Levanant

I'm bored and decided to quickly draw Froylan's phantom beast for the first time.

What is a Levanant?

Lord Froylan is a recurring enemy/antagonist/sometimes a good guy in An Ominous Book. It seems to be common knowledge by everyone that he's a fire mage, but not everyone knows which beast he summons.

Here is a small excerpt from An Ominous Book when Spaulding speaks to Froylan.

“So am I under arrest, Lord Froylan?”

“Not at all, much to my chagrin. Get on my phantom beast so that I can sleep for a couple of hours before the morning meeting.” Froylan summoned a phantom beast that resembled a large lizard with two tails that was constantly enveloped in flames.

“I didn't know you could summon a Levanant Froylan-suits you perfectly.”

“Stop wasting my time and get on it already.”

Spaulding shrugged his shoulders and sat on the back, whereas Froylan flapped his black cape on Spaulding's face as he sat down in front. Spaulding was certain he did it on purpose with the sole purpose of annoying him. He turned around and frowned.

“Froylan is sure having a ball annoying me. Why did he order so many guards to summon their phantom beasts to chaperone us?”

The Levanant ran past the gigantic bridge and across the stone paved road. Spaulding’s face was constantly being hit with Froylan's cape which annoyed him to no end as the beast ran up the road that eventually took them to a large stone courtyard surrounded by one hundred Äimite. The group of guards riding behind with their phantom beasts dismounted and stood at a safe distance.

The books don't delve much further about the beast. Froylan usually kills his enemies with his sword or burns them alive. However, we do get the chance to see him drop his Levanant into an active volcano in the third book in order to move the lava at free will!

I always have a lot of fun writing scenes where Froylan appears. He's just a really appealing good for nothing crook with a plan under his sleeves. I never drew his phantom beast before, but I think my drawing came out close to how I always imagined it.

Enjoy!

An Ominous Book and Inktober 2018

I usually don't follow trends and much less graphics designing stuff, but I sometimes get asked to do things by friends to see if a theory they have is correct, or something of the sort.

I never really planned on doing anything for the Inktober 2018 Challenge (quite frankly, I didn't even know such a contest even existed), but my friend really wanted my help, so I said ok.

October 7th challenge was to draw something that was "Exhausted." Now, I love to draw stuff related to my book series, and it's a running gag in the series that Spaulding is a rare dual element mage, which mostly causes him more troubles in his life than benefits. After discovering that harlequin elves can fuse both of their elements into their demonic phantom beasts, Spaulding began to wonder if he would be capable of fusing water magic into his Hiratori and make it change to his weak element. He kindly asked Damantin for his assistance, but he simply scratched his head and had a hard time thinking of an answer because his innate harlequin magic is simply too different from regular magic to make him an appropriate teacher.

However, Hama in book 7 is of greater assistance because for some unknown reason, she had a really hard time exploiting her dormant water magic herself, and her own demonic beast is a fire element beast the majority of the time. She had to train for many years to switch into her weak water element mode. Hama's tribulations learning how to master her weak element were a godsend for Spaulding, and during the course of one winter, she slowly teaches her father how to change his Hiratori into a sort of icy bird. After exerting himself, Spaulding manages this great feat, and it did left him drained of mana very easily. The drawing I made has a blatant mistake: Spaulding never performed this technique while wearing his father's armor. He was wearing Elf King attire. However, it's a drawing, so who cares?!

October 8th challenge is to draw something with a star in it. This one is a bit tricky, because I don't really recall stars having a particular importance in my novels. However, the Dead Castle that Nelida created in the 2nd book Separation is featured during the nighttime where the moon and stars illuminate its eerily crystalline luminescence. Claimed to have been the most beautiful building ever seen by a myraid of characters, Spaulding felt great despair in the 4th book when he saw it with his own eyes because he already knew it was made with the corpses of thousands of innocent human beings. Nelida isn't my favorite villain of the series, but some readers seem to love her because of the irony that a sweet child could end up being posessed by a malignant demonic artifact which forced her to create this deathly masterpiece. I concur that Nelida's proportions were sort of out of whack, which proves I really should be drawing a whole lot more to improve in my craft.

I'm very poor at drawing buildings, and quite frankly, I always imagined the dead castle to look a whole lot different in my imagination. But it was still fun to make this drawing to get a heads start on another day of the challenge.

I don't know if I will draw some of the other days, a lot of the selected words have nothing to do with my book series, and I seldom feel like drawing stuff that isn't related to my authoring work. But maybe you can stay tuned to my instagram account and see if I upload something else!

An Ominous Book 2, Separation on Amazon
An Ominous Book 4, Diaspora on Amazon
My instagram

And while technically I have finished writing the 7th novel Harlequins approximately 6 months ago, I haven't had the chance to finish drawing the cover art to officially publish it as a full-fledged ebook. Maybe if I got more reviews of my books (or in the very least, some more purchases or KU borrows, because any exposure of my books to new readers makes me feel happy), I'd feel more compelled to get my butt moving and draw some random cover already!

If you have read my books, which scenes did you personally enjoy? Is there a particular scene from my books you'd like me to draw? Perhaps a specific phantom beast?

I have realized I have many things in my series that have never been drawn before. Hrm...