January 2024

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Please sir (gender neutral), can we have some more (kittygast au headcannons)?

you get two sets from my disorganized discord list 😼

(this is in reference to my silly shadowgast AU where the wizards are cats 🐱)

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I would love to hear more about the cats if you're willing to share :D

more silly headcanons for you 😼

and related to the above:

(this is in reference to my silly shadowgast AU where the wizards are cats 🐱)

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I find it very emdearing that canon Caleb would 100% adopt his alternate kitty self tbh. Poor kitty with weird spots and an amputated tail, come in my home, Der Katzenprinz.

aaaa this is so cute 😭 he would!

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Hey, just wanted to say, I really adore and love your art and especially the way you use light and colours is super amazing and awesome, I can't stop looking at them.

thank you so much πŸ₯ΊπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œ

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i love your essek art! when i see it on my dash its so magical and im always happy to see your work! i hope you have a great new year!

thank you so much!! i hope to draw even more Esseks this year πŸ’œ

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luddlestons:

so my new favorite shadowgast art is this piece by @zmeess and as soon as I started thinking about what exactly they may have gotten up to before this scene, I looked down and realized I’d opened a new doc.

Buttoned Up and Undressed

shadowgast | 3k | explicit

Essek and Caleb dress for a party, and become terribly waylaid in the process.

(ft. caleb edging himself on purpose, drow customs involving fancy jewelry, the real intended use of Essek’s gravity cantrip–making up for how short he is, and wizards, per usual, being all about the hands)

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zmeess:

chest-up digital fanart of Essek and Caleb from Critical Role. Essek is a drow with purple skin and short light curly hair; Caleb is a light-skinned human with long ginger hair and a beard. Essek is standing on the left in profile, gazing up at the grey-ish blue overcast sky and the falling snowflakes. on the right, slightly farther away from the viewer is Caleb, looking at Essek with a small fond smile. both of them are wearing warm clothes, with a thin layer of fresh snowflakes on Essek's fluffy dark fur collar and Caleb's muted green and purple striped scarf.ALT

two wintery wizards commissioned by @aravhy as a gift for their friends! they requested Essek admiring the first snowflakes, and Caleb admiring Essek : ) i thought that that prompt was the sweetest thing in existence and was incredibly excited to put it on canvas πŸ₯° thank you for commissioning me!

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I love all of your artworks and couldn't pick one I love the most. So I was wondering: Which of your works do you like the most?

thank you! πŸ’œ

ahh it’s hard to pick since i’ve been drawing for quite a while. as far as recent (let’s say, from 2023) stuff is concerned, i think my three favorites are the v-day shadowgast painting, the stay at home date picture, and the post t-dock illustration. i think i did a really good job on the colors and the rendering style in the first one (almost killed my wrist while working on it though if i remember correctly), and i’m really proud of how i did the environment, the way i worked with the values, and especially the storytelling aspect of the latter two. though the most important thing might be that i had tremendous amounts of fun while working on all three of them!

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i might have accidentally illustrated a fic by @luddlestons (Buttoned Up and Undressed) that was inspired by a picture of mine that was commissioned by @saturdaysky. that’s how fandom works, right? 🀭

you can see the full version on my bluesky and cohost!

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digital sketch of Caleb Widogast from Critical Role, done in shades of orange and brown. he is a freckled bearded man with medium-length messy hair, wearing a large tattered coat, simple trousers, leather boots and bandages around his forearms. he is sitting on a wooden crate darning a sock; his right foot is bare on the ground with a scrap of paper placed underneath it, and the right boot is visible standing next to it.ALT

i was missing Caleb today, had to draw something about that

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Hello Zmeess! This is probably a really dumb question, but I wrote a short fic inspired by your little Caleb doodle mending his sock. It's less than 2k words and I would like to post it on ao3 (and link there to your art piece). But is it also okay for me to reblog your art and add my fic to it? I would put most of it under a Read More, but I wanted to ask before I do something that you don't want. Thank you, your artstyle is always so inspiring and this time I couldn't stop myself! :D

hi hi!

not a dumb question at all, thank you for asking! please go ahead, i’m so glad my little drawing inspired you to write something πŸ₯Ί

