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I was tagged by the wonderful, and sweet TheBrassGlass! She's great and I suggest everyone checks her out! (She also does great commissions)
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1.) Post these short rules.
2.) Post 8 facts about one of your characters.
3.) Tag 8 people.
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I've realized that I don't gush about any of my characters enough. In fact, I'd love to do this for all my cuties, but I will just choose one. Since she is the main character in my comic, and I haven't gone too in-depth about her, here are 8 facts about Laumé McGregor. (A quick side note: the acute-accent é at the end of her name is always supposed to be there, but you can't use that type of letter in the titles on DeviantArt, Booo!)

Staring Down a Beast by FlatAsABird

Laume Final Outfit Design by FlatAsABird

  1. Laumé started her life as a character in a tabletop roleplaying game. We used different systems for different plot threads and branches of the campaign, but she was originally a ranger in both Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeon World. She had an animal companion in those games, a pet bunny rabbit named Thomas. This is why you sometimes see older drawings of her with a bunny.
  2. She is a Pathfinder, and one of the few who remains. What is a Pathfinder? They're sort of cross between a monster hunter and an explorer. Very similar to rangers, in fact. She travels a lot and keeps people safe. She also takes on local odd jobs and monster slaying contracts to earn a living. It's a very dangerous job, and due to the state of the world, most either die young or become infected by the Blight.
  3. Her favored weapons are the longsword and flintlock pistol. She is proficient with multiple types of swords, and is quite deadly with the bow and arrow as well. Her pistol used to belong to her mother, and it fires a magical energy that is extremely effective against the monsters and demons of Da'Loya. It is a weapon created only for Pathfinders.
  4. The Church of the Living Flame wiped out Laumé's village when she was a teenager. As far as she knows, she has lost all of her family, friends, and compatriots. This is what drives her quest at the start of the comic. She's looking for the man who lead the assault on her village, in the hopes of getting justice, but she'll settle for revenge. She's also following a rumor that her mother may yet be alive but is imprisoned.
  5. Laumé is infected by the Blight. A supernatural infection spreads from the Abyss and consumes all living things, eventually mutating them into something demonic and monstrous. In Laumé's case, she's turning into a prowler. She has to cover up the signs of her infection because the general populace of Da'Loya is terrified of it. Those infected are vilified, ostracized, and generally shunned by all. The church actively hunts down the infected and burns them alive. Laumé's long term goal is to find a cure for her infection.
  6. Laumé is sort of religious, but follows the old pagan gods and traditions, rather than the Church of the Living Flame that has taken over her region of the world. Her job title and traditions stem directly from the god of the stars, Toryn, who was also known as the First Pathfinder. A common phrase of her people, one that Laumé says often, is: "May Toryn light your path."
  7. She has two older brothers. Her relationship is very strained with her eldest brother, Davin, who left their village after a nasty confrontation with their father. Their middle brother, Willem, was her best friend growing up. He originally trained alongside her to become a Pathfinder, but failed the trials. He joined the town guard, and was commonly found enjoying a drink at the local tavern with his little sister.
  8. Despite growing up with two brothers and being a tough monster hunter, Laumé is cute, sweet, and generally girly. It was very important to me in developing her that she retain some very feminine qualities, rather than just be a "dude with boobs."
That's eight basic facts about my main character. She's my absolute favorite, which I guess is really good since she's the main character. Not to say that i don't love all my other babies... Anyway...

To continue this, I tag:  DragonSparkzzz, ashvearts, Hekate-Avesta, 13cupcakesvelonipp, TAMAnnoyingTevarro, and DeathBoii 
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Moving Time!

