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Hi #PortfolioDay
I'm Quel! I'm a full time freelance illustrator that specializes in 2D stylized characters & environments for games & books.
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📧quelfabulousart@gmail.com
The most important part about Drums of Atelaer are that all chickens are blue, and in this world, nobody would exist without their delicious bounty.
Francis has a sister. She's a bear-riding lesbian with axes being her weapon of choice. She is smart, fierce, and will stop at nothing to end this war.
Did I mention we love RPGs? While Nox and I are currently working on the novel and visual development, we have future plans of developing a possible tabletop system.
Folks in our discord community have already begun making really cool DoA original characters.
I'm in the process of updating these like I did with the Empire- but here's the first rendition of the Rebellion & Republic battle classes.
The Rebellion is damage heavy while the Republic excels in defense.
So therein lies our current conflict. And at the beginning of our novel, it is 4 years into the war when we meet Subaltern Adrian Soleil, an Emperor's Alchemist in Her Majesty's Royal Army.
This is his concept art to date, with some hints at his plot development.
So in response, the Republic immediately cut off and forbade the Empire access to exporting any more Adamas- and even attempted exile in some towns.
This was understandably not agreeable to the Empire, and they declared war.
Adrian Soleil, whom we first follow the perspective of, leads the story as a nonbinary person. It has been nothing short of a delight to design clothing he experiences gender euphoria for with fancy 18th century frills to play with.
The representation of queer identities is hugely important to us both. We wanted a world that has 99 problems but gender & identity were never one of them, no matter the culture in question.
We've had so much fun developing inclusive family structures within our world.
While Napoleonic War era continued to inspire the aesthetic, it was important for us to tell a story that did not glorify colonialism.
We wanted a story about a struggle for resources, its impact on climate & justice.