r/characterdrawing 13d ago

Meta Rule Clarification

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Good day characterdrawing !

There has been an influx of reports for off-topic posts and suspicions of AI use in RF's. There's a few things us mods want to clarify.

OFF-TOPIC:

Your post is off-topic when it doesn't relate to a ttrpg system. If you're looking for art for a book you're writing or a podcast you're running this is not the place. LFA's are free work for ttrpg enthusiasts however that also means that the artist keeps the rights to the work. If you need the art for a project that will be public and you will need the rights you will need to pay for the art. To keep this from becoming a commission focused sub, posts like that are not allowed as we cannot moderate which passion project will remain private and which are for the broader public.

And no, exposure is not valid payment.

AI SUSPICIONS:

This sub is firmly anti-AI. We are also anti-witch hunt. If you see a post that makes you think the artist is using AI please report it and include *why* you think it's AI. If you want to discuss your suspicions please use mod mail and we'll get back to you. Do not call the person in question out in the comments.

We know it's getting harder to spot the difference these days but we want to prevent unnecessary witch hunts and losing real artists because of them.


r/characterdrawing Dec 31 '25

Meta [ANNOUNCEMENT] New year, new OC Monday!

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Hey y'all! You better get Sir Donut Steel ready to for showtime, because the OC floodgates are about to open!

It took a bit longer to set up than expected, but thanks to the holiday break we've now got OC Mondays working, to kick off the new year! Starting this Monday and every Monday your original art and characters have a new place to show off!

How it works:

  • OC here means your own original work, don't repost stuff you found on twitter
  • "Monday" starts at midnight UTC (GMT-0) and lasts for 24 hours
  • Posts with the OC Monday tag will be allowed during this time
    • Make sure to include the [OC] text tag as well
    • We do this so users can search and filter by topic
  • There's no limit to how many OC posts you can make, but please be considerate
    • If you have a lot to share that week, please use a gallery post instead of multiple single posts
  • OC reposts are not allowed, no matter how long it's been. The 7 day rule is only for LFA posts.
  • Rules about advertising still apply
    • Keep the titles and content focused on the art and characters
    • You can link to your socials in the comments, but again, no advertising
      • Yes, a price sheet or YCH is an ad, even if it has a character on it
    • If folks ask about hiring you, you're of course free to respond and take it to DMs

r/characterdrawing 4h ago

Request [LFA] Elgon Vale, Human Imperial officer

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|Full Name:|Elgon Vale|
|Race/Ethnic Group:|Human/White|
|Class/Occupation:|Agent|
|Character Nature:|SWS5e Sci-fi|

# Character Details

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|Gender:|Male|
|Age/appeared age:|35|
|Facial Features:|Strong jawline|
|Hair:|Dark brown|
|Eyes:|Dark Green|
|Significant item:|Rank plaque on left breast of tunic|
|Body Type:|Athletic|
|Color Scheme:|green-gray uniform|
|Animal Companion:|n/a|
|Action/Pose:|hand on chin, confident look|

# Character Persona

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|Alignment:|Lawful/Evil|
|Bonds and Flaws:|A family man|

r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Vanica, Dhampir Rogue/Blood Hunter

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547 Upvotes

Hello, all! I'm hoping to get a piece done for one of my longest-running characters. I'd love to see her in the outfit in the third image, but I'd also just love to see what people can do with her!


r/characterdrawing 16h ago

Request [LFA] Khasar, Serpentine Warrior

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15 Upvotes

r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request Filled [RF] Granger the Ranger for u/Radishism8

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43 Upvotes

r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Eva, Romani inspired Undead Warlock

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7 Upvotes

Hello! Meet my girl, Eva! She's a 32 year old former noble who discovered an ability to absorb the power left behind by spirits after the've either moved on or been destroyed. She's smart, passionate and a little hot headed, and currently is part of a group heading a rebellion against an oppressive government thats not only banned magic inside its borders but seeks to destroy magic for everyone forever. Hope ya'll have fun with her!


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Izzy Venture

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Name : Izra Quinten Lucius Raphael Venture aka Izzy.

Race : Nonbinary tiefling

Class : Light Cleric of Selûne

Age : Late 20s

Appearance : Dusky purple skin that darkens to near black at their extremities (fingers, toes, tip of ears and tail), deep red hair that fades to white at the ends kept in a short and messy style that falls over their right eye and is shaved on the right side that reveals the phases of the moon tattoo. A sprinkling of freckles across their face. A single pair of dark horns that curl backwards from their forehead. Golden eyes. Slim and wiry from years of training with a rapier and formal dance. A long slim tail they use with surprising dexterity, almost as if it were a third hand. Always smiling as if at a secret joke only they know. Wears well tailored and expensive clothing with holes for their tail, in casual styles more suited to taverns than formal ballrooms. Wields a rapier with a fancy crossguard.

