ArtsyWarden

I'm ArtsyWarden! I do art only as a hobby (but I do have a little shop on Redbubbble 🤓). I’m currently obsessed with Gale Dekarios. + https://linktr.ee/Artsywarden

[artsywarden]

why is professor Dekarios late for class again?

[margoshansons]

Gale really be like “one moment with you could sate me for a lifetime” and “with you I forget my goddess” and “these stars as my witness you will always be enough for me” and “Gale Dekarios likes you too very very much” and “I love you more than anyone mortal or immortal” and people expect me not to romance him every time I play??

[waterdeepwhiskey]

💋💋💋

[waterdeepwhiskey]

Remember to kiss your wizard 😘 🪄

[waterdeepwhiskey]

PSA: Kiss your Wizard 💋

[artsywarden]

local sad wizard gets kissed and feels better

[anskapaints]

Friday wasn't great, so I did the second Gale as a treat.

✨Astarion / Jaheira / Shadowheart / Wyll ✨

Yapping and progress under the cut.

Gale also got an immediate far-side-of-the-face job once I merged the layers down. Maybe one day I will catch the wonky perspective during drawing.

Gale's story is most important to me because to me it is mostly about the relationship of a man and his beloved craft. If you are passionate about something - no matter if it's painting, music, learning a language and being able to express yourself in it - and you get better at it, it can be bliss and become mentor, muse and friend to you, and quite easily your whole world. You might even feel beloved and blessed by your craft herself. Otoh a phase of stagnation might feel like your craft is a cold, unkind mistress, dangling the secrets you desperately need just out of reach - and you have to do everything in your power to climb to those heights because otherwise, you are nothing but the sum of your failures.

I feel the internet does not make it easier because while it offers inspiration and community, it also forces constant comparisons with all the masters of the past and present on to you - there might even be a handy metric to put numbers to your self esteem. So you can easily feel like you have to proof something. Especially if you pursue your thing with professional ardour, this can send you down a very negative feedback loop and make you hunt down those "three little tricks" instead of just enjoying your slow but frustrating growth.

I guess, what I am trying to say is, that it makes me so happy to have Gale patch up his relationship with magic. So he can enjoy it again in a healthier way in which it doesn't consume his whole being, in which he can share his passion with his students and inspire them to greatness while also encouraging them to enjoy the journey, or in which he does not have to limit his interests but can follow his curiosity to another adventure.

[artsywarden]

an eternal loop of taking off his shirt 🫦

[artsywarden]

(I’m working on the color, have a black and white version for now. It’s three hours long 🙂‍↕️✨)

[spoonbenders-archive]

in the end, all ship pairings can be categorized as either squidbob, patbob, squidward x squilliam, or mr krabs x mrs puff. thats just the way things are. if it builds off of a trope theres a spongebob pairing to match it. if you don't understand this then we can't hire you to oversee the production at this lithium ion battery plant

[linasketchess]

Little wizard and his beloved Tressym ❤️💕❤️💕

I saw some hate comments on Tara lately and really wanted to draw something nice with her and Gale... she's one of my favourites and I love relationship between those two and I think it's so wholesome and precious 🥺💕💕

[artsywarden]

this is a wip

[artsywarden]

True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree

A willow dancing on air before covering me

Under cotton and calicoes

Over canopy dapple long ago

True that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me

That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree

Must be felled for to fight the cold

I fretted fire but that was long ago

And it's not tonight (oh, oh)

Where I'm set alight (oh, oh)

And I blink in sight (oh)

Of your blinding light (oh)

Oh, it's not tonight (oh, oh)

Where you hold me tight (oh, oh)

Light the fire bright (oh)

Oh, let it blaze, alright (oh)

Oh, but you're good to me (oh, oh)

Oh, you're good to me (oh, oh)

Oh, but you're good to me, baby (ooh)

[yum-shipper]

[artsywarden]

me when I discovered Gale 😭 hahaha

[artsywarden]

✨Gale will grant you all of your wishes tonight ✨

[nora-darling]

I saw where someone was requesting Gale art ideas for drawing and now I can't remember who it was or find the post and Idk if they'll see this, but-

Modern Gale in Purple and silver striped silk pajamas and a robe and slippers with the half bun and glasses, please for the love of Selûne 😭

Thank you, I love you 😩

[radiofreederry]

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[artsywarden]

For all I know

This might be my last night

If that's how it goes, there's no one

I would rather be lying beside

If all we knew

Came crashing down tonight

I'd be with you, and there's no one

I would rather be dying beside

[artsywarden]

I don’t have an excuse for this one