N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!

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N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· 6d

It breaks me that one of my fav TTRPG character portrait sets I ever made was designed for commission examples, not for a real AP. 😭 I'd love to see this style out in the world~ #TTRPG #TTRPGArt #Commissions #OCArt

Four character portraits. Left to right, top to bottom: A woman with shaven hair wearing read eyeshadow and lipstick, dressed in gothic clothes: Seraphine, She/Her. An persn with shaggy, dark hair with silver strands and a single, glowing green eye, dressed in a stripped collar shirt and green vest: Cael, they/them. A man with pure white hair, and deep violet eyes, wearing a thick, high collar coat: Enver, he/him. A person with long hair, gradient from black to pink ends. Pinkish eyes with purple-lensed glasses, wearing a white blouse with pink tie: Ari, She/They.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· 7d

I keep meaning to share my stream schedule more for where I appear. Here are this week's shows! Wed: @coziesttraumaco.bsky.social playing Sentai & Sensibility! Thurs: @zealzaddy.bsky.social playing Daggerheart! Sat: @nerdswdice.bsky.social playing Walking Dead! #TTRPG #ActualPlay #TTRPGAP

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· 13d

Tonight on #Sentai&Sensibility, An Affair of Arcana: The team is gathering the remaining artifacts of Arthurian legends, but how desperate will our enemies be without the musketeers? Live now on twitch.tv/coziesttraumacorner #ActualPlay #TTRPG

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· 23d

I'm a finalist in the makeup/costuming for Hades: CODE on @vaultcompanions.bsky.social !

Natalie in costume as the goddess Nike. She's wearing a long, dark brown wig, with a large golden laurel crown and yellow-gold wings. She has black lines going over her eyes and down her cheeks, and a line from her lower lip down her chin.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Jul 9

Tonight on #Sentai&Sensibility, An Affair of Arcana: Many open paths, but running out of time... What direction will our team finally go? On twitch.tv/coziesttraumacorner #ActualPlay #TTRPG

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Jun 29

It's a little thing, but had a cat visit the house today, and it made me so happy. I did not take a picture, so here is a poor sketch from memory. His name is Waffles. He is a cow, but is a good boi and working on it.

A rough sketch of a black and white cat in an orange harness. He is big and round with a little head, and tail up.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Jun 27

I've been working on some private commissions, so I haven't been sharing art as much. Here is a poster I designed a while ago with my PC, Beatrice. I designed it before some events in our game, so the imagery has become fortuitous.

A stylized poster of a curly-haired woman, first raised and confident, wearing a Greek-inspired Chiton, with woad paint markings on her arms and face. She has woad-coloured ribbon in her hair with a feathered wing. Poster is illustrated with copper leaf and black ink on a grey background. The border has elements of clouds, sun, stars, lily of the valley, and a sword and hourglass sand on the right and left sides of the poster. Text in a bottom box reads "Long May She Reign."

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 28

Tonight on #Sentai&Sensibility: An Affair of Arcana: Starting with just Beatrice and Badrik, with Felicity and Cadman joining us later. 9:30 ET twitch.tv/coziesttraumacorner #ActualPlay #TTRPG

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 19

Continuing my trend of using my TTRPG PC Beatrice for some fun illustration practice/warm-up.

A white woman with long ginger hair standing with a serious expression. The moon is large in the background, backlighting her, with a shadow of deer-like horns made of thorns. The pupils of her eyes are giving a green-yellow glow like a night animal.

Words on the illustration read: The Moonlight glow reveals the truth. A shadowed crown of thorn and root. She sees beyond with eyes of night. Wild and focused until first light.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 15

Catch us for our premier! Here's Bronwyn Hills. Blood Hunter, Order of the Ghost Slayer, bastard ward of the Silver Maiden. www.twitch.tv/zealzaddy #ttrpg #actualplay

A rough-looking, handsome woman. Dressed in reds, teals and browns. She has black hair tied back in a ponytail with a white streak. Her warm-toned white skin has a ghostly white, lightning-like scar that comes from under her collar and up the side of her left face. Her eyes are blood copper with a crescent of silver on the bottom. She holds a sword in her right hand, and her left glows with a ghostly pale teal mist. An emblem of the Silver Maiden Goddess hands around her neck.
Text reads: Bronwyn, Blood Hunter.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 13

Since it's Sentai and Sensibility night over on Coziest Trauma Corner, here is the letter that Beatrice wrote from our live stream last week!