(i’m okay with people reblogging my art on tumblr and adding stuff to it as long as it’s respectful! unlike with twitter’s quote-retweets or reposting stuff, the engagement stays within one post and the credit is all in place. that being said, if any of you reading this are unsure, you’re welcome to ask)

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inja-y-ddraig:

zmeess:

digital sketch of Caleb Widogast from Critical Role, done in shades of orange and brown. he is a freckled bearded man with medium-length messy hair, wearing a large tattered coat, simple trousers, leather boots and bandages around his forearms. he is sitting on a wooden crate darning a sock; his right foot is bare on the ground with a scrap of paper placed underneath it, and the right boot is visible standing next to it.ALT

i was missing Caleb today, had to draw something about that

this picture inspired me a little , so have a fanfic (read on Ao3 instead)

(this has a hint of Shadowgast at the end because I love my blorbos too much. Also, this was written mostly at 3am last night, and English is not my first language, so … eh. sorry for any weird grammar)

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There is a hole in his sock.

He has been on the road for some days, hurrying as much as he can to escape the heavy clouds gathering in the mountains behind him. It isn’t quite cold enough yet for snow, but even just getting soaked by rain can mean certain death with the current temperatures at night.

So, he is trying to get to the next village. (It’s risky.) Being a bit closer to some kind of civilisation can’t hurt that much. (He could find you, be careful.)

Keep reading

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Your recent Caleb art saved my current sewing project. I learned about darning years ago, but had forgotten about it until the art, and needed it today when a sewing project had a catastrophic failure. Thank you. You saved me probably eight hours of redoing my work, with twenty minutes of darning.

this message made me so happy! darning is awesome and i’m so glad my drawing helped you in such an unexpected way 🀭 thank you for telling me about this!

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zmeess:

i might have accidentally illustrated a fic by @luddlestons (Buttoned Up and Undressed) that was inspired by a picture of mine that was commissioned by @saturdaysky. that’s how fandom works, right? 🀭

you can see the full version on my bluesky and cohost!

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the first illustration in a series of fanart for critical role, c2ep65. it depicts a giant turtle shell, bleached by the sun and partially submerged in the gray sand, with a bleak gray and pink sunrise in the background. on top of the shell, there is a tiny cloaked figure.ALT
the second illustration, depicting Yasha and Caleb from their waists up, riding on moorbounders that are only lightly sketched. Caleb is reaching over to Yasha and slapping his left hand on her shoulder, casting Gift of Alacrity that looks like light purple glow emanating from his palm. behind them, there is a gray overcast sky and the badlands of the Barbed Fields.ALT
the third illustration, depicting Caduceus sitting down on the roots of Arbor Exemplar and weaving a hat from the same tall grass that can be seen around him. he is wearing a content smile, and the green of the grass, Caduceus's pink hair, and the blues and pinks of the sky are contributing hints of color to the gray palette of the wasteland around him.ALT

mock screenshot studies of the mighty nein: the movie 🀭 i am on my c2 rewatch and episode 65 was quite cinematic!

tip jar!

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zmeess:

the first illustration in a series of fanart for critical role, c2ep65. it depicts a giant turtle shell, bleached by the sun and partially submerged in the gray sand, with a bleak gray and pink sunrise in the background. on top of the shell, there is a tiny cloaked figure.ALT
the second illustration, depicting Yasha and Caleb from their waists up, riding on moorbounders that are only lightly sketched. Caleb is reaching over to Yasha and slapping his left hand on her shoulder, casting Gift of Alacrity that looks like light purple glow emanating from his palm. behind them, there is a gray overcast sky and the badlands of the Barbed Fields.ALT
the third illustration, depicting Caduceus sitting down on the roots of Arbor Exemplar and weaving a hat from the same tall grass that can be seen around him. he is wearing a content smile, and the green of the grass, Caduceus's pink hair, and the blues and pinks of the sky are contributing hints of color to the gray palette of the wasteland around him.ALT

mock screenshot studies of the mighty nein: the movie 🀭 i am on my c2 rewatch and episode 65 was quite cinematic!

tip jar!

