Gerda Úldurfsdottir

Gerda - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

Gerda was a charachter that I thought up all by myself for a larp. Usually that doesn't happen in a larp but I was one of the GMs of the game. It was a vampire larp, the setting came from Vampire the Masquerade, so the vampire clans and sects are the same as in Vampire the Masquerade RPG. It was not the first larp I "hosted" but it was the first larp I could invent my very own charachter and be a GM. The first time I was a GM was actually a part two in a series of larps so I played the charachter I had in the first game.

Gerda is quite a typical clan Malkavian vampire. Malkavians are the lunatics of the vampires. They are honestly crazy and their craziness can from one malkavian to another: one can have two personalities while another might see huge and slimy talking slugs in random places. Gerda's speciality was talking with objects. If you have the chance, do play a pc-game called Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, it shows the difference between vampire clans. For instance if you play the game through with a malkavian you can argue with a stop sign.  However, the malkavian madness isn't necessarily just a bad thing: they can see things from a different point pf view and come up with surprising solutions for difficult situations.

I used ink, pencil, and coloured pencils in this picture. I actually startet drawing this picture in a train and you should have seen the look on the conductor's face when he saw the picture. The larp was held during the winter and thank god it was situated indoors because otherwise I would have frozen with those clothes.

Catherine Burdett

Silly me, I still have a few role playing charachters. I guess I have too many of them.

Catherine Burdett is a 90-year-old woman. Wouldn't believe it? Neither would I because she looks like a 26-year-old. As you may have guessed, she is not an ordinary woman. She is a vampire and when comparing her to the other player charachters in the game, she was actually quite old. One doesn't necessarily have to be hundreds of years old to be influental. Me and my friends were playing Vampire the Masquerade rpg and my charachter was part of a vampire clan called Ventrue. The Ventrue are the self-proclaimed leaders of the Vampires and they tend to have power over the society during both day and night.

In the picture Catherine has just arrived to the head quarters of Vaughn Industries. Mr. Vaughn, Catherine's sire (the one who made her into a vampire), informs her that someone had broken into the vault of the company and had stolen something. Just before she came to the hq, a young female vampire, Eleonor came to her appartment saying that her sire had just been killed. So, Catherine became her mentor and she was the one who was supposed to teach Eleonor, how to be a vampire.

By the way, this is perhaps the only occasion when she wears her hair down. Usually she wears a bun. She actually didn't have the time to tie her up after a party in which Eleanor and another newcomer were welcomed into the vampire society. I guess it's good to let your hair down once in a while.

I used coloured pencil, pencil and ink in this picture. It's kind of grey, but aren't all buildings.

Catherine - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink