🎲 Merry December y’all, and thanks for stopping by! (^^)/ 🎲 Last video of the year! (I still can’t believe it was sponsored by DnD sdfghj-- 😳) If you have any faves from today’s lineup, or if there were any new Strixhaven things that you’re particular hype to hear about, pls do let me know here in the comments! 👀 Hope y’all have a great rest of the year, and I’ll see you in 2022! 🥳🎉💖
This is amazing! I want to play DND eventually and this perfectly captures that fantasy esc vibe that I always imagine it to have. I look forward to your next video and for my frog plush to arrive.
If you wanna know a specific one , a mute silverquill student who is an owlin sorcerer, they them, and is a snowy owl covered in ink splotches, and uses a magic quill as a spell focus
I like all of the classes because I thought there would be a magic school for magic casters: like wizards, warlocks, sorcerers, artificers, or arcane tricksters to learn and study, like in modern times. I think it's a perfect thing for kids or teenagers in Dungeons and Dragons. Don't you agree?
@@ABDIllustrates And I should thank you for introducing me to Dungeons and Dragons since two years ago. I love your artwork and I hope I can meet you one day. Probably after I graduate and after summer break, hopefully.
@@thebigfreak2958 its a keyboard smash, people use it to express laughter (sometimes other emotions like nervousness or being overwhelmed) cus its spontaneous and fun
Especially as a writer, I’m SUPER hyped for this. I’m trying to make my spoken Role-playing just as eloquent as my writing (not very good at it yet) and this is an EXCELLENT excuse to try and do so.
I think silverquill would bet more law aligned without being fully lawful, using the rules of language to their benefit, plus white is the closest color to lawful in magic
Oh now this, College/School magic setting with DnD rules and parties? This, this is my jam. School settings and academies will forever be my favorite kind of genre for any story so this might be my gateway to DnD finally!
I’ve been wanting to get into DND and once I get used to the ropes of it, I’ll definitely be purchasing this book eventually! (Because who doesn’t love magic and collages)
The Stirxhaven setting was what got me into Magic The Gathering, and then the book announcement really hyped me up for DnD. Who knew school would be fun?
The Owl House fan in me couldn't help but note that Luz would totally be in Lorehold & now I'm thinking about what the other characters in the series would be a part of. 😅😊 Amity- Quandrix Guz- Prismari Willow- Witherbloom 😊😊😊
I also think Eda would be in Prismari and Lilith in Quandrix with her apprentince Amity (I also imagine Eda and Lilith constantly fighting about which campus is better every time they meet 😅)
@@lalaofmotunui7927 Eda would probably be either a Professor of Expression at the Prismari College or a Professor of Chaos for Lorehold. I can see Lilith as either a Professor of Theory at Quandrix or a Professor of Radiance at Silverquill. Raine is a professor at whatever college Eda works at but on the opposite side of it's spectrum so either a Professor of Perfection at Prismari or a Professor of Order in Lorehold. As for other students, any bard track/coven member would end up in either Prismari or Silverquill. Boscha would be a Witherbloom student since it more easily offers alchemy studies and she would also be a part of the Mage Tower Team. Ed and Em would fit in wonderfully at Prismari. Viney would tend to animals in the bogs of Witherbloom while Jerbo would be there using magic to talk to plants. Bria would be digging up treasure in Lorehold and Mattholomule would also be digging up stuff in Lorehold trying to pass random junk as artifacts. Hunter I can see going to either Silverquill or Quandrix. I have no idea what to do for Bump.
"I made him a tiefling because I like tieflings" How to say you've been afflicted with gender without saying you've been afflicted with gender (said me, the transwoman, jokingly self-disparagingly)
@@ABDIllustrates I couldn't agree more. Also I have drawn lots of pictures that's Dungeons and Dragons related and I wish I can send them to you on Tumblr. I hope you'll like them.
@@Paichan13 Yeah, but Tary is, like, the ORIGINAL 5e playtest Artificer, he played NOTHING like the final class from Eberron and Tasha's Cauldron plays. (The official class came out about a year into Campaign 2, in "Eberron: Rising From the Last War", long after Sam played Taryon)
@@Paichan13 I was just giving some clarifying context. Because maybe somebody sees this who plays an Artificer and then watches C1, and is like "Why are all of his abilities so weird from what I play?" It's because of what I said. (Or vice versa as well)
"Quandrix students aim to find the mathematic principles in the world around them and use them in magic" *Me, who has been obsessed with Arcane*: I can already tell I'm going to have a favorite.
I'm an artist myself and my character is a tiefling bard named Taoli. So I think that the Prismatic college is really interesting to me. Perfect for someone like me. Also, fun fact: Taoli is one of three characters who are not gay in our school DnD club campaign.
AH!!! I love these characters not only are the color scheme and designs but with the given addition to their study tracks to their designs are epic! They all are just so awesome and literally Strixshaven sounds so amazing! Also for names Owl boy, hootwin is all I can think on the nose but ugh it sounds too cute to not give 🥺 And for the rest well in order in left to right Aurora, Jerrold, Fitzroy and Maggie :D ✨
I think the only real "problem" with Strixhaven is that it was weirdly marketed as both a setting guide and a campaign, where it's really more like WDDH or BGDiA; a campaign with a substantial gazetteer and bestiary. So people went into it expecting a full guide to Arcavios when even MtG players don't have that.
