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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. With 4th ed D&D coming out, it seems like lots of folks want commissions along those lines. Here is something a bit different, a prop. A mystical sword that has been shattered into 5 parts and must be reforged as part of one group's quest. And this LOOKS like a fantasy character, but is actually a trans-dimensional superhero character. I think it could work for a fantasy game too. Does 4th ed have rules to do other races besides its core? Cat people just seem to go with fantasy. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread And I got into ANOTHER 4th ed D&D game. This time, smaller group, again with Judd. These characters really came together in a cool way during character creation. Judd and I were coming into an existing game, so we decided to tie our PCs together in the backstory. And then I was simply "on" while doodling that night at the table. Might have something to do with the cardstock that I had JUST bought that day from OfficeMax...that I prefer drawing on. The way the pencil makes its marks and the ease of the stroke.... I just really like that surface to do pencil on. So without too much more blah-de-blah blah... here are the pics. First up, Bok, an Eladrin mage, who is awfully "bishi" and gets rather upset when we call him, her. Which has happened several times. When I heard the concept, I was mentally..."wow, that is going to be tough to pull off....that adrogyny."... but I think I nailed it. Then, we are going alphabetical, is my PC, Kendrick Dell. His 4 brothers are cops (city watchmen/guard), his father and uncle are cops. His 3 sisters married cops... and Kendrick WAS a cop. He loved being a cop. But, a stoopid noble got all drunk and pissy and came at Kendrick with a sword... even drunk, the damn noble was good, and Kendrick was forced to kill him in self defense. Problem. Noble family not happy. Kendrick is on the run, an outlaw and a criminal. Kendric is a fighter class. Melech the Red's family also has a long tradtion.... of being assassins. Once for the Duke. Now, the family has fallen on hard times, and are knives for hire in "the City". Melech decided that his family was too far gone and made a run for it. Running into Kendric (they knew of each other prior) on the run from the law, the two teamed up to get outta Dodge and into a life of adventure. Petal is a cleric of Bahamut, like her mother. C., the player, told me that she likes to pick flowers and bonk evil on the head. Petal is pretty damn cool. She weaves flowers for each good deed that she does, hopefully looking to weave each Point of Light into a flexible fabric of Light. Making something lizard-y look feminine...not easy, but I think this came off well. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. And I got into ANOTHER 4th ed D&D game. This time, smaller group, again with Judd. These characters really came together in a cool way during character creation. Judd and I were coming into an existing game, so we decided to tie our PCs together in the backstory. And then I was simply "on" while doodling that night at the table. Might have something to do with the cardstock that I had JUST bought that day from OfficeMax...that I prefer drawing on. The way the pencil makes its marks and the ease of the stroke.... I just really like that surface to do pencil on. So without too much more blah-de-blah blah... here are the pics. First up, Bok, an Eladrin mage, who is awfully "bishi" and gets rather upset when we call him, her. Which has happened several times. When I heard the concept, I was mentally..."wow, that is going to be tough to pull off....that androgyny."... but I think I nailed it. Then, we are going alphabetical, is my PC, Kendrick Dell. His 4 brothers are cops (city watchmen/guard), his father and uncle are cops. His 3 sisters married cops... and Kendrick WAS a cop. He loved being a cop. But, a stoopid noble got all drunk and pissy and came at Kendrick with a sword... even drunk, the damn noble was good, and Kendrick was forced to kill him in self defense. Problem. Noble family not happy. Kendrick is on the run, an outlaw and a criminal. Kendric is a fighter class. Melech the Red's family also has a long tradtion.... of being assassins. Once for the Duke. Now, the family has fallen on hard times, and are knives for hire in "the City". Melech decided that his family was too far gone and made a run for it. Running into Kendric (they knew of each other prior) on the run from the law, the two teamed up to get outta Dodge and into a life of adventure. Petal is a cleric of Bahamut, like her mother. C., the player, told me that she likes to pick flowers and bonk evil on the head. Petal is pretty damn cool. She weaves flowers for each good deed that she does, hopefully looking to weave each Point of Light into a flexible fabric of Light. Making something lizard-y look feminine...not easy, but I think this came off well. