More class work, this time from way, way back. Maybe even from before I started working online. It's hard to recall. The assignment was to depict a fictional setting of our creation, showcasing original characters and story elements and so on. I threw my heart and soul into it, using just about every technical skill I knew back then and every character I could come up with. I was fairly serious about it... in an alternate universe, had I taken different paths, Eye of the Blue Flame might just have become what Zebra Girl is now. It never quite coalesced, but still... place in my heart, and all.
The plot involved a fantastical, medieval-esque world populated by anthropomorphic races. One day, a mysterious black substance seeps from the ground. It turns out to be alive, and begins to consume and mutate grown men and women and steal children from their homes. A single mother (the rabbit, center) sees her daughter taken and sets out on a quest to rescue her. Along the way she meets various colorful characters and learns a magic art involving the invocation and manipulation of a spectral blue flame, the only really effective weapon against the Darkness. This has the side effect of turning her eyes from their natural red to a vivid blue, hence the title. And now you know the rest of the story.
I'm somewhere in the picture, by the way. See if you can find me.