Akox Shortwick
As more and more people know @steemmonsters is a thing now.
Steemit's own phantasy card game that is slowly rolling out and most certainly worth to have a peak at!
The Monster trader
Together with the heroes @calumam and @penderis we decided to join forces and create one Steemmonsters persona together ---> @themonstertrader
One for all, all for Akox
During our first brainstorm we discussed what our persona would be. We decided to go for a trader/merchant as we are planning to be trading cards and doing so in the form of a story.
Uncertain as what race our persona should be we considered: Pig, fox, Human but ended up with Goblin as... let's be honnest... who doesn't love a clever sarcastic Goblin!?
So goblin it is. Aptly named Akox Shortwick (thank technology for name generators to get the inspirational juices flowing)
To read up a bit about Akox check out the first chapter of The Traders Tale
The style
Even though we did talk about different styles (realistic, Clash of clans 3D ish, etc) as soon as Cuphead / Rubber hose / 30s cartoon was suggested (think cuphead, felix the cat, betty boop, early disney, etc)... we kinda knew we just had to go into that direction as for one it is an amazingly entertaining style and it would stand out.
Design
Many sketches later I decided to go for this one
(as quite honestly... it was the only one that looked semi decent)
Making it digital
What followed next was making it digital. Not that hard of a task but still time consuming. Especially choosing the right color scheme. But in the end this was just a matter of trial and error leading to success. Yay! Our persona had a face!
What was lacking was a body... Goblins are short and even though there are some nice short characters in the 30s cartoons, we felt that a longer sluglish body would just be more fun. So we created worlds first tall Goblin.
(Who cares about hand and feet anyhow...)
The loss of focus...
I honestly did try to stay focused and finish the design... But my mind just steamrolled from one idea to the next without halt.
As something else needed was transportation for our lovely persona....
We all decided that our persona would be driving a bike. So we went looking for bike images to use as reference.
We found these two lovely ones on pixabay:
Gorgeous as they were I decided to combine these two into a nice car and wagon.
"THOSE ARE NOT BIKES WOLV! DO YOU NEED GLASSES?"
... Ssshh!
So by the magic of photoshop and CC0 images these two lovely vehicles transformed into:
To me this looked perfect for a Goblin Merchant!
"Pfff... still not a bike tho..."
... SHH!
This lovely vehicle was skillfully placed into a nice backdrop by @calumam and can be viewed in all it's glory in our persona's first auction
Working on these just spun out of control into multiple different art projects for Akox. But we still want to be able to surprise you all.
Although.... for apparent reasons I can not withhold this little gem from all of you
Follow @themonstertrader to see the newest and latest art, stories and auctions from Akox
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@dreemsteem#0695 no clue if this counts as a drawing to you :')
I didn't get your notification!!!! But guess what!?!?!
I came to your blog on my very own!!!hehehhee
But still please keep giving me notifications ... Cuz me loves them ๐
Haha look at you improving! B-) and I will no worries :)
I knew you would be proud heheheh
It's still not a bike Wolvie!
And is that thing splitting a pokemon in half? Or what is that thing?
And anyway.... that's not very nice!
Freaking Akox!
On another note - I don't get this SteemMonster thing AT ALL! So there's that.....
XXXOOO ~T
SSSSSH!
it's a cryptokitty :O basically the same as steemmonsters but... completely different... without any real use other than collecting kitties... and breeding them.
Love Akox!
It's a card collection game with some pvp elements. Quite the rage.
Magic the gathering, pokemon card game, etc something like that
So Iโm still rather concerned by this lack of a bike thing. I distinctly remember Akox fixing his bike, which he was quite proud of, hitching that to his wagon and departing.
So, yeah....bike.
I do recall reading about this Crypto Kitty thing. So, this is the Monster/Steemit versiรณn...
Is there a โgotta catch โem allโ tagline as well?
Inquiring minds and all that....
~T
Don't worry your pretty little head about that one B-) that is all part of the plan!
So, yeah....sssh
Haha I am sure there will be some kind of tagline yes. Bu I don't know it
I think it should be...
Steemmonsters: Get 'em before they get you
Hehehhehee
Haha that is actually a good one! xD @steemmonsters should be looking for slogans like that! :P
Hehehhehee I thought it was pretty good too!!!! Lolol
I'm so proud of you boys!!!!!!! I hope you're going to have HUGE success!!!!
That would be the dreem yes! :D we'll do what we can
You're already successful! No matter what.
Don't forget that!!!!
Financial rewards are soooooo nice, but you three boys are ALREADY successful
Haha thanks babe! :D
See you tomorrow in DITO??? Ive been missing my BU fam!!! Show your face ๐
Haha I'm guessing you know the answer to that one xD
Did Gina alert you yet?
Hahahhahaa I don't have that tag in my GINA... It was just a hope! And I'm assuming you just did your post... And now you're going to be at DITO!!! :)
YAYYYYY
Akox wanted to be healthy and environmental-friendly but you ended up giving him those vehicles. At least they do look nice and fitting :3
He's a goblin mate xD they don't even know what environmental is....
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