Drewly: The Shiny Rod

 The Shiny Rod

The Shiny Rod: The Claiomh Solais is an immensely powerful magical artifact with the slumebring power to change the world. Which is why it is currently in the possession of Atsuko Kagari, witch aspirant, and generally ineffective pupil of magic.

Drewly today is a whole-hearted recommendation of Little Witch Academia. Wacky, inspiring, and wonderful.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:

Share art you have already made.

Share as often as you want.

When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

The Minish Cap: A leprechaun’s shillelagh.

A leprechaun’s shillelagh

Cane of Pacci: The cane is found while exploring the Cave of Flames. The bolts of energy flung by the cane flip objects upside down which can be helpful when dealing with carts that need to be emptied or well-armored enemies. The cane also uses its inversion magic to turn holes into trampolines. Instead of falling into a hole, the effect of the hole is flipped and it becomes a bounce platform. 

This walking stick makes its bearer magically lucky by stealing luck away from nearby folk, leaving them to suffer more of life’s little mischiefs. It doesn’t take long for people to realize the fellow with the stick is too lucky by far and deserves some evening out. This chaotic bit of magic was woven by a leprechaun who wanted to make sure that if their shillelagh was ever taken, it would cause enough mischief to find its way back home. 

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There are plenty of magic sticks to choose from in the greater fairy tale and folk story canon, but I think the shillelagh is the perfect balance between mundane and magical that typifies fairy tales instead of general fantasy.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: Staff of the dragon herald

 Staff of the dragon herald

Force Fairy: These fairies revive fallen Links that drop below zero hearts as long as the team has any remaining fairies. During their adventures, Link earns force fairies for gathering large sums of force gems. These fairies are rewarded when Link’s stats are calculated at the end of each stage. There are bonus force fairies hidden throughout certain stages and areas, allowing Link to earn extra lives through exploration.

Draconic staves are given to heralds of great wyrms. The more ornate and detailed, the higher age and station the dragon sovereign claims to possess. While it is not unheard of for dragons to willfully misrepresent their station in negotiations, dragons who have been caught overinflating their age or holdings are viciously mocked and harshly ostracized by their peers.

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Today’s drewly post is also just a regularly scheduled Sunday item drop. This serpent staff is my take on the Tevinter’s stave from Dragon Age: Inquisition. I also remixed it with a caduceus if you need a messenger or doctor staff.

Witcher items continue tomorrow with more 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

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: Tools of the fire dancer

Tools of the Fire Dancer

Fire Rod: Another pedestal item from Four Swords Adventures, this rod allows a Link to shoot flames. They can throw a ball of flame or make a continuous gout of flame. These flames can be used to light braziers, damage enemies, and solve puzzles. Like most, maybe all, pedestal items in Four Swords Adventure, the fire rod can be upgraded to level 2 by presenting it to a Great Fairy.

Flame dancers wow audiences with their daring performances of skill and endurance. These blazing staves and batons magically burn forever. Where most everflames burn cold these burn hotter than most flames to ensure the dancer’s feats are not diminished.

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Tomorrow is the first day of my month-long art challenge Drewly. It is a challenge where all you have to do is post art you’ve already made. No need to make new art, just rest on your laurels and use this is an excuse to share your work with the world.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Amphora: Five items from my home game.

Five items from my home game.

Rod of Bouncing: Channeling your spell through this focus allows a spell that would otherwise strike a single target to ricochet between multiple targets.

Helm of Telepathy: This strange metal helmet amplifies its wearer's mental abilities and allows them to communicate psychically with nearby intelligent life. It also protects the wearer from unwelcome psychic intrusions.

Mighty Amulet of Icy Fists: This stone amulet is far heavier than it looks and is always cold. Communing with the amulet allows the wearer to wreath their hands and feet in bitter cold and strike with the strength of an ice giant.

Arctic Bow: This bow belonged to a ranger of the Ice Wastes. The supernatural cold of that wasteland permeated the bow, imparting arrows it fires with the draining chill of its frigid homeland.

Vambraces of the Effreti: These metal bracers were once used to bind an efreet in service. They were given as a gift to the person who freed the proud genie and were imbued with a mote of the efreet’s supernatural command of flame.

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Here are five items I drew specifically for my home game. Since they weren’t drawn with a large audience in mind, they could be a bit silly or a bit obvious in their reference to other universes.

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Next week we will start looking at the items from The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A magic wand personal massager.

 A magic wand personal massager.

Magic Wand: This personal massager now has a built-in rechargeable battery allowing you to receive personal massage without being chained to a nearby outlet. 

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Many find this wand to be very effective at releasing tension and increasing overall satisfaction.

This is our last wand of Drewly 2023. I am always drawing new wands, so expect to see more options for your magical foci needs.

Tomorrow we return to Wind Waker items with our final magical scroll.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A puffy duster for Spring cleaning.

A puffy duster for Spring cleaning.