I'm planning to import Strixhaven into Eberron: the Founder Dragons are members of the Chamber and the school is an experiment to find trustworthy agents in their war against the Lords of Dust.
9:02 I actually found out the other day that Percy is a fighter, gunslinger is just a subclass you can pick at level 3. When I went to D&D Beyond and found that out, I was actually pretty shocked.
Ok, I don't tend to be alot into the classics DnD books, and I'm always cautious of school-like campaign, but I just fell in love with Lorehold, it's EXACTLY the kind of atmosphere I love !!
I love that the warforged has glasses, they're a lil nerd! I love them! Also just... resisting (not really) the urge to make au version of my necromancer where they could go to a college for their passion instead of getting arrested for it
Hooooooly crap! What awesome artwork and A COOL NEW THING FROM D&D!!! I WANNA PLAY IT!!!! Your artwork always inspires me when I'm in an art rut and this video is certainly no exception! Amazing! 👏🏽💖💕
I actually also have a nerdy wizard owlin, I was laughing when you mentioned the owlin you made and my brain immediately went "oh God, don't be a snowy owl". They were an owlfolk since owlin wasn't an official race yet but I swapped over and didn't need to change anything, luckily. I love all of these designs though. Started playing dnd with my partner and some friends and it's been super fun!
I love the Silverquill and Lorehold designs! All of them look amazing in my personal opinion. First time seeing your channel, glad to now consider myself a fan! :) I know I'm late, but this is still amazing!
Just wanted to waltz on in and say, the first bean, the tiefling, their name should be Ferro, as in ferrofluid, that liquid that is magnetic and super inky looking Also your creative process is so inspiring, I very often find myself going back to your DnD and Heartless videos to get my brain juices flowing😁😁
This is really good and helpful! Yesterday I started running the new book, and I'm so happy you got the sponsor! I'm gonna send this video to my players and have them watch it! Congrats!
Amazing art and congrats on getting sponsored by THE D&D Team, ABD Also, as a fellow art school graduate who learnt about the flame [colour] test on the side (not related) I can totally imagine your Prismari character going so far as to powder their hair/scalp with various compounds and chemical elements like lithium and selenium just to get that neon hue as part of their... "creative pioneering" and I LUV IT~!!
Your voice is so satisfying and I wish the best things in the world for you! You are so talented and I'm so excited that you got sponsored by D and D. Keep it up! 😁
The Dungeons and Dragons Club was one of the few things that kept me going through high school. Man, I miss it! Congratulations on getting sponsored by them! Keep doing what you're doing!
I may have only seen that final character for a few minuets now but I now know would give them all my possessions and also do anything for them absolutely stunning
Yes YES YESSS this take about the Eloquence bards from Strixhaven makes me so happy! I've had a concept for a bit of a Harpy Bard who can't play an instrument due to his bird features so he instead went to college for eloquence and sharpened his word and wit! Glad to see you agree with this take! Definitely going to consider making him a Strixhaven Alumnus.
I fell in love with the ink guy!! Just something about the power to bend and manipulate ink to do random tasks inspires me so much and i wanna draw a character inspired by that!! Love this video btw
I like seeing the reference images, because it gives us a glimpse into elements we'll see as the drawing comes together, and some insight into the inspo. It also feels more authentic, so I don't mind it at all!
23:20 That reminds me that I'm gonna be working on my Wild-Western Cowgirl-Inspired Desert/Sand Witch tomorrow in preparation for Marchician 2022, an art challenge where I design 31 witches based on the prompts I've been given, she wields a revolver that uses magical scrolls as ammo & her name is Sonora (After the Sonora Desert)!
I wasnt so creative in the naming of the characters but this is what i came up with in the order they appear: Sil-Quinn, Drian, Mars, Theol, and Lehro. I love your art and I love dnd so this was so much fun to watch!💜
*me- a person who never played dnd before but created a dnd inspired character years ago who was a bard archaeologists and loves stories based in a academic setting* how interesting 😳🤔 Amazing characters with such great concepts btw!!👍💜
Ayo, DND is sick, but it is also very pleasing to see how you make your inking shapes. I learned quite a bit watching you draw. It looks so good, fantastic stuff, keep going!
I'm running a strixhaven campaign in the new year, and it's gonna be challenging to write School-based adventures. character creation was also hard, since it's a really difficult setting to summarize and not all of my players had read the book.
ohmygosh these are GORGEOUS!!! I am obSESSED with your work and style!! Also so CURIOUS about all the brushes you used!! Especially the one you used for the ink! AMAZING WORK
Aaaa you got sponsored by D&D!!! That's awesome, ABD! Congrats! And these characters look so dynamic and awesome! Especially the more non-human characters; you've really come so far with that considering you have more trouble with non-human anatomy. It's so cool! I've already fallen in love with the Witherbloom College. I've had a bunch of plant imagery in my mind recently, so this is pretty much the perfect place if I ever join a Strixhaven campaign. If there was ever a time to start D&D, now would be the time! Amazing work as always!
