Lillith had very little time to come up with gifts for everyone. She decided, in the end, that the best gift would be one they could share. From her sketches, she assembled a portrait of the members of Vox Machina as she had seen them last. The question of whether or not to include Scanlan was a difficult one, but in the end, for better or worse yet she did not know, Scanlan had returned, so she included him as well, but put his panel at the far end, and Pike's in the middle. The coloring was not yet complete, and only their hair and a touch of each signature color had been added. Pigments were something she did not yet have many of.
Where it would hang would have to be decided, but the pieces could be separated, if so desired.
When she finished it, she had time for other small sketches, and made them on card-stock or watercolor paper as follows:
For Pike, she also had: a sketch she'd done when she and Grog were the Champions at the Crucible when they'd visited Vassalheim. She transferred it to a better, sturdier piece of paper and added a watercolor wash from the common recreation supplies Ms. Mills and Coby had gotten from Bonesville.
For dear Kashaw she had a series of sketches she'd done the day Zahra gave her the news (the news she had shared with no one), each one a pose Zahra had adopted naturally, and in each, she smiled, happier than Lillith had ever seen her.
She did not wish step on any toes or cause hurt feelings, so she made no small pictures of missing loved ones for Vax, but instead a small polished sketch of the Raven Queen she had been working on for the shrine in Whitestone. And a quick, clever sketch of Vex standing on Trinket to try to steal a certain pair of winged boots off a very high shelf.
For Percy, there was a sketch she'd made of Cassandra and Keyleth nose to nose arguing one night last Winter's Crest. It had been so funny at the time, she had not been able to resist.
For Vex, for reasons she would never tell, there was a more polished image of Vax, begun when she'd learned what fate had in store. It was simple and beautiful, focused on the lines of Vax in motion, and one of her favorite drawings.
These were not the sort of thing one displayed to other people, like the beautiful works Pike's friend had done, but small and personal, filled with Lillith's own remembrances with the exception of the Raven Queen she'd actually meant as a gift for later in the year.
She felt terribly self-conscious about them all and waited to place them on the table until everyone was busy. A crimson blush on an albino Tiefling was anything but pretty.
Over the week to come, she would add a sketch of Snow with her mother, water color butterflies for Steph, and Curnen playing with Lillith's visualization of the music. Those appeared on Christmas morning and in Curnen's case Christmas eve because the pigment still had to dry.
Re: Giving of Gifts
Where it would hang would have to be decided, but the pieces could be separated, if so desired.
When she finished it, she had time for other small sketches, and made them on card-stock or watercolor paper as follows:
For Pike, she also had: a sketch she'd done when she and Grog were the Champions at the Crucible when they'd visited Vassalheim. She transferred it to a better, sturdier piece of paper and added a watercolor wash from the common recreation supplies Ms. Mills and Coby had gotten from Bonesville.
For dear Kashaw she had a series of sketches she'd done the day Zahra gave her the news (the news she had shared with no one), each one a pose Zahra had adopted naturally, and in each, she smiled, happier than Lillith had ever seen her.
She did not wish step on any toes or cause hurt feelings, so she made no small pictures of missing loved ones for Vax, but instead a small polished sketch of the Raven Queen she had been working on for the shrine in Whitestone. And a quick, clever sketch of Vex standing on Trinket to try to steal a certain pair of winged boots off a very high shelf.
For Percy, there was a sketch she'd made of Cassandra and Keyleth nose to nose arguing one night last Winter's Crest. It had been so funny at the time, she had not been able to resist.
For Vex, for reasons she would never tell, there was a more polished image of Vax, begun when she'd learned what fate had in store. It was simple and beautiful, focused on the lines of Vax in motion, and one of her favorite drawings.
These were not the sort of thing one displayed to other people, like the beautiful works Pike's friend had done, but small and personal, filled with Lillith's own remembrances with the exception of the Raven Queen she'd actually meant as a gift for later in the year.
She felt terribly self-conscious about them all and waited to place them on the table until everyone was busy. A crimson blush on an albino Tiefling was anything but pretty.
Over the week to come, she would add a sketch of Snow with her mother, water color butterflies for Steph, and Curnen playing with Lillith's visualization of the music. Those appeared on Christmas morning and in Curnen's case Christmas eve because the pigment still had to dry.