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There's a longish story here.

I'm still doing art more for emotional survival these days.

A while back, I discovered the blog for one of WotC's art editors. Among other things he runs these neat little concept art contests, which I'm too chicken to enter - these contests always attract much, much better artists than me. The contests are always really good thought exercises that plug into how D&D 4e is set up.

One of the contests was designing easily recognizable silhouettes that represent the four player character roles in new-style D&D (striker, leader, controller, defender). I thumbnailed several different types of character silhouette, and wound up working up the "fey" batch of concepts.

The little guys at the bottom are recognizably "buckawn" from old D&D - but the other three are my design. I like the idea that the fey wouldn't look entirely human, and giving them deer-inspired features seemed to go with their forest-loving natures. And yes, the guy at the top is a deer-human-wolf sort of figure.

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:iconpomander:
That's no reason to not enter! How good a piece of art is IS subjective, after all.

As always, great stuff. :)
:iconcolinchapman:
Seriously, mate, you need to have more faith in your abilities. You have a distinctive, personal style, one that I admire. I wouldn't have e-mailed you r.e. possibly freelancing else. :)

Colin

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Award-Winning RPG Writer: All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Faery's Tale Deluxe, Hollow Earth Expedition, Iron Kingdoms, Talislanta, Wild Talents, etc.
:icondiinzumo:
I agree with *ColinChapman. You have a distinctive style, a lot of skill and some really cool ideas. You should enter!
:icona-e-s-h-a-e-t-t-r:
Oooh, a wolf-taur-deer-thingy. *squees*

I am entirely too potty about taurs these days ;)

Anyway, you are an incredibly talented artist. Yes, there are artists out there who are alot better than you are but there are /always/ better artists out there. The person you should be trying to be a better artist than is yourself. That is the only person you are really competing with.

So I'll look forward to possibly seeing more taurs, and you look forward to improving your own artistic skills. :)

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:icontheblock:
Those look fantastic, especially the Buckawn which I to remember for I collect the old art & books :w00t: ! I'm not a big fan of the new 4th ed books for their lame presentation and the fact that they're cutting back on artists this time around. Mostly they either reuse art from previous 3rd Ed books for monsters or use the same 3 artists for all illustrations :roll: I mean can you imagine Magic the Gathering if they only had 3 artists doing all the original card art? Would get really old fast. So I don't like Wotc for cutting so many corners hoping to make a ton of money with a new edition so soon IMHO. Pathfinder is the best thing out there for 3rd Ed fans! Okay rant over :lol: !
:iconatalhlla:
I agree with everyone else that you should enter. You Did the art already, anyway, so why not?
:iconmanduchan:
rockin characters!
you should enter contests!

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Who are my real friends? Have we all got the bends and we're really sinking this love
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So where was this blog again? I'd like to see the other contest entries...

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