abellius's avatar
I was joking. Maybe I was projecting my priestess's thoughts in my last statement about curves. I think her curves are in proportion to her body frame and that commission turned out great since the artist worked with me on it. I never envisioned her to be as curvy as your half-elf. However, my Star Wars Kira character, on the other hand, is a bit more on the curvy side. I'm not sure how that happened when I first had her drawn up, but "if it ain't broken, why fix it", right? ;)

I agree with you about references. I try to provide as many references to what I want as possible and as much detail as can think of that is relevant. However, I never went as in much detail as your link.
worldsunknown's avatar
Haha, it's funny you mention that about your priestess' thoughts. One of the NPCs in this game, Sasha, was not nearly as well-endowed and she was always kind of envious of Alis and her best friend Lureene, a redeemed succubus. Speaking of Lureene, she's also on Ruloc's list — her player and I were just talking about needing to provide some good photo-references for her.

(Don't worry, I doubt Eric will go into as much detail as I did!) ^_^;
abellius's avatar
Even in RPG games, women are still jealous and envious of other women that are more "endowed" then them. Lol! Anyway, you can see from my gallery I have some different characters posted from a few of my Pathfinder and Star Wars Saga campaigns. More pictures are on the way as next year unfolds. I need more of my priestess for she was fun to play. Fiery redheads who choose the fire and glory domains usually are. ;)

I need to get on Ruloc's list for he keeps turning me down when I suggest I should commission him when I respond to his fantasy characters pictures here on dA.

Also, if you use the Pathfinder rules for your fantasy games, I have created a generic fillable character sheet for it that I use for my games, which can be found here ([link]). I plan to expand on them next year, so if you find then useful and have any suggestions to make them better while still keeping their generic nature, send your feedback to my email address listed on it.
worldsunknown's avatar
Yeah it's my hope to start getting more commissions done as time goes on too. I've been building up a list of artists, but I'd wanted to have at least a couple done by sticklers for detail, like Ruloc, so that I have really good visual references without needing such lengthy explanations.

BTW, I really like the way Christine Hawthorne looks, I'll have to check that artist's work out.

As for character sheets, I actually have an Excel-based one that I've created that calculates all the stats and lets me track changes by level. I've not made it public because it has a lot of 3rd-party feats added to it, but there are some screenshots of it on my wiki: [link] My approach was to group information according to how it's used during gameplay and to obviate the need to turn it over, hence the fold-overs for feats and inventory. :)
abellius's avatar
Any particular artists you really like off of your list?

Thanks. I asked the artist (*dleoblack) that drew Christine to try to have her armor be more historical in nature than typical fantasy, and I think he did a decent job. He still may be open to do commissions.

Interesting character sheet. I may swipe a couple things off of it when I update my PF sheets. If things get too difficult to keep track of for a character, then I resort to Hero Lab. The fillable pdf sheets I created are more generic in nature, compact as much as I could, and free. I use them all the time when I play, so they have been "playtested" in a way. When I GM, I have my players use them to submit their characters to me for review.