A burned-up letter pasted on a new sheet of paper.
Burnt portion reads:

A love, gentle and wild, of soft warmth and caring cold
Filled with whispers of enticing dreams and passionate wishes
For what bliss has been found that has lifted burdens and unlocked [burned portion].
Fear [burned] no purch[burned] For f—th i- heart.
(Remainder torn/burned off)

(The non-burned paper reads)
From ashes beauty waits. Under shadows, new strength grows ~ holding our hearts and claiming joy with revitalized souls.
Hope, bound to fates that we decide.
[For] with shared [heart] we brave the world.
Faith in love to ease what hurts from which we’ll find ourselves changed once more.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 13

A warm-up illustration with Beatrice from my Sentai game. Keeping to a near complementary colour palette has been interesting to stick to. #illustration #TTRPGArt

A white woman with ginger hair in a light green dress with a dark green bodice is dancing with a shadowy, masc figure, surrounded by thick black mist.
Text reads: Swept up by shadows that desired her shine, yearned for her grace, and craved to have her eye.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 12

Another illustration style practice with my girl, Beatrice! Trying some different things to see what I develop. #TTRPGArt #OC

A young white woman with ginger hair sits in a dark velvet green down that fully covers her.
Text reads: "A melancholy, deep as night, cloaks her sorrows. Lush velvet hides the pain that left her hollow."

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 11

A busy week this week, so here's a schedule! No personal streams (or..?), but catch me playing TTRPG on different channels! 🍵 When Rangers meet Bridgerton. 🔥Banners Burning. 🧟‍♀️ And Surviving in the Mid-West. Plus... My birthday! #TTRPG #ActualPlay

A graphic containing Natalie's streaming days and times.
This Week, May 11th to 17th, Natalie's Schedule.
Mon - Happy Birthday!
Tues - Offline
Wed - On Coziest Trauma Corner: Sentai and Sensibility. 9:30 PM ET.
Thurs - Premier on ZealZaddy: Daggerheart. 9 PM ET.
Fri - Offline.
Sat - On Nerds with Dice: Fields of the Dead: Walking Dead AP. 9 PM ET.
Sun - Offline.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 11

Trying out some illustration techniques, using my Sentai PC Beatrice and pairing her with a couple of lines of writing. #TTRPGArt #OC

A young white woman with ginger hair is backlit by a dawning sun. Text reads:
She eclipsed the sun. It turned her hair to fire. The morning warmth. Was in her smile.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 8

In our Sentai game last night, we got to see Beatrice's Battlizer form from her High Priestess card for the first time. More wild and hound-like than the elegant, structured base form.

Beatrice's ranger looks. On the left: Dressed in late-regency, early Victorian military-inspired fashion of dark greens and brass. Has a Spencer jacket, a brass-coloured bodice, and a deep emerald-green skirt of feathers. Her ranger helmet has pointed ears and a longated shape.
On the right: The outfit's details are styled to look like fur. A breast plate and pauldrons with embossed fur. Wispy long sleeves, and a skirt made to look like long fur with a long train that looks like a hound's tail. Shin guards shaped to look like fur at knees and ankles, with the toes detailed to look like hound paws.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· May 5

I'm an artist! And I like birbs! I've attached some of my previous birds done in my painterly style. The link is to my portfolio site: ghostcandleart.com

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Apr 6

Tomorrow I'll be in Toronto for Level Up Showcase with my school team for our game! Stagnation is a fantasy 2D platformer exploring themes of misconceptions. Players journey through the realm, utilizing transformations to explore, uncover the truth and save the kingdom! #GameDev

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Apr 2

Tonight - Sentai & Sensibility: An Affair of Arcana with: We're having a ball! Blake as Badrik @tiffanysoleilva.bsky.social as Felicity @robosardi as Cadman @mindflayedmondays.bsky.social as A.P. @empathicgrimm.bsky.social our MC And me as Beatrice! www.twitch.tv/corrosivesquid #ActualPlay #TTRPG

A red-haired woman, dressed in ancient Greek-inspired clothes in greens, black and golds, holding the arm of her partner, a tan-skinned, black-haired man in black, purple and gold robes.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Mar 23

An interesting mix.

Text: Sagittarius Moon - Pink Peppercorn

Text: Sagittarius Rising - Peach Flavoring

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Feb 15

My GM wanted me to make art of the sad moment from last week's Sentai and Sensibility. So I took a break from my school work to illustrate. Beatrice invoking her husband to stay with her 😭 CW: Blood #TTRPG #TTRPGArt #Illustration

A pale woman with long ginger hair in a white and gold trimmed dress is holding a man in a black suit and gold tie with dark tanned skin and black hair. She holds his hand to her chest, and holds his head in her other hand as she kisses his forehead. Deep, lush greenery and glowy lily of the valley flowers bloom around them.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Feb 12

For those who joined us for our Sentai and Sensibility AP last night: here is Beatrice's Henshin from season 1 and her new look this season!

