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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3350141" data-attributes="member: 926">Thank you! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  That really mens a lot to me, and is the nicest thing(s) anyone has said to me all year.  Here are a few more unrelated drawings, most of the rest of the stuff I have scanned.  Any more comments and criticisms are welcome, I'm taking them to heart and trying to use them to improve my skill.Here is Rheathiir Iliphar Vytheryl N'Vyn, my 19th level Gold Elven Fighter4/Wizard2/Bladesinger10/Eldritch Knight3, who is currrently teaching swordsmanship, spellcraft, history, and Arcana at the Evereska College of Magic and Arms (until our DM gets the wherewithal to create another game for us, what with our near-Epic levels and all.  He's promised to have one for us soon!)  This is him without his amor on, and the way he looked for most of his early career:<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Achraziel/Rhaethiirinsilk.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />If you can see the tatoo on his arm, that is his Bladesinger sigil, and if you can make out the symbol on the upper edge of his glove, that's his Wizard sigil (remember I said I like to make sigils for all my arcane casters!  Especially in the Realms, where I think a Wizard's sigil is important, what with Mystra's Three-Fold Curse and all.)  I figured two separate arcane casting classes warranted two different sigils, and it gave me the opportunity to be more creative.  (I really like devising magical symbols <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)  His Bladesinger sigil is actually an altered form of the Kanj for Strength.Here is the profile of Rhaethiir's head:<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Achraziel/Rhaethiirprofile.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I kind of got the idea for his hairdo from Nester from Nintendo Power magazine way back in the late 80's/early 90's, and went from there.  He keeps it held up with magic, a Hairclasp of Prestidigitation, a Wondrous Item that he had commissioned in Silverymoon.You know, I think I figured out the eye thing: I like to leave elven eyes blank and featureless to give them that "mysterious" look, kind of like sunglasses, if that makes any sense.  And finally, here is Rhaethiir's elven chainmail:<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Achraziel/bladesingerchain.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The figure wearing it has no features because I figured it's just a mannequin, and all I was worried about was the armor.  I based it heavily on the exquisite elven chainmail Todd Lockwood drew for Storm Silverhand in the FRCS (and later embellished upon even more beautifully in the 3.5 DMG.)  I altered it quite a bit, making the skirt shorter so it would be less cumbersome in the leg area; I consider it to be the special cut of elven chain made specially for Bladesingers, and call it Bladesinger's Mail (with my DM's kind cooperation.)  Mechanically, it's actually Everbright Elven Chainmail of Nimbleness +3, and it shines like polished liquid moonlight (I just wish I was more adept a coloring things, I've never been good a that with pen and ink, and I;m still learning with Photoshop.)    Not, to get to work on Valarion's Mithral Fullplate of Nimbleness, and revamp his Razored Heavy Mithral Shield of Bashing! (that's going to take a while!  I've gotten better at Photoshop by leaps and bounds over the past week <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)  I seriously enhanced Valarion's sword, too; here's a peek:<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Achraziel/valarionsswordfinal.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />You may have noticed almost all of my drawings are unfinished and/or very rough drafts;  thee is a reason for this.  I have Attention Deficit Disorder, and it makes it hard (near impossible)  for me to continue concentrating on anything beyond a certain point.  Even things that I truly and dearly love to do, like drawing, I am unable to ever fully complete, and just eventually get to a point where I am so frazzled and unable to concentrate on it any longer that I have to abandon it.  Sometimes, when I am very lucky, I am able to return to a piece that I really like and continue working on it, but it's unfortunately pretty rare that I can do that.  That's why I decided to change majors away from Art in college: I just wasn't ever going to be able to create finished, marketable  products.  Now I can just focus on drawing solely for my love of drawing, not have any pressure on me about it, and truly enjoy it again.    And again, thank's so much for the kind words and constructive criticism, it really does mean a lot <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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