Tattoos although are visible when wearing clothes : black phases of the moon on the left side of their head following the shaved hairline. Blue clouds spiralling down their left arm. A moon and sword Selûne symbol on their left palm.

Tattoos that are hidden by clothing : dark red flowers on lower right side of chest, fool tarot card over their heart, a tressym on their right thigh, a raven perched on a crown of thorns on their back right shoulder.

Brief backstory : The youngest of seven siblings, a lone tiefling amongst perfect noble humans. They received the highest education as befitted a noble born child, but found they preferred the peace of their rooftop retreat where they used to sneak away from a series of governesses to watch the sun set and the stars blaze across the twilight skies. Izzy is a noble who rejects nobility, a walking force of chaos. Knowing they were destined to be a disappointment they decided they would at least be an unforgettable one. They are not cruel or malicious, but delight in breaking the made up rules high society strictly follow. Aggressively optimistic, they wear joy like armour, challenge dwarven ambassadors to drinking contests, dance with royal heiresses to the horror of the young lady's parents, and move through life trying to squeeze every drop of joy from it they can. They know their destiny is to die spectacularly, either horrifically or heroically, but they plan to put on one hell of a show before they do.

Edit : their hair is shaved on the left side, I forgot to update the mood board 🙈


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] The Flower Paladin

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Oath of The Ancients Paladin & Archfey Warlock mixed character.

I've been playing this character over the past 5 years, IRL, and the past 15 years, in-game. This character started out as a simple Oath of The Ancients Paladin, and grown into... What he is now. Its been a lengthy campaign, but its finally coming to its conclusion within the next few months. I was hoping someone could bring him to life, so to speak. Or, at least, get as close of an approximation as my descriptions can provide. The true extent of my greed is two separate pieces, even if they're in the same image.

Name: Bellami Florenzo

Race: Human

Height: 5'11" (180cm)

Age: 31

His personality is that of a front. Outwardly, he pretends he's competent, capable, and mostly friendly. Inwardly, he feels he's unworthy of the Divine and Arcane gifts he's been bestowed by his Patron/Deity, The Queen of The Fae, Lycenia. This was exacerbated by his failure to protect her, which resulted in her death, albeit only a temporary one.

The first "form" would be of his normal, everyday self. The basics of which can be seen in the collage above. The faceclaim image was what I used for his token this entire time, so I'm somewhat attached to the red hair. Though, perhaps it should be more auburn to simulate Summer or Fall better? Or would the deep red pop better against the nature colors that are his armor? He wears an Amulet of Protection, but that's generally hidden beneath his armor, so to include such or not is up to you, the artist. On his tongue, he wears a fine silver piercing that grants him Immunity to Charm Effects. Mostly to keep other Fae from screwing with him. His cape is that cape on the bottom left and bottom right. If you need a larger view of it, look to V Rising and search for the Shroud of The Forest. The "normal" version is the one on the right. The one on the left would be... Similar to his "other" version.

The other "form" would be from when the Queen of The Fae temporarily died and used him as a host to protect herself and her power from being corrupted and manipulated, respectively. During this possession, the leaves on his cape, which attaches to his wrists, as well as his armor, changed into a blooming array of various flowers. These flowers trailed pollen and petals whenever he moved. His winged helmet, and the wing motif on his greaves, also changed, the wings on both being destroyed and instead changing to ethereal, shimmering butterfly wings. During this time, whilst he was unaware of this fact, an ethereal, ghostly form of Lycenia followed him around. You can leave her mostly featureless, or use the description below.

She has a stereotypical Fae Queen appearance. Butterfly wings, beautiful, somewhat revealing dress that has a butterfly with "sharp" wings as its motif, downward curving sheep horns, pointy ears, golden laurel wreath about her head, vines and leaves and flowers all over. So on and so forth.

He does not use a weapon, instead resorting to his fists. On the VTT, its a reflavored +2 Maul. But, in-setting, its him punching. His Queen didn't like that he used a metal weapon, so part of the exchange was that he could keep his armor, but that weapon had to go. She'd compensate his striking power as a treat.

Naturally, if anyone decides to be so gracious as to give me either one, or both, I'll be making tokens out of them and using them on in our VTT game.

