Non Omnis Moriar

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Trying different kind of styles in these quick drawings as I'd like to learn how to make digital stuff faster.

Last year I made myself draw hands daily for 3 months straight so now I can fairly accurately depict Astarion explaining with his hands.

For a while now I've had an idea for an illustration where these two sit on a wall during sunset. Just chilling, doing nothing in particular. Astarion is explaining something while Fein is listening. I've not yet made a proper plan or construction for this painting, but here are two sketches.

This is a study of midwinter indoors lighting.

Fiddling with actual paints and pens after spending most of last year doing digital stuff is more fun than I remembered. My neck does not like it though.

Painting portraits by hand is easier if you just ignore fine tuning the features. Trying to make the metallic paint show up in a photo is a bit tricky. I love metallic paints so I'll keep trying.

Watercolour and ink painting from march 2026. I'm not that happy with this one but maybe someone here will like it. I'm a bit of a hater of the paper I painted this on (I chose that paper, so this is entirely my fault).

Metallic paint is Coliro watercolour. Silver shade is called Moonlight and gold is called Moon gold, both of which I might have chosen because the names match.

This is Fein's friends' guest room of their mansion in the Upper City. The gang gets to use tha mansion while the owners are away. Fein told them about the impending dangers the city will likely face in the near future and they decided to go for a holiday.

My 'main social media' is already annoing to upkeep and I don't want my hobby project to turn out the same way. That's why there is going to be experiments and assorted stuff in this blog. I might even throw in some traditional paintings, worldbuilding, actual dnd statblocks or what ever I come up with.

Sooner or later there will be art of Fein looking little bit different and that's because he disguises himself while out in public. BG3 drops the drow hate by 2nd act but I do intend to keep it alive on the adventures Fein embarks after the games events.

I actually build my first BG3 character (another drow) around the drow hatred and was quite dissapointed when all of it vanished as the game progressed. I fully expexted the drow character to be denied entry to Baldur's Gate, but instead drowness became a complete nonissue. This too will be ignored should I ever make art of Fein in public places during the game's 3rd act.

I've already written much of his backstory from the point view of drow being feared and hated on the surface. This has caused him alot of grief.

Walked somewhere you were not supposed to be? Leave or roll initiative.