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I'm Francesca Dare and this is where I put any art or random stuff that is not to do with my comic Penny Blackfeather.

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Day 26 of #drowgust is hack. Hicks the cyberpunk hacker may not look like much, but they can destroy a corporation with just their old laptop and a whim. Hicks especially likes taking out companies that overcharge for medicines and insurance, helping out the folks who otherwise couldn’t afford to survive. Hicks is autistic and isn’t a big talker, but they can type faster than anyone. Don’t get on their bad side! Hicks is a third companion for Hiroto and Reiher my other cyberpunk drow. Each one has a disability and a grudge against the system. Together they are Team CMYK. Maybe there will be a fourth team member next year. I wanna draw a short comic about them at some point. #drowgust2021 #cyberpunk #cyberpunkrpg #darkelf #nonbinary #autismawareness https://www.instagram.com/p/CTE_5QsDtC5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 23 of #drowgust is grave. Aaaa Moonrat I’m so sorry for making you cry! I’m a monster! 😱 The first time Moonrat Garrick saw someone he loved die was in the shadowfell, as a demonic entity pulled the souls from three members of the party during a deadly temple encounter. One of those souls belonged to Moonrat’s friend Coucou, a gnome raised by birds, the only one who understood Moonrat’s feelings about being a drow raised by gnomes. As the surviving adventurers gathered by the three graves, Moonrat broke down and swore he would find a way to stop anyone else dying. In that moment, his pact with angelic being Medriana was confirmed and Moonrat became a celestial warlock. This is one of those niche anime genres I seem to love which is Horrible Things Happen To Cute Characters (ahemhemmadeinabyssahem) I promise to never make Moonrat cry again. #drowgust2021 #darkelf #celestialwarlock https://www.instagram.com/p/CTCM1AEDHz4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 18 of #drowgust is venom. Nelda the swarmkeeper ranger is known as the Winged Witch of Whitewood. Many a foolish poacher has run from the forest telling frantic tales of a mute young woman who floats above the branches, stinging intruders with a mere wave of her hand. The truth is no less strange. Nelda is carried by her companions, a swarm of tiny venomous whitewood butterflies, who obey her sign language and even gift some of their venom for her to apply to her deadly twin kukris. I really wanna play a swarmkeeper you guys. They look so spooky and fun. Went full on strega with this one. #drowgust2021 #darkelf #darkmori #strega #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragonsart #swarmkeeper https://www.instagram.com/p/CS90rTQjY-u/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 19 of #drowgust is dungeon. Here’s Baldor Lintellis, a character I made for the solo RPG Colostle by @nichangell. Baldor comes from the small village of Skirtingbourne in Atrius, but their quest for the mythic Rookstones has taken them down into the perpetual darkness of the Underfloor, a seemingly endless dungeon filled with vast copper tubes and terrifying monsters such as mice. Luckily Baldor, like the other children of their village, has been grafted with a Rook arm, which is handy for climbing along in the gloom. I love Colostle. It’s kind of like Breath of the Wild meets Truckers. Elves aren’t really a playable race in it but I love the idea of tiny house elves too much to pass it up. I kind of messed up the scale of the pipe; it’s meant to be much bigger, more like a wide bridge, but I wanted to fit it on the page to make it clearer. Anyway, still pretty happy with it. #drowgust2021 #colostlerpg #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CS10f2PDVGE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 17 of #drowgust is heartsong. Amaryllis Quell was drawn to The City Beneath by an undeniable calling. She sacrificed everything to follow her dreams into that red wet heaven, and it took even more from her when she reached it. Her body and mind have been twisted and broken, remade, regrown and shattered again, but that burning desire within her chest is still hot and bright. She and the Heart are one. Eventually, it will swallow what is left of her and only the fire will remain. #heartrpg #drowgust2021 #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CSu6PfnDyze/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 14 of #drowgust is haven. Here’s the wonderful Mossy, who belongs to @cherish.york. Mossy is a beautiful undead librarian so her haven has to be her library. Sadly I didn’t have time to draw a whole library, or even a book nook, so Mossy is having a nice cup of tea instead. I love Cherish’s colourful drow stories and I hope I have done justice to Mossy! #drowgust2021 #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CSmtBJ3DcS5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 13 of #drowgust is slime. The absolute worst place to be assigned to patrol when you’re a minion is the secret sewer tunnels under the arch villain’s laboratory. #drowgust2021 #gelatinouscube #dungeonsanddragons #darkelf #dungeonsanddragonsart