Aarakocra characters

Aarakocra is a small section, which is about right for a race most groups never see. Bird people are hard to draw well, and the ones that work here mostly lean into a specific bird instead of generic feathers: a hawk-faced monk, an owl-marked cleric. If you're playing one, the wings are the part that trips people up.

Plumage is where they get varied. Muted earth browns with rust-tipped feathers, emerald fading to turquoise, deep midnight blue with flecks of white and gold like stars, fiery orange and crimson, white streaked with violet on a warlock. No class leads by much, so monks, clerics and rogues sit next to an artificer who nests in the rafters and counts bolts on wax tablets tied to his leg. More art styles turn up here than for most races, with pixel art, watercolour, oil and painted portraits all in the mix. If the wings are giving you trouble, look at how the painted ones fold them against the body.