I have known this Owlin for less than a minute and I would protect them with my life. You did such a great job with all of these designs! I can practically hear their voices you conveyed personality so well!
The Timing of this video still gets me. I wasn't aware that D&D released a new book, so when I watched this on christmas eve I thought 'oh, thats cool' and then my dad, who didn't know what to get me for christmas, got me the most recent D&D book, which happens to be Strixhaven. Still not sure how I'm supposed to use it for D&D, but its interesting to say the least :D
My parents bought me cool lavender mini D20 on hoop earrings for Christmas from what I think was the original merch site itself! If there is one. It looked a lot like it was from DnD beyond- Anyways I’m so happy for you! That’s amazing!
My friends and i are also starting a strixhaven campaign and when i saw this recommended to me I LOST IT I LOVE YOUR CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERS THEY ARE ALL SO SO FITTING
I feel like LARO in a fantasy setting is like the Airsoft of gun enthusiasts. Yes you could cast meteor swarm, but that’s no fun. So why not use Prestidigitation and Thaumaturgy like an airsoft version of fireball or eldritch blast
I just ADORE your dnd content, it always brings a smile to my face and I can't wait for more wonderful character designs!! You're such a big inspiration to me and I find these videos super helpful, so thanks ABD :D
these characters are completely amazing. the fact that you came up with amazing characters just from the new classes is superb. D&D was right to sponsor you. keep up the great work.
I loved the Warforged character, as well as the Owlin (hope I spelled that right)! When you mentioned Wall-E during the Warforged drawing process, nostalgia hit me like a freaking truck! It's probably my favorite movie, so the connection just made me love your character even more!
for some reason, the warforged character in quandrix gives off fantasy-esque aperture science vibes, so bizarrely enough i imagined the character being voiced by stephen merchant or ellen mclain.
Percy from CR is actually a Gunslinger Fighter, it's a homebrew subclass for fighter that Taliesin and Matt Mercer developed together. However, Taryon Darrington (also from the first campaign of CR) is an Artificer, though admittedly that was back when it was just Unearthed Arcana so the rules were slightly less refined.
Dude your slam poetry bard idea is exactly what my current character is and it’s literally so fun. Like my character just writes poetry about made-up gods for stupidly specific things (such as pasta and chickens) and I fully support seeing more poet bard stuff. Such a blast to play! Especially since I get to write a lot of the poetry myself and then just start reciting it at random moments in the campaign, haha.
Oh my gosh. I AM SO EXCITED FOR STRIXHAVEN!!! This video has now inspired me to go read everything I can find about it. Also, of course, these characters are as amazing as ever.
I love all of these!!! I actually Pre-ordered Strixhaven and was really looking for character inspiration. Also the hair for the Prismari character is AWESOME.
Alex's artwork is incredible 💖💖 Really inspires me to get creative and create characters & stories of my own. Loved watching this speedpaint and in particular his character creation process. 💖💖
One of my players is playing an eloquence bard in our waterdeep campaign and he's been a blast to DM for! We replaced his 'bardic instrument' with a horn that he can speak through to flavor his spells more. He's an orator and scholar so it's fun to see a non-musical bard get more support from source material!
dude! I've been watching your speedpaints since like 2018, and you are such a huge artistic inspiration to me! the way you use light and color, the dynamic poses, the line work--it's all just so amazing! you have no idea the swell of pride I just got clicking on this video and seeing that my favorite D&D artist is now being COMMISSIONED BY D&D ITSELF!!!! :D so proud of you!!!!
Amazing!!!! I love your art style and character designs so much and being sponsored by DnD is so good! Percy is a gunslinger fighter btw, a homebrew subclass by Matt based on Pathfinder's Gunslinger class since that's where the first campaign actually started. Taryon Darrington is an artificer though!
I was looking for a background video to watch while drawing my D&D character. So now I'm watching D&D while drawing D&D... Definitely didn't word that well.
Here are my headcanon names for these new character, in order of being drawn: Silverquill Student: Poe, He/They pronouns (sorta like Edgar Allen Poe? Or like Poet maybe?) Quandrix Student: Weave, They/Them pronouns (Alex mentioned the character being similar to Wally, so I thought a mixed name between Wally and Eve would suit them) Prismari Student: Flare, She/Her pronouns (I just thought it sounded cool) Witherbloom Student: Taiga, She/They pronouns (Taiga is a type of forest biome, specifically a snowy forest, and I thought it would be fitting considering snow and winter are often connected with the cold and death. But a forest, even a snowy one, is still teeming with life. I think it fits the Witherbloom duality well) Lorehold Student: Harvey, He/Him pronouns (A cute, nerdy name that I really think fits with his vibe)
I cant stop replying "OMG YOUR DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" Idk why but thats my favorite part but amazing work and congrats for getting sponsored by THE D&D!
