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✨ New (?) Character Alert! ✨ Say hello to Est

✨ New (?) Character Alert! ✨

Say hello to Estrid, my Order Cleric/Divine Soul Sorcerer! Swipe for her design shot and her original look!

Some of you may remember a character I occasionally posted about a LONG time ago (like 2020) that I was playing for a campaign called Duskfall. It want meant to be a prequel to Morning Ashes but it ended up falling apart. I'm happy to say that we've picked up the campaign again!! Our first session was last week, and I'm already bubbling with some new drawing ideas for her

For round 2, I've made some major changes to the original Estrid (swipe to the end to see what Estrid used to look like)
Some of those changes include:
🔸Age: 20 ➡️ 42 years old
🔸 Class: Grave Cleric ➡️ Order Cleric/Divine Soul Sorcerer Multiclass
🔸History: she will be a direct ancestor of Pyre (~400 years into the past) instead of a complete offshoot character
🔸 Bit of a change in backstory and motivations
🔸 and some other secrets along the way 😉 I have big plans for her, campaign events willing! Even the DM has no idea what's brewing 👀

I am certainly not tabling Morning Ashes content, but I am excited to be exploring Duskfall again with Estrid. I really felt like she was a really interesting character so I'm so happy at the opportunity to play her!

One last thing before I go!! I've been posting about this on my stories but keep an eye out for some information in my stories about a cool project geared towards artists I'll be rolling out in June ✨

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Don't worry, she's a friend ...also hello tik to

Don't worry, she's a friend

...also hello tik tok debut?

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✨💜 through thick & thin 💜✨ I'm just in

✨💜 through thick & thin 💜✨

I'm just in my feels thinking about how much this family has each other for love and support 🥺

OG Fern and Fenix were completely on their own with a strained parental relationship, but y'all I'm SO glad the fam has expanded from that and the dynamic changed with it. It's 2023: the year of letting DnD characters have loving (and LIVING) families 🎉
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✨ fam time ✨ Swipe for all the doodles ➡️

✨ fam time ✨
Swipe for all the doodles ➡️

Lots of little sketches from the past few months I've decided to compile for y'all! Drawing the Blackthorn family dynamics have been a fun little doodle break here and there. Wholesome sketches are always good for the soul ☺️

🔆 In each one we have...
- Irthos and Marigold
- Irthos, Moeb, and Piper
- Fern, Fenix, Ashe, and Ignis
- Irthos, Piper, and Fern
- Pyre looking down at one of the kids, probably
- Fenix, Piper, and Irthos
- Pyre and Briar
- Irthos, Marigold, and Briar
- and finally Fern, Fenix, and guest character Cosima (@biowhimsy)

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How do you champion something you scorn? How do yo

How do you champion something you scorn? How do you create something you deny?

How do you protect something you break?

Do you weave your fate
or unravel it?
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🌲 🌙 🌲 Couldn't decide on a version, so ha

🌲 🌙 🌲
Couldn't decide on a version, so have both ✨

Epilogue things have me feeling a kind of way 🥲❤️

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. 🌿🌷🌿 . A little birthday present for @b

. 🌿🌷🌿 .

A little birthday present for @biowhimsy -- because if I'm not obsessing over my characters, I'm obsessing over theirs ✨
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🎉✨🎆✨🎉 Little belated New Years doodl

🎉✨🎆✨🎉

Little belated New Years doodle that I started in December but finally got around to finishing! I imagine next in-game year this is probably where the fam would be at ✨

Sorry it's been a little quiet--new semester has me in mega prep mode. One course I'm teaching is shortened by 2 weeks, but the test date is the same as every year, so I've had to put a LOT of work into that to make it work! I have a few doodles ready on the back burner to start pitching y'all's way 👏

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"I know my heritage, and I answer its call" ✨ Sw

"I know my heritage, and I answer its call"
✨ Swipe for progress shots ▶️

One of the more interesting things I've been able to do in the 5 years since the start of the Morning Ashes campaign is work both forward and backward with Pyre's lineage. With the conclusion of Morning Ashes and the beginning of Duskfall, I'm excited to jump back 400 years and play one of Pyre's oldest ancestors, Estrid!

