This is my first and longest lasting DnD character Ithall Mograke Nomred. He is a wizard. He works as a mentor and a history teacher.
His design has changed multiple times, but this is the design that I have landed on which I feel very satisfied with. There are two colours on that tunic-vest because I couldn't decide which I liked more, but my friends liked both just like I did and suggested that I should keep both. So he travels in the brown one and the blue one he wears to look a little nicer when meeting new NPC's.
Ages ago, I posted art of another blue tiefling with the same skin colour and same hair colour. His name was Arron Nomred. That is the father of this guy and the purple tiefling Nemeia is Ithall's adoptive sister.
This is my character Kaminoth Spiritheart. I made him in Baldur's Gate 3 as a Sorcerer with the Storm sorcery origin as it fit in with the dark blue vibes. I just wanted to go back to 2012 when I made emo/goth characters. Indulging my past interests.. but then I gave him a backstory. It was rough back then and he had a very stereotypical goth attitude for a while, but now I toned that down.
I am posting him now because I joined ArtFight with him this year :) The first drawing was a reference for how he looks in a DnD campaign that my good friend Bookshiev was hosting. He is no longer a sorcerer in this campaign because it didn't fit the way I imagined him anymore. The second drawing was done with an old sketch I did of him before the fullbody reference. I wanted to give an example of what to draw for those who might want to draw him with less detail.
He has a younger brother named Sacke Spiritheart. Sacke's aesthetic is almost the polar opposite to Kam's own. Will post him shortly.
Hey everyone! This is my girl Jelly! I drew this for this year's Artfight.
She's a sona of some kind lol. My original one for when I was gonna upload to youtube, but that fell through. So I think I will just have her as a mascot.
So I drew this back in 2022. I only editted it today because I decided to render this specific drawing. This depicts my boyfriend @samscouts DnD character Comet. A druid in the Circle of Stars. Comet is a non-binary kalashtar. I have always loved that he uses vitiligo to symbolise the two souls in the same body.
On another note, with fresh 2026 eyes, I can tell that there is a lot of weird anatomy in this drawing. However, the hunched back was intentional for this drawing as I wanted everything to lean toward the left bottom corner of the drawing. In the render that I plan to post in a few days, I will certainly fix that arm!
This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.
I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.
I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.
Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.
Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.
Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:
All selected?
Good.
Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.
You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.
Either way, let's add some color to the text.
Once that's finished,
You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect
You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.
Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.
This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.
Hooray, you've finished your watermark!
Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.
You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.
From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.
If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.
And for lots of black, you have Linear Light
Either way, you're in business!
EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:
An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).
I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.
There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!
I am once again asking for aid- with more visuals this time cuz im stupid
PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE <3
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As mentioned a few days ago, I was denied economical support because god forbid i actually act out on my autism and forgot a new thing i barely knew how to do while also doing job training :thumbsup:
So i am asking to please share this- if you know anyone looking for someone to comm for some simple portrait/ icon
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