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Photoshop, Wacom Intuos 3
standard brush set + custom brush made up on the spot
my own conscript and conlang

It's a fairy tale type story I made up a while ago: The Tale of Nibel. It would be an adaption, most likely, because Nibel wouldn't have spoken this language...

I really want to do something like this with traditional mediums.

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I actually copied the text in the image straight from a hand-written copy. However, I’ve long ago lost the English version, and the Guha grammar has evolved so much since I initially wrote this, that I’m not even going to bother providing a transcription. So without further delay, the first half of the Tale of Nibel:

First Part:

There was once a Sivo farmer named Tomato. He had a beautiful daughter and she was named Nibel. Her father was trying to find a man for her to marry, but she would have none. The man she loved was a fisherman. This man was Tam Ke, the Kasoro.

Every day, when they met, Tam Ke would bring flowers for Nibel. And every week she would make him a kekin*. In this way they spent their days together. When evening fell, Nibel would return to her father’s farm, and Tam Ke would return to his home by the sea.

When the Kasoro left for war against the Sinalu**, Tam Ke was made to go as well. Nibel cried and cried. Tomato, Nibel’s father, married her to a Sivo merchant. She was apathetic toward him. Her heart thought only of Tam Ke. She cried for him for many years. She never heard a single word about Tam Ke.

Now, Tam Ke was very courageous, but during a particularly vicious battle he was injured and died. His body was committed, as is the custom of the Kasoro, to the sea. There he was found by a god of the sea, and his life was returned to him. When he awoke, the first thing Tam Ke asked was, “Where is my Nibel?”

The god liked this question, and so he inquired, “Who is Nibel?”

*Same idea as Stromboli…but different.
**Another group of people
Sivo and Kasoro are ethnic groups.

Second Part: [link]

Description
I cannot even begin to know where to categorize this...

Photoshop, Wacom Intuos 3
standard brush set + custom brush made up on the spot
my own conscript and conlang

It's a fairy tale type story I made up a while ago: The Tale of Nibel. It would be an adaption, most likely, because Nibel wouldn't have spoken this language...

I really want to do something like this with traditional mediums.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I actually copied the text in the image straight from a hand-written copy. However, I’ve long ago lost the English version, and the Guha grammar has evolved so much since I initially wrote this, that I’m not even going to bother providing a transcription. So without further delay, the first half of the Tale of Nibel:

First Part:

There was once a Sivo farmer named Tomato. He had a beautiful daughter and she was named Nibel. Her father was trying to find a man for her to marry, but she would have none. The man she loved was a fisherman. This man was Tam Ke, the Kasoro.

Every day, when they met, Tam Ke would bring flowers for Nibel. And every week she would make him a kekin*. In this way they spent their days together. When evening fell, Nibel would return to her father’s farm, and Tam Ke would return to his home by the sea.

When the Kasoro left for war against the Sinalu**, Tam Ke was made to go as well. Nibel cried and cried. Tomato, Nibel’s father, married her to a Sivo merchant. She was apathetic toward him. Her heart thought only of Tam Ke. She cried for him for many years. She never heard a single word about Tam Ke.

Now, Tam Ke was very courageous, but during a particularly vicious battle he was injured and died. His body was committed, as is the custom of the Kasoro, to the sea. There he was found by a god of the sea, and his life was returned to him. When he awoke, the first thing Tam Ke asked was, “Where is my Nibel?”

The god liked this question, and so he inquired, “Who is Nibel?”

*Same idea as Stromboli…but different.
**Another group of people
Sivo and Kasoro are ethnic groups.

Second Part: [link]