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Project Aurel: Old Sketches

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Here are some really old concept sketches from 3-4 years ago, for "Project Aurel".

I'm posting this in the hopes that I can force myself to finally work on and post the actual comic eventually. 4 years is a long time to be keeping something on the back burner. And damn, I really need to revamp all the characters. XD

Here's a little commentary on what you're seeing to help make some sense of it all.

1: Old model sheet of Aurel, the main character. The only thing I'm keeping here is the fact about his wingspan. The name of his race is yet to be decided at this point, but there are 3 different clans of his kind: ones with white wings (what he is), ones with red wings, and ones with black wings.

2: A slightly better version of the previous Aurel drawing, though I have to hold myself back from loling at it because of the horrid proportions. The profile face isn't so bad though. :3

3: The only concept I had started of Angelo Veratus, the master of Libretto and apprentice of the legendary most powerful wizard of wizards. He's not going to look anything like this when I redesign him, save for the glasses he has.

4: Random drawings of Libretto Veratus, the living mannequin that Angelo created to become his apprentice. Don't mind the one of him that looks like a child, Libretto always looked like an adolescent since his creation and doesn't age.

5: ...(wow I can't count XD)

6: Sketches of Libretto in two outfits of his, all spoilers aside.

7: Libretto riding on top of Aurel's head. One ability that all living mannequins possess is the ability to shrink down into a doll-like form. (Aurel just looks chibi here, he can't turn into a doll XD)

8: Aurel taking flight.

9: Another master wizard called Enlus. He is known among the wizard community as a specialist in transmogrification. While a wizard is trained to detect when someone or something has been enchanted or bespelled, it is near impossible to tell Enlus apart from anything he transforms into (unless he makes it obvious, of course). His house is hidden deep in a lake where no one can find him, and often transforms into a merman to start rumors and stories about his lake.

10: Some unused design for a creature that Aurel's race supposedly decended from. I scrapped the idea.

11: Some warriors from the clan of red-winged people that Aurel meets. None of them have names, but they were going to be re-occurring characters for sure. Aurel has a bit of rivalry with the boy there.

12: Aurel flying with the red-winged boy. (omgfailposesXD)

13: An attempt at mock cover art or something. None of the characters other than Aurel and Libretto exist. I was just filling space with people. XD

*EDIT* Here's a link to a colored pic of old-school Aurel, from my old account: [link]

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DragonRayne-kun's avatar
This is really fantastic, I absolutely adore the ideas and concepts here, especially the way Aurel and those wings look. I think the mock cover and Aurel taking flight are my favorite pics though, even though the cover has mostly nonexistent characters. XD
Revamping is gonna be such loads of fun for you though, isn't it? 8D