by Formendacil » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:14 pm
Always exciting to see another illustrated LEGO tale--or LEGO annal, anyway.
I'm not sure if I like the sepia photographs for the whole thing. I thought it was interesting at first, but I was sort of expecting that you were going to move from sepia to full colour once things got going. And if this annal is just a prologue to another story, then it still works for me, but as a stand-alone piece, it seemed like a little bit much. Some details, it seemed, were lost because the colour wasn't there--especially the water in the canoe picture.
Of course, it's your artwork, so it needn't be tailored just to suit me. It's a nice piece of world-building, going from tribes, adding in a mytho-religious figure (Guy seems kind of like Prometheus), and then moving into "normal" history, with royal alliances and wars. I thought at first that you might have been doing a fantasy story that WASN'T set in a European-style/standard kingdom place, and I guess I kind of got that.
My quibles aside, I enjoyed reading it and look forward to more.