My suggestions for names for these absolutely lovely character designs have to be (in order from left to right): Tempest Blightfyre, Coil Elhammer, Achlius Brangwen, Amaryllis Fairedoe, and Otus Stoneherald :) It’s so cool to hear your thought process on designing these characters and your specific inspirations for them!! I adore the process of designing characters especially in a D&D setting so this was a huge motivator into creating more characters that I won’t even use anytime soon... (I already happen to have seven characters within nearly a year of playing, and only two of them I’ve actually played with! I have a problem.)
i LOVED the owl! i have an owl character as well (though they're an aarakocra) and it makes me happy to see another one 😄 i think it would be fun (and cute) to give yours a name that sounds like a bird noise like Qhik or Ourrk ☺️☺️
I remember when I got my hands on strixhaven booster packs and just imidietly fell in love with the characters just from their portrairs on the packaging. Finding out from this video that I'm actually going to be able to make my own character and explore strixhaven is just lursitDUeylylerupapue I can't even described it, so hypes for this
as always, i adore to see each piece of content you create - its all so truly inspiring to improve on my own work more and more (even though im burnt out, it helps though) i hope you have a wonderful rest of your month ! again thank you for each new wonderful post of yours! these characters are so well thought out, id love to see a campaign done with this new book
Fun fact, Strix is actually part of the scientific name for a family of owls. For example, Strix Nebulosa is the scientific name of the great gray owl. I just thought it was funny that you drew an owl in the world of Strixhaven!
I love them all and was so excited to see each college student!!!! As for names, L to R: Jessie or Jess for short (maybe Jest as a nickname too!), Xylph, Flare, Mollywart (Molly for short), and Pippin!
So, actually a BUNCH of recent DnD books were crossovers with Magic, and I personally adore them (and think you might enjoy them too, since you mentioned that you researched from the card game!), and that Magic just had a set called Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, which was a magic set that took place on a bunch of the typical DnD planes! :) Love the video! It was really cool to hear you talk through your process and see all these really unique characters!
Oh waw ! All of those characters look super great ! I'm super glad you got to be sponsored by D&D, it just makes me happy considering how much you love it Happy Christmas eve !
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🎲 Merry December y’all, and thanks for stopping by! (^^)/ 🎲
Last video of the year! (I still can’t believe it was sponsored by DnD sdfghj-- 😳) If you have any faves from today’s lineup, or if there were any new Strixhaven things that you’re particular hype to hear about, pls do let me know here in the comments! 👀
Hope y’all have a great rest of the year, and I’ll see you in 2022! 🥳🎉💖
This is amazing! I want to play DND eventually and this perfectly captures that fantasy esc vibe that I always imagine it to have. I look forward to your next video and for my frog plush to arrive.
Ok but from the stixhaven book this whole video has inspired me to add more back up characters I'm so glad you are back thank you
If you wanna know a specific one , a mute silverquill student who is an owlin sorcerer, they them, and is a snowy owl covered in ink splotches, and uses a magic quill as a spell focus
Quandrix reminds me of the Prodigy math game where you have to use math to casts spells. So I think it's the same thing.
I like all of the classes because I thought there would be a magic school for magic casters: like wizards, warlocks, sorcerers, artificers, or arcane tricksters to learn and study, like in modern times. I think it's a perfect thing for kids or teenagers in Dungeons and Dragons. Don't you agree?
To think that the person who got me into DnD is now sponsored by DnD THEMSELVES ! Congrats to you and as usual the character designs are fantastic !
sdfgh thank you! 😭💖
@@ABDIllustrates And I should thank you for introducing me to Dungeons and Dragons since two years ago. I love your artwork and I hope I can meet you one day. Probably after I graduate and after summer break, hopefully.
What does sdfgh mean
@@thebigfreak2958 its a keyboard smash, people use it to express laughter (sometimes other emotions like nervousness or being overwhelmed) cus its spontaneous and fun
@@aidey833 i see
Me who plays a tiefling bard: Ah yes, the perfect college for me...A bunch of charismatic people masking their chaos with
✨words✨
I also have a tiefling bard, a happy go lucky girl called Pax, she'd probably attend Prismari though
I also had a chaotic bard she was a elf tho
Yess tiefling bards rise up! Wanna play another campaign just to let my boy loose in this world XD
Especially as a writer, I’m SUPER hyped for this.
I’m trying to make my spoken Role-playing just as eloquent as my writing (not very good at it yet) and this is an EXCELLENT excuse to try and do so.
I think silverquill would bet more law aligned without being fully lawful, using the rules of language to their benefit, plus white is the closest color to lawful in magic
Oh now this, College/School magic setting with DnD rules and parties?
This, this is my jam. School settings and academies will forever be my favorite kind of genre for any story so this might be my gateway to DnD finally!
I’ve been wanting to get into DND and once I get used to the ropes of it, I’ll definitely be purchasing this book eventually! (Because who doesn’t love magic and collages)
The Stirxhaven setting was what got me into Magic The Gathering, and then the book announcement really hyped me up for DnD. Who knew school would be fun?
