Dormouse Sorcerers, like every other Sorcerer, trace their lineage back to semi-mythical sources that account for their native magical powers. Among the Big Folk, dragon, demon and tiefling ancestry is quite common; Dormouse Sorcerers are adamant that their magical powers stem from an ancient fairy link. They highlight this b...
2020-04-24 15:02:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Dormice Wizards are rare, because most dormice lack the willingness to devote many years of study to the mastery of skills that have, in their opinion, little relevance for the important things in life (i. e., sleep and food).
True Dormouse Wizards will be quick to point out that this is not true at all. In fact, ...
2020-04-17 15:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Dormouse Bards are generally seen as the happiest little creatures alive (and that is not just down to their consumption of raspberry wine). Always eager to entertain and educate, they tirelessly hold forth cheerful songs and ancient lore, to sounds of the walnut lute. They pride themselves on always getting strong reactions ...
2020-04-14 15:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dormice Monks aspire to the highest level of inner peace, balance, and self-control. Their bodies are the only weapons they need (or so they say). Their final test, in which they give proof of their control over body and mind and demonstrate sheer incredible restraint, takes place while their masters and their families are al...
2020-04-13 17:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Dormouse Fighters are very liberal spirits. These seasoned, battle-hardened little creatures are most happy roaming the land with a week's worth of provisions, sleeping under the eaves and bringing their courage and their tempered steel to anyone needing their help.
Malicious gossip has it that all they ever use t...
2020-04-11 07:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Only the most fearless of dormice aspire to join the ranks of Barbarians. The origins of this class of warriors are lost in legend, as is the origin of their traditional weapon, the chiesnif (though legend has it that the first chiesnif was taken as prize on the myth-enshrouded raid on Pantree). On this raid...
2020-04-10 07:22:28 +0000 UTC View Post
"Beware the masked swamp owl!" Dormouse parents tell their children. "If she catches you, she eats you whole and spits out your bare white bones, which will forever haunt the marshlands!"
Indeed, infestations of undead are most often found near the nests of the short-eared owl, terrorising the local dormouse dwell...
2020-04-09 06:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
... but here's a preview of fearsome dormouse undead. XD
2020-04-08 16:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
With her trusted companion, the Ranger roams far and wide through the wild, dangerous undergrowth of the field balk. Her green and brown garb makes the ranger almost invisible to the perilous denizens she stalks. Her bumblebee, however, is often forced to just hop from flower to flower, pretending to be just an ordinary bumbl...
2020-04-07 12:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Dormouse Rogues are rare, because stealing something is so alien to the dormice nature (though they are suberbly suited to the profession due to their uncanny stealth). If there is anything that might entice a dormouse to go down the road of roguishness, it's a fat, ripe raspberry sitting around without an apparent owner (at ...
2020-04-06 10:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Their heroic and undaunted nature makes dormice naturally suited to the Paladin's calling, playing to their natural instincts to protect the weak and helpless, even if finding someone who is actually weaker and more helpless than the paladin may sometimes present a challenge.
Tragically, many a dormouse paladin ha...
2020-04-05 10:47:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I, uh, have no idea what happened. I assume it was the unholy amagam of thinking of El-ahrairah (Watership Down), thinking of doing some rabbit art at some point, and then coming across Brit's woolly-hatted alpaca on Facebook this morning.
Maybe he'll get a friend soon. Or maybe he'll see himself out of the back d...
2020-04-04 12:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I slapped some colour on today! I really like the combination here.
This one's actually available for sale, so drop me a note if you're interested! I will probably have to hold it for a while though. :)
I decided to redo yesterday's piece today - and ended up with a nice Maedhros but botching the horse. So I cheated and combined the two in Photoshop. XD Will colour it tomorrow!
2020-04-02 20:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The stickers are here (and I wonder whether some of my real-life friends will now finally stop calling my pins "stickers", or whether they'll just be thoroughly confused.)
