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Character Design - The Champion
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Once I settled on the "Quizard Duel" concept, it wouldn't take long for that idea to be immediately followed by, "Hey, I could just stra...
Character Design - The Quizard
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]For the longest time, I struggled with what I wanted the "Media" section of the Fair visit to include. As the outline was getting further along,...
Thumbnails - Page 234
I plan a lot of stuff with my writing - particularly the most important plot beats - but stuff like the pins Leon and Luca won last chapter? I actually didn't have a strong concept for when I added it to the script. Thankfully, I trust future-me enough to figure out what to do with the odds and ends of my scripts.N...
Environmental Design - The Coaster
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Staging for the coaster section of the chapter. I had a time and a half trying to figure out what to make the actual carts look like. It's just kind...
Environmental Design - Treebase Bathrooms
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]"Hey Timmy, what's YOUR favorite piece of KttFF concept art?""I like the one where Gage sketched out a WHOLE PAGE of details for a bathr...
Thumbnails - Page 233
I knew Leon would come clean to Luca about /not/ using her holo-tablet for studying history, and instead looking up stuff about the key, though I didn't initially expect it to happen this early in the chapter. Honestly though, I feel this is a good chance to re-establish the budding friendship between these two. No...
Character Sketches - C2 Finalizations 2
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Luca's turn for some development practice! It'll never stop being funny to me that some of these characters, I've drawn for YEARS now, and y...
Character Sketches - C2 Finalizations
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Mostly a study of how actual cat ears work, along with rechecking the proportions of Leon and Luca. AND getting more practice with Luca's leg struct...
Thumbnails - Page 232
If there's one thing you can count on with me, it's that if there's a more simple layout to go with on a given page, I'm ABSOLUTELY going to leap at the chance to do something way more unnecessarily complicated.Oh well. At least it'll give me more of a chance to show off some of the background build...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 8
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]A bit more finalization, along with testing out some more alternative designs for the main Fair grounds platform. This would ultimately be the last of t...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 7
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]I consider this to be the point when I truly had a strong foundation for what the Fair would look like. I realized by this point that I didn't have ...
Thumbnails - Page 231
The cover thumbs for Chapter 3! This one was a struggle. I had a lot of ideas in my head for the framing, but few of them really conveyed what I was aiming for. Thankfully, I was finally able to settle on one... functionally the first one I /did./ Go figure.As per usual with the other chapters, many of the elements I u...
Environmental Design - Velvinn 3
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]By this point, I was being better about using reference to inspire parts of my setting. It's fitting that much of the stuff here was inspired by Rat...
Environmetal Design - Spring Fair 6
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]It took quite a while to figure out how I wanted the Titanwood trees to look. The base was inspired by rainbow eucalyptus trees, but none of the canopie...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 5
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]... Huh, still playing around with those modular tree base designs by this point. Well, in any case, as you can see, I figured out a more simple alterna...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 4
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]FINALLY, the Fair is starting to look like it would in the comic! Though I do admit I am sad I never found a spot to show off the expansive sprinkler sy...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 3
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]It doesn't read very well, in hindsight, but I LOVE the top sketch. It gives a view as Leon and Luca walk along one of the tree platforms and looks ...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 2
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]The Fair is starting to take shape! I reached the point where I aimed to include a bunch of criss-crossing walkways reaching out from the central platfo...
Environmental Design - Spring Fair 1
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Now we come to one of my FAVORITE things got to design: The Spring Fair! These are the earliest sketches for what I had in mind, and it's safe to sa...
Character Design - More Fair Background Fodder
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Another set of designs that I had a blast working on! Notably, there's a pair of cameos prepped here - Riiser in the bottom center, and the McElroys...
Character Design - Spring Fair Background Fodder
[Originally drawn around Aug 2019]Looking back, I like how these all turned out (at least in their final incarnations), but I was drawing most of them during a summer vacation where I was EXTREMELY SICK, and just wasn't feeling it. Still, it did lead to some concepts I really like. The Health And Safety (HAS) Offic...
Environments - Velvinn 2
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]A detail that doesn't often get explored in (what little there is of) solarpunk media is the question of "What are the winters like?" Solarp...
Environments - Velvinn 1
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Despite how much brainpower it takes to create these environments, it's easily one of my favorite parts of developing the comic. This is where the r...
Character Sketches - C2 Redesigns
[This is being posted as part of the hiatus for KttFF’s second chapter. The comic will resume with CHAPTER 3 on August 24th, 2023]Despite the fact that I’ve been drawing Leon for over a decade at this point, I’m /STILL/ constantly shifting around details of his design. Proportions are still a major detail that I ...
Environmental Design - Orb-Its
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]The Orb-Its concept was actually one of the earliest of the series, one that serves as a summation for the solarpunk elements of the comic. Open to all,...
Ask #6
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this READER QUESTION for the series!]Another reader question, this time from AtomicBritt, creator of Cirque Royale!Time for a lesson on the wonders of future medicine!
Alien Sketches - Plakzaken
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]The Plakzaken are probably one of my favorite alien designs I've come up with. I lumped together a ton of plant aspects to come up with their final ...
Ask #5
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this READER QUESTION for the series!]Melody's not quite as sure about her future as Leon is, it seems...Thank you to ArtUniverse01 for the question!
Environmental Sketches - Paradox Bubbles and Flora
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]Since we got a name forthem, /technically/ at the end of the Chapter 2 Intermission, I figure there's no longer a need to hide it! Everyone say hell...
Characters - Leon (Poncho version)
[Key to the Future’s Fate is currently on HIATUS. The story will return with CHAPTER 3 on AUGUST 24TH. In the meantime, please enjoy this CONCEPT ART for the series!]More poncho studies from around the time I was starting the comic! Again, it would be literal years before he actually gets to wear it in the comic, and...
