JulyViolet - High Elf Monk (Patreon)

A while ago, after doing the Try Guys Dungeons and Dragons art  pieces with JulyViolet, I decided that I wanted to do another Dungeons  and Dragons character.  So, I asked JulyViolet to draw up a High Elf  Monk character.

This character is  something I'm doing for whatever DnD campaign I get into.  The story  behind this character is that you have an elf who was born into elf  society but didn't want to assimilate into it.  He saw Elf society as  elitist and pompous.  And so, he started to act "not like an elf" and  this caused him to be sent to live in a monastery.  While living at this  monastery, he learned the ways of martial arts, the Way of the Open  Palm, but living among the monks he started to indulge in some of very  "non-elvish vices", namely heavy drinking and chasing sex.  The breaking  point of which is when he was caught in bed with the mayor of a local  town along with his wife.  And so he was expelled from the order and  even though he was asked to return home to his family, he defied this  and decided to "wander the earth", move from place to place, help  people, get into adventures, sample booze and the women.  And so this  High Elf Monk I created is a mixture of Tyrion Lannister and Iron Fist;  he drinks and knows Kung Fu.

When JulyViolet finished  this piece, I knew that I had my work cut out for me, and I rose to the  challenge of coloring this one.  Coloring the face and such, I did  wonder if I was doing right as far as the skin tones and the color of  the lips.  When I got to the robes, I wanted to go with my go-to colors  of black, white, and green.  But then came the background.  At first, I  was thinking of doing it in a similar town with what I did with the Try  Guys DnD but to be a little more fitting for the character, I decided to  have it done in a dojo type of setting.

Something  else I wanted to do for the background is that I wanted an art piece in  the background in calligraphy, much like what is done in most dojos.   However, since he is a high elf, I wanted there to be something more  Elvish.  I wanted to have the phrase, "you are already dead" written in  Elvish script in there, but I couldn't get that done.  So, I went  searching for something else.  And that's when I came across Vanyanie and this vector piece they did: https://www.deviantart.com/vanyanie/art/One-Ring-Inscription-Circle-Vector-706496705

So I used that and put it into the background.

Head on over to YouTube to see the video progress of it. 

thank you, JulyViolet, for the work that you did with this.

(sarcasm) Thank you, Patreon, for not allowing me to post any actual artwork here.