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So I saw these iron artist sketch commission challenges and thought it might be interesting but rather than take any more commissions (I have enough at the moment, thank you), I would go through my own characters and sketch them up, especially some of the older ones from storylines I created that predate the internet by several years.
First up is Reynard Foxtale, a very old character of mine, and the central character in one of my oldest storylines, well before I found anyone was into this. Early on he was influenced mostly by Disney's Robin Hood and Zorro with maybe a dash of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, The Shadow, Errol Flynn, and The Lone Ranger thrown in. In those days, Rey didn't have much of a story to him. He was just this guy that went around rescuing damsels and stuff (and getting a bit of tail for his 'trouble').
It wasn't until I thought about how he got to be an adventurer that he finally had a history and friends and started his journey to becoming a real character. He wound up in a school between various dimensions that taught adventurers. His father was one of the school's greatest prodigies and a legend among staff and students alike. Rey had to deal with a lot of expectations heaped his way because of his father's reputation, both on campus and off. In school, Reynard excelled often surpassing his father's records. Out of class, well, that was a different story.
He eventually did make some close friends and some not so close enemies, met a few lovers that became his friends...and some his enemies, and managed to get out from under the shadow his father cast on him for years. He cultivated a careful blend of the dramatic and theatrical into his style of adventuring becoming essentially his school's next generation of "rock star" but never letting it go to his head like his father did.
Rey's made a couple of appearances in my gallery before but I figured it was time he had a properly updated portrait. The object in his right hand is his hat which is a nod to Zorro's own and later changed a bit in style thanks to Tabbe LeFauve's hat in Vicky Wyman's Xanadu.
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First up is Reynard Foxtale, a very old character of mine, and the central character in one of my oldest storylines, well before I found anyone was into this. Early on he was influenced mostly by Disney's Robin Hood and Zorro with maybe a dash of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, The Shadow, Errol Flynn, and The Lone Ranger thrown in. In those days, Rey didn't have much of a story to him. He was just this guy that went around rescuing damsels and stuff (and getting a bit of tail for his 'trouble').
It wasn't until I thought about how he got to be an adventurer that he finally had a history and friends and started his journey to becoming a real character. He wound up in a school between various dimensions that taught adventurers. His father was one of the school's greatest prodigies and a legend among staff and students alike. Rey had to deal with a lot of expectations heaped his way because of his father's reputation, both on campus and off. In school, Reynard excelled often surpassing his father's records. Out of class, well, that was a different story.
He eventually did make some close friends and some not so close enemies, met a few lovers that became his friends...and some his enemies, and managed to get out from under the shadow his father cast on him for years. He cultivated a careful blend of the dramatic and theatrical into his style of adventuring becoming essentially his school's next generation of "rock star" but never letting it go to his head like his father did.
Rey's made a couple of appearances in my gallery before but I figured it was time he had a properly updated portrait. The object in his right hand is his hat which is a nod to Zorro's own and later changed a bit in style thanks to Tabbe LeFauve's hat in Vicky Wyman's Xanadu.
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Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 803 x 1004px
File Size 60.3 kB
This was the briefest of overviews about the basics and high points of his story. I had so much involved with this guy at one time, it was almost unreal. For quite a while though, he and the Rhoanthekans were what I had to mess around with other than random horse women that I usually used for porn sketches.
I'd love to know more in-depth about him sometime, if you get the time to describe him more. I don't know if Quillor was part of his story directly (since you said that you decided on the pairing through a coin flip), but I'd like to hear more about him, too. That image of the two of them together was all I ever remember seeing of him in your gallery.
Thank you! Like the Boy Scouts, he believes in being prepared and though he's passed all of his magic classes and is adept at handling all manners of enchantments, he still likes the option the pistol gives him in situations where people either don't believe in magic or it doesn't and where his sword isn't much help to him either.
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