March BreACK! 2015 : Illustrate Your Own Books : The Earl of Tellurine

The kids have finished illustrating yet another March BreACK! story.

This year, for their Illustrate-Your-Own-Books project, I wrote them a story called “The Earl of Tellurine.” It’s a future-space swashbuckler, loosely based on a couple of different Dumas epics and set in an imagined cosmos known as the Beeshus System. At its heart, it’s a revenge plot: A young pilot named Anson Riverest from the planet Mysinae loses his job, his girlfriend, and “the best years of his life,” at the hands of a couple of jealous ne’er-do-wells named Frank Optimacy and Rand Slang. These two get away with all kinds of mischief because the Beeshus System is the midst of political turmoil. [Aided by the State Concessor, Felice Arrowhart, the reigning tyrant, Raja Eustasis Telesphore 18 keeps trying to silence the upstart “Darling” of the independence movement, Lira N’voy Route.] With the help of his mentor, Eria Fabbré from Chalet Ferrious, and the band of Pirateers on the U. F. O. Wanre Nicht, Anson reinvents himself as the Earl of Tellurine. Brandishing his Argentilian Scythe, he returns to the capital planet of Capris to revenge himself upon his enemies. But will he be satisfied with the results?

Here are galleries of their most amazing illustration work:

Bea

Section I: Helena, Anson’s love Interest

Close up of the Matcha Fish on the Ramses 2K

Anson and Helena’s Wedding Rush is Interrupted

Close up of the Wedding Rush Interrupted

More Guests at the Wedding Rush (these are not quotes from the book)

Section II: Anson and his Mentor Eria Fabbre practicing the Argentillian Scythe at the Chalet Ferrous

Section III: Diahblu and Anson bathing in Tellurine Coins

Anson and Diahblu hypnotizing the 2 beaked parrot, Anxious Andy

Section IV: Celestia in her “Fury of Justice” Costume at the Carnivale

Fan Favourite: Andy plucks out the eyes of the evil Rand Slag

Close-up Andy spits out the eyes because even the eyes of murderer taste gross

The low-key (hence black and white) wedding of Celestia and Roderig, with Anson and Helena witnessing

Some of the female characters: Bad Felice Arrowhart, the mentor Eria Fabbre, and Celestia

More of the female Characters: Maria Étourné leader of the Ninja Pirateers, Celestia in her Fury of Justic outfit, and her mother, helena

Mouette Juste and her idol, Lira N’voy Route

Anson Riverest, our hero, in his Earl of Tellurine ensemble

Toby

All the space flowers, translated into Toby’s invented language of Dragoon

Anson Riverest tried by Concessor Felice Arrowhart

Felice Agrees but sends him to prison anyway

Seciton II: The Space bots of Eria Fabbre

The vessel that brings him to the prison

The Chalet Ferrious on the moon of ferrous

Section III: Anxious Andy, the Pirate Parrot

The Earl of Tellurine’s Chateau on the Rondu Coast

Toby’s completed Book Illustrations for The Earl Of Tellurine

Illustrate-Your-Own Books DIY
Find a story or chapter book that you can read together as a family, and divide it into 4 or 5 manageable sections. Tackle one section every day and use your go-to art supplies to illustrate or re-illustrate, as the case may be. Go wild! Try a different art technique each day!