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Here's the description from the client

Race: Goliath

Sex: Male

Physique: A physically powerful athletic body. As a member of the Goliath race they are distantly related to giants, as such they stand eight feet tall. They are wide shouldered and barrel chested with big arms. The strength of their forms extends to the rest of the body as well. I would like something for scale in the image to give a good reference for how large the character is as well.

-Age: Early 20's.

-Face: A stoic expression.

Face markings: The "goliath" markings are vertically symmetrical and black. These are areas of skin with different skin pigment color. I have no specifics for what design they take, only that they remain vertically symmetrical on each side of the face and they are black. The markings can be simple in their design as well.

Here are some references for the face markings:

-Skin: Colored a glacial blue.

Here are some references for the skin tone:

-Eyes: Blank white eyes that do not have any iris/pupil.

-Hair: Arctic white hair with an ice blue color interwoven reaching past the shoulders in length. The character has a lot of hair, long and flowing and one braid that starts hidden in the flowing hair but is seen resting over one shoulder. What I mean by the braid is that I don’t want the start of the braid to be visible anywhere like on top of the head somewhere.

They have a grown beard but it does not reach far.

Note: Magical ice is worked into both the weapon and the armor in their descriptions below. This ice at a glance is magical in a noticeable way. While I don’t want you to hold back on the magical part of the ice, I want the ice to distinctly be identifiable as ice and not be misconstrued as a gem, crystal, rock or otherwise mistaken as something else other than ice.

Armor: 

The character wears a set of full plate armor with a color like iron. I would like the framework of the armor to be similar to the reference image I will use for it but with your own influence in it so it isn't a carbon copy. No engravings decorate the armor. Where the chest plate ends at the waist chain mail reaches to the knees but has a split down its middle, this is to mean it is not a chain skirt. I do not want a visible codpiece, I want the chain to cover it up or a band of cloth to hang over it from the waist between the legs.

The chest plate of the armor has a piece of magical ice integrated and socketed into it. The ice takes the shape of a sphere the size of a fist and partially sticks out of the armor. The armor suit itself takes a frosted appearance because of this. The frosted appearance is like that of a frosted window over the metal, like a very thin layer of frost has formed upon it.

Pose: I want them to be standing with a hand placed onto their helmet which rests upon a stone raised out of the ground enough for the character to not have to bend or crouch. The other hand holds their weapon.

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Tortle Death Domain Cleric

Here's the description from the client:

race: Tortle

class: Cleric (Death Domain)

sex: Male

personality: Grim, Bruting, Dark, Serious. He is quiet and makes his speech count. He is a cleric that does not heal.

age (what they look like in human years): mid 30’s

height: 5’5”

weight/build: 440 (slenderer for a turtle but stocky)

hair style/color: N/A

eye color: black giving the impression of a skull with hollow eye sockets

skin color: earthy tones (browns, greens, tans, blacks, greys) he has white markings on his head which resemble a skull. More human-skull-like but if you think otherwise I trust you

items/weapons: maul (tradition hammer look on one side and spike on the other), a book of notes, recipes, and magic which he carries on his belt. He has a spiked, rough shell.

He carries a whip on his right side and his book on his left.

He wears a simple silver pendant to myrkle around his neck.

Get as detailed as you can with the outfit/armor (and colors).

clothing top: he wears black robes which are loose fitting and long sleeved, the top is hooded and the hood hangs lower on his face casting shadow. The robes have a charcoal grey trim. 

clothing bottom: robes which cut off somewhere near the knee but hang lower on the mid section. Same color and trim it is segment by his belt. 

footwear: none as shoes don’t fit lol 

So real life turtles are just an idea of face and shell, 

hood is just an idea of how his hood fits, 

ai turtle I like the build, 

nail hammer is the general shape of his maul but much bigger and warlike, 

the ghost from cod is just what I imagine kind of with the markings. 

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Here's the character I did:

race: otterfolk

class: armorer-artificer

sex: male

personality: very intelligent, curious, impulsive, naive

age (what they look like in human years): He is 6 years old (equivalent of 20 human years)

height: 2ft 10in

weight/build: 16lbs

hair style/color: (Normal North American River otter) Light brownish coat, with a tan or beige jaw/underbelly

eye color: dark brown (almost black)

skin color: covered in hair

items/weapons: no physical weapons.