Duster: A puffy duster to keep the arcane sanctum spotless. This wand was made by a mage that has a very demanding definition of clean. So demanding in fact that they have never been able to keep a cleaner for more than a day.

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This drawing is one of the reasons I do Drewly. I hate this drawing and I just want to move on from its existence. So here I am, putting this duster out there and moving on.

Today marks the third week of Drewly. Just ten more days to go! If you’ve posted your art for Drewly, don’t forget to tag me and comment with a link.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A red umbrella for Spring showers.

A red umbrella for Spring showers.

Umbrella: A traveler with an umbrella is asking for rain, but a traveler without one is a fool. A mage with a wand is asking for trouble, but a mage without one is a fool. For the traveling mage, the umbrella wand, be ready for whatever nature or the supernatural throw your way.

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I often approach these like a copywriter for an advertising agency. I don’t know if others find that annoying, but I like to imagine how an in-world salesperson might try to get an adventurer to buy their wares.

Today’s Drewly offering is spring wand one of two.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: An icicle.

 An icicle.

Icicle: An improvised wand torn from the mouth of a cave by a bitter druid. Watching over the great ur-bear in its decades-long hibernation is a great honor for a Druid of the Claw, but it does not come without risk. Enemies of the great bear spirit would seek to strike it down in its time of weakness.

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I drew this in the depths of winter and it didn’t measure up to the icicles hanging off my roof.

That was winter wand two of two. Tomorrow is the beginning of spring.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: Wand of the White Witch.

Wand of the White Witch.

Wand of the White Witch: The white witch of Narnia ruled over an almost endless winter with this chill wand. Jadis’ cruel tyranny was overthrown when the Pevensies children stumbled into their destiny as divinely appointed saviors of a world they never knew existed.

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Yesterday was fall wand number two. Today is winter wand number one.

I’m keeping up with Drewly one day at a time. But remember, I have had all of these drawings just sitting around, and that is the point of Drewly.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A powerful dueling wand.

A powerful dueling wand.

Elder Wand: The elder wand, the most powerful wand in the Potterverse.

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J.K. Rowling’s politics suck and she has done harm with her actions and statements. I bring this up every time I do something adjacent to her work because it deserves to be noted whenever discussing the impact of Harry Potter.

Trans rights are human rights and that is more important than a lore dump on a wand.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A rod of lighting.

 A rod of lighting.

Lighting Rod: It is a rod that illuminates the area when activated and can be thrown to create a bright and loud explosion that dazzles the unprepared.

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I drew this to represent a Lightning Javelin in my game but thought the lighting rod pun was a better interpretation of the art.

We are about halfway through Drewly. I hope I see your art too.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: Staff of Light

 Staff of Light

Staff of Light: This staff amplifies the light in a person’s heart making their light magic much more powerful. When used by a mage following the way of light, the center stone can be made to glow with the light of day.

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This is based on the staff of light from Final Fantasy XI. I based this drawing on the work Volpin Props did to recreate the staff as a prop. I have never played a main branch Final Fantasy game so my experience with the franchise is mostly Tactics Advanced 1 and 2 or just watching friends play. 

This isn’t perfect, but I really like it, and I hope you do too. 

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: Wheat Wand

Wheat Wand

Wheat Stalk: Not all wands need to be wrought of the most exotic materials or have been passed down through the ages. This simple stalk of wheat was plucked by a farming mage to channel their magic into their land.

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Tomorrow we will be taking a break from wands. Sunday will be more items inspired by Wind Waker, and after that will be some item cards I made specifically for the Pathfinder game I run at home.

Post your art, whatever kind of art that is, and celebrate what you are able to accomplish. Happy Drewly!

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A Bubble Wand

A Bubble Wand

Bubble Wand: Almost all bubble wands can make bubbles if you dunk them in soapy water, but this wand can make bubbles with just a flick of the wrist. You can even control how the bubbles float if you focus.

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Week one of Drewly 2023 is done. Three and a half more weeks to go. If you are participating, tag your work with #drewly2023 and leave a comment with a link to your posts.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: A soda shop wand

A soda shop wand

Drinking Straw Wand: The quiet one at the back of the bar has been nursing their diet soda for hours. They don’t look the sort to be hanging out in a dive bar, but they seem just as dangerous as the rest of the roughnecks in this place.

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This wand could also purify whatever is drank through it or just chill one’s drink.

Within all my projects, I find myself doing little miniseries. This wand represents the first of the summer wands, which kicked off the seasonal wands miniseries. Watch for two wands for each of the four seasons.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly 2023: Necromancer’s Wand

Necromancer’s Wand

Finger of the Dead: This finger bone was the left middle finger of a gravedigger. Now it is a wand used by death mages to raise the dead from their graves.

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This was a fun idea, that I wasn’t able to execute perfectly. I will probably return to this concept again in the future.

Drewly is all about getting things out of your mind by putting them out in the world. This is done, and maybe it will be done better in the future.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph