Steel Dragons' Art

I have thought about it, yes. I, personally, have no experience with digital coloring. But would love to see how they'd come out by someone who knew what they were doing. Particularly in terms of lighting and magic effects.

Stuff for Knightfall's World of Kulan

Here are some rough concept sketches for Knightfall's World of Kulan.
The Dracovaran and the "Elves of the Expanse" (desert elves).

Went a few directions with the elves since I don't really know how civilized they are. The description seems very "bare bones" nomadic. So I did a few like that...and went a little persian with one of them thinking they might have some kind of scarab (or other large desert insect) carapace armor.

Anyway, enjoy and thanks for the opportunity to play with your ideas, Knightfall.

--SD

DnD Groups from College

Had the idea to throw together group images of the various groups I've played with or created over the years.

These two are both from different groups in college.

The first was with some friends in Syracuse (mumble-mumble-mumble years ago). It included a battle-crazed cleric of some warrior/fire god (nearly psychopathic), the ranger (half-elf I think he was, ever attempting to be the "level-headed" leader), a half-elf bard (who was also near-certifiable but in a completely different way), and a necromancer. I forget what I played with this group. There were a few and we played a bunch of different campaigns/characters each. But these were the high level ones when I met/joined the group.

The other is a group from a few years later (different college) that was put together to begin playing/exploring my world of Orea (the World of the Steel Dragons). My memory dredged them up recently and the picture kinda drew itself-with some modifications from the player's originals to the more complete image of Orea I have now. But the character concepts are all intact. "The Claw Company" (left to right) Jeldin: a ShiCynallae elf thief/magic-user who passes himself off as a bard, "Jaze" Greyknife: a young but street savy human thief from the alleys of Bluside, Ez'Kial the Enchanter: (and his raven familiar, Wingershade) a human mage (enchantment specialist) from the mage lands of R'Hath; Lund of the Lion Clan: human barbarian of the Gorunduun clan of the Lion (and "Reggie" his lion companion who listens to Jaze more nowadays than Lund), Nywahr: half-elf druid hailing from Starglen, Daevyn D'Arongil: half-elf cleric of Celradorn the Defender. They never made it past 2nd level, I don't think. haha. (Because we stopped playing, not because I killed them So I kinda re-envisioned them a few years of successful adventure later.

Mo' stuff.

First up: Cerc- a Kantiiri ("wood elf") mage. Unusual on Orea because Kantiiri do not study/practice sorcery. So Cerc had to become something of an outcast/exile (leave his tribe) to find a way to learn magic. As originally conceptualized, Cerc was intended to become one of Montor's apprentices. I suppose that's till possible....

Then a collateral piece for a border or binder or something. The "second string" as it were. From top to bottom: Kriton (centaur druid), Gran (half-elf cleric), Stormwing (zephari fighter), Londar (human fighter), Thillian (ShiCynallae elf magic-user), Aline (half-elf ranger/priestess), and "Silver" (Miralostae acrobat).

The scene where the rogue "Silver" (a.k.a. "the White Rabbit") meets the ranger Aline Sure-Eye, "the Whitebow."

Another group shot.

Both of these are from only 2 years ago.

Iron Sky's Felskein crew

This week I read from start to "almost" finish the narrative in Story Hour by Iron Sky: "Rise of Felskein".

Here are some shots of a sketch I just threw together today...but I think I got just about all of the PCs (and a couple of the cool NPCs).

It's not finished. But throwin' it out there to see what people think.

Enjoy...and many thanks to Iron Sky and his players for a really interesting story and some pretty damn cool characters.

steeldragons said:

This week I read from start to "almost" finish the narrative in Story Hour by Iron Sky: "Rise of Felskein".

Here are some shots of a sketch I just threw together today...but I think I got just about all of the PCs (and a couple of the cool NPCs).

It's not finished. But throwin' it out there to see what people think.

Enjoy...and many thanks to Iron Sky and his players for a really interesting story and some pretty damn cool characters.

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This is really frigging rad. You need to finish this. Also, guess how many of these characters were mine.

lol. Let's see...were you Ming originally? Then Ming, Grok'bar (was that it? the hobgoblin) and Kromak....or Ilsa, Kressik, Bail...At least one of you guys has played at least 3 of them. hahaha. I'm not sure who.

Kezzek...not "Kressik". Sorry. Dunno where that came from.

Ming, Kezzek and Bail, in that order. Kezzek was by far my favorite.

steeldragons said:

Here are some rough concept sketches for Knightfall's World of Kulan.
The Dracovaran and the "Elves of the Expanse" (desert elves).

Went a few directions with the elves since I don't really know how civilized they are. The description seems very "bare bones" nomadic. So I did a few like that...and went a little persian with one of them thinking they might have some kind of scarab (or other large desert insect) carapace armor.

Anyway, enjoy and thanks for the opportunity to play with your ideas, Knightfall.

--SD

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Excellent work. Your vision of the desert elves is very cool. The Persian influence is fine; although, I originally intended for my desert elves to be based on how Dark Sun's elves are. Of course, that has changed somewhat over the years.

The Lands of Harqual are as close to a American-style continent as I have for Kulan, yet the continent is more of a settled Americana with royal kingdoms, scattered city-states, and wild expanses. Therefore, my desert elves could be said to be "American aboriginal" with a twist of high/dark fantasy.

Just some food for thought,

Cheers!

KF