked down at the mug and sniffled. “I think Circe martyred herself to give the power I needed to take out the demon.”

Eddie took the mug and set on the floor so he could hug him tightly. “I’m sorry, love. We’ve been looking into it and we think that the Mayor was Jason’s forefather Demetrius. He would have a male child and use that child when it had grown up enough to place his soul into it to live forever.”

Steve let out a shuddering breath and then another. “That makes sense. I always wondered why no one would use anything but Master or Mayor Carver when referring to him.”

“It’s disgusting,” Robin said, shaking her head. “But the difference in town is outrageous, by the way. There is so much color and magic thrumming through it now, you wouldn’t believe it was the same town we woke up in a week ago.”

“A week?!” Steve shrieked, pulling away from Eddie to look at her. “Has it really been that long?”

“I’m afraid so,” Max said with a grimace. “Like all of us were out for awhile. I woke up first and I was out for a full day. Then Robin who was out for two. Eddie only woke up yesterday.”

Steve frowned. “Then who was talking care of us all? Bav is good, but she doesn’t have arms to take care of that many people.”

Just then Jonathan and Argyle came out of a room Steve didn’t recognize. He wasn’t phased, as he figured Bav must have created it for them.

“I thought I heard your dulcet tones, Steve,” Argyle said with a smile. “I’m glad to see that you’ve recovered. We were all worried.”

Steve relaxed back into Eddie’s arms. “It’s so good to see you both. You have no idea.”

“It’s good to see you too,” Jonathan said. “Will told me about your fight with the redcap, and then to fight a demon on top of that, I don’t envy the headache you’ll have once your magic starts coming back.”

“I’ve already got several potions brewed up,” Robin said coming over to the sofa. “And Argyle has powders prepared for teas as well to combat the headaches. So hopefully that won’t last too long.”

Argyle grinned. “She’s been a great pupil. I think she’ll be able to make quite the living selling her potions and powders once she passes her initiate ritual.”

“Now that she’s able to control her magic,” Jonathan agreed, “it should be at the next full moon.”

“That’s great news,” Steve said with a sigh of relief. “Was anyone hurt? How many townspeople did we lose?”

“The only people who died,” Eddie murmured, rubbing circles up and down Steve’s spine, “were the Carvers, the Witch Hunter, and Patrick, who was stupid enough to come between you and Bav.”

“Bav is such a cute name,” Max sighed wistfully. “What is it short for?”

Steve blinked at her for a moment. “It’s short for Bavarian Motor Haus, because that’s what she is? Some witches nickname their house Bav or Haus depending on the gender the house prefers. But others just refer to them as BMHs.”

“Well that’s underwhelming,” Robin said rearing her head back. “I thought it would be something cooler.”

The walls turned a melancholy grey and Robin squeaked. “Sorry Bav! You’re cool. I promise!”

Steve shook his head as he stroked the windowsill. The wall began to warm up to gentle pink as the house mollified by his tender care. He let out a yawn and slumped further into Eddie.

Eddie laid him back down. “Rest. We have plenty of time to speak of the rest when you are stronger.”

He wanted to protest, but too soon the well of sleep engulfed him.

Hey, Wanda THAT'S how you deal with someone exploding!

Also, Morgana is a tribute to the fallen Jessamy from The Sandman (good show and comic, don't @ me about the author I KNOW)

Yep. Bav is Steve's Bimmer (BMW being an acronym for Bavarian Motor Wagon). No regrets!

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toa-archive · 4 months ago

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Bellroc Design Path

As per Anon request there's going to be three posts regarding the Arcane Order consisting of any and all concept art we have of them. As ever with these it is far from impossible something else will belatedly turn up. Should this occur (And in this specific case would not be surprised), wherever it is added will have a [/edit xx/xx/xxxx] which includes a date marker. Just makes it easier to find the "new" thing :)

Also per Anon request we're starting with Bellroc! As a fun bonus fact, the voice meandering from masc to femme is both really cool and a Angel of Death from Hellboy reference. Particularly in this climate, we support non-binary they/them wrongs. So let's get to it!

First up is some initial concepts from Yingjue Chen! While this was originally figuring out Nari and thus forest themed, the left most one was repurposed into a fire wizard. Never went any further of course but still very neat to see how just changing some shapes and adding colour make something fresh from old ideas.

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Francisco Ruiz Velasco had his own stab at a bunch of wizards which are nigh impossible to pin down if it was for any of the Arcane Trio specifically or not. Still important to include tho :) This one will very understandably appear in all three.

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Then seemingly all of a sudden Bellroc as we know them pops up, also by Francisco Ruiz Velasco, who would finalise their design. This is a crop from a height chart shown during the Art of Wizards panel and when you compare it to the artwork below (Also from the panel), they do seem to get tightened up considerably.

Now this was uploaded outside the panel as well, which is great as can see it at a decent size, though does lacks one sketch and the specifics of their eyes. It's very possible that someone else drew/painted those though who if that is the case is currently unknown.

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The next one to appear is their texture markup by Isaac Orloff! This is an absolute goldmine for your reference needs, particularly all their little details.

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Decided to add a trio of bonuses just for fun. You might have noticed the Order pops up in the Wizards credits sequence though unlike Trollhunters and 3Below, it is not Headless Studios. They were drawn in a similar way though! They are by Alison Donato.

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Ivan Gozali, who boarded on Wizards, had a bunch of Bellroc sketches on his website which were likely related to boards he may have done that are not public. Sadly, said sketches suddenly vanished one day and to date only one of these has been recovered. This is a good a time as any to show it.

This is also a great excuse to yet again break out Francisco Ruiz Velasco's Order band poster again! In part due to them only appearing in colour keys for RotT otherwise. Well, there's one exception but want to save it for it's own post...

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Can't forget Bellroc's staff! Presumably it was modeled after Fruiz's design as Alison Donato mentions her texture work here was painted over a blank. Unlike the other two which do have 2D reference art for the design, it's not been seen publicly at this time.

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On the more magical front there is a tiny screenshot from the Art of Wizards panel which shows the magic effects for Bellroc. It is unknown who the right two images belong to however -

We do have a bigger version of the left image which we know is by Yingjue Chen! Aren't effects neat?

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[/Edit 13/02/2025] The following was missed due to no obvious note of what it is on the original tweet this version is from and it's being added in now. This is the spell effect combining Bellroc, Skrael and the Green Knight's power into a single shot! It is by Isaac Orloff.

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Poking Rise of the Titans a moment, thanks to Andy Murray we have the glow up eye effect for Bellroc. This has been cropped from a larger image for fitting this post reasons only. Have to scroll back up for the Wizards version!

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And for fun since we also have it, this is the Arcane Circle for Bellroc which is shown on the Fire Titan including the Genesis Seal marker. As above it has been cropped for fitting this post reasons only. This time they are by Sean Wang.

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To close up a fun little tidbit! Thanks to Bianca Siercke we have the temporary name for Bellroc before they became, well, Bellroc. It was Belrog!

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When all three posts are up there will be a link here to the other two members. For now it is a placeholder:

Bellroc - Nari - Skrael

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