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The brain worm today is drow opera.

Yeah. Yeah, you read that right. Drow opera. [is this a thing already? If not it should be]

I've talked about Coranzan being musically inclined thanks to his mother's instruction and that he was an actor doing propaganda pieces for a while.

So naturally... My brain went to opera as a cross section of those things and now I'm obsessed with the idea. I am putting Coran in there for his pre-Surface days.

It's the perfect venue for entertainment, propaganda, political showmanship and positioning, grandeur, and not to mention the absolute sadism possible as a part of it. For the audience and the singers.

I might yap about this little by little over the day as I find pockets of time.

But. TLDR Wagner. Absolutely Wagner.

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@mooreaux made magic with my favorite little (and not so little) guys and I cannot be anymore obsessed. ❤️🕷️🖤

Thank you so so much again I’m going to stare at it for a million years ❤️

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Flashback

It took forever because I hate rendering

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A few process pictures of Saroja and Sussuri that I finished a month ago.

Sketch to finished painting. I need to remind myself that rough sketches are equally important in the illustration process. When I was still painting using wayercolours, my sketches and final piece would be on different papers. Its different with drawing digitally since everything is on one file and I find erasing the rough lines all together to overlay paint on it helps me more than making clean line art. This was something I did for my acrylic paintings back in university.

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Today’s wip

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✨️ Baldur's Gate 3 Commission for Cia ✨️

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Minthy warm up sketch 🕷️

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Teenagers, am I right?

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🕸️🕷️ shri'iia in this outfit i found over in pinterest i thought it was perfect for her hehe

timelapse below but tw- motion sickness !! i flip between my canvas and reference a lot + zoom in and out so that can get a bit dizzying.

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All your friends grew up but you're still a dumb puppy

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Minthara by niacart_

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Sounds on the Wind

Astarion has been haunted by distant, maddening song every night. Here in the tunnels of the Underdark, he will find the source, even if it brings him to the brink.

7 pages, you can also read on my site starting here.

Stay tuned for the follow up scene!

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I'd been sitting on the idea and visual for this scene for so long and I think it ended up being one of the most difficult to draw and write but I'm so pleased with it. Huge thanks to @satanicspinosaurus for helping to get Astarion's end rant suitably ranty.

This scene is a callback/progression to the end of Stealing Hearts, Astarion's just not been reacting well to overhearing Aldiirn's nighttime tooting. Maybe we'll find out why. 👀

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It's too hot for me to do my job at work, so I'm sitting in the office. Here have a quick doodle of Phyranna, the Head Priestess of Lachrymose and Tarlyn's temple. I have little on her as a character beyond she's somewhere in her late 400s early 500s, and she really likes Lachrymose and Tarlyn and wants them to succeed under Eilistraee's guidance, despite sometimes making their life more difficult by not just unilaterally deciding to make things easier/better for the men within the temple. (There's a council u see, and it's filled with older former noble women from the Underdark. And tho Eilistraee says something, they aren't sure if she like... means it tho. Y'know?)

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thanks again @mistralrunner for commissioning me 🌊🌊🌊

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"Russian roulette"

Drow language translation

Z: Did you put poison in this?

M: Enough to kill five ogres.

Z: You just put it in our drinks, right?

M: Oh, no. I put it in one of those wine as well.

M: LET'S SEE WHO'S LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET IT.

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Tar'eyl in my style vs in BG3 pt. 2 of ???

I'm still trying to understand this way of rendering/coloring, but I like how it ended up looking 🙂‍↕️

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Jaheira from HR has been living in my head rent free for almost a year. Finally I have some skills and I'm knee deep in modern au so meet Connie's work colleagues