Nyx

Photoshop CS3: 30ish hours

So, one of the the things I've been up to for the past year has been The Prime of Ambition Redux. Mostly, that's going back through and retexting old pages and coloring unfinished ones, but for a few pages I've completely re-conceptualized and am doing them over.

This here is one of the latter pages. It's what used to be this:


Now it's a 2-page spread, seeing as all the text on the first go is cramped and illegible. Some of the text is getting cut, too. My buddy Sam had suggested that I kill the bit about the other kinds of drow in the first place because, seriously? not important right now. I was too pig-headed about fleshing out my world setting to listen and only much later realized the wisdom of his suggestion.

I also completely changed my mind about portraying Nyx, as you can see. Initially, I wasn't showing her because Audriel, the narrator, has never seen her, so how would he know what she looks like? Well, that's a dumb reason not to have a representation of a major power figure integral to the main plot line at their introduction, now isn't it?

So, the new page still has no literal representation of Nyx. As you can see, I went with a more larger-than-life force of darkness to represent the Sh'bera Queen. I think this will work much better.