commissioned by Petra D.
A jotunborn monk built like a circus strongman, pale grey skin lit from inside by a purple weave that runs the length of his forearms and creeps up the side of his neck. The pose lands halfway between stoic mountain-style stance and one of those old vaudeville strongman posters, which was exactly the contradiction Petra asked for. Student of the mountain, aspiring stone brawler, currently moonlighting under a striped tent.
Petra plays him in a long-running Pathfinder game and sent the Paizo jotunborn iconic as her opening reference. From there the brief got specific about the glow: not magical lightning, more like cracks in a geode that happen to be alive. We tested three saturations of purple before the final settled on something closer to amethyst than neon. The strongman moustache was a late add and it stayed.
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