Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#drawings today were all about hands and feet actually. And KMT, not really sure why.

Does Mulhorand even exist in 5e? I thought 4e canon was they went away and were replaced by dragonborn… but 5e is notorious for “everything we said happened in 4e is completely back to normal.”

#drawings today, a duel and the undead on the march!

#drawings today while listening to The Thirteenth Warrior soundtrack (plus a suite for First Night and a little bit of Red Sonya)

Last one for tonight isn't a favorite but it's Pride Month, so here's Bartholemew Roberts, one of the most successful captains, and openly Gay. I'm delighted by how setting Roberts apart with a 3/4 figure like this doubles as an excuse to paint a whole batch of pirate portraits.

Another one I love just for storytelling, even though it's fairly late (ECW) and not a fantasy thing that much. I really like how the halberd connects the disapproving minister with these musketeers he's just caught gambling on the sabbath!

I love the storytelling in this one - the physical wall as well as his wooden sword as barriers between the great Astinax's former life in the arena and his new life running his own Ludus. The cloak pulls you to him, out of all the elements in his yellow-orange-red world.

Getting away from stuff I think of as fantasy, here's my favorite of McBride's samurai paintings. This is pretty much straight out of a jidaigeki.

Fire and doom! I love how what seems to be an elaborate background to the big dynamic story, is actually simple and graphically clear when I look closer. The surcoat's color shows the invader as out of place, and there's this clear left to right progression which tells me what happened.

Characters in the wilderness means McBride can use elements of traditional and more European landscape painting to frame big action! And yes, Indian rhinoceri used to be native to China.

Adventure in progress! McBride's showing us a jailbreak - something which doesn't show up in games much but could. I really like how the rain and darkness add drama but also keep you looking at the main cluster of figures literally coming off the page towards you.

More McBride historical art which is what fantasy is all about for me. Wandering the bleak wilderness our Celtic heroes are surrounded by *very* bad omens indeed.

Another pure fantasy image. Where do heroic figures of legend go when they're back from the wilderness? Why, to crowded cities that never sleep, of course. Where they can drink regrettable things with dubiously honest company and get into regrettable confrontations!

I couldn't find this image and despite being a historical illustration, it's what I think fantasy is all about; perilous terrain on the journey into the unknown, using a bridge built by someone - but who?

Analog #inks today over some older stuff. So I have mixed w, y’know?

#drawings today were about pop culture stuff going on and also listening to Foo Fighters

#drawings today, still fantasizing about minis I’d like to have, and I just don’t get tired of drawing minotaurs.

#drawings which don’t look like much. I didn’t like how those wolves yesterday came out so I drew off a batch of photos, feel like these two pages really “got” the flexibility of their forequarters.

Since I’m in a crummy mood I figured now would be a great time to re-post color art from the weekend since I feel good about that.

Lesson today; #drawing quadrupeds with no reference after a bad day is not actually easy to pull off, and warmup sketches are useful here. #wip

#dnd analog #drawings and #inks, cut and grad #colors in Clip Studio.