Something I've been intending to post but keep failing to: my sketching attempts to go with my TTRPG campaign set in Kavis (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=248.0). I started on this late last year and have been trying to slowly improve my skills, with varying levels of success.
I know that there are some obvious problems with these, especially in the proportions: I always do legs a bit too short, hands not wide enough and sometimes lacking good proportions too, and I find limbs tricky especially when they're not flat-on to the "camera" (and who really wants to see all characters with their hands at their sides all the time?) In terms of the style, the way I do them is sketching on a rough paper, and then the colour is added digitally with a low-opacity layer and a soft paintbrush tool in GIMP. But anyway, I'd really appreciate other feedback if anyone has any and what you think overall :)
So here are a few of the characters and NPC types my players have recently encountered - this output is from the last couple of days. I've got a big stack of older stuff including quite a lot of monsters already too, I mostly use them to make play tokens for gaming on Roll20, so I may post more and some of the nonhumans at some point.
(https://i.imgur.com/AOZu1uN.jpg)
Biriir, leader of the Francolin mercenary company. | (https://i.imgur.com/MogRAjJ.jpg)
Enwain, leader of the mercenary Ox Hooves from Nistria. | (https://i.imgur.com/yBf4gJ1.jpg)
Heatherling of Smew's Isle, the Reeve's advisor & wizard. | (https://i.imgur.com/ehb06JH.jpg)
Mosser, a flamboyant Hanau pirate. |
(https://i.imgur.com/oEVcedl.jpg)
Little Ryfe, the guard captain. He's 6'10. | (https://i.imgur.com/Uj2qUR1.jpg)
One of the Black Feathers, partisans of Mocra the Bearded. | (https://i.imgur.com/ixOybwQ.jpg)
One of the Francolin mercenaries. | (https://i.imgur.com/3RlskqC.jpg)
One of the Ox Hoof mercenaries. |
A new D&D character for a short game I'm playing with the James Holloway/Monster Man crowd. Meet Meral Naima Ben Samar, gnome rogue, occasional thief, arcane trickster, etc etc.
I got the polecat far too small unfortunately, but I think the rest of this worked pretty well.
(https://i.imgur.com/ujrVsMP.jpg)