[Drawing] North_Ranger's Doodles (Now with Pathfinder)

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It seems that my old thread here has been evaporated. Oh well... here's some new doodles I just scanned.




Two doodles of a vampire character I play from time to time. These were inspired by trying to figure out what would he have been doing over the years.



For some reason I sometimes get the urge to draw these 'warrior angels'. Usually I get the urge when I listen to There Can Be Miracles (from The Prince of Egypt). Plus, I'm also trying to make my wings look better.




Another set of sketches (done with pencil, so the image is a bit... weak). These fellows are Greenkin golems, from another game I've been playing for years. Basically they are similar to the warforged of Eberron, being sentient constructs built for war. The Finnish writing gives their "serial numbers" and names: Commander Oak, Lieutenant Peridote, Sergeant Treestump.

And the last batch of sketches, done for a friend who needed illustrations for a sci-fi campaign he was planning (but which never happened):

- Starship pilot on a zero-G vessel


- Socialite scoundrel (I have no idea what the chiffre on his sash is supposed to mean)


- Field scientist with scout drone


- "Wild" telepath, meaning a telepath rising from pre-FTL-technology societies

And then some ship sketches:


 

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Some old and new doodles...

And another batch. Comments of any kind would be most welcome. I also apologize for the quality of some of these pictures; my scanner's not top-notch ;)


For some reason I felt like drawing a futuristic assassin. And as some of you may note, I tend to be drawn into the imagery of Warhammer 40K, the whole idea of the fusion between man and machine. I'm not sure if the faceplate this guy has is only a tool, or if that thing is actually welded to his face.

And here, some scetches of spaceships. I never really know how these come out when I start drawing them, and usually I end up adding so many bits and pieces to them that I can't reproduce them anymore. Which makes it harder for me to draw anything else but scetches :(




Oil tankers of the cosmos ;)








After trying to figure out what a space suit for a zero-G marine would be like, I no longer wonder why we don't see space infantry battles á la Moonraker anymore.


Okay, this one was a little silly... I was trying to draw one of my RPG characters (a vampire) in one of his former professions (this one an assassin). Unfortunately, this guy looks to me more like a BDSM sex fantasy than anything else. Thank God I didn't draw leather pants on him :D


And here we return to the Greenkin Golems I mentioned in the earlier post. I noticed the pencil scetches came out a little... misty, so I remade these fellows again, and tried to correct some of the things I was unhappy about in the older scetches.






I really like this one. The old picture of Juniper made him look a little... I dunno, insignificant. But this reincarnation looks more badass (at least to me).


Yes, Treestump is supposed to be squat (as per his name). I hope I managed to get that across, because I have some serious trouble with proportions. Partly because I always draw the heads too big (I was told the Oswiecim picture made the guy look googly-eyed)... and partly because I start with the head and sometimes run out of paper... :facepalm:




I really need to stop reading Petri Hiltunen's Praedor comics...


Petäjä is an NPC I really like for some reason: he's one of the first golems that started to show signs of intelligence in the campaign, and how does this engine of war use his time? He carves little animals.


And your run-of-the-mill clay golem: big, strong and just about as smart as your average lump of clay.
 

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Some old and new doodles... (UPDATED 03/06/09)

Heh, thanks, CG. I tried to make him really look like a lump of clay given a roughly human form. I've been drawing these fellows for years, perfecting them and trying to figure out their functions in the campaign world. As sad as it sounds, I actually once drew up an order of battle for one particular skirmish we played in the campaign ;)
 
Some old and new doodles... (UPDATED 03/06/09)

North Ranger said:
Oh maaaaannn... I just realized this locked both my AMA thread AND my doodles thread :(
Your adoring public demands more doodles and won't let you down.

I like your ships best. Moar!

 
Some old and new doodles... (UPDATED 03/06/09)

Your ship designs remind me largely of the ship from Starslip Crisis.
 
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Some old and new doodles... (UPDATED 03/06/09)

The starships are really well designed. They look like something right out of a movie, but they're still unique.

I also really like the clay golem.
 

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Some old and new doodles... (UPDATED 03/06/09)

For some reason I got the strangest urge to draw yesterday while on my lunch break. I've been thinking a lot about the Changeling: The Lost game I'm running - and hopefully will soon, once the relationship drama llama gets shot - so I decided to draw the Court Monarchs. And since I already have some doodles on them, I decided to put a bit of a spin to them, letting them show off the fury of their given faction.


