November 2024

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a full-body digital portrait of two people, one of them holding the other bridal-style and kissing them on the cheek. the standing character has tan skin, messy straight black hair that is shorter in the back and has longer bangs, and is tall and muscular. they're wearing dark leathers with bits of silver armor and a white fur collar. there is a streak of red painted across their face. the person they're holding appears somewhat shorter and much thinner; he has brown skin, wavy shoulder-length black hair with a side shave, and a thin mustache and chin-strap beard. he is wearing shiny lipstick and pink eye shadow, and is dressed in a fancy white and beige outfit that consists of a shirt with frilly sleeves, fitted pants and thigh-high lace-up boots with sturdy heels. he is looking at the camera with a bashful smile, one of his arms thrown around his partner's neck, and the other hand touching their collarbone gently. the background is pastel pink and lavender, and the characters are brightly lit as if with golden hour sunlight.ALT

commission for @traaanskimkitsuragi, their and their friend @jjammy-skies’s dragon age OCs, Trevelyan and Hawke (being held and carrying, respectively)! thank you for requesting the cutest pose, i love these two 🤭

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digital fanart of Caleb and Essek from Critical Role, in the middle of their conversation on the ninth floor of Caleb's tower in campaign 2 episode 133. they are close to each other, their darker silhouettes surrounded by the light gray backdrop of the starry dunamantic field, light orange galaxy sprawling behind them. Caleb is dressed in the dark green jacket he wears underneath his heavy winter coat, his dark red hair pulled back into a short ponytail and his pale freckled face clean-shaven; he is standing on the ethereal floor of the chamber. The floor is only distinguishable as a surface by Caleb's posture and feet against it, otherwise it blends seamlessly into the starry space around the characters. Essek, a drow with light lavender skin and short wavy white hair, wearing layered white winter clothes and a long cloak that is trailing behind him and is draped on the floor, is floating right next to Caleb. they're looking at each other, Caleb with a soft face and Essek with a stern and intense expression he had when he said "I'm pretty sure, young man", leaning towards Caleb. there is a bright exploding star in a faraway nebula visible between their faces, and their figures are edged with red and blue chromatic aberration, as if slightly out of focus and dispersing into many infinitesimally different variations of themselves.ALT

‘I carry a lot of sins, like you do.’
'Not anywhere like I do.’
'Don’t be so sure.’
'I’m pretty sure, young man.’

commission for @nyarlie, who requested an illustration of one of the most wizard moments of campaign 2 ever 😏 featuring a clean-shaven dirt wizard, which was very fun to paint! i don’t draw Caleb without his signature scruff often, but he definitely makes such a handsome lad 🤭 this scene is one of my favorite for the way it characterizes both Caleb and Essek, and i was very happy to rewatch it several times as i worked on this painting.

the way i picture the ninth floor of Caleb’s tower (and the space “inside” the beacons) might be a bit unconventional, but i am very much in love with the initial soft gray and starry imagery of dunamancy we had in c2, so it was a special treat for me to be allowed the creative freedom to paint it as such. thank you for commissioning me 💜

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a full-body digital painting of a tiefling, sitting down on a chair in a dark teal dramatically lit room. she has red skin, golden pupil-less eyes, a long thick tail and thick striated horns curling up and backwards from her forehead. her long dark brown hair is brushed backwards into a bun with a braid coming out of it, with a few flyaway curls at her temples. she has four claw scars going through the left side of her face and a black eye-patch covering her left eye, with the fastenings secured around her left ear and right horn. she is wearing a finely embroidered long dark blue dress with a deep neckline and long leg-of-mutton sleeves, with red and gold chains and ribbons decorating the skirt, as well as a red cape thrown over her shoulders. she is sitting next to a cluttered desk, resting her right elbow on it and holding a quill in her right hand, staring intently at the writing in the book in her lap. among the books on the desk there is a poster with a suggestion of 'Wanted' printed on it. behind her and the desk there is a large window showing a night sky and a vivid orange two-tailed comet streaking across it, so bright that it illuminates the tiefling and the book open in her lap, with a similar two-tailed comet scribbled in ink on one of its pages. ALT

commission for @makkelart, tiefling mage Tefra! a couple years ago i got to paint her brother Jaq, so it was especially fun to meet his sister 🤭 thank you for commissioning me! 💜

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a digital hips-up painting of a young man casting a spell. he has tan skin, a slender figure, soft features, pointy ears, and glittering scales on his cheekbones. his dark blue wavy hair is pulled back into a small ponytail, and the loose strands at his forehead are blown back by the force of his casting. he is wearing a white billowing shirt tucked into dark high-waisted pants, a leather armor-inspired piece that hugs his neck and goes down his chest in a triangle, as well as a short cape with two hanging panels in the front, decorated with sea glass beads, tassels, and embroidery depicting ocean waves. hanging around his neck is a heavy palm-sized disc made of blue sea-glass, with an anatomical heart carved into it. the sleeves of his shirt are asymmetrical, the right one caught up with a decorative cord just above his elbow, exposing angular runic tattoos on his forearm, and a blue woven bracelet with a pearl in it around his wrist. the tips of his fingers are stained dark, and he is raising his hands above his head, palms forward, manipulating a large arc of inky liquid above and in front of him. the space behind him is dark blue and full of whirling ink droplets, and he is lit with ethereal minty green glow.ALT

commission for unpolar, his half-sea elf knowledge cleric Mortimer! i got to design the outfit for this lovely guy, and it was tons of fun working with a primarily blue color scheme, which i don’t normally do. thank you for commissioning me! 💙

