I'm writing my ninth (I think) Pantheon story, and all along I've been wanting to try drawing my characters. But I didn't really have a lot of confidence in where my ability is.
So this year I decided I want to work really hard and try to get better. Drawing my characters seems like a good way to do that because I have a kind of image in my head for each of them, so I'm trying to bring that out. I do feel like it's been good for me, but I still have a long way to go.
Anyway, here's Crowsinger (halfling druid), who was in five stories. I think this image would be before she heads out on her journey.
Aovyn (elf shaman) and his wolf, with Yonai (elf ranger), from the new story, which takes place during the Deicide War.
Edit: I think I've finished this one now. As finished as it's going to get :)
I had a painting here of Crowdancer, Arebon, Sairi and Isonis that I did several months ago, and I was very unhappy with it. I'm doing new art of each of them and posting them farther down the thread.
Crowsinger said: all along I've been wanting to try drawing my characters. But I didn't really have a lot of confidence in where my ability is.
You have a lot of ability. Those are really good. And the backgrounds in the 1st and 3rd are terrific! That 3rd one was already a really nice painting just as a landscape, before you put any of the characters in it.
If this is what you can do BEFORE you work really hard to get better, then you certainly made the right choice. Keep it up.
Isek Riverdusk, scholar and member of the Council of Nine Branches during the Deicide War ("In the Sway of Storms")
I never was happy with the picture of four people from "In the Sway of Storms", and I've been wanting to try those characters again. I feel like I've learned some things since then.
So here are Crowdancer (elf bard) and Isonis (elf ranger)
Benonai said:Isek doesn't look old enough! I was expecting something totally different. Now I have to re-read the stories with this face...
You're right, he doesn't look old enough. I imagine he's in his late forties or early fifties in human terms (not sure how long elves live). But this painting was my first attempt to do the entire face, all features, and shading in one layer, so so I was just kind of happy it kind of looked like he does in my head :)
I will probably work on this one some more, maybe add a bit of gray to his hair.
These are natives.
I want to look away from them lest they become sullied by the tiniest gestures of my cultural habits as a result of their natural mimicry. I am ashamed even of my appearance and manner of dress among them. At first I thought it was raining, and disregarded the call of the lonely thrush to another over the crackling of a foraging squirrel until it got eerily quiet when I took one more step. I trembled briefly in shock when instantly I was in the midst of a crowd of them where there was only empty forest before. I remember hear tell they had no illusion or camoflage magic.
Looking up I saw him on a limb. That- that strange boy looked like the one I gave a similar amulet to in passing. It was my first attempt at a small enchantment, nothing really. And the wind whispered, Crowsinger.
Carathost (human cleric), priest of Ossari during the Deicide War
Sairi (elf ranger), from "In the Sway of Storms"