Mariella, Elemental Waterborn and the Verdant Queen of the Spring Court. Spring is about desire, passion and hope, so I hoped to make her stance like that of a dancer while showing how she brings her chosen element to bear.


The one that started it all: Kipinä-Mikko ('Mike Sparks'), Elemental Levinquick and the High King of the Summer Court. In game terms, he's an old and powerful changeling who has led his Court for more than half a century, trying to direct the destructive rage of the Summer Court to justice and protecting the changelings of their area. But under the peaceful surface burns the heart of a warrior. Better walk away if you make him angry, better run if you make him pissed off, God help you if you make him enraged.


Azorah, Fairest Shadowsoul and Witch Queen of Autumn. Mysterious and arcane, the domain of Autumn is fear and sorcery, both of which this heartless beauty uses to good measure. She doesn't have to touch you to hurt you; she can flail your sanity with a flick of her wrist and a lash of her sharp tongue.


Jääsydän ('Ice-Heart'), Elemental Snowskin and the Frozen King of Winter. Winter deals with hiding, safety and sorrow, so what he lacks in pomp and appearance, he makes up in ruthless efficiency. No warning comes before he freezes his enemies and slits their throats.
 

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Some more game doodles I just scanned...


Koriz the drudgeman, a hobgoblin landlord for wayward changelings. Known lovingly as "the muskrat" in our gaming group.


One of the player characters, a young goat-like changeling with a rapper bent. Called "Little P".


The Big Bad of the campaign, The King of the Golden Mask.


A more calmer picture of Kipinä-Mikko, the Summer King.


Smiling Hanna, an ambitious young kickboxer with vampiric tendencies.


Istvan, the silver-tongued diplomat of the Autumn Court.


Azorah, the Autumn Queen. The scar on her chest is a source of many rumors, some claiming her captor cut the still-beating heart from her chest - or worse yet, she did it herself to please her master.


Hukka ('Wolf'), a predatory Loyalist.


Solar, the sun-blazed mystic of the Summer Court.
 
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Element 117

This is not meant as a negative criticism... I mean this because I think you are sooo close

 

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More Changeling doodles. These are a few months old, so now improvement on the scale issue yet. ;)

Well... maybe in this one:


Jonah Boon, my character in a current campaign, a shapechanger working as a bartender. The necklace is a status symbol; a sign of him being a Pearl Satrap.

And from the campaign I'm hoping to continue to ST for some friends...

Pythia, an oracular changeling who runs a New Age occult shop, selling crystals, star charts and the like.


Coldsnake, a kinswoman to snakes and serpents.


Toni Itälä, the owner of a small indie record label.


Rawhide, the ogrish owner of an Italian restaurant.


Uriel, a gargoyle-like changeling working as a janitor in the local church.


This guy's name is a little untranslatable. In Finnish, the term for a 'jack of all trades' is literally 'a file for every situation'. Since that sounded a little off, I basically picked the Finnish version of the name Jack, Jaska. Hence, Jack of All Trades, a diminutive but hard-working technician at the local theatre.


Galenos - the Finnish version of the name Galen -, the 'Doc' of this particular changeling society. An Oneirophysic, a dream-healer who works as a pharmacist.


Little Annie and Eric Copper, smiths. Little Annie was actually inspired by a goldsmith I once met; a lithe young blonde wearing a burnt leather apron and heavy gloves with the elegant ease of a coctail dress.


Ketunleipä and Tappura-Erkki. I kinda like these two, an elderly woman specialising in herbalism (and raising some weed on the side), named after wood sorrel, a common plant here in Finland and one which children in the countryside used to eat in the summer - and her journeyman, 'Eric Bramble', a teenager with thorny flesh.


Janus, a shapeshifter with a penchant for fear and the macabre. Think of that obnoxious guy in the bar who thinks he's heaven's gift to all women? That's Janus. Or that strange guy who keeps walking after you, a good sprint back, but following you all the way to your doorstep in the dark? Janus again, feeding on the fear exhuding from such terrors.


Zachary, the major domo of the local Spring Court, responsible for maintaining the festivities and celebrations of the freehold.


