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Khun
🕑 Added 2023-01-31 23:10:35 +0000 UTCIt finally gave me some time to draw this character that I haven't drawn in a long time.
Khun, or The cartographer is the character of one of some stories that I came up with during college. and one funny thing is that even though I haven't drawn stuff from it in a while I think about it pretty often.
Another thing about this piece is that here I'm sort of making a mash up of two versions I have of the character and his story.
The original The cartographer is the story of a man that has been traveling for years and has seen a lot, and now wanders through the desert while making a map on an unknown part of his world.
And the more recent one, on which I focus more on his early years. A young man that got his heart broken and ran away from home into a world of adventures that he wasn't really ready for.
I actually have two theme songs for these two. For the first one I always pictured him with Pink Floyd's Shine on you crazy diamond. and it works as his story is more abstract and contemplative As for the second one I tend to use Joan Manuel Serrat's Vagabundear as it is more about the adventure. A nice detail about this is that since I chose this song as his theme I often draw him carrying a guitar because I love that line in Serrat's song
"To not forget who I was, I carry my nation and my guitar with me.
One is strong and loyal, the other one is a paper"
It really described how I imagine the world these characters live in, going around the world having adventures fighting with soldiers and pirates and writing songs about those adventures.
I'd like to talk a bit more about his story but before that I'd like to at least have more art with him.
But I have been thinking how funny it is that most of my ocs and stories used to be about adventures and wanderers and when the pandemic began I started doing more slice of life type stuff.
I've been thinking about this character a lot cause I been wanting to update my storyboard portfolio and I want to start by making a scene with him I have had in mind since college
Comments
Juan Daniel Campos Hernandez
Oh, They still are, and they're also deffinitely coming! ^^
Morlund
I remember Khun the cartographer from a while ago! Glad to see you're finally picking up this setting again, and fingers crossed on also seeing updated versions of Aki (the pirate?) and Den (the soldier?) sometime soon...assuming they're still part of the story of course. ;)
