Welcome to Red Nebula Studios, home of the various works of Nightlyre and Leezard. You'll find links to these over along the left-hand side of the page. We have several future projects planned, with this site acting as the "hub".

Nightlyre and Leezard: Update! May 17th, 2012 | Permalink

The TWC voting incentive for Planes of Eldlor has updated: Dragon Egg Sculpture - Spiny Desert Drake

Another sculpture! This little fellow is reserved, as he was made by request to resemble the Spiny Desert Drake from our Phoenix Comicon exclusive this year. I don't mean to be a tease, but taking this request was a very special case and not something I can regularly do. Making the little hatchlings is something I do in my scant spare time, and if I tried to do them on commission, it'd eat into my Eldlor-drawing time!

This is the first dragon I've done with customized glass eyes, which follow you as you can kinda see from the pictures. Both the dragon and cactus are made from polymer clay, and the egg is a gourd as per usual. To make it look more desert-y, this one uses a lot more sand than rock. This was one of my favorite gourd eggs. I blended the greenish-yellow leather dye on one side with red on the other - it turned out quite unique looking.

Overall? I'm loving this little cutie. :D

Nightlyre and Leezard: New Page May 14th, 2012 | Permalink

Planes of Eldlor has updated: Page 151

Nightlyre and Leezard: Update! May 10th, 2012 | Permalink

The TWC voting incentive for Planes of Eldlor has updated: Finished Drakeling Fossil

And here's the final version of that critter I was working on a couple weeks ago. This was a huge experiment, and I'm quite pleased with how this sculpture turned out. The skeleton is polymer clay, with 148 individual hand-sculpted bones at final count! The 'rock' is DAS clay (messy stuff, but effective), with a final acrylic wash to bring out the texture and depth.

Nightlyre and Leezard: New Page May 7th, 2012 | Permalink

Planes of Eldlor has updated: Page 150

We've also got new glass charms in the store! Or, well, we will within a couple of hours. I am in the process of adding them now. These charms are lovely and quite classy looking, while still being purrdy and fantasy-ish. :D We've got leather cords and chain necklaces available, and they look great with both.

Nightlyre and Leezard: Update! May 3rd, 2012 | Permalink

The TWC voting incentive for Planes of Eldlor has updated: The Storm Warrior

And now for something completely different.

It's funny how an idea can evolve and take on a life of its own sometimes. I started out with an inkling to draw a centaur, as that can happen sometimes. (No? Just me again? Bah.) As is often the case with a single-frame picture, I was trying to figure out what to have him doing with his hands. Bow and arrow? Nah, a little too standard. Spear? Sword? Maybe, but the thought just didn't quite appeal. A magic-user, however...

It was like a light switched on in my head, and a story of a rogue centaur clan in a world that shuns magic-users began to spring to life. Unlike most of the denizens of the world, the Storm Warriors don't consider the use of magic to be for those too weak to wield conventional weapons. Their way of battle involves harnessing some of the most violent natural powers in a fierce battle of wills against their opponent.

If you were wondering, this has nothing to do with Eldlor... just one of the many stories now swimming around in my strange little mind. :) Enjoy the random centaur art!