Jeff Easley's painting for the 3-panel foldout cover of TSR's 104-page 1992 product catalog, featuring characters from many of the different genres and settings of TSR's games, and reprinted in full without text as the header of the contents page
The Giff are 8 ft (2.4 m) tall hippofolk with surprising dexterity and grace. And of course are good at knocking people over, as if you needed me to say that. While they do love a good tussle, they're surprisingly calm overall. They always keep thier word, they love travelling and explosions, and while thier outfits tend to invoke the Age of Empires they actually don't like the idea of being an empire. They believe everything has a place and theirs is to follow orders, which is why they work as mercenaries. They don't even care about money. Thier ideal setup is just being given food, thier own room, and clear instructions in line with their interests (explosives, tussling, travelling). I feel like tumblr will at least feel a kinship with that.
I've been playing DnD with a dedicated group for almost 1.5 years now, and have wanted to do artwork of our party for this campaign for a while now. At long last, I finally was able to get the time to draw some characters from it!
I don't usually do this kinda stuff anymore, but I really enjoy character design and being creative/experimental with subject matter within my art style, and would like to do more! Only time will tell if I'll have the schedule for it, haha.
(try and guess which of these characters is mine, btw. spoilers: they're some form of idiot lol)