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“Daily” Sketch Scroll – Better late then never

So, back in June I started this little project as just another one of those things you need to get over a bad-art-day. It served it’s purpose though it quickly turned into less of a “daily” and more of a “as-needed” strategy for me to get into the process and just start. I kept the rule set similar enough… I did generally not look back onto what I sketched before, but to determine when it was done I needed a new criteria…
that ended up being: When the canvas is full.

What was important was that nothing needed to be anything… I just went with the flow.
Still I really like some parts of this so… let’s get a little feature of those:

Tara and Gen during downtime
Is that a ruby dragon?
Illya and Gen on watch or sth
THAT unicorn

And this is what the whole thing looks like:

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Character Design – First Mate “Charry” Charoite

Character Design is something I put off for a while now. My process is still kind of ineffective and thus feels tedious especially compared to the more painterly practise I have done lately.
Nevertheless, my Elephant Lady deserves a visual so I set out to make one:

The Design itself took me 4-5 hours. I agonized over the color and pattern of that over-the-shoulder fabric quite a while, too but all in all this was a lot of fun and good practice in terms of breaking loose from references.
Outside of some visual reference on Elephant anatomy I freehanded this sketch.

And with that down moved to a more finished picture for her, that was loosely based on some pose reference:

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Verden Sketch Collage I

To get into a habit of drawing more in general, I started the quickly abandoned project of Sketch Collages. A Wallpaper sized page full of loose (mostly photo) references, that I break down and then turn into pictures of the DnD Characters that fill most of the things that I share here.
This was the first one I did, It focused on Expressions a lot, which is (as well as faces in general) something I need to get more practise with before I feel entirely comfortable drawing them.

Breakdown not included all of these seperate parts were done in half an hour or less and I feel like sharing these in the spirit of “not everything needs to be perfect”. Or finished… Or even good.
I’m not the best artist out there by miles but people around me that want to be better at drawing still put me on a pedestal for what I can already do… Art is a strange thing is what I’m trying to say… I guess.
We’re all always learning to be better at it.

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The Winter Ball

During Verden Campaign’s first big downtime there was one little occasion the crew got back together. Something we all in- and out-of-character had been anticipating ever since we were invited: The Fairy Ball held by the Winter Court. A Masquerade under the theme of ‘Creatures of the Night’.
Thus of course everyone needed to dress up! And whether in words or picture all of us presented a new Outfit for our characters. Here’s what I came up for Gen (in a very last minute drawing spree, after agonizing over decisions too much):

The big event of the Ball was a Murder Mystery that kept us busy for most of it. We had friends to talk to and not so friendly faces to avoid… But after we solved the Crime and presented the Winter Queen our answer to be awarded a favour from her, we got to the calmer portion of the night. Dances were had and ever since out dear Dungeon Master had described that our Summer Fey Liaison had also decided to dress up as a Raven I had this picture in my brain that I needed to be a reality just because *aesthetics* !

And it happened. And then I was happy. And I still am even though it’s just a sketch.

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