Some new work in progress, decided to draw a bit about the world that I write about often with my characters on City of Heroes. The ruins of Pellea. #CoSoArt #CoSoGaming
I'll probably scan and fill in the textures and colors more on my computer later. Always nice to revisit works to refresh it with more detail.
I have noticed I've gotten better with defining structures even with a little guidance in straight lines. I may focus on this more in my future works.
My goal? To draw one of the tirikan palaces and some of the landscape of their home world pre-war era. It'll take a lot of time and effort, cause I need to find a way to keep the graphite from smearing while working on different sections of the sketch, but it would be nice to be able to give a clear picture of what their home used to look like before the wars ravaged their home world.
My reason for that? Well, I have a book I wish to write and put into print some day, and with that I'd like to include my own depictions of the characters, the elements of their existence, their experiences, and their world and it's lengthy history in a visual format along with the written word. The tirikan are something of a brain child of mine, an original created species with an entire universe that meshes well with pretty much any era or setting.
Do the tirikan have a language or languages of their own?
@DavidSalo Yes, they have a mash of a language that derives from a distant form of ancient dragon tongue. They are considered the children of the dragons but quite distant in relative to their family tree in history.
@DavidSalo It most closely resembles Tamil in regards to how it is written and structures to the english language in translations.
@DavidSalo But there is a in-born form of language between them as a species that's closely inspired by whale pods of our world and reality. They are able to "sing" from their spirit or soul, to one another and can muffle or ignore it and change the range of which clan, family or individual tirikan they are communicating with for direct contact, but it sends terabytes of information, data, emotions, thoughts, even visuals if the receiver if focused on the "sending".
@DavidSalo For a human to pick up on that "sending" it would sound like a specific instrument but they would not be able to fully understand what they are mentally hearing, so it would only translate to something like a foreign song, you can understand the music, but not the meaning behind it.
@DavidSalo Over the centuries they adopted some language of the drow, and dwarves to fill in the gap on some words that didn't translate well into their own language, so tirikanese is a very rough language with archaic roots and has a difficult time making sense of more modern terminology.