Though this story ties into the overall Mouse Guard mythos, The Black Axe is a wonderful stand-alone tale that holds up remarkably well compared to other fables with far more history. Using the Dodge and Burn tools with a stock textured brush in Photoshop, I went in and rendered the final colors for the piece. Issue 6 of The Black Axe is out on February 13, completing Celanawe’s tale filled with adventure, friendship, love and loss. In this step I also established my color holds (areas I want the ink to be a color rather than black) And I isolated the inks for the crows, the runic 9, and Merek's scars. Establishing what areas are which colors. This is basically coloring in the lines with flat colors. The first step to coloring digitally is creating color flats.
I'd planned to do the coloring process on stream too, but I came down with some con-crud after SDCC and I didn't feel up to being Live on Stream while feeling crappy. I purposely left some gaps between the crow silhouettes and the foreground or borders so that I could more easily isolate them in the next step. I inked this piece entirely on my Twitch Stream. For pens I used Copic Multiliners (I think I only used the 0.7 nib here). On a Huion light pad I was able to ink the piece while seeing through the surface of the bristol. Once the layout was ready, I printed it out and taped it to the back of a sheet of Strathmore 300 bristol. The symbol in the upper right corner is a made-up runic number '9' (the vertical bar is just a pole to hang the roman numerals V and four I's). Part of the story of Merek is that the crows saw his deeds and carry the folly of Merek with them. In the background I pasted in several stock photo crows in flight. I combined these two drawings in photoshop and tinted them different colors to help me see which lines belonged to which figure. On another sheet, I drew the crab (with some help from my reference photo). I then did a pencil drawing of Merek on a sheet of copy paper. Julia went to our local fish monger and bought two cooked, but whole crabs I could use as reference.
Merek does a horrible deed on the shores of Ildur, but instead of showing that again, I opted to have him battle a creature––a fan favorite, a crab! I still had the photos I took from when I was drawing the 2nd issue of Fall. In the epilogue, Lieam dreams a starry crow tells him the folly of Merek, and I give the readers the only images we see of this axe wielder (as he does not appear on the scrap of tapestry). Read Or Get This Book Mouse Guard: The Black Axe (Mouse Guard, #0.In the 3rd Mouse Guard book: The Black Axe, I revealed (spoiler alert) that there have been nine wielders of the Black Axe before Celanawe. Quick and secure with high-speed downloads3. Legend of Farrer, the blacksmith who forged the mythic axe.ĭownload and stream more than 10,000 movies, e-books, TheĪrrival of distant kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry him across the sea to uncharted waters and lands all while unraveling the This prequel, set in 1115, fulfills the promise the wise oldfur Celanawe made to tell Lieam of the day his paw first touched the Black Axe. Mouse Guard: The Black Axe (Mouse Guard, #0.5) TOP RATED#5 Uncharted waters and lands all while unraveling the legend of Farrer, the Kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry him across the sea to Tell Lieam of the day his paw first touched the Black Axe. This prequel, set in 1115, fulfills the promise the wise oldfur Celanawe made to The arrival of distant kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry him across the sea to uncharted waters and lands all while unraveling the legend of Farrer, the blacksmith who forged the mythic axe.
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