A World Unfolding

A while back I came up with the idea of an elf scientist exploring the Red Riding Hood universe, and I've since abandoned my original concept. I still have a knowledge seeking elven explorer in mind, but with a different plot, motive, and emphasis. I've had the working title name "Arcelius" for a while, but I'm probably going to end up calling the world "Cottonwine" after the clear ablution featured in the older Red Riding Hood stories, which had such a tremendous affect on the humans it came in touch with. Sounds a little more enigmatically story-like, and less like a Roman adulteress.


I did this little scale sketch on Sunday just to keep a bit of scale in mind. This is just a sampling of creatures. I envisioned the lapin to be quite large due to a variety of harsh environmental factors. They're quite interesting to me because they're a race motivated almost exclusively by two factors: fear and sex. It'll be fun depicting their society. The equine tribes will be very easy to depict, because I've been drawing horses for quite a while, already. I also want to draw up the porcine folks, and I took a stab at it a few times in my sketch book, but it's taking some time to get used to depicting a race that isn't supposed to be either "cute" or "regal" looking, which is how things usually turn out when you're drawing humans, wolves, and assorted furry folks.

For a long time, I wanted to leave the outcome of the human/wolf situation depicted in the Red Riding Hood series up in the air. When I start up the new story, I'll touch on it, the outcome of the inevitable battles that ensued, and leave open the possibility of exploring its unfolding nature in the future. I never talked about what the human armies were doing far from home, but when I created the map to the world, I intended to have them be in the North, containing incursions by the porcine tribes. It's a task they'll be returning home from in haste, of course.