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We're moving to a new house! You might have noticed that my output as of late has been pretty light. I'm working on a few things, including that Meet The Artist meme thing that's making it's rounds. But we've been spending a lot of time packing and cleaning and coordinating our move. I've made more of an effort to draw daily digital sketches on my iPad though, and you'll see a lot more of those on here. I hope to be on track for bigger, better pieces by the middle of February. Until then, just hold tight. I promise I'll be back into full swing soon. Also, I will still pop on here in the mean time to love all of the beautiful pieces of art that wonderful people are creating. :)

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OMG! OMG! OMG!
Today is my birthday and it has started with a bang!
My wonderful love commissioned some amazing artists to draw my original characters as a birthday gift!
And they are amazing! Look at the wonderful work these lovely ladies did for me! :wow:
Please check out these incredible artists! Please give them lots of love!!! :heart: :heart: :heart:
Thank you so much (in alphabetical order): Riku-GurlTheBrassGlassThereInA, and ThirdPersonSymphony!!!

   Birthday gift for Flatasabird by thereina  

This is such a wonderful gift! It's amazing to see my babies drawn by other artists, amazing artists!
You brought my characters to life and did so in your style! I was freaking out, skweeing loudly when I saw these. It was all very undignified. :)
Thank you all so much! :heart:
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Inktober is over!
And there was much rejoicing!
Thank you everyone for the encouragement and kind words.
I couldn't have pushed through without you.

I don't know about you all, but my hands need a break. I'm going to take a few days off from drawing, and then I'll jump back into comic pre-production work. Until then, let's all sit back and reflect on how far we've come. Gaze upon our works and rejoice. Sorry. I'm just really excited since this is the first time I completed Inktober. It was hard work but worth it. In the next month I plan to use some of the sketches I made to create fully realized and finished digital pieces to post here on DA. Until then, here are my favorites pieces out of the Inktober sketches that I made this year. Enjoy!

Inktober 2016 Day 1: A Slippery Situation by FlatAsABird  Inktober 2016 Day 9: BROKEN by FlatAsABird  Inktober 2016 Day 11: Transport by FlatAsABird

If you'd like to see the rest, please visit my gallery.
Thanks for taking a look!
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Moving Forward

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Hello, all! It's been a while since I've written something here, and and a lot has been going on. So, try to keep up. :)

Death of an OC
Shara is no more. Between some friend drama and some shake-ups to the world-building for our comic, I have actually abandoned her as a character in our story. Technically though, she was adopted and not a true OC. Despite spending so much time giving her a life and personality and design all my own, she never quite felt like she was fully mine. The world has also changed enough that her role in the story now feels superfluous. So, it's time to say goodbye. A character that I originally created to be her cousin is now stepping up into a major role for the story. It actually feels very freeing, but at the same time a little sad, to say goodbye to Shara.

New RPG Campaign
So, our group started a new roleplaying game campaign. If you noticed my most recent posts you probably already know. It took up a ton of my free time, and I neglected all my social media. This means I was busy drawing races for a world building and custom setting document that my husband wrote for the game. Some of the races are really cool, and I'm quite proud of them. Then, I drew everyone's character portraits for the custom character sheets. I've been trying to figure out how to show the latter off, since they're kind of straightforward and bland by design. So, you'll be seeing those coming up next.

Experimenting with My Artstyle
Lastly, I have been playing around in Manga Studio 5. It really is a godsend. Like, I'm surprised I fell in love with it so much. It's pretty much replaced Photoshop as my daily driver for digital drawing. I've also been more experimental with it, and I'm trying a new way of coloring pictures. I'll start posting those as soon as I finish posting all the space-opera RPG stuff. I'm super excited about it, and it will probably carry over into my comic work, which brings me to my last point.

Comic Planning
We're finally settling down and focusing fully on our comic book. Like, the stage is set, the world is built. We're writing the story and planning out paneling and stuff like that. It's very exciting. I can't wait to start showing that stuff off! It's going to be a long time though... 

I hope you all enjoy what I have coming up. I'm not the most consistent with social media, but I'm learning. I want so much to be more active here on DA. I wish someone could teach me the ways of this site. It feels almost esoteric at times. I post a lot on Instagram, but it's so simple and straightforward. Anyway, expect to see much more from me.
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