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Emeral reference

L: I never thought I would do it, but I did. I got a task to draw Emeral from the back view, and I realised that I have no idea how her outfit is designed! It's a problem of all old sprites in the game (Serban and Brilla as well), but I'm going to fix it. My idea with dummies was nice, but absolutely useless and not informative, though it helped me to understand Juny's clothes.

So, let's get back to Emeral. I removed all unnecessary details such as pattern on pockets and keep the whole color s...

Black Pilgrim: playful

G: I did it, another one art from this seria! Yay! He is not sleeping on this one, but anyway, I'm glad I can draw one of our most fav characters again. Lansu will be next, I swear xD 

Here is the Pilgrim playing with blue monarches. I think he really likes to play with butterflies when he has a good mood.

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It can be hard to draw your own old characters, that's what I can say from my last experience, but it also helps to improve their design. 

The boathouse - WIP III

FINALLY
ALMOST
THERE

A large amount of the details is making this scene really hard to draw. But without them the background looks empty, so I better spend some extra time on this. 

Roui head concept

L: We bought a Rick And Morty artbook and I inspired by detailed work on characters. Really, I had no idea that even simple characters needs so much clarification and conception! It's so much important for animation, yeah...

So, inspired by all of this, I did this small list of Roui's head details. Most of the time his head is all you can see in the game, so it was the reason I did so much mistakes at the beginning - I added too much details (stripes, curles, EARRINGS), so it ruined the whole ...

The boathouse - WIP II

G: Still working. We never draw bgs so fast xD 

The boathouse - WIP

ALL THE SMOL DETAILS

The boat station - work in progress

G: Working on the two last bg's from the game, feels good to know this is almost done! 

A small reminder

G: I don't remember if we talked about it here or not, but all the The Mystics will get their copy of the Crown Of Leaves game for free, when it will be released on Steam.

Just letting you know ;)

Teeth and stuff

L: Some teeth, matree and weird three-headed bird.

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The boathouse

L: SOMEBODY PLEASE STOP US

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Okay. There we have two LAST backgrounds. LAST, I SWEAR. 

These are for Alek and his weird installation... or not his? 

More finished items

L: Old sweater, dead cat and whistle. Wow, such useful things! 

Also, we changed poison to strawberry syrup. 

Artificial languages in tCOL

What do you think about artificial languages? Would you like to see it in the Crown of Leaves?
We are not linguists and can't make it with all grammar and rules, but some characters could use different words of artificial language in their speech.
For now, there are the old-parba language, used by everyone except Roui, and the speech of sacred names (used by tsourai). Both had their own filler words.  For example, parba uses their own equivalent of "You know?" - "Val-vale?", and tsou...

The game news

L: We finished all texts and almost all art of the first chapter. It still needs a translate, but Natalie and Lime are working on it! Probably we'll cut some additional dialogues with fan-characters to make the work process faster, so we'll add it a bit later (it's finished as well, but the most of them still untranslated, and I won't give Nat and Lime too much work). Stay tuned!

Marestail

L: I found an old sketch in my note and Grimm asked me to finish it. Marestail seems so angry here! What could piss him off?

Sualokin - the Handsome Edition (2)

G: Speaking of this xD Here we go.

Sualokin - the Handsome Edition

G: I found this old sketch Lins did a few months ago, I thought - wow this look just like Holo!Jack so I finished it xD 

Nourian sketches

L: Okay, I think everybody wants to look at canonical Laslo and Mermey, am I right? Laslo is a dentist, as you already know, and Mermey is a Nourian aristocrat, Roui's patron and suffragette. 

(it's not Laslo sprites, don't even think about it)

Watch him sleeping

G: I want to draw a seria of sleeping Black Pilgrim and Lansu, just because I really love to see these guys in cat-like poses xD 

The Dark Room (WIP)

Can't say more!

Walking with Lazy [gif]

L: We thought about scene with Lazy when she and Roui are walking in the forest and chatting. It has no dynamic with usual sprites - they were just sticking to the background and doing nothing. So we found a simple solution with a seamplessly moving background and tiny animation of Lazy's hair and ear... and it saved us. 

She also has a few additional emotions to react on Roui's words.

El-balyamian Giant Bugs - vol. 1

Here we go! People from Discord asked us to draw this and we did.

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Sualokin (concept)

This art is showing the anatomy/proportions/the form of the wings of Sualokin in general, so we are using this guy as our ref for this tsourai 'species'.

Shang-La channel

Don't foget we have a nice and cosy chatroom in Discord, where you can ask us question about Shang-La, Crown and other lore-related stuff.

Here is the link to it: https://discord.gg/W3sfuJ

The party 4 [WIPs]

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L: Sorry, guys, I'm suck at descriptions today xD This art is already finished and I'm exhausted.

The Party arts [WIPs]

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L: Actually these arts are done already, but shhhh

Matree concepts

L: Last days we were thinking about matree alot. As you already know, Grimm love the Ancient Egypt, so we used it as a base for El-Balyama, but we had no idea how to make it more authentic. We tried to blend it with Moderne or Art-Nouveau, though it doesn't make any sense (stylisticly it's just a tautology). 

Surprisingly, but we were inspired by the Dark Tower world and Mad Max's setting (because we're reading the last book from DT cycle and playing Mad Max at the same time). 

Karkadann

Here we go with the very real unicorn! 

Okay, being serious, this is an actual concept of the Karkadann. The real one. We all know Roui is sceptical about so called 'mythical creatues' of Latori, so he doesn't believe in Karkaddan or Glashtin, but it doesn't change the fact these guys... exist. 

And there is a big chance Roui will meet them. Seems he will be surprised...

Bo

Just a fullbody of him to show the pattern on his tail and his colors <3 We really love this guy.