AKA 'Space Babe and Cat Girl'

Update: Finished it and put a background on it. I was aiming for a 'ruined temple' kind of thing, but I wonder if I've made it overly fussy now...

Okay, here's a new drawing. This one showcases some of the new PHB2 races. (Yeah, it's funny I keep drawing characters from a game I don't even like, but that never stopped me with Final Fantasy! I guess I just like the visual aesthetics of it all...)

The girl on the right is Summer, a Razorclaw Shifter and a druidess. In this combat-only edition, druids don't have their usual outdoor spells and abilities, but have shapechanging and elemental attack spells. It's not a bad class by the low standards of 4E. Shifters are sort of 'half-werecreatures', a weretiger in the case of Razorclaws.

I've wanted to draw something 'furry' for a while. Eastern catgirls seem to be mostly normal females with kitty ears and tails, while in the West, they tend to be anthropomorphised felines. I've gone for something in the middle; the Marvel superheroine Tigra was an obvious inspiration!

The one on the left is Adarah, one of the new 'Deva' race. She's an Invoker, a kind of priestess who uses attack magic instead of healing. Again, a fairly interesting class in comparison with most of the others.

The new Deva are a reworking of the Aasimar from earlier editions, a kind of half-human, half-angel. But in 4E, 'angels' are now bland, literally faceless entities rather than holy paragons of virtue. But suprisingly, the new race doesn't suck. They have a kind of 'serial immortality', in which they endlessly reincarnate over many lifetimes, and recall some of their past lives. All in all, a cool concept.

Their look strikes me as more sci-fi than fantasy. I actually thought of a better concept for the new race, which I shall use if I ever bring them to my homebrew games. Rather than being descended from faceless angels, I imagined them as having alien ancestors. I've always liked the concept of 'ancient astronauts', the idea that certain early civilisations came into contact with interplanetary visitors. These early civilisations mistook them for gods, and possibly worshipped them (there's some intriguing evidence at places like Machu Pichu in South America). Anyway, for the purposes of this character, these aliens visited an early Babylonian-type civilisation, and bred with the locals before leaving. Their children were not like the 'gods', but weren't human either. They died like humans, but were reborn again and again. This explanation seems to fit their alien appearance, and the reason why they still prefer to wear garb from a much earlier time.

Adarah is a priestess of dragons, hence her tattoo. She will eventually have skin markings too. I liked the face mask shown in the PHB2 and thought it worked well here to make her look mysterious. You can see most of her body, but not her face...