I've Noticed I'm Not Great At Describing NPC Appearances, So I'm Going To Start Making Up For It With

I've noticed I'm not great at describing NPC appearances, so I'm going to start making up for it with art, here's Rictavio, the... bard... and babysitter for three random children the party dumped on him.

Here's another NPC my Curse of Strahd players have run into: Arrigal, who, in my game, is the vampire spawn son of Madame Eva, and father of the dhampir Arabelle, thanks to me messing up the family tree a bit.

Here's the next two cards! (:

The suits don't have any particular theme, I'm just picking subjects from a list of species I've made. Aside from one card I've already planned for, none of the minor arcana will intentionally have a creature that somehow matches the card's meaning.

Anyone know of any queer supernatural/paranormal cowboy/western stories? A podcast would be ideal, but I’m not too picky. Kinda just in the mood to hear about a cute couple facing the dark unknown together.

An attempt to deal with art block.

I've got another DnD character, who, despite being used in a Saltmarsh oneshot, takes almost all his features and personality traits from VRGtR.

Design details, backstory, and stats are bellow the cut, there's a lot, as there seems to usually be when I introduce a new character. (:

Suggestions/critique for his design are welcome!

Quinten Hayes is a young investigator in his early thirties. Raised by his mortician father and spirit medium mother, it's unsurprising to most that he developed a dark sense of humor and comfort in the macabre. What is surprising is the ghost of his dear dead brother being his warlock patron.

Ridley Hayes died shortly after turning ten years old, the same night 16 year old Quinten first started to speak with the dead. A deal was struck. In exchange for new power, Quinten would explore the world for the two of them, giving Ridley a glimpse of the life he could no longer lead. It just so happened that being a private investigator is the perfect way to find trouble and adventure.

Design Notes:

Jack Seward and Van Helsing were the main sources of inspiration for his design, though Van Richten and Sherlock Holmes were also considered.

His cane came from the Horror Trinket Table in VRGtR, as a piece of evidence from a case, and it was that which lead to me lowering his Dexterity score and movement speed (with DM permission) to reflect a leg injury he received some time prior. Somehow I messed up which hand he should hold the cane with in each outfit sketch.

He's a variant human with the Spirit Medium feat, to match his mother.

His Form of Dread feat will cause him to appear sickly and gaunt, to match his brother.

The middle coat design is my favorite, though I should probably make a sketch or two that doesn't have him wearing a suit.