During the month of October in 2019, and the days that followed it in November, I yet again undertook the Inktober challenge. This time I continued up the family tree from the previous Knights of Gartania to their parents, and their parents’ parents. The Lords and Ladies of the realm if you will.
From there I coloured them using a limited pallet of 4 colours (Murky Green, Steely Blue, Sunrise Yellow, and Peach), and prepared them for print.
To help fund the cost of printing I ran a successful kickstarter that from Apr – May 2020 and raised £4031 which allowed me to get it produced as a hard-backed novel and get dust jackets printed for it and the previous volume as well! I marketed, and subsequently edited, the book as a Dungeons and Dragons character book as I felt this would both help the book sell, and also present me with a challenge to showcase my work in a way that I hadn’t done so before.
For each of the Knights I wrote up and created simplified characters sheets for readers to use within their games, complete with family trees and magical special abilities.
As part of the project I also created 2 poster designs.
If you wish to buy a copy of the Knights of Gartania 2: Lords and Ladies then you can do so on my Kofi, here
Nathan Hillustration 