Get as detailed as you can with the outfit/armor (and colors). :

White wetsuit/attire that has jade/sea green accents on his entire arms. Same green accents down the middle of his torso from his armor. His attire is adorned with armor that looks like it’s made out of light grey stone/ore held together intricately in some places by wood. That armor (stone/ore) takes up his upper torso, a gorget around his neck, small spaulders, gauntlets, and knee pads.

All of his armor with the exception of his elbow pads are imbued with light foggy blue crystals that illuminate. 

He also has a heavy black leather utility belt with dark maroon red accents. On his right side this belt contains a small square pouch. On his left side is another medium round ouch that Carrie’s glass vials on the exterior.

He also wears goggles on his head the same color as his belt.

clothing top: his grey stone chest piece has a blue crystal in the middle. His spaulders (shoulder pads) each have three crystal imbued in them.

The crystals protrude from his shoulder and float when in battle.

Arcane armor that looks like translucent flowing/swirling water. Wraps his stone armor

clothing bottom: white pants with jade green accents around the thigh. Stone knee pads imbued with one crystal each.

Wrapped in arcane armor when in battle

footwear: no footwear / just otter feet

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Commissions open! Here's the client's description of the character:

race: water genasi

class: rogue (swashbuckler)

sex: female

personality: Witty and easily described as somewhere between madness and brilliance. A trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain her goals. This helped her in becoming a (pirate) captain of her first ship with her own crew.

age (what they look like in human years): 29

height: 6'0

weight/build: slim waste, with curves. roughly around 130 lbs

hair style/color: smooth, wavy and long (ending right above her waist area). hair color is a deep/dark blue.

eye color: black (like looking into a sharks eyes) with a scar right below her right eye

skin color: light grayish-blue

items/weapons: a pirate sword (of average size) held in her right hand, an English pistol constructed of a wooden frame with a metal barrel attached to her belt and a small pouch on her other hip.

clothing top: a deep v-neck white blouse that has strings loosely tied in between the middle/v. the sleeves end right below the elbow area, as if her sleeves have been rolled up. she also wears a dark brown leather corset right below the bust area. 

clothing bottom: dark pants with a tear above one of the knee areas (almost like it had been sliced by a sword).

footwear: dark brown leather boots that go right above the knee. these have a slight wedge/arch to them and the tops of the boots appear slightly folded over.

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I'm really happy how this one turned out. I like all the sharp angles and flowing shapes.

Here's the description of this character that I did for the client:

race: Dragonborn

class: Sorcerer 

sex: male

personality: Stern and intelligent 

age (what they look like in human years): 25

height: 6 3

weight/build: Lean. Face in the style of a red dragon. Wings positioned like in reference. Long tail. 

hair style/color: 

eye color: glowing yellow

skin color: red upper body, black lower legs. 

items/weapons: red magic in his hand

Get as detailed as you can with the outfit/armor (and colors). 

clothing top: Fancy grey and black robes with gold accents. (refer to reference) Incorporate symbols referenced along with gold metal dangling pieces. 

clothing bottom: Covered in top robes

footwear: No foot wear

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Here's the character I did:

Obor race: Goliath (Stone giant ancestry) 

class: Wildfire Druid 

sex: Male 

personality: He’s a calm, confident warrior with a druid’s heart. Protective, wise, and strong, but with a dry sense of humor. He has an issue with authority and often pushes back against it with jokes, mocking the idea of hierarchy within the city. Where he grew up might meant right, so dealing with politics in the city seems silly to him. Might means right is also the reason he left his home. He was being forced to become a warrior, something he didn't really want. The tribe used animals as weapons, subjugating them through force, Obor felt compelled to protect and care for these creatures, which caused a lot of friction. Now he helps the party by bending the elements to his will and controlling nature in various ways. He often stands in the thick of the fight shrugging of damage acting kinda like a tank. It's become a joke in the campaign that Obor just flexes his muscles and deflects incoming damage (using stones endurance) 

age (what they look like in human years): 30 ish 

height: 7'4" 

weight/build: Big and muscular. 

hair style/color: Short wavy creamy white hair. No beard. 

eye color: Pale blue 

skin color: a pale grayish blue. He has the typical Goliath markings all over his body, like thick geometric lines, but they're kinda subtle as they're pale like his skin. 

items/weapons: His weapon and spellcasting focus is a Staff of the Adder he got as a reward from the queen. It looks just as it does in the official description, but he's loosely tied some small sprigs of various bushes under where the snake part starts to make it look a bit more druidy. 

