Overwatch 2! It's actually happening! I mean
the leaks have been out all week but I
just thought they were gonna be fake
leaks and we weren't actually getting it
but looks like Overwatch 2 is happening
so that's awesome! And because the rumors
have been circulating all week about
this being a possibility it got me
thinking about the fact that I haven't
done an overwatch focused character
redesign episode... I think since that
overwatch characters as dinosaurs from
almost a year ago. Which is ridiculous
because I've become a way better artist
since then and I absolutely love the
character design in this game, so I
really wanted to do an overwatch focused
episode and I thought because I'm in a
really fantasy focused mindset right now,
both because I'm starting work on a
fantasy comic and because this month's
pop cross-community redraw theme is
Dungeons & Dragons, I thought 'hey what
would overwatch characters look like if
they were in Dungeons & Dragons.' So in
today's episode we're gonna find out.
Okay now obviously there's a ton of
awesome characters in overwatch that
would be super cool to D&D-ify and I've
got a few more complicated ideas but I
think the first one that came to my mind
is a good fun kind of simple premise to
start with so I'm gonna start with our
boy Soldier 76. All right the first thing
that had come to my mind was soldier 76
was just making him a knight. A fighter
kind of character because he's your
classic soldier type in overwatch I
thought just a classic Knight but
thinking about his story and overwatch
and where he is at the time that the
game takes place it didn't really make
too much sense so I decided to go with a
ranger version of him because I came up
with the story in my head that's very
similar to his story in the actual
overwatch lore where in this version he
was the leader of the Queen's Guard or
Kingsguard in some kind of ruling nation.
Like, he was the head honcho knight and
then another nation came in and overtook
them it beat them in a war and he
doesn't agree with the new nations rule.
So he went off to fight on his own stop
being a part of the guard and became a
sort of rebellious ranger vigilante type
so he has a reason to put on a mask and
he fights on the outskirts of
civilization.
That's kind of what arrangers purpose is
so he's a little bit I guess he's got a
little bit of rogue inspiration as well
but I just liked the Ranger idea and
looking at images of other people's
Ranger designs I really liked a lot of
the stuff. This version takes a little
bit of inspiration from Aragorn from
Lord of the Rings and even a little bit
of John Snow. He wouldn't...uh... would He be a
ranger? I don't know, but anyway I took a
little bit of inspiration from that on
the fur around the around the neck and
on the lower part of his I was gonna
call it a front cape I don't know what
it's called but anyway you can see the
furry bits lower down as well the
character ends up looking a little bit
like kylo Ren or even Connor from
Assassin's Creed 3. But that that wasn't
really intentional. I don't mind it so
much the Kylo Ren part wasn't obviously
as ideal because that's a sci-fi
character and I even later on considered
adding a bit of glow to the eyes behind
the mask, because, you know, soldier 76
part of his iconic look is kind of that
glowing red visor but I didn't end up
going with that I messed around with it
after the screen recording and didn't
keep it it just didn't really work made
it feel a little bit too sci-fi and
leaned it more towards looking like Kylo
Ren which I didn't really want. But
beside that I really loved how this one
turned out I ended up giving him not
quite a long sword not quite a short
sword I couldn't really decide so I kind
of went halfway in between I figured if
he was a part of a Queen's Guard or
Kingsguard he would have been using a
long sword but Rangers tend to be more
short sword so I was humming annoying
and didn't really end up making a
definitive decision and then because
Rangers often have a bow slung that over
his shoulder and overall I really like
this one I like the rendering on it I
think the red background that I used to
give a little bit of rim lighting behind
him makes him really pop out and yeah I
was really happy with this one
and I hope you all liked it too so here
he is our 'Ranger 76.'
Okay okay next up I've got an idea that
might be a little bit out there but I
really like the idea so I'm gonna try it
out Bastian. This could be good could be
bad we'll see how it turns out.
