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stormystarlight · 6 days

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inspired by that chart from the dunmesh changelings chapter, here's five as each other race in their party :] (they're originally the tabaxi)

#dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #my art #digital art #my ocs #dnd ocs #five drifting clouds (oc)#the new age #cleric #tabaxi #firbolg #warforged #centaur #half-elf #half-orc #2024

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stormystarlight · 16 days

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Have you ever wanted to draw something but you fought due to your skill level at the time you decide not to do it

OH yeah ABSOLUTELY. all the time. my wips folder is full of stuff like this!! let me dust off some old examples

here's a sketch i did for a rain world piece that i was initially feeling pretty good about!! i wanted to experiment with more scenic pixel art, but i guess i didn't know where to start or how to approach it and ended up feeling really roadblocked really early on.

i blocked in some basic colors and did a little detailing on pebbles, but i was just struggling too hard with learning the tools and techniques i needed to pull off what i was envisioning that i got frustrated and stopped. I never picked this one up again, but I have made some other, better pixel art since :] i think the reason the one i linked worked out better is because i was trying to learn fewer things at a time while working on it. that one was a mostly 2-dimensional scene and was more heavily based on a reference, so i didn't have to think as hard about those things. this one was not only a new-ish medium to me, but also had some more challenging perspective and was less reference-heavy. if that makes sense?

more rain world! this was one of my earlier attempts at mimicking the cutscene art style. i got so frustrated with my inability to make the colors & shading look right that it went right into wip jail never to be seen again.

but then i scaled my ambitions back from Immediately Making A Polished Piece to just doing a quick study, and that helped immensely. original on the left, my study on the right. working on this was still difficult, cause i was learning something new, but since it was much simpler it was a much more manageable task. i could take more time to get it right without feeling like i was going nowhere

i never did finish that first one, but i did make some other finished pieces in that style that i think are pretty bangin if i do say so myself. one such example above

here's a video wip (whoa)! god it's really rushed & was never meant to see the light of day in this state so please don't look too hard at it. but this one i got frustrated with mostly because i wasn't feeling good about my ability to draw the cast of characters. so into the pits it went. i don't really have any interest in finishing it anymore since my ideas for the rest of it were speculative and, y'know, the rest of the show has since been released lol.

anyway, to close off my response. the first two are more or less success stories? despite the fact i never finished the original pieces i abandoned. because i wanted to talk about what's worked for me to alleviate this feeling—which is: scale back, try something less ambitious first, work your way up to the big project you're struggling with. but i also have dozens of other examples i could put in here of things that didn't work out at all and went nowhere. like, that just is how it is sometimes. i feel you 🤝 i think most if not all artists (of any medium) go through this haha

#rambles #ask #tiger9o0 #my art #wips #long post

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stormystarlight · 27 days

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iterators am I right fanart of Gaze (@pyrrhuria), Rivers and Phrases (@druidshollow), ESI (@mechacringekitty), and Dissonance (ImmortalQuetzalcoatl) ^_^

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUU AAUUHH AAAAUHHHHAAAUUHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAA #OH MY GOD #THATS MY GUY!! THATS MY GUY!!!!!!!!!!!#DUDE THIS IS SO COOL IM LOSING MY MARBLES #THE LIGHTING #THE PEARL!!#THIS IS EVERYTHING #THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG?????????#reblog #others' art #for me!#my ocs #rain world ocs #gaze at ceaseless light (oc)

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stormystarlight · 1 month

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I’m going back into DMing, and I’m very excited for this campaign! I am doing a homebrew campaign that is a mix of fantasy/post-apocalyptic, and right here are the main characters. My players have such cool and rad characters so of course I had to draw them!

Abel (the warforged) belongs to @delfinxxia

Bunny (the half orc) belongs to @bellsartworks

Caprino (the firbolg) belongs to @vamp1r1cjuggalo

Ferrek (the masked character) belongs to @elemental-alien

Five (the tabaxi) belongs to @stormystarlight

And finally Taketros (the centaur) belongs to @chonylolu

I’m very excited to get this campaign started teehee

#reblog #others' art #my ocs #dnd ocs #for me!#five drifting clouds (oc)#the new age #came across this again & realized i never put it on this blog so #*tosses it over to u

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stormystarlight · 1 month

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(click image for better quality oof...)

hiii wanted to doodle @stormystarlight's very neat oc, five drifting clouds. yippee!!!

[id: a few digital drawings of a dungeons and dragons oc, five drifting clouds. they are a black-and-white tabaxi with long neck fur and light green eyes. they are wearing a light brown shirt, dark brown pants, and a blue cloak, with an amber amulet and golden earplugs, as well as a bell-shaped badge on their cloak.

the first couple drawings are shoulder-up shots of them. in the first one, they're facing the viewer, glancing off to the side worriedly. in the second, they're mostly facing the left, their eyebrows raised, looking tired. the final drawing is a fullbody view of them. here they're facing the viewer, awkwardly scratching at the back of their head with one hand; their other is slightly lifted by their hip. their tail is curled upward. they're glancing away, the barest smile on their face. end id]

#OH MY GODDDDDD OH YM GOD OH MY GOD #IM FREAKING OUT SO MUCH DUDE HOLY SHIT /POS #THIS IS EVERYTHING. THIS IS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!#YOU DRAW THEM SO WELL THEY LOOK SO GOOD IN YOUR STYLE!! THEYRE SO CUTESIES #absolutely made my day THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!#AAWWWAAAAUAAUHAAAAIIUREEEIIOAAAAAAUUUUHHHHH #THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#reblog #others' art #my ocs #dnd ocs #for me!#five drifting clouds (oc)#the new age

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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#dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #my art #digital art #my ocs #dnd ocs #five drifting clouds (oc)#the new age #tabaxi #cleric #birds #2024

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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the sun & the moon

#sorry for only posting tna stuff lately but also im not sorry at all. look at them #dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #my art #doodles #my ocs #others' ocs #dnd ocs #five drifting clouds (oc)#the new age #tabaxi #cleric #harengon #2024

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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sketches of lunelis (xey/xem), an npc formally introduced last session, and an interaction xey had with five :]

#dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #my art #doodles #my ocs #others' ocs #dnd ocs #five drifting clouds (oc)#the new age #tabaxi #cleric #harengon #2024

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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Hi Five! What's your favorite food? Do you get to enjoy it often?

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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Five i have a question. Lets say, a runaway trolley car is careening down a track. Five people stand in its path, unaware of the imminent threat. You stand at the intersection of two different tracks and could, if you chose to, divert the trolley onto another track where only one person would be killed. Would you divert the trolley, intentionally killing one to save five?

the askbox is no longer accepting moral dilemmas

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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Hello Again, Five! I have a couple more questions. First what are your relationships with your fellow party members? Second, if you had no choice but to fight to keep your friends safe, would you do it?

(first question was answered here!)

congrats! you've Just About summed up the very specific fear that's been haunting him all campaign

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stormystarlight · 2 months

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whats your thoughts on the rest of the party? also. *hands her a little ceramic dove*

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stormystarlight · 3 months

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So your world was torn apart by a lot of things… how do you feel about that?

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stormystarlight · 3 months

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Ever done any petty crime?

they were the kind of kid who'd apologize for things completely out of their control

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stormystarlight · 3 months

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Ok Five, what’s the hardest fight you’ve had on your adventure so far?

five doesn't really want to talk about it in-depth, i don't think, but i'll provide a little more context.

kal was a scientist in charge of something called project rebirth, in which he brought several unwilling persons back from the dead to serve as soldiers in the war—caprino, a party member, was one of them. when it fell apart, he met the same fate. our party members were the ones left to clean up the mess.

during the fight, fe was fatally wounded, causing her core to detonate and, in turn, the cave to collapse. she was able to be rebuilt, but her memories were not recoverable. five blames themself, for their inaction. they could have easily prevented it, if they were not so afraid of killing—even when justified. they were, unfortunately, forced to reckon with these feelings later in the fight, anyway. they swear the lightning surged from their hands of its own volition.

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stormystarlight · 3 months

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Given their name, does Five enjoy watching the clouds/sky in their free time? :]

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stormystarlight · 3 months

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(hi Squidward /ref) Do you like to read Five? Or draw? You seem like the creative right brain type.

ooh, a peek into their book?

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