College art student
A farmboy turned college art student with the ability to animate the artwork he draws.
Personality
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Background
Farm
Donovon grew up living and working on his family's farm. With his older brother, he was home schooled until his brother went into the marines, and his family lost their farm due to bad investments. He was always a comic book fan and would often draw his own comics. Since then, he has come to the city to make his way at the university in art school.
Origin
Donovon started attending art school last semester after taking out a few loans. His raw skills were astonishing, but he needed some refinement and direction, so often took extra assignments to expand his knowledge. One evening doing an assignment about urban graffiti styles, he was jumped and attacked by a street gang. During the fight, he was beaten near unconsciousness, which awakened his mutant powers. Before passing out, he sought to protect his sketchbook, but his bloody hand touched the drawing he was doing of a shadow creature from a German legend. When it did, the creature came to life, running off his attackers and leaving him to be found by a delivery driver. Though his memory of the night is hazy, he soon found himself animating the very drawings that filled his sketchbook.
SKILLS
Archery - Competent Level
Artistry - Expert Level
Donovan is a highly skilled illustrator, using colored pencils, charcoal, markers, and paints as his medium. He is enrolled in art school at the university, where he excels at landscapes and anatomy in particular.
Athletics - Competent Level
Donovan grew up working on a farm and is also on the track team in college.
Computers - Competent Level
Like all students his age, he's skilled with social media, computers, and mobile electronics. He took computer programming and digital media in high school as electives as well.
Cooking - Novice Level
Donnie may not be a chef by any stretch, but he can follow a recipe and make more than Mac and cheese or PB&J for himself. He's not always familiar with fancy chef methods or terms.
Driving - Competent Level
He's driven cars and has a license. He's also driven tractors and forklifts from his days in the farm, so can usually find the right way to get a wheeled vehicle moving.
Education - Competent Level
Donovan was home schooled and has recently begun his college education.
Endurance - Competent Level
Having grown up on a farm, Donovan was a hard worker, often outlasting many of the hired hands.
Fighting - Novice Level
Having never taken formal training, Donnie still handles himself okay in a fight. He knows basic ways to punch, kick, and defend himself. He's also taken a fencing course to learn to use swords that he can create with his powers.
Mathematics - Competent Level
Even though math and science aren't his strong suits, he graduated high school and has taken some college math classes, in which he generally has good grades.
Observation - Expert Level
As an artist, there is little that Donovon doesn't take in visually, always noticing details others miss, and enhanced since developing his powers.
Science - Competent Level
Even though math and science aren't his strong suits, he graduated high school and has taken some college entry level science classes, in which he generally has good grades.
Survival - Competent Level
Growing up on a farm, Donnie knows about growing seasons, plants, tracking, and how to survive for periods of time off the land. He would go hunting with his father and older brother as well.
ABILITIES
Power: Drawing Animation - Enhanced Level
Sketch has the power to animate anything he has drawn. The drawing can be of anything, on any material, using any medium. The object created functions and works as it normally would, but also has any limitations that the object would as well. For instance, he could bring to reality a car he has drawn, but it would need someone to drive it.
The duration, appearance, and power of the object brought forth depends on the method of illustration and complexity of the object. The more complex the object, the shorter the animation time. Detailed drawings also last longer, so he has pre-drawn a number of useful things in his sketchbook. He can sketch very quickly, so can generally be prepared for anything as long as he has something to draw with and draw upon.
He needs to touch the drawing and will it into being. While this doesn't hurt, it doesn't require a moment of concentration. The items created can appear anywhere in his line of sight, but the closer they are created to his location, the more reliable they will be.
Personal: Super Dexterity - Enhanced Level
Donovon is fast, but not in the traditional sense. While he does exceptional at track, and can outpace most other runners, his hands move with astonishing speed to perform acts of fine motor control or manual dexterity, such as drawing, painting, or building something. This seems tied into his abilities to animate, but may be used independently to perform any action with his hands in much less time than normal. For instance, this includes picking locks, chopping vegetables, or throwing snowballs. This ability doesn't give him any special knowledge of the activity, so he can't perform actions he's not familiar with (surgery), but it his mind is able to keep up with whatever his hands are doing.
Personal: Super Sight - Basic Level
Donovon has always been observant, and his training as an artist has only improved that. However, recently he has found himself able to detect people and objects who might otherwise go undetected. This has included beings who were invisible, concealed with illusions, out of phase, or slightly time shifted. It also allows him to gain some visibility into other frequencies, such as infrared and ultraviolet, enhancing his ability to see in the dark. This ability is new, so isn't always reliable for detecting something new or seeing through a particularly powerful spell or effect.
ADVANTAGES
Eidetic Memory
Donovon can recall practically anything he has seen or heard with near perfect recollection. Even something he saw for only a moment or heard briefly is able to be recalled with the same clarity. He can then produce a drawing of what he has seen with a high degree of accuracy. This gives him no additional insight into the nature of what he has seen or heard, however. Therefore, he may recall words of a foreign language but not know their meaning, or recall the pictographs from a tomb but not know their translation.
WEAKNESSES
Debt
Donovan had to take out several loans to pay for his university classes since his family went bankrupt.
Materials Needed
Sketch requires drawing materials and a surface on which to draw the images he animates.
