New quickie of this gorgeous creature, J'mon Sa Ord, the Soul of the Jeweled City, is the ruler of Ank'Harel. Loved the latest season of The Legend of Vox Machina, wish I had more time to draw for myself, but I am currently too overwhelmed with work and charity projects. Still I could not hold back from drawing such a beautiful character, I hope you people like them too.
But lets talk about that because I love how this characterizes J'mon
Every 10ish years J'mon seeks out Zerxus to loose a game of cards against him.
Frankly I already love that for them, what a stupid thing to do and I love the idea that they collect rare artifacts for this reason (even though I do not think that is true).
Its even better when you look at the game they play. It's a talking game, a game of questions, and one with reasonably high stakes.
When you know The Thing About J'mon^tm this makes perfect sense and it's so funny to me
Spoilers under the cut, so if you don't know The Thing About J'mon come back later
Fucking brass-dragon-ass behavior there, Emprex. These fuckers just like to talk SO MUCH. A few examples from Fizban's Treasures- Dragonomicon:
Brass dragons seek out the company of other creatures that can carry on an intelligent conversation. They favor the company of such creatures over all others, often to the point of not bothering to gather minions to do their bidding and ignoring worshipers who fawn over them.
Talkative Denizens. Creatures within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair find pleasure in hearing the sound of their own voices. The air is filled with a deafening chorus of birds and small animals, and sapient creatures talk extensively.
Brass dragons often invest items in their hoards with imagined personality. A wyrmling might have a favorite marble bust or onyx cameo to converse with, while an ancient dragon might have lively dialogues with an entire gallery of paintings, statues, and tapestries.
Considered to be the most gregarious of the true dragons, brass dragons famously, or infamously, loved to talk and would engage friends and foes alike in hours of long-winded conversation... Brass dragons could not stand to let any intelligent being miss the benefit of their company and their great conversation skills because they thought themselves so great at it.
Glad to see that Devo'ssa has the opportunity to practice their natural dragon behaviors
Finally, one where even people very familiar actually need me to note which is which.
On the left, the Brass Dragons! 8-64 ft (2.4-19.5 m) long as dragons never stop growing. Brass Dragons are talkative carefree tricksters who delight in playing with and learning about humanoid cultures. That's partially to create information networks, they're schemers who try to influence civilizations towards a mindset of "if they're not hurting anyone, leave people alone." They've also got short attention spans, strong emotions, the ability to breathe fire or sleeping gas, and can innately cause supernatural fear when they want. Ones who go into spellcasting lean towards magic for info gathering, restraint, illusion, and dehibilitation (like blinding, sleep, etc).
On the right, the glorious Gold Dragon! 8-64 ft (2.4-19.5 m) long as dragons just get better with age. Absurdly strong but preferring to talk out issues, renowned for both thier wisdom and willingness to hear out even an enemy. Partially because they're so reclusive that if you managed to find them it must be a serious issue. Thier breath weapon weakens people or shoots flame, they can supernaturally frighten, they can turn failures into successes every few seconds (and successes into perfection), they have innate magic to sense gems and evil, and those who further thier magic gain divine spells! Magic to improve thier speed and performance, see through lies, heal, protect, daze, clean, and fix things! So if they break the bed just give them a few seconds.
[image ids: a set of different colored bust illustrations of dragons, all referencing or inspired by the colors available in the dungeons and dragons ttrpg. in order, they are: red, bronze, copper, black, red, copper, sapphire, white, and brass. end id]
various busts from the past few years (2020-2022) of either my dragon characters or just generic ones. you can use these as visual reference for characters in ttrpgs with your friends, but please credit me (and if you create or commission art, please change the designs when doing so to make them your own!) ^w^
i’m hoping that soon my vision will recover enough to formally reopen smaller comms, but in the meantime i’ve been chipping away at organizing my ttrpg-related art files to share to subscribers on ko-fi (currently active) and patreon (will be active in the future) !
bonus time capsule art below the break!
from way back in 2013 - a decade ago now! - my first ever ttrpg art; a black dragon for a friend’s campaign. unfortunately, iirc, we only played one session before things fell apart, but such is life. maybe i’ll redraw this one sometime, for a 10-year comparison of being a nerd
