When the land is wreathed in Darkness black
Seven shall gather to bind it back
Follow the symbols throughout the land
The braids who made the barrier stand
Of fire, of feather, of horn, of claw,
of moon, of leaf, of swift running paw

Holy frick. It's over!

Behold! My largest traditional media piece ever. This thing is enormous, a full sheet of Canson paper, about 19x25. And y'know, the really ironic thing is that I think the majority of this sucks. I shan't go into why; mostly things just look flat. I learned a lot, though. I just wish I could have ended up with something a little better after a month and a half and God knows how many hours of my soul. I dunno. Maybe I've just looked at it too long.

Anyway, this is supposed to be the master graphic for my website based on my high fantasy series, The Summoner's Saga. (The first of which is The Dragon Rose, the second draft of which I finished like a month ago. *Starhorse liked it. I need to get ~lmai to read it ...) Of course, it depends on if I still like this thing by the time I'm ready to launch things. But it felt good to do it, and I'm pleased I finished it before I moved, cause otherwise it may have never gotten done.

The seven guardians are Rikoujou the Fox, Fennikusu the Phoenix, Urufu the Wolf, Ojika the Stag, Grauthrovon the Dragon, Erikiteru the Lion, and Merdrassim the World Tree. That's not to say that these are their final designs, cause they're ultimately badass po, but these are their ambiguous representations, shall we say. I'll prolly post detail shots in scraps, but really, you're not missing much.