Inksplot Studios

Level 1 Dragonborn: Now with chainmail.

Finally got this one written up as a tutorial over at my blog. The tutorial is all about the painting process, but I also made a lot of little character detail choices that I want to talk about:

-The artificial arm and eye, on the same side. Given that this woman is a mechanic, it's reasonable to assume that at some point something blew up in her face and she barely survived.

- She has good trigger discipline, but doesn't keep the barrel pointed away from people. She doesn't want to shoot you, but also doesn't give a shit about your rules.

- She is looking up, over and behind the viewer. She is assessing whatever mechanical problem she was brought in to fix, not engaging with you.

My NaNoWriMo wordcount isn't exactly keeping up with my goals, but the just going through the process of making a snowflake has gone an amazingly long way toward solidifying my story.

For example, until I'd finished my snowflake the concept for my villains was suffering from some pretty serious anemia. They wanted bad things to happen because they were...bad. Yeah.

Another symptom of that anemia was that I had no good idea of what they looked like. So I was pretty happy earlier this week when I was struck by a sudden urge to draw them.

These are my villains. Aren't they a lovely young couple?

For many of us that make things, it can be hard to share. Because we're makers of physical objects, not photographers. And the internet requires images.

I've been thinking about making scale clothing pieces lately, but I'm just not quite ready to commit. So this larger chest-piece/necklace hybrid is a babystep in that direction.

So unreasonably happy with the result! Sometimes I buy beads and I just hope I can do them justice... and then sometimes I do!