After this week’s weregeek-y action, I figured that posting some Werewolf art was appropriate. I still really want to do a short Werewolf storyline at some point in the future, but haven’t yet found a good time to work it in. (Maybe it’ll be an extra content thing in another book)  Here is a sketch of Sarah’s (potential) Werewolf character. I was angling to make her a Child of Gaia, though it might also be interesting if she was a Black Fury. Either way, I’m pretty happy with the design. Sarah plays so many well-coiffed, well-dressed characters that it’s fun to draw her letting her hair down a little, in both the figurative and literal senses.

Any guesses on the rest of the group’s Auspices/Tribes? Most of them should be pretty easy to figure out.

I’m bumping up tomorrow’s sketch so that I can leave you all with a proper Friday cliffhanger when we start out on next chapter’s big plot dump. (Heh.) So, for today, here’s another D&D sketch.

This one is another sketch from the long-running Dragonlance campaign we were in. At one point during the campaign, our DM had us roll up another set of characters so that we could have two groups running around and trying to save the world. We generally chose whatever was opposite to what we were currently playing – I made a barbarian to contrast with my pacifist cleric character, and our group’s paladin made a really interesting noble/rogue character.

However, one player made a happy-go-lucky wood elf. Since she’d previously played our sensible “big sisterly” sorcerer, we all accepted her new character concept at face value….

… Until she turned into a very young bronze dragon, that is. My memory of exactly how that came about is a little fuzzy, but I remember that our group was in Mortal Peril, and that she dropped her elf act in time to save the day and whisk us away to safety. The downside was that the character thereafter became an NPC, since our DM was sensible enough not to let a full-fledged dragon be a member of the party, but during the few sessions where she was still around, I doodled this little character portrait of her dragon form. (I know I drew her elven form a few times too, but I haven’t been able to find the sketchbook those drawings were in. I hope I do, since there’s a LOT of D&D stuff in there…)

Hey Weregeeks! I’m switching it up this week to give us some breathing room between last chapter (though regular updates will continue tomorrow), which was one of the longest to date, and the next chapter, which will have some heavy plot in it. So, here is something very silly to cleanse all of our palates, and to get all of the Alberta Weregeeks excited for Calgary Expo this weekend, at which the ENTIRE original cast of TNG will be in attendance.

You have no idea how happy this makes me. Few shows cause me to get such a kick of nostalgia as this one. Hum a few bars of the opening theme to TNG, and suddenly I’m twelve again, lying on my grandma’s orange shag rug with a glass of ginger ale and aware that I’m staying up way past my bedtime but who cares, because it’s STAR TREK TIME!!!!! And while I know I’ll be too busy at my booth to go and line up for photos with the cast, just the idea of being in the same room as them makes me kind of giddy.

Also, there will be transporters at the show. And you can beam up your friends. HOW COOL IS THAT?????????

These sketches are just preliminary sketches, but I’m hoping to have a version of this available as a limited edition print at the show! So, if you are lucky enough to be stopping by the Expo, I’ll be at booth 1122. Come on by and geek out with me!!

Today’s sketch was done, like so many others, during a D&D game. The girl is actually my cleric character, Serryn, on whom Sarah’s D&D character is based. (She always wore blue robes with a white cloak.) It always amuses me to put little nods like that to my old games into the comic.

Also, a heads-up for all B.C. Weregeeks – I will be in Vancouver this weekend for the Vancouver Fan Expo!! Hope to see you there!

This sketch is pretty random, but it has a cute story behind it that I just had to share.

At Emerald City, I was asked if I could draw “something kind of weird”. I said yes, and was expecting to hear something about ninja Cthulhu fighting pirate godzilla (which I’ve drawn before), or time-travelling Abe Lincoln fighting robots (ditto). Instead, I was asked if I could draw a Ninja Pirate King.

“You see,” the lady said, “I have this niece who thought that pirates meant unicorns. So, when we announced that we were having a pirate-themed reception for our wedding, she was REALLY excited. Imagine, all the grown-ups dressed as UNICORNS! It’s a little girl’s dream.”

Her niece was a little flabbergasted to find everyone dressed with hooks and peglegs instead of flowing manes and horns, but apparently took to the change quite well, and even dubbed her uncle “the King Unicorn.”

Hence, the sketch, which was for her niece. I’m not sure I made the unicorn king-y enough, but that’s definitely a pirate unicorn.