Wonderful drawings!

I laughed at Eolon in his new Nordic bath towel. Jo makes such a good jester. Hates is simply adorable!

Here are some Skyrim things.

My Dragonborn, Aza-jo. In a blanket. It was winter, okay?
In some ways, he is very much Khajiit. There's a story to this, it involves a house mod with a fun easter egg hunt. The easter egg hunt was the only fun part, as the house and the forced backstory kills all of it not to mention the author is a do-, so Aza-jo took advantage of being mistaken for the owners' childhood friend and robbed the owners blind.

His pet human, Alois. Main non-Dragonborn. I drew this recently for the sake of shitposting. :V
Much like this one!


Alois got a blanket drawing, too.

Though I make fun of it a lot, I honestly liked Skyrim if only for experiencing these two. (And a few other things more fit for a Skyrim thread to talk about)

Let's finish this off with what is probably my earliest Skyrim doodles, based on first imperssions. Featuring Mirabelle Ervine, Esbern, Paarthunax, Onmund, and my main Oblivion character+second non-Dragonborn character.
First time I drew in a long time and i'm glad it's all I've done since:'D (I really am)

I was gonna do an Oblivion post but I realized I don't have much Oblivion stuff, or rather it'll be tricky to post without a wall o text explaining the context. :V

So here's more Skyrim

An alternate group shot of my Skyrim cast (vulgar hand sign warning, am I allowed to post this? I can quickly edit it if not)

Just practice. Also at the time it was the first time in years that I had drawn Alois...triplet? (she was born at the same time as Alois and his twin I guess) Genevieve. She's the arch mage and just plain done with most things.
She's probably homeless. At least until I made her a house.
She is unimpressed by most things. (I drew this when I was playing the Romance Mod. During a very long, very boring dialogue sequence I believe.)

Tyrellius, Nibenese fire mage and Hjaalmarch's very own swamp witch. He anger.
Slightly younger Tyrellius. Back when he still had (very flammable) hair and lived in Blackwood. The difference in eye color is just active, alchemically-induced Night Eye.
He Garden

Painting of Deleras, Bosmer smith, using a screenshot as reference. I mostly did it to practice coloring by painting in grayscale first but I never finished. Can't remember the last time I worked on this but it's definitely over a year or two. (I think I started it in 2014? ??? ???? Geeze.)

Yo.

So as of this writing I mostly hang out in the ESO section of the forum as it's the game I'm focused on, but over the holy crap years that I've been playing TES I've scribbled a few drawings of my characters and for the longest time it was the only way I shared anything about them--and as an aside the only reason I picked up a pen.
One time I tried actually writing down a story, but i never finished and it's on an indefinite hold unless i start over from the beginning lol.

Anyways, after just posting links in the Today in Tamriel thread I decided it was better to start a place where these things would be organized.

I mentioned that I have artwork from other games (a huge collection I'll link to from time to time I guess) so it won't be all ESO stuff, but any new things will most likely be ESO-related.

With that out of the way, have some content. (Might edit for formatting later)

The primary subjects of my sketches. For those that don't know them, from left to right:

Jo'zira - He's Jo'zira. He looks like a Khajiit most of the time. Something about gardens and memories.
Hates-White-Rats (sometimes Xochitl) - It's the Vestige. Nominally a hero, definitely a Hero.
Eolan - It's that guy. Cube Dad. He used to hide his face for no good reason. Bretons are weird sometimes.





I have Skyrim characters, too! They're a...different story. For another time. Feel free to look at them, though.




Also Oblivion? ??? This is my last group shot, I swear.







Anyways, I wanted to open this with something a little more..special, but I don't really have much time and/or energy to get it going so it'll have to wait. Till then, more reposts of old doodles incoming.

Have some links, because the images are huge.

Hates-White-Rats during the Witches Festival Farming for those skulls by means of murder while wearing a costume? Best holiday for her.

The New Life Festival later that year:
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Eolan had fun, though it took a little encouragement. Some people were rude to him, though.

