The people of Ua (part I)

[pyraxis]

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From left to right:

Ua'roké - Head of the Temple of the Elements. The Raba Ua'lin's closest personal advisor and martial arts trainer. A force for sanity and balance amidst the Raba's cruelty.

The Raba Ua'lin - Head of the house of Ua, the newest and most prosperous house in the nation. Lin took the sagama at thirteen, when her mother Mai disappeared under suspicious circumstances.

Anza Ua'qi - Ua'lin's right hand and sometimes partner. Qi was first in line to inherit rulership of the rival house of Uz, but she walked away against all good advice to join Lin in the house of Ua. She is as gentle and kind as Lin is ruthless, and many suspect she's been coerced against her will by the Raba to serve her. Her mother Uz'jef worries constantly but can not force her daughter to return home.

Ua'vic - Vic was adopted into the house of Ua by Mai when Lin was young in order to block her daughter's growing ambition. Vic was trained to become Raba, but only women are permitted by tradition to rule. Vic refused the magic that would have changed his body to a woman's. He became an ascetic priest and disappeared into the desert, returning only recently.

The Raba Uz'jef - Head of the house of Uz, Masta Ua's main rival. Mother of Qi. Her royal garden is the most beautiful in the nation.

Comments

[pyraxis]

Really? :D It was kind of frustrating to do, so I never went much further with it than this drawing. I was trying to learn from a lot of professional examples I saw in college that seemed effortless, but it was much harder than it looked. Maybe I should play with it more, it seems like it would be good to have a variety of styles. Like if I could get so I could do it quickly, so I could illustrate concepts fast when that was needed.

[tigerweave]

Yeah it is very evocative, in a way that your coloured work isn't necessarily.
I think it is the simplicity of it. Like you can evoke a few things really effectively with the cartoony stuff. The coloured stuff is rich and intimate and draws you in to explore.

I/Imoh prefer black and white drawing myself, so I could be biased as to preferring your cartoons :-P Not that your coloured stuff is too shabby, mind...

:-)

[pyraxis]

Oh interesting....

I'm supposed to be doing some black and white illustrations for Wolf, but I haven't found any inspiration for them at all. He wanted me to do cartoon versions of a couple characters, but the results were, ugh. I need practice.

[tigerweave]

Lol I read that and think "Yeah no wonder you aren't inspired. You seem to be so much more about the colour as well as basic form."

Try them in colour? Have you ever done colour cartoons?

We've barely ever done cartoons. Closest we came was when Indigo Elf drew the rat-monster story that so closely paralleled the owl and the pussycat LOL!

She did it really well though, we were surprised, considering we'd never done anything like it. Well we thought she did it well, at anyrate!

[pyraxis]

She drew a rat-monster story? :D

I don't know the story of the Owl and Pussycat except that they went somewhere in a boat. So it would even be a new story.

Oh wait, I remember a long time ago one of you drawing a cartoon of an owl and a pussycat in a boat, and it came out quite good. Is it connected to that?

I would like to see it sometime if she wasn't too shy.