All right now for Bastian originally I'd
thought of making him an enchanted armor
because, I don't know, if this is just me
but I picture enchanted armors as kind
of being like Dungeons and Dragons
equivalent of a robot, but I decided to I
wanted to push it a little bit more I
wanted to make him a sort of not human
character but a fleshy charac- no
hmmm, that's a weird way to- a biological
character. So what I decided to do was
make him a cyclops barbarian, or at least
a character that had been a barbarian he
I picture him as being a very naturally
peaceful character but who was raised in
a tribe of barbarians so he goes and
fights with them in a battle and he gets
knocked out and he's wounded enough that
they think he's dead so they don't carry
him off with the wounded but he
eventually comes to and is alive I
pictured him having amnesia. And I know
that's a little bit of a cheap story
element but I figured it's kind of like
what happens to Bastian in the actual
overwatch game so I went with it and I
just pictured now that he's been knocked
out he's separated from his tribe he
doesn't remember what his life is now he
can be his natural peaceful self he
starts falling in love with nature and
so I pictured him transitioning from
being a barbarian type to being a sort
of druid monk. I was thinking more along
the lines of a monk and I was taking
more visual inspiration from how monks
tend to look in Dungeons and Dragons but
because in overwatch he's a character who
comes to fall in love with nature, I
thought druid might be a good idea I
don't take too many cues from druid
visuals except maybe I've cut that big
tree trunk slung over his back that was
supposed to kind of be the visual
equivalent of the cannon that Bastian
has on his back
so the druid thing doesn't necessarily
come through, but I like the idea of this
character going from being a barbarian
to something else. And maybe he's not
even necessarily becoming a monk but
he's living
with a tribe of monks and just doing
chores around that where they live and I
just picture him being a lot happier
this way. Not necessarily fighting as
much I mean he could still do some
fighting I gave him a hammer that is
actually bastians head but just as a
hammer and I thought that was kind of
fun and cute. And obviously the reason I
made him a cyclops is so he could have
the one big blue eye like Bastian has
and I drew him in pretty much the same
pose as the reference image I had up
except I put the bird sitting on his big
chunky pinky because he's a big brooding
Cyclops he'd have all his fingers would
be really big. I thought that was kind of
cute and fun and dainty. And, yeah, really
happy with this one too so I don't know
if the name I came up with is so great
but anyway here it is got to give a big
shout-out to ABD Illustrates who's
Disney and Dragons episodes turning
Disney Princesses and villains into
Dungeons and Dragons versions of
themselves was a huge inspiration for
these videos. I'll link it in the
description below
super cool stuff also if you're enjoying
the video please leave a like really
helps boost it up through the algorithm
and encourages me to do a sequel if you
want that sort of thing. Okay sorry for
the interruption back to drawing. Next up
we've got ah perfect!
Tracer. I mean we couldn't not do Tracer
in this episode right let's do it!
Okay so for Tracer I'd originally been a
little bit more visual inspired than
story inspired with Bastian and Soldier
76 was thinking about the story more and
then coming up with the drawing. With
this one I didn't take that approach so
much but as I was doing the drawing I
had Tracer's lore open on my other
monitor and I was getting some ideas for
this character story that I really liked.
I kept it pretty similar to Tracers
overwatch story but basically I thought
of Tracer this version of her being an
elf fighter who gets cursed and the
curse is; she's falling in and out of time
disappearing for months or even a year
at a time sometimes, which is similar to
what happens to Tracer in the actual
Overwatch lore, except it's an
experiment not a curse. And then Friends
of this version of Tracer, an artificer
which is
the dungeon and dragons equivalent of an
inventor, and a wizard get together and
make this device that can stop her from
falling in and out of time as long as
she's wearing it. So it doesn't break the
curse but it keeps her in our time and
it's that diamond thing I put on her
chest that's both the visual equivalent
of her chronal accelerator and
obviously serves the same purpose as
that. But then I picture this character
kind of falling in love with the
time-travel ability despite it being a
curse she ends up seeing it as a
possible gift and starts learning magic
to try and figure out how to use it to
her advantage. For visual cues I was kind
of going with Rogue a little bit and
that doesn't necessarily line up with
the story I just came up with, she would
have to kind of shift her attitude a
little bit from because if she was a
fighter
I don't quite have a good reason she
ended up becoming a rogue. Something in
that story could push her from fighter
to rogue, but visually I just really
liked the idea of having these these two
kind of weird shaped daggers and being a
little bit scrappier looking. The
main part of this visual that I don't
love is her gloves. I think I made them a
bit too big and not very interesting
looking but I also had her doing that dash
like she can do in overwatch and I
picture this as her having learned some
magic stuff so she can control her time
travel curse so, I don't know, it's not
quite as fleshed out of a story as some
of the other ones but I still I really
liked it I like the look I like drawing
the face because Tracer's got such a
great face design so that was really fun
to draw. And because she's got kind of
pointy-ish features that was the main
reason I made her an elf. There wasn't
really much story reason behind it which
obviously isn't necessarily great from a
storytelling perspective but I think
visually it worked really well those
streaks on her face again, I don't know
why I put them there, I just really liked
them. And overall even though the story
is not as fleshed out I really loved how
this one turned out and then I just gave
her a classic elf kind of name so here
she is!
