Character Portrait: The Flirtatious Barmaid

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A bit of background on this drawing:

This young lady is a minor character in the first chapter of Live By The Sword, our newly started comic.She's already made a background appearance in the first panel of the first page. This particular drawing of her is a cleaned up version of her character concept sketch that I'll be using in an upcoming set of paper miniatures.

About the character:

Cassandra is one of the more popular young barmaids at the Green Dragon, a small tavern near the docks. Her friendly demeanour and innocently pretty face get her a lot of attention and affection, and are certainly among the chief reasons that the Green Dragon is never short on customers.  She's not just a pretty face though, and she's not nearly as angelic as her virtuous smile suggests. She's cunning, educated and smart; and indeed, when she first realised that the boys found her attractive while growing up she thought to herself "I can use this to my advantage!" and she's never failed to do just that. Apart from all the coin she's garnered from overly-generous young sailors eager to please her, working at a dockside tavern puts her in a good position to gather a wealth of information, with so many travellers from so many lands passing through its doors. She realised early on that that kind of knowledge was very valuable to certain interested parties, and makes a very tidy profit on the side by selling it.

Kev's Lounge Friday Character Portraits is a weekly feature on this blog where I take a bit of art that I've created somewhere along the line for some or other purpose and present it along with a little bit of back story for you to use as in role playing games as hand-outs, or as inspiration for characters or NPCs.  Here are some more in the series:
1. Town's Guard Captain
2. Female Rogue
3. Arch-Wizard
4. Pit Fighter 
5. Skeleton Pirate 
6. Serpent Cult Assassin
7. The Gambler 
8. Flaming Skeleton

No character portrait next friday... Instead you get the second page of Live By The Sword, there will be another the week after however.

Before you go, have a look at some of the paper minis we've already released!

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Comic! Live By The Sword: Chapter 1, Page 1

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As promised, the first page of Live By The Sword. I won't go into too much detail about my plans for the story just yet, though I did give a little more information on Joe, our main character for this chaper, last week.

Regrettably, I'm going to be a little slow with adding new pages at first, as I do have quite a few other commitments at the moment. Page 2 will be up in 3 weeks time, on the Friday, 25th of January, with more character portraits and other regular Kev's Lounge stuff  in the interrim I do plan to shorten the release gap down to two weeks, and then down to one, in the future. I also plan to set up a better home for the comic once I have a few pages done with better navigation and a nicer user experience than blogger can offer.

Artwork and Characters © 2013 Kevin Richard John Berry

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Character Portrait: The Gambler

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A bit of background on this drawing:

This one is actually from a comic that I've been working on in my spare time over the last year or so, and you may have seen the scan of the pencil artwork before.

About the character:

This is Joaquin Carlos Villa-Lobos Sabara, but he is more commonly known as "Joker" or simply "Joe". He's a man of many diverse talents, ranging from pickpocketing to sweet talking, and he's even picked up a few tricks from the various schools of magic... He could have been a useful member of society in any of a hundred different ways, but being the lazy scoundrel he is, he's made a career for himself as a card cheat. Joe drifts from seedy bar to seedy bar, gambling and hustling and living a pretty good lifestyle off of his ill-gotten winnings and then moving on to the next town quickly before his reputation for winning can catch up to him and make his life tricky.

His persona's a little bit Inigo Montoya, a little bit Ramirez, and a little bit Antonio Banderas. I always did kinda picture him sounding a lot like Puss In Boots from the Shrek Movies!

The Kev's Lounge Friday Character Portraits is a weekly feature on this blog where I take a bit of art that I've created somewhere along the line for some or other purpose and present it along with a little bit of back story for you to use as in role playing games as hand-outs, or as inspiration for characters or NPCs.  Here are some more in the series:
1. Town's Guard Captain
2. Female Rogue
3. Arch-Wizard
4. Pit Fighter 
5. Skeleton Pirate 
6. Serpent Cult Assassin
8. Flaming Skeleton
9. The Flirtatious Barmaid  

No character portrait next friday... Instead you get the first page of Live By The Sword, the comic I mentioned earlier!

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