The Abyssal Dunes: Page 06
Cain doesn’t look too thrilled about his predicament, probably because nobody ever fell down a dark and scary pit into the bowels of an abandoned city in the middle of the desert and found anything wholesome down there. He’s very likely hoping that this city they’ve delved into was abandoned because they had way too many soft mattresses and had to leave because there were just too dang many soft mattresses and the vulpin ran out of room for citizens.
I can assure you that is not the direction this specific story is taking.
Not much else to report on the Western Deep front–other than that we’re continuing to prep for San Diego Comic Con which is like, two and a half weeks.
Holy smokes, that’s not too far away, is it? Well, this is going to be my first trip EVER to SDCC, and also our first convention since I moved out to the west coast (it’s been almost three years)! Rachel and I are excited to share Western Deep with fans new and old alike, and to see what awesome new projects other artists are working on.
Speaking of awesome projects that other artists are working on, you might be aware of the incredibly sad news that the in-development Mouse Guard movie was cancelled by Disney. Wes Ball, the director of the film, offered an unprecedented look at its development through a series of (now removed) videos, in addition to several of the film’s concept artists sharing their work with the public. Instead of guest art this week, I’ll share a few pieces of this amazing work for a film that we unfortunately will likely not see come to fruition.
David Petersen, creator of Mouse Guard, is a good friend of mine and I was devastated to see such a promising adaption of his wonderful world be shut down. If you haven’t checked out his Mouse Guard series of books (Fall 1152, Winter 1152, The Black Axe, Legends of the Guard, and Baldwin the Brave & Other Tales), I highly recommend giving them a look. They are gorgeous, award-winning stories that fan of Western Deep would very likely enjoy.
Sadly not all the concept artists seem to be publicly credited, but Derek Zabrocki is one of the artists sharing work. You can check out his Twitter by following this link here.
You can also check out David’s wonderful Mouse Guard world by heading to this link here, or by checking out David’s Twitter account here.
See you all next week!
Oh geez, Cain’s not happy indeed. Hopefully there’s a nice and cushy pile of bones for him to land on and an Indiana Jones-tier path for Yurk to go through to be reunited with his bro.
Also, bah, Mouse Guard is too good for Disney. That old mouse house doesn’t know a good thing when it sees it nowadays and will squander it when it does.
I’ve never heard of Mouse Guard but it sucks that’s it been cancelled. I would have loved to see it.
WUH OH. That is BAD. Still wondering where Yurk is, but if Cain dies, then Alex and Jerome will just have to shut the story down, cause you just can’t have Cain and Yurk without Cain. Also, Cain’s expression in the 3rd panel is absolutely terrifying. Also again, Cain, I don’t think doing the starfish is going to slow you down…
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Aw man, my punctuation art got messed up! I assure you it WAS much better.
:( anyway, if you can’t tell what it is, it’s supposed to be Cain falling.
SPLAT. (I love that sound.)
What if I added three letters on and made ‘splatter’?
This art style reminds me of https://youtu.be/Q14pVTr1SxQ
As a fellow Canid, I can confirm we do indeed say ‘wuh oh’ before you fall down a pit.
WILHELM!
The scream of legend.
Cool guest art. Seems like something out of the Lord of The Rings, but, you know, with animals. Also tronn, I will be changing to your cleaned up version of my profile pic. I just haven’t figured out how to change it yet…
If you go back to your Gravatar account page, you should be able to change your profile picture if you’ve saved it as a file. Takes a few hours to come into effect but it worked for me.
Tronn really be out here correcting all our profile pictures.
Either Cain’s much heavier than he looks or OSHA hasn’t been out to review the place in too too long!;)
Are the discord server still open?
I want to join