Wielder of the Pen

The whimsical musings of a Freelance Illustrator

[arclejoan]

My miqote Paladin WoL. Loving her new look :D

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Orimac the Pugilist - fan art from the SWE n D campaign cast. I love this character so much 😸

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Dragonborn Rogue. A fun bit of artistic challenge for me. I like how it came out :D

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Miqo’te in Hyur starting gear because glams are for everyone!

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Miqo’te with Viera gear because I wants all the glams and racial equipment restrictions are dumb.

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My halfling ranger/warlock and her barbarian companion. Mischief and adventure for all!

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My halfling ranger/warlock character. She’s headed into trouble ~

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A character design for a d&d game I’ll be playing soon. A socially awkward wizard, fun times 😸

[arclejoan]

Halfling Bard

Amberelle was raised in an average halfling home, if not always well off. To help out, she found work at one of the local taverns as a serving girl.It was while working there that she would see the traveling minstrels coming in and plying their trade and bringing stories of the wider world. One of these traveling bards took a liking to Amberelle and convinced the young halfling to runaway with her, which she did. The bard revealed she was a spy for the Duchy of Brackenboar, which Amberelle accepted. When she asked Amberelle to help her in some of her "spy" work, Amberelle happily assisted, learning a bit of the bard's tradecraft.  And then one morning Amberelle woke up she was gone only a note saying things like "the summer always fades to fall," and "it was time for a new season," and a single gold coin on the nightstand. Too embarrassed to return home, she bought a badly made lyre and tried her hand at performing - and when she needed to, lifting the odd coin purse. 

That was three years ago, now she's a travelling bard (sometimes "spy") in her own right, though she occasionally lifts the odds coin purse to make ends meet.

[arclejoan]

A dragonborn Tempest Cleric.  

Yrrixith was part of a nomadic tribe of Dragonborn peoples Tragically, one night her tribe’s camp was attacked by raiders and put to the sword. She awoke the next morning, left for dead and the sole survivor. She spent a week seeing her tribe buried properly and then started across the steppe, with a few meager supplies, hoping to join her tribe.  

Yrrixith walked for days in grief when she stumbled upon a raider camp. The camp looked peaceful and safer. Rage flared in her heart. She waited for the storm that had been brewing to break over the camp and unleashed her fury. Yrrixith struck like thunder and lightning, killing those who stood before her and scattering the rest into the night. On that night, she found favour in the eyes of the tempest and was gifted with its blessing and found a new purpose. She has since spent the following few years

[arclejoan]

Another character I made for an early one-shot story.  A dragonborn warlock :D  She was a quirky character and it was interesting to try out the warlock job class (had never played it before).  Even more fun to draw~  D&D, a source of never-ending ideas :D

[arclejoan]

I’m in a couple different D&D campaigns (thank you lockdown) and this is one of my characters, the halfling ranger, Merrybelle Willowbramble.   Having a lot of fun playing the character~.  

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A sketch I made for a friend. How I envisioned their DnD character, a half orc Druid. I do so love sketching things. :D

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My Little Miqo'te Life #1

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"Friendship" - just a little moment of domestic calm.

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"When you grow up, you'll be able to fly~"

[nyctoheart]

My intention isn’t to BOSS people around. But people who don’t create on tumblr really have to understand that if creators stop posting here, you won’t have anything else to like but maybe memes. If you want content to circle around to your dashboard... you have to pay it forward and reblog. That is why this website is dying. The Ban is not the only reason.

[nyctoheart]

And its like.... people dont even fucking realize how special tumblr is

Tumblr doesn’t have verified checkmarks. Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm to you show ❝The Best Stuff❞. Tumblr doesn’t display how many followers you have. Tumblr isn’t obsessed with subscriptions. 

Tumblr is an even playing field compared to websites like Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Which means its up to us, the users, to spread the word of people we enjoy-- the way the internet should be.

I’m not asking you to reblog shit you don’t like. I’m not asking you to reblog everything out of pity. But when you see a post you genuinely like, reblog it.

[tywvin-archive]

I think so many people mistake the ‘you should reblog’ message with ‘I’m greedy and all I want is notes’ when it’s really not at all like that.

When creators say they’re discouraged from creating because their posts get no notes, they don’t mean they will refuse to create unless their last edit reaches at least 1k notes. What they mean is that the effort they’re putting into creating something purely out of inspiration and the need to share their passion and creativity with the world is being consumed and forgotten, just like it is on Instagram. Tumblr has changed from having an even reblog-like ratio, or even twice as many reblogs as likes, to being another social media where users consume content instead of sharing it.

We’re not trying to force you to reblog everything or want you to fill your blog with things you don’t like. But Tumblr is built on reblogs and likes. This is not a fast-food company where you can order something, consume it, and then throw it away. The very base of this website is sharing, as opposed to Instagram. Here, likes don’t give our posts exposure, reblogs do.

Notes are not the problem, the fact that you want new content without supporting creators is. So yeah, don’t be surprised if creators stop creating because nobody wants to share their creations.