Drawing of the main character, Galen, striking a pose. Comes a bit later on in the comic, obviously... This drawing was done to both create a promo image and to work out a fast way to paint backgrounds that looked decent.

A sketch I did that got wildly out of control. :-P

I wasn't sure if I wanted to include model sheets, but I figure, what the hell... This is Galen's bow, his quiver, and his thumb ring. Longbows are so common in fantasy fiction that I wanted something a bit different, so I went for a Magyar inspired recurve composite bow, drawn with the thumb, a Mongolian draw, rather than the more common three finger Mediteranian draw. Hence the thumb ring, and why the arrow is on the right side of the bow. You can see the very rough sketches that led up to this down in the sketches section.

Sketch of a girl. I know who she is, but not going to say just yet, but I liked the drawing.

Sketches designing a hood/cloak for Galen. elves in general, really. Those damn ears...

Brom posing all beefcake like. I actually started doing this as a finished drawing, but never got around to finishing... should do that.

Sketches of Galen's bow. Longbows are so common in fantasy fiction that I wanted something a bit different, so I went for a Magyar inspired recurve bow, drawn with the thumb rather than the more common three finger Mediteranian draw. Hence the thumb ring.

Assorted sketches, I liked the guy in the top corner. He will be a guard in the beginning of the story.

Sketches to work out helmets, armor, and a dress jacket... and a random full body shot, trying to get as 'race horse' as possible. Proportions are a bit wonky though, will fix in the nice version.

A sketch I did that got wildly out of control. :-P this is Brom's cousin, Jóarr. He's a splash overo pinto, and the white extends to his arms/head.

Rough drawings of Brom. He's a pretty difficult chracter to draw and keep on-model...

Rough drawings of gaits... trying to figure out what the hell the arms and torso would be doing while doing some basic horse gaits. Click the toolbar above to expand, it's an extremely tall picture.

Rough concept sketches of Marie.

Lineup for body type and height comparison purposes of several of the major characters.

Semirough sketches of Galen, working out the final proportions of his face.

Rough sketches of Galen, working out a few expressions.

Rough drawings of the two main characters, Galen and Brom, trying to work out some of the more unusual poses and anatomy.... They will be clothed in the comic (sorry ladies) but it's easier to work out this sort of stuff with no clothes.

Drawing of Galen to work out the pattern of his butt-spots. :-P

Rough clothing designs of the two main characters, Galen and Brom.

Very old character concept for Galen, back when his name was Aetius. Most things remain fairly similar, but it's been refined quite a bit since then.

The VERY FIRST drawing of Galen, after I had a series of dreams (which bear little resemblence to the current story in most respects) with him and Brom as characters, which was unusual since my dreams are usually you know, about me, and centaurs had never really interested me. As you can see I didn't have a CLUE how to draw horses hooves at this point. The horse anatomy is, frankly, laughable. But you can see he's had that odd woven leather armor from day one, pretty much unchanged. The only things that really changed significantly are that he got socks on his back feet, and his ears got MUCH bigger. Everything else was so solid in my mind (for Brom as well, though i didn't draw him until later) that the design has drifted very little.