May 2025

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digital fanart of Caleb and Nott from Critical Role, depicting them sleeping in a narrow inn bed. Caleb is a light-skinned thin human in his mid-thirties, his red hair and beard messy and untrimmed. he is dressed in tattered, worn clothes, bundled up in his heavily patched coat, knitted scarf, pants that are a bit too short for him and a darned red and white striped sock. he is curled in on himself, with one arm under his head, legs bent. Nott, who is a smaller green-skinned goblin with long straight black hair, is tucked behind his knees, resting her head on Caleb's thigh. she has a wrinkled, almost feline face and long rounded ears; her little hand, also resting on the back of Caleb's thigh, has small black claws. she is covered almost entirely by an unremarkable brown blanket. both of them have slightly worried faces even in their sleep, and seem to be minutes before waking up to the pale light of the sunrise coming from the small window just above the bed.ALT

We begin in the early hours of the morning on the day of Grissen in a messy room on the second floor of the Nestled Nook Inn. A bleary-eyed, bruised man in a tattered coat slowly wakens from his lengthy sleep, catching his small, snoring ally curled at the foot of the bed.

with how much i rewatch campaign 2 i constantly forget how long ago it started 🤭 episode one never fails to me make me feel nostalgic

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zmeess:

digital fanart of Caleb and Nott from Critical Role, depicting them sleeping in a narrow inn bed. Caleb is a light-skinned thin human in his mid-thirties, his red hair and beard messy and untrimmed. he is dressed in tattered, worn clothes, bundled up in his heavily patched coat, knitted scarf, pants that are a bit too short for him and a darned red and white striped sock. he is curled in on himself, with one arm under his head, legs bent. Nott, who is a smaller green-skinned goblin with long straight black hair, is tucked behind his knees, resting her head on Caleb's thigh. she has a wrinkled, almost feline face and long rounded ears; her little hand, also resting on the back of Caleb's thigh, has small black claws. she is covered almost entirely by an unremarkable brown blanket. both of them have slightly worried faces even in their sleep, and seem to be minutes before waking up to the pale light of the sunrise coming from the small window just above the bed.ALT

We begin in the early hours of the morning on the day of Grissen in a messy room on the second floor of the Nestled Nook Inn. A bleary-eyed, bruised man in a tattered coat slowly wakens from his lengthy sleep, catching his small, snoring ally curled at the foot of the bed.

with how much i rewatch campaign 2 i constantly forget how long ago it started 🤭 episode one never fails to me make me feel nostalgic

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a headshot portrait of a young adult tiefling, tilting his head to the side and smiling coyly, looking up and to his left. he has pale purple skin and short messy slightly wavy white hair that frames his cheekbones and falls against his forehead in between two short chubby dark gray horns. he has pointed ears adorned with a number of small gold hoops and long drop earrings made of tear-shaped green crystal. he has a round face, wispy thin black eyebrows, and big eyes with pale yellow sclera and dark gray irises. there is a beauty mark high on his right cheek, and just below his right collarbone. he is wearing an off-the-shoulder white shirt, tied in the front with a black cord and decorated with floral embroidery. on his neck, there is a wide green choker, as well as an elaborate necklace just below, made of white pearls, two gold flowers, and a large blue gem in the middle, with a gold pendant in the form of a bivalve mollusk shell hanging underneath. the background behind the character is mustard yellow and terracotta, making his light purple complexion almost glow.ALT

headshot commission for @pierroticism, his tiefling sorcerer Khar'rel! this darling was an absolute pleasure to paint, thank you for commissioning me 💜

commission info 🎨

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zmeess:

a headshot portrait of a young adult tiefling, tilting his head to the side and smiling coyly, looking up and to his left. he has pale purple skin and short messy slightly wavy white hair that frames his cheekbones and falls against his forehead in between two short chubby dark gray horns. he has pointed ears adorned with a number of small gold hoops and long drop earrings made of tear-shaped green crystal. he has a round face, wispy thin black eyebrows, and big eyes with pale yellow sclera and dark gray irises. there is a beauty mark high on his right cheek, and just below his right collarbone. he is wearing an off-the-shoulder white shirt, tied in the front with a black cord and decorated with floral embroidery. on his neck, there is a wide green choker, as well as an elaborate necklace just below, made of white pearls, two gold flowers, and a large blue gem in the middle, with a gold pendant in the form of a bivalve mollusk shell hanging underneath. the background behind the character is mustard yellow and terracotta, making his light purple complexion almost glow.ALT

headshot commission for @pierroticism, his tiefling sorcerer Khar'rel! this darling was an absolute pleasure to paint, thank you for commissioning me 💜

commission info 🎨

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I'm in love with the texture in your art style 😍 is there something special you do to not over blend or smoothen stuff out?

thank you!! honestly what i do is just use a brush with the blending setting adjusted to pretty low, so i do the blending by picking transition colors/gradients myself and sculpting the shapes with brushstrokes, rather than by letting the brush blend in the nearby colors. the latter is a totally valid technique though and works great for digital watercolors for example! all depends on what kind of effect you want to achieve.

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Would you ever be willing to make art tutorials? Your facial proportions and posing are so organic and real, and your coloring is just so satisfying to see. Just stumbled on a tiefling comm u posted, hope you're having a good day!

hi, thank you!!

the answer to that is possibly! i’ve written some stuff about my process under the #zmeess art advice tag (some things are less current there), i’ve done a couple of speedpaints, and a short tutorial or two (the only one that i remember atm is a tip on drawing pointed ears). i’ve actually wanted to do a short tutorial on drawing collarbones for a real long time. right now i’m a bit busy with work & health stuff though, but fingers crossed i will have some time for tutorials in the nearest future!

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Helloo would you consider opening a patreon? So someone like me who loves your art a crazy amount but cant commission can still support in some way.

Ps: your name is cool as hell

first of all: thank you so much for enjoying my art and wanting to support me!!

secondly: unfortunately, i can’t use patreon, but i have boosty! where you can chuck a tip at me any time (iirc the lower limit is super low, like below one us dollar), or subscribe to one of my support tiers: tip jar, which is around 4$ a month, and tip jar (supersized), which is around 8$. both also give you access to a bunch of sketches and wips that i upload to boosty with various levels of erraticness (some of which i’ve never posted on my socials), as well as the couple of speedpaints that i’ve done.

so yep, no patreon but you can still support me monetarily! also taking this opportunity to shout out the folks that are subscribed to my boosty, y'all don’t know how many times a monthly sub i wasn’t expecting has allowed me to buy some nice food when i was coasting on a big zero in my wallet until whatever paycheck was next. much love 🥰