Dragon Rider

 

Dragon Rider 

Old Drawing in sepia tone of a girl riding a dragon

Sterling City: Web Novel Project

Sterling City (Working name) is a story idea I've had for a while now. Its been living sort of rent free in my head for honestly the past few years and has been mostly a project I've been working on partially for fun. I've debated back and forth as to weather I wanted to make a comic or a more traditional novel and I've come to the conclusion to do some what of a combination of both. Something in the vein of dinotopia lots of illustration to accompany written text. 

So what is the Sterling City About Anyway? 

Well it ironically start life out as a fanfiction idea, which I then decided to make its own separate setting. Now I'll never tell you what that fanfic was originally suppose to be (I never wrote it) but for my own sanity I'll never tell you what fandom it was for. Like ever. I'm taking it to my grave! But the general gist of the setting was, a sort of machine uprising but in reverse. An organic race created by a bunch of robots who eventually begin to rebel against their makers (and yes the robots made them Jurassic park style). I consider this to be more of a setting as a place to tell stories at this point but at the moment I'm still trying to develop and built the setting. There's still a lot I want to change so here's some old art. 

Solar System

I took some inspiration from the Dark Crystal, as none of the characters in this world are human. The Fulcra-Strata system is a binary star system with six primary planets. The majority of the setting takes place on Xitron-g (Xitron-gamma) a planet similar to earth and is the only one that has a map at the moment. Of course this isn't exactly meant to be a setting that focuses heavily on realism but it is largely a sci-fi setting similar to say mass-effect or star trek.

Map of Xitron-Gamma

An old map of Gamma, due for a major overhaul. I drew this years ago and so much has changed from my initial inception. Gamma was colonized by the machine inhabitants of Xitron (totally not inspired by cybertron) and as such I wan't to give everything a very machine-ish name. Some things i plan to keep the same such as the major cities but everything else is bound to change. 

Early Concept art/drawings

This one is the remains of a steel giant. An ancient alien machine ancestor which were created by a long extinct alien race. While there are no living members in modern times, their influence on the world is still felt nearly a million years after. 

A Mermaid in a Tank

An early idea of a group of people on this world. A mermaid created and kept purely for display.