Dagger

My friend has asked me to draw a picture of her. I can draw faces but I cannot capture someone's appearance on paper. So I drew her an abstract picture representing her. This is it.

This is a dagger with an ivory handle and metal base. It is inspired by an Indian dagger, but has a lot of detail and complexity. A spirit is holding it.

Pencil on drawing paper. Took me about an hour to draw

Monk bladeling

This is a monk bladeling. I have drawn this as an illustration to my D&D character. Bladelings are known to have their body covered with sharp spikes. As training this bladeling has metal rings on many of his blades which makes his body much more heavy. He has a bunch extra rings on those strings. He uses his staff for defense and his fists for attack.

I do not like how the feet came out. And overall the picture is rather rough.

This picture took me a very long time, probably because of those spikes. I drew it with a black pen on the letter paper.

In the shadows

 

I have drawn this picture when I was in Cuba. This is a girl walking in shadows upon the burning ground, but the flames are not hot; they are rather soft and comforting but they will suck the light away from this girl if she stops. Iguana is riding her cloak since I was in Cuba and why not. She holds her hands in that way to concentrate on her goal and do not sway. Her face is concerned yet still beautiful. On the left is a symbol representing the wind which refers back to her as she like a wind has to keep moving or otherwise she will not be. 

She was inspired by a girl I met while in Cuba. (Iguana was inspired by an iguana I met in Cuba too.) And the darkness came from that rap song I do not remember the name of.

Pencil on drawing paper. Took me around an hour to finish it.

Crysad Royalty

This is another crysad I have drawn in the last month. She is part of the royalty of crysads. The thing about crysads is that three out of four of their kingdoms are ruled by women. They possess all the power, even though men mostly fought in wars while women were tacticians, generals and none-the-less skilled warriors. The royal women generally would wear long dresses made of leather with bells attached to the bottom or sides. Those bells represent both wealth, since the metal is very rare in the forests where crysads live, and power, since they are not only seen but also heard when they walk. When royalty gets together it is like an orchestra when they move.

This particular woman has a weapon made of shoulder crystals which is also rather rare since those crystals has to be properly collected and preserved for them not to shatter. Usually during a disease crystals start to shatter and fall off and grow back when a crysad gets better. They completely shatter upon their death. The size of crystals often represents how healthy a crysad has been during their life. One particular quality of the crystals is that even if they are damaged they still stay sharp for that reason crysads use them for weapons.

I forgot what that leather bag was for. It looks like it is used for storing water.

This picture is rather boring because she is standing facing the viewed with hands down. As with previous picture I just wanted to get the basics of the crysad woman with some fashion thrown in. This picture is  missing a lot of shading especially on the bottom part of the dress but i do not feel like finishing that.

Pencil on drawing paper. Took me couple hours.

Crysad Priest

So two months later I upload a picture once again. I did not have an access to internet for half of that time and the other half I did not draw anything.

This is is the picture of a crysad priest. Crysads are a race of people who I have thought of in my leisure time. They have crystals growing on their shoulders and the back thus the name. They also have certain facial features. This particular specimen is a priest of a church that crysad society has. Their lead the life of solitude and only meet with other folk to perform certain rituals. They are revered among their people, but scarcely understood. Priests when not performing rituals are said to be talking to god or gods. Most of these priests are males. Females are only common on the top of the hierarchy in this church. Also that disc on his chest is made of bone and is attached to his ribcage, so to enter this order is painful and even more painful is to leave it.

For the most part this picture is boring with the guy standing up straight with his arms down. When I drew it I only wanted to get the basic properties of a crysad man and some priestly outlook.

This is drawn with an HB pencil on drawing paper. It surprisingly took me couple hours to draw this.