Return to Exile Concept Art: Shadow Warg
A friend of mine, fine artist Jeff Brimley, kindly agreed to stop oil painting for a moment and design a Shadow Warg for me. John Rocco, illustrator of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, did the artwork for Return to Exile, but wasn't able to create artwork for each individual monster due to time constraints and a late request, so I asked Jeff to help out.
Shadow Wargs are one of the first creatures Sky Weathers encounters when he returns to his hometown of Exile in book 1 of The Hunter Chronicles, a book which is aptly named Return to Exile (see how that's done?). Here's a description of a Shadow Warg taken from Sky's Hunter Journal which can be found in the back of the book or online at www.returntoexile.com (it's the button on the right of the circle).
Hunters Journal Addendumby Sky Weathers
For reference, I've compiled some notes on a few of the monsters I've come across, read about, or heard about so far. While I've included a few survival tips, your first, and best course of action is always to RUN. I mean it. Flee. Vamoose. Hotfoot it out. Shake a rug. Just get out of there. If that doesn't work, try a friendly "hello"; it won't help at all, but at least you won't die impolite.
Shadow Wargs are hunters who have made a pact with a Wargarou: the hunter agrees to become the Wargarou's minion and, in exchange, the hunter gains the ability to shift into a Shadow Warg. Shadow Wargs are Clydesdale-sized, wolf-like, and very annoying. They are made of darkness, can slip between shadows without being seen, and are practically invulnerable.
How to Survive
The Shadow Wargs of Whimple mentions three weaknesses: silver, fire, and wolf's bane.
END JOURNAL TRANSMISSION (okay, this doesn't really make sense, since Sky's journal is hand written, but I've got to transition somehow, so give me a break).
Return to Exile focuses on about ten unique creatures you've never heard of. These creatures include: Shadow Wargs, Wargarou, The Jack, Dovetail, Gnomon, Edgewalkers, Echo, Whisper, Glooms, Piebalds, and the most terrible of them all, The Arkhon.
The mythology in Return to Exile includes dozens of creatures that will appear over the course of the series, and each one is every bit as detailed as a vampire or a dragon, which, by the way, DON'T appear in the series due to their having been killed off years earlier by their own popularity.
Look for more concept art here in the coming weeks, assuming I can convince Jeff to put down his brush again. If you've got a favorite monster from the book that you'd like to see illustrated, let me know!
You can find more of Jeff's artwork (not for the book) on his website and on Fine Art America.
Shadow Wargs are one of the first creatures Sky Weathers encounters when he returns to his hometown of Exile in book 1 of The Hunter Chronicles, a book which is aptly named Return to Exile (see how that's done?). Here's a description of a Shadow Warg taken from Sky's Hunter Journal which can be found in the back of the book or online at www.returntoexile.com (it's the button on the right of the circle).Hunters Journal Addendumby Sky Weathers
For reference, I've compiled some notes on a few of the monsters I've come across, read about, or heard about so far. While I've included a few survival tips, your first, and best course of action is always to RUN. I mean it. Flee. Vamoose. Hotfoot it out. Shake a rug. Just get out of there. If that doesn't work, try a friendly "hello"; it won't help at all, but at least you won't die impolite.
Shadow Wargs are hunters who have made a pact with a Wargarou: the hunter agrees to become the Wargarou's minion and, in exchange, the hunter gains the ability to shift into a Shadow Warg. Shadow Wargs are Clydesdale-sized, wolf-like, and very annoying. They are made of darkness, can slip between shadows without being seen, and are practically invulnerable.
How to Survive
The Shadow Wargs of Whimple mentions three weaknesses: silver, fire, and wolf's bane.
END JOURNAL TRANSMISSION (okay, this doesn't really make sense, since Sky's journal is hand written, but I've got to transition somehow, so give me a break).
Return to Exile focuses on about ten unique creatures you've never heard of. These creatures include: Shadow Wargs, Wargarou, The Jack, Dovetail, Gnomon, Edgewalkers, Echo, Whisper, Glooms, Piebalds, and the most terrible of them all, The Arkhon.
The mythology in Return to Exile includes dozens of creatures that will appear over the course of the series, and each one is every bit as detailed as a vampire or a dragon, which, by the way, DON'T appear in the series due to their having been killed off years earlier by their own popularity.
Look for more concept art here in the coming weeks, assuming I can convince Jeff to put down his brush again. If you've got a favorite monster from the book that you'd like to see illustrated, let me know!
You can find more of Jeff's artwork (not for the book) on his website and on Fine Art America.
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