Color Code Illustrations

Book 1 of the Color Code Saga

The Color Code

Plot: Best friends Egnaro Rang, Lea Welley, and Kaleb Blake are stuck in detention with three other students and an irate teacher. But when the late bus crashes all of them receive mysterious powers that make them the target of an extremely nasty woman who won't hesitate to destroy their families. Meanwhile a peculiar teacher takes on the teenagers to train them as superheroes.

The Justice Heroes of 4808

Angel, Captain Streak, Blackbolt, Spitfire, and Lord Red Fox

Lia Welley, Egnaro Rang, and Kaleb Blake on their way to school, where there lives are about to change forever

Luke Tigl, Priscilla Knip, Louis Blue, Engaro Rang, Lia Welley, and Kaleb Blake come in contact with the colored spheres after a frightful bus accident

Egnaro wakes up to discover he has fire power

Luke is tased by a man in a black jumpsuit

Juliette Ziegler confronts the parents

An unsuccessful attempt to use their powers.

Dmitri Merrill teaches the budding superheroes at an abandoned pool

Color Code? Dollar Dude?

The Color Code goes to war to rescue their parents

Luke flings Egnaro from a window

Juliette is apprehended by the Color Code

Egnaro gives a funeral speech for his mentor

To Be Continued with Book 2

Rate to Take

Plot: The Color Code is determined to track down the cure for their parents' troubles. At the same time they are all facing a new set of issues. Chris Tigl wants Luke to officially join his company meanwhile the teenage rebel is experiencing issues with his bad leg. Kaleb is avidly pursuing Angel to the point he is ignoring his friends and siblings who need him. Lea finds her perfect sister suffers from a heartache that is more than her lost parents. Priscilla is defamed by MW who barely survived the disaster that killed her father. Louis is forced to clear charges against himself or face real time in prison. Egnaro is officially mentored by Spitfire, but will he leave his friends to join the Justice Heroes?

Academy of the Unknown part 3

Cassandra, Aria's niece, and her inseparable cat outside the Swan house.

Valin collects the slave papers from Gavin

The steward oversees Mendel signing Debora's freedom papers, Aria voices proper objections and Valin glowers at his future stepmother's interference. 

The steward and Valin are suspicious of each other

Aria and Valin wash dishes and have their first mother and son discussion

Gavin and Valin have high hopes for the future. Aria is suspicious of their motives.

Merrill (or Lucas, I forget, they're identical) announces the arrival of the soldiers with the new cook

Deborah needs a lot of guards for her transportation

Gavin is reunited with Deborah and realizes she is suffering from Mine Sickness or The Fever

Deborah had been married to Gavin with Mendel's blessing only for her to be arrested the day after the wedding and sent to the mines

Valin had attempted to help Gavin find Deborah and ended up being banished to a desolate island for three years. In the end his brother brought him home. But not before the food supply had been cut off. Is someone attempting to kill the crown prince?

Enraged by Deborah's insane behavior Mendel removes Valin from the Academy, but lets Gavin remain behind

Valin is bitter over the experience, but little does he know that things are only going to get worse.

To Be Continued

Academy of the Unknown illustrations part 2

 A continuation of The Two Master's and the Prince

Previously: Valin, prince of Perlan is left at the Academy of the Unknown as his father hopes he will turn into a warrior capable of running Perlan with an iron fist. Valin is awakened in the night by a huge monster which he attacks.

Valin ran yelling down the stairs. Gavin grabs his swords and almost impales his master, but Gailin manages to halt him

The story is only partially believed because of the orange blood on the dagger

Samuel wraps Valin's knife in a cloth

The next morning Valin finds Lucas has returned but is injured. Aria watches over him and rocks Bale

The students blame Valin for Lucas' injury.

Back row: Samuel, Merril (Lucas' cousin), Goldie, Rillian (Aria's son)

Middle row: Gailin, Caleb (Goldie's brother), Simeon

Front row: Gavin, Lilian (Caspian's daughter)

Master Jethro orders Valin to sit in the front row with Lilian and Gavin

Valin is assigned kitchen duty with Goldie and Caleb. Three nobles who should have zero experience

While looking for water, Valin finds Gavin is on goat duty, Lilian is on chicken duty, and Samuel is on garden duty

Valin is unable to get any water out of the pump

Goldie cracked all the eggs at once

Valin fires Goldie and Caleb and has Gavin come help him make a real lunch

Rillian warns Gavin that he is breaking the rules by having the students swap duties

The steward arrives with the rest of Valin's luggage

Jethro will let Valin keep one box and refurses to let Gavin help his master

Valin makes a medicine for Lucas

When screams are heard Valin finds a sword in his new box. He gives the medicine to Goldie

The same monster is back, this time it has Gavin up a tree

Jethro explodes the monster. Debris rains down on Gavin, Rillian, and Valin

Rillian, Jethro, and Simeon are mad at Valin

Valin's medicine works and Lucas is able to share his story. 

Mendel and the steward are escorted to the pavilion by Simeon

(The steward has black hair, I forgot to color it)

Mendel is interested in Aria. She agrees to marry him if he'll find a new cook for the academy

To Be Continued

Academy of the Unknown illustrations part 1

 There is nothing better than procrastinating on projects I should be working on. How about writing a fully illustrated book to procrastinate on a different book. :D

A couple of different cover designs.

Top: Master Caspian

Middle: Master Jethro

Bottom: Crown prince Valin

The kings of Perlan and Fanta were enemies fighting over the control of the great continent

An unhappy messenger sent to inform King Mendel of Perlan that his invasion of Fanta had failed

Lady Azillia and her youngest child, Veronica. Lady Azillia is afraid her husband and son will be punished for the failed invasion

King Mendel's long suffering steward

Mendel's nephew, Gailin, oldest son, Valin, and youngest son, Callin.

Valin ponders why no one likes him.

Mendel's middle son Jaylan argues with his cousin Gailin and eventually agree to a duel

Gailin prepares to take on Jaylan while Valin is forced to b his backup

Gailin takes Jaylan down in a surprise move while Valin looks on in amazement

Mendel watches the fight and gets an interesting idaa, while the steward is afraid that Mendel will have someone executed

Simeon, a student at the Academy of the Unknown reluctantly waits to greet the royal family of Perlan

Master  Caspian

Aria, Caspian's widowed sister-in-law and cook

Valin's servant, Gavin, stands on guard. Simeon and his brother Samuel are shocked at the way the king is speaking to their teacher

Dinner at the Academy, when Mendel announces that Valin, Gailin, and Gavin will remain at the school and study under Caspian.

Aria is serving, Valin is shocked, his sister, Tatiana, is horrified, Caspian is thunderstruck, Mendel and Callin showing only their backs, Jaylan is floored, Gailin is dismayed.

(Note: Gailin is already a student at the school, but prefers to walk ten miles home each night to be with his mother)

Master Caspian loses his temper and throws prince Jaylan out of the pavilion

Gavin, was not happy to remain at the academy

Resident student, Lucas, supports his orphaned nephew

Master Jethro

Valin ponders his unhappy circumstances in his new room

Valin is awakened by a noise and opens the balcony door, which does not exist, to find a vicious loathsome creature who wants to eat him. To save himself he cuts off the tongue with his knife and throws his torch down the creature's throat.

To be continued