He has a shield of expression strapped to his left forearm. It's an old round metal shield with a face engraving that takes up the whole surface of it. The face expression changes with a boua action, for this I'd like it to have a mirthful expression, like it's laughing. He has a black bowler hat he bought when they were visiting the queen. It's just a basic black bowler with a dark green ribbon that matches his robes. 

He also has Goggles of Night as he was the only party member without darkvision. They look just like the official DnD description, and he wears them on his hat like some steampunk cosplayer. 

clothing top:

He recently acquired some half plate armour. So his torso is covered by this metal chest piece. It's relatively simple, with no adornments or intricacies. It's a little segmented as it goes down his waste for ease of movement, with dark leather underneath.

Brown Druid-ask leather sash with greenery over breast plate

He has one pauldron on his left side, again simple and segmented with leather underneath. The Armour is new so still kinda shiny, but there are some dings and scratches from the few fights he's been in so far. He has leather wraps on his wrists. 

Over his armour he has dark green flowy robes/cloak. It's maybe tucked under his pauldron on the left, or it can be over it, I'm not sure how to depict it, you can be creative. I picture him having a kind of Dr Doom aesthetic mixed with Kratos from the recent God of War games. I want the leather wraps and stuff to be a bit worn and for him to have ropes & pouches on his waste giving a druidy vibe. 

clothing bottom: less armour, more leather and exposed thighs. Maybe give him some armour on his knees or shins. It can be asymmetric, whatever you think looks good while your designing him. 

footwear: His boots will be leather, wrapped in leather straps like he made them himself or acquired them long ago. Maybe some fur lining. He also has a fire elemental goat!

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Commissions open! Here's the illustration I did for the client: Allanon is standing amidst the ruins of an ancient stone fort, with orcs in dark armor standing in the scattered ruins all around him, and they’re cheering.

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Here’s the character I did:

race: Bronze Dragonborn

class: Path of the World Tree Barbarian 

sex: Male 

personality: Warm and welcoming off the battlefield. Wears a smile most of the time. While in combat/rage he's very battle hungry and is still wearing a smile but less friendly/approachable and more excited to fight. He's dim witted but lovable as he makes people laugh is easy to get along with. 

age (what they look like in human years): In their 40s (however age effects dragonborn scales idk) 

height: 6ft 3in weight/build: Not sure on weight, large chest and arms, non-slim waist. Muscular 

hair style/color: No hair 

eye color: green eyes 

skin color: yellow/orange-ish with greenish highlights where they fit. "Fins" for lack of the right word running from the head down the spine, with small fin protrusions on the elbows

items/weapons: Large maul/warhammer, carries handaxes on his person just in case. Get as detailed as you can with the outfit/armor (and colors). 

clothing top: No shirt. Has a furred leather shoulder guard over dominant arm held by leather bindings/belts(?) running across the chest. Wrists and forearms have furred leather bands 

clothing bottom: Classic heavily leathered kilt+pants outfit like Kratos wears in GoW Ragnorock. Cloth in the kilt/pants could be dark shades of green and black and blue. Path of the World Tree symbol on cloth. 

footwear: Simple leather boots go up around half the calf. 

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Here's the character I did:

Her name is Aziya, Knight of The Seelie Court, in service to the Queen Mother. Cleric of Corellon and Anubis. She is a wood elf, around 5’5 pale for a wood elf, emerald green eyes, white/silvery hair done in a style like Johanna from Diablo/HoTS. Instead of the shaved side it is braided. Her armor is like Johannas style too, but instead of a cross on the tunic it’s an ankh. (Cleric of Anubis) she also wears an earring of correlons holy symbol (it looks like a North Star) on the ear where the hair is braided. She has a flail that is enchanted with Ice and a pariahs shield, that has an ankh drawn around the face in blood. 