Yes Alex. YES. I LOVE this new book. Nobody deserves the WotC money more than you!!!
in the LARP club they all just pretend to be totally non-magical business people in an office
It's literally just the show the office
@@tricks1118 the office was made in strixhaven by a couple of aspiring filmmakers in the club
The office is Strixhaven’s version of Game of Thrones
Perfect vid since i’ve been in the mood to design more DND characters (that i wont get to play for a long while-) 👀✨
Same lmao
Yo I can’t believe that you’ve been sponsored by such a big company!!! Congrats ABD!!! :D
The Owl House fan in me couldn't help but note that Luz would totally be in Lorehold & now I'm thinking about what the other characters in the series would be a part of. 😅😊
Amity- Quandrix
Guz- Prismari
Willow- Witherbloom
😊😊😊
Yo you are so right tho
Hooty-Is also here
@@itsturtlefacemydudes Hooty would make an amazing arch-antagonist lol. A dark presence that pulls the strings from the shadows.
I also think Eda would be in Prismari and Lilith in Quandrix with her apprentince Amity (I also imagine Eda and Lilith constantly fighting about which campus is better every time they meet 😅)
@@lalaofmotunui7927 Eda would probably be either a Professor of Expression at the Prismari College or a Professor of Chaos for Lorehold. I can see Lilith as either a Professor of Theory at Quandrix or a Professor of Radiance at Silverquill. Raine is a professor at whatever college Eda works at but on the opposite side of it's spectrum so either a Professor of Perfection at Prismari or a Professor of Order in Lorehold. As for other students, any bard track/coven member would end up in either Prismari or Silverquill. Boscha would be a Witherbloom student since it more easily offers alchemy studies and she would also be a part of the Mage Tower Team. Ed and Em would fit in wonderfully at Prismari. Viney would tend to animals in the bogs of Witherbloom while Jerbo would be there using magic to talk to plants. Bria would be digging up treasure in Lorehold and Mattholomule would also be digging up stuff in Lorehold trying to pass random junk as artifacts. Hunter I can see going to either Silverquill or Quandrix. I have no idea what to do for Bump.
"I made him a tiefling because I like tieflings" How to say you've been afflicted with gender without saying you've been afflicted with gender (said me, the transwoman, jokingly self-disparagingly)
i, a tranguy, can also relate. tieflings are gender as fuck
shhh, dont be so loud next time geez
me when i made mutliple tiefling characters before i came out or even really knew that i was trans lmao
@@whofan1212 They really are gender
Gender is stored in the horns
24:15 I came up with some names for these characters, so, from left to right, we have: Seraphina, Aster, Theo, Cedar, and Pocket!
omg Pocket is such a cute name for an Owlin! 🦉💖
@@ABDIllustrates I couldn't agree more. Also I have drawn lots of pictures that's Dungeons and Dragons related and I wish I can send them to you on Tumblr. I hope you'll like them.
@@ABDIllustrates I can also send a picture of my D&D character that I play if you would like.
Oh, I really like Seraphina for the genasi (that’s not how that’s spelt)! It really feels like it matches
@@EmmaSmoke I really agree with that. Also love the the blue and pink color scheme.
Percy is a homebrew fighter gunslinger, the tinkering is just a thing he does on top of that
But he was close, as Taryon, Sam's second character, is an Artificer :)
@@Paichan13 Yeah, but Tary is, like, the ORIGINAL 5e playtest Artificer, he played NOTHING like the final class from Eberron and Tasha's Cauldron plays. (The official class came out about a year into Campaign 2, in "Eberron: Rising From the Last War", long after Sam played Taryon)
@@Hey-Its-Dingo Of course, but still an Artificer
@@Paichan13 I was just giving some clarifying context. Because maybe somebody sees this who plays an Artificer and then watches C1, and is like "Why are all of his abilities so weird from what I play?" It's because of what I said. (Or vice versa as well)
Didn’t Percy take a level in artificier? Or maybe Taliesin was just considering it?
"Quandrix students aim to find the mathematic principles in the world around them and use them in magic"
*Me, who has been obsessed with Arcane*: I can already tell I'm going to have a favorite.
He missed that Quandrix is drawn casting magic as *fractals*. It's really cool
Make that one meme with the confused woman with math symbols all around her and make it a Quandrix student trying to figure something out
It just made me think of the asura from Guild Wars 2. :>
This gave me inspiration for creating new DND characters even though I don't have any campaigns to use them in :)
Me too darling, me too.
I do this constantly. RIP
@@dropkicksofthemurphys9696 me too , then I get sad that I can't play them lol
same 😔🥹
The owl boy definitely looks like a Simon.
I'm an artist myself and my character is a tiefling bard named Taoli. So I think that the Prismatic college is really interesting to me. Perfect for someone like me.
Also, fun fact: Taoli is one of three characters who are not gay in our school DnD club campaign.
This is fucking hilarious because I felt almost attacked for playing straights in my dnd club lol
AH!!! I love these characters not only are the color scheme and designs but with the given addition to their study tracks to their designs are epic! They all are just so awesome and literally Strixshaven sounds so amazing!
