NOTES: Dio is a Male Human Paladin in D&D5e 2014. He is a PC in "our" group, If you need a good point of reference; literally based off "Dante" from Devil May Cry. He has a relation to Kaelen and Lira from prior to the start of the story if you check out this trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerTrio He was the heart, Lira was the brains, and Kaelen was the brawn. #### POSE REFERENCE Similar to this pose of the man sitting, red hat is important, it should be more tilted back as if hes relaxed while fishing, but hes not really there for the fish or to be fishing, just passing time ![[Pasted image 20260609112206.png]] #### FACE REFERENCE Just kind of relaxed, maybe listlessly staring off into the distance #### BACKGROUND REFERENCE Instead of sitting on a large stone pillar, I was thinking a warped tree of some sorts curved around a rock, and he'd be sitting in a space on the rock between its massive roots, the trunk of the tree would still shoot up higher giving that shadow look that the pillar from the pose reference does, with still large trees like in the pose reference leading off into the background of a deep forest of sorts ![[Pasted image 20260609111023.png]] also looking for something with this sort of color scheme and vibe, its dark, glowing things and fluttering things and as if from the surface of the water its glowing a bit, with a latern parked next to his sword on the stone with maybe the lit wings of bugs near it ![[Pasted image 20260609112724.png]] ![[Pasted image 20260609112551.png]] #### EXISTING IMAGES REFERENCE Here are a collection of existing reference images regarding the character https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D56566235/ ![[Pasted image 20260605141712.png|372]] ![[Pasted image 20260605141955.png|377]] ![[hat_dio.png|428]] ![[5E_OLIVIASWORD.png]] #### SPECIFIC NOTES 1. dio is that character in the party that is always looking to get drunk at a bar and has the "tavern brawler" feat. For the pose reference, it should be as if hes standing toward the direction of the image with him stretching his arm as if hes about to get into a bar fight. 2. his clothing reference is best seen / used in the sitting down reference photo, but his hat shape and appearance are best seen in the ones where he is wearing his hat. dont do the cross stiching over the red tabard he wears. the hat kinda does that bend down, then goes back up look for the end of it, but its not super huge. 3. also if possible have his sword and bandolier kind of resting against the tree/rock or something, included in reference is how the sword looks like.