Hey y'all.
I am absolutely useless at any form of freeform art. Give me a colour by numbers and i'll rock your world. Give me a miniature to paint and I'll astound your eyes. But give me a blank sheet of paper and...well, to be honest, I'm crap. As such, I rely on other people to bring my imagination into the real world and I thought I'd bring this particular project to the good people who inhabit this board.
So, what I'm looking for is someone who's not afraid of the slightly bizarre, 'cos this requires a rather vivvid imagination to picture and I imagine is somewhat of a challenge for any aspiring artist (I know it's frickin' impossible for me to draw). Just a point of interest, this is a character I'm writing into a short story, which is based on a D&D-esque setting (well, I tell a lie, it is based on D&D, specifically the Planescape setting), so if you're not into the whole fantasy thing, you can probably stop reading.
Medium is not an issue; pencil sketch, watercolour, computer image, whatever, I'm not fussy. I'd just like to see this 'in-the-flesh' so to speak.
So, here it is; I'll describe it as best I can to evoke what, exactly, I have in mind. As it's based on d&d, I'll describe it in terms that are applicable to it.
1)Imagine a Catfolk (from Races of the Wild). If you're not familiar with RotW, imagine a humanoid with cat-like features (think Thundercats).
2)Give him staring larger than normal eyes and a really wide mouth.
3)Make him very muscular.
4)Remove all his fur and replace his skin with lizard-like scales.
5)Give him a very long, snake-like tongue.
6)Turn his flesh into living stone.
7)Take away his shadow, but surround him with darkness (as if magically created by the spell).
8)Make his skin Chameleonic (as in; like a chameleons).
9)Clothe him in nothing but a rather skimpy pair of shorts (probably better described as hot-pants) and a bandoleer (with a variety of pockets and pouches).
If you're familiar with Races of the Wild, the Planescape setting and the Forgotten Realms books: Underdark and Unapproachable East, this character is basically a Planetouched (Chaond) Chameleonic Catfolk Shadow-Walker Mineral Warrior...I created him in an exercise to see how many templates I could apply to a single character, but as soon as I got that far I thought "hey, that's kind of cool for an idea I had", the idea being "a character that's the result of both magical and racial experimentation"...aside from the Planetouched bit (using the 'Templated Planetouched' varient), which is strictly unofficial, the application of the Chameleonic, Shadow-Walker and Mineral Walker templates to a Catfolk is technically a legal build and very few of the abilities overlap or contradict each other.
If you were interested in his actual character (rather than just his appearance), I dunno, for a bit of inspiration or whatever; he is in fact the result of genetic and magical experimentation. His 'creator' has been trying to create a breed of 'super-soldier'...fast, strong, tough, matures quickly (this character is fully grown and only 8 years of age), etc. This particular character was the latest 'success' and as such was trained in the arts of assassination (and all that accompanies that profession). Unfortunatly for the 'creator', the training was a bit too good and the subject (this character) escaped, destroying all the research he had done up to date in the process. Fleeing from his captivity, this character eventually came across, and was taken in by, a particularly friendly member of the Transcendent Order and, liking the ideals that particular Faction advocates, 'joined up'. The story I'm writing takes place shortly after this character joined the Transcendent Order.
Personality-wise, this character is extremely introverted - he says very little and dislikes social situations, preferring to lurk in shadows and dark corners to hide his freakish appearance. His history has made him very cold-hearted and he has few qualms about killing, though he never kills without a good reason. He takes his initiation into the Transcendent Order very seriously and does his best to uphold the ideals of the Faction. To him, this mostly means following the guy who took him in to the Faction and helping him in his work. As he's not particularly smart, this makes him seem to act a bit dog-like or servile at times, in that he follows his mentor around doing his bidding.
Anyways, I hope that someone can help me out with this and I look forward to seeing any renditions. Ta-ta.
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Well this remind´s me of 14CR fiendish, lycantropic, vampiric, half-troll, half-dragon slug from order of stick comic (tremble at his illogical glory).
But idea seems chalenging, and I would not call myself an artist if I would not accepted it. I´ll do it when I will have a bit more time on hands.
Sorry about 14CR fiendish, lycantropic, vampiric, half-troll, half-dragon slug joke. :oops:
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