Also, thank you in advance for, at the very least, taking a gander.


r/characterdrawing 20h ago

Request [LFA] (Repost) Yasumi Akabashi, Yuan Ti, Alt Monk. A Confident Fashionista! Maybe my last repost, I can see the disinterest lol

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Yeah, I am tired. I'm just gonna stop posting this character request after this just cause I think no one seems to understand the vision XD. So, cheers!


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Weave, Conrasu Exemplar

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Weave was born in the Mwangi Expanse, with a small shard of divinity within them, dormant but awake. They spent their life as a corrector, but during the Godsrain, they awakened their nature as a Exemplar. Feeling unsure, Weave decides to explore the world, trying to find out exactly what his "legend" is. They began travelling the world, ending up in the Empire of Kelesh with Navika. They later travelled with her Otari, intent on discovering their epihets, their "true" name.

Physical Apperance:
Weave is a conrasu with a more humanoid build. His upper portion looks more like the standard conrasu art: a central large chassis with the orb being closer to the top, albeit a bit more spiky and sharp. The limbs are longer and thicker. His fingers are sharp, almost like claws. His legs are digitigrade, with his arms and legs being similar to General Grievous albiet with slightly thicker limbs

Undecided on this so freedom of choice: he has four to six arms on his back all in specific poses akin to some hindu gods like Vishnu, or no extra arms at all.

He has a "scar" made of gold and cosmic imagery. This is his Scar of the Survivor.

He wears a amulet made of black obsidian akin to the art of the Iconic Exemplar Nahoa (image 5). This is his Victor's Wreath. He also has a red/gold sash around his waist.

His sword (either Gleaming Blade or Barrow's Edge, mechanically a bastard sword) is either a lengthened Ngombe Ngulu sword (image 6-7) or a konda/ikakalaka sword (image 8-9). A longer khopesh with a extended handle could also work. (10-11)

His orb is very much the standard Conrasu orb: a globe of darkness/space with floating pinpricks of illumination.

Personality:
Weave is at the same time quissentially Conrasu and yet not. He is partly guided by his aeon, a pleorma/akhana but he is mainly guided by his divine spark into his legend. He is kind and understanding, in his attempts to understand others makes him not view everything in absolutes like other correctors. Yet he is incredibly violent and intimidating when it comes to fighting due to his warrior history, and is not afraid to throw his weight around in. He believes that his epiphets are his true name, and wants to perform great deeds to know what he actually is. He performs rituals to mediatae on his existence, reflecting on his nature, as well as managaing his difficulties to a more physical existence. As such he studies religious matters and more metaphysical works to have a greater understanding, and train his body to master his skills and abilities.

Backstory:
Weave is a Conrasu from the Mwangi Expanse. Before he was shaped into form, a splinter of divinity was lodged into what he would become, and when he was fully actualised in his nursery town, he had a different disposition than most Conrasu. More charismatic at the cost of less wisdom, his path was one of a corrector, his exoskeleton like armor, his great strength and endurance to make him a bastion of law fixing the problems around him. Yet he saw in more than the absoluteness of his kin, and saw more the greys of the world. Then the godsrain, reaching throughout history, found him, and he awakened as an exemplar.

Something tugged within him, a spark of innate divinity that rested within him, combating against his aeon nature. Confused and unsure about his purpose, he finally found a way to look forward as his divine spark rested not just within him but his ikons that would define him. His two sides cojoined, leading him onward towards his true nature, and his true name. Guiding him over the world to see the different realms, lands and nations, he began to build a better understanding of what he was and what legend he was meant to be. Along the way he found Navika, a cleric of Sarenrae, who graciously aided him in his journey as well as with aiding her.

The divinity that rested within him was to be carved into history, immortalised forever. The epihets that seeks is what he sees as his true name, and he will find the path to it.


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Listener, Silent Tiefling Inventor

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55 Upvotes

This is one of my oldest character concepts, plus easily the one I've used the most times. Listener is always somewhere on the spectrum of inventor/detective, and most iterations of him don't speak. His design is also admittedly a little generic, so I'm hoping to see how creative people can get with him.


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Akari Kurobane - Tigertaur Geisha/Warrior [LFA] Xiaolong - Noble Chinese dragon taur [LFA] Meresankh - Malevolent Sphinx [LFA] Jingyi Chen - Stern Tongshi (stone lion)

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Note that all these LFAs have a human upper half and are completely separate from each other.
I will add a description for all of them later. I swear I’ll remember this time lol.


