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.

It's the 2draw ink board, get it?

actually I was just thinking of different themes/skins. My vote is on this one.

-I think it looks good at 75%

This is for 15grifficorntears for surprising me with the red panda draconip. I noticed her profile mentioned something about liking dragons and blue, so I thought I'd make this~ :3

Saw a photo of a ballet based on Faust... Mephistopheles was a wire-wing actor. I got inspired :)

In some parts of Australia it can get so hot during the summer that crows fall from the sky dead.

This is just a seedling of a giant tree. At full size they can be used to support entire towns of tree dwelling peoples.

A brief scene of calm during a confrontation between robota and his pursuers.

Hope this is alright for the Intermediate board. :) Just testing to see how well I can do realism on these new applets.

This is a reffed image. Image I referenced from is a copyright-free image of a Siberian Husky, which I can show upon request. ;)

I might come back to touch this up a tad, but I think it's finished for now.