Here's a coloured sketch of Nasheen River-Squeakflute, one of m goblin characters from a story. I finished drawing it some days ago, but forgot to share it. I like Nasheen, she's funny and kind-hearted.
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🙂 There's almost finished image of Elowren and a scroll. I drew it yesterday evening. It took some time/effort, but I'm mostly happy with the result, but still not 100%, so I guess I'll ask for advice in tomorrows drawing class.
I'm trying as new drawing style... I saw my tiny patamon plushie and thought I could try such eyes on my figures...the first victims of suffering this experiment were Elowren and Merbril from my #wolfmark story. You don't see much of it unfortunately as the drawing/sketch is quiet small only the shape of the eyes are a bit different what I usually draw. I guess if I go to make digital outline you get a better picture (pun intended 😆 ).
Yesterday I did world-building - on large scale. My #wolfmark story is set in the age of poetry, so while I didn't exactly work on that, I fleshed out the background setting more.
I used yEd for doing so, after trying various other software such as wavemaker.uk. or world anvil. Wavemaker was good, but the exporting of written things not easy - gets me a huge json file. And worldanvil was to un-intuitive for my taste.
Things aren't set in stone yet, regarding the ages and events, but it is a brief outline at least.
Word: Night
The longest night in the wolfmarches is a festival.
Here's the text for these who want or need alt-text.
Winter Festival
The winter festival in Wolfmark is held around the midwinter, and reaches its climax on the longest night in the Wolfmarches, in the lighting of the bonfires.
Preparations usually begin alongside the general preparations for winter, extra wood and food are stored away for the festivities. Clothes are mended, and small gifts prepared for friends and family. Gifts are handed over once the fires are lit, presented in little cloth or leather bags, neatly decorated with woven ribbons. Often the decoration and artful stitching takes more time and dedication than the creation of the gift inside. Common gifts are sweets, fruits, and good-luck charms for the new year.
The celebration begins the day before midwinter, when people gather to decorate their village with ribbons and fir tree branches. In the evening people gather for drinking, feasting and storytelling. At night the fires are lit and presents are exchanged. The fires are kept burning for two days.
The original tradition of the festival comes from the goblins native to the Wolfmarches. The goblin tribes have a tradition named Public Praising by the humans. They honour the deeds of one another and celebrate them. The humans adopted this tradition albeit a bit differently, they too praise their fellow humans, but since they are not as open about their feelings like goblins, this can lead to silent resentment or feeling of being treated unfair and unseen. A saying is:"There are many quarrels after the bonfire's last night, but the wind carries the ashes away." meaning that by Public Praising and also fuelled by the alcohol drunk, there are many arguments, sometimes even brawls among the humans. Still, everyone usually wishes to start into the new year without holding a grudge, thus reconciliation is common as well.
On the second day it is the time of the storytellers to shine and tell many a tale about the Wolfmarches, the recent events or funny fairy tales. For an unknown reason it is believed that telling fairy tales or tales with a fairy inside at noon is bad luck, so people tell these early in the morning when the children are awake or they share the more cautious or gruesome tales about the fairy folk late at night, once the children are asleep.
On this day people begin slowly to tidy up, the fires are left to burn low, but each person lights a torch on candle and takes it home to light their hearth. Guests who will travel home on this day are presented with a candle lit at the fire, or a pot with still-glowing ash to carry the shine and warmth to their homes.
By evening only the fir-tree branches decorated with ribbons remain, they are left hanging until the first melting of the snow, the beginning of spring, as a reminder of the warm and bright fires to carry the people through the harsh winter nights ahead.
Thanks for reading! If you spotted a grammar or spelling error, please tell me so I can improve my English! 🙏
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