Snowbound Blood Devpost: Volumes 1 - 2

Welcome, everyone!

So, this is our first big post here! For our first $3.22 and up patrons, thank you so much for supporting us. It really means the world. 

As far as concept art drops go from now forwards, for Snowbound Blood I'm thinking I'm going to do it every two volumes and for updates I'm currently unsure since I don't want to just constantly overload this thing with sketches. I'll work it out with the others, but I think it'll be a more occasional thing for bigger panels and obviously flashes and games. 

But enough of the semantics, we all know what you came here to see and believe me I've got your juice. You WILL drink this juice.

We'll go in order, Prologue and Vol. 1, then Vol. 2 and then unused content. 

Charlie's background sketches: 

Hideout sketch.

Intial concept for Sestro's office. 

Finalized sketch.

Sketches of Nocent and Notrel.

Crime scene sketch.

Phil's background sketches:

Stronghold 21 skyline progress sketches.

Conference room progress sketches.

Lupa's background sketches:

Sunset drive initial sketch. (this was before lupa knew repiton had TWO WHOLE DYING SUNS. we had a lot of talk about how they should be placed, and in the end, star wars saved the day. thanks george lucas.)

Nothern Wastes sunset without Secily. (note: we all want secily back)

VOLUME 2:

Xam did a majority of the art in this volume just take it jesus christ

Rypite sprite and background sketches: 

Sirage sprite and background sketches:

Xam also did this office background for her ORIGINAL, more friendsim-y concepts with Rypite and Sirage earlier this year, which you can find here.  She thought it looked a little messy though and asked Charlie to edit it, clean it up and add a few extra bits. And guess what? They did. The ABSOLUTE lad. 

Charlie also did the artifical park: 

UNUSED CONTENT: 

Scrapped button for Sestro and Hamifi, ended up being too small.

Kate made these old corporate adverts from their older rebranding period that were meant to be hung up somewhere in Sestro's office. They'll probably end up in the comic somewhere at some point.

And last but most certainly the neatest, is that we have a couple scrapped songs from Joseph that didn't make the final cut. 

Prologue ended up coming in too late as we had already settled on 'pessimistic duelist' and 'beatriz' as the major themes for Secily and Rypite's original theme just ended up not really fitting the character's bill. Him and Xam really went back and forth on it until they hit a sweet spot. Which is for the best, but I still think the OG theme is neat. Highly suggest giving them a listen and wistfully looking out a window as you think of what could have been.

That's all for now! See you all after Vol. 4 for more of that EPIC SPICY SB content juice.