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A bit of an art dump for the end of the year. I've slowly been getting better at this whole drawing thing and it makes me so happy. Younger!Me had always dreamed of being able to translate images from my head to the page and I'm slowly reaching the point where oh my gosh. They're actually starting to look pretty ok.

TINY BLURBS FOR EACH BELOW THE CUT BC WHY NOT

1) Another Vanya in my portfolio. She takes up most of my character brainspace and thus most of my drawing efforts. I might make a post later showing my progression entirely in drawings of her because that's legit where you can see 90% of the evolution this year came from. This one is the latest I made and also isn't finished, but it is the best so far so. //Ta-Da Motion//

This is my first experiment with half-body in a While. I've always been semi-terrified of drawing the human figure because I'm Really Bad At It. But I figured, if I never start then how will I get anywhere?

2) This snazzy man is an NPC by our dear DM @intensesargasm. He goes by the name of Velmier. I (and by extension Vanya) am notorious for forgetting names and so it's partly a miracle and partly thanks to the fact that I have a soft spot for suave, pretty elf bois that I remembered his. Another half body and a very very sincere attempt at drawing clothes with Folds and Creases and all the other things that make clothes a pain to draw. I'm still stupidly happy with how his hand turned out.

3) This is Sorrel, Vanya's missing bff. Are they more that just friends? Who knows; Vanya certainly doesn't! I gave the girl a smidge too much denseness. He's a sun elf paladin who serves Vandria Gilmadrith and if I told you the first half of this sentence was made up on the spot in-game I would not be lying but also I doubt you'd believe me because:

1) Sun elves are apparently one of the few elven races who lean toward taking up the mantle of paladin; the others are more prone to chaotic alignments and thus are not drawn to the lifestyle/dogma of most paladins.

2) Vandria Gilmadrith is one of the few elven gods who isn't in fact of chaotic alignment. She's known as an elven goddess with few elven followers because of their freespirited natures. I chose her because she was the first elven war god I saw on the wiki.

And 3) Vandria is described as a goddess with white wings and white hair that she often wears as a braid doES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?? (She's also part(?) drow so they aren't exactly alike but considering all this was coincidental is crazy.)

ANYWAY BACK TO THE DRAWING. Drawing just the head again after agonizing over half for forever was absolutely delightful, and it took me way less time than I expected. I'm pretty sure I went from rough sketch to whatever state this is in less than four hours, which is short for me. I played with a new technique here where I just blotched colors over the lineart and adjusted accordingly instead of painstakingly following my lineart to the letter and correcting when something went wrong. It gave a lot of freedom for editing.

Yea that's prettymuch all I got haha. Sorry for the long ramble, but I like talking and I figured as long as everything was below the cut people wouldn't get too mad. Have a good day, folks!

I'M SORRY I SAID TINY BLURBS AND THESE AREN'T TINY 😭