Drewly: A brooch from the forests of Lorien.

 A brooch from the forests of Lorien.

Leaf Brooch: These brooches held closed elven cloaks interwoven with magic to shield the wearer from unfriendly eyes. While the brooches themselves were not inherently powerful, they were treasured possessions to each who received one as a gift from the Lady of the Forest.

That was Drewly. We did it. A whole month dedicated to work we already completed. I took this month as a victory lap to be amazed at myself for the scale of work that I can get done. Not all of the art is amazing, but it is amazing to get any work done at all, let alone 31 pieces of art that have just been sitting waiting to see the light of day.

I am going to take a break and be back next Sunday with more items from Four Swords Adventures. 

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: A Morgul Blade.

 A Morgul Blade.

Morgul Blade: A corroded blade intended to poison its victim instead of killing them outright. Wounds from the blade cause a wasting sickness that will eventually pull the person into the lands of darkness entirely.

Tomorrow is the last day of Drewly. Join the celebration by posting some of your amazing art.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Witch King’s helmet

 Witch King’s helmet

Witch Kind’s Helmet: Worn by the Witch-king of Angmar, leader of the Nazgul, and overly proud wraith until their just demise at the hand of Eowyn, shieldmaiden of Rohan and woman.

The final week of Drewly begins with my take on the film’s version of the Witch-king. I was shocked at how quickly this drawing came together and I think it looks pretty good over all.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: A unassuming weapon of mass devastation.

 A unassuming weapon of mass devastation.

Heart Container: As Four Swords Adventures has very little carrying over between levels, it shouldn’t surprise you to find that heart containers only increase Link’s total on during the level they were found. A heart container increases the Links’ total shared life bar by one heart and can be found hidden throughout each level.

This wide-mouthed vessel, somewhere between a cup and a bowl, is inlaid with an ancient script outlining the great sacrifice of blood needed to activate the device’s cataclysmic power. Blood from a hundred lines must be gathered into the bowl and then poured out onto the lands of one’s enemies. The land that the blood is poured upon will be cursed with terrible calamities for an age of mortal memory.

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The fourth and final full week of Drewly brings with it an obvious reference to the Golgothian Sylex of Magic: The Gathering’s lore. I remember reading about Urza unleashing the equivalent of a magical nuclear bomb as a kid and realizing how hard the lore for a card game could go.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Spell Breaker’s Tower Shield

 Spell Breaker’s Tower Shield

Spell Breaker’s Tower Shield: These massive shields are forged by expert smiths and further enchanted by mages so they might ward off both mundane and magical attacks with ease. Such shields are essential when fighting enemy mages who can hurl a boulder with the toss of a hand or fling a fireball with a thought.

Drewly 27th brings an end to Warcraft universe items. These aren’t the only Warcraft items I have drawn, I’m particularly fond of the Warglaives of Azzinoth I did a while back, but we have more fan art of major fantasy IP’s to get to.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Meeting Stone

 Meeting Stone

Summoning Stone: Placed about the world near places of high adventure, these stones allow groups to reach out across vast distances and summon a close friend or fellow adventurer.

On the 26th of Drewly, I’d like to imagine an arcane logistics guild that hears about important locations where adventurers are likely to flock and set up a summoning stone to facilitate travel, all for a nominal fee of course.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros

 Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros

Sulfuras: This mighty flaming warhammer is the personal weapon of the Elemental Lord of Flame. With the mighty warhammer in hand, the Firelord sought to take over the mortal plane, expanding their empire and upending the delicate balance of the elemental powers once and for all.

Drewly 25th has another vanilla WoW staple legendary. This hammer was a slough to get, not in the least bit because the materials needed to craft it were dropped in a 40-person raid. The fact that there was ever a time when 40 people could get on the same schedule and coordinate themselves to accomplish something in a video game stretches believability.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker.

 Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker.

Thunderfury: The essence of a slain elemental prince of air was forged into this blade. The power of the blade is at its greatest when wielded against the forces of the offending Firelords that slew the prince.

Drewly 24th brings with it a classic from Vanilla WoW that I only know about because of the people who took o.g. WoW really seriously still liked to show the thing off even after there were far better weapons to be found. This was in the days before transmogrification and your gear just looked like the model it was given.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Verdant Spheres of House Sunstrider

 Verdant Spheres of House Sunstrider

Verdant Spheres: These three moon crystal shards were once a shield to defend the lands and lives of the elves. When that shield failed, the crystals were taken up and used as a devastating weapon against the enemies of the elves and any who got in between the elves and their bloody vengeance.

Drewly 23rd brings us the orbs that belonged to Kael’Thas Sunstrider, vengeance vengeance-obsessed blood elf from World of Warcraft. This whole week is items from the Warcraft universe that struck my fancy for one reason or another.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

-Only post art you have already made.

-Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

-Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: The Dragonspine Trophy

 The Dragonspine Trophy

Dragonspine Trophy: The giant known as the Dragon Slayer takes gruesome trophies. Slung about their beck is the spine of a dragon, ritualistically torn from its corpse so that the dragon’s speed might enhance the Dragon Slayer’s already formidable attacks.

Drewly 22nd brings with it an item I, like most people, never actually owned. DST was a very nice trinket during the time of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade’s raids. I can’t count the number of times I led the 25-person raid into Gruul’s Lair hoping to even see this trinket drop.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: Twin Blades of the Sword Dancer.

 Twin Blades of the Sword Dancer.

Four Sword: The Four Sword was essential to maintaining the seal on Vaati’s evil power after he was defeated in the original Four Swords game. Through vile machinations, Link draws the Four Sword from the seal, splitting himself into four copies, releasing Vaati, and diminishing the power of the blade. Through all of Link’s adventures, he is trying to gather enough force gems to fully awaken the magic of the Four Sword and reseal the villainous Wind Sorcerer to save the land.

The Tyrant came to these lands from a harsh wind-scoured desert. The people of that desert learn to fight in a graceful flowing style reminiscent of the swirling winds of a sandstorm blowing through a tight canyon. While the Tyrant was defeated, their long rule allowed the tradition of blade dancing to bloom in these lands so far from their native sands.

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These blades are Gannon’s swords from The Wind Waker. I think I should have shifted them farther from their original cartoonish style, but the flowing ribbons are nice.

Today marks the third complete week of sharing art for Drewly. There are ten more days to do and I have ten more days of art to share.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: A Witcher’s contract

 A Witcher’s contract

Contract: Having a well written contract from the beginning can avoid much ugliness at the end of a job where the lack of a terrifying monster convinces some that they don’t need to part with as much coin as they might have said they were willing to.

Drewly 20th brings us to the end of the Witcher item set.  Eighteen items from the world of the Witcher that you could use in whatever sort of adventure you like.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Ursine Crossbow

 Ursine Crossbow

Crossbow: A strict traditionalist would never employ a contraption that could just as likely jame as shoot in a hunt. Thankfully we are not strict traditionalists so we can use this crossbow and keep our throwing knives for more desperate times.

The 19th of Drewly already. Crossbows are complicated to draw in perspective and they aren’t necessarily that interesting from a visual standpoint, but they do show up in a lot of fantasy adventures so I try to draw them every once in a while to see how well I can draw a crossbow at that exact time point. I usually end up a bit disappointed and accept that I have plenty of room left to grow.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: A simple knife.

 A simple knife.

Hunting Knife: Butchering game or collecting trophies is the job for a trusty knife, not a shining sword, and Witchers on the path will use their knife a hundred times before needing their swords.

Drewly 18th is a simple drawing, but those drawing are just as valuable as flashy ones.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Wolf School Medallion

 Wolf School Medallion

Wolf School Medallion: Like the medallion from the VIper school, this silver medallion is enchanted to react to nearby magic and the traces such magic leaves behind.

Draewly 17th brings us my take on the medallion from the Netflix Witcher series. 

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Gwent Card

 Gwent Card

Gwent Card: A Gwent card from the new game taking the continent by storm.

Drewly 16th is marked by my absolute hate of in-universe card games within larger role playing games. I don’t want to play Gwent, I don’t want to play Caravan, and I don’t want to play Three Dragon Ante.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Rune of Igni

 Rune of Igni

Igni Runestone: Inscribed with a glyph of Igni, this runestone allows a Witcher to create larger and hotter flames with the Igni sign.

Drewly 15th is going to get me some well actually’s from Witcher fans. I know Igni isn’t on any runestones in Witcher 3, but I was more interested in a drawing for as many signs as I could rather than making game-accurate item cards.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: Pendant of balance

 Pendant of balance

Force Gems: The Link’s must gather force gems during their adventures to restore the true power of the Four Sword that has been diminished by Vaati’s dark magic. Force Gems are found throughout the Links’ exploration and are usually rewarded for impressive feats of skill and speed. Two thousand force gems must be gathered during each level to pierce the veil of darkness at the end of each level.

This heavy jade pendant is given to initiates who seek the way of balance. After communing with the amulet, the prevailing energy of a person shines from the pendant. Only through long rigorous effort can a person manifest and eventually true balance in their energy.

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That’s two weeks of Drewly 2024 down and about two more to go. I hope you are celebrating all the work you’ve already completed.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: A place of power.

 A place of power.

Yrden Stone: Meditating at this place of power allows a Witcher to connect more deeply with the magic that powers the Yrden sign. 

The 13th of Drewly is noted with one of the standing stones that will appear during this Drewly.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph