Here we go again! I wasn’t happy with Firestorm at all, yesterday, so I tried again using some different methods. I based this one more directly off the sketch I made during Keyboard Lit class (March 14). Casual dress this time! And, casual Northern dress, because Griffonlanders almost always wear white robes, not shirts with buttons. : P He must be visiting. Anyway, no fur this time, but the rest of him is much better. The feathers in the background are supposed to be as if from Sunspot’s wings. But the purple is just there for contrast… no purple on Sunspot!

The Wacom tablet is the greatest creation for the computer EVER.

Heeheehee, I just played Guild Wars with Zeb and Tai. It’s like meeting celebrities! XD Anyway, we played through lots of missions, starting with the one my brother and I were stuck on. We saw a dragon! It’s very cool to play with people who are not in the same room. : ) So we are a little closer to the end of the game.

Commander Firestorm, the General of the Griffonland and first of Queen Yoia’s Griffon Knights. Not pictured: his buddy Sunspot. Firestorm is simultaneously wild-hearted and cool and collected, making him an ideal choice to keep the Griffon Knights in hand and ready to be unleashed. He (obviously) likes putting things in his hair, but doesn’t worry too much about his appearance otherwise, as long as he is sharp and ready for anything. He fusses more over Sunspot, making sure his griffon buddy is well groomed and fed, and making him wear crazy headdresses in festivals, which Sunspot entirely enjoys.

Well… I’m not really happy with this picture. About all I am happy with is the feathers and the fur. For the fur… this great tutorial helped me out a lot. It’s kind of like drawing flowers! Except then you make them hairy! …That sounded really weird. Anyway. His hair started out promisingly but then it kind of turned into that. His braid should be looser. Maybe I shouldn’t have started with anime-style hair. Yeah. That would do it. Also I fussed over his eyes way more than eyes should be fussed over in a 400×400 quickpaint, and they still look weird. But they’re better than when I started… I started with them too small. : P