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Morning Ashes: Phase One

Character Introductions to End of Horse Lord Arc

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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

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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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⚔️ The Wanderers: Origins ⚔️ Swipe for var

⚔️ The Wanderers: Origins ⚔️
Swipe for variations, including my booth poster variation!

The original designs of the Wanderers don't get enough love, and I know I needed to change that 👏 These four really have a special place in my heart y'all. If you're just joining with me for the first/more recent time and these guys look a little unfamiliar, some introductions (top-down, left-right):
> Eddy, our valor bard tortle
> Ren, our barbarian/fighter/rogue Wisp
> Malakos, our shadow sorcerer tiefling
> Pyre, our warlock/fighter human (read: angsty gremlin). Yep! This is Pyre's original appearance. A...lot has happened in our campaign.

But fwew! It's been a hot minute! I finally finished moving in and recovering from the beginning of the semester. I have a little backlog of doodles to get to posting, but I'm most excited to share one I did for my convention booth's new poster! The comic hasn't died, but had to be put on hold for a good half year to handle moving preparation, teaching, and other personal matters. Having space again really helps with getting back into it, though. Now it's about finding a way to manage a life outside of work--wish me luck 🥲
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☀️ .summertime memories. ☀️ 🌊Swipe for

☀️ .summertime memories. ☀️
🌊Swipe for all the goodies-- close ups, some familiar doodles, AND some never before seen doodles I never got around to posting!

Main features:
🦈 Team Shark Attack!! Affectionately been the name we've given to Eddy and Ren's duo
⛱️ Low key, Usk and Malakos would accomplish SO much together if they could stand each other more than a few minutes
🌅 Don't worry, she's just...bashful. Ignore the death glare, she's fiiiine

And then a few other doodles from over the years! This is easily one of my favorite AU-not-AU I like to revisit. I can't wait to add more to it! 😎
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✨🎉✨🎉 Swipe for more versions! Okay but

✨🎉✨🎉
Swipe for more versions!

Okay but why did it take me this long to realize that the twins would totally be into the rave scene??

It would probably start with Fern dragging her brother along one time (naturally, hyper introverted Fenix begrudgingly goes)....and then the rest is history. I feel like he'd secretly love it tho after a bit, but you won't hear him admitting to it

Somewhat of a nod to the high school au we had going on around this time last year--these kiddos would probably have their own HS AU in our equivalent of the late 2000s-2010s, with the Wanderers in the 80s-90s. I occasionally find myself thinking about that AU, but I just never have the right inspiration for it 🥲

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- How much do you like drawing your ship? - Yes.

- How much do you like drawing your ship?
- Yes.

(I somehow messed up the settings and the ending got all wonky and the last 20 seconds got cut off BUT I just spent an hour trying to make this and I'm posting this out of spite at this point)

🌈 everything I've ever dreamed of 🌈 🔥🌊

🌈 everything I've ever dreamed of 🌈
🔥🌊Swipe for other versions! (yep, again!!)

Happy pride to everyone but especially these two agents of chaos 💖💜💙 don't worry y'all, I wasn't about to leave pride month without a doodle ✨

Still on that ship dynamic kick!! @biowhimsy did a really cool sun/moon one awhile back, but I wanted to experiment a little with something close with fire and water, just to see!
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I know it's been a rough month in particular, but know that you are loved, you are wanted, and will always have a safe space here. I'm so proud of you for making it this far ❤️

However you decide to wrap up pride month, PLEASE continue to take the movement's energy well beyond June--y'all know we're going to need it more than ever in the coming months ahead of us. Stay safe y'all 🏳️‍🌈

Cos (left) belongs to @biowhimsy
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