Now That Ren Has Died I May Have The Motivation To Finish That Piece I Started Brainstorming A Couple

Now that Ren has died I may have the motivation to finish that piece I started brainstorming a couple months ago. I was waiting for the Dracula Daily readers to get to that point before continuing, so I could post it in those tags. It’s just a matter of finding the time to do so…

I'm going to be introducing my CoS party to Vasili von Holtz in the next session, and needed to decide if Strahd looked good with his hair in a braid. As there were no preexisting depictions of this, I had to make one of my own.

So here it is.

I finished up my third DnD miniature! The image is slightly edited to change the hues of the sun and the shadows at the bottom, but nothing about the character's paint job was changed.

The miniature is from Reaper Miniatures, named "Vatanis, the Maggotcrown Warlock," and was sculpted by Bobby Jackson.

Notes about the paint job and photography process are under the cut! Critique is always welcome!

Notes:

I don't know if there is any official color palette for this character, I just decided to use one inspired by the character Lucio's, from the game The Arcana, mainly his red jacket/cape, and golden details and arm.

The lighting, aside from the slight change of hue under the main light source and along the sun rays, is entirely natural. I finished this model in less than a day to make sure I could take advantage of the setting sun. The unedited version of this is up on my Instagram.

Once I'm sure I won't take any more pictures of him, I'll paint his base black. Originally it was kept grey to blend into the rocks I thought I was going to use as an environment before I got this shot.

This was taken on my iPhone, and edited with Clip Studio Paint. When it comes to mini paints, I have no form of brand loyalty, and used a mix of Army Painter paints and washes, then a couple Citadel technical shades.

I have finally drawn a spider! (:

For someone who has themed their biased a large portion of their online presence around spiders/bugs, I sure don't draw spiders a lot.

Spiders are my favorite animals, and this one is a depiction of the Goldenrod Crab Spider, my favorite species.

I can't stand drawing the segmented legs on members of the phylum Arthropoda (includes but not limited to spiders, insects, centipedes, shrimp, etc), so I don't tend to draw spiders. This time I just improvised the legs and hoped they turned out okay.

I had a poll up on my Instagram to determine the color palette, choosing between a sun themed design, and this moon design.

Check out what I was working on before my tablet may have died. (,:

It will probably be a couple weeks before I'm able to make some more digital art, so expect more traditional sketches and mini art in the meantime! (:

I have begun my third attempt at getting into Critical Role, this time by watching the TV show and making fan-art as I start listening to the podcast again. I've gotten the farthest I've ever managed to get though Vox Machina so far (episode 3) so I think it might be working.

Feel free to send me asks relating to the show or potentially requesting I draw some of the characters, so I have a consistent reason to keep listening. I enjoy it a lot, I just don't focus well on it for long periods of time.

My thoughts about the piece are under the cut! Critique is always welcome!

Notes:

This was originally made as some lighting practice, using some of the gradient options available in Clip Studio Paint.

The coloring took about 1.5 hours, much less time than my last portrait.

The face proportions are a little off, I need to work on drawing some more faces.