The Jester's Festival:
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Bonus 1
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At least someone enjoyed it.

Oh geeze, didn't know any follow up posts merged with the OP. Nice

Here are some Skyrim things.

My Dragonborn, Aza-jo. In a blanket. It was winter, okay?
In some ways, he is very much Khajiit. There's a story to this, it involves a house mod with a fun easter egg hunt. The easter egg hunt was the only fun part, as the house and the forced backstory kills all of it not to mention the author is a do-, so Aza-jo took advantage of being mistaken for the owners' childhood friend and robbed the owners blind.

His pet human, Alois. Main non-Dragonborn. I drew this recently for the sake of shitposting. :V
Much like this one!


Alois got a blanket drawing, too.

Though I make fun of it a lot, I honestly liked Skyrim if only for experiencing these two. (And a few other things more fit for a Skyrim thread to talk about)

Let's finish this off with what is probably my earliest Skyrim doodles, based on first imperssions. Featuring Mirabelle Ervine, Esbern, Paarthunax, Onmund, and my main Oblivion character+second non-Dragonborn character.
First time I drew in a long time and i'm glad it's all I've done since:'D (I really am)

I was gonna do an Oblivion post but I realized I don't have much Oblivion stuff, or rather it'll be tricky to post without a wall o text explaining the context. :V

So here's more Skyrim

An alternate group shot of my Skyrim cast (vulgar hand sign warning, am I allowed to post this? I can quickly edit it if not)

Just practice. Also at the time it was the first time in years that I had drawn Alois...triplet? (she was born at the same time as Alois and his twin I guess) Genevieve. She's the arch mage and just plain done with most things.
She's probably homeless. At least until I made her a house.
She is unimpressed by most things. (I drew this when I was playing the Romance Mod. During a very long, very boring dialogue sequence I believe.)

Tyrellius, Nibenese fire mage and Hjaalmarch's very own swamp witch. He anger.
Slightly younger Tyrellius. Back when he still had (very flammable) hair and lived in Blackwood. The difference in eye color is just active, alchemically-induced Night Eye.
He Garden

Painting of Deleras, Bosmer smith, using a screenshot as reference. I mostly did it to practice coloring by painting in grayscale first but I never finished. Can't remember the last time I worked on this but it's definitely over a year or two. (I think I started it in 2014? ??? ???? Geeze.)

I'm surprised the one you drew during the long dialogue sequence of "The Romance Mod" didn't have your character throwing himself on his sword, lol. Of course, I only heard the preliminary version of that mod from when the author was begging for funding to make it (on Kickstarter, about the time of the Paid Mods fiasco) = that one had horrible voice acting and even worse dialogue in long drawn out scenes obviously written by a female addicted to soap operas. So the version that is out now is hopefully better than that; (From what I heard on YouTube just now regarding that mod, they have improved the voice acting a lot - but still have long drawn out dialogue scenes) - so I would def say it is better than it was; though from your comments and character's facial expression in that drawing ... maybe not!

Good god. Okay, so.

The version of the Romance Mod that I played through with Genevieve (pictured above) was actually one of the earlier ones. I played it so I could see just how far the rabbit hole goes, so I pretty much ignored the "look at this through the lens of a romance novel." But you know what? Even looking back at it that way, the version of the mod that I played was still very, very creepy.

The only love interest was an unlikeable asshole that only got worse. He got rapey, possessive, and honestly, I can't understand how anyone would play this thinking "oh, but deep down he's actually a good guy" and continue "believing in him" and "fixing" him. Especially considering he's ripped off from an evil Neverwinter mod or something?

Aside from the scene I drew the thing up there for (bandits having dialogue with Bishop when honestly they'd be immediately destroyed. Genevieve does not play around.) the entire sequence was just goddamn irritating. What's that? The encounter left you with questions about these assholes and their relation to your forced love interest? Too bad, your only response is "Do you want to dominate me like they wanted? "

THEN there was the encounters with the two Genevieve actually showed passing interest in. The Mage, being hte only one that has anything in common with her? Bishop beats him up because... ???? No further interactions with him available.