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. More art from our Tues (or Weds) 4th ed D&D game. First up is Judd's PC, Elias Corvus... a Paladin of the RavenQueen. Judd was pretty evocative with his description. I had a pretty good sense of where to go with his pic. Next is A.'s PC, Exile. A once masked, mute tribal warrior (but is actually a rogue), he has found language and struck out into the wide, dangerous world. He is ritually scarred. The climate we are in, is near Exile's jungle... so I supposed a serengeti, african analog, as we are outside of the jungle, in rolling hills, grasslands etc. This climate influenced both Exile and my PC's pics... with Corvus sweating in all that heavy, black plate. Last one is my PC... Methamere Dray. I wanted him to influenced by the climate, hence the bare legs... He looks like a rogue, but he is really a wizard. Being an Eladrin, longsword is a proficiency weapon. Doesn't look much like a mage and I'm cool with that. Originally, last night, I drew him with long black hair... but I decided this morning to erase that and show him with shorn, short black hair. I think this is a sign of morning amond the Eladrin, after all, his entire family and the extended caravan that Meth grew up with has been wiped out. I like the short hair. I dunno why, but the face and Dray's calves look a bit like John Byrne's work. Just one of those odd influences that can sneak into one's work, especially when doodling away. If you are interested in the campaign at all, check out this thread on En World. http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=229295 These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Superheroes Who Kill? Depends on how strongly you feel and what the outlook for other games are like in your area. Right now, I'm in a very strong gamer-rich environment. I've sat out of games that my group wanted to play that I wasn't interested in. We just had one campaign and group unexpectantly disintegrate to reform with a couple of players that i've played with in the past. But haven't played with in about year and 1/2. But, yeah, if the game makes you miserable and it isn't the kinda thing you want to explore, it might be time to look for a game that makes you excited to play. Of course, I would talk it over with the current group before walking.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Miyazaki was referenced in the conversation we had. I went to B., "oh, have you seen spirited away?" He said "yes."... I said, "kinda like that?" He went "sure..." and I started doodling. The good borrow. Genius Steals.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread First up, let me lay another Ten Ton Studio weekly challenge on y'all. The challenge is "What Would Hellboy Do on Summer Vacation?". Here is my answer... or rather, this is what I do in the summer a lot and I have even been teaching a wee bit. Here is the link to Ten Ton, so y'all can see what my fellow wacky artists have come up with... http://www.tentonstudios.com/forum/index.php?topic=5691.0 Voting starts tomorrow. gotta join the forum to vote. Next, last night I got the chance to get in on a 4th ed D&D game. Or the prelim discussion, as the books have been ordered by several of us. Hopefully, we can start next week. My character is going to be from a kinda gypsy faction of the Eladrin, but the GM, B., wanted to kick it up to 11 on the weird, fantastic, mystical scale. So instead of wagons and ponies, after a bit of discussion, my "tribe's caravans" actually teleport around, courtesy of the Master or Mistress of Tents. A powerful otherworldly fey entity that supports 6 or 7 of these caravans. Unfortunately, my PC's call to action is the utter wiping out of his family, caravan and Master of Tents. But while we were b.s.ing our way through this all, I quickly sketched the Master of Tents.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. First up, let me lay another Ten Ton Studio weekly challenge on y'all. The challenge is "What Would Hellboy Do on Summer Vacation?". Here is my answer... or rather, this is what I do in the summer a lot and I have even been teaching a wee bit. Here is the link to Ten Ton, so y'all can see what my fellow wacky artists have come up with... http://www.tentonstudios.com/forum/index.php?topic=5691.0 Voting starts tomorrow. gotta join the forum to vote. Next, last night I got the chance to get in on a 4th ed D&D game. Or the prelim discussion, as the books have been ordered by several of us. Hopefully, we can start next week. My character is going to be from a kinda gypsy faction of the Eladrin, but the GM, B., wanted to kick it up to 11 on the weird, fantastic, mystical scale. So instead of wagons and ponies, after a bit of discussion, my "tribe's caravans" actually teleport around, courtesy of the Master or Mistress of Tents. A powerful otherworldly fey entity that supports 6 or 7 of these caravans. Unfortunately, my PC's call to action is the utter wiping out of his family, caravan and Master of Tents. But while we were b.s.ing our way through this all, I quickly sketched the Master of Tents.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread A crane samurai for a Legend of 5 Rings game... And wizardess. I presume for a d20 fantasy game, but not entirely sure. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A crane samurai for a Legend of 5 Rings game... And wizardess. I presume for a d20 fantasy game, but not entirely sure. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Hey MisterAdam, those are really,really awesome. I'm in awe of your skills. storn

