After completing the Hobbler Troll sculpture recently, I
have decided to change the idea for my book. It will now be “Gretchen Goosander’s
Top 25 Specimens of The Hidden World”. The reason as to why I wanted to change
this is because I feel that 50 species is far too many. I do not want to
include every single species I have thought of for the sake of completionism. This
will result in having too many species and therefore too much to draw for the
book. I would rather pick quality over quantity.
This book will no longer be just a fictional encyclopaedia.
I have realised that there are too many magical species in the Gretchen
Goosander series to include them all and even when I narrow the scope down to
species included in just Upshire, it is still too many to handle. Doing it as a
top 25 list can still give the book an encyclopaedia quality, but without it
being too heavy. This is intended to be a sort-of gateway book to entice people of the Gretchen Goosander universe
into the idea of hidden ones and the world they live in rather than being a
proper encyclopaedia. It will also be more original than just going for a
straight-up encyclopaedia since this has been done to death by many fantasy
writers.
I have written a list of 25 hidden creatures which I would
like to include, plus one dishonourable mention (the blood dragon). I can now
have 5 of these as Zbrush models instead of 3-4.
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