Also for names
Owl boy, hootwin is all I can think on the nose but ugh it sounds too cute to not give 🥺
And for the rest well in order in left to right
Aurora, Jerrold, Fitzroy and Maggie
:D ✨
I think the only real "problem" with Strixhaven is that it was weirdly marketed as both a setting guide and a campaign, where it's really more like WDDH or BGDiA; a campaign with a substantial gazetteer and bestiary. So people went into it expecting a full guide to Arcavios when even MtG players don't have that.
I'm planning to import Strixhaven into Eberron: the Founder Dragons are members of the Chamber and the school is an experiment to find trustworthy agents in their war against the Lords of Dust.
Names
Tiefling: Penrose
Robot: Harbinger
Genasi: Rosa
Satyr: Mandolin
Owlboy: Seymour
Congrats Alex!!! So happy for you!💜
11:00 DnD multiverse? DnD multiverse.
9:02
I actually found out the other day that Percy is a fighter, gunslinger is just a subclass you can pick at level 3. When I went to D&D Beyond and found that out, I was actually pretty shocked.
Ok, I don't tend to be alot into the classics DnD books, and I'm always cautious of school-like campaign, but I just fell in love with Lorehold, it's EXACTLY the kind of atmosphere I love !!
I love that the warforged has glasses, they're a lil nerd! I love them! Also just... resisting (not really) the urge to make au version of my necromancer where they could go to a college for their passion instead of getting arrested for it
Hooooooly crap! What awesome artwork and A COOL NEW THING FROM D&D!!! I WANNA PLAY IT!!!! Your artwork always inspires me when I'm in an art rut and this video is certainly no exception! Amazing! 👏🏽💖💕
I actually also have a nerdy wizard owlin, I was laughing when you mentioned the owlin you made and my brain immediately went "oh God, don't be a snowy owl". They were an owlfolk since owlin wasn't an official race yet but I swapped over and didn't need to change anything, luckily.
I love all of these designs though. Started playing dnd with my partner and some friends and it's been super fun!
I love the Silverquill and Lorehold designs! All of them look amazing in my personal opinion. First time seeing your channel, glad to now consider myself a fan! :)
I know I'm late, but this is still amazing!
Just wanted to waltz on in and say, the first bean, the tiefling, their name should be Ferro, as in ferrofluid, that liquid that is magnetic and super inky looking
Also your creative process is so inspiring, I very often find myself going back to your DnD and Heartless videos to get my brain juices flowing😁😁
Also like ferrous metals- iron! I think there's a cosmetic thingie with tieflings where you have iron hands and feet
Dont think this is weird, but I love your voice. It just makes me feel calm and chill and just makes me love your videos even more
This is really good and helpful! Yesterday I started running the new book, and I'm so happy you got the sponsor! I'm gonna send this video to my players and have them watch it! Congrats!
Ooh, hope y'all have fun with your new campaign! 💖🎲
Heck yeah, it’s going great
@@sen2334 Oh hi sen
Totally not one of my players
Hey lex :D
Ah yes, the beautiful character design he does. Absolutely amazing. 💜
Amazing art and congrats on getting sponsored by THE D&D Team, ABD
Also, as a fellow art school graduate who learnt about the flame [colour] test on the side (not related) I can totally imagine your Prismari character going so far as to powder their hair/scalp with various compounds and chemical elements like lithium and selenium just to get that neon hue as part of their... "creative pioneering" and I LUV IT~!!
Your voice is so satisfying and I wish the best things in the world for you! You are so talented and I'm so excited that you got sponsored by D and D. Keep it up! 😁
From left to right, Id say Gwenevere, Pyrite, Moloch, Judeth, and Lomond for names? Absolutely love all of their designs !!
The Dungeons and Dragons Club was one of the few things that kept me going through high school.
Man, I miss it!
Congratulations on getting sponsored by them! Keep doing what you're doing!
I may have only seen that final character for a few minuets now but I now know would give them all my possessions and also do anything for them absolutely stunning
Yes YES YESSS this take about the Eloquence bards from Strixhaven makes me so happy! I've had a concept for a bit of a Harpy Bard who can't play an instrument due to his bird features so he instead went to college for eloquence and sharpened his word and wit! Glad to see you agree with this take! Definitely going to consider making him a Strixhaven Alumnus.
Never played dnd and never understood it but watching you draw and talk about it so passionately just makes my brain produce serotonin
Wow! Gorgeous designs! Strixhaven sounds super fun, and the new colleges are super interesting!
D&D??? GET THAT COIN
I fell in love with the ink guy!! Just something about the power to bend and manipulate ink to do random tasks inspires me so much and i wanna draw a character inspired by that!! Love this video btw
I like seeing the reference images, because it gives us a glimpse into elements we'll see as the drawing comes together, and some insight into the inspo. It also feels more authentic, so I don't mind it at all!
All of these designs are stunning- I can't even describe how much inspiration and excitement they fill me with!
Oh my gosh, is so CUTE how Alex is just freaking out about the DnD contacting him
23:20 That reminds me that I'm gonna be working on my Wild-Western Cowgirl-Inspired Desert/Sand Witch tomorrow in preparation for Marchician 2022, an art challenge where I design 31 witches based on the prompts I've been given, she wields a revolver that uses magical scrolls as ammo & her name is Sonora (After the Sonora Desert)!
