New readers: A lone wolf, a hunter, and a woman with a red riding hood cross paths. Start your journey into their strange world here.

Other news: I will be somewhere in the artist alley of A-kon in Dallas Texas at the beginning of June. I will be giving away free bookmarks. yay

New readers: A lone wolf, a hunter, and a woman with a red riding hood cross paths. Start your journey into their strange world here.

Other news: Barring any family stuff, will be at A-kon in Dallas Texas at the beginning of June. Yes, free bookmarks to give away (finally got them done professionally) and will be glad to doodle things (in your sketchbook) for those of you who identify yourself as a reader. (I will quiz you *_*.)

And in other good news, the serial “Memory of AUSOS” is restarting this week. Time to go catch up on the old stuff via the button on the right :3

New readers: A lone wolf, a hunter, and a woman with a red riding hood cross paths. Start your journey into their strange world here.

Back from Japan! Got sick on the way back and was down for the count for almost a week, but started to feel human enough to put an update together over the weekend. Bless Green Tea KitKat and Korean BBQ for the extra juice power. For those of you who can’t get enough of my scintillating wit, check out the first half of the pictures I posted for Japan over yonder.

Continuing Readers: While we’re on break until May (last week I hope),  catch up if you can!

And on to a sneak peek.

The Wild Swans is a story that features a young princess born into a family with six brothers. (In some accounts this is eleven brothers.)

Like many fairy tales, the path of the heroine is difficult. When her mother passes and her father takes a new wife, she sees all seven children as obstacles to her own power and plots to be rid of them..

The six sons are cursed to transform into swans, only to change back at nightfall.

The daughter is also forced to leave and is eventually reconciled with her brothers, but to free them from the curse, she is given a task to craft shirts made from nettles that she must throw over them in their bird form. Until she finishes that last shirt, she is not allowed to speak.

The quest alone is hard enough as is, and then comes a silly King along the way to complicate matters as well as a prejudiced cleric who is convinced that the princess is a witch and well… read the rest to find out.

In crafting the characters, I thought about a few things.  The Swan Queen and her six courtiers are inspired by and perhaps have a connection to the tale itself, but how that is so is not meant to be clear until she herself begins to unravel her own story to the Count somewhere within Book Two of the current “Tales of the Big Bad Wolf” series.

These six courtiers are alive at the time of the telling of our current serial featuring Elanore as Red Riding Hood and not at the time of the short story “Unicorns Walk Among Us”, which is set quite far back, almost 1000 years according to the “dates” ascribed to the author’s narrative in the short story.

Therefore the inspirations for the designs of the six courtiers were not swans at all, but other creatures.
Can you guess what they are?  And can you tell which one was frustrating me the most?

Enjoy.  Hope that work on this book can begin in earnest early next year

Continuing Readers: While we’re on break until the end of this month, catch up.

For those who are caught up, this week you will be able to read the second installment and the notes on context and how this story fits in with the general canon behind the Red Riding Hood serial.

If you missed last week’s update start here.  For Part 2, go here!

Continuing Readers: While we’re on break until the end of this month, catch up.

For those who are caught up, this week you will be able to read the prologue and the first installment, followed on 4.23 by the second installment and notes on context and how this story fits in with the general canon behind the Red Riding Hood serial.

Some of you will recall that this was the original story in the twisted fairy tale fantasy universe. As such there is quite a bit of artwork that now will have more context. Enjoy, look forward to reading the comments when I return.

Start here.

Continuing Readers:  What lurks in the woods?  (And for those who may be  trying to think through the lay of the land, don’t forget the map under “The World.”)

The Missing Authors:
Now those of you who have been here from the beginning know that TE Waters was running her serial alongside this one. A novel ate her up and consumed her like a badass blob.   But I’m glad to say that she emerged from the black gloom with “The Ghost Tiger’s Lament,” the first part of her Spring and Autumn Pentology . See more info at http://www.tewaters.com/spring-and-autumn/book-i

Next week either will be a conclusion to this chapter or the start of sneak peeks at “The Sleeping Prince” (novella?) and concepts for new characters in Book 2.  I have much to do either way before the epic trip, but please do not fret, there will be stuff to look each week while I pause the story. I’ll probably tweet or FB something Friday night, so if you’re that anxious to know, you can stalk those accounts then

New readers: This is the story of a lone wolf, a hunter, and a woman who wears the red riding hood. Start your journey here.  All your questions about this serial and the meaning of life can be answered under Extras!

Randoms stuffs:   Seriously whacked Ilva chibi art here !

Please note that I will be taking an epic trip in April that means I will be unable to post story updates on the 23rd and 30th. (At this time I do plan to schedule an installment to go up on the 16th.)  That said I would like to try to leave you with something of a present every week while I am gone and want some feedback to define what that might be. The list –

• A rough working draft of the opening sections of The Sleeping Prince, a related series that occurs PRIOR to the events of the current serial.
• Concept art for several of the next book’s characters
• An excerpt of a Q&A with Wolfram and Edmund in which several members of the Creative Wenches “interviewed” the characters. (I did this as part of my exploration of the two characters but it may be somewhat spoilery.)
• Answers to your questions (in which case, leave a LAUNDRY LIST BELOW)

New readers: This is the story of a lone wolf, a hunter, and a woman who wears the red riding hood. Start your journey here.  All your questions about this serial can be answered under Extras!

As for last week’s set of sketch cards, congrats to Shaharw! You three ladies send me your postal address (via email) please as you all will get some fun stuff .

Continuing Readers:    As I said last week, no update this week due to the convention prep and assorted stressing out xD.

My consolation gift to you is a chance at a set of colored sketch cards featuring FOUR characters. I will do a raffle until next week’s posting.

To enter:  Write a comment below naming all four characters. Tell me your favorite and why.

To get a second entry: Reblog/retweet/retumble/relink this post AND either link or screencap that effort. You can drop it in email if it’s easiest or add to your original comment here.

Names will be written up on a slip of paper and shoved into my magical “Once Upon a Time” tin box , shaken mightily, and then one will be drawn next Monday night .

For those who don’t win this time around, your names will be autoentered into a second chance drawing in a few weeks (after I finish the pencil sketch that I had started while at Momocon).

Next Monday I will be back  with Elanore’s response to Edmund xD