I’ve never really given thought to the color palettes of her fairy dragons, so you choose. And Cha, her trex, he is more jungle colored, blue/green on top fading to a tan belly. And she has a habit of carrying him around akin to a child carrying around a stuffed toy.

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Here's the character I did:

Race: Tabaxi (Pallas’ cat) 

Class: Monk (Way of the Wu Jen) 

Sex: Male 

Personality: Batu’s practice as a monk gives him a calm disposition - serious but not stuffy. Friendly, earnest and intelligent. A curious and explorative scholar by nature who tries to find the joy in small things. He is the type who would spare a few extra moments along his way to observe a beautiful spider in its web or to take in some particularly fascinating architecture and would be happy to tell you about it, if you wish.

Age: Early 20’s – an adult, but young 

Height: Head to toe - 3’ 10” / 117 cm. Tail length - 1’ 9” / 53 cm. 

Weight/build: About 60-65 pounds, but appears heavier due to a stocky build and dense fur. You can’t see too much musculature. 

Hair color/Style: I’ve put this in skin color instead since he has fur 

Eye color: Dark yellow with a bit of green. His pupils are round instead of slit. 

Skin Color: His fur is an even mix of grey, white, brown, and black all over his body that helps to blend in with a rocky environment. On his forehead going towards the top of his head are a handful of small black spots. Starting at the outer and inner corners of his eyes and going diagonally downward are two black stripes flanking one white stripe. Under his neck and chin is a small mane with whiter coloring. Down his tail are 6 black stripes and the very tip is solid black.

Items/Weapons: Batu uses a short sabre, similar in style to a Chinese duandao. 

The sword has been crafted for one of his size and stature, and so it's not oversized. Modest in appearance with no special decoration. He carries a spell book on his belt, along with a small satchel for spell ingredients. 

The spell book has an aged, very dark orange binding with bronze corner protectors and two buckles around the outside to keep it closed. The book is clearly old but in good shape. It is definitely more ornamental than his other possessions, with decorative embossing of a horse head in the middle surrounded by bronze embellishments that are made to look like lightning bolts. Even so, it is not what one would consider flashy.

Clothing top: A dark blue hunnu-style deel, knee length. There are a handful of circular floral design throughout the material, but it is not overly decorative. A yellow sash helps secure the deel around his waist. A brown belt is above the sash, and from it hangs a spell book as well as a small satchel. 

Clothing bottom: Blue breeches that match the color of his deel, slightly more form-fitting, that are secured at the ankle with thin brown leather straps. 

Footwear: No footwear for this little guy

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Here's a dragon illustration I did for someone's birthday!

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I was commissioned to do this diverse character group adventuring through the Underdark. Here's a brief description of each member in the group:

Here’s the a brief description of the group!

Illium 

race: Half Orc 

class: Aberrant Mind Sorcerer / Mastermind Rogue 

personality: Calculated and Brooding.

Saleek 

race: Aaracokran 

class: Way of Astral Self Monk / Barbarian 

personality: Humble and Lawful Good. Likes to fly and do back flips.

Theo 

race: Half Elf 

class: College of Whispers Bard 

personality: Joyful and Hopeful. Protector. A ghost hand comes out of his gloves and usually hovers over his hands as he plays.

race: Tiefling with spiral horns and tail 

class: Homebrewed Circle of Hells Druid  

personality: Defiant jokester. 

Trogdor

race: Dragonborn with wings

class: Homebrewed Way of Dragon Heart Barbarian 

personality: Rageful when fighting. Curious and reckless. Breathes blue icy flame. 

Tyshawn 

race: Warforged (think ultron design ) 

class: Echo Knight Fighter / Soulknife Rogue 

sex: Male 

personality: Egotistical and Argumentative.

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Here's the character I did:

Race: human

Sex: Male

Personality: All business, no emotion. Confident. Master of his craft. This is a character the PCs cannot hope to best when they first meet him.

Age: 40s

Height: 6'0"

Weight/Build: Muscular

Hair: Unseen

Eyes: Unseen

Skin Color: Unseen

Weapon: Large, heavy two handed sword being wielded one-handed. Simple sword design, nothing fancy aside from its sheer size.

