Too much worldbuilding

Regular, and Solar Eclipse Leona #TargonComic #leagueoflegends

Here's a very special character:
In Targon comic, this is the first (and only, before Leona) Chosen of the Sun. He was a regular but successful Rakkor warrior who was one day granted magical powers by the Sun when his people prayed intensely to the celestial body during a prolonged period of strife.

#TargonComic #conceptart Movement and combat studies for the solari forefather!

Sketch, where I'm doing perspective #Aphelios #targoncomic

Getting closer to the Rite of Kor...

Oh yeah here's the link to it! archiveofourown.org/works/426681...

New chapter of the accompanying fic is up! #TargonComic

I want to make it clear that Rakkor (among others) are VILLAINS in the story. And they are also victims of themselves.

The story starts from a perspective from the inside, which makes things feel strange!

I'm getting better at drawing faces. I'm beginning to be able to see the bad proportions that I have historically struggled to. Before, I literally couldn't see WHY a face I drew was wrong, even though I could feel it was. It usually comes down to general misposition and skewing.

Me after the 14th description of Rakkor worldbuilding being about harshness, anxiety over survival and struggles of living in a difficult environment:

Man, can't they enjoy a single field of wildflowers and beautiful nature...

I'm reminded of how the Roman army had troubles against the Germanic tribes in forests, but that's because the Roman army was specifically trained for open field combat where they could create a living wall.

Targon tribes are used to fighting on the mountainside, and Rakkor are trained for both

The Rakkor are focused on resources and maintaining their ability to defend their villages. The areas of their borders need to either be of strategic value or have fertile land. They can't just be pretty forests or fields of wildflowers...

So I realized that if I have characters approach the border of their territory and all tribes in the area are hostile to each other; but also the terrain up to the border is neither severe, nor turned into farms - it makes no sense.

Surely if they are holding this area, it's for some reason

She thus fits the well-known Paladin type where the character is gifted with magic by a higher power, rather than being born with it or stealing it in some way. Her paladin status is also a meta-reason why she wears plate armour!

The Rakkor society is organized the way it is in part due to the fact that their people are never born with magic nor can they learn it.

Leona's role in their society is greatly dependent on her being the ONLY Rakkor with the powers of their Sun god. And the fact that she was chosen by the Sun.

One might be tempted to add more Solari characters with Solar powers, cause Magic Sun Powers are cool as heck!

However, the entire story of this area of the world is based around a fact - that Rakkor do not have magic powers. They only have Relic Weapons of their ancestors. This is REALLY important

The Lunari had hidden many dangerous artifacts, remnants of distant past, in different locked temples.

When Diana was awoken as Chosen of the Moon, the vengeful Moon unlocked all of these temples.

But Diana only has fragmented knowledge of them, based on what she could read in the solari library.

One of the things I like about this setting is how painfully obvious it is that all the bad stuff is the fault of people, even if they talk a lot about religion or what their gods want.

Yeah it might seem irrelevant, but I'm designing space and maps according to story events, because I need to know what will make geographical sense for future events!

Since IoW is on northern hemisphere, it means Targon also needs to be north of the equator in order for solari side of the mountain (southern, since it's facing away from IoW) to be lit.

So based on this piece of information from Journal of Justice, I figured the event must have taken place on the side of Mount Targon facing away from Institute of War. Solari organized event, they would prefer to be on the sunny side of the mountain.

Sketch of profiles

I first painted a test scene (it sucked.) Then I redrew it as sketch, it sucks less. Needs fixes, but oozes with potential and badassery, so something might even come out of this.

Still gotta fix this one :)

New chapter!

archiveofourown.org/works/426681...

I think I'd want to make smaller chunks of story which can be called "completed", but it requires plotlines which are able to have quick payoffs. Definitely not all of them can.

In #TargonComic, there's survival, food and medicine gathering and exploring, besides conflicts! Sometimes one wants to rush to the action but quiet moments are invaluable for character and worldbuilding. #Aphelios #artoflegends

One of the symbols of Targon comic is Leona's buckler from childhood, with a gifted red stripe tied to its handle.

Not only does the wooden shield carry a clear meaning, it's an item that plays an important role in the story more than once!

Worldbuilding is when you have a huge number of characters to whom only a few things happen, and a Story is when you have much fewer characters, to whom a lot of things happen :D

Repeating style of frames means this is more important than one incident of disapproval. This is specifically related to one of the Themes of Targon comic!