Sketchbook – silentheart00
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This past week is just not my week. This month has been rather shaky.
We had a flood again. There have been occasional leaks, but this was a straight up flood by comparison. All hands were on deck, all items on the ground we were sorting through in preparation for moving were moved to higher ground, all available modes of removing water were implemented. Thankfully we caught it really early and there’s minimal damage, but good grief, what a trying week.
In an effort to cheer myself up and get inspiration flowing again, I’m concepting a new DND character for future play. This one pulls from 5e, so I chose a new race to explore. I’m hoping this will help me get back in the swing of things and not feel so down.
Meet Kaeria, a tiefling bard.
Barely surviving in the forest on the outskirts of a town, Kaeria would use small tricks to distract people and steal what she needed before slipping away back to the forest. During one of her distractions, she caught the eye of a travelling drow bard, who followed her back to her hideout and offered to take her under the drow’s wing. Together, they gained notoriety as the Dark Sisters, performing the darker stories other troupes won’t touch, as well as stories from their cultures. Any extra money past the Dark Sisters’ needs was given to the less fortunate. Even small acts of kindness, such as giving away extra food, was second nature to the drow bard. Inspired, Kaeria chose to follow in her footsteps in her own way and adopted the Virtue Name of Benevolent, or Bene.
One day, she woke to a note in her tent of her teacher needing to leave for an unknown reason, leaving her pet pseudodragon in her care, Imruil. “Imruil always did like you best.” Everything that wasn’t Kaeria’s was taken, save for a few of the drow’s special trinkets.
Here’s the pose I’m thinking of developing. It’s dynamic, I think there are interesting flow lines, and it’s something I’ve never done before: action pose. Could be a snapshot of one of her performances or something.
Well, uh, as an aside to my aside, I made a small portrait of “Bene” Kaeria while playing a one shot with some people from my cohort. The one shot was really fun. Good Dungeon Master, good player characters, lots of silliness ensued. My favorite part of the night was when we were battling some enemies in a small room (instigated by our Warforged wizard), we closed the doors to the room of enemies and let the summoned tentacles of a monster in magical darkness summoned by our Changeling warlock just wreak havoc to them. We were standing out in the hallway when we surprise attacked the enemies in the room, if that helps clear anything up. Then I got a natural 20 on taking one of my costumes and tying it around the door handles into a knot. Super silly night. I’m looking forward to playing with them again.
Adding more idea refinement. The tail is looking a bit plain, so might style that up with something.
Been quite for the last couple of weeks because I moved. Phew! But, I’m set up and ready to get back into art!
Figuring out the shading, laying down some rough forms.
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