Pictorial Arts

***Bards of the Picturial Arts specialize in painting, sketching, and Drawing. They focus on evoking powerful emotion by imbuing their works with true passion and beauty.***

## Novice Artist

As a novice artist, you gain proficiency with calligrapher's tools and painting sets. You can take time to make a piece of art on any surface. This art can be any of the following:

* A drawing of a person or place you have seen or had accurately described to you. This is a near-perfect likeness and will be instantly recognizable by anyone who knows the subject of the drawing. This takes 10 minutes.
* A sketch of an idea, location, object, or creature that allows any creature who views it to immediately understand the layout or construction of the subject. If the subject is a creature or a location, any creature that views your sketch has advantage on initiative rolls against the subject (if a creature) or in the area of the subject (if a location). This takes 1 minute.

## Apprentice Artist

As an artist of moderate skill, you learn to paint with vivid realism. Taking an hour, you can change the appearance of an object or surface no greater than 5 feet in any dimension. You can make it's age appear different, make it appear made of a different material, change its color, and/or alter it's general appearance (E.G., you could make a door seem like part of the wall it's housed in). These changes are permanent, but can be noticed with an insight check by any observer. (DC=8+your proficiency bonus+your charisma modifier)

## Adept Artist

As a talented artist, you learn to paint people and clothing in advantageous ways. You can make someone appear of a different complexion, age, fortitude, or hair color, and you can camouflage clothing to a specific terrain. Creatures wearing the clothing have advantage on stealth checks made in the chosen terrain.

## Expert Artist

As an artist of true skill, you can paint powerful emotion into your art. You can take 8 hours to complete a painting of up to 5 feet in any dimension on a clean, mono-color surface. Choose which emotion you are imbuing into your painting when you create it. The first time a creature looks at your art each day, they must make a wisdom save or suffer the effects listed below (they may choose to fail the save):

* Joy: The observer gains temporary hit points equal to your Bard level.
* Hope: The observer has advantage on saves against fear for the next hour.
* Grief: The observer's movement is halved and it has disadvantage on attack rolls.
* Futility: The observer gains a level of exhaustion.
* Awe: The observer is fascinated by the painting as per *Fascination.*
* Fear: The observer becomes frightened of the painting.
* Rage: The observer adds your charisma modifier to initiative rolls for the next ten minutes.

## Master Artist

When you master the pictorial arts, your art becomes so vivid and lifelike that it can be sometimes indistinguishable from real life. Given an hour for each square foot of surface area, you can make any object or surface look like anything else. Effectively, you can cast *Silent Image* as long as you have something to paint on. You can also make your use of colors hypnotizing and chaotic, effectively casting *Hypnotic Pattern* on a surface large enough. The first time each day that a creature sees this pattern, they must make a wisdom save against your Bard DC or be affected by it.