The Show-Off-Commissions Thread!


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As an avid commissioner of art for my various role-playing characters, I love showing off the awesome things I've paid other people to produce for me. It's a lot of fun seeing someone interpret your character description into a piece of art, but it's even better when you get to share it!

So, this thread is for sharing any art you've commissioned! Please attribute your commissions correctly, of course--this can also serve as a resource for those looking for artists to commission if we have attributions, and it's just good courtesy to do so. So without further ado, my commissions, organized by character:

Xihe Kitaro a.k.a. Kit Vulpik
Kitsune swordsfox and dashing gentleman, Kit has been a ton of fun to play and have illustrated. He's an active character in a Reign of Winter campaign, so some of these pictures could be considered spoilers for that AP--you've been warned!

The first picture I ever commissioned of Kit, taking a dramatic pose with his girlfriend/fiancee Greta. Yes, the Kitsune got engaged to the Winter Wolf.
Kit at a paper lantern festival. Kit worships many deities, including Desna... and a paper lantern festival seems like the kind of party some Tien Desnans might throw.
Kit in his three forms. This is just to show off Kit's different forms. I love how it turned out.
Kit & friends vs. Yrax. Because you just have to have a picture of the aerial battle with a dragon warlord.
Kit's reference sheet. This shows off his high-level gear (left) vs. his low-level gear (right, human form).
Kit vs. Ice Troll. Kit attacked the ice troll in the Pale Tower's courtyard by taking a flying leap off the wall onto its back. I had to have a picture of that.
Kit bowing. Because Kit considers himself quite the dashing gentlefox.
Pensive stare. In a quiet moment when he thinks he's unobserved, Kit ponders the costs of adventure.
Kit watercolor headshot (and another). Paired with another of my characters.
Kit and Greta taking a walk. Their relationship has been fun to play with.
Kit being dramatic in snow. Because when you have that many tails, just jumping around in the snow can look awesome.

Garkhen
One of my earlier characters, I still have a certain fondness for Garkhen. Not to mention he's one of the three I'm writing a web novel for... slowly.

Garkhen's reference sheet. Showing off his armor and some of the unusual bits of his half-dragon half-dwarf anatomy.
Garkhen fighting a wolf-monster. Chaos-corrupted animals are one of his most frequent opponents in the novel.
Talking with Almonihah. Yes, I have a character named Almonihah. It's a legacy thing.
With both other main characters. These three are the main characters of the novel.
Walking in town. Eventually enough people have heard of Garkhen that he doesn't get *that* many weird looks in town...

Almonihah Zrathanzon
Another old character, Almonihah Zrathanzon a.k.a. AZ was one of a number of characters I made as a teenager who all had the same name. Not out of any sense of connection between them, just because I was lazy. This includes my screen name. He's another of the main characters in my web novel. Ironically enough he's the least-illustrated of the three.

AZ vs. a half-silver dragon. This scene still hasn't happened yet in the web novel.
In the woods. This picture fits my mental image of him best. He's a ranger--he belongs in the woods!
I have another, but apparently the artist didn't post it to her gallery.

Zakhin'Dakh
The last of my web novel characters, Zakhin'Dakh started out as a giant griffon mount for Almonihah in his D&D 3.5 incarnation and eventually developed into his own character. His exuberant love of maps and life is amusing to play, especially when compared with the sudden violence he's capable of as a giant aerial predator.

Zakhin'Dakh being mad it's snowy. Snow melts in fur and gets it all wet. It's annoying!
Zakhin'Dakh reading a map. It's a big map, but it looks small compared to him.
Zakhin'Dakh vs. a Behir. This was just an excuse to get a Behir drawn along with Zakhin'Dakh.
Zakhin'Dakh in fall. This was a fun little watercolor of leaves falling on his head.
Zakhin'Dakh greeting a fellow griffon. Zakhin'Dakh is around twice the length of your average griffon. He tends to make other griffons nervous.
Zakhin'Dakh discovers a cartographer's shop. Fortunately, he knows by now not to just take things from people.
Oh yeah, I forgot this combat scene. It's another one with all three of them together, though a bit off-model.

...I think that's enough for now. I still have a lot more to show off, but I should go be useful for a while now...

Silver Crusade

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Oooo, kickass!

... all the art I've commissioned is of the NSFW variety so I can't really link it here >_>

Dark Archive

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Rysky wrote:

Oooo, kickass!

... all the art I've commissioned is of the NSFW variety so I can't really link it here >_>

Can I get a pm and maybe a few referrals to some of the artists?

Silver Crusade

Sure!

Dark Archive

Merci. I'll check them out tonight since I'm at work.

