Absolutely awesome mate!!
Kip,
Your style is absolutely perfect for character portraits. You have such a classic style, the emphasis is completely and utterly on the character and I absolutely love it!! The ones I have seen so far blew me away and I know there are literally countless pics still to be drawn but here is a description of a character of mine I'd love to see drawn up. I have another character who I'd like to get drawn but I'm attempting to be non selfish and ask for just one.
Sirilion Ah'kjsar
Planetouched Elf, Male
Cleric/Ranger
Sirilion is about 5 foot 3 inches tall and weighs rougly 105-115lbs. He's a lithe figure although is quite strong (18 STR, CON only 13 so not huge and tanky). He's 61 years old which is rather young for an elf and looks exactly like a normal wood elf (it's where he gets his ranger heritage from) except that he's been planetouched. He died and came into the presence of his god, the goddess Cassaelean (goddess of love, luck, chaotic good). She blessed him for trying to save a cleric of hers and sent him back into the world.
He's been planetouched due to this contact with his goddess and his shiny, jet black, shoulder length hair now has a permanent silver streak running from his forehead through the entire length of his hair (i.e from forehead all the way to where his hair hangs on his neck). It starts pretty much above his right eye and is probably somewhere in the vicinity of 8-9cms wide through his entire hair. His eyes are also golden in the same way a cat's eyes are golden.
He runs around in leather armour (magical) with a cloak on his back (magical). Currently he uses a longbow (magical) and has a quiver of arrows (magical) readily accessible as well. Although he has been known to step into melee combat in the past and to this purpose has on him a hammer (magical) and a steel shield. He has only recently moved to bow use (very recently) so if it's not physically possible for him to carry that gear as well as having a bow knocked and ready in his hands he'll strap the hammer to his hip and forgoe the shield... or get it animated or some such. On him he has a belt pouch (for cleric spell components) and will also have strapped to his belt a bag of holding (small one) to stash gear in. The only other item of note for him is his goggles of baatezu vision.
Sirilion is the group scout, he has quite impressive bonuses to Listen/Spot/Search for being an elf and being planetouched and his ranger skills are heavily invested in these skills as well as Hiding and Move Silently. The party heavily relies on him to scout out ahead and he takes great pride in his scouting ability. The goggles of baatezu vision allow him to see in all forms of darkness, even magical, and this helps as being an elf he only has low light vision. So I imagine him having them readily available (whether around his neck or like sunnies strapped onto the top of his head) when they're not in use.
Other than that brief description of his skills he has the obvious benefits of being a cleric with access to some funky cleric spells but isn't relied on for these as there are much more powerful spellcasters already in the party.
Sirilion is a happy, go lucky kind of character. He's impulsive and lives true to his chaotic alignment. His stealthiness allows him some time to assess situations before having to rush into them but mostly he likes to confront things head on when things should happen to him. He's got a slightly mischevious and wicked sense of humour and has been known to try to use his unusual looks to attract members of the opposite sex. Being a cleric of the goddess who has love in her portfolio also means he likes to see what he can do to promote love and happiness into the world as much as he does good and freedom.
Anyway that's a quick look at his character, if I don't stop myself soon I'll be writing forever.
If you ever get around to drawing him up please feel free to email me at
mickj22@hotmail.com
I check the boards fairly frequently so I'll try to keep an eye on this thread as it's been an incredibly interesting read!!
Once again your art is fantastic Kip, keep up the good work and many thanks in advance for sharing your work with us!!