Art by EoD

This was my first attempt at Japanese swords and also my first actual sword commission. It came with a lot of challenges, but it was great fun! Especially the tsubas took time to figure out. They are so different from the hand guards I’m used to making for my medieval swords.

Sometimes I attempt to paint more realistically, but it’s been a while. This time I tried, though not very successfully, to match the style of the D&D book illustrations. I also wanted to try working with light and shadow - in particular, to try making shadows softly gradient and lights sharp, rather than the other way around like I’m used to. It was a lot of fun and I’m quite happy with the result, especially the lights at the edges of her hair and ear, and the everything of her hand and dagger.

There have been many cool scenes and captivating moments in this new campaign, but this one, from episode 2, particularly caught my attention. It was something about it that reminded me of a John Bauer painting, but in spoken form. It was so inspiring I had to try and recreate it.

This Critical Role rewatch is making me sad at the most unexpected moments, and I ended up drawing something much more elaborate than first planned, just to capture that pain. These twins are the most wonderful, most heartbreaking story to come out of this wonderful, heartbreaking show. 

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2018 be a better year, filled with more creativity and adventures of all sizes.

Name day gift for the loveliest @titaniumtalons

I’ve been aware of the technique to make a sword out of a nail for a while, and been really interested in trying it out, but metal is an intimidating material to work with. As it happens, however, I need swords in both of the miniature projects I’m currently working on. So here is a brave first attempt! 

“A quiet day in Zephrah”

Miniature-doodled a few images I liked out of chapters 1-6 of La Belle Sauvage, but not very successfully. I’m so excited about this book, though!

A tiny Lyra in a tiny Jordan College Hall.

Threw together a few wine- and champagne flutes yesterday!

It’s been a while since I uploaded anything, so here is an experimental bunny I made today! I’m used to simply painting my miniature animals (minimals), but I’ve always been interested making soft furry ones. It’s going to take more than one attempt to get the hang of this, but as a first try I think it turned out really rather adorable!

Two more tiny scenes! I still have a little list with twitter prompts, so I will try to make more of these when I have time.

Spent yesterday and today doodling tiny, His Dark Material-esque scenes, with dæmon prompts from twitter. The phone photo is for size, but I was also able to scan them so you can properly see the tiny. 

A pair of cosy windows, day and night, when the real-life-sketching started to feel mildly boring.

So now I’m featured as a “hashtag sign of spring” on their page. It was just a very sweet little experience, and I’m still delighted.