Political Map and the Bao Zodiac!

I didn't think I'd be able to sit down and do a political map this soon, but somehow I did! Or at least I got started... it's about half done right now. XD

I've also started working on a zodiac for a country called Baoguo—as you can guess, it's somewhat like the Chinese zodiac, but a lot of the animals are different and accordingly have different stereotypes. For example, instead of a tiger, there's a snow leopard, and in addition to the other farm animals, there's a duck.

The next post I make in a few days will have some finished drawings and descriptions for both of these. Erm, I guess not! Whoops.

The Voltaria Leijonörn

Yup, I've been at it again, doing everything but drawing my actual characters. But hey, this time I made a fairly cool design: the Voltaria Leijonörn. It's the emblem of the Voltaire family, used as a heraldic charge among other things, and I meant it to be a sort of fierce-looking lion-eagle without being a griffin.

I didn't think about whether these were its "proper" colours or not when designing it, but I'd assume they are since they don't neatly fit the narrow set of heraldic tinctures. When actually using it as a charge, the entire thing would probably be just be recoloured grey and black like this:

Argent, a Leijonörn displayed ash-grey, maned and queued sable.

I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out.

Tyrian World Map

Whew, it's been a while since I posted, hasn't it? I'll use the classic generic excuse that I was busy, and hopefully you can forgive me. I know, it's pretty unoriginal compared to all the stuff I'm coming up with for Tyrian, but you'll just have to bear with me. Stuff happens.

Anyway, today I went and drew up a pretty elaborate world map complete with different biomes and major rivers; the equator and the two tropic lines are also there if you look closely. I guess I could have done a little bit more, like adding mountains and whatnot, but for now I think it's more than enough. I may put the mountains on another map, using the outline from this one as a base, though I don't think I'm quite ready for a political map. I don't have all the countries worked out yet. XD

So, there's the world. (What a wonderful place!)

It probably will end up with more little tiny islands later, but I thought that was plenty. After all, islands are like pepper—you don't want to go randomly shaking them all over everything and ruin the main course. And yes, there's a tundra at the equator... you're not imagining things. It's the Artifices' doing.

Feel free to use this as a desktop wallpaper, though it'll probably work better if you tell Windows to put #a6a5ec behind it considering the irregular size. Or your favourite shade of indigo/violet. Whatever you like.