At this rate, I'll be done in a year and a half...

So, I had some technical difficulties: the pen I had grown used to using and the new paper I bought were not compatible and caused some blotting issues, so I had to get new pens. I'm still not sure which program to use to do the the digital finishing, since I don't have Photoshop. I have been playing with Pixlr and Graphic Converter, but I need something else. I also have to fiddle with scanning, since the black & white setting is still giving kind of grayscale. Oh yeah - I need to get better at drawing, too.

In any case, page 2 is a bit rough, but I am calling it finished.

Suddenly, last summer...

So, read the indicia...

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.                                         ~ G.K. Chesteron

Gnith mac Derelei, half-orc fighter

Lance Corporal Gnith (LN) contemplates desertion as an alternative to the upcoming patrol with his squadron of misfits and ne'er-do-wells.

Palash Bêndva, Desert Shaman

Palash contemplates a broken basket before effecting repairs. C'hallah is nowhere to be found.

Bosun Piripiri Tamati, Mooring Man

Piripiri enjoys a brief respite from skin inspection as he hangs from the mooring lines of the airship Basilisk 1,000 feet above Derry.

(Natural Twenty)

Thunor, the hipster pixie

Yeah, I know some spells, but they're pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of them.

I used to use pixie dust but now it's so mainstream...

My latest character for D&D Encounters.

On the eleventh day of Newton: minny me!

So, I can't predict all of what 2014 will bring, but I know it will include gaming, and gaming means character miniatures, or figs, or what Coco would calls a "minny." I'll be taking my first swipe at actually painting a miniature this year, and until that's ready to go, here's a sketch I made of one of my characters during a game ages ago:

Kioska, fourth-level druid

That's what an unpainted fig would look like: here's another sketch of Kioska, colored to look like it was painted:

I'll post a real painted minny when it's ready.