J is for Jorgen Umas

For a chance, an RPG character that was not mine. Jorgen was a drawing made for a friend. I've never been much good with animals, but somehow this time the horse more or less just happened, and pretty much like I has intended it, too.

The same cannot be said for the crow/raven, though...

I is fo Iris with tattoo

Iris, the wayward paladin, was a RPG character that more or less wrote itself. A lowly camp follower, she first was drafted as a replacement 'mascot' for the army she was following when her predecessor, a lady of noble birth and upbringing, met an untimely demise. And soon after, she was given some heavy-handed divine inspiration by a war-goddess she was not even following when the army was facing insurmountable odds. The game fizzled quite soon, but her (mis)adventures have gone on, in some form or another.

H is for Hell-hounds

It took a lot of references to get the poses right. Originally intended as a small vignette, so the shading might seem a tad heavy-handed.

G is for Gang of Mercenaries

Another one of the Myrskynlintu - Stormcrow project. The armour is getting better, although.. is that supposed to be studded leather? *sighs*. Oh well, can't win them all.

F is for Float-fortress Sneak-sinker

Here's a little vignette I made for a homebrew adventure for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Still Waters Run Deep. The insidious Skaven are preparing a test of their newest secret weapon. Inspired by the Turtle submersible of the American Revolutionary War, I could not help but think that there was a scheme that would totally fit the modus operandi of the ratmen. I also ended up making a model of the submersible, and later a surface support vessel for it.

E is for Enna the Seeress

Another drawing from Myrskynlintu - Stormcrow: Saria, the plucky heroine of the tale, is getting her fortunes told by a wisewoman. Probably one of the first drawings I made for the project.

D is for Demons in the Snow

I wanted to illustrate a story. Or novel. But I was not comfortable in doing someone else's world or characters, and so decided that the easy way was to write a novel myself, and do the illustrations - and the whole lay-outo f course - for it. Thus began my on-off project Myrskynlintu (Stormcrow). The main problem was that I never really knew whether I should have concentrated on the writing or the images, and eventually I lost steam. I usually had these quite vivid images of the different, key scenes, and translating those to prose was quite awkward at times.

Well, at least I have a bunch of images to remember it by.