I kinda have a soft spot for this guy. Vipunen - named after a mythological Finnish giant - is a simple but good-hearted man, a true gentle giant. I imagine him appearing to mortal eyes as someone who suffers from gigantism, but that just belies a heart of gold underneath. Don't get him pissed, though, or hassle with his wife, 'cause then he'll crush your skull.


Silvermane the huntress, a not-so-gentle giant. I tried to give her a somewhat yeti- or sasquatch-like appearance without making her seem oafish or stupid. I imagine her being not so much booksmart but sharp-witted and relentless.
 

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Started drawing again after the longest time, and decided to update and re-draw some of the Changeling: The Lost pictures I've put in here. Here's what I came up in the last few days:











Still need to work on some things, but it felt good to be drawing again after a long pause.
 
Seriously though, I'm a bit envious of your ability to nail poses like that.

I especially like the dude with the fire crown and the stripey staff.

Glad you're drawing again! :awesome:
 
Is there a reason that that ice dude looks like Mr Rogers? :)
Your work looks extremely Scandinavian. Which I think is a positive thing.
 

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Is there a reason that that ice dude looks like Mr Rogers? :)
Your work looks extremely Scandinavian. Which I think is a positive thing.
Okay, I'm not familiar with Mr Rogers, so you need to clarify a bit... ;) Also, Scandinavian, how? I mean, besides the fact that I'm Finnish? :D

Bumble the Boy Wonder, I do however have some ideas about poses every time I start. Usually something I've seen in another picture or a movie. I don't, however, keep a reference next to me when I start drawing. It's just an approximation, a memory. Which, admittedly, makes it hard for me to do certain positions (crouching, kneeling etc.). My body proportions being slightly off doesn't help, either ;)
 
Mr Rogers is a children's television show host from back in the day here in the US.
mr rogers.jpg


The way you do facial features just looks very scandanavian to me. My hometown is 90% swedish and finnish, and the look is very similar to stuff people would draw back home.
 

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Eh, I guess the thing about facial features is that you draw what you know. I realized how distinctive certain characteristics tend to be when I lived a year in Ireland. I swear, I saw some faces, noses, necks and cheekbones there I thought existed only in bad '30s cartoons.
 
I used to start with the hair!

Now I rough out the whole shape of the head and body before starting on facial features. Hair comes last.
 
Hair's my favourite part. Often times while sketching I'll start with the jawline and chin, build out the whole head and neck and shoulders and then just stop after the hair. I really should scan in some of the sketchs I did for my February thread before I had my scanner reinstalled and work prevented me from finishing the month. I feel like I actually made a bit of progress in those 5-7 days...
 
I'm acrtually bad at hair. Mens hair, anyways. It makes me paranoid in my comic.

I find myself delaying doing more pages lately because i feel my skills lack.
 

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Some new Changeling pics... I really need to learn how to properly use my scanner. The damn thing doesn't get half the shades I draw.











 

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I've been doing some Pathfinder pictures of late, both for the game I'm running for my friends and of characters I've submitted to various Play-by-Post games in Order of the Stick and Myth-Weavers forums. Enjoy.


Giorgios Panoptes, a tradesman from Absalom - and the group's current benefactor.


Mikhailos Volantes, Lord of Cedar Castle. I tried giving him a proud, arrogant look - and the pose I pretty much nicked from depictions of Henry VIII.


Lady Elianna Volantes, the daughter of Lord Mikhailos


What the group is currently looking for: a golden statue depicting a dragon and the mill-wheel from the Volantes coat-of-arms.


Vasili Kozhek, a gunslinger from Brevoy. I tried a quasi-Russian feel with his name and clothing, and borrowed elements from the Streltsy, 17th-c. Russian musketeers/heavy infantry.
 

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Halfast Halfear, a dwarven paladin of Torag, god of forges and metallurgy. I admit, I'm a little disappointed at how he turned up. I was trying to depict a young dwarf, pretty much in his early twenties in human terms... and somehow I just couldn't get it right. Must be the lack of beard...


Silviu Drazesti, an urban ranger from the city of Korvosa. I'm actually pretty happy at how this one turned out. He originally started as a Bronn knock-off, but he grew into a character of his own once I started playing around with his backgrounds. He is a Varisian, and in the game's setting Varisians are pretty much a nomadic people of hucksters, con artists and petty thieves with a dash of Sicilian mafia in the form of the Sczarni crime gangs. So essentially gypsies. I tried to express that same attitude with Silviu, hence the garish colours and roguish appearance.
 
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