Frith the Traveller

D&D & Worldbuilding artworks by ofcowardiceandkings

[friththetraveller]

Never once stepped cursor into tumbler, but I'll be coming back again and again to check your thingy here. I found you on reddit...your genius and gorgeous rendition of the botw map. Doing them by region was just the fuckin coolest. When you're done with them...you should sell them as laminated/framable set of prints. I'd buy them in a heartbeat and hang that shit on my wall. This started(on reddit) searching for at least the 4th time, a close up of each region that I can print and hang, to use while playing.

I cannot wait to see the rest. Absolutely beautiful.

aw man thank you so much, and thanks for venturing onto this hellsite to tell me thats really sweet of you !!

it's been over a year since i finished Lake Region, oof, but i'm 100% in for a penny in for a pound i swear on me mam. i have some sketched and ready to pencil, it's just a time thing. having adult responsibilities and a job n shit sucks sometimes lmfao

YEAH THOUGH i'd love to find somewhere that could print them at a larger size :'D if i get that far i'd love to create edits as well

thank you again this really brightened up my morning ! 💙💙

[ofcowardiceandkings]

WEHEYYY this set is finally finished and ready to post :')

this is the character artwork for my pals over at NaturalHavoc on Twitch / on Youtube, where they're playing 5th Edition D&D in a homebrew world - Eros; Tales of Veritas !! they've recently started the second chapter of the campaign and its all VERY interesting 👀 you can catch them on Twitch every Friday at 7:30PM CET, and the previous campaign sessions and one-shots are all on Youtube ~

Arcturus, Vedalken Warlock; Contessa Coldstar, Human Paladin; Ondros (and Brasta), Loxodon Phantom Rogue; Erhard Weidestaff (and Olaf), Human Wild Magic Sorceror; Maeve (and Sox), Half-elf Druid/Barbarian; Shion Loranil, Half-elf Hexblade Warlock.

Dungeon Master, @TheOnionSoup | Arcturus, @TeamLogicNL (Tim) | Contessa, @GuildMasterCreed | Ondros, @TheEagle0utlaw | Erhard, @AgentZeb | Maeve, @smittyjane | Shion, @TeamLogicNL (Laan)

[ofcowardiceandkings]

its been SO LONG since i last finished one of these wow

THIS was a fun experience fjdksdjks .... it was the beginning of the "eejit runs around Faron noting where the ruins actually are" saga and honestly that was pretty fun, to be continued in the Faron tower region because BOY that one's giving me a headache :L

in addition !! there is also another version now because i hate myself i had fun messing with a sort of pseudo-hylian font inspired by the wonderful Studson Studios sign in his junk miniature build of a BotW stable !! guys content is so impressive and funny to boot 👌👌

i have a feeling that the ghostly hint of Farosh will be absent from the eventual composite map but i felt bad not adding them in here as tribute for the amount of time i spent cheesing the poor fucker for parts here <.<

more content like this, LoZ or otherwise, at friththetraveller 💙

[ofcowardiceandkings]

WWEEELP im gonna just drop this here !!

this is My Dude Kyrr Tryggrson of Fylgirholt , wandering curious farm-lad and halfling rogue , and my first player character 8)

made heem for a one-shot with a new group and we all liked the characters and party dynamic enough that we're gonna try to keep it going and rotating DMs , im really excited to see where they all go :')

[ofcowardiceandkings]

its about time i posted this here tbh :')

currently the only place he's been seen is in my twitch overlays lol

we've seen Frith the hobbit around before but this is Frith the rito ! local encyclopaedia brain , here i go off to do maps and drawings and whatnot around Hyrule and then talk a lot about it to anyone who wants the information (and sometimes if they dont too)

[ofcowardiceandkings]

AND i was correct, compared to the hole i dug myself into with drawing Zelda, drawing this gentle hooligan was TOO easy 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️

some of this was purely self indulgent because it took a lot less practice to be consistent LOL, at first how puckish his face came out kind of bothered me but honestly ? its true to his personality

the only bit that gave me a headache really was how scarred is TOO scarred ... iirc a fair few NPCs state that he's covered in them so at least i dont have to feel bad about hurting my boy fhjdkfjdk

thanks to @newtsnaturethings @aquaticpal @flydunes & @lynkhart for the help with poses when my brain imploded for a bit there lol ... and shout to the ladle run

look at this funky lad [marge with potato] i just think he's neat!

[ofcowardiceandkings]

and its my Breath of the Wild brainrot that gets me to finish an isometric piece of course lol

no complaining though ,, this was ssssoo much fun and i want to live in a Hateno house even more than i did before it looks so cozy :')

im 100% planning on doing another thing where im gonna unpack my worldbuilder brain and give Link a house that matches the exterior build (the boy deserves a comfy fireplace at least) but this was so much fun even based on the game appearance

[ofcowardiceandkings]

AAAAAND ive finally got a grip on myself lol, BOY it took some effort to straighten this out and try to get it consistent

i dug myself out the hole i threw myself in over some kind of weird doing-her-justice thing (BotW Zelda is very important to me) by just doing portraits of people that make me THINK of Zelda for whatever reason - by music association or for certain face forms or just general feel of it - and pegging out features i Needed 1, i refuse to draw a Zelda with a small nose & 2, this is a thicc Zelda household

i just kinda went with the flow after that ? and im !! reasonably pleased !! with how reliably i can throw the same face shape and body forms for her now !!

💙 Zelda my angel my sunshine child ;v; 💙

bonus look gremlin boy Link there he's my next victim (finished art!)

