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So I've been feeling crummy and wanted to knock out something to get off my rear and play with ideas like;

* Someone else referred to stuff I do as "cartoony," and if I'm going to do cartoony D&D, I should put some thought into it.

* I wanted to work on inks - I always need the practice - and play with markers, a medium I have really mixed feelings about, but which would be the easiest way to work doing convention sketches.

* Enter watching YouTube videos of Humberto Ramos drawing at conventions, which were really inspiring as far as both cartooniness and marker use.

* I've been realizing that - the same way I really like drawing dwarves because the shorter legs (plus typically beard or costume) emphasizes their faces - part of my fondness for D&D as a source of character types is that instantly you have at least some design guidelines.

One useful thing I figured out from doing this; "Prune" copic markers are awesome for shading, giving a touch of violet tint while desaturating color, a lot better than just the neutral gray markers (have not tried cool grays).

Description
So I've been feeling crummy and wanted to knock out something to get off my rear and play with ideas like;

* Someone else referred to stuff I do as "cartoony," and if I'm going to do cartoony D&D, I should put some thought into it.

* I wanted to work on inks - I always need the practice - and play with markers, a medium I have really mixed feelings about, but which would be the easiest way to work doing convention sketches.

* Enter watching YouTube videos of Humberto Ramos drawing at conventions, which were really inspiring as far as both cartooniness and marker use.

* I've been realizing that - the same way I really like drawing dwarves because the shorter legs (plus typically beard or costume) emphasizes their faces - part of my fondness for D&D as a source of character types is that instantly you have at least some design guidelines.

One useful thing I figured out from doing this; "Prune" copic markers are awesome for shading, giving a touch of violet tint while desaturating color, a lot better than just the neutral gray markers (have not tried cool grays).