Silver Crusade

lol Okies, have fun ^w^


Okay, here's some more:

I realized I'd forgotten a Kit one. This is an AU version of him, if he were in the Exalted universe instead of Golarion.

Llelwen & Karrain
I played two characters in a Mummy's Mask campaign (we only had three players). Llelwen was an elven Lunar Oracle, and Karrain was a strix Arcanist. Both were quite fun to play.

Llelwen is on the right here. On the left is the only picture I've commissioned of Failin the human Witch. Failin was in an Emerald Spire game.
Mummy's Mask party fighting on a bridge. Those who've played the AP will probably recognize this fight.
Llelwen showing off the shapeshifting powers of a Lunar Oracle. The hybrid form is what I flavored his Righteous Might.
Karrain being all magic. Karrain liked his lightning and ice spells, though spells that did damage *and* something else were generally his specialty.
Karrain zapping something. He did that a lot.
Karrain doing more magic stuff. He really did a lot of that.

Iolar
Iolar, What It Is To Be An Eagle, Guardian Spirit of Birds of Prey, followed a fairly common trajectory in my characters. He started out as a Pathfinder character (in a Zelda-inspired game--he's loosely based off of the Light Spirits from Twilight Princess), and ended up being a free-form play-by-post character.

First Iolar picture by the person I was RPing with. Just him about to take off, nothing big.
Iolar 'racing' my RP partner's character. Really, as a powerful bird spirit, he could beat her easily, but what would the fun of that be?
Iolar showing off. Sometimes guardian spirits need to be dragon-sized to save the world. Other times they make themselves giant to show off to their friends.
Iolar flying in the evening. The fun thing with him is that his golden markings can vary canonically, so I can set artists loose on doing whatever they want with them.

Ignis
Earth's Last Dragon, at least by his reckoning, Ignis was originally a Savage Worlds character (playing in a Necessary Evil campaign), until again becoming a free-form play-by-post character. Half the fun with him is throwing a classic western dragon into the modern world and seeing what happens.

Ignis stretching. In which a knight decides this wasn't what he signed up for...
Ignis ref sheet. I love his evil grin on the right.
Ignis carving runes. Any sensible dragon uses magic to guard his lair while he's away.
Ignis checking out his reflection. Ignis is the coolest thing in town, and he knows it.
Ignis taking a stroll down the street. Pavement damage not pictured.
Ignis putting up with humans. As long as they're paying in gold, he'll let them do their silly measurements and interviews.

As a bonus:
A commission of my mom's character and Shatha the dragonkin, from Reign of Winter.


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Don't generally have the cash for commissions, but i do have a fair bit of free time, if not talent

A table cabin for absoloms most adorable bundle of fluffy death.


Ooo, fun!

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I'm going back to school, so I don't have the money for this anymore, but I've gotten a lot of PC and NPC art over the years. Here's a recent sample.

Il'setsya Wyrmtouched
Character sheet for my PC in RotRL, Il'setsya Wyrmtouched. Blood arcanist (protean), tiefling-thingamajig, herald of Ssila'meshnik, and itinerant drunkard. Artwork by Blackmyst on DA
Because buzzed spellcasting is best spellcasting. Artwork by Avionetca on DA.
Part of her backstory, with the key feature being sometimes trying to pickpocket an archmage works out for the best. Artwork by Avionetca on DA.
Well it works out for you, the archmage in question just gets a much more interesting life because you're crazy. Artwork by Avionetca on DA.
This is what happens when the DM doesn't think about the ramifications of giving you a candle of invocation CN and you summon a keketar protean and babble incoherently for hours to get it to help you fight the BBEG. Artwork by Nanihoo on DA.

Astrida'zilindria'noxamilla Shimmerwings - arcanist and long suffering teacher and on-again-off-again paramour of Il'setsya

Character sheet for Astrid Artwork by Blackmyst on DA

Y'dalnia Wyrmtouched - Cleric of Ssila'meshnik the Colorless Wyrm, protean lord of fate, freedom, and paradox. Ganzi/tiefling'ish'thingamajig'whothehellknowsbecauseshecertainlydoesn'thav eaclue. Linked but not identical origin story to Il'setsya, hence the shared surname. My current PC in 'The Moonscar'.

Artwork by Avionetca on DA

Drusilla Ap Gremory 'The Parasite', high priestess of Trelmarixian the Horseman of Famine. The major antagonist of the last campaign I ran.

Character sheet by Blackmyst on DA

Silver Crusade

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Ooooooo, they lovely....

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Here's another one of Il'setsya Wyrmtouched, though it's not one that I paid for, but free from the artist (Sir Tiefling on DA). They publicly asked for characters and I pitched several options and unexpectedly one got selected. :D


How fun!

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