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Portrait of wittyandcharming’s enchantingly glamorous horse Alphonse.

Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies

Found a PDF of this book for anyone that showed interest in the game we might put on but doesn’t know the first thing about D&D (like me). Seems really useful.

This thread’s a pretty decent crash course as well, and the player handbook is up on this handy site for reference purposes. D&D has a LOT of rules and information, but I’ll walk everybody through the important stuff once we get things going. The mechanics are pretty simple once you get the hang of it!

Basically all you need at this point is an idea for a character. Go through the base classes and pick one out, or just come up with a concept (soldier on the city guard, spear-wielding warrior princess, lute-playing elf guy) and we can build all the technical stuff later. Good rule of thumb is to make your character kind of ridiculous - this is high fantasy, y’all. It parodies itself.

But yeah. As daunting as all the rules and numbers and information may be, D&D is essentially just collaborative storytelling. You roll weirdly shaped dice and go on dumb quests and I try to kill you with monsters. WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE.

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Abigail’s marian redesigns are pretty much the best thing ever and this really doesn’t do her work any justice but asfskdjgl dresses

COMMISSIONS?!?!?!

So I’m in kind of a weird transition between jobs right now and might need something to A. keep myself productive and B. take the edge off some bills. Pictured above are examples of the work I’m offering: $16 character portraits. One character, waist up, full color, solid background, made with the magic of technology.

If you’re interested, send me an ask/email me at the address listed above with the following info and we’ll go from there:

Your paypal email so I know what’s what
Character info and a handful of visual references, if you have them. Go into as much detail as you want, really, a character’s background and personality is just as important as the visual stuff in an illustration!

No limit on the queue for now. Thanks for reading!

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Pen doodles bleh

Except wait

NAILED IT

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(Source: raphaelia, via sepiidae)

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So I tragically missed out on the anon lovefest because I was too busy eating curry and playing D&D

But then I was like, tumblr I don’t need your rules, I will be having none of this paltry anon nonsense (anonsense?) I will tell someone I love them to their FACE

But there are a lot of you and it’s 2am so I just want to say I really appreciate all the comments on my recent job post, and I’m absurdly lucky to be surrounded by so many creative and excellent people and I just want to talk to you losers every waking moment of my life ok I LOVE YOU ALL KBYE

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PRINTS WHAT

Finally updating my stuff on Society6 and Zazzle, so I’m here to shamelessly bombard you with promotional photosets of things to make your walls look EXCELLENT! Especially those cards up top, seriously. My otherwise very beige apartment looks classy as hell.

What’s kind of frustrating is that Zazzle’s base printing cost is lower (and there are more sizing options at better prices and it’s a superior deal all around if you want a gigantic poster) but Society6 is fancier and doesn’t police whether or not you’re posting fanart. One day I will figure out how to consolidate my print operations, but for now just take your pick.

Also let me know if there’s something you want that you don’t see in either store, whether it’s a print, a card, a phone case, a throw pillow with HP Lovecraft’s face on it, whatever.

Thanks!

SOCIETY6 — ZAZZLE

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Recently I discovered the art of EXTREME PATTERNMAKING

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I have resolved to continue to enter Fluevog design contests until they pay attention to me (really though, I’ll take any excuse to draw some fancy people and/or shoes.)

Give it a thumbs-up on the gallery page if you feel so inclined!