ahdok

ahdok OP , 10 months ago

I draw on bristol board, ink with pigment liners, then colour with coloursoft acrylic pencils. Here's a photograph of the specific tools I use:

https://ttrpg.network/pictrs/image/449da893-4358-4237-91ac-16eda9c372a7.jpeg

I then scan into a computer and clean up any debris or minor errors.

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ahdok OP , 10 months ago

Bristol Board is a super-smooth super-white kind of paper with a very high weight - it's cardstock weight. The main advantages of bristol board is that it's very smooth and very white. The reason I use this is so that my very hard pencil doesn't leave "dents" in the paper surface. If you try drawing a shape on regular paper with a hard pencil, then erase the pencil, and shade over with colour pencils, you'll see a white ghost of your pencilwork, because the paper has a dent that the colour pencil doesn't reach - it's like a rubbing of your pencil sketch. Bristol board is very hard-wearing, so I can erase my pencils and it stays smooth.

Pigment liners are a special kind of "drawing pen" - they're much cheaper then engineering pens (e.g. the Rotring rapidograph), they tend to cost somewhere between $1 and $2, depending on brand and quality. They feel like drawing with a felt-tip, but the tip of the pen is very precise and gives you an equal width line all the way along the stroke. The ink is permanent and very black, so you can wait a minute for it to dry, then erase the pencil sketch from underneath it. (The left image of the paladin above is pencil sketch work, the middle image is the ink pen after erasing the pencil.) - The most well known brand of Pigment liners is "Sakura Pigma Micron" (commonly called "Microns") - but I don't like that brand, so I use Mitsubishi Uni-Pins and Derwent Graphiks.

Coloursoft pencils are a fairly uncommon type of acrylic colouring pencil - they differ from regular colouring pencils because they have a higher wax content in the pencil lead. This makes them very soft to draw with, and they put down a large amount of very vibrant colour very quickly. (This is ideal for cartooning, but not great if you want to do watercolour style sketches.) - The other advantage that coloursofts have is that the formulation of the lead allows you to sharpen it to a very sharp point (see the green pencil in my image.) - This is great for detail work, or if you draw small. (I draw small.) Coloursofts also have quite a large range of colours and shades that you can get out of a single pencil - The metal on that paladin image is just two grey coloursoft pencils, one light, and one dark. The big disadvantage of coloursofts is that they don't blend well, and they don't erase at all - so you've got to know what you're aiming for before you start.

ahdok OP , 11 months ago

reddit admins permanently banned 3 mods, removed the lewd and smut flairs, banned all NSFW content going forward, etc etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/14y0e6r/rocks_fall_mods_die/ for info

ahdok OP , 11 months ago

The mods pinned my comic and set it as an announcement.

I'm laughing so hard right now.

ahdok OP , 11 months ago

Character concepts I HAVE played in recent years:

Goblin priestess of Tymora who's on a mission to free her people from their tyrant god Maglubiyet, and change hearts and minds for goblins in large cities through setting a personal good example.

Treant druid who's on the run from the authorities because she keeps planting knotweed in the foundations of various large buildings and temples. (I used the tortle lineage for stats)

Middle sibling from a noble family who is competing against all the other siblings to "earn the most money" by a set date, because the one who brings the most cash home gets the family inheritance. Decided "adventuring" had the best return for time spent.

Imprisoned Artificer who designed and built a robot (5e "nimblewright") that she could telepathically pilot - then sent it out to go recruit an adventuring party to rescue herself.

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ahdok OP , 11 months ago

It did lead to swapping characters, at level 6! I went from Warforged Artificer to Gnome "Inventor" (she's a wizard, but I reskin all of the spells as tinkered inventions)

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(These two tokens are what I used for the nimblewright)

https://ttrpg.network/pictrs/image/a75dbca6-ab97-4bac-b751-f464a5c2a591.jpeg

(This is the key art for the gnome inventor)

As for the “main character-y” stuff… I basically hid the entire backstory from the group for 6 months of play, my character was worried that agents of her captors might track her down and put an end to her one shot at a rescue, and since their an organization with active spies all over the place, she was hiding everything until she was sure she could trust the group.

Over time, I told different characters part of the story, in confidence, which lead to (at one point) every other PC in the group having a completely contrasting explanation of what my “deal” was, under instructions to not tell anyone else.

Once I actually came clean and explained the situation to them, they organized a rescue op and saved her in 3 sessions. Less of a “main character” result and more of a “character side-plot” outcome - everyone else has their own personal side stories, and some of them are pretty involved…