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Sequill Project
15 years ago
After going through some old books, I found something almost forgot about!
In 1998, when I was 13 years old, I decided to write my own field guide on a made-up bird species called the sequill. I was, admittedly, highly inspired by the velociraptors from Jurassic Park and, combining them with my craze for falcons (yes, even then I loved birds of prey!) created a falcon-velociraptor type-creature in the bird of prey-inhabited land of Raptoria (such a creative name, I know). It sounds rather silly and looking back through the book, I can confirm that it is pretty silly. However, it's a 50-page book that I put a lot of time and effort into, and it's really not half bad for a 13-year old!
Being 25 years old now with a great deal more art experience and skill, I'm going to be revisiting the illustrations and writing in this book, and creating a whole new field guide. I will, of course, edit the text so they're not quite so unbelievable (I have been joking to myself that these were my "Mary Sue" birds!), and redo the illustrations in watercolor. The new illustrations will replicate the poses and expressions of the originals.
If you're interested in seeing the book, I've scanned the cover and first 9 pages and posted them in a pdf here:
Sequills of Raptoria - Part 1
As I complete the pages, I will scan the next 10 pages and post them in chunks since the pdfs are so big.
In 1998, when I was 13 years old, I decided to write my own field guide on a made-up bird species called the sequill. I was, admittedly, highly inspired by the velociraptors from Jurassic Park and, combining them with my craze for falcons (yes, even then I loved birds of prey!) created a falcon-velociraptor type-creature in the bird of prey-inhabited land of Raptoria (such a creative name, I know). It sounds rather silly and looking back through the book, I can confirm that it is pretty silly. However, it's a 50-page book that I put a lot of time and effort into, and it's really not half bad for a 13-year old!
Being 25 years old now with a great deal more art experience and skill, I'm going to be revisiting the illustrations and writing in this book, and creating a whole new field guide. I will, of course, edit the text so they're not quite so unbelievable (I have been joking to myself that these were my "Mary Sue" birds!), and redo the illustrations in watercolor. The new illustrations will replicate the poses and expressions of the originals.
If you're interested in seeing the book, I've scanned the cover and first 9 pages and posted them in a pdf here:
Sequills of Raptoria - Part 1
As I complete the pages, I will scan the next 10 pages and post them in chunks since the pdfs are so big.
It's funny how even back then you still had more creativity then i do now.
I am very impressed with this and would love to see the rest sometime! :3
You almost predicted it!