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Your art is phenomenal. Do you do commissions at all?

Aw, thanks anon! Unfortunately I'm not taking commissions right now, although this may change in the future. I'll be sure to post about it if I start taking them, or if I start taking sketch requests!

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Preparing to sexualize that old man by sketching fanart of a game that isn't even out yet

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For no reason whatsoever I felt like drawing my Inquisitor so here's a little unfinished doodle of my boy Falon about ten years after the events of DA:I...

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I almost never ever reblog on this account but considering I attracted many of you doing CoS and dnd art I'm gonna plug my favorite dice maker's most recent shop update. The Barovia designs???? chef's kiss. They always include a ton of single d20s and other types of singles in their shop updates so it's not just full sets!

Barovia is the overcast skies the mists that seep throughout the domain. And the colorful flurry of oranges, purples and reds.

These and more are now available in the shop. LINK

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I am not immune to the smooth ghoul cowboy antihero

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petition accepted

What’s up losers I’m back and drawing my next CoS poster. Here’s some Martikovs, a normal old man, Vasili, and a teensy tiny Izek in the background

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What’s up losers I’m back and drawing my next CoS poster. Here’s some Martikovs, a normal old man, Vasili, and a teensy tiny Izek in the background

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More sketches from our CoS campaign. A WIP of a design for RvR’s Guide to Hunting Vampires that I’m gonna commission as a dice box; my beautiful son; my beautiful son and his recently deceased partner; a couple of sketches from the session after the Feast of St Andral of lawful evil Vrinn being the only person in the party initiating moments of genuine bonding; a little WIP panel from a little comic; and some hands from a costume/gear sheet I’m working on because I really enjoy how they turned out haha.

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Sometimes you just gotta draw problems I guess

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Working on the next illustration for my CoS game now that we’re “done” with Vallaki and I decided to include some tiny Martikovs behind our pal Ricky eavesdropping at the bar

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Working on a little thing for my bb boy bardificer and I have some regrets about his character design

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A mishmash of CoS drawings over the past couple months. An accurate representation of our party running around Vallaki like we’re in a popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon about a talking dog that solves mysteries, Summer!Vrinns, Ireena’s face, the start of the first lineup I’ve ever drawn of the main party in a hypothetical scenario when we have a beach day, sketches of Big Daddy aka The Devil aka Ancient and the Land, Disguised!Lox and Vrinn’s extremely different reactions to Rictavio’s attitude problem, little cards for our initiative tracker for my two favorite NPCs, and last but certainly not least Misha who is not a pet. No matter how many times Rictavio calls him a pet. 

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How goes your Curse of Strahd campaign? I really love your art for Van Richten! He's my favorite in that campaign module ngl

Hey Anon, and thank you for the compliment! Thanks for asking, get ready for a small essay because I love talking about DnD haha XD I'm throwing this behind a cut so I don't spoil anybody for CoS on accident.

We're on a little bit of a break while our DM does real life job things, but we recently hit level five and cleared Vallaki and the Feast of St. Andral and all that came after it, and we're about to head out to check on the Martikov's delayed wine shipment. Our DM is doing an amazing job fleshing the module out and we love to take our time with things, so we're definitely going pretty slow - the Feast was followed up by another fight that ended in almost every single key player in Vallaki dying (Fiona, the Baron, Victor, and Izek all went down in one big dramatic Shakespearean fight, it was a wild ride). There's a lot of questions still open about the town, like why are our buddies the ravens hanging around the Blue Water and what was with some of the stuff we found in the Reformation Center our DM fleshed out for us, but we're leaving our good friend Rictavio behind to do whatever business he needs to do and keep an eye on things in the meantime. He hasn't told us what his business is beyond "collecting stories" but we're pretty confident he's trying to built a circus in the woods. A totally normal circus. A very normal thing to do. Anyway, we are definitely currently in the process of trying to convince him to come with us when we finally depart the area.

On a totally unrelated note (jk very related), Van Richten is also easily my favorite at the moment and despite the fact that I love all the NPCs we've met so far, even the ones I hate, I don't expect that to change because one of my favorite character types is "salty sarcastic old man who screams at the sky and has A Lot Of Baggage" - plus the whole aesthetic is just A+. This old man really rolled into Barovia saying "time to fuck around and find out" with those shoes and those sideburns, a vibe which is amplified by the fact that our RvR has not disguised himself beyond possibly changing a few facial features and the kinds of clothes he's wearing (we still haven't seen him without the hat on, but my boy Vrinn has Eldritch Sight as an invocation and has narrowed down the general categories and whatever disguise he has on is subtle). The party at large has yet to meet him properly, but Vrinn ,who was immediately obsessed with the old man, managed to get his hands on a copy of Van Richten's Guide and rolled a nat 20 to notice some similarities between the writer and wonderful not-a-big-deal-don't-worry-about-me-I'm-normal Rictavio.

So that's where we're at. Our DM has changed a bunch (for example, he let Vasili be a real Vasili and not a Strahd disguise which added a lot of depth and a really really really REALLY intense dinner where we assumed we were with a man who might be Strahd even though Vrinn has Eldritch Sight and Divine Sense and has used it multiple times and detected nothing, only to have him use both of those while sitting next to Vasili at dinner for a totally unrelated reason because I thought there might be an imp and realize oh fuck they're two different people and I'm five feet away from THE DEVIL disguised as Vasili and have to ACT NORMAL, truly one wild session) and so there's a lot happening that probably doesn't compare super well to other campaigns. I'm currently working on 1 or 2 more poster-style illustrations for our little stint in Vallaki, and possibly some small comics, but it's slow going!

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My Curse of Strahd character, Vrinn. He's a paladin/chainlock with a night hag fiend patron, and his imp familiar Misha is frequently shaped like a magpie, fox, or daddy long legs. He's polite and so far universally loved by old ladies (both real and illusory), and he values nothing more than loyalty. Despite his dubious alliances and arguably warped morality, he's a great person to have on your team.

Vrinn's partner met an untimely end shortly (?) after they were taken by the mist and now he's got his mind set on making The Devil regret not killing the party when he had the chance. He'd love to kill him, but he'll settle for some humiliation - if you're gonna die trying to accomplish an impossible goal, you might as well get creative, right?

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My Curse of Strahd character, Vrinn. He's a paladin/chainlock with a night hag fiend patron, and his imp familiar Misha is frequently shaped like a magpie, fox, or daddy long legs. He's polite and so far universally loved by old ladies (both real and illusory), and he values nothing more than loyalty. Despite his dubious alliances and arguably warped morality, he's a great person to have on your team.

Vrinn's partner met an untimely end shortly (?) after they were taken by the mist and now he's got his mind set on making The Devil regret not killing the party when he had the chance. He'd love to kill him, but he'll settle for some humiliation - if you're gonna die trying to accomplish an impossible goal, you might as well get creative, right?

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A quick update on one of the best men in horror lbr

Lotta Vans on this blog recently, felt wrong to leave out the OG - little extremely unfinished WIP I'll never finish of Dr. Van Helsing, Peter Cushing edition.

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Gearing up to play an INT-based Lore bard named Basil in a few weeks. Thrilled to play a character who's good at Many Things other than hitting stuff.