About the Artist
character design and illustration
queer | they/them | 21+
Crow is a self-directed artist with a tendency toward fantasy and love of character design. They've been drawing and creating head-worlds since forever and has milder interests in all sorts of stuff.Having never made the childhood dream of art school, Crow still does art as a hobby more than anything else. Especially since they nearly gave it up during college and only started working on it again in 2019 thanks to the support of their closest friends.Focusing on personal projects for the most part, Crow also does Illustrations and Character Design for their significant other's endeavor, making TTRPG content as The Homebakery.
Projects
Ideally, I'd like to be able to link you to information about the projects here. If there aren't any links, it's because I either don't have enough content I consider shareable or because I haven't yet figured out the best way to publish it in a shareable format. So those links will be forthcoming for indeterminate periods of time.
As someone who's always loved making up characters to draw, I have a lot. Plenty have been retired over the years, but playing DnD makes it easier for them to stick. I'll list more specific Big Projects here with links, but if you want more of an overview you can check out my refsheet page (which is severely in need of content) and my writing blog (which is also, a bit, under construction). I'll link my portfolio gallery as soon as I figure out which site I'm sticking to for it.
Badge Raffles:
In support of the Homebakery, which is entirely the project of my significant other, Fruits, I am running a raffle for every Badge their projects recieve on DMs Guild.To be entirely clear, because the reiteration is always worth it: The Homebakery is an effort run entirely by fruits. The Raffles were my idea, and I run them independently to try to help support, and celebrate the earning of Badges. My Illustration and Character work for HB Projects is separate. We're not business partners, I'm just supporting my partner.
Alaryk:
In 2019 I was introduced to a group of friends and we started a Roleplay Campaign based in the Neverwinter Videogame. This is what I originally made Alaryk for and he very quickly became my absolute favorite original character.I'd love to do a Visual Design and Exploration of his backstory, the place where he grew up, his parents and people he knew. I've thought about it a lot over the past years, and while I have very strong visual ideas I'm not in the place to fully throw myself at yet. But someday soon I hope! I have also been slowly picking at writing his full backstory out. I've had ideas over the past four years...He also ends up getting shoved into whatever idea my brain latches onto. An AU based on that show, movie, or videogame? Yes. A random concept I came up with driving to work? Lets see what happens. He's also my FFXIV Alt.
FFXIV:
Speaking of FFXIV: My main is an Ishgardian Elezen named Elfax. True to form I allowed the lore of Eorzea to take hold of my brainspace for a while, and I've built up a Surprising Number of Original Characters for the game. Elfax is the only one I play, but he needed a backstory, which included friends, family, and acquaintances.I'm currently on Malboro on a Free Trial Account, but once I'm done with Heavensward and I activate my key, I'll probably try to move to Balmung to cautiously participate in the RP scene.I've also been writing for him, and may start other projects about him. I love this character a lot.
TTRPG Setting - Relanor:
Very, very slowly, I have been writing lore and information for a TTRPG setting called Relanor. Originally meant for DnD5e, I'm starting to consider Pathfinder more closely. We'll see. Unfortunately I don't have an awful lot to share yet...
Personal Writing:
In terms of Personal Writing Projects I have two:The first is a pet headworld about a city with two sides, the Utopian Solarpunk upper district, and the more Dystopian Cyberpunk lower district. Of course, nothing in the utopia is as it seems, and we follow Julian's discovery of the lies he's been living as a result of meeting Cipher, an undercity resident. The City is yet unnamed, as are the two districts. If you're thinking about Piltover/Zuan from Arcane or about the floating city and the surface settlement in the Astroboy movie, you're on the right track.The second is an older project, but is much less developed. I kind of overextended what I could do with the general knowledge I have, so I am reworking the entire premise to stick closer to what I'm used to. I will still be taking the opportunity to broaden those horizons though. Previously referred to as "Blood Price" it follows mostly a blood mage named Silas. An orphan who showed early and prestigious ability with magic. All the magic in this setting is blood magic, and I think how strongly a mage can command magic has something to do with their bloodline.
Visual Design Project Relni:
This is a fun one. I've fallen in love with a friend's homebrew setting in what is currently a DnD5e Campaign that she runs. We've been playing for some time and the world is fun and interesting. I have already offered to spruce up the maps to make them pretty and more readable, but getting ahead of myself has always been one of my special abilities, and I dream of drawing coins, stamps, wax seals, and other assorted objects for Relni as well.
Terms of Use
I put my work online for free enjoyment. I am just a hobbyist doing art because they like to do art. I expect to be treated with respect and dignity as a human being. This includes the following: