Dice, Camera, Action: The Eggo(TM) Crew

A sketch of the mini waffle crew!

Dice, Camera, Action: Healing Kiss

A mermaid, and a flustered Evelyn!

Simple pen/ink over a pencil sketch.

Dice, Camera, Action: "Death"

The Waffle Crew met Death last evening. An old and faceless thing. I kept thinking, "Death from the Endless would be pissed if she got stuck with this form during her mortal sabbatical...."

For once, I was really satisfied with a sketch of Death and Dream!

Critical Role - Season 2: "Regular Gnoll!"

Regular Gnoll! Regular Gnoll!

Via Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" song and video.

Critical Role - Season 2: Fjord's Falchion

My take on what Fjord's falchion looked like an episode or two back, after the Wrathful Smite:

This is what happens when your patron may be a Kraken!

Critical Role - Season 2: The Birds Are Still Out (also, Oglin Hornsblower)

Critical Role s02e02:

Beau gets arrested.

NPC Bookseller Sketch.

Critical Role - Season 2: The Birds Are Out Already

Critical Role s02e01:

Yasha carries Beau to her seat.

Dice, Camera, Action: "Gutter"

My take on the sword "Gutter" from the WotC Dice, Camera, Action stream.

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Drawn in Photoshop, with filters used to deepen the scraped metal feel on the blade, and accent the chrome on the fox and key.

Warm-up Sketch: The Dice Camera Action Ritual

Chris Perkins and the Dice Camera Action "Waffle Crew" have been killing it on their Twitch D&D game every Tuesday night. In a recent session, the party had life or death choices for three of the four party members involving a ritual with a costume and a shady ally dressed in an ominous ritualistic outfit.

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Warm-up Sketch: Duke Zalto's Hammer

In the D&D 5E adventure, Storm King's Thunder, the evil Fire Giant lord, Duke Zalto, brandishes a unique great maul. The head of the weapon is hollowed out to include a prison for medium or smaller creatures. 

You can get a partial glimpse of the maul in the adventure art, which led me to curiously sketching the following:

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Warm-up Sketch; Waffles vs. Stairs!

Once more, a sketch inspired by the WotC Dice Camera Action Twitch stream - another super fast ink-over-pencil sketch of Waffles the baby Owlbear.  This time with her friends, Stinky and Juniper!

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I made a mad rush to finish this while the stream was still on - which is still not a good reason to use thick pens for thin whiskers! For me, the fun of doing it more than made up for the bits and pieces that are odd, or just a bit off.

Warm-up Sketch: Waffles, the Baby Owlbear

Another sketch inspired by the WotC Dice Camera Action Twitch stream - a super fast ink-over-pencil sketch of Waffles the baby Owlbear.  Groooooo!

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Quickly done or not, was that there is much potential for going VERY cute with the owl eyes (you can make the eyes huge, puppy dog-esque things, round out the head, etc.).  I had that in mind when I started, but I accidentally ended up steering away from that when I did the rest of the sketch.  

Warm-up Sketch: Grung Wildling

The Grung appear on pp. 156-157 of the great Volo's Guide for D&D 5E, and I am somewhat desperate to use them in a campaign at some point!  No idea why he is posing like Hulk Hogan however...

"Whatcha gonna do when a Grung goes Wildling on you!?"

Force Grey: The Lost Episode's New Title!?

After watching the WotC D&D stream for their live "Force Grey: The Lost Episode" (DM'd by Critical Role's Matt Mercer), it became clear that there was one true PC hero.  A giant among mortals.  A harden bulwark set against the forces of evil.  In short, a baby porcupine.

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Context: Dylan Sprouse was one of the new guests for the game (playing a Druid), and he managed to sneak in a way to both turn his character into a baby porcupine AND make it useful.  Truly the stuff of legends...or at least D&D bragging rights for some time to come.

WIP - Sketch to final (flipped for the parody pic)

Dice, Camera, Action: Diath's Cure

During the 11/29 "Dice, Camera, Action!" game, run weekly by Chris Perkins on the official Wizards of the Coast D&D Twitch channel, the party finally found a cure for poor Diath (played by ProJared).  The gauntlet was thrown down on twitter for some fan art - they suggested holy light, but all I heard when I listened was eerie darkness:

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Heavily influenced by Garney and Milla on the current Daredevil run.  I thought about going static image (a la the Were-pom that never came to pass), but I really thought we needed to see the goop crawling away.

Critical Role: Iced Coffee

Let's continue the Goristro barista theme from last week for the current Demon vs. Dragon showdown on Critical Role (on Geek & Sundry's Twitch Channel, every Thursday).

Critical Role: The Goristro Barista

From the 10/6 Critical Role on Geek & Sundry's twitch stream.  You know he is going to purposely put his thumb on your lemon cake and spell your name wrong on the little label.

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I am not sure if this form of irritation magic raises or lowers it CR.

Inktober: 10/1 Live D&D Game at Twitch Con

Here is a quick Inktober sketch of Commander Holly's D&D character, Strix, for the Wizard's of the Coast official Dice Camera Action game.  They were live at Twitch Con tonight, so I used her live cosplay as a reference and gave it a go:

Brushes and India Ink over a Quick Sketch

Excuse the potato quality photo of the sketch...

Were-pom!

I love watching D&D streams.  I think the first one I found was "I Hit it with my Axe," and soon after discovered "Acquisitions Inc." and the Wizards of the Coast Extra Life marathons.  I discovered "Critical Role" about 3-4 episodes in, binged the back episodes, and it became regular viewing.  I love that Wizards is on board with so much of this, even running streamed games to support their 5E product releases.

Something in their recent "Dice, Camera, Action" game caught my attention: during the Curse of Strahd #WaffleCrew play through, Anna Prosser Robinson's character was bitten by a Werewolf.  She tried to suggest to DM Chris Perkins that her character, Evelyn, was more of a Were-pom(eranian) than a Werewolf.

I needed to make Were-pom exist:

Digital Painting (a few hours in Photoshop) - Click to Enlarge.

Werepom!

"Werepoms gathered in their masses, 
wag their tails and beg for scratches. 
Fuzzy faces plot destruction, 
little dog of death's construction."

Four D&D Portraits - Redone in Manga Studio

The four D&D portrait sketches from a previous post, redone in Manga Studio Debut 4.

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