Rogold Gildenman wrote:Out of curiosity Master Dunning, are there any characters from or locations in The Land of Mists that you have not yet been asked to depict that none-the-less catch your interest?
Not specifically, although there are several that I was never asked to draw. The d20 game concentrated mostly on the lands of the Core, as I recall, so I never had the opportunity to draw many of the Domain Lords or characters related to the various non-attached domains. But there weren't any from the old edition that I can specifically recall that I wish I'd gotten to draw. Frankly, I'm not that familiar with the setting's NPCs. Most of the Ravenloft games I've played or run in didn't really involve the established characters very much, so beyond the ones that appeared in the classic modules, like Strahd, Van Richten, Mordenhiem, Azlin, and Inhajira, I've never really dealt with the Ravenloft characters. I only knew which ones were from the original game and which ones were original to d20 by looking them up in my old 2e books. Luckily, I have most of the original boxed sets and sourcebooks that I could use as references. I wanted to make sure I captured the look of the original characters and feel that a occasionally stuck to the old designs a little TOO much. I would have liked to have put a bit of my own spin on them. After all, it's doubtful that Ivana Boristi wears those same crazy loop earrings every day, right?
Mostly, my Ravenloft regrets revolve around the portraits I did get to draw not really capturing the feel of the characters or not being up to snuff, artistically. This is especially true of some of the older ones before I had really established the artistic approach I wanted to take with the series. Some are perfect, but some I wish I could go back and redo. A lot of them seem a bit on the cartoony side to me now, without a lot of use of shadow or rendering. And, of course, I wish they'd been in color. My color skills weren't quite as refined in the early 00's as they are today, so I'm sure they wouldn't have been great, but I would love the opportunity to redo some of those portraits in full color today (for publication in a new Ravenloft edition, of course).
