Snook's Gallery

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Characters:


This twitchy, raving man is covered in bloodied rags. He can be seen mumbling, screaming, and flailing his own back repeatedly. His hands are wrapped in red blood-soaked cords and his arms bound in iron chains. His skin is covered in scars and burns, and he looks malnourished. A brown ribbon rests around his right wrist, given to him by a priestess of Sheela Peryroyl.


Paolo Verazza is a veteran of the Athkatla watch and has served in the Amnian army both as landsknecht and arbalist. This suave soldier's weapons of choice are the halberd and the crossbow, while donning a breastplate over his colourful tunic. Paolo ran into some "red ink", as an Amnian would phrase it, and is now looking for gainful employ in these northern lands.

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Elben "Blue" Questgiver at Candlekeep's inn.

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Elben "Blue" Questgiver on his way to the Friendly Arm inn.



I kind of like the stained glass look of it.

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Elben And The Dark.

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Elben's in there somewhere.

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I wanted to share what I am working on, including some of the workflow. Mind, I'm not great at this. Just doing it for fun.

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So I roughly divided the image into six equal parts, wanting to do a full human body. Makes it easier to get the proportions right. The face being one-sixth:


Working on the rest of the body. Upper body roughly two-sixths and the legs three-sixths, including feet:


Basically I am just mixing colours and applying them as I go along, no outlines being drawn. Though I do roughly draw the area that is going to be of the same colour. Later I add lighter and darker shades.

I left the hands free at first, not sure on what I wanted him to hold. I later decided on a hatchet and a buckler. Just as easily could've been a spear, staff, or longsword:


Adding some better lighting. Getting rid of white edges:


Now I'd like to add a suitable background. The character looks a bit like a militia man or forester. So I went with a forest theme:


It is looking very painterly. And since it is just a background, and I want the focus to be on the character, I've added minimal detail. Just some colour, some lighting and some fog:


Perfect. Adding the character over the background. I'm not working with fancy layers. This stuff is from the 90's:


Now to better integrate the character into the background, so the contrast isn't as big. I decided to make the forest floor a murky pool. Shame of all that foot work. But you've got to make sacrifices. Also added some fog that moves infront of the character and some contrast lighting, and finally reflection on the pool:


That's more like it. But it is rather fuzzy. So it probably looks better when scaled down:

There he is. Our forester.