The Adventures of Cain & Yurk: Page 02
They’re pretty high up! Nessa’s building’s aren’t actually that tall compared to, say, the trees of Terria or the architectural marvels of Gair (the Spire being the tallest structure ever built in the Four Kingdoms) — but relative height doesn’t mean much when you get up there yourself. Even if Cain and Yurk are in a relatively low place in the Four Kingdoms, it’s more than tall enough to make even a light acrophobe like Cain a little nervous.
The overall concept of Cain and Yurk ascending a tall structure was actually inspired by Jerome’s own personal hobbies — most prominently is his love of parkour, which he regularly practices with PKPH (Parkour Philippines). As a bit of an homage to that, Cain and Yurk are thrill-seekers of sorts, which has the convenient side effect of letting us put them in all sorts of crazy situations!
This week, some follow-up guest art from jerijune featuring Cain and Yurk! First up, a little Pulp Fiction-inspired badassery!
Cain and Yurk aren’t quite as cold-blooded as Vincent and Jules (and also aren’t assassins!), but they do make quite the striking pair either way! To follow this up, Jerijune sent a full sketchpage inspired by Jerome’s from last week depicting all sorts of fun scenes!
While I love everything here, I particularly love that top-left imagine with Cain and Yurk being super chill bros while Hardin (or is that Bevan?) facepalms in the background, clearly questioning his life choices.
Thank you SO MUCH for sending all these amazing sketches, Jerijune! We love them all — you’ve totally captured the silly bro power of Cain and Yurk :)
Good page! I like the rapport between these two.
We need a horribly, horribly cheesy theme song!
They are best pals,
They get all the gals.
One is a dog,
The other is not.
One’s kinda shy,
The other’s quite fly.
Across buildings stage races,
And break many vases.
Instead of taking the blame,
They find someone to frame.
One has tatoos, can’t get jobs
So with his pals he robs.
Their behaviour is quite indecent,
Please, no more criminal intent!
For each one that you sieze,
I’ll pay you 100 crowns a-piece.
And now, for no reason,
I will say “shuriken”.
These are the adventures,
Of Yurk and Cain!
“You can’t see anything at night”
“Cause it’s dark”
XD
WHOA Whoa whoa!….Jerome parkours!? That’s…extremely interesting. Unfortunately I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with high altitudes. Despite my enjoyment of overlooking landscapes from tall buildings, my body/mind gets nervously queasy from it. What irony…
Anyway jerijune’s ideas of Cain and Yurk just BEGS for them to be expanded. I wouldn’t mind if spontaneously another side-story was made in a modern BWD take with Cain and Yurk as a dynamic duo causing trouble in Nevran with cars, guns, explosions, nefarious villians, soul music, catchy (yet terrible) one-liners and exploitable zanny dialogue that will have Saraa constantly busy creating numerous gifs that will further help spread BWD/SotES love. *hint* *hint* *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
Cue a whole chapter of our four-person SOTES team walking around following their plot line, eternally oblivious to Cain and Yurk shenanigans constantly happening in the background.
Would that not be a great running gag?
Let’s hope for that to happen in some way or another!
Personally, I as a photographer, for beautiful view I have to overcome fear and enter the some Towers XD ;) So sometimes I’m afraid, but the beautiful views and photos they reward this fear ^^; :)
I don’t like the bottom left panel. The platform which Yurk is jumping to lacks the visual cues that it is below the opening, and combined with Yurk’s pose makes it look like he’s jumping across not downwards, leaving him floating awkwardly pasted on in the picture.
Also, in the final panel having Cain open mouthed looks strange, when a tight-lipped expression would fit the frustration he’s feeling better.
Hmmm. Thanks for pointing those out. For the bottom left panel, he is actually jumping across, not downwards. Can you elaborate more on “The platform which Yurk is jumping to lacks the visual cues that it is below the opening”?
For the last panel, I felt having his mouth agape was necessary because, according to the script, he was saying that while panting from exhaustion.
Cheers!
Sure! The inside of the building is uniform shade of lighting without landmarks, making it impossible to gauge the the relation of the platform to the opening, much like it is difficult to estimate the size of an object high on a clear sky. I assumed Yurk is jumping down simply because that’s what’s depicted in the sketch.
Even the master happen to slip in drawing, Tronn ;) – we are just miserable dust -we the people – and sometimes make mistakes ;)
At the beginning I wnat very sorry for all of you that I was not able to attend on a regular basis in Salmon Party :p ; because of the failed computer and a lot of work ^^; …
So after that, I really like today’s page, very well drawn; personally, I like this type of type of drawing and shading ^^ :) Very Good job Jerome :D ^^ and I hope that it does not fall from this tower, heh ^^;
And so after that, what can I say – I really love too, today’s guestart, really it make me laught XD ; I liked particularly the challenge to a duel, and “there are no guns XD Lol XD – and Selfie of course XD (I like how sometimes today’s our habit to penetrate into some of the work XD) ^^ Really nice graphics and page ^^
this reminds me of that part in Assassin’s Creed II where Ezio and his brother have a little parkour race to the top of a tower in Florence. I have a feeling this short would end with Cain and Yurk looking at the city from the top of the tower, as the camera pans out and shows the title, with a landscape of Nessa in the background…
kind of like here –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EoOojQkwOw
I forgot to specify back there that the title would be “Song of the Eastern Sands” rather than “The Misadventures of Cain and Yurk”
Your drawings are very coolawesome, you are very good at it.
Maybe it’s just my browser, but for me the main comic page (not the rest of the site page like bonus art or comments) seems oddly distorted and elongated, making the characters and background look off-kilter. Is anyone else seeing it that way, is it supposed to look that way, or is it just me and my ancient Mac?
And wouldn’t you know it, the proportions fixed themselves as soon as I posted the above comment – except that now the comic page is so huge horizontally that I have to scroll side-to-side to see it all. Interesting …
The size of the page image was a bit larger than usual — I resized it down to the usual 780×780. Refresh and see if that helps!
It does. Mightily! Thankee muchly, Mr. Squirrel Man!
Mr. Squirrel Man is now henceforth Alex’s new name
Somewhere in Dunia there is a Tamian with the unlikely name of Alex who just so happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to our protagonist Quinlan.
I aprove Fruity’s notion whole-heartedly!
I hope that Mr. Alex don’t be offended, but sometimes I call Alex and Quinllan in Polish language just “Wiewiórka” (Squirrel=Wiewiórka) ^^;
I like it! Structural integrity! Perspective! Much better!
So is SOTES going to be in black-and-white shading like this, or will it be colored?
I’ll enjoy it either way, I’m just curious.
It will be in full color :)
(Happy birthday, Rachel!)
More happy birthday wishes, Rachel!
Oh! Well best wishes to you, Rachel! Happy Birthday. :)
Of my good – I forget say on DA yesterday for Mrs Rachel – HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D ^^ :)
“MRS Rachel?” Didn’t realize she was married. So I guess double-congrats are in order! Happy birthday, Rach, and congratulations on your surprise nuptials as well! You shouldn’t keep stuff like this from us! ;-)
These two play off each other pretty well. Yeah, going by the buildings in the back ground they’re a good five or six stories off the ground. Wonder if they can see the antics of Beck, Rook and co from up there. Ha, poor Cain- I’m sure that Canid soldiers up north frequently scale walls and other tall structures in the name of training. Does this make Cain a yellow paw?