I've already started dropping one here, two there, into packages waiting to ship. But here's the whole set!
Thanks for the well-wis...
2020-04-02 12:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Inked this in the waiting room today while my son was having four wisdom teeth removed. I'm not very happy with it, but hey, my son's fine. ;) Mostly.
I'll probably end up redoing this tomorrow, with a slimmer inking pen! The one I had with me was just too bold.
2020-04-01 18:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post
They're here, and they're so gorgeous again!! =D
Look how tiny they are - no bigger than their clutches...
2020-03-31 18:01:30 +0000 UTC
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Tried out ink again today - I'd bought hot-pressed (smooth) watercolour sketchbooks a month ago to use more ink, and since this "Corona" sketchbook is over half full now, I figured it would be a good time to start breaking out the inks...!
Have had "High" by Lighthouse Family stuck in my head for days; fittingly, a local radio station had a Nineties day yesterday.
When you're close to tears, remember
Someday it'll all be over
One day we're gonna get so high
Though it's darker than December
What's ahead is a different colour
One da...
There's an artist challenge going round where you paint the view from your window. I cheated. This is from the living-room window, not from my study window. Our neighbour's spectacular forsythia demanded it.
I've also put the Valar prints up in my Etsy shop! Please note that I won't be able to ship to some countri...
2020-03-28 13:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
just letting you know that Deutsche Post no longer delivers to the US, Australia, Singapore, and certain areas of Italy, Portugal, India, and probably more countries likely to join the list.
I'm not closing my shop, since I need the income it's generating in these times. If you live in the countries...
2020-03-27 16:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Mandos judges you for touching your face.
Also, I definitely don't want a Silmarillion movie, but if they make one, Benedict Cumberbatch needs to play Mandos.
I remember again why I haven't used Daniel Smith's Moonglow in ages. While the textures are spectacular, it's hard to layer and always ends up b...
2020-03-27 09:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This doesn't look like a lot of work, but I finished Manwe today, and then fixed them all up for ordering! That means looking up every colour in my colour swatch book and writing them down, which easily took two or three hours, plus almost two for Manwe. =O
I felt experimental with skintones here! Rather than my g...
2020-03-26 16:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I was planning to do just two today, but then did three... just Manwë remaining. I haven't sent them to the pin company yet; maybe they'll say there's too much detail... but we'll see. I'm still debating, very slightly, to do all eight Aratar (and add Mandos when I've done him, too). I will definitely order them in different...
2020-03-25 17:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a bit you probably didn't know about me as an artist: I don't see faces when I read. I have some form of prosopagnosia (the inability to recognise - and imagine - faces), and when I read, I think of characters very much in body form, movement, colours, dressing style. The same goes for real people, by the way. I can re...
2020-03-25 12:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post
... but don't think I've been idle! The first two Valar pins are done! =D
I braved the supermarket madness again tod...
2020-03-24 19:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Aulë, the last of the six Valar I'll soon turn into pins! And talking of pins - the dragons and flowers, which were supposed to arrive in mid-April (in time for MagicCon that won't happen)... will be here this week! So look forward to a lot of shiny goodness around the weekend. <3
I may take a break wit...
2020-03-23 16:10:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Again for this one, I found mself thinking that it might have warranted more time. :)
Several people have asked me of these are for sale - I'm probably being really stupid, but I'm drawing them in my sketchbook, so no, they're not for sale. (Maybe after the Valar, I'll move to a more sellable format - which might be a s...
2020-03-22 16:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Manwë, managing to look rather like Karl Marx. I'm unapologetic, because Marx had the best beard.
2020-03-21 14:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
So much going on right now. Things are starting to look pretty alarming here in Europe - we still don't have a lockdown here in my area, though other German regions have already implemented things much like them. My husband actually was paid in toilet paper today - yes, half in jest, but only half. We were certainly grateful ...
2020-03-20 22:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
