#recklessseries

I‘ll link the pictures I used below each mood board.

Creating/editing the pictures, especially the portraits for the Goyls, was a bit difficult. I never really used Artbreeder before and recreating or changing something up to look like stone wasn‘t really something I got right. Hentzau looks almost completely human and I needed a long time until the skin on Nerron or Kami‘en had the right color. I wasn’t really sure how to change Hentzau‘s skin, since he‘s described as ´brown jaspisˋ in the book but my reference pictures of the gem itself showed more of a lighter brown. I tried my best to make the skin look cracked through the use of various images of men with scarred faces, but the scars faded a bit out in the later processes. I also had to edit the eyes in another app, where I removed the iris to hint at the blindness/bad eyesight he‘s supposed to have. I think the one that looks the closest to a statue/to be made out of stone is Kami‘en, but that one also had a ´greek statue ´- looking base…

Nerron

https://pin.it/2P58Y88

Kami’en

https://pin.it/47aVm7r

Hentzau

ver. 1

edited: alternative versions

https://pin.it/5hBTghf

Jacob Reckless

https://pin.it/1Ir7QJU

Fox/Celeste Auger

https://pin.it/4TGjSs3

Will Reckless

https://pin.it/5zCvm2Q

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Just wanted to add the Artbreeder pictures as stand-alone post.

They could be extremely off to the way other people picture the characters or how they have been described in the books. It‘s been a while since I read them myself, but I tried my best.

Also: the Goyl don‘t really look like they‘re made of stone.

Nerron

Kami‘en

Hentzau

(Both images for Hentzau have been edited afterwards; eyes in Procreate)

Jacob Reckless

Will Reckless

Celeste Auger/Fox

1. Do you think the Goyl get engravings like humans get tattoos? I'm convinced they do because it just sounds awesome.

2. Stone animals. We havent seen any, but do you guys think they're underground living amongst the Goyl?

3. The Goyl are some of (if not the #1) the most amazing artists behind the Mirror. They're surrounded by so many amazing colors and stones that they have to get super inspired.