I love your intro. IDK why but when you say "Hello, Hope you are doing we'll" it just makes me so happy
All these characters have such a VIBE to them!
I wasnt so creative in the naming of the characters but this is what i came up with in the order they appear: Sil-Quinn, Drian, Mars, Theol, and Lehro. I love your art and I love dnd so this was so much fun to watch!💜
*me- a person who never played dnd before but created a dnd inspired character years ago who was a bard archaeologists and loves stories based in a academic setting* how interesting 😳🤔
Amazing characters with such great concepts btw!!👍💜
These designs are so good!!! I love seeing your speedpaints and hearing about your process for them, and congrats on being sponsored by D&D!!! 💖
Ayo, DND is sick, but it is also very pleasing to see how you make your inking shapes. I learned quite a bit watching you draw. It looks so good, fantastic stuff, keep going!
I'm running a strixhaven campaign in the new year, and it's gonna be challenging to write School-based adventures. character creation was also hard, since it's a really difficult setting to summarize and not all of my players had read the book.
ohmygosh these are GORGEOUS!!! I am obSESSED with your work and style!! Also so CURIOUS about all the brushes you used!! Especially the one you used for the ink! AMAZING WORK
Still can’t get over your avatar it’s so cute!
Aaaa you got sponsored by D&D!!! That's awesome, ABD! Congrats! And these characters look so dynamic and awesome! Especially the more non-human characters; you've really come so far with that considering you have more trouble with non-human anatomy. It's so cool!
I've already fallen in love with the Witherbloom College. I've had a bunch of plant imagery in my mind recently, so this is pretty much the perfect place if I ever join a Strixhaven campaign. If there was ever a time to start D&D, now would be the time! Amazing work as always!
I have known this Owlin for less than a minute and I would protect them with my life.
You did such a great job with all of these designs! I can practically hear their voices you conveyed personality so well!
The Timing of this video still gets me. I wasn't aware that D&D released a new book, so when I watched this on christmas eve I thought 'oh, thats cool' and then my dad, who didn't know what to get me for christmas, got me the most recent D&D book, which happens to be Strixhaven. Still not sure how I'm supposed to use it for D&D, but its interesting to say the least :D
My parents bought me cool lavender mini D20 on hoop earrings for Christmas from what I think was the original merch site itself! If there is one. It looked a lot like it was from DnD beyond-
Anyways I’m so happy for you! That’s amazing!
My friends and i are also starting a strixhaven campaign and when i saw this recommended to me I LOST IT I LOVE YOUR CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERS THEY ARE ALL SO SO FITTING
You’re my biggest idol in art! I adore your style, and I hope to one day be as talented as you! Thank you for making my day!
I feel like LARO in a fantasy setting is like the Airsoft of gun enthusiasts.
Yes you could cast meteor swarm, but that’s no fun. So why not use Prestidigitation and Thaumaturgy like an airsoft version of fireball or eldritch blast
I just ADORE your dnd content, it always brings a smile to my face and I can't wait for more wonderful character designs!! You're such a big inspiration to me and I find these videos super helpful, so thanks ABD :D
these characters are completely amazing. the fact that you came up with amazing characters just from the new classes is superb. D&D was right to sponsor you. keep up the great work.
I cannot stress enough how much I love the robot with glasses - but without eyes.
I loved the Warforged character, as well as the Owlin (hope I spelled that right)! When you mentioned Wall-E during the Warforged drawing process, nostalgia hit me like a freaking truck! It's probably my favorite movie, so the connection just made me love your character even more!
for some reason, the warforged character in quandrix gives off fantasy-esque aperture science vibes, so bizarrely enough i imagined the character being voiced by stephen merchant or ellen mclain.
Percy from CR is actually a Gunslinger Fighter, it's a homebrew subclass for fighter that Taliesin and Matt Mercer developed together. However, Taryon Darrington (also from the first campaign of CR) is an Artificer, though admittedly that was back when it was just Unearthed Arcana so the rules were slightly less refined.
Dude your slam poetry bard idea is exactly what my current character is and it’s literally so fun. Like my character just writes poetry about made-up gods for stupidly specific things (such as pasta and chickens) and I fully support seeing more poet bard stuff. Such a blast to play! Especially since I get to write a lot of the poetry myself and then just start reciting it at random moments in the campaign, haha.
Oh my gosh. I AM SO EXCITED FOR STRIXHAVEN!!! This video has now inspired me to go read everything I can find about it. Also, of course, these characters are as amazing as ever.
I love all of these!!! I actually Pre-ordered Strixhaven and was really looking for character inspiration. Also the hair for the Prismari character is AWESOME.
Good job getting sponsored by DND!!
Alex's artwork is incredible 💖💖 Really inspires me to get creative and create characters & stories of my own. Loved watching this speedpaint and in particular his character creation process. 💖💖
MY BOY! Sponsored by D&D, I'm so happy for you!