https://www.instagram.com/p/CShN6UxjZuP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 12 of #drowgust is investigate. Inquisitor Crux Whitlock, infamous witchfinder for the Holy Church of Rats, examining the area for signs of witch marks. I watched A Field In England recently and I’m slightly obsessed. This guy looks a bit more Warhammer perhaps. #drowgust2021 #darkelf #pathfinder #pathfinderrpg https://www.instagram.com/p/CSg8uqkjMTr/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 11 of #drowgust is staff. Dagrun Gloamingly the dusk elf bell mage has a staff that she hangs magical bells from to fuel her spells. Currently it is bell-less, but today she will be forging some more. #drowgust2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CSccm0nq4dk/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 9 of #drowgust is divine. Young diviner Pan Onaeli calls upon the small gods of his wasteland home to cast a divination spell. Aiming to make a character that would look at home in an jrpg. #drowgust2021 #dungeonsanddragons #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CSY6690j3nw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 8 of #drowgust is trickster. It’s the first dark fairy of the month! Whenever you lose a sock, it is most likely because it has been stolen by a fairy to make a nest with. This particular thief is called Rime and she thinks she has been very clever leaving a tissue in the washing machine as a stand in for this treasure. Nobody will ever know! Mwaa ha ha! #drowgust2021 #fairy #unseeliecourt https://www.instagram.com/p/CSWVkU-jO1E/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 7 of #drowgust is queen. The newly crowned Queen Mexzanone of Darkhaven. Her aunts thought they could make her into a puppet ruler, but now their heads decorate the house’s battlements. Already the queen has a nickname; The Avenging Viper. Already she is turning her heart to stone. Yet she still remembers better times, when this throne didn’t seem such a lonely place. (Still, she has her pet snek Bloodfang to keep her company.) Followers may remember Mexzanone from my first Drowgust. She’s grown since then for better or worse. #drowgust2021 #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragonsart #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CSUOdlzDg5w/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 6 of #drowgust is trance. Elves in D&D don’t need to sleep, instead they meditate for a few hours. Tumna the dusk elf scout is having a quick non-kip on the job. Speaking of sleep, August has turned out to be ridiculously busy, so I wasn’t able to start day five’s character, let alone finish. I thought it would be better to save them for later instead of rushing to catch up. So later this month there will be a surprise executioner! Nobody suspects the elvish inquisition! #drowgust2021 #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragonsart #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CSRKPz0jq74/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 4 of #drowgust is cards. Dorieskja Vorseaga wields the Trickster’s Tarot, a wild and intoxicating artefact that grants its keeper incredible powers of enchantment. I made the tarot using the solo RPG Artefact from @mousehole_press and it took a very different path to last year’s Hagheart. The tarot’s story involved a dragon, an evil cult, a forgotten goddess and a lot of backstabbing. All the good stuff! Dori was a simple serving girl who became a revolutionary leader by accident, but history repainted her as a villain. #drowgust2021 #darkelf https://www.instagram.com/p/CSMMtvgjv9Y/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 3 of #drowgust is heavy, and so is Jacques’s holy book. Here’s gutter cleric Jacques Toutfair, street preacher of over a dozen gods; some forbidden, some long dead and at least one made up by Jacques himself. He genuinely believes in about half of them most days, but what he lacks in decisiveness he makes up for in passion. If he can’t convert someone with his sacred book (made of a few different holy texts painstakingly sewed and glued together along with two different demonic summons and half of a waterlogged beekeeping manual) then at the very least it makes a good weapon to hit attackers with. Followers know by now how much I love Spire, and I am very excited for the new sourcebook! #drowgust2021 #darkelf #spirerpg #guttercleric https://www.instagram.com/p/CSJb8h6DJ64/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Day 2 of #drowgust is silver and I’m already behind wheeeeee… Sometimes even the sneakiest rogue has to go nuts on a rooftop shooting silvered crossbow bolts at monsters. They may be smiling but that doesn’t mean Sal is in the best of moods. Silvered bolts are expensive you know. Kids: do not hold crossbow bolts in your teeth at home; get somewhere high up first. #drowgust2021 #darkelf #dungeonsanddragons https://www.instagram.com/p/CSG-m9tDxvy/?utm_medium=tumblr

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What’s worse than a funnel-web spider? A yandere funnel-web drider with a grudge. Day 1 of #drowgust is web. What a sticky situation! Eyyy! #drowgust2021 #drider #darkelf #dungeonsanddragons https://www.instagram.com/p/CSC9vFeDhQV/?utm_medium=tumblr