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Thanks for replying! I've always loved the way you can include so much personality and story into a single character image, it reminds me of the best examples in RPG books where they want to depict a character concept or a monster and they just nail it.

Yo! Whats one thing you love drawing and find hard to do, and one thing you hate drawing but can do easily?

Really great question!

I love designing characters and I never get tired of doing it, but it also never really gets easier. I agonize over every little detail, drawing and re-drawing things over and over and pulling up tons of reference images. A fully-inked and colored character usually takes me a whole workday. I'm generally pretty happy with the finished results but I never seem to get any quicker at it haha.

I don't know if there's anything I'm good at drawing that I also hate to draw. I find the act of drawing pleasurable in and of itself. I sometimes find it frustrating when I'm commissioned to do "generic" fantasy or sci-fi illustrations. Like something that's just a "knight" or just a "spaceman" and the client really doesn't want me to riff on the design. I chafe under those kinds of restraints. Not gonna post any example pics because I don't want to offend anyone but it happens lol. Most of my clients are great though and give me a pretty free rein!

Hope this answers your question. If you've got any other questions about art or how I draw or whatever, just send them my way!

Observers Guide to Kobolds #3

Kobold burrow, Illustrated!

A kobolds bedding will often be a shared space, albeit a quiet one. There is little privacy in the burrow even so, with their few personal belongings kept in small bags, pots and shelves close to their sleeping shelf. Kobolds will make their bedding with dried stalks & stems, and if cloth is available will readily make use of it. Scaled hides do not require soft furnishing, but cushioning is always valued.

Gently glowing fungi and gems are often kept in the communal dens, illuminating the area just enough to be a comfort and help guide those awake. Scavenging insects will sometimes find their way in to feast upon the discarded scraps of previous meals, and then find themselves part of the next meal the kobolds around inbibe.

Art & graffiti are commonplace in the shared dens, usually depicting the inhabitants in addition to their thoughts and feelings on recent events. Dissenting imagery will appear closer to latrines, approving imagery closer to sleeping areas.

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Smallfry is always a good time to doodle. Smallest possible boy.

Grilled Plump Cap

Plump caps must be the Dwarfen equivilent of the humble potato; full of every nutrient you need, and you can make booze out of it!

I always imagined that they'd have a nice starchy taste, somewhere between a sweet potato and a chestnut mushroom.

Also, turns out you CAN make wine from 'shrooms irl! apparently it tastes a lot like normal grape wine.

Made using PetMate, a free PETSCII art maker thing!

(might have to click pic to get rid of any blurryness)

"Honesty is Strength"

Waaaaay back in the Horse Days I made a series of MLP themed posters where the main idea was to not actually show the horses at all -try to keep it a little vague, but still use all their colours and symbols.

I think it came from the idea that some people would like to show their fandom of MLP without the obvious and implicit ponys in it for one reason or another, ergo the posters.

This one is Applejack; who is apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples farm-lesbian

Someone put the feeling into words!

I can remember playing very early beta/late alpha minecraft. The one where you spawned in a simple wooden house and had to kill sheep to get their wool.

It had such a weird ethereal feel to the gameplay, and now that it’s more of a normal “game” with an end that you can work towards it’s more and more divorced from the feel of it’s original soundtrack.

Also Notch is a cunt, but that goes without saying.

the minecraft nostalgia phenomenon is so odd. like so many people my age have formative memories of being thrown into an oddly empty world for an unfinished game & hearing the occasional ambient piece that was equal parts dinky and profoundly morose. like our mario 1-1 theme is c418 sweden

Catboy Vetinari, scruffy terrier Vimes!

sorry i turned him into a kittycat

Otto Toppic, Medicated Vampire/Medic

Another D&D OC I made a while back, managed to play her in a game of Sambaroum of all things, quite fun.

Idea behind her is that through great application of SCIENCE and a *lot* of drugs she keeps her vampirism in check. or at least stops her from eating her patients.

We Suffer for our Children

I love my weasels. They love my ears.