The Feytroll – Now with Video!
Heya folks. Jonathan asked me if I would be willing to do a character portrait of Felix Sundown. Intrigued by the concept of the feytroll, I jumped at the chance.
Here on the left is the initial sketchwork stage. I emailed this to Jonathan and asked if he had any suggestions/critiques he could offer at this point.
I like this stage in the process. It’s ‘fast and dirty’, but it feels like real progress very quickly. Later in the process, things move a bit more slowly and I sometimes get bored too quickly. At this point, I’m able to make massive changes to the image without feeling like I wasted time with previous versions.
Jonathan’s suggestions all seemed to point to making our little friend a bit more… repugnant, so I moved in that direction fairly quickly.
And here we have a more refined version in greyscale.
Hairy little bugger, with those bulging eyes (though he tries to hide them a bit with his glasses and hat) and I think that I managed to make his wings a bit more realistic. And those jowels… yeesh.
Anyone else think he looks like a certain singer who really liked his peanut butter and banana sandwiches?
Anywhoozle -- I’ve included a quick video to show you the process better than I could describe. As always -- I welcome your feedback! Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
Distributed Workshop: The Desire
Nevermet Press provides game masters system independent material for use in any game, but we realize that creating all the stats and mechanics for the content can be time consuming. So we turn to the community to develop stats in for their system of choice, giving game masters the ability to bring content straight from the screen to the table with minimal fuss.
We like to draw attention to the talented members of our community by giving an open call to anyone with a website to develop statblocks of our villains, NPCs, monsters, items & equipment, and other components released by Nevermet Press. Right now it is pretty informal, so if you would like to stat up The Desire or anything else that appeared in this publishing cycle, drop us a line through the contact form.
We’ll add links to supporting sites as they roll in, but here is what he have for you right now:
- Spirits of Eden: 4e Stats for The Desire
- Thieve’s Cant: 4e Stats for Objects of Desire & The Brotherhood of Infinite Nights (PDF downloads!)
In addition to stats, Matt Lichtenwalner, one of our contributing artists, has shared a video that shows you aspiring artists how he created the Masquerade illustration from Le Danse Périlleux:
