Favorite weapons: poisoned nailboard, throwing hatchets, sling, and a broken sawed off shotgun.
Armor: Raider Painspike armor, modified with viper iconography and poisoned spikes.
Description: Darzi has deep tanned skin, accented by shoulder length messy brunette hair. His towering stature is covered in rough, scarred, and calloused skin. His eyes mutated, replaced with those of a viper.
Darzi's grew up in a small hovel within the sands of California. Raised by his mother and grandmother, both preistesses of the Great Pit Viper. They loved Darzi with all they had. Believing him to be sent to restore his tribe to its rightful glory. He trained from dusk till dawn, his mother injecting him with "sacred serpent venom". It racked his body with pain nearly killing him almost every time it was administered. However Darzi developed an immunity to the toxic substance and most other creatures venom, as well as making the pains of battle a second thought. It was during his teenage years that these treatments caused him to have visons of a great serpent. It called to him, beckoning Darzi to seek justice, seek power, seek a nest for his restored tribe. As his strength grew his mind deteriorated slightly, the visions were almost constant, his speech becoming a low whispering hiss. Once he came of age and burying what little family he had Darzi collected what was left of his childhood home and began his journey.
i just bit through a chunk of cucumber with WAY too much force and my teeth just smashed and ground together with this awful chalk-on-nailboards feeling in my mouth
Kestrel sitting on the rooftop
I'm very excited seeing a real kestrel (Turmfalke) in my neighborhood. It's sitting about 100 m far away on a rooftop and for first - with my screen glasses on - I though it was a collared pigeon (Türkentaube), but the red was a lot to lively. So, I took a shot with my camera, which is not very good, but it has zoom.
Never imagined to see one of them here...
Fun fact, it is a fakir obviously, because he is sitting on a nailboard. That is here on the rooftops to avoid doves sitting there - but it isn't very effective, there are enough places for them to land - my birdfeeder too, unfortunately.
I'm so glad, that this bird is so cool.
For more:
(German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmfalke
(English) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel
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How do you usually go about making backgrounds? :0 Some of the really detailed ones never fail to amaze and I just keep wondering HOW you do that
hehe thank you!
here's a guide i made a bit ago, but really, it's nothing interesting. the important thing is to enjoy the process, and find an environment that you want to depict-- for most things, i don't find the process of adding details tedious. it's meditative to create an environment for your characters to live in.
the next thing is to take shortcuts :,) for these nailboards and wood, i googled "free nailboard texture" or something, overlaid it onto the drawing, and then painted over it so that it fit with the general colors of the piece. i really don't like drawing wood grain, so i didn't! if someone considers this dishonest or cheating or w/e i'm not offended but i would rather not spend so much time on a texture that i hate rendering hehe
also, i essentially always draw the background before the characters. before i draw the characters, i pose the clip studio paint 3d model on the background and play with it until i find a composition that i like. often i draw and redraw the character several times until i find a pose/outfit/expression that i like.
aaaaand the piece i drew last (this one) i gave up halfway through and then rediscovered it on my harddrive a few months later, so breaking up work like that is often helpful because i don't focus on the amount of time that i'm draining into a single piece