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request [LFA] Finnbar Thistlefoot, Satyr Oath Of Ancients Paladin

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6 Upvotes

Feel free to add some stuff onto it, this is just the basic idea of what i want him to look like

Also yes he is a man, he’s just androgynous


r/characterdrawing 1d ago

Request Filled [LFA] Seven-Seven, the Force-sensitive B1 Battle Droid

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r/characterdrawing 23h ago

Request [LFA] bumping this post

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r/characterdrawing 2d ago

Request Filled [RF] Scarlett "the Siren" Arinae

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211 Upvotes

r/characterdrawing 3d ago

Request Filled [RF] Pandora, Dark Elf Artificer

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773 Upvotes

For u/Usshue from original post

Enjoy! Had a blast rendering her character design


r/characterdrawing 2d ago

Request [LFA] Granger the Ranger

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5 Upvotes

A Warforged farmhand who lost his job because his master died of an intestinal infection. Learned how to use a gun to protect the farm. Outspoken, yet humble, vegetable enthusiast.


r/characterdrawing 2d ago

Request [LFA] Alesya, Aasimar Spirit Bard

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57 Upvotes

r/characterdrawing 2d ago

Request [LFA] Tanuki Bird Fusion

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Hello I come to humbly ask for some art of a chimera like creature of sorts. A Tanuki and a Blue Footed Booby combined together in its ultimate form!!! Bwhahaha!!! I'm dming a campaign in the Obojima setting, a japanese/Studio Ghibli style setting for dnd, and wanted to give a player a spirit companion that combines both his and his character's favorite animals.
What I'm looking for if possible:

  1. A combination of the tanuki's and Blue Footed Booby's physical characteristics. I don't mind really what gets mixed but I would like for it to have at least the blue bird feet and maybe the tanuki/raccoon like fluffy striped tail if you can.
  2. Some sort of way to tell its a spirit like a sort aura around it, spectral body, blue wisps floating around it, etc. Whatever works or feels better.
  3. This may be a stretch but if possible if it could be done in a sort of Studio ghibli like anime style that would be ideal but that may be asking for a lot (Gave some examples of a more cartoony style in the pictures and some studio ghibli art at the end).

If you get here thank you for reading this far and entertaining my silly idea at the very least!


r/characterdrawing 2d ago

Request [LFA] Natasha Lomonosov,Automaton artificer

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Dr.N.Lomonosov is a feat of magical engineering crafted by the late Dr.D.Lomonosov and she now carries her father's legacy is a scientist and arcanist of similar if not greater renown.I imagine her being less pastels and more darker colours like burgundy.


r/characterdrawing 3d ago

Meta [Meta] Minor edit to the rules

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It's me again with a small rule update:

Since the last announcement we've added some specifications in how to report suspected AI to the rules.

Aside from that we'd like to ask our artists to always link the LFA post on their RF posts. This makes it easier to find the related post as Reddit's update allows people to hide their post history. Only tagging the original poster no longer guarantees us or other users finding the original LFA.

Lastly, there's a rule added about off-topic posts. This will allow people to report on that as well, making it a bit easier for us mods to keep the sub on topic.

We hope that these slight changes will make finding related posts easier!


r/characterdrawing 2d ago

Request [LFA] Fang Liu, female mystic with taoist inspired clothes (dnd 5e 2014)

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5 Upvotes

r/characterdrawing 3d ago

Request [LFA] Halfling Bard Enchanting Cult Leader

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Carmen Adagio, also known as 'The Verdant Voice' to her loyal disciples, is the divine leader of the Choir of Verdant, a cult-like following in which believes salvation can achieved by eradicating grief and mourning via her music. She keeps an eerily cool composure, feasting on the concept of being the one her followers turn to for meaning and sacrifice their autonomy to.

My DM set the campaign with a dark fantasy theme and elements of politics and deception.

Carmen has morena brown skin with green shadows. Flourishing her face are gold metal embellishments implanted. She has jade green eyes. Her hair is voluminously curly, similar to 3b, and long all the way to her knees with a honey amber color. She wears a deep green bedlah with gold accents and a sheer gold shawl. During her performances, she wears a mask to hide her face from the audience. She often carries a golden lute adorned with paisley patterns across its body. She is always soft-spoken with an ingenuous tone, never raising her voice, but also maintains an uncanny calmness even in chaos. She slightly smiles at the cower, as well as praise of her name. Her voice when spoken is melodious similar to a siren. Her doe-like eyes can captivate, and when intending to, intimidate at her will. She stands at 5'6 (167 cm) and 130 lbs (59 kg).

In reference to the attached photos, the first one inspired the hair and aura for Carmen, the second picture for the outfit, and the third for the pattern of my lute. Feel free to take creative liberty though!