A regency-style black power ranger. All black outfit with copper trimmings. She has a long skirt with a wing pattern wrapping around, copper trim creating feathers on the shoulders of her full jacket, and copper bracers. The visor on the helmet has a swan silhouette design.

A dark green Power Ranger, dressed in regency-era, military-style clothes. She wears a layered green feather-like skirt over pants, and high boots with brass trimmings. A tight-fitted bodice with, coloured like brass patina. A military Spencer jacket in dark velvet green, a black-green silk ascot, and long black and brass gloves. Her shadow has a cat, and a design of a claymore sword next to her.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Feb 2

One of the silly pixel characters I had to rapidly make for the Global Game Jam.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Jan 25

A perfect event to dress up for~ Just need to figure how Kia got here, lol!

Natalie dressed up in a warm white blouse, a thin, black ribbon as a necklace, and her hair slicked back. Background is a zodiac magic circle tapestry in black and white.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Jan 1

#ArtVsArtist2025 This year was a lot of drawing of my TTRPG PCs. Zatza from my Wildsea campaign has the most art I've ever done for a PC, potentially ever for an OC, and strengthened my comic art style. And a screenshot of one of the things in progress from school.

Eight various illustrations surrounding a portrait of a brown-haired, pale-skinned woman. Left to right:
A train conductor man having a cigarette.
A noir-themed, monochrom illustration of a serious woman dressed in black, holding up a cigarette.
A green moth person, floating through the air on a pale fog.
A Hades video game-inspired illustration of a golden-winged woman.
Photo portrait of GhostCandle.
A pale masked person holding a large orb with a moth person in it.
A comic of a green moth girl.
A large, vulpin-like creature with a green moth girl on it's nose.
Pixel art scene of a white star jumping through the woods.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Dec 31

Last year, I had the joy of trying out a different art style and made Tarot cards of my Sentai and Sensibility group. Our PCs used Tarot cards for their henshin, so the top row was our starter and the bottom row we earned.

A set of ten Tarot-themed illustrations done with mostly flat, saturated colours. In order from left to right:
The Fool - A blond-haired, pale-skinned man dressed in red and yellow, facing towards the sun.
The Magician - A pale man in a brown and purple cowboy outfit, smoking over a table with player cards and coin.
The Hanged Lady - A blond-haired, pale-skin woman in a yellow dress, hanging upside-down in a tree and playing a phantom piano.
The Moon - A black-haired, dark-skin man dressed in cream and purple floating in the ocean with the reflection of the moon.
Temperance - A red-haired, pale-skin woman in black and grey pouring water from a pewter pitcher into a basin.
Strength - The blond-haired man in a red vest sitting with a golden lion and mountains in the background.
The Emperor - A brown-haired man dressed in purple, smoking while sitting in a large thrown with an owl carved into it.
The Chariot - The blond hair woman against red drapes, holding up a conductor's baton with two white lions holding red ribbon.
The Lovers - The black man dressed in creams and gold, dancing with the blond woman under a willow tree.
The High Priestess - The red-haired woman in a grey dress, sitting with her legs in the water at night with a book and a sword. A black cat lies in a tree behind her.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Dec 25

Starting something new by returning to something old. Something that will premiere in the New Year, thus requires new art. 👀 Merry Christmas!

A work in progress illustration of a long, red-haired woman with pale skin against a green background.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Dec 2

Slowly understanding Procreate. Decided to go with my comic-leaning style and draw my girl Zatza for my first illustration! Went a little overboard with the different brushes and effects, but it was fun! Will try my painting style next. #Wildsea #TTRPGArt #OC

A green-colored moth girl held aloft by golden threads. A geometric weave surrounds her.

Original Character - Zatza, a mothryn anchored mesmer from a game of Wildsea.

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Nov 3

It's that time of year when I publicly open my emote commission slots! $45 USD for a pack of four, plus $15 per extra. Able to use on Discord and Twitch with credit! See more samples, details, and to order on Ko-Fi. #ArtCommission #KoFi ko-fi.com/c/8c867466ea

A graphic with sample D&D-themed emotes that are shown at full size, and a smaller reaction size under them.
White text on purple background reads: Party emote pack/ 4 emotes of your TTRPG party in their fav expressions!
$45 party pack, plys $15 for extra PCs. Limited time!

N.D. Chenard - Art Commissions Open!@ghostcandle· Oct 7

I'm laughing at how I managed to get the same position for taking a photo of me as Nike, and just how different I look between session 1 and finale because of makeup and lighting.