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Published: 2018-03-05 07:38:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 16292; Favourites: 118; Downloads: 110
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Rapturous Novitiate (5E)Copic marker and colored pencil over digital background
© Fantastic Gallery
2018
In 2017, I held a contest on the Sisters of Rapture dA group (there's a link at the right of this page) wherein I promised that one lucky winner would see his or her Sister of Rapture character appear in an illustration in the upcoming Sisters of Rapture 5E Edition RPG book from Fantastic Gallery. I got four entries and they were all so good that I decided to use all of them. While all four may appear in other illustrations, I've decided to use three of them as representations of the generic SRP (that's the new abbreviation for the class since "SOR" is for sorcerers) stat blocks that appear at the end of the book: the Rapturous Novitiate (low-level), the Honored Sister (mid-level) and the Rapturous Veteran (high-level). This is the first one I've done, the Novitiate. The character was designed by barbarossarotbart.
I'll be sharing the other two as they are completed. These will be the only pieces I'll be sharing prior to the book's publication.
The contest entry:
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EDIT: Due to comments from Barbarossa and others, below, I've made some changes to this image: I altered her nose and mouth, added eyebrows, and recolored her skin so that she better resembles the initial design. In other words, I made her more human in attempt to make her more attractive. As a physical drawing, I can only make these changes digitally without completely redrawing the piece, which I have neither the time nor interest in doing, and my digital skills are limited. I hope these changes make her more worthy of the Sisters of Rapture.
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I think it's a very cool image! Off course I missed the original... ...I read some of the comments about it though and I do get some of what people say. She has a very intense look in her eyes and the make-up adds to it. She looks like she might devour you whole, which some can see as scary. Not a submissive one this is... ...giving in to passion she will...
She's clearly not entirely human, but does she need to be in a fantasy setting? I don't think so.
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That's much better. She now looks like I imagined her.
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You mean her expression? She's not supposed to be particularly scary. Well, unless you're a woman-hating asshole. Half-orcs do have a certain amount of brutishness to them, which can translate as somewhat intimidating, I suppose.
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I'm dodging her 'if looks could kill' eyes even as I type.
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I like her, but I have hoped that she would look more human than orcish, like Garona from the Warcraft movie. Or DiegoBastet 's Galatea .
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I'm not sure how she could be more human and still retain any half-orc traits. The only thing I changed was that I gave her skin a gray-green cast and a slightly different haircut (and shoes). Her skin, tusks, short nose, and brow-line are literally all that marks her as a half-orc. Her body is otherwise completely human as opposed to the heavy, hunched stature of a general half-orc.
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The shoes and scabbard are a nice addition that certainly add to the character.
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Thanks. I'm a big supporter of giving these characters shoes. Shoes are a must when running around outside... Just ask nudists. Even nudists wear shoes. These particular shoes are based on the ones worn by ancient Egyptian soldiers, although I can't tell you from what era (the Egyptian Empire spanned centuries, after all). And she needs somewhere to store her sword. I usually add a pouch for spell components, too, but since this isn't my character, I didn't want to go too far with the additions.
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The only dnd characters that will not wear shoes are hobbits. Any sensible person going outdoors beyond his own back yard will wear shoes. Yes even nudists, they are idealistic not stupid.
The sandals look Egyptian, I think they are from the later days, so sorta Greek, but I'm not sure either.
There is something about female warriors with empty scabbards...
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"Halflings." "Hobbit" is copyrighted. 
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And that was more or less a reinterpretation of the Edda / the ring of the nibulung. Tolkien greatly expanded on these works, and the addition of the hobbit as the represenative of the English commoner was quite brilliant.
But yes, I'm very happy halflings once more look like halflings, and not those wolfrider elfquest elves.
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You could have given her a more beautiful face. She should be so beautiful that it is speculated that she may have some elven or nymph ancestry on her human side.
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You made her a half-orc, dude. Half-orcs are traditionally pretty ugly creatures by human standards. I thought I was doing pretty good to make her as attractive as I did.
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You are right. Most half-orcs are quite ugly. But they are not always ugly. See Garona in the Warcraft movie, or many female half-orcs in Pathfinder. And I remember that in one old Forgotten Realms novel (I think it was "Pool of Radiance") a female half-orc background character was described as being beautiful without this pig-like orcish nose she has. That was the time when orcs in D&D looked like walking green pigs. Today the deprecating factor would be her tusks and not her nose.
I've decided to make her half-orcish because it is something exotic and I've hoped that you would ignore tradition again (see SoR p.21) and make her beautiful. And that's the reason I've written in her stats that she may have elven or nymph ancestry on her human side.
BTW I have also the idea of a complete tribe of half-nymph orcs...
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I wasn't trying to make her ugly. Quite the opposite. If you find her ugly, then I failed.
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I think the heavy brow is what really does it. Orc-y, yes, but also fugly. She definitely looks like she picked CHA as her dump stat. There are ways to make an orc look like an orc without it. Like this, for example:
Scary and orc-y, but not altogether unattractive.
I'd revisit this one before publication if I were you. But it's your call in the end I suppose.
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It's physical media and drawn fairly small, so there's only so much I can do with it, digitally. I don't have the time or inclination to completely redraw it. And her brow isn't that heavy. She's just missing eyebrows. Some of this is stemming from a particular dislike I have for illustrators who treat nonhuman races as humans with funny ears. It's Star Trek Syndrome and it bugs me to no end. I prefer nonhumans that look like nonhumans, and sometimes that approach tends to make them look less attractive. It's a fine line. Still, I've tried to correct the mistakes on this one. If more than one of you finds her to be unattractive, then that's something that needs to be addressed. The Rapturous are, after all, supposed to be exceptional.
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The eyebrows certainly make for an improvement. Glad you took the time.
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I'm sorry but some how her face reminds me of a goblin or gremlin and not of a half-orc. It's too inhuman and somehow wrong.
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