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Ruined Places

A week ago I got around to doing more 'zen' work on maps.  I think this was supposed to be a ruined library or reliquary or something with a courtyard and inn/pub attached to it for a game long gone and buried.

I do know its in the snowy parts around or in Blackpine though.  More 'dead places' mapping I think.  Of the few maps I was poking away at, this one is the closes to done that any of them will get.  I think I had planned a colour version of this as well, which mostly...

Short Note

Just a heads up that I'll actually be sending out the next notification for the Patron sketch on Monday.  Had some stuff come up that's going to pretty much occupy most of my entire weekend it looks like, so other work needs to be completed before then.

-T.J.

The Whistling Keg (300dpi)

This one has more dots.  So many more dots it'll make you dizzy.

-T.J.

The Whistling Keg (linework)

Managed to clear more of the art ideas in my head out, this time a follow up to the last image, following the three farmer types into the Whistling Keg and settling in to wait out the storm and probably have a few pints in the meantime.

I'm not very experienced with having lots of people in a single picture I admit, but this seemed to come out fairly okay.

As an aside, I'll be sending out the next patron sketch notification tomorrow, and be trying to get some painting done as well if the...

Weather's Coming - Rough sketch

This turned out oddly.. Hildebrandtian.  Its one of a bunch of sketches I'm frantically getting down in digital format before they disappear out of my head again.  I apologize in advance for the flood of these that will show up, but the up-side is that I've got a huge variety of things to paint this month.

"Ay Taerval!"

"Ay"

"Weather's comin'."

"Looks so, yah."

"Raeoh...

Blackpine - map sketch.

Bit stressed out this week.  I had this (and a few other) map sitting around from a game that fell through and started finishing the sketch of it.  

Blackpine was an abandoned town surrounding the Auld Andormira academy and library.  A place of legend, with vaults of books.  

I still find maps weirdly relaxing to do.

Moment of Peace (Patron Sketch!)

I was given very kind permission from Rudy Fox to post a sketch I did for him for this month's patron sketch.  

I was asked to draw his namesake, a cross-fox relaxing near a waterfall as the warmer weather was starting to hit, which meant I was gonna go wildly overboard on the surroundings.  I guess I just like drawing nature a lot :)

I had to look up a bit more info on how to actually draw foxes.  Surprisingly I've drawn very few of them in my time doing madman scribbles,...

Just Wading By (nudity)

It is absolutely roasting here this week, wandering up to about 30C, so I started sketching outside the studio today on the smaller tablet (If only I could sit in a wading pool with it).

I had the image of Javarran (wolf folk) wading in one of the nearby streams or water areas near where there pack was wandering around in my head out of nowhere.  And the angle was a bit of a nightmare to figure out but I think i got it roughly where it needs to be.

The pack's sub-alpha (one of the a...

Auld Andormira wax knight vessel

A warm-up sketch/ink thing of a 'vessel' that holds a shard of an Auld Andormirian wax knight from a couple hundred years back.  The armor on most has rusted away completely, though I'd imagine this one was sheltered in one of the ruins of Blackpine until the day the ash started to pull towards the Andormira towers again.

Walk (300dpi)

More pixel, same swish.

Walk (mild nudity)

A throw-together sketch of Cinders on a wander down to some unknown beach.  Spotties and swishes.

Tanarrah (Painted, 300dpi)

More wobbly pixels.

Tanarrah (Painted)

I'm not sure why, but I felt like I wanted to give this character a painted treatment so I can use it as a sort of 'example' of the Tuktuarri people for the write-up of the world.

I tried some different techniques that I'm sort of neutral about.  They aren't bad, but they take a lot more time and don't seem to make much of a difference outside adding in a bit of 'warmth' to things.

The character hopefully will have a bit more of a story.  Right now she's cast out from her peopl...

Tanarah 300dpi

High res image of 'bou.

Tanarah (Tundra) concept

Image of a Tuktuarri character, Tanarah.  I'm not sure its the final concept of her (she's missing some tribal dyes) but its a general idea of her.

She's a witch who follows the voice of Great Mother Tundra.

Instead of.. (sketch, nudity)

I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to be finishing this picture for a few reasons, though I found myself liking the sentiment behind the image enough to want to at least share its rough edges.

I found myself hearing the conversation between the two, with Cinders adding "Sure, you could go out an' work on the boats instead of stayin' in with a cute.  Little.  Neigh.  I'm sure I can find somethin' to keep myself busy with."

Perhaps its the spring, where the...

Sketchening for April

Its been one of those months.. tax month, which can only make things more ridiculously busy than they normally are.  But I finally got the patron sketch done, this time around for Grynn, a Flind, hanging out in Sigil.

I had to re-learn how to draw Hyena's in general, And there were two iterations before this, but this one finally looks more 'rangery' than the others I did.  Posted with permission, which I'm grateful for.  I've fallen a good week behind on getting stuff done this...

Song and a Swish - 300dpi

Like the former, but with more squares pushed onto the page.

-T.J.

Song and a Swish - Final (mild nudity)

"O, Aye said the sailor

An' Aye said the vicar

An' Aye said the neigh girl

Who was swishin' her long tail

Swish-swish!"

There might be too much caffeine in her drink.

-T.J.

First colour pass on Swish-ness

First 'ink wash' (a term I've used since I saw it in a Dragonlance art book) of colour done for this month's painting.

Its mostly me trying to figure out lighting in most scenes, and getting enough shadow down to know where the form will lie.  After this is the long, long process of cleaning things up a bit, filling in some random colours to give more interest, and then overpainting.

First day of 'nothing but arty-bits' worked out well!

-T.J.

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April Already!?

I'm not sure why I'm surprised.  April naturally comes after March.  Though perhaps because March was just as snow-filled and overcast as February I just didn't notice it as a month.

That said, I'm a bit late on finishing the painting that I'd planned for last month.  Easter and some fairly heavy family/work obligations meant that the last week of the month was more of a scramble.  The up-side is that I've been granted a week off.  I tend to think of time off as 'I get...