#ginalongillustrations

Done just in time for Calgary Expo!

Lots of spontaneous colour choices. Lots of fun. Lots of learning. Lots I'd do different if I did it all over again as always.

It has been a MINUTE since I drew any Critical Role and I had time to get one more print in before Calgary Expo and I have said many times I would do MN once the animated series came out, so I'm holding myself to it.

Surprisingly the hardest part was the traveller? Just could get him quite looking how I pictured so I really simplified him and rolled with it.

I went with her first outfit though I ADORE the design of her second outfit from the Armory of Heroes book for keeping with the rules I set out with my original cr designs. But I did largely use the lollipop design from the book so I could at least use someone from it, and a bit more the colour palette.

Another piece that has been sitting as a pretty far along sketch for months. finally just decided to get it done no matter if I like it or not because I want to make art again (and my painting supplies haven't arrived yet)

*Prints Available*

Now that I had time to actually sit down and wasn't rushing for Expo, I got to explore the style of Shadowheart that I wanted, which led into exploring the style of the print in total. when I finished rendering her and realized how much I loved it and how much the bottom banner would cover, I realized that I had to let go of what I had started with the Astarion print for the Baldur's Gate 3 series I intend to create.

This is outside my usual realm but I love it. I connect the companions of bg3 a lot of the celestial bodies and the night sky since so much of the connected stories occur beneath the night sky and for some reason I yearned to have quotes in scrawley handwriting. With all that, I ended up here and I love it? so very much. she looks so beautiful? even if it's not my usual stained glass styling. She'd still look beautiful as a window cling. And now I'm imagining gold foil prints. Sssssooooooo good.

Doomed Siblings that haunt the narrative and my mind.

I always adored Baelor, long before the show, so I knew I would love him on screen, and I do. So very much, right up there with Harwin Strong.

The surprise was Maekar. I never really...got him. But by the show adding 5 words in, had him suddenly click in my mind and I love him as well.

I don't know how I did it, but I did it just in time for Expo.

The friend who got me into BG3 now has her mission completed of getting Wyll art from me though I grieve her for giving him horns but I couldn'tdo that to poor Wyll.

The idea in my head was for more.. dancy than how he came out, but I still quite like it. I also originally wanted Mizora in it much like I do in my CR prints but it was far too busy with the starts etc so she got dropped, plus Wyll then gets to be his own man outside of his patron.

Making this also reminded me how big his rewrite feels when trying to track down the quotes I wanted for the border. But Wyll is a good boy all the same and I adore him for it.