But that's not who this doodle is.

This doodle is a leap forward into Pyre's descendant's time--one who is a little more keen into knowing where she came from (and I don't mean just Pyre). I haven't quite pinned down a name yet for her, but "Selene" seems to be the most fitting right now. We'll see how that changes! I don't foresee this character being anything more than a one-shot character at some point, but...y'never know!

I'm now almost nearly convinced to play all my characters from the same bloodline, because for some reason that seems super interesting to me. The DM and I have already worked it out to the OG ancestor (even beyond Estrid) that has a very interesting connection to our favorite deity 🐺

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tw;; lots of camera shaking & jarring movements P

tw;; lots of camera shaking & jarring movements

Peeling back the layers of my most recent doodle ✨

✨🗡️ 5 years, 15 levels 🪓✨ Swipe for al

✨🗡️ 5 years, 15 levels 🪓✨
Swipe for all shots + some of my favorite Pyre doodles I've done over the years!

Fwew, hard to believe we've just about had 5 years of Pyre--it was around this time of the year I was just starting to really solidify her character. Back then, she was built to be an angsty meme machine, but I'm really happy she ended up evolving far past her original intent.
It feels weird to say it, considering it's a character that I play, but I'm...strangely proud of her? She's come a very long way in the time I've played her, with respective character design changes to boot. I wanted to highlight those changes as she shifted into her final level--it was so unintentional that she shifted from a red to a blue color palette, but sometimes happy little coincidences like that give DnD that spice!

With the campaign wrapping up in a few more sessions, I hope to post some more current campaign doodles... but that comic has been calling me, don't you think I've forgotten 😤

Anyway, Happy New Year y'all! 🎉 I hope I can reclaim some of my life from work so I can post more again 😔 In my 7 years, I don't think I've ever been so drained from teaching to the point where I'm nearly nonfunctional during my breaks. It's been rough y'all

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🌳 The Blackthorns 🌳 Swipe for the sketch dum

Are you doing DnD right if you marry off your char

Are you doing DnD right if you marry off your character? Asking for a friend

I think if you asked at the start of the campaign (almost 5 yrs ago) if I would want something like this, my reaction would've been "oh hell no" 😂 and to be fair, I probably would've kept it that way to the end of the campaign, but we had a lot more interaction with a certain NPC than I expected. Then one visit he popped the question and it was just "y'know what, sure!" Well....I was sure. Pyre was a little less immediately accepting of the proposal haha but she came around soon enough

Anyway, today's session was the small in-game ceremony. To celebrate, I put together a small compilation of both old and never-before-posted doodles of the newlyweds... including a sketch of a doodle I *hope* to get around to someday! Maybe I'll eventually get around to doing a doodle from the actual ceremony too

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Distracting myself from the implosion of tw*tter w

Distracting myself from the implosion of tw*tter with a silly sketch

--based on a newlyweds tik tok meme I saw floating around about two weeks ago

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✨ fam time is best time ✨ ➡️ Swipe to see

✨ fam time is best time ✨
➡️ Swipe to see all the sketches!

Fair warning there are some post-Morning Ashes spoilers (since Fern/Fenix's campaign takes place near directly after Pyre's), so swipe at your own risk!

I LOVE sketching different character dynamics, and Fern/Fenix's family gives me so many opportunities to play!! I haven't been able to doodle much, but have some sketches I've done over the past few months

Sorry it's been extra quiet y'all. Life happens..especially when it's the end of the quarter, grades and college recommendations are due, and all four clubs you advise want to participate in your school's Halloween event 😵‍💫

I can't guarantee more frequent posting yet, but I'll try to share more sketch dumps when I can since that's pretty much all I have time for these days

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✨ gales of song, guide me through the storm ✨

✨ gales of song, guide me through the storm ✨

A little gift doodle for @biowhimsy because "Gales of Song" is just SO damn fitting for her journey and character arc! Her and Fern's relationship aside, I will always have a soft spot for Cosima ❤️

Not sure what's going on with the compression settings right now, so I apologize if this is looking a little grainy, it does at least for me 😅

