"Sheila from Dungeons and Dragons - Redesign" by Robson Michel (G)

[brightknightie]

Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons cartoon (1983-1985) ("D&DC")
Character: Sheila | The Thief
Warnings: None (safe for work)
Medium: Digital painting (unspecified tools) [realism style]
Artist on social media: Robson Michel's art on Facebook
Artist gallery: Robson Michel's Deviant Art Gallery
Why this piece is awesome: The artist captioned this painting: "Sheila is older, bolder, and with a brand-new attitude!" This still image is all motion. In a full-length portrait, a grown-up Sheila makes her iconic gesture -- tugging the hood of her invisibility cloak with her right hand -- dramatically shifting between visibility and invisibility against a sweeping, forbidding, Realm landscape. She steps out alone on the edge, above and beyond her fears.
Link: "Sheila from Dungeons and Dragons - Redesign" by Robson Michel (2015)

Comments

[imhilien]

A great painting, I like how the cloak was portrayed. Sheila was one of my favourite characters of the show.

[brightknightie]

Thanks for sharing! Yes, me too. This realistic portrayal of the cloak in action knocks my socks off.

[elistaire]

Wow, that is stunning! The cloak is so perfectly there/not there, and the added tattoos(?)/henna(?)/temporary magical symbols(?), lovely.

[brightknightie]

Thanks for looking and commenting!

I understand that this artist has subsequently gone on to actually work as an illustrator for Wizards of the Coast. I've wondered whether his fantastic D&DC fanart was perhaps part of his portfolio; he did a sequence of all the main characters in this "grown-up AU" realism style (Sheila's cloak is the breathtaking best of the set, imo).