This storm isn&#039;t a threat, it&#039;s a promise!<br /><br />Bad pun aside, my art machine needed some love. &gt;.&gt; Before today, I hadn&#039;t turned it on since making the final edits to "Wings of Valor." And while we&#039;re on the subject of "Wings of Valor," I took quite the lesson away from doing it: If you have a pressure-sensitive tablet, take advantage of its uses! I did the lineart on "Wings of Valor" the "old" way, using several strokes to make a curve, and that&#039;s what caused the grainy effect. Needless to say, since y&#039;all have heard me complain about my lineart a <i>lot</i>, I won&#039;t be doing that anymore. Starting with this piece, I&#039;m officially sticking with the "new" way.<br /><br />Anyway, this is ~<a class="u" href="https://aleixa.deviantart.com/">aleixa</a>&#039;s character Velandra, the Genasi Swordmage from my 4E D&amp;D group. As you can see, I went pretty overboard with the lightning this time. <img src="https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/a/animesweat.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="^^;" title="Sweating a little..." /> Unlike Shivites, Genasi are actually related to elementals (if I&#039;m not mistaken... I&#039;m not too familiar with the race). Velandra really came through for us last week, slaying an adult Kruthik before it could stick us with too many poisonous projectiles.<br /><br />Overall, this piece was really fun to work on, with all the glowy and stormy effects, and it didn&#039;t take as long as I thought it would. I guess I&#039;m just so used to drawing "mutant" characters with lots of extras that characters with more standard anatomies are coming a lot easier to me now. <img src="https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br /><br />Velandra is (C) <a href="https://aleixa.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="https://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/l/aleixa.gif" alt=":iconaleixa:" title="aleixa"/></a><br />Dungeons &amp; Dragons and the Genasi race are (C) Wizards of the Coast<br /><br />EDIT 11/19: Quick fix made to address problems pointed by EnigmaticThief.