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a sketch of Verin Thelyss from Critical Role, who is depicted as a young drow with his long hair brushed back into two french braids, wearing spiky and organic-looking plate armor. he is looking down at the horned helmet clutched under one of his arms, gesturing at it with the other, and says with a wide grin "It's a bit spooky, but that's by design!".ALT

welcome to the game, hot boi number two!

(not too mad that Verin’s in-game description is vague enough that the two french braids that i’ve been headcanoning for ages still kinda fit into it 🤭)

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digital hips-up portrait of a fantasy character lying nude in the grass, with the camera positioned high and looking down at them. he has dusky purple-pink skin, very long down-turned elven ears, and a slender build with a flat chest. his long wavy hair is spread beneath him on the grass; it has a split down the middle, with the left side being white and the right black, mirrored in his eyebrows and eyelashes as well. his right eye has a very dark almost black iris, while his left is fully black and reminiscent of a starry night's sky. there is a long thin scar running down his chest from the dip between his collarbones to his navel. his fingers are stained a very saturated pink, which matches the color of the amaranth flowers swaying above him. he is looking at a red apple held in his right hand, while his left is thrown closer to his head, casual and relaxed. a large white python with light red eyes is slithering in the glass around him. they're both lit with afternoon sun, the grass and flowers throwing purple filigree shade onto the skin of the character and the glittering iridescent scales of the python.ALT

commission for @unseelie-co (foxglove.exe on instagram), their Curse of Strahd half-dusk elf Jemini! thank you for commissioning me 💜

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i need mr matthew mercer to explain why essek appears to have such massive beef with astrid, but until he does i will headcanon crack scenarios only

a humorous sketchy comic panel featuring Astrid and Essek from Critical Role. they're sitting down on the floor in comfortable clothing, as if lounging at home. Astrid has a smoking blunt in one of her hands, while Essek is holding a large wine glass up to his mouth. he asks, "Astrid, may I pretend to apprehend and interrogate you if I ever need to impress another party of incompetent adventurers?", to which Astrid responds, "...If I can have Bren's 'Chastity's Nook' loyalty card".ALT

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zmeess:

a humorous black and white fan comic featuring characters from Critical Role. in the first two panels, Essek (wearing his Seth disguise) addresses Dorian with "Careful, you're a heart-breaker". Dorian is looking at him with an incredibly confused expression, question marks exploding around him. in the next two panels, Caleb says to Orym with an intense face, "If not now, when?", and Orym is staring down with wide eyes, sweat beading on his forehead, multiple question marks running in a row behind him. at the bottom, Essek is in his drow form, wearing a comfortable house robe, his wild curly hair pushed back with a sleeping mask resting high on his head. he is drinking from a coffee mug, holding a sending stone in the other hand, and says "Do you think our intervention has helped?". below him in a different panel and clearly in a different physical space, Caleb is holding his sending stone up to his mouth with one hand, and has a small toy alligator in the other, inspecting it carefully. he responds, "Absolutely. We were exceedingly straightforward with our advice, I am positive they've asked each other out by now."ALT

congratulations to the dorym enjoyers, may your little guys be blessed with the same domesticity the mighty nein are

a black and white comic panel featuring characters from Critical Role, a continuation of the previous post. in the background, Dorian and Orym are kissing passionately, while in the foreground Caleb is looking at the camera with a quietly smug face and saying "Mission accomplished" into a sending stone in his hand. a speech bubble that reads "Excellent" is coming out of the stone, and next to it there is a small chibi Essek, wearing a self-satisfied face to match Caleb's.ALT

i suppose more congratulations are in order

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zmeess speedpaint, take two!

a line-art work in progress and the finished illustration side-by-side, depicting a lithe elf with dusky pink skin relaxing in the grass with an apple in one of their hands; there is a white python slithering around them and amaranth flowers swaying above. at the bottom of the two images are the words "line-art" and "full render", with an arrow pointing from the former to the latter.ALT

finally finished splicing together the recordings of this commission that i posted a while back 🍎

available to my monthly subscribers here! witness me rotate that canvas again and again 🤭

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zmeess:

zmeess speedpaint, take two!

a line-art work in progress and the finished illustration side-by-side, depicting a lithe elf with dusky pink skin relaxing in the grass with an apple in one of their hands; there is a white python slithering around them and amaranth flowers swaying above. at the bottom of the two images are the words "line-art" and "full render", with an arrow pointing from the former to the latter.ALT

finally finished splicing together the recordings of this commission that i posted a while back 🍎

available to my monthly subscribers here! witness me rotate that canvas again and again 🤭