Do you beleive?

Okay.I know the sketch doesnt look ll hat good and its small in size but i hope ill be anle to touch it up when i "Ink" it.so you can leave i nasty comment ifyou want...but i woul prefer you didnt.and i know someone has alread posted a picture with this peice of work but i really really wanted to do it.

P.s. I only took five minuted on the sketch..is that bad?

http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fcs195/photos/Treachery%20of%20Images.jpg

This is not a pipe
René Magritte

i wanted a graphic design sorta image or the snowflakes spiralling in the distance, some sort of metaphor of winter. hmm needs touchin up, it was mainly something to be different.

I can feel my legs shaking and tired, but.....banzaiiiiiiiii...............

http://www.all-art.org/asia/japanese_prints/prints2/193.jpg

Darn I already need extra space!

I've been thinking about drawing a frosty mountain town for awhile, but the exact design I just made up as I went. I was thinking of various old games as I made it.

loosely named after Thule


I made Tahei with the idea of a country at the top of the world that's perpetually frozen. There's a Christmas themed mining town (it takes a lot of coal for all the bad kids out there), a glacier roaming with snow beasts, frozen waterfalls during the winter when it gets really cold, a hot springs for the small monkey population (based on a type of monkey in Japan that does go into hot spring waters), an icy moon that's closer than you'd think (it is the top of the world after all), and a castle on the mountain top. I haven't decided who lives in the castle, but it's not Santa Claus. I like real world references and influences, but I normally avoid directly using fictional/real life characters or places since it is my own fantasy world I'm making. Tahei as a country may only be made up of one town and a castle, but they never have to worry about being invaded because no army would want to bother with it. The monkeys here are like miniture yetis, and the snow beasts are their much larger cousins (think The Empire Strikes Back and that big snow monster that attacked Luke at the beginning).

maybe the castle will be a pathway to the moon. The owner of the castle should be based on Kaguya Hime from Japanese folklore (a princess who came from the moon). The pathway should open up during the full moon, and there should be a race of Lunarians there like in Final Fantasy 4 or in the Touhou game series (Imperishable Night was about Kaguya). There was also a villan based on Kaguya in one of the Inu Yasha movies.

The feel of the wind brushing by as you sail through the snow!! Made it worth pulling the sled back to the top of the hill for another ride!