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Dungeons and Dragons: MonHan

Full disclosure: I did not do the background. I got a royalty free image of some outdoor cafe and then hit artify on CSP. This was meant to be a photo on the player character's phone used as the profile picture for their mentor, but I never ended up finishing the phone in question. I used a Google Sites page to mimic the feel of a phone with a bunch of apps since I didn't feel like doing a bunch of HTML at the time and also it was free. I was only going to run this campaign with one player, so it felt like a worthwhile time investment. I might finish it eventually. I still have my notes on the campaign, but admittedly at least half of them are incomprehensible to present day me. Anyways, this is a hagfish themed Simic hybrid that runs the monster hunter guild, and the guild was focused on ecologically healthy pest control. Tasks would include removing rust monsters from construction sites and relocating wolves away from pastures and whatnot, not necessarily just "murder big monster." I like thinking about how environmental science works in a world where humanoids aren't the top predators. Meremoth has a water tank under his clothes hooked to where his gills are so he can breathe on land. Hagfish skin is loose and baggy so when a predator nabs them they have a better chance of not damaging anything important, and I tried carrying that over to Meremoth. There are several problems I have with this picture, though. For one, I didn't texture the cloth very well. It looks sleek and shiny when it should look closer to cotton and wool. Second, that cup is way too fucking big. What the hell past me? Third, why did I make the lineart slightly translucent instead of just coloring it? I can't even be proud of how I textured the skin because the terrible lineart is so distracting for me. I also think the background could've benefitted from being hit with the blur tool or something. It looks all pixely. If I don't look too closely at it, though, I like it. I admit that I put it in the DnD section instead of the archive section purely because I like this guy's design.
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