January 2023

a redraw of an inuokko piece i posted a year ago (to the day in fact!) because i wanted to see how much progress i’ve done 🤭 in the spirit of integrity i kept this piece sketchy like the original was, and i think it turned out pretty good!

i also totally forgot to draw Toge’s seal at first because my memory and attention to detail are nonexistent apparently, but only posted that version on twitter before i realized that. y'all tumblr folk are lucky today, you get the better Toge

zmeess:

a redraw of an inuokko piece i posted a year ago (to the day in fact!) because i wanted to see how much progress i’ve done 🤭 in the spirit of integrity i kept this piece sketchy like the original was, and i think it turned out pretty good!

i also totally forgot to draw Toge’s seal at first because my memory and attention to detail are nonexistent apparently, but only posted that version on twitter before i realized that. y'all tumblr folk are lucky today, you get the better Toge

and here are the two pictures side by side! 2022 vs 2023!!

zmeess:

reading books together all night long

one of my new year resolutions is to draw my dnd characters more cause some of them don’t even have full-body portraits (and i’m an artist for god’s sake), so i decided to start with the first one i ever played! she’s a tiefling clockwork soul sorcerer and her name is Lozjna 🕰 i played her only once in a short one shot and she did literally nothing because i had made the mistake of creating a character who’s incredibly cautious and sticking to that while roleplaying her LOL

some pics of my dnd characters that i did in 2020-2021 that i never posted on tumblr!

the bitches are, in order:

1) fire genasi wild fire druid Snow Storm (he/him) (he was created for the icewind dale campaign that never happened, but i still hope to play him one day)

2) tiefling bard/rogue Daphne Thyme (he/him)

3) wood elf path of the beast barbarian Gemma Chrysalis (she/her)

4) grung wild magic sorcerer with a name that’s a secret (she/her) (only played in a session zero for another campaign that never happened)

5) tiefling necromancy wizard Magenta Love (she/her, he/him out of drag)

6) tiefling clockwork soul sorcerer Lozjna (she/her) (that’s my very first drawing of the gal i posted yesterday!)

7) human giant soul sorcerer Honey (he/him)

from this spread you’d think i love playing sorcerers but that’s not true. i fucking hate playing sorcerers. idk what happened there. my favorite class to play is monks

this is a pic a drew in november and then scrapped cause i’d made a bunch of mistakes right at the start, but today i opened it again and thought yeah it can be salvaged. spruced it up a lil bit and cropped the thing too. as one is wont to do of course

i’m drawing Verin atm bc i’m forever on my dynasty fashion bullshit, and i did a little Essek on the side for comparison! i love drawing blood relatives cause it’s really fun to figure out how to give them similar facial features but not make them look the same

unrelated but i’ve got a pet headcanon that Verin is barely two years younger than Essek, which is nothing in elf years and contributes to their petty sibling rivalry and solidarity both

from the tags i get on tumblr i can tell that everyone thinks that Aeor is for lovers, and you know what? i’m inclined to agree with you fellas

as the ambassador of Essek wearing white i had to draw my default design for his Aeor outfit (it has appeared in two of my drawings btw, including the latest sg piece!). i think this can count towards my Essek of the week series, which i need to continue like so bad

eight billion layers here!! a thermal shirt you can’t see, a turtleneck, a tunic over it, then a coat with a hood and the sexy split sleeves, and then finally a cloak! gotta stay warm And fashionable my friends. also very importantly gloves, which cover the turtleneck’s sleeves and regrettably come off when somatic casting is required

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)

commission for @westwardnine on twitter, their FFXIV warrior of light Niersai! this picture was very fun to work on, i don’t think i’ve ever drawn such a tall character and the white fabric was a nice challenge to render 🤍

this is the fifth (5th) installment of my critical role x it’s always sunny in philadelphia series, dedicated to the silly and somewhat pathetic guys of tm9 (affectionate). Cad is not here on account of being the only respectable man in the gang

i’ve noticed that some of my shadowgast pictures (both posted and not) are the drawing equivalent of an m-rated fic: there is a metaphorical and very tasteful fade-to-black, but me and the lads know what’s up. anyway, enjoy

zmeess:

i’ve noticed that some of my shadowgast pictures (both posted and not) are the drawing equivalent of an m-rated fic: there is a metaphorical and very tasteful fade-to-black, but me and the lads know what’s up. anyway, enjoy

for the people who are interested in my process! i accidentally overwrote the pic of the flat color stage, it’s much more rough than what you can see in the second progress shot

+ some rough color studies i did before i started working on the rendering in earnest, i do these for almost every full-render picture actually. this piece was almost the third version but i didn’t like where it was going. will probably recycle that color palette in some other pic

i know we fans can make anything horny, but this? hey. hey cr. *knocks on my laptop screen* hey the cast of critical role? this one’s entirely on you