Tides!

It’s hard to swim with one arm, that much I’ll admit. Harder still when you’re fully-clothed and you’re carrying a bow and arrow and a bedroll. So even if you know how to swim, the odds are certainly against you. I think this sort of thing might make it impossible to build our Western Deep-themed theme park without requiring everyone to sign a pretty extensive waiver up front. I know people sign those things without really reading them, but I’m pretty sure warning text like “YOU WILL NOT HOLD OUR PARK RESPONSIBLE IF YOU OR ANY MEMBER OF YOUR PARTY DROWNS IN OUR DELTRADA ESCAPE ATTRACTION.” That wouldn’t go over well.

Let me tell you what DOES go over well: every other attraction at this fictitious theme park. You’ll have a flume ride inspired by a sea battle between polcan and lutren, a spinny twirly roller coaster called “The Treewalker”, and of course you can take a break in the Land’s End restaurant which lets you pick between pasta, a vegetable medley, bread and soup, or cedar plank salmon. There is literally nothing else on the menu.

For guest art today, an absolutely wonderful piece by Salmon Party newcomer Neil Schultz, who just discovered Western Deep and gifted us with a very cool realistic rendering of Quinlan! Check it out:

This piece actually reminds me a lot of the piece that David Petersen (of Mouse Guard fame) did for us of Quinlan and Dakkan for the original hardcover of Volume 1. I particularly love the detail on the fur! I believe it was Shakespeare who first coined the immortal phrase: “IT’S SO FLUFFY!”

To add to the awesomeness, Neil put together a Let’s Draw video of the whole drawing process, so do check it out below!