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the2ight2eer · 1 month

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Hey gang! I hate the colors on this one (I literally NEVER use colors so… yeah, those are privy to change), but here is part 1 of my (more thorough) Trellis redesign!

(I warned you, the colors are an eyesore 😭)

As I’ve mentioned before, this design is inspired by Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Middle Eastern clothing.

The neck piece is a Lemko seed bead necklace

The face paint is inspired by Croatian hand tattoos and North African face tattoos- they serve as blessings, and different symbols mean different things. The line down his chin is standard (almost all elves wake up in the morning, say their prayer and draw their chin line), a blessing from Vrasuta the sun goddess, and the symbol on his forehead is a blessing of luck (most soldiers use this one)

The armor on the arms is inspired by middle age middle eastern armor- “beetle shell armor” very hard and matte armor plates that are both decorative and functional

The pants and shirt are inspired by vyshyvakna (as well as the sash)- If I could change one thing about this drawing, it would be to make the sash less ugly, and reverse the blue and white

The boots I saw only once on a drawing of a Bulgarian folk outfit (I apologize I do not remember what they are called) - but I think that they would be “sand boots”, very light and airy, yet it’s almost impossible for sand to get in

My AU takes place in a 1940s-1950’s setting, so I added a couple of more “modern” touches, like an army chest vest and some… I don’t know what to call them, leather bracers?

His signature weapons are two retractable Shashkas which channel his stone power. He was always sent on stealth missions, so long range weapons aren’t really his forte

Throughout my sketches I write his name as Tręlis (tree-less), which is his name in my AU, but I’ll keep using his canon name in my posts so I don’t confuse anyone.

Part 2 will be his palace clothes which is a little less story centric and a lot more self indulgent because I just like dressing boys up in pretty outfits 💪

#the first time I posted this Tumblr flagged it at mature?#so uh… yeah idk why #amulet series #kazu kibuishi #prince trellis #amulet comic #cam’samuletrewrite

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the2ight2eer · 4 months

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Cam’s Amulet Rewrite <3

Amulet. What an… odd book series. A book series that has an iron grip on me even after all these years. With a story that only a middle schooler would find cohesive, but an art-style that inspired me to start drawing characters for myself, I think it’s safe to say that after Kazu emotionally abandoned this work it’s time to give it some lovin’.

ENTER: an Amulet rewrite! Only this time… I’m fully embracing the wartime storyline, making elf culture a little more unique, and will attempt to give a rough outline of a story (mostly I’m working on the concepts for now though).

(DISCLAIMER: I am not saying that my ideas or concepts are better than Kazu’s, I’m just a dumb kid who was disappointed in his work and wanted to maybe use his story as a jumping off point for my own version of Amulet)

Instead of the Steampunk/Sci-Fi elements, I think that it would be more interesting (and narratively cohesive) if the story pulls aspect of Deiselpunk and inspiration from the 1940’s (don’t worry, I will explain later). I made the map make a bit more sense, I completely redesigned the characters (because they all have the same outfit), and I reworked the story.

Instead of 2-dimensional characters entering every story, we’ll focus on the OG cast and explore them a little more.

I think this story would be a really cool dark fantasy if done right. But alas, I am no New York Times best seller, so if any of y’all have any ideas please tell me! Sometimes it’s hard to convey the ideas that I have in my head in text, so tell me if you are confused or you need me to explain something a little better.

As always, I have two playlists for this new project, so if you need a better idea of what I’m shooting for here, or you just want something new to listen to, check them out! :

And… yeah. This will be a series on my Tumblr, and the hashtag to find all these posts will be #Cam’sAmuletRewrite

Thanks for reading this! Hopefully I’ll have my first post out here shortly!

#amulet series #kazu kibuishi #amulet comic #tbh this is a bit intimidating for me #I never do stuff like this and have had to convince myself to go through with this #BUT I wanna share my ideas with all of you! And I don’t really have anyone to share them with lol #my uploads will most definitely be inconsistent but I will try my best #toodles!#Cam’sAmuletRewrite #Spotify

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the2ight2eer · 1 month

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Uh… yeah… I’ve been gone a long time… I’ve been stuck knee deep in Balder’s Gate 3 brain rot

But have some of these redesigns for my AU until I can put together a more cohesive post

*drops these and runs away*

(And yeah, I had an epiphany to make Trellis’s backstory more tragic 💪💪💪)

#amulet series #kazu kibuishi #prince trellis #amulet comic #cam’samuletrewrite #enjoy my mediocre art that I barely spent any time on #I’m more of a concepts person details aren’t really my thing #I love drawing concepts… but don’t you dare ask me to make it actually look good 🥲

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the2ight2eer · 4 months

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Alledia, in this version, is split up into 7 countries:

Windsor

Coco

Lufen

Nautilus

Frontera

Kanalis

Gulfeńn (which is split into more regions, or provinces)

(I will draw a better quality map someday 😔)

