Art by _beatrice_ke_

I'm back!

Whelp, it's been a long time, wasn't it? during these few years, I graduated biology studies, went through a couple of jobs...

I posted a some things on other platforms (I updated their links, if you want to check them out ;) ), but somehow forgot to do anything here - where I could compile everything from photos to digital art, with some things I've written about my DnD character.

So, if you want to see what I've been working on these couple of years and beyond, stick around ;)

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This is where my digital drawing really began. After playing our campaign for like 6 months, I wanted to draw every character separately. Archie was the first victim since he was the first to actually give me a description :D

Archibald Cook is a diplomat in Elemental Planes, a retired veteran, but first of all, he's a father. And he was most likely pretty hot in youth - not anybody can snatch a fire genasi like that! Gediminas, who is playing this character, mostly plays him as a joke character - Canada during WW2 personified, always looking for some deranged way to make enemies suffer a little more, so I made him in the first drawing a literal dad with a fanny pack, and added some details, which point to his more twisted nature.

Not long after, I really wanted to draw the rest of his family. What can I say, drawing glowing hair was a nightmare to render. I'm still not sure if I succeeded at selling the effect 😅 I didn't have a drawing tablet yet, so both of these painting were done on my phone, and boy, does it show :D I think I spent over a month on this project, so some parts are overworked, some not worked on enough. This is what I get for trying to emulate a painterly style!

I wrote this as I wanted to figure out Vinadra's backstory - we did a session 0 with my DnD group, where we played out the "inciting incident" for her (or at least one of her stepping stones of her backstory), but I still didn't feel as connected with her as I wanted.

Also, I wanted to explore her relationship with her mentor Serena, who's already dead after session 0's time jump. Maybe I didn't do it fully here, but maybe I'll make it some other time :D

Conrad del Astro

“Oh, how I yearn to look through Your eyes, to see what You see, so I could finally understand – do You even care, if Your servants live or die, as long as they blindly follow Your orders?!”

After so long, I started writing my current campaign character's inner thoughts and backstory moments. It helps me to roleplay her during sessions, and to flesh her out more than I could during them. Here's my second written story, which happened during one of the long rests.

New character unlocked: Mara Fallriver

Mara was born to a family of once-famous engineer and a seamstress. As the only child, she was expected to inherit her father's workshop, but she chose a path of wonders of creation that could be brought with music.

Years passed. Mara used her talent and skills for music in various circumstances - she would perform in taverns and fares by day, and help with cities' and villages' pest problems by nightfall. Her travels led her to Eternity's End - a festival of sorts, where she was asked to perform. Nobody knew, what was hiding behind the tents, and the chaos that was going to explode. An adventuring party crashed the festival, exposing the horrors Ilmater's sect was doing right below everyone's noses. Mara was shocked by what she saw. After so long, she decided to go back to her parent's home and rest.

The house seemed the same as she left it, but with no one to be found. Inside her father's workshop, she found what seemed to be his final work, unfinished. She didn't even notice how weeks have passed, while she tried to get the steel defender going. Her focus was broken by an unusually large cockatrice, falling through a hole in workshop's roof, and bloodhunter, named Cinder making the hole even bigger.

Testing out Krita

Up until now I've used Sketchbook Pro app for sketching, Which was pretty free app on android, but proved to be lacking on pc, especially as a 20 eur program.

Some things that I've captured

Nida study - part 2

Young black-headed gulls in Žuvintas lake island

I can’t believe that I’m finally back from my second biology practice! This time we learned:

Zoology: vertebrate biology (mostly learning bird songs and mammal footprints)

Botany: Spermatophyta plants and how to preserve them in herbarium