Yesterday I was talking to a friend about commissioning a new necklace using the StarReader Universe symbol. When she asked which one that was, I set out to the 'net to find a reference image.
To my surprise, I couldn't find one. Since I was at a restaurant, I didn't have access to my files in order to show her. At last night, I was too exhausted from traveling from Boston to Minneapolis to find the image.
Clairissa is Tre'ana's closest friend, and works with her at their clinic. Clairissa is more pragmatic than Tre'ana. While she's been taught a lot about Tre'ana's religion, she still remains skeptical. She often worries about Tre'ana's selfless ways and how they may get them both into trouble.
Clairissa is wearing a StarReader Priestess robe -- which is really just the part in blue. The embroidery is a stylized StarReader context symbol.
The beginning and end...of the starreader website. I created it as a teaser, but the site never got past that point. The symbol in the center is of the StarReader Universe symbol. The story is the StarReader creation myth.
Tre'ana is a follower of a nearly extinct religion. She was taught in its ways by grandmother, as her mother despised it. The actual name of the religion is unknown as the spoken language has been lost. The written language remains in the form of a holy book, passed on to Tre'ana by her grandmother.
A really quick sketch of Tre'ana. While there's a number of things wrong with this image artistically, I really like the emotional intent of the piece.
Unfinished artwork. Originally I planned for this to be the background for an ad for the videogame project. Since StarReader the game never materialized, the image was never completed.
I haven't drawn Tre'ana in quite some time. In recent years, I've had reason to ignore the spiritual in exchange for what my friends call "dark complexities". Recently, however, the character has become more interesting. In a new variant of the story, Tre'ana is a conflicted character, stubborn although selfless, and secretly addicted to Codeine.
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