You approach the structure upstream. It is built of unmortared stone, and a water wheel beside its entrance creaks and wobbles but does not spin. Inside is dark, and two paths from its door lead downstream and behind the structure.
What do you do?
Benign Kingdom presents their first collection of themed titles - Capture Creatures, the Exquisite Beast, and Midnite Surprise.
Capture Creatures - by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson
Inspired by Ken Sugimori’s feat of designing the original 151 Pokemon in a single year Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson have created 151 unique creatures, relations, and descriptors.The Exquisite Beast - by Evan Dahm and Yuko Ota
A series of illustrations of a monster evolving traded between Yuko and Evan. All illustrations were done with ink and inkwash.Midnite Surprise V2 - by KC Green
A collection of material from KC Green’s art blog - midnitesurprise.tumblr.com this collection features a new collection of work featuring original illustrations, comics, and more.If you were not previously aware, these fine books are now available for preorder! Including-but-not-limited-to my and Evan’s collected Exquisite Beast project!
We worked really hard on designing these books and the Exquisite Beast book is hopefully gonna be really lovely, especially the deluxe edition. We’re shooting for the deluxe cover to be a three-piece done with black faux leather binding over a cloth cover with a screenprinted design, debossed title area, a pasted-on title card. With a ribbon bookmark. I’m ridiculously excited. 8D
And it’s gonna be full of weird monsters and that is cool, too!
Going to reblob this again because Yuko explains it so well. I am super excited about this Exquisite Beast book; it’s been really fun putting together and I think it will turn out great!
Benign Kingdom presents their first collection of themed titles - Capture Creatures, the Exquisite Beast, and Midnite Surprise.
Capture Creatures - by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson
Inspired by Ken Sugimori’s feat of designing the original 151 Pokemon in a single year Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson have created 151 unique creatures, relations, and descriptors.
the Exquisite Beast - by Evan Dahm and Yuko Ota
A series of illustrations of a monster evolving traded between Yuko and Evan. All illustrations were done with ink and inkwash.
Midnite Surprise V2 - by KC Green
A collection of material from KC Green’s art blog - midnitesurprise.tumblr.com this collection features a new collection of work featuring original illustrations, comics, and more.
I AM EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Some big new projects for Benign Kingdom, including a book of Yuko and my project The Exquisite Beast!
You leave the path where it crosses the river and head upstream over the boulders. They are worn smooth and round, and many have small worn or carved holes in them. Further upstream another path leaves the river and goes to the right, and beyond that stands a square stone structure.
What do you do?
Following the driftwood path, you see a shaded valley below. Water trickles along its floor to the sea between numerous massive round stones. The path continues across, and the stones look like they could be climbed over.
What do you do?
The driftwood path goes uphill between two of the stone fingers briefly before plunging into a shaded valley. Beyond that you can see smoke, and a distant mountain with what looks like a great trench carved into its surface.
What do you do?
The figure is of polished black stone, maybe of the same sort the fingers are made of. It is the head of a thoughtful deity with four eyes. On the seaward finger from which it is suspended are three long rusted metal stakes.
What do you do?
Suspended between two of the fingers of rock is a round frame holding a small carven figure. The fingers march on down the beach at regular intervals as far as you can see. A path of rough boards snakes off between them into the grass inland.
What do you do?
This is the first part of a little project I will work on while traveling. I will take reader input on where to go next, and we will see where this goes. Updating from my phone so apologies for any awkwardness.The beach is worn smooth and hard and the ocean is cold. Confused winds bring alternately sea-salt and the smell of smoke from somewhere inland. Before you jut black rocks like fingers. Two towers stand, skeletal, in the distance.
What do you do?
Hmm Spike is going around reblogging things people are doing for her Sleep of Reason anthology so here is a little excerpt of my story for it