Clothing: Black iron armor from head to feet. The campaign is a Conan / 1st Ed D&D inspired swords and sorcery game, so the armor design should be relatively grounded in construction. The helm should be completely enclosed with an eye slit that cannot be seen into. The only ornamentation should be the attached logo (the symbol of the mercenary company that employs him) worked into the center of the breastplate, and should be about 4 inches tall. 

The black elements in the logo should be raised higher than the rest of the breastplate, and should be painted a deep crimson. 

The lack of visible human elements should make him feel extremely intimidating, almost alien.

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Here's the character I did:

Face: The character should be a female Aldarin human (Aldarins are essentially Romans, so quite dark tanned skin), Facial structure-wise, wide jaw between 25 and 30 years of age. 

Hair: with long brownish-blonde hair, braided as per the reference photo. 

Build: her body showing her as quite muscular (lots of exercise walking around the city in heavy armour!).

Outfit: They are better funded than The Legions, so their roman style armour is made of iron and steel rather than bronze. The skirt part of the armour comes down closer to the knees, as would the tassles/baltea (dangly strappy bits). Include the Emblem of Permadecio on her chest armor. 

Outfit color: Black and a dark navy. The shield worn by them would be a much larger shield, more in line with traditional Roman scutum. 

Shield: This shield would be the same blue and black as the armour, with the Permadecio emblem on it. The eye of the emblem would be centered around the boss with the pupil being the boss itself.

Cape: On her left shoulder, the one not decorated with the gryphon design, she would wear a shoulder cape. This is currently fashionable in the present Aldarin era. The cape would come down a bit past her knees, but only cover her shoulder and that side of her body (added references for this). 

Cape color: The cape would have a silver lining, a black exterior, dark navy/blue interior, and maybe some blue patterning along the black (feel free to play with this design!). 

Footwear: She should be wearing roman style sandals which come up about half-way to the knee. Again, feel free to play with the design of her outfit a bit, keeping practicality in mind.

Belt and belt items: On her belt, she would have a waterskin, a coin pouch, a clip pouch for carrying food rations, and a pair of vials with healing drafts inside (these would appear a magical red in colour). Not all these need to be visible in the illustration, just listing what she has to let you decide what can be seen. She would also have a scabbard for a gladius, a Roman shortsword. She might be wielding the gladius, or have it holstered, depending on the pose you go for.

Overall colour: Blacks, greys, dark blues, navy, silvers (if you think any other colours might work here, feel free to experiment!)

Emblem

The Permadecio emblem is a white eye with two feathered wings protruding from behind it. The intent is to state “we are always watching”, with the wings referring to the speed at which they move to help their clients. The pupil of the eye might be silver or a dark navy, depending on where it sits. 

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Here's a labyrinth commission I did for a Dungeon Pack. I really wanted to make it feel old school and classic!

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Commissions open! This is my art of a DnD storm sorcerer!

Client's description:

Race: Technically an air genasi, but in this game setting, she looks remarkably human aside from her hair floating from time to time.

Age: 16-17

Height: 5’7

Body Build: The girl is thin, having spent many of her formative years on the streets. She has a boyish figure, a bit smaller than average in the chest area. 

Skin: Skin tone lies somewhere between fair and tanned.

Eyes: Grayish blue

Hair: Hanna’s hair is a honey blond. One side shaved, with the other side left long with a few intermittent braids. A light curl to her hair. A peculiar trait of the character is that a few strands of her hair tends to float in the air of their own accord. (The picture I’ve placed is a rough reference. No designs in the sideshave, though. Doesn’t have to be exact to this, obviously.)

Attire: So I know most artists don’t want to take clothes from other artworks directly, and part of the fun of this is that she’s going to be buying a new outfit. So I’ve put down a few other images with a general style of clothing that I would be leaning towards for her. Color palette would be teals, deep blues, grays, blacks. Just something with several belts and pouches, and preferably a coat of some kind. Not going for sex appeal or anything extremely flashy or sparkly. Practical above all else, but something that looks well made.

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This was idea I had for a Magic the Gathering card. The Goblin Tank! "It'll blast you into next week. When it gets there next week."