#please understand when I compare it to feeling like a DnD campaign I mean it in all the best and funnest ways

[ibrithir-was-here]

Back from vacation! And instead of fixing my sleep schedule properly I made two fan covers of @tkingfisher ‘s fantastic fairytale book ‘Nettle and Bone’ cuz I have no self control xD

Also I haven’t drawn in a week and that’s waaaay too long for me. Anyway go check out the book!

It’s really fun and spooky and has the feel of an epic fairytale DnD campaign; with the fantastic cast of motley heroes—a sort of a nun princess, a fay stolen soldier, a dust-witch with a demon possessed chicken, a comfy fairy godmother who’s more then she seems and The Best Dog who happens to be made of bones—all off to save a princess from a wicked prince, while traveling through a deliciously creepy Goblin Market, a forest of sympathetic cannibals, and one of the most incredibly scary dungeon crawls I’ve ever encountered.

#my art #nettle and bone #t kingfisher #ursula vernon #book recommendations #fairy tales #fairytale books #dark fantasy #please understand when I compare it to feeling like a DnD campaign I mean it in all the best and funnest ways #epic and funny and crazy and moving #other people’s awesome writing #book fanart #book cover design #book covers

[hdawg1995]

i just realized i have 2 dnd campaigns where the big bad manipulates/out ranks a snake man who is very charismatic.

imma ramble about them now.

first we have Poetic who started out as a lovecraft/eldritch themed OC and got boosted to DnD NPC cause i wanted to.

he is in eldritch abomanation jail for nearly breaking reality itself. He appears to be a well dressed male elf/human. he loves suits and thinks they are the best thing ever created aside from snakes. he loves snakes. snakes are neat. his tongue is a snake. his snake tongue is his "true self" so when he like. sticks his snake tongue out the elf/human "body" starts to swivile up and the eyes roll into the back of the head cause he isn't using the eyes or guts or veins of the body anymore he is using the ones in the snake.

for a while i thought maybe he grows tusks and stuff when he did this as kind of a protective cage for the snake to duck back into but he doesn't have this as a D&D NPC.

as a OC his whole deal is he isn't a fan of humans but he befriends one and adopts them as a sister (he doesn't understand gender and thought sister meant younger sibling and he refuses to learn thats not what it means). something happens to his sister and its down hill from there. the whole "i was right, humans suck, they would be much better as snakes" and basicly turns everything he sees into a snake.

as a D&D NPC i gave him a friendship metter and if it ever maxed out he adopted that pc/npc as a sister. in the campaign he is in he has scooped up the party like "yes hello they fed me frogs and tucked me into bed when i went into food coma, i love them, touch them and i'll eat you."

Poetic gets manipulated/out ranked by another eldritch being who bullied him into a corner and is immune to Poetic's transmuting venom (the thing he uses to turn things into snakes).

then we have Regis who is a medusa buisnessman with a art hobby in painting. he is slightly inspired by another medusa NPC i had who was a sculpture who tried very very hard not to turn people to stone. Regis turns people into stone when he gets pissed off by them or his boss tells him to. he just wants to run his 3 diffrent buisnesses and manage his 2 trade companies and later paint or sculpt in peace. but he can't, he has a mindflayer hivemind to obey or they'll eat his brain.

he also likes snakes but where Poetic likes them and imulates them Regis likes them because he relates to them and finds a kinship in them. snakes are misunder stood, he feels misunder stood, snakes are deadly, he is deadly, he has snakes for hair, snakes are his hair. you know how it is.

he uses glamours to hide his snakes and scally skin and wards to prevent his petrifying gaze from turning people to stone but like i said before piss him off and all bets are off. he had a pet viper whom he takes very good care of and appears in much of his art. he likes sculpting and hopes to one day create a sculpter so perfect, so exact, so beleivable that when compared to someone he turned to stone no one would tell the diffrence. he has gotten pretty close! however he suffers from the well known curse all artists suffer... he can not draw the other eye. most of his sulptures either cover the eyes, has the eyes closed, or the subject is winking. his current passion project is a sculpture of what he thinks is his idle mate- however he is struggling with the face and is afraid to actually give it one because he doesn't want someone to see the finished thing and go "thats my face!" and think they have a chance with him.

Regis has high standards and those standards are Big Muscle and Don't Beg For Art Please And Thank You.

i did a thought exersice thing and thought about what these two would do/say if left in a room together and:

Poetic: you and I are a like. we love change.

Regis: no.

Poetic: hear me out. you're a artist. you turn simple paper into works of art. i'm a eldritch being who bites things and turns them into snakes.

Regis: ....

Poetic: okay, listen. Artists don't like this world. they see it and they draw what they see, and its diffrent. its changed. its beautiful. its stranges. diffrent. you turn hunks of clay into people, you take a empty canvus and fill it with life. you change one thing to another.

Regis: I... see your point-

Poetic: you're also a medusa and you turn anyone who pisses you off into sto-

Regis: and you've lost any respect you may have had.

#ramble #OCs #my ocs #snake men #i try to draw them and it just doesn't come out right