I love his outfit, specifically the coat. It looks so warm. That's also a nice pose, not really static and just there, but a pose with a purpose.

George Washington: Vampire Slayer!

Sorry i couldn't resist. Cool artwork as always.

Don't say that, Joe Quesada might hear you!

*laugh*

That's who I thought of, as well!

I don't usually even look at non-porn art, as I'm an unabashed pervert, but my nerding instinct is stronger even than that.
I like the 1750s look to this guy, as you usually get DnD characters looking either 1800s-esque, 1200s-esque, or European Renaissance (14-1600s)-esque.
The 1700s is an era that is often ignored when it comes to fantasy outside of the Golden Age of Sail, and even then, it's often displayed very...inaccurately.
This captures both the normal roughly-cut dress of an American frontiersman with the beginnings of American gentrification. Aside from that, you've given him a gladius-style sword instead of the conventional cruciform arming sword of the traditional chevalier.
And as an aside, is he supposed to be black? because the tones on his face suggest that, and if that's the case, I'd say that the wig seems a bit out of place.

But that's enough of me rambling on.
good work on this piece.

Just thinking of general setting thing. Maybe more like someone you'd run into in an Iron Kingdoms game - enough of that setting is Age of Enlightenment styled. I really like the outfits. The sword is intended to be an anachronism, just this huge unwieldy thing that he wouldn't even have if it weren't effective or enchanted.

Yes, I have always appreciated how IK melee weapons were clearly there because they were effective and utilitarian.

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*BWAHAHAHAAHHAHAAAOHGODCAN'T*

Okay, seriously, it's a wonderfully fun piece and I do like the powdered wig, ruffled cravat and turncuff coat. Looks awesome.

(And I like IK, too. I just...That comment made me crack up. IK is a terribly weird mishmash of 'That's really neat!' and 'WTF were they thinking?' to my aesthetic eye. Especially the giant anime-style melee weapons.)

the sword is nice.
I didn't even notice "too big" because, well, the general thing now is that everyone has a BFS.
and remember! 'longsword' can mean anything from a gladius to a zweihänder and anything in between.
the proper term is "arming sword."
but yeah. And I've never played IK, but I like the miniatures from the miniatures game, and get the æsthetics of it.

I'm totally with you. But I think that the wig should stay.

I like the peruque more and more. I mean, what says "I believe in a strongly codified worldview" more than "I should wear a decent wig and frock-coat while hunting vampires"?

You might want to check out the Northern Crown setting. It's officially in 1666, but the influences draw from later periods, as well. The mood is more based in the culture and folklore of the early US and colonies. Unfortunately, it seems that the author of the setting has run out of free time to work on it, so it hasn't continued past a few pdf magazines.

Cool! Thank you.

nah, I'm rolling with my homebrew setting.
9 years of work and hundreds of pages, so I'm not going to be changing from that soon.

Well, you can at least mine it for useful Open Content :3
There's plenty of crunchy bits.

An eighteenth-century, scholarly vampire hunter? Awesome.

I like the 'bring it' hand gesture.

Very cool style and pose. :3

*hisses at the stakes*

Great design! The wig is cool too. :D

I especially like the roughly-cut look of the stakes, and their size- those are some heavy-duty stakes!

AWESOME! =D

Wonderful! More heroes should wear powdered wigs. We need an 18th-century ass-kicking genre in the movies; Brotherhood of the Wolf isn't enough!