Re: Query's Art & Stuff Thread Quite like Jessie Quick, always a soft spot for her. Kudos on making color pencils work for you. They drive me crazy, can't stand them.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I like to keep trying new techniques (for me, they are probably from centuries to decades old). And sometimes it is a good thing to play around before trying it on a job. Ten Ton Studios weekly challenge is a good way to play. I have done watercolor and I have done brush inking before, but I've only tried combining it a couple of times, about 12 years ago. Doing watercolor over black india ink results in a thin discoloration over the black line I do not like. This time I inked it AFTER the watercolor was put down. I wanted to see if it would work for the "right vibe" for an upcoming job. It doesn't. But it is still a fun thing to try and it might work for some other kind of job down the line. This weekly's challenge is Witchblade. Here is the link to the sketch challenge so y'all can see (and vote for your fave) the plethora of scantily clad, phallic wielding, warrior women. Voting begins and ends tomorrow (Thursday). http://www.tentonstudios.com/forum/index.php?topic=5612.msg89001#new And after all that babble, here is my entry:

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I got a chance to work on Mutants and Masterminds supplement, Books of Magic, which was a ton of fun for me, as I'm a big Doc Strange fan. Got to work on my inner Ditko! I always forget to post my published work, because it takes months for the work to come free of NDAs. By the time it happens, I've moved onto other things. But I got a nice email from someone who had bought the book and liked my work in it. So here is a sampling of what I did for Books of Magic. Just to plug one of fav clients....Here is a link to the actual product over at Green Ronin: http://greenronin.com/store/grr2518/ Green Ronin owns these images.... nuff said.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread I got a chance to work on Mutants and Masterminds supplement, Books of Magic, which was a ton of fun for me, as I'm a big Doc Strange fan. Got to work on my inner Ditko! I always forget to post my published work, because it takes months for the work to come free of NDAs. By the time it happens, I've moved onto other things. But I got a nice email from someone who had bought the book and liked my work in it. So here is a sampling of what I did for Books of Magic. Just to plug one of fav clients....Here is a link to the actual product over at Green Ronin: http://greenronin.com/store/grr2518/ Green Ronin owns these images.... nuff said.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Death Tribble's Necro-woman. And 2 versions of the War of the World tripods, one classic old skool... the other, a bit more modern (and perhaps a bit of anime influences seeping into my subconscious now that I think about it.) These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Continuing on with some more art from John Wick's upcoming Houses of the Blooded, here are two more pics. The first one is for the chapter on Risk: The second one is the chapter on revenge: And if you are interested in some of John's thoughts on this very cool game, here is the link to his design blog: http://wickedthought.livejournal.com...of+the+blooded

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Continuing on with some more art from John Wick's upcoming Houses of the Blooded, here are two more pics. The first one is for the chapter on Risk: The second one is the chapter on revenge: And if you are interested in some of John's thoughts on this very cool game, here is the link to his design blog: http://wickedthought.livejournal.com...of+the+blooded

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I tend NOT to do a lot of foreshortening in my portraits of characters, because SO much of these are showing the character... and that sorta demands head to toe..., so it is very few character concepts that I feel like I can do something extreme, like what I did here.... but with Greyhound here... who cares what his torso looks like... the idea to get across is speed and action. But if I'm doing a superman or green lantern clone... then we probably want to see the torso, whatever chest design the character might have... fantasy characters are even tougher, as they tend to have laden belts with daggers, swords, potions and the like. But I do want to keep pushing the action a bit on these. So, I'll continue to scratch my head and try to come up with poses that are action oriented and still convey the essence of the character.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I DID send it today!

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Here is a speedster with truncheons. And maybe a bit of martial arts prowess? These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Here is an interdimensional superhero (or villain!) who can reform himself into thin shards, throw them around, teleport by forming in a new place. nasty. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Here is a jester-like superdude with a superball that does entangling. ya just never know what the public is gonna ask ya ta draw... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5