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phantom-inker — Earth Magic

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Published: 2020-01-22 03:16:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 19814; Favourites: 305; Downloads: 108
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Description In the setting of the Binding Lands, once you're past a certain level of magic power, you can either spend the next hundred years slowly working your way up to a proper sorcerer, or you can use a secret Binding Ritual to tie you to a particular kind of magic, which will also multiply your abilities ten times.  Of course, the Binding Ritual will likely ruin you emotionally or mentally, if you're unlucky or don't naturally come by strong willpower, but that can be such a small price to pay.

Karenna, here, was such an aspiring Sorceress; and she chose the Binding Ritual and fulfilled her natural affinity to become an Earth Sorceress — with the unexpected side-effect of becoming an earth creature, a centaur.  She gained quite a lot of power, and paid with her species instead of her sanity.

Now Karenna roams the lands as a mercenary, an Earth Sorceress for hire; and if you can pay her price, she's the strongest you'll find.


(This is set in the same world as Fire Magic , but featuring a different character, and a different "natural element.")


I've been working on this for quite a while:  I started it over two months ago, and I've put probably upwards of fifty hours into it.  It's arguably my most ambitious drawing to date:  It has a complex background, good composition, good colors, really detailed shading, and lots of special effects.  You could even almost believe it wasn't vector art — almost.  So it's pretty good, I think.


As usual, it's all vector art, drawn entirely with a mouse.  Hope you all like it.


(Also, a properly high-resolution version can be found on the Patreon , for the Fan+ tier.)

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Comments: 24

EVAUnit4A [2020-01-23 09:53:10 +0000 UTC]

I've had this playing on repeat all day:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vCxBQ…

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phantom-inker In reply to EVAUnit4A [2020-01-23 22:50:10 +0000 UTC]

It's good music, but I really feel like there's something else I could draw that could be a better fit than Karenna here.  She's a talented sorceress, but she's a mercenary, and I really see her as closer in spirit to, say, Han and Luke than to, say, Frodo and Sam; and the music definitely evokes the latter.  Maybe I'll have to draw a centaur sorceress that fits "Enchantress" the way I'm imagining.  You're totally on the hook for watching my Picarto streams if I do, though

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EVAUnit4A In reply to phantom-inker [2020-01-24 11:07:11 +0000 UTC]

Eh, I'm not implying you need to match a centaur to the song, just thought you might find it engaging and entertaining.


Most of the time you do those Picarto streams, I'm nowhere near my computer, and get the notice after the fact. 

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phantom-inker In reply to EVAUnit4A [2020-01-25 02:57:26 +0000 UTC]

You do know that (a) Picarto can email you when a stream starts, and (b) most phones can beep or blink when you get an email, and (c) Picarto has a mobile app, so you the thing you very likely carry with you can not only notify you that it's happening but also show it too.

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EVAUnit4A In reply to phantom-inker [2020-01-25 03:17:57 +0000 UTC]

I don't have a cell phone.

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phantom-inker In reply to EVAUnit4A [2020-01-25 06:50:02 +0000 UTC]

Not really sure what I can tell you then. Um...

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EVAUnit4A In reply to phantom-inker [2020-01-27 04:50:03 +0000 UTC]

Wha- you think all Millennials are mindlessly obsessed with cell phones? 

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phantom-inker In reply to EVAUnit4A [2020-01-27 14:40:56 +0000 UTC]

Had no idea you were a Millennial, but seeing as how phones are pretty common these days, it's a reasonable assumption that if you live in an industrialized nation you probably have one.

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EVAUnit4A In reply to phantom-inker [2020-01-27 20:44:22 +0000 UTC]

Born in '82, so that makes me a "Generation Y", but we're more commonly known as "Millennials" because we were teenagers in the early 2000s.


The generation before me is "Generation X" (1970s), and the one after me is "Generation Z" (1990s).


My one-year old niece (born late Jan 2019) will be the recently-named "Generation I" (which is a double meaning for "Internet" and the pronoun we use to describe ourselves, "I", because of its more selfish/isolationist implications in modern American society).

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phantom-inker In reply to EVAUnit4A [2020-01-28 20:40:02 +0000 UTC]

Speaking on behalf of all of Generation X, and I say this from the bottom of my heart, meh.

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EVAUnit4A In reply to phantom-inker [2020-01-29 00:51:56 +0000 UTC]

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MensjeDeZeemeermin [2020-01-23 04:52:37 +0000 UTC]

Marvelous detail and shading, strong sense of energy and power.ee

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10110100 [2020-01-23 01:31:09 +0000 UTC]

Very awesome!

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Cheetaur [2020-01-22 15:36:27 +0000 UTC]

Very nice work thanks for sharing

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Agent505 [2020-01-22 15:21:38 +0000 UTC]

Fire Magic:  Iffrit, Naga or Salamander?

Water Magic:  Mermaid, Cecalia (naturally?)

Air Magic:  I'd guess Jinn, or even a Harpy?


Though I'm probably guessing, Earth Magic looks great.

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phantom-inker In reply to Agent505 [2020-01-22 19:20:00 +0000 UTC]

I already drew Fire Magic last year. She's a naga. Click the link.

As for the others, Water Magic would most obviously be a mermaid. Air Magic, I dunno, not big on djinns and bird girls. But there are others, too, like Light and Dark, and Life, and Wood, and Lightning...  Could be a long series, but we'll see what gets drawn in future years. At a rate of one "element" per year, this series could take a while.

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human72 In reply to phantom-inker [2020-04-12 16:38:37 +0000 UTC]

on someones da page which I faved a art of they pulled off a taur varrient using a bird if I can find it I can share it. 

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Agent505 In reply to phantom-inker [2020-01-23 00:37:50 +0000 UTC]

It's worth the wait if your muse is always fueled for projects.

(Of course I'm waiting for water)

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BleedingPascal [2020-01-22 15:19:24 +0000 UTC]

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phantom-inker In reply to BleedingPascal [2020-01-26 16:58:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!  You still need to draw a centaur in trade, you know

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Mawnoos [2020-01-22 10:55:24 +0000 UTC]

Oh, wow, yes, that IS good, especially the lighting on her hair. 

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Rogue7 [2020-01-22 09:13:39 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful

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TotallyN0tAnArtist [2020-01-22 03:31:52 +0000 UTC]

Good art, with an interesting concept.

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Karloon [2020-01-22 03:24:31 +0000 UTC]

Great work.

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