Also, I may play Prismari Colours, but I'm a Witherbloom Boy!
you are becoming my favourite artist on youtube :D i absolutely love your style and tips on character design
One of my players is playing an eloquence bard in our waterdeep campaign and he's been a blast to DM for! We replaced his 'bardic instrument' with a horn that he can speak through to flavor his spells more. He's an orator and scholar so it's fun to see a non-musical bard get more support from source material!
dude! I've been watching your speedpaints since like 2018, and you are such a huge artistic inspiration to me! the way you use light and color, the dynamic poses, the line work--it's all just so amazing! you have no idea the swell of pride I just got clicking on this video and seeing that my favorite D&D artist is now being COMMISSIONED BY D&D ITSELF!!!! :D so proud of you!!!!
Congratulations on the sponsorship 👏🏻👏🏻
Amazing!!!! I love your art style and character designs so much and being sponsored by DnD is so good!
Percy is a gunslinger fighter btw, a homebrew subclass by Matt based on Pathfinder's Gunslinger class since that's where the first campaign actually started. Taryon Darrington is an artificer though!
You are the person who made me want to do DnD and I’m super excited to watch this one
I was looking for a background video to watch while drawing my D&D character. So now I'm watching D&D while drawing D&D...
Definitely didn't word that well.
The color scheme for the Quandrix character is my favorite. For looks Lorehold and Silverquil are just amazing. Love it. Cheers!
The owlin is a precious cinnamon roll, too pure for this world, must protecc
Here are my headcanon names for these new character, in order of being drawn:
Silverquill Student: Poe, He/They pronouns (sorta like Edgar Allen Poe? Or like Poet maybe?)
Quandrix Student: Weave, They/Them pronouns (Alex mentioned the character being similar to Wally, so I thought a mixed name between Wally and Eve would suit them)
Prismari Student: Flare, She/Her pronouns (I just thought it sounded cool)
Witherbloom Student: Taiga, She/They pronouns (Taiga is a type of forest biome, specifically a snowy forest, and I thought it would be fitting considering snow and winter are often connected with the cold and death. But a forest, even a snowy one, is still teeming with life. I think it fits the Witherbloom duality well)
Lorehold Student: Harvey, He/Him pronouns (A cute, nerdy name that I really think fits with his vibe)
I cant stop replying "OMG YOUR DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS"
Idk why but thats my favorite part but amazing work and congrats for getting sponsored by THE D&D!
this is the single best DND idea I have seen, You get the school life drama with trying to save the world. Fucking amazing. And the aesthetics omlord
My suggestions for names for these absolutely lovely character designs have to be (in order from left to right): Tempest Blightfyre, Coil Elhammer, Achlius Brangwen, Amaryllis Fairedoe, and Otus Stoneherald :)
It’s so cool to hear your thought process on designing these characters and your specific inspirations for them!! I adore the process of designing characters especially in a D&D setting so this was a huge motivator into creating more characters that I won’t even use anytime soon... (I already happen to have seven characters within nearly a year of playing, and only two of them I’ve actually played with! I have a problem.)
You make me want to buy the guide, not because I play DnD but because the world sounds so fascinating to read about!
Honestly your character creation is just amazing
i LOVED the owl! i have an owl character as well (though they're an aarakocra) and it makes me happy to see another one 😄 i think it would be fun (and cute) to give yours a name that sounds like a bird noise like Qhik or Ourrk ☺️☺️
I remember when I got my hands on strixhaven booster packs and just imidietly fell in love with the characters just from their portrairs on the packaging. Finding out from this video that I'm actually going to be able to make my own character and explore strixhaven is just lursitDUeylylerupapue I can't even described it, so hypes for this
I literally gasped in happiness when I got the notification for this video!
as always, i adore to see each piece of content you create - its all so truly inspiring to improve on my own work more and more (even though im burnt out, it helps though)
i hope you have a wonderful rest of your month ! again thank you for each new wonderful post of yours!
these characters are so well thought out, id love to see a campaign done with this new book
Fun fact, Strix is actually part of the scientific name for a family of owls. For example, Strix Nebulosa is the scientific name of the great gray owl. I just thought it was funny that you drew an owl in the world of Strixhaven!
YESSSSSSS
0:53 makes me laugh everytime 😂
Wonderful designs! Keep up the great work ❤
I love them all and was so excited to see each college student!!!! As for names, L to R: Jessie or Jess for short (maybe Jest as a nickname too!), Xylph, Flare, Mollywart (Molly for short), and Pippin!
Being sponsored by dungeons and dragons is such a flex! BTW the designs are so aesthetically pleasing!
I adore the concept of this new book so much! I gotta buy it and up up with so many characters for this setting!
So, actually a BUNCH of recent DnD books were crossovers with Magic, and I personally adore them (and think you might enjoy them too, since you mentioned that you researched from the card game!), and that Magic just had a set called Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, which was a magic set that took place on a bunch of the typical DnD planes! :)
Love the video! It was really cool to hear you talk through your process and see all these really unique characters!
I was thinking about the first collage, and imagined a bard who just raps their enemies into an early grave.
Oh waw ! All of those characters look super great !
I'm super glad you got to be sponsored by D&D, it just makes me happy considering how much you love it
Happy Christmas eve !