October 2023

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zmeess:

happy belated valentine’s day to y'all in general and shadowgast enjoyers in particular. may you always have a life-long friend to platonically snuggle with

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zmeess:

forget me not

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zmeess:

today was my day off so i thought that i could draw some more mighty nein portraits. of a sort. as a treat!

yes Veth gets three hands in this hand dump!! because she is special and her journey is very important to me

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zmeess:

critical role is my favorite mahou shounen anime

(it might be obvious but just in case: Caleb’s spell is web of fire and Essek’s is gravity sinkhole)

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a two-panel redraw of a scene from the 'Charlie Rules the World' episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia featuring Fjord and Essek from Critical Role. in the first panel Fjord, battered and wearing his Aeor gear, is spreading his arms in a 'it is what it is' gesture, saying "That's life. That's just sort of how shit goes." in the second panel we see Essek, extremely disheveled and wearing a distressed and lost expression, looking up at Fjord with tear tracks on his face, and Fjord continues with "Sometimes things just sort of... end." ALT

this eight billionth installment of my critical role x it’s always sunny in philadelphia redraw series was originally supposed to feature Cad & Lucien, which i thought was especially funny and fitting given the topic of the original iasip ep, but another thought of mine was Fjord & Essek in the aftermath of the Lucien battle and when i floated the Cad and Lucien version with the lads @beckpoppinscosplay said okay i respect that but what if Fjord and Essek and i was like goddammit if another person had the exact same idea as my second option. then i Must go with that one

never knew i would turn one of my favorite c2 conversations, incredible in its gravity and characterization, into an iasip meme redraw, but that’s just sort of how shit goes i guess

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a bunch of mighty nein and bells hells headshots i posted on twitter recently ✨ click for better quality and less crop yo!

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digital fanart of Caleb and Essek from Critical Role. they are depicted in the salon of Caleb's tower, lit by a fireplace somewhere off screen and a few floating balls of amber light above them. in the foreground, there is a piece of a spiral staircase visible, and just behind it a small potted apple tree; in the background there are bookshelves and a window showing a dusky teal sky. Caleb is sitting on a sofa, curled in on himself, with his head in his hands; he is wearing some of his Aeor gear: his stormrider boots, dark pants and a thin black sweater, as if he's taken off the outer layers. Essek is standing next to him, dressed in all white, with a little bit of dirt staining his boots and the bottom of his tunic; one of his hands is hovering hesitantly over Caleb's head. Caleb's underarm holster is lying on a low table in front of him; next to it, there are two books, one closed and one open, and a little piece of amber on a dark leather cord.ALT

as much as it hurt me, i don’t want to change a thing

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digital fanart of Essek and Verin Thelyss. both of them are drow with white hair and light purple skin; Essek has short wavy hair with the bangs swept to one side, and Verin's longer hair is braided into two french braids. they're sitting in armchairs pushed close together, presumably at a formal party, with Verin leaning over to Essek, shielding his mouth with his hand and whispering something to his brother with a smile. his posing is very laid-back, with his left ankle resting on his right knee, and he's holding a stemless wine glass in his left hand, propping it against his leg. Essek is sitting with his legs crossed, looking at something off in the distance and hiding a small smirk behind his wine glass. both of them are dressed in fancy dark layered outfits. Essek is wearing a turtleneck, with the sleeves covered with black voluminous embroidered organza; his overshirt has long split sleeves with dull teal embroidered lining and is tied at his waist with a pale sash. he has a large collar/shoulder piece that looks like a fan of thin pearlescent petal-shaped plates with dark copper-red gilded edges. he's also wearing dark pants and high laced boots with metallic tips. his simple rings, bracelets and an ear cuff are all reddish in color. Verin is wearing a short coat, with split sleeves and another, tighter pair of embroidered silk sleeves underneath; the coat is tied at the waist with a wide layered purple sash. there are dark iridescent decorative pauldrons on his shoulders, reminiscent of seashells or insect carapaces in shape. he has dark pants and dark purple boots on; his jewelry (a pair of triangular bracelets on each arm, a braid ornament of the same shape, and a few small hoop earrings) is gold. the picture employs a limited palette of various shades of brown, purple, red, teal and lemon yellow.ALT

den thelyss gossip

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i’ve been very busy with work recently and haven’t been able to draw much fanart, but i did manage to finish this one today! i’ve wanted to draw Essek and Verin for months, and i also really miss fancy dynasty clothes 🤭

detail!

a close-up of the above image, showing the detail of the faces and hands.ALT

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colored sketches of Caleb and Essek from critical role, drawn as cats. Caleb is a dark orange tabby with blue eyes, white front legs, a white tummy and a stubby striped tail. Essek is a light brownish-gray colored abyssinian with white shoulders and a white patch on his forehead; he has purple-ish eyes and is wearing a dark collar with a pentagon-shaped tag. in one of the sketches he is sitting elegantly and looking at the viewer with an expression that looks like he's smiling with slightly narrowed eyes. in another he is loafing and looking away from a d12 die next to him, with a few people off-screen debating why he keeps stealing d12 dice and d12 dice only. in the third sketch Caleb is lying on his side with his cheek smushed into the floor, and he is looking at something off-screen with a mournful expression. in the last sketch Caleb and Essek are cudding under an overturned glass fruit bowl; it's lifted off the floor a little bit by a corner of a book titled 'cat parenting for dummies' that's tucked under the lip of the bowl, and there are apples scattered around them. someone off-screen is saying "We need to get a smaller fruit bowl".ALT

i’ve been having silly shadowgast cat au brainworms for months but especially yesterday so i’ve decided to do something about it

i’ve picked abyssinian for essek because i think their condescending judgemental faces would be perfect for him, and i feel like in general they’re very elf-like in their appearance 🤭 the coat color i’ve been leaning towards is called lilac despite not being actually lilac at all! so a lilac coat for a purple wizard 💜 he’s not really cat-show worthy (despite his perfect pedigree) because he got cooked up weird with his little forehead patch and white shoulders, but jester loves him anyway.

caleb is a simple dark orange tabby with a somewhat unusual arrangement of white spots. i know frumpkin was a bengal but i can’t imagine caleb being a fancy purebred cat 🤭

i’ve got many many more brainworms that i will hopefully illustrate at some point. stay tuned for more feline whimsy

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zmeess:

i needed to continue my it’s always sunny in philadelphia x cr redraws. but is it really a redraw if we all know that at some point the mighty nein definitely sang under Essek’s window in a perfect recreation of that one caroling scene from A Very Sunny Christmas

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zmeess:

cross-posting this Fearne from twitter! 💚 i’ve wanted to draw her for forever and what better time to draw a giant goat lady than when you’re sick with flu lol