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digital lineart of two elven women dancing. both of them are slim, have long wavy hairstyles and are wearing dresses. the taller one has her right arm around the shorter one's curving waist, while the latter's arms are raised gracefully in the air, the motion accentuated by the translucent piece of fabric falling from her shoulders and attached at her wrists with bracelets.ALT

another commission for @lirille, her characters Curunis and Avalain! couples dancing is honestly something i don’t draw enough, thank you for commissioning me! πŸ’œ

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if you were following me on the bird site about a year ago you probably saw me ramble about my headcanon that drow have dark purple/black blood, and i love that hc so much that i always wanted to incorporate it into my art somehow. and well. naturally you gotta do that by turning towards some trusted wizard tropes (read: hand kink) and letting Essek show some tongue

this baby was posted as a sketch on my boosty last summer and i coyly said then that ‘we’ll see if i’ll be able to finish it in a month or seven tee hee’. and you know what? i have, and i’m proud of myself. i hope you enjoy

tip jar!

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zmeess:

if you were following me on the bird site about a year ago you probably saw me ramble about my headcanon that drow have dark purple/black blood, and i love that hc so much that i always wanted to incorporate it into my art somehow. and well. naturally you gotta do that by turning towards some trusted wizard tropes (read: hand kink) and letting Essek show some tongue

this baby was posted as a sketch on my boosty last summer and i coyly said then that ‘we’ll see if i’ll be able to finish it in a month or seven tee hee’. and you know what? i have, and i’m proud of myself. i hope you enjoy

tip jar!

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lads i’m thinking of drawing something shadowgast-y for this upcoming v-day again this year and i’d love to hear your input if you’d like to weigh in on what it should be πŸ‘€

first (1st) of all, should i go for something sfw or nsfw?

sfw

nsfw

do that thing where you draw horny art but it’s not explicit

See Results

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zmeess:

lads i’m thinking of drawing something shadowgast-y for this upcoming v-day again this year and i’d love to hear your input if you’d like to weigh in on what it should be πŸ‘€

first (1st) of all, should i go for something sfw or nsfw?

sfw

nsfw

do that thing where you draw horny art but it’s not explicit

See Results

i am already seeing the voters’ favorite 😏

should it be…

good ole regular shadowgast?

scourger!bren au?

See Results

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zmeess:

zmeess:

lads i’m thinking of drawing something shadowgast-y for this upcoming v-day again this year and i’d love to hear your input if you’d like to weigh in on what it should be πŸ‘€

first (1st) of all, should i go for something sfw or nsfw?

sfw

nsfw

do that thing where you draw horny art but it’s not explicit

See Results

i am already seeing the voters’ favorite 😏

should it be…

good ole regular shadowgast?

scourger!bren au?

See Results

please pick a color and i will do my absolute best to avoid making it purple πŸ₯²

red ❀️

orange 🧑

yellow πŸ’›

green πŸ’š

teal 🩡

blue πŸ’™

purple πŸ’œ

pink 🩷

brown 🀎

black πŸ–€

gray 🩢

any shrimp color will do

See Results

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zmeess:

zmeess:

zmeess:

lads i’m thinking of drawing something shadowgast-y for this upcoming v-day again this year and i’d love to hear your input if you’d like to weigh in on what it should be πŸ‘€

first (1st) of all, should i go for something sfw or nsfw?

sfw

nsfw

do that thing where you draw horny art but it’s not explicit

See Results

i am already seeing the voters’ favorite 😏

should it be…

good ole regular shadowgast?

scourger!bren au?

See Results

please pick a color and i will do my absolute best to avoid making it purple πŸ₯²

red ❀️

orange 🧑

yellow πŸ’›

green πŸ’š

teal 🩡

blue πŸ’™

purple πŸ’œ

pink 🩷

brown 🀎

black πŸ–€

gray 🩢

any shrimp color will do

See Results

⬆️ correction: i will avoid making it purple unless purple actually wins. in that case i will go ham

pick the level of fanciness of Essek’s outfit

zero (probably raided Caleb’s closet)

low (still fashionable but you gotta wear something simple while you garden)

moderate (you gotta look good even when you’re on the run and dodging assassins)

astronomical (the fancy guy usual)

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this one is mostly a joke but y'know. cast your vote anyway