I made the map a little less of one big supercontinent, and I thought that making this world feel a little bigger would help make this story feel more vast without needing to leave the planet (I am never forgiving Kazu for that goofy ending in book 7, it literally came out of nowhere)

I will update this map later (I’m going to move the mountain range in Gulfeńn to the coast, so that geographically it makes a little sense as to why that whole area is an arid desert, and extend the mountain range up up north a bit)

During the war all the western countries are known as the Common Alliance (or at least, it will be if I don’t think of a less cheesy name). The best way to think about these countries is this:

(The flags are a bit ugly, but I tried my best 😭)

Windsor:

NOT occupied by Gulfeńn yet

the superpower of the CA

It’s really cold up there

Like… wet and cold

This place is just 1940’s England

Their national animal is the whale

I imagine Windsorian cities looking like Dunwall from Dishonored

Coco:

I haven’t come up with much other than it’s a small nation with not that much to offer in the way of trade, and was actually going through negotiations to become a part of Lufen before the war

Not occupied by Gulfeńn

Nautilus:

They are only partially occupied by Gulfeńn

The “front line” country

A lot of citizens have been displaced from here

This country (in my head at least) reminds me a little of Ireland

Frontera:

Completely occupied by Gulfeńn

A lot of elves actually live here

Human-Elf relations here is a lot more chill than in… say Windsor

Kanalis:

Also completely occupied by Gulfeńn

Basically if Chicago was a country

I always read Enzo and Rico’s lines in a Chicagoan accent, because they have Italian names 🤷‍♂️

Lufen:

‘MERICA RAAAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅

Idk, I have it in my head that this is cowboy country

This place is a lot looser than The boarder countries or Windsor

It’s a bunch of farmland broken up by forest, plains, and towns (kinda like where I live)

These guys are technically neutral, but have been sending supplies to Windsor

I will have a separate post for Gulfeńn (and why I am spelling it like that), but for now I want to focus on the human countries.

You might be wondering… how exactly did humans end up on Alledia anyways? Well my friend, I have a surprisingly simple answer for you!

I don’t fully know :/

I’d like to think they stumbled across the “Gate” (or portal thingy that Emily stumbled into) at some point hundreds of years ago, and adapted accordingly… but that leaves a couple of plot holes (how did that many people fit through the Gate? How did people of that many different cultures come all at once?) so let’s just not think about that for now 😅

The time period in which this will be set is more so in the 1930’s-1940’s. Because this is fantasy, we don’t have to be exact, and we can be a bit more flexible with “historical accuracy” or whatever.

I feel like a war oriented story such as this would benefit more from a Dieselpunk aesthetic. That way we have a bit of the modern age to work with, in terms of technology, and a thematic framework for the story right off the bat.

Here is an example of Dieselpunk! This piece is called Gray Monster by Jakub Rozalski:

I think mechs, blimps, and wartime would work perfectly with this genre of punk

final quick note, in my version of this story there are a couple different powers at play: The Common Alliance (bad-ish guys), The Resistance (okay guys), Gulfeńn (bad-ish guys), Ceilis (meh guys), and the Luna Moth Crew (good guys!)

Remember, this is an ongoing WAR. It is NOT a good time to live in Alledia, and the world should feel as such. With that being said, this is not going to be a “gritty” depressing story. I still want to capture the magic that the early books had. We can still have some fun with it!

Let me know what you think and if I should change anything :D

#amulet series #amulet comic #Cam’sAmuletRewrite #kazu kibuishi #duuuudeeeee this took me so long to get the formatting to work 😭#Tumblr ATE like half my paragraphs #anywho… I am super stoked to share my thoughts on elven culture #’cause that’s kinda what started all this #and then after that I will show y’all my redesigns! Which I am also super stoked about

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the2ight2eer · 4 months

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An in depth look at the capital of Gulfeńn, Valkor! (Buckle up, this is a long one)

Before I start I should probably clear something up: For inspiration for coming up with Elven culture, I looked at Slavic, Balkan, Hindu, and Middle Eastern influences. The easiest way to think about it is this (if anything that comes up in this post is offensive to any of these cultures, please let me know and I will try my best to fix it. I am only human, and I am an American at that, so I can only go by my research 😅):

Clothing, Music, Language, and Patterning = Balkan

Language, Music, and Clothing = Slavic

Food, Architecture, and Religion = Hindu

Architecture, Desert Culture, Food, Clothing, and Music = Middle Eastern

Don’t worry, I will give examples and visual aid to help convey what I mean!

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Valkor: The Capital

Gulfeńn is split into four different provinces, or states. These provinces have their own biomes, traditions, and leaders. Valkor is one of four, and is simply referred to “Western Gulfeńn” sometimes.

