So I Was Working On A Establishing Panel For My VTM Comic And Was Feeling Like Hell Yeah Ive Done Well

wanted to try something different and to put a proper bit of effort in and really get out of the half assed "style" Ive been stuck in

im actually pretty happy with how she came out, i do like this more then the line art i normally do but it just takes so much longer

Medusa has become quite a polarizing figure, and perhaps of all figures in mythology demonstrates how we reuse and interpret myths to make sense of our experiences and the world around us. 

Personally, I subscribe to earlier Greek interpretations of Medusa, where she’s a monstrous goddess born with the curious condition of mortality and not subject to the lust of Poseidon or the wrath of Athene. For my design I referenced the motif of the running gorgon, common on pottery in the mid-sixth century BCE depicting a rather broad and muscular looking figure in a short tunic. Funnily enough, I was also inspired by the tusks and physicality of half-orcs from DnD for her overall body type. I liked the idea of arranging her hair in an Aphrodite knot to give it some interest, and instead of wings I gave her some feathers on her arms to streamline her overall look (I find wings on upright quadrupeds to be a bit clunky). 

last session the coterie got in a fight with some gang banger sabbat playing tag with 9mm's as they do. we tracked them to the city zoo where they got distracted taste testing a bunch of different animals and some security guards, but ill save you from the gorey details. but we dealt with them but lost a one of our group, Mikala got "droped" by a full auto mag dump to the chest and face, thankful he just got torpor'ed. but still Sabrina blames herself for not being strong and quick enough to take out the sabbat quicker so in the down time of waiting for Mikala to recover Sabrina has been training and working on some new discipline techniques also the coterie as it stands at the moment Sabrina a tzimisce Piper a Tremere Adrian a Giovannni Mikala a ventrue and we have to more players joining at some point that haven't made characters yet

just a a note the file name for this image is morning wood

and sorry its been a bit been distracted with life stuff

If you think about it. The beckoning as written has a lot of fucked up orientalist connotations. Like, the elders are being summoned away to a war fought by their ancestors. Sure. But they had to backpedal from the whole "they're being summoned to the middle east" and then just kinda... didn't clarify what it meant for the gehenna war to be a global phenomenon. It's conceit as a narrative device relies solely on the elders vanishing into the savage desert and all that shit. It's just lazy writing amd we can do so much better.

It could be so interesting to have elders beckoned to strange places to fulfill some strange piece of a methuselah's goal. Just somebody stupidly powerful appearing one night in small town Alabama half delirious from the beckoning and believing that their sole purpose is to watch over the gas station and cast an esoteric amd seemingly nonsensical spell if they ever see a baby blue '68 El Camino pass through

Like. Get rid of the awful "disappear into the east" nonsense and do something interesting and appropriately alien with it.

just a silly warm up sketch.

canonically when ever someone calls Sabrina a furry she hits them with "NYAN" while shapeshifting paws and the :3 face (totally not a abuse of her vicissitude ability )

cunt dykeula. is this anything.

working on "wholesome" big gay yautja x human mini comic just cos the yautja fandom here is horny as hell but its pride month so why not join in little :P also as i am mid cosplay build for this Yautja drawing them actually really helps me get a vibe for poses and personality i will try to convey when i cosplay them also need to do something for my VTM characters as well soon

You know what I can't stand about VtM?

Camarilla apologism.

The Camarilla are monsters with rules, and they will use those rules to justify slavery and exploitation and abuse and control and murder, for ever. And people tell me these are the good guys. They're absolutely not. The Beast is sitting down at table and wearing a pretty dress and her table manners are ever so lovely and her dinner conversation sparkles, but you're still getting eaten alive. And you have to love it. They have made you love it. Nothing in their rulebook says they can't.

I have never actually run a Camarilla game. Not properly. I think it's because that level of authoritarianism makes me urge. It's weird, because I love Dark Ages Vampire with all my soul and those are the same rules, but Dark Ages Vampire doesn't have the "default sect" phenomenon, the expectation that you the players are going to be aligned with this side and therefore that's the right side because you the players are on it.

Woobifying the Sabbat and apologising for the Camarilla makes the real default protagonists of V1 - the Anarchs - even more toothless than they already are, burdened by their writers' failure to imagine a way out of the status quo (not blaming them for that, progressive politics are hard and it's only a bloody game, innit?). And as the game drifted more and more into Camarilla-as-default-vs-Sabbat-the-Anarchs-are-also-there... I don't know where I'm going with this, I was just confronted by the monstrosity of the Camarilla before I'd even had a cup of tea this morning and it's great horror but don't ever tell me they're the good ones. Don't you dare.

the benefits of dating a shapeshifting vampire i wanted to do some classy portrait style art for them but this invaded my brain don't know if i want theses two to officially start dating but its tempting, also yes Sabrian is talented enough in vicissitude to pull stuff like this