KalliopeBard

Hey! I'm Chris, an illustrator and 2D game artist from the UK. 👋

That pug, lol.

Hi there! Just launched this account here and looking for folks to follow, and to share my own art. Most of what I've been doing is PC and NPC art for D&D and TTRPGs.

A PC from my table's first campaign (Curse of Strahd) turned into an NPC for the current sequel campaign I'm running (Death to Strahd).

Dhampir NPC

Flat color test.

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

Aw come on, Hope is only a little NSFW in this. The sketch is just the figure, not the finished nipples. >:/

Sketches for Hope Heart and Tania Ravensong from "A Full Moon Over Silverplume." #yuri #doomedlesbians #OCart

Follow me over on Ao3 for more gothic fantasy and yuri adventures —  archiveofourown.org/users/kallio...

✏️✏️ NEW YURI FANTASY SHORT ✏️✏️

"A Full Moon Over Silverplume" —  The moon rises over Silverplume Pass as optimistic Hope Heart and byronic Tania Ravensong share their history, and a surprise connection, while trapped in a realm of gothic horror.

Ao3 Link — archiveofourown.org/works/78117301

Surely unrelated, but did you all notice that Hogwarts only allows humans? Actually, all of Britain apparently, only lets humans use wands?

So, anyways, I had a fun idea for an human-supremacist school that...

Who needs AI for concept art?

Embrace the tradition of crudely bashing images together with a 100% opacity brush to fill in areas until the silhouette looks right.

I needed five evil wizard "houses" from a evil "wizard school" for my campaign. Not based on any human-only schools, no sir.

Some of the concept art for my upcoming "Death to Strahd" campaign is simply crudely 'shopped images made to communicate a silhouette of a character or creature, and the general vibe, quickly.

Apologies to the various original artists of the art I cut up to make these.

#conceptart #D&D #oc

A lot of what goes into the concept art phase needs to be unhinged, and a little fucked up, in a whimsical human way. Outside, or even arbitrary, limitations can inspire creative solutions and exciting new ideas

a vest of 100 tiny pockets sounds like a delightfully useful magic item

Oh sure, this gets flagged for adult content?

These sketches are for an upcoming short character study in which a warlock and paladin come across a hot springs while on the run from a vampire tyrant. It's a little risque but PG-13.

Little scenes like this help me establish who these characters are and helps me build out their story together.

Hope + Tania Interaction Sketches - Click to view on Ko-fi Follow KalliopeBard on Ko-fi

I posted some sequential sketches on my Ko-fi.
ko-fi.com/i/IH2H81RQJYI

A printable I created for my campaign.

Amazing what a little hue-shift and photoshop can do to make the castle look, lets say, "more in-line with Mystra's tennants."

The painting itself is from WoC. I could not find the original painter's name. If anyone knows, I'll link them.

Seems like a nice place. What could go wrong?

Yeeeaahh...Sorry about everything going on in the world. It's my fault. I was writing my D&D campaign in this notebook I found on the street. Turns out it's connected to a reaper of death. My bad.

Bear with me as I figure out the best way to post this sort of illustration and comments. This character is Jenni DuMedu, an NPC mage from my upcoming heavily anti fascist-themed D&D 5e story book.

Heartsong Mage
#TTRPG #oc

An illustration of Masala, the Mad Teshran — An NPC in an upcoming campaign by KalliopeBard (PotluckSoup's SFW art account.) Image shows a bard with big curly undercut hair, short tiefling horns, large round glasses, a punk battle jacket and magical guitar. The words "KalliopeBard — Writing and Illustration" line the bottom of the image. These words seem to imply that you should go follow the account at kalliopebard.bsky.social

New Years goal #1! ✔️

I've launched my SFW bsky account. I'll be focusing more on posting kink on PotluckSoup while KalliopeBard will be for SFW illustrations, stories, ttrpg supplies, and other goodies.

If you don't mind going over and following @kalliopebard.bsky.social, it'll help me a lot. ❤️

*strums guitar bardily*