Where did the time fly?!

We're past the holidays already! I still have a week of vacation left, but I haven't actually done anything I planned to do :D Except for the holiday visit of course... I spend the yule with three different families, mostly playing games with Valentine and my siblings. I got some loliable accessories (tights and hair bows) and more Disney Classics as presents, as well as drawing table from Valentine :3 I've wanted one for years now, but I just never managed to actually go and get one. But finally I got it! It's an Wacom Intuous Pen&Touch medium and so far I'm very happy with it. I tested it out to colour this old drawing of Bory and it it was far more easy that colouring with just a mouse.



I need to learn more about the physics behind brushes though, since atm I'm just going by trial and error and only know of a few brushes suited for a couple of situations. Still, it gives a nicer, a bit more 'naturally painted' result than my previous attempt. In this picture, I mostly used the shadows and lines from the drawing, I only redid the eyes completely, since in the original the eyes didn't much show at all. I actually wasted a couple of hours drawing his face from scratch, only to finally give up when I realised it was just better like this XD After that, it was the very easy chains to colour, and then quite a few layers of skin colour. I love colouring skin... Especially with bory... Yum, that tan! <3

Funny thing though, I rechecked my old D&D sheet of Bory, and it actually says that his skin is supposed to be fair XD I wrote that when we first created him, when all elves were fair-skinned. I started to picture him as tan-skinned when we talked about that his race was actually desert-elf (better suited for the warrior class) and it just stuck. But on Aygr's sheet, he is written as tan ;) So yes, I can finally officially reveal that the Commodore's greatest captain Grumpy is actually Aygr (who used to follow True Renault), or fully: Bory Aygr, a former slave from Sheba.

Doing Aygr's sheet was quite a hassle though... Bory had a sword greatly above his wealth-by-level, but quite low AC. For Aygr, I switched out the lvl 8 feat from Leadership to Improved Critical, eliminating the need for a Keen weapon, making the sword fit the budjet :D Then I actually had money left to improve his armor to a +1 breastplate (I'm so imagining the Soom Knight armor, in white for Aygr...) and add some neat accessories. He now even has a bow that can utilise his massive STR value :3

Oh, but enough about Bory and Aygr, unless  Soom releases a FC event with a tawny Wolf, with the human armor option... I'd so jump on that! But it's not going to happen in a few years, if they keep their current schedule.

I was supposed to write, finally finish the LeBrant story, but haven't touched it at all. Thenagain, I got bit by the flu right around New Year's eve and was pretty much just sunked into our sofa playing PS3. I'm better now, so maybe next week?