The Knight dude? Bishop goes on a spiel about how his White Knight tendencies are bad and he's repressing himself and bla bla bla some of the highlights include.



I dunno. I made fun of this mod a long time ago, but I tried the more recent version and it's better written. Bishop is more likable from the start and the PC's responses aren't so coquette from the start, but I didn't really play again.


ANYWAYS, thanks for the comments.

It was fun to heckle, at tho! I don't do it as often anymore, but I DID play through Beyond Reach and I hated the mod. Can't really come up with art for it tho.

Anyways, have some Oblivion stuff!

A recent character. I think his name was Estarmo? ??? I had an itch for Oblivion and decided to make a quick, throwaway character with little RP.

Anyway, I had some issues with character textures so at first his body was oddly discolored. He was also primarily a warrior character and because he was an Altmer his strength was atrocious, so I thought, hey, what if that's just the game's way of showing how far he needs to go! The one on the right is his ~final form~ once his strength and endurance reached max and the texture bug was fixed. I couldn't actually get facial hair in-game but welp. I still have his save tucked away somewhere so maybe his adventures will continue in the future.


That aside, have some of my "official" Oblivion characters.

It's Elise! My Champion of Cyrodiil and one half of Sheogorath. (Dementia side). At least until the cosmic retcon. It's a long story. :V
I had some issues with face mods. But IMO it's better to have them than not. OCO v2 leaves a lot to be desired (Redguards too light-skinned, lips too sharp and small, I guess it's due to using a common base, and also a lot of NPC's didn't make the transition well, like Martin) but it DOES make Oblivion characters' faces match the rest of the franchise's.
She is A Good Girl, but Hermaeus Mora's quest really tried her. It was surprisingly hard to find a hostile Orc to soultrap in this playthrough.


Her "cousin" Yannick! Turns out he's actually her half-brother but welp. Arch-Mage and eventually the Mania side of Sheogorath, until things happened.
He is not very formidable. But he tries his best!
He is a Master Athlete and Acrobat. Pretty good at Hand-to-Hand fighting, too, and in the right situation, combined with magic, he CAN be pretty deadly. Just not as much as his lady cohorts.
Also an Alchemist. His theme is "destruction and reconstruction to make something new". Sometimes, depending on mod loads, he has bombs!

Aside from what's in the OP, I have no artwork of Guadalupe (formerly Aemelia), Redguard Templar. Mostly cause any attempts to play her end up breaking badly. idk She is mom.

To finish off my stack of Oblivion art, here's a comic I drew for that Integration: The Stranded Light mod. For context, there was an actual quest where you had to deliver advertisements for the Stranded Light organization to EVERY SINGLE INNKEEPER IN CYRODIIL. Well, most of them, anyways.
I did the quest in the middle of the Main Quest, when the Mythic Dawn sleeper agents start attacking.
It's not fine.
It includes the Shivering Isles btw.

So what's one to do? Use the console to complete the quest give it to Yannick to deliver while on his rounds! Never mind that Cyrodiil the largest province in Tamriel. I hate quest mods sometimes, but then vanilla treats going to the other side of the province as if it were a walk to the other side of town, too, including Skyrim.

Anyways, deadlines were met and I get to work on the ESO Anniversary thing again. I'd say I'm about...40% done. Oh.

I think for those in particular I had the benefit of feeling the emotion first-hand, sort of like the ESO comics I made recently. Virtually every drawing i did for Oblivion was to illustrate my thoughts on the mods I was currently playing, so I guess I had that going for me. That aside, thanks for the kind words!

Oh, and I use Better Cities. Since it's an amalgamation of a bunch of city mods made by different mod creators, the quality is just as diverse. Some of the NPC's are best avoided, especially considering that for a lot of them, "immersion" wasn't the goal.