Cosima's character/design belongs to @biowhimsy

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// echo forward // Swipe forward at your own risk

// echo forward //
Swipe forward at your own risk for minor epilogue campaign spoilers (?)
#beyondwandering

It's hard to believe we're finally nearing the end of our almost 5 year campaign 🥲 Since the very beginning of it, the Wanderers have had the occasional "side mission" relating to certain children--all of interest to various BBEGs. The Wanderers attempted many a rescue mission (even telepathically guiding one of the kids through their own), rounding them up, and trying to keep them safe while we figured out exactly what (or who) they were. Now as we are staring down the final BBEG, and beginning to realize just what kind of power these children hold, the Wanderers may very well have to make a decision on their fate. Pyre, of course, will do anything to make sure they walk out of this alive--and more importantly, themselves

But that's only half of this doodle series! When developing Fern and Fenix/their family, we only knew about two of the Morning Ashes children. As we met the rest, I noticed some similarities between their family/the children and jokingly mentioned it to the DM. He just smiled and said it's not necessarily a bad thing if they were so similar...which got me thinking more about it. It's no secret that Fern/Fenix's campaign takes place 20 years after Morning Ashes, so assuming Pyre is alive and well by then, I feel like the similarities would certainly not be lost on her
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🧡✨🍂✨🧡 A commission for @teddileah I

🧡✨🍂✨🧡

A commission for @teddileah I did awhile back that I super loved the colors of! Lethe's character design was so much fun to work with ❤️ Thank you for trusting me with your comfort character, Leah ❤️🧡

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. lighthouse, shine out show me what's inside my n

. lighthouse, shine out
show me what's inside my name
tell me not to be ashamed
// I don't want to be ashamed
of going, going home .

Part two of the twins' portrait series! These two were a nice little exercise in rendering that I don't give myself enough. I used to love rendering, but since my style started to become more comic-like and move away from realism some years ago (before I started posting), it's hard to merge the two sometimes. It's fun to still try!

And, just like with Fenix, some Fern facts!
🪴 starting campaign as a horizon walker ranger
🪴 started manifesting strange abilities to pop in and out of the material plane when she was around 8-10, and has been both fascinated and terrified of them ever since. She just wishes her parents could tell her what they mean. She can't help but get the sense they aren't telling her something. Maybe a family friend could be more helpful....
🪴 tended to get in a lot of fights as a child, not necessarily to prove herself but to protect anyone she thought was being mistreated/bullied. She really does mean well, but years of practice sometimes leaves her....restless.
🪴 is actually proficient in playing the guitar, as she has certainly practiced it plenty to impress a certain changling drow. Unfortunately she can't bring it with her on her travels, as she doesn't want it broken. Still, she finds herself occasionally strumming the air during downtime...just out of habit
🪴 "Fern" is short for "Ferniand", a once-forgotten family name passed on once more 🙂
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. my breath could embody a wildfire starting //

. my breath could embody
a wildfire starting
// be a bit of warmth for you
when there's not a lot of warmth left
to go around .

Trying to dust off the ol' doodle skills. Part one of a two part twins-portrait series. Naturally, being the older twin, we're starting with Fenix! For the uninitiated, Fenix and Fern are a duo that hopefully will succeed Pyre & the Wanderers in an epilogue campaign some irl years from now. But after we finish Morning Ashes, we'll be breaking into Duskfall (a prequel campaign) so it'll be a hot minute before we see the twins ✨

But hey, some Fenix facts!
🔥 starting campaign as a wildfire druid
🔥 struggling with the weight of assumed (keyword: assumed) expectations and responsibilities to his family, especially for his sister, Fern
🔥 isn't necessarily bashful-shy, but as introverted as you can get. If he could mold into the walls to avoid conversation, he would. Hell, maybe he'll figure out a spell to do that
🔥 innate immunity to flirtations 🖤💜🤍 (cue "why, what's up there?" meme)
🔥 can't work a weapon worth his life, and believe him, he's tried. So hard.
🔥 despite permanent RBF, incredibly empathetic and the more gentle/kind twin
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