Character Design: Briar Councillors and Council Guards (Line-Up)

This month's project was exploring some character designs for my boyfriend's Dungeon and Dragon's campaign. These are Briar's District Councillors and their personal bodyguards.

It was a lot of fun to explore the different cultural fashions of a city that is both a trade hub and one of the most magical cities in the campaign. There are influences from Tempergot's desert cultures, the Far Eastern aesthetics from Hob, and of course plenty of Fae Wild influences as there is a large population of elves living in the city. The two major organizations within Briar are both the Arcane Colleges and the Military (primarily Navy).

Final Character Linework

Rough Colours without Lineart (checking colour blocks and character silhouettes)

Rough Colours and Final Linework

Top - Garden District: Dion [Guard] & Frae'wyn [Councillor]
Bottom - Waterfront District: Fasi [Guard] & Weathersby [Councillor]

Top - Lower Residential District: M'lan [Guard] & Calore [Councillor]
Bottom - Markets District: Truth [Guard] & Blazing Drachma [Councillor]

Top - Military District: Svenson [Guard] & Fireforge [Councillor]
Bottom - Entertainment District: Saori [Guard] & T'Mas [Councillor]

Top - Arcane District: Pierro [Guard] & Cylem [Councillor]
Bottom - Upper Residential District: Alvin [Guard] & K'Tie [Councillor]

Character Reference Sheet Commission - Vulpix Pokésona for Starbright Bunny

Had an absolute blast working on this character reference commission for a client from a shared Discord server. If you are interested in commissioning a reference sheet for your own original characters, please look to the Commissions Information page for rules and details!

Finished Character Reference Sheet (done in the style of a Classic Pokédex)

Detail Shot of Character Expressions

Sketches for Character Expressions

Pose Thumbnails for Full Body Character

Self Portrait Wallpaper (Kill La Kill credits style)

Was thankful that I had decided to go with a simple concept for February's monthly art piece, because this month was certainly eventful! My Nana passed away, which resulted in a lot of arrangements at her house, sorting of items, as well as a lot of driving around to pick up family members.

That said, having recently watched Kill La Kill with my boyfriend, I was inspired to do a wallpaper in the style of the 2nd credits sequence. It was a fun style to work with and an excellent chance to work with simplifying details.

Skul: The Hero Slayer - Indie Game Fanart

One of my 2021 New Year's Resolutions was to beef up my art portfolio with more substantial illustrations, concept art, and character designs; as to push myself as an artist, as well as have a better representation of my work online.

As a result, January's challenge was both a celebration of the rouge-like/rogue-lite pixel indie game Skul: The Hero Slayer (in time for it's Steam official release) and something I'd never tried as an artist: playing around with an infinity mirror perspective!

Finished Piece

My overarching concept was to play on the gameplay of swapping Littlebone's into other forms, with it represented in the other skuls as reflections. The dark quartz in the foreground (and reflected on the left) plays an important part of the storyline and mechanically allows the player to upgrade Littlebone's skills through each new run. There are a few Easter Eggs for those who've played the game in Early Access mode, as well as a skul that you only get as part of the tutorial.

Enlarged details of Skuls

Skul: The Hero Slayer (c) SouthPAW Games

Darkest Dungeon 'Album Covers'

 A fun design challenge in 2020 from a friend: create an album cover inspired by the Party Combo names given to certain combination of heroes in Darkest Dungeon. The result was a lot of fun!

Masquerade: Bounty Hunter, Shieldbreaker, Plague Doctor, Leper

The Collection: Antiquarian, Vestal, Man-at-Arms, Highwayman

Beauties and the Beast: Arbalest, Graverobber, Abomination, Hellion

Persephone and Cerberus: Hellion with 3 Houndmasters

Digital Gift Art

 Some throwback gifts that I haven't posted here before:

Beaglerush fanart for Twitch XCOM streams

Birthday Gift for Selemina of her god character Grief undergoing transformation into Pain.

Storium Secret Santa gift of Periwinkle Nettlecatch; a half-gnome and half halfling pickpocket