Variks And Euros Working On A New Arm.

Today I did a redraw of a couple sketches from 2014 and 2017 respectively. I initially thought there wasn’t gonna be much improvement from 2017 to now but I guess I’m still surprising myself huh.

I’ve still been slowly catching up on the Oxventure podcast while at work and just finished the Extinction season. I was gladly surprised with the Corazon centric seasonal finale and thought his internal reflection was fascinating, I just wish we were able to see more of it! The whole dungeon crawl and boss battle in the Curse Hole had me stressed out so much that I’m sure my coworkers thought I was going insane. The Oxventure crew has a special place in my heart and I’m excited for some more Blades in the Dark and Deadlands on my horizon!

Finished Mass Effect 3 a couple days ago and man was that hard to do. Achieved the Perfect Destroy ending but still was really rough to get there. If only we had news about ME4 anytime soon.

Gonna color this when I have time but here’s some sad stuff immediately after the fun sketches.

I imagine Zavala and Ikora were called in the middle of leisure time by the hangar telling them that they have to get down there. That it’s not good. It’s the YW. It’s Cayde. Of course they rush down not knowing what to expect, Ikora interrupted from either meditation or a rare sleep, Zavala putting down some late night knitting which is the only thing that seems to relax him anymore. When they almost trip down the stairs to the hangar they see the YW leaving her ship, carrying an all too familiar black and red cloak stained with dirt and grime. Immediately they know. Immediately their hearts just drop to the floor. The YW can’t say anything but, “I brought him home. I didn’t know what else to do.”

The Three Hunters ©️ Ruth Brown 2025

I “redesigned” the trio after rereading and rewatching the trilogy and was inspired to mesh a bit of their movie forms, book descriptions, and my own flair on their designs. I think it turned out pretty fun!

I love when Legolas adds some leather pauldrons to his fit at the battle of Helm’s Deep so I incorporated that silhouette into this new design, while leaning a bit more into a woodsy “fey” idea.

Aragorn is largely similar to the movies but physically resembles how I imagined his book descriptions, a tall, dark, and strong man akin to how most Gondorians are described, especially Boromir.

I wanted to embellish Gimli a bit more to call back to his origins from the Lonely Mountain after its reclamation and the abundance of wealth that would have been dispersed through the Hobbit’s company of dwarves and their families. I love his weapons in the movies though so the sort of cut out style is only a bit altered (and more poorly executed) in my design.

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Some sketches I had fun with after the trailer dropped for season of the Chosen. I won’t be able to play for a couple of weeks but I’m enjoying all the second hand info I’m getting!

I love thinking about post-Return of the King life for the fellowship. I love how involved Pippin is with Faramir in Gondor and therefore Aragorn as well. Also this is an imagining of Aragorn offering casual praise for Faramir’s work as Steward but Faramir is so unused to praise for literally anything that he has to take a moment.

I still haven’t finished Red Dead Redemption 2 and honestly I don’t know if I can handle it at this point, haha.