Actually, most of Yannick's drawings happened BECAUSE of that mod (the quest chain in Better Bravil, can't remember the actual name, though). The NPC's are obnoxious but the questline was okay-ish. (His "tries his best" face came from trying to understand what one of them was saying) Also starting it is one of the absolute stupidest ways but I'm past caring about that. :V Just ignore everything but the pretty new architecture.

Have a preview of the thing i'm working on

I drew my Nerevarine once. Circa 4E 201. 200 years of existing have left him Very Tired and Very Confused about what's going on in Solstheim and why it doesn't match up to his memories of what went down. Maybe his memories are incorrect? Maybe they aren't his own? Who knows? Who cares? Beth certainly doesn't.

Heh, he's a bit too clean cut for a Nord. Imperial or Breton?

Breton. Had him wear the Skaal armor for nostalgia's sake (took a few artistic liberties with it though). As much as I hate the spiked helmet, it was a great set.

(I realized I never gave his name, either. It's Piers, but idk if he'll be featured more here.)

For those wondering, yeah, it's the Squad; Hates-White-Rats, Jo'zira and Eolan.

Anyways, thanks for the kind words everyone.

One thing for today, because I forgot to do it earlier.

I drew my Nerevarine once. Circa 4E 201. 200 years of existing have left him Very Tired and Very Confused about what's going on in Solstheim and why it doesn't match up to his memories of what went down. Maybe his memories are incorrect? Maybe they aren't his own? Who knows? Who cares? Beth certainly doesn't.

So do you do all of these from memory or do you use screenies to go by?

Depends. Most of the time I go from memory, because sometimes the in-game avatar tends to be different than the mental image (particularly Yannick from Oblivion, though it's as close as I could get him). It's much more doable when doing the dumb, low-effort ones, but for the more detailed work and anything involving in-game armor and clothes and such, I turn to references after a while of struggling. Especially in ESO where the armor is more intricate. :T

Sometimes I think I prefer Eolan in armor than out of it. Which is annoying because drawing armor is hard. :V

Haha, his actions killed a lot of people. Thanks, Azura!

Anyways, lately I've been feeling really dead in the evenings so I'll try to be coherent tonight. here is some miscellaneous garbage.

A dumb little comic for Skyrim. This is really old, but I'm replaying Alois again, btw. :V

Turns out I've drawn my Nerevarine before? I still hung out in Deviantart when Skyrim came out (but I left shortly after) and there was a long little "draw your characters based on topics" thing for Skyrim. I think this was "Draw your Dragonborn meeting your Champion of Cyrodiil/Nerevarine/etc. So I drew my Dragonborn Aza-jo with my Champion of Cyrodiil and my main non-Dragonborn with my Nerevarine. I lost the full thing when my laptop died.

More of the Big 3I've played Daggerfall and Arena but i never draw those Heroes. Actually, they were supposed to be part of this. :U

The ESO Squad

Eolan and his pet cat Winceslaus

Another Eolan.

And another one.

A Preview for the ESO Thing Again. Every time I think I'm almost done I I get a harsh reminder that there's still a lot more to do. I am really out of practice and of course I choose this project to play with lighting. (Finished piece may or may not be radically different) I don;'t konw what i'm doing anymore help

Brotons!

Gosh, these all look so good - and quite humorous.

Eolan looks so cool in his full plate and closed helm.

Depends. Most of the time I go from memory, because sometimes the in-game avatar tends to be different than the mental image (particularly Yannick from Oblivion, though it's as close as I could get him). It's much more doable when doing the dumb, low-effort ones, but for the more detailed work and anything involving in-game armor and clothes and such, I turn to references after a while of struggling. Especially in ESO where the armor is more intricate. :T

Sometimes I think I prefer Eolan in armor than out of it. Which is annoying because drawing armor is hard. :V

I was thinking of following it up with an "abstract anime" (read: wordless comic) version of their adventures in Alliance lands and Coldharbour but I reckon I'll be done with the main quest in 10 years if I did. Maybe some highlights from their adventures.