(Spellings will be changed throughout tho will be changed to fit what I have in mind for the elves)

Population- 4.1 million

Valkor is a unique city, in the nature of its height. Valkor is located in a part of the Ośtavlet desert that dips into a valley, where it can reaches 104 degrees on average in the summer. The elves would have baked to death. So they settled on a huge, naturally forming rock spire. These desert spikes provide great shade in the unforgiving heat, and were the prime spot for elves to carve out their cities. The Yvvińna Palace was carved directly into the rock, while the actual city was built around the outside.

After hundreds of years, the rock on the spire started to crumble and erode. Scientists have been researching a way to regrow the rocks. So far, more and more houses have to be partially or entirely held up by sturdy metal beams. It’s not too bad yet…

Around the base of Valkor is a wall, and behind the wall is the rest of the city.

These neighborhoods are safe from heatstroke because of the shade that both the Wall and the Palace provide. Air conditioning is also free for those who live on the base (and for those who want it. Usually it’s only the human citizens who actually turn it on. Elves are adequately adapted to deal with the heat)

For those who live “On the Sky” as they say, it can get well near freezing during the night and during the winter months. The ecosystem up near the sky is more humid. More trees and plants can be found growing up there. Sometimes it even snows. Children who live on the base usually go near the top to play on the rare occasion it does. The journey from the base to the very top takes approximately 4 hours of twisty, windy roads.

Safety rails have been installed after many instances of people falling off the sharp cliff sides.

The Valkorian Throne is the highest throne of Gulfeńn, since the city was founded by The Oj Dolo (in the books, known as The Great Erlking). The Oj Dolo was seen as a sort of god in his own right, the equivalent to the Christian prophet Jesus, or the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Like both, he was a real life figure but ascended to legend.

(Quick note on Oj Dolo: imagine my surprise when I found out that “Dolo” is not only an actual Polish name, but also Oj Dolo is a song! I swear I had no knowledge of this until a month after I chose the name. I chose Oj as the prefix because I knew it meant “Oh”)

Thus, any Czar that followed in his footsteps, and took the throne, was seen as a mortal god (kind of like Egyptian pharaohs). Most elves will refer to the Czar with the prefix “Oj” (said like “oi”), as it is seen as respectful to do so for “god mortals”. This includes the royal family, and the Dzikaję (child of the Czar).

As for the elven goddesses, I will talk more in depth about them later (I don’t wanna overwhelm anyone with info lol), but for now just know that they have two: Seińn of the Sun, and Favšta of the Moon.

BONUS: in my version of the story, The Elf King, or Oj Czar Ykoda, was of the royal bloodline and was in an arranged marriage with the daughter of the Duchess of Stęńgard, Epopyja.

Also, just to get it out of the way real fast, here Lugźer (Luger), and Tręlis (Trellis) are cousins not brothers. And I have big plans for both of them >:)c

Here are some reference images of what I think Valkorians might dress like (all taken from Pinterest):

Don’t worry about their ears! They poke out of their head coverings with ease, and still have plenty of room to move

Last note, I was thinking that for the Oj Czar, he could wear a kokoshnik along with his mask:

(Credit to Alena Abramova for these amazingly intricate dolls!)

So his silhouette is still long and flowy, but distinct and intimidating

Next up will probably be a look at our main characters, and then I’ll probably do a breakdown of the timeline <3

#amulet series #prince trellis #kazu kibuishi #Cam’sAmuletRewrite #when I tell you guys that I have been sitting on thsi for a while I mean A WHILE #like… freshman year of highschool #I’m about to graduate 😭#anyways thsi little project has given me the excuse to research cultures that I didn’t know that much about #and Slavic folk music which I listen to all the time now #even though I haven’t a single Slavic born in my body #Irish American born and raised on the Missouri countryside

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the2ight2eer · 1 month

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(motherstone) I'm pretty intrigued by your design of Trellis. Do you have any official colors/more defined detailed drawing of him?

HEY!!! It’s you! Hi!! (Big fan of your work, and I’m pretty sure you are one of the main reasons I started drawing in the first place ❤️)

I do have a general idea of the colors I want to use, and I am planning on using some colored pencils or something to make a reference sheet for him and Emily (although Emily’s design is still a little half baked).

I based his palace clothing off of a mix of Chivashian and Turkish clothing:

I think his two main colors would be dark blue and red, with yellow and green undertones (if that’s even the right word lol)

For his “soldier” design, I took inspiration from middle eastern armor plates and Ukrainian vyshyvakna (embroidered shirts) and lemko seed bead necklaces:

I gave him and all the valkorian elves some more middle eastern facial features, and I made his hair curly because it’s fun to draw :D

Soon I’ll have a better more cohesive design for him! I don’t work with colors often so this will be a good exercise for me. Thanks for the ask!

#asks #amulet series #prince trellis #cam’samuletrewrite #I had to drop everything to answer this because ITS MOTHERSTONE #the person who kickstarted my love for amulet and my love for art!#I remember being 12-13 years old looking up your blog every day hoping that you had posted something new #big thanks to you my dude 🫶

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