DND Monk OC Art - Chen Yuelin

[andromedaxyz]

 
Profile picture art of my longest running DND campaign's monk, Chen Yuelin.

 

Made a very fast artwork of my 2-year old character! She's a human Monk who has recently deconstructed from her religion and separated from the god that's attached to her by the hip. A physical manifestation of her deconstruction involves a removal of her spiritual Third Eye that allows her communication with her god and gives her special powers. I wanted to add a horror angle by making her spiritual third eye physical and bleeding with holy energy. There's also a selfish god with multiple eyes, so I added that on the background. I was very inspired by eyes in horror games like Detention （返校）which showcased a lot of background moving eyes in a Buddhist hell setting, and Elden Ring's Shabriri Grape, which are actual gouged eyes of cult followers.


She's gone through a lot of physical changes depending on the development arcs she goes through. The last time I drew her was 2024?
One of her very old artworks from 2024: 

Yuelin's character art from 2024. She used to be very religious. 

 

 

My art style used to be very different 2 years ago, and they're very line-art based. I was slowly trying to understand how to render in general even while doing line-based art, and I was going through a slow transition away from this style. How I draw now in 2026 is now my ideal art style.

 

Comments

[witchpoetdreamer]

Oh wow I really love this piece! The light/shadow effects is really cool, it really brings out the horror side of things! I played a monk once in DND too, not for a very long campaign though (the friend group kinda exploded before we even reached the fourth game :( Haven't played DND since XD) Also, that is GREAT art evolution, and just in two years! It went from Webtoon to DC Comics cover page, it's crazy! Great job!

[andromedaxyz]

DND friend group drama is kinda insane actually and does affect a DND campaign's trajectory (I'm not going to elaborate further, I was only a spectator in this drama but it also happened in this campaign until some people agreed on a revival), it was also highly likely that it wouldn't have continued bec of it lmao. In the heat of it starting and happening I can see how it does affect a group dynamic and I can see how the existing dynamic should be nuked at one point lol.

I've only ever liked playing Monk in DND because I just simply think it's cool. The other classes I try are 90% what the DM gives us in one-shots hahahaha

2 years is also the duration I've been seriously doing art so yeah, whenever I do an occasional/annual retrospective I notice the speed in which I transitioned into an art style I want (semi-realism/realism) which is great. Honestly though there's a lot of private art studies that happened in between so yeah.

[witchpoetdreamer]

Did you study at school or did you take evening classes?

[andromedaxyz]

I have a fine art degree for information design, but I was never taught illustration. Even the illustrators I had in my uni taught themselves how to do it. Even the singular drawing and painting classes I had with that degree got suspended because of the pandemic.

What I mean by studies is artwork that studies 1) other subjects or 2) other people's artwork. Everything that I learned about painting and illustration are pretty much self-taught :)

[witchpoetdreamer]

Kudos to you for reaching that level being self-taught! It takes a lot of dedication!