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Art for lightgetsin's fic Accessory To.

dark star

commissioned by @minnesotabruja for her lovely fic, the hole in the stone! (link in reblogs). I had such a lovely time working on this.

image ID: a watercolor painting. essek, a white-haired elf, is sitting on the stone windowsil of a large, arched windows, leaning against the mossy stone walls. his back is to the viewer, and he is so wrapped in blankets that only his hair and the tip of an ear is visible.

through the window, essek looks out over the ocean and a spur of grassy, bush-covered land. caleb is visible, wearing a big coat, holding a bucket, and tending to a blue chicken coop.

evil and in love

tried out watercolors with my d&d character!

a redraw of this

pov you are the shadowhand and the new archmage of civil influence just invited you into her office to discuss your arrangement with her predecessor but you can't tell if she and her hot annexes are offering you research or propositioning you

(evil blumentrio from a conversation on the discord)

image ID: a slightly pink tinted pencil drawing of archmage beck, sitting at a desk, with annux ermendrud standing on her left and annux grieve standing on her right. behind them is a lightly suggested portrait of archmage beck.

archmage beck is a white woman with blonde hair flipped to one side, looking at the viewer with a cool smile and her hands crossed on the desk in front of her. she has a scar over one eye. she is wearing a high-collared cloak attached with a choker that matches her earring, a black tank top, and a sheer long sleeved top that shows off her geometric arm tattoos.

annux ermendrud is a white freckled man with hair in a ponytail. he has one hand on archmage beck's shoulder and another with one finger resting on the desk. his hair is tied in a loose ponytail, and he has a cocky expression, with understated pop punk star makeup. he is wearing a high-necked shirt with a fancy fastening and the sleeves rolled up, revealing his geometric arm tattoos.

my blades in the dark character really was walking around like this for 27 years and the first people to mention that he might not be human were the fairy catchers

the saga of me drawing shadowgast on relevant homework continues

family portrait for @essektheylyss fic heir to the devil's fortune 'cause it's been living in my brain

image ID: two almost identical traditional drawings of a family portrait. the only difference is that the first one is greyscale and the second is yellow toned and slightly more washed out, like an old photograph.

each picture shows marion lavorre, sitting in the center, a pregnant jester lavorre, standing to her left, and essek thelyss as fortune lavorre standing to her right and holding a champagne flute.

marion lavorre is a gracefully aging tiefling woman with long straight horns, long black hair, and a kindly smile. she is wearing a black dress with a long slit, showing off her criss cross sandals that go up to the knee, and a black choker with a gemstone pendant. she is sitting with one leg over the other in an ornate lowbacked chair with seashells on the armrests.

jester lavorre is a tiefling woman with curled horns, chin length black hair, and rounder features than marion. she is wearing a floor-length dress that gets lighter near the floor. the shoulders and cleavage area are covered with a semitransparent fabric section and a decorative collar. she is holding her pregnant belly and smiling.

fortune/essek is a tiefling man who is taller than jester. he has light, curly hair and slightly curled horns. he is wearing star and moon earrings and a black, sleeveless, high collared jumpsuit that goes to his knees underneath a gauzy floorlength coat with star detailing, held in place with a wide cloth belt that comes down in front. he is smiling slightly and ironically.

inspired by this post by @vampwidogast

image ID: two traditonal redraws of the "twink boutta pounce" meme, in which one person talks excitedly and another person watches them with an almost hungry expression.

in the first, caleb widogast watches essek as he casts a small black hole-like spell with planetary rings, and most of beauregard walks behind them, holding a glass, her face not visible.