ArtOrder’s latest challenge was all about nymphs. This is my take on the topic – the two major inspirations here were the idea of a dryad as a siren, luring men to their doom, and the giant mess of snow we got over the holidays.

For the Train your Brain contest on Deviantart; a mock book cover, based on this piece from nearly two years ago. Though her outfit fits the archetype even less than the original image, I still think of her as a paladin.

This was a test piece for Paizo Publishing of one of the Pathfinder iconics; character design by Wayne Reynolds.

Here’s a few pieces – some of the images I’ve been working on but never posted here. I have one final piece that’s still in progress right now, that may go up on my site and/or here tomorrow morning, or maybe when I get back. WE’LL SEE.

In the meantime, here’s some work that wasn’t meant to be portfolio building, but got in there anyhow. Sometimes I start doodling D&D characters for my own amusement. Sometimes I don’t know when to stop. Both characters have shown up here before – one’s cleaned up a bit, and the other has come a long way since this blog began a year and a half ago.

I finally did a CHoW again! Good times. And as usual, there’s been a lot of cool stuff done, if you check out the finals thread.

It’s been a while since I’ve felt like I’ve had a real breakthrough, but this piece feels like one – it’s pretty basic, but stylistically, it’s got a lot of what I’ve been aiming for lately. Since I’m portfolio building at the moment, hopefully that’s a good sign of things to come!

She thinks she’s all ready for what’s out there, with her cocky grin and her daddy’s knife. If she’s not careful, she’ll be murdered by kobolds her first time out.

Planning to do a few of these greyscale character portrait things for my portfolio. So here’s the first, a generic newbie type, based on the principles of “I’ve been wearing boots and shorts lately; I want to draw somebody in boots and shorts.”

Lifedrawing at the Artel tonight! Instead of posting the pencil drawings (which I mostly didn’t like much) I took one of them – a 15-minute portrait – into Photoshop and spent an hour or so painting it up afterwards. It probably looks nothing like the model now, but I had fun?

It’s becoming more and more difficult to do anything but just draw my D&D characters ALL THE TIME. At some point, pretending to be a filthy dead hobo became the highlight of my social life. I get way too attached to roleplay characters, oh man.

Every time I draw him, I get closer to what I’m aiming for – just by the nature of revenants’ official styles, this sort of design skews dangerously close to “awesome brooding antihero”. What I’m actually aiming for is “kind of gross”. (This is also the first time I’ve drawn his awful cat.)

Lyssa, a young, dark-haired female mage wearing white trimmed in gold. Very open brief, and there are some really fabulous entries up. I went for an adventurous, archaeologist-type. Progress shots here.

And the other challenge, Levi, the Bone Whistle Corpsman. A much stricter brief, and a huge learning experience. That light! Skeletons! That light! The lineup’s here, and there are some of my WIPs up here.