[ofcowardiceandkings]

well i was gonna post this BEFORE i did the art week but yano sometimes things just happen lol

anyway, the Wife has Arrived

same as Eivor's one, top page is Learning How To Randvi from various stills and i tried to leave them as untouched as possible (erk), and the bottom is goofing around with her in a more informal style

thiiis was a LITTLE tougher than Eivor , partially because her features are both striking and subtle in combination ?? but also probably because i havent spent upwards of 150 hours yomping around England as Randvi lmao

i did have to muck about with how to make sense of her clothing though , going on grumpily staring at her model like "awesome but what" , and knowing how norse clothing of the time actually worked , hrrmmrrr loves it hates it snrk .. i went with split apron under surcoat ?? eh i think it works fjdksla

[chinhands] she :')

[ofcowardiceandkings]

im up way too late because i needed to post these for my own sanity

Eivor Varinsdóttir has had my brain in a headlock for a while for MANY reasons but i finally eeked out some art >:I

top page is doodles from various stills ... i tried not to editorialise them too hard and just DO them, and then not fiddle with them much after the fact ... Hard 4 Me lol

and after i was semi-confident i had got her face shape i moved on to just having fun , she's great fun and i lov her :') .. and give us the BUFF LADY we deserved to be perfequetly honest

here's a bonus pic of miss steal-your-wife sans tats for a larf

ignore how bloppy the clothes colouring is it was playing with the silhouette , and dont even with the tattoos ... i was gonna leave her without them but she looked way too naked .. so i bullshitted and half remembered and half made them up lololol sorry

[ofcowardiceandkings]

well this is some purely self-indulgent trash but mostly because i so rarely draw kids that it gives me trouble when i do, and the solution to that is to practice lol

i picked my d&d adjacent guys for hypothetical bubbu assigning, so i had an excuse to draw extra tiny halfling spawn but also some itty bitty norse-style clothing gnfkdfjkd

with a bonus mórrígan because whats a better soft flop-spot than on your aðir's giant dire wolf companion's face lol

[ofcowardiceandkings]

Can we see the missing horse colours row with all of them on it <.<

oh ... oh boy

ohhhh boyyyy

............ youuuuu monster ............................................

[ofcowardiceandkings]

looking at my broader physical headcanons for d&d races and .. my heart says “give elves tails too” ..........

[ofcowardiceandkings]

like ... theres a lot an elf could do with a horse-esque tail ??? sounds fun ???

[ofcowardiceandkings]

so between doing other things i polished up my LoZ ocs lmao WELL

fun fun bouncy boy and gentle baby

this is also just me throwing around some beyond-the-game world building powder but i will say i WISH we had gotten a travelling rito merchant ?? he mine now and his name is kazyl ,, mitavo is just a soft nerd leav them be - i figure theres gotta be some room for healers outside of game mechanics since theres at least 2 canonical sick npcs in the game right ??? yeaaahh ???? anyway fjdkd

theyre based on a european bee eater and a starry smoothhound :’>

also heres a lynel design ive been toying with  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i want the green-to-blue in there but idk if im gonna keep it There yet gjfdkjfkd

(( im imagining like , akkala viking almost , but idk whether to be THAT GUY to make a , uh ,, friendly monster ghfdjkjfdk ))

[ofcowardiceandkings]

i drew lynel and oh boy did i draw them lynel nfdjkfndjsk

listen their newest incarnation is the tits but i still doodles their past ones for the sake of it because theyve always been cool , im just glad the botw ones cant do the laser eyes thing because no thanks

anyhoo i love how the monsters seem to have a basic level of culture and especially the lynels who absolutely forge those swords and whatever themselves they cant not do that ,,, but there not ,, together ,,, so like ??? idk monster society and monsters out there doing monster things ??? scavenging bits keeping trophies using resources native to their home all that shit ???? mmmmnice 

anyway an array of Lynel Ideas !!!

(( you can get a better look at them individually here or flip me a few pennies to take the designs off my hands here ))

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[ofcowardiceandkings]

Fuckin Rito !!!

and now ive played both games with them in ksjdfjdksdjfndsk botw earlier but ww this month and oh boy i love both versions , BUT …

now ive like bat/gibbon scienced all over the wing fingers and said “hey thats bird shorts” at it im so ,, idk i love EVERYTHING about the botw ones ?? their aesthetic and location and culture and so many of the characters and !!!!!!

yea so , i coloured in with some in-game birds and some real ones !!! i really badly had to stop myself just keeping that cockatiel since i have an unfinished OC already anyway help me jgfdksldfjdk

i grabbed hold of loftwings too (tried to pick colours that fit with botw in general) and now i believe even more firmly that this iteration of rito arent the evoled zora type at all but evolved LOFTWINGS (thanks reddit i guess) yepyepyep

(( you can get a better look at them individually here or flip me a few pennies to take the designs off my hands here ))

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[ofcowardiceandkings]

hey heyheye hey hey he y 

zora are great

theyve consistently been pretty amazing and oh DAMN botw made no bones about carrying on the tradition !!! fuckfukcufkcufkc

ive always loved their designs overall too but these totally matched my previous faves in the twilight princess ones for sure mmmmmhm my only niggle about it was Where Are The Flippers fjdksldkfjdks so that up there is how im doing zora :L

i went on a wild design adventure again and had much fun !!! yepyep !!! transplanting in-game fishes to people fishes and real ones tooooo ~ the betta was a labour of love there are so many fins dont even 

(( you can get a better look at them individually here or flip me a few pennies to take the designs off my hands here ))

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