A while ago I drew my fiancé's OC from the days when he was playing Hero Quest with a local guild:

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  Omnia the Purple

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It's been a while since I did character design, and I am instead a DM for D&D sessions that I host for my friends. Since on my server, most of us are musicians, it doesn't surprise me that most of us would like to play bards, even if the option isn't available.

If I were playing a character, I would play a bard for sure -- and specifically, a College of Creation one, because that's the closest to the concept of a Reyvateil from the Ar tonelico series -- a series of games whose music and lore have influenced me greatly to this day.

So I pictured my unnamed bard character with a mighty kettledrum -- and some heavy mallets for that full sound. I feel she doesn't have the strongest sung voice, but it's decent, and she can hold a tune. The drumbeat, on the other hand, is the true song of her soul.

I wanna think of a name for her, but it's not a pressing concern.

Outlines on MS PowerPoint; colouring on Autodesk Sketchbook.

EDIT: Without realising, I had subconsciously borrowed from my own ancestral culture. Across several regions of India the nagara (or nagada) is used. It's a kettledrum with much more intricate rope tensioning than what I've drawn here. Some of them are huge, and fittingly sonorous.