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Published: 2011-01-05 20:33:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 8165; Favourites: 165; Downloads: 0
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Drawn sometime in 2009, coloured January 2011Again, the original pencil sketch is only about three inches high, but scanned much larger. (It's a doodle on the side of her character sheet.)
Rough image scanned from the character sheet: [link]
Zahira al Majidah, a Taftani mage (ancient Arabic magicians, specialized in summoning/binding djinni) from the World of Darkness. Created her back in '99 I think, maybe '00.
There is a lot more behind the character, but she has a very flamboyant personality that's fun to rp.
She's also the tabletop (dice and paper) rp character that my wolf Majidah took a lot of characteristics from.character (c) myself
sparkle/cloud brushes
dusty texture by [link]
pencil drawing, coloured in adobe CS3 with a wacom tablet. (Gah, I'm not sure whether to list this as digital or traditional. I'll just go with 'mixed'.)
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Thanks. ^_^ It's hard to believe that this came from a few inches tall sketch.
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Petty awesome!
And hey...I remember the World of Darkness! 
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Do you mean Changeling the Lost, the NWoD book? I saw that in there too, many things are now changelings instead.
Zahirah is a Taftani mage, it's a huge surprise that she hasn't just blown up from paradox yet. lol
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>Do you mean Changeling the Lost, the NWoD book? I saw that in there too, many things are now changelings instead.
I read the back of one of their Changeling: the Lost supplements. Β The flavor text had this little rhyme that included the line "The djinn rest in their flasks." Β So, yeah...that's how I knew.
>Zahirah is a Taftani mage, it's a huge surprise that she hasn't just blown up from paradox yet. lol
I remember the Taftani. Β Another thing different from nWoD's Mage: the Awakening.
Say...couldn't they be an offshoot Thyrsus?
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Thanks! The part I love is that the original is actually only a few inches tall and sketched on the edge of her character sheet. XD
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You're welcome. 
Also pretty extraordinary jewelry design, those breast cups being the most unusual.
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Really? Is it because of the gold coin dangles?
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Yes. It might be the dangles - they look somewhat massive as well as upper arm and thigh bands (I sort of find it appealing when female characters wear massive jewelry pieces). Also blue/dark blue background emphasizes gold very well further enhancing impression. It's clearly visible that a certain amount of effort was invested to make those adornments an integral part of the character.
As for the cups,you simply don't see such adornments every day. On the one hand they seem to be far more revealing than an ordinary bra (maybe because of lack of any straps and excessive cloth in sight) and on the other hand they still preserve a certain amount of modesty. Don't know how does she manage to keep them on though, lol.
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Heh, part of the large jewelry size is due to the original picture being so tiny, but Zahira does love her bling.
And for keeping them on... magic.
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I would also like to note that impressive work you did on her eyes - they totally seem to be not from this world.
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That is just amazing. I just joined and I too added a genie emerging from a lamp, but yours is just beautiful and magical.
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Oh, Zahira isn't actually a genie, she's a genie summoner/binder. ^_^ I pictured it more like her holding a lamp as the genie she released is starting to form.
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Oh, I see what you mean. Still it is a beautiful and enchanting drawing Pooka. I do find that Pagans do make wonderful friends.
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I played a TaftΓ’ni in Mage : The Ascension too. Her name is Zobeida and she's Master (five dots) in Time and Spirit ^^
Nice job anyway ^^
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Zahira is more of a Spirit, Forces and Matter type of mage.
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Our Game Master didn't take Vampires and Werewolves in his campaigns : according to him, Mages are enough to have fun. And I was agree with him ^^
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Funnily Mage was the game that we rarely touched, and they were only in our home game for occasional side characters.
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Ooo, I love her design and outfit, very bellydancer-esque! Her eyes are really intriguing too!
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^_^ Thanks. She's supposed to be from really ancient Arabia, back during the Zoasterism days (and was the high mage to a very rich and powerful man... so could get away with eccentrics).
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You are very welcome! ^^
Ahh, I see! Awesome, I did get that vibe.
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I do have to say I always love looking at your styles of clothing.
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XD Zahira's style is a little over-the-top compared to some of my characters.
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Pff it's fun. It reminds me of the outfit I have a harem girl wear ^^
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I love the pic! I especially like her outfit!
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She is gorgeous! I love the way you did her hair. I'm still so envious of your talent.
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^_^ Thanks. I had difficulty with her hair design. In the old pictures it was a more simple, but high, ponytail but found it lacking. I thought back to her SIMS version which had this huge, puffed out ponytail and used that with her newer image. (the older ones are from, wow, around '99 I think. O.o )
Pfft, seriously, just a lot of practice. I should really scan some of the pictures I drew in my early 20s just so people can realise how bad my old art used to be.
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Welcome!
LOL! I doubt you were bad as you say. XD
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Zahira:
You think that you have the last laugh? I am the one with the last laugh. ~flicks her bejeweled hand as fire fooms behind her~ Ha... Ha HA!
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I probably should have gone with reds since she loves to throw fire around like it's leaves on the wind... but I like the look of the blue more.
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I love the sultry, otherworldly look in her eyes, and how she's not exactly suggestive despite how little clothing there actually is on her. I also love he eyelashes: they're fantastically drawn. They have a particularly realistic texture to them.
It's pretty amazing for a doodle - probably my only concern is her lamp's handle (it looks like it's half floating by her fingers, half melting into them). And it works, oddly enough, if you imagine some magical reason for the lamp handle looking like it does.
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And I think that I may have fixed it... not sure though. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Well you do have to realize that on the original sketch that hand and handle is maybe half an inch at most. lol It was difficult to get the detail in there. I may have to see if I can adjust it without taking away from the pencil sketch feel to the top layer. Zooming in I think I can see where it got messed up.
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