#bramble
Blackberries.
hi hello its me posting art from my eberron campaign again, bc i had quite a few sort of… in progress and waiting for me to be able to post without spoiling. anyway i love all these children So Very Much im v proud of all of them. they just got through a pretty spooky fight w some bears where three of them went down almost immediately, but they all lived and had a bear feast. also for breakfast bramble very impressively opened a jar of jam and p much everyone were just
from left to right, upper row: zhankei the half-orc bard, miro the halfling rogue, nice the drow ranger and iago the tiefling druid. lower row: quartzite the gnome sorcerer, chalcedony the shifter bloodhunter and bramble the halfling paladin.
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my dnd players are in a forest at night, and zhankei (the half-orc) was holding hands w the halflings (bramble and miro, respectively) and it was Too Cute and Good and Wholesome to not draw, so here u go
(bramble belongs to @grandmafftarkin, zhankei to @lesbianomens, and miro to @kittengrantaire)
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im DMing an online eberron campaign now, and at last, the whole gang is together and i can finally post my drawings of them all!!
i love them all very very much theyre very good in my entirely unbiased opinion, here they are, from left to right:
@aladywholayswithmaidens‘ Quartzite the rock gnome sorcerer who loves fire in all forms, mundane or magical, and also owns a huge mastiff named kitty (not pictured, but maybe one day). shes a beautiful flaming dorito who just wants Adventure.
@grandmafftarkin‘s Bramble the halfling paladin, intelligence of six, definitely knows what she’s doing, is most decidedly an aesthete, and loves the smashy smashy of both planes of existence and her warhammer smushing evil rats to the floor.
@tamaslin‘s Iago, tiefling druid, both mysterious and awkward at the same time, somehow, magically. they’re not super knowledgeable about the world around, but they’re curious to find out! iago and quartzite are also the Cool Poncho Squad.
@flarechaser‘s Chalcedony, cat girl shifter bloodhunter with the floofiest tail in all of the land. kind of quiet and serious-looking, but also she immediately bought a hat (with a matching hat pin) and a bunch of fabric in the first two days of the campaign.
@kittengrantaire‘s Miro the halfling rogue, with his cheeky crooked grin and deck of cards and definitely nothing shady going on here, never, why would you think such a thing, he’s just here to have a good time.
@lesbianomens‘ Zhankei the half-orc bounty hunter bard, fashion over function, always, a rat tore a hole in her coat and she immediately obtained supplies to fix any future issues of any of her wardrobe. her hat and general sparkliness (or perhaps just luck of the dice) causes her to always have terrible perception, cant see anything, but shes Very Charming.
@hamlinart‘s Nice (very nice), drow ranger, also very fashionable, very about the Aesthetic, especially his matching pink accessories. Has an intricate metal magic/tech combo prosthetic arm and a wolf companion named Fancy.
i wanna say so much more about all of them, but obvs its still early campaign days, so it’s all a lot of secret backstories, but i hope this at least gives an idea of them! and if feel like a proud DM parent showing everyone photos of my children, even though i guess technically they’re my players’ children.
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Art & activism, part 1
Since I started making art seriously again in 2018, I’ve mostly focused on the simple, colorful, domestic subjects that brought me joy in a very dark time in my life. I was housebound, often bed bound, and my life felt like nothing but pain. So I painted cheerful things, both as a form of escapism & as a reminder to appreciate the little joys in life. In 2021, I started to change direction, delving in to self portraiture and queer figure drawing. But I’ve felt torn between the family-friendly, kidlit-type style that I had been working in, and the weird, dark, queer experience I’m having inside my head. The truth is, I’m full of rage & sorrow. With nowhere to express it, it bottles up and comes out when its least helpful. In many ways, I am not a fighter. I am too reactive, too sensitive, and as a neurodivergent person, I need to “center myself” a lot more than is helpful in this kind of work. But it many ways, I am a fighter. I have fought for my health - for diagnosis and treatment, for accessibility tools, for services, and support. I speak out whenever I can, including when it’s impolite.
But how can I fight without burning myself out? The answer, I think, is to fight a different way. I am not just a ball or rage and pain, I am also an artist. And it’s time for my art to reflect these conflicts in my head, to transform them into something others can relate to, something we can all use to heal.
