The Mute Bard

Alea is a Bard in a friend's D&D campaign, and I've created her as a character in Final Fantasy XIV. She's quirky, and also a piper. (Though she seems to have not been born with horns, that was totally a thing and it wasn't me forgetting to add them at all. Yep.)

Anyway. She made a deal with The Laughing Rogue to save the dragon egg she's holding. Its mother was already dead and she knew the hatchling likely wouldn't have survived, so she traded her only treasure: Her voice.

Her hair is outrageous. I didn't intend to go that crazy with it, but Alea enjoys it like that.

I'm proud of this piece. It's the first I've done in years that has any sort of complex background to it. 

You can watch the speedcolour here: youtu.be/c1kdB67FvVw

Done in openCanvas 6 and Photoshop CS6.