Quality time with other humans all pretending to not be human.
Every time a D&D campaign ends, I get a miniature of my character printed and paint them. This campaign was the sequel to an earlier one so I got to dust off the same character and upgrade him. It’s so fun to develop him in new directions.
Both campaigns take place in the frozen north so I used our recent snowfall to photograph him.
Our current D&D campaign is wrapping up soon so I kept the tradition of painting my character’s mini, only this time I also foam-crafted him a fantasy library scene to live inside. (He’s a bit of a bookworm.) I’m really happy with what I was able to craft from leftover stuff.
How it started vs how it’s going.
Trying to construct a scene scaled with my new D&D mini. He’s a bit of a bookworm so I’m making him a 4" high bookcase. Lots of teeny foam work.
In the current Dungeons & Dragons campaign, my character is a try-hard with an obsession on getting good grades. He’s made his dorm into a small library so I designed the sign he uses to advertise anyone willing to become a study buddy.
Every time I play a D&D character, I draw their character art on my iPad. Today, IKEA was clearing out some tiny photo frames so I bought as many as I could and printed the art for every character I’ve playeded up until now and framed them.
At last fall’s ren fair, I was able to find a mini that matched my current Dragonborn character as he would have hatched. I finally painted him up and, because it was cast in transparent red resin, added an LED to give the embers around his egg a fiery glow. Really happy how he turned out.
The Sad Ballad of Captain Keeves
There once was a captain who had skin like the sea
And his beard was as white as his spirit was free
He came to meet creatures who hailed from the land
And convinced them to join him as a sea-fairing band.
He bartered a pearl for a ship with no name …
Spent the evening building a level 10 character for a D&D one-shot game. His character sheet (plus spells) is 10 pages long!😅 No idea how I’m going to play such a powerful character but at least I’ve got his character voice down.
Don’t normally share my art here but I’m super happy with my little Dragonborn, in his freshman Silverquill uniform, practicing his beginning Inkomancy.
My thoughtful brother in-law gifted me some vintage 1980’s Dungeons and Dragons metal figures. Their numbers aren’t even stamped into the bases, they’re hand carved! Now I have to figure out where I can find more information about them.
The D&D campaigns my friends and I play take about a year and a half to complete so I celebrate them by drawing a poster of everybody’s characters and having them printed. I don’t usually share them here but they are the two most important drawings I’ve ever made. (So far.)
After 20 months and 83 sessions, my group ended our third D&D campaign. During that time, one member got his drivers license, I moved across the country, another sold the house he had built, and our DM became pregnant with her first child. It’s more than just a game.
I’ve spent over 40 hours drawing a poster to commemorate the conclusion of my D&D group’s year and a half campaign. It’s our DM’s first major campaign and she’s done a stellar job. I can’t wait to get the prints to them.😆
My first try at foam modeling. I made this bookshelf mountainside to display my D&D character minis on something more fun than clear acrylic boxes. Flocking is fun! Each of these minis are my past characters or hand-painted gifts from friends.
Learning how to turn foam into mountains because it’s a much cooler bookshelf display for my character minis than a clear box. I’ve made it to the black-wash stage. Dry brushing is next and then I can figure out where to put foliage.
Creativity begets creativity. It started with drawing my D&D characters, then I learned to paint their minis, and now it’s progressed to me carving places for them to live.
