L.O. B.ster

@lob-ster.bsky.social

Writer, HEMA practioner, German Studies and History student. Absolutely obsessed with running DnD

I wish people would stop being so pretentious about writing. It's a craft like any other. Plot serves the characters and characters serve the plot. You need to build both and can start from either. Don't blame your inability on describing a story on plot

Phil Szostak@philszostak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

I just love drawing Dwarf Laddies. still working on the Aesthetic of Art-Deco Anglo Saxons (mostly the helmet, Cloak, belt and sword hilt, but the sword its self is more or less along gladius with a migration era-ish hilt.

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Another day, this time with an easier posing challenge from @trueref.bsky.social's flow tool! I actually liked this one enough to keep drawing for a bit in the evening, so that's getting posted as well. Still a long way to go though. Also tried tinkering with shading for the first time!

TrueRef model Ean posing with a sword in her right hand and blue fabric draped over the right half of her body on a set of stairs. practice drawing of the first postProgressed practice drawing of the first image, adding the cloth and some details

Running DnD 5e kinda feels like you're in a "I can fix them" type relationship. You change half the rules because they're overly restrictive, outright ignore another quarter and finally make up the last quarter from scratch. Can be fun but I wonder how much more fun it is playing a game as intended

so, don't have anything new, but how about something old? here is a page from a comic that will never likely see the light of day, (because I did not have any idea what I was doing, ...still don't) but I'm still really proud, and surprised by the top panel.

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