Okay okay now to finish off we've got to
do my personal favorite overwatch
character to play as Pharah reporting. For
Pharah, because she's my favorite
overwatch character, I had to do
something really cool that I really
liked. And I mean, I always play as at
Pharah because I'm generally pretty bad
at video games despite loving them so I
can just kind of fly above everyone and
shoot down I know it's cheap but it's
fun to do I never play competitive-
Anyway, I really wanted to keep flying as
an element for this character so I
decided to make her a Dragonborn and I
know
Dragonborn characters generally don't
have wings or a tail so what I decided
was, in coming up with the story for this
character I figured she would be born
with wings and people see it as a
natural gift just an anomaly. And she
doesn't take it for granted, she uses
those wings and trains to be an
absolutely phenomenal fighter with the
intention of joining the queensguard. And
this is how I kind of mix her in with my
ranger 76 story where she wants to join
the guard that he's a part of but then
when the new Kingdom comes in and takes
over, she isn't really interested in
joining anymore and she's just gotten to
the age where she could join, so she
instead goes and becomes security. And I
was thinking I could even make her the
security guard for the artificer that
gave tracer her device that keeps her in
time. So I'm kind of mixing a bunch of
the stories together and I thought that
was kind of fun it was a little bit last
minute and I have to find a more
seamless way to work them all together
but I thought it was a fun idea and in
terms of the design of this character I
really loved drawing dragonborns. I used
to have a dragonborn D&D character
myself that I played out a while back. I
don't I think that story just ended up
fizzling out we didn't really wrap it up.
But anyway, I loved dragonborns I know
giving it wings is kind of cheating but
I think it was such a nice element to
the character and worked in with the
story. And I also love drawing wings just
from a visual standpoint because they're
such a good way to naturally frame a
character. In this, I kind of cheat the
lighting a little bit one of the wings
in front of her would be casting more of
a shadow on her with where I did the
shading on the rest of her body but I
don't think it's too big of a problem I
don't think it really affects the piece
that much. If you're not thinking about
it you probably wouldn't notice. My only
actual problem with this is probably
that I made her armor a little bit too
shiny. For a fantasy D&D character I feel
like it should be a little bit duller
looking but I just love the bright
vibrant blue on fire I felt like I
should keep it so I kept it in there
also I drew the background and ground
elements in after the fact after the
recording. And, yeah, I'm really happy with
this one too I just been really happy
with this whole video so here's our
Pharah as a dragonborn!
Okay okay I know I save this a lot on
here but this is genuinely some of my
favorite art have made on the channel in
ages. I think this turned out so cool so
I really hope this video does well to
justify doing a follow-up because I'd
love to take more overwatch characters
and draw their DnD versions so if you've
got suggestions for overwatch characters
that you think would make a cool
specific class or race from D&D leave it
in the description below I'd love to see
people's suggestions. Or if there's any
other video game or pop-culture thing
that you'd like to see turned into
something else I love hearing people's
suggestions and just doing these kinds
of videos in general the Pokemon is
superheroes ones are probably the most
popular but I love doing a whole bunch
of different weird version of these I
got a playlist full of them
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