You have been Perceived

25 | Speaking German, English | i will just post my art here and should make it my habbit

[zmeess]

shadowgast kiss meme: hair/head kiss ✨

the key to Essek's peaceful nighttime reading is tiring his young man out with wizardly activities enough for said man to fall asleep in the middle of some cuddly kisses : )

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[zmeess]

starting off my shadowgast kiss meme with a cheek kiss 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Essek was the leader of the cheek kiss poll for a good while, but right at the end Caleb took off and won by just ten votes! the whole poll made me think that i can easily picture Essek defaulting to cheek kisses rather than kisses on the lips as an expression of romantic affection, and i also chuckled a bit at the thought that Caleb going for a demure cheek kiss rather than some mouth-on-mouth action when they said goodbye at the Grove might have even scored him some brownie points with Essek 🤭

also while i was working on this one i was reminded of the first shadowgast picture i ever drew, which was also Caleb kissing Essek on the cheek! it was very fun to compare the two and see that the way i draw the wizards hasn't changed much at all. i really had a clear picture of them in mind from the start didn't i LOL

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[zmeess]

the chibi saga continues

i think not drawing chibi shadowgast after drawing chibi Essek and chibi Caleb would have been considered a felony somewhere

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[zmeess]

Local Artist Cannot Afford Not To Draw Chibi Caleb After Drawing Chibi Essek

including, but not limited to, a discord request to draw chibi Caleb, and i quote, "running into the sea chibiwilly-out"

on a more serious note, if you, like me, are an artist that mainly works in semi-realistic styles, i greatly recommend trying out drawing something exaggeratedly cute. been really healing my brain and heart

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[zmeess]

after exploring various flavors of redhead with colored Caleb sketches i couldn't help but do the same with Essek 🤭 i know his hair has been described simply as 'white', but my personal headcanon is something slightly warmer (the one in the bottom right-hand corner!). i think farmboy dirt wizard Caleb could definitely compare it to the color of unbleached linen or something, like the hopeless and incredibly silly romantic he is

anyway, i thought i could also play with Essek's hairstyles here a bit like i did with Caleb! Essek drives me crazy with how difficult his hair is to draw and i still haven't settled on something specific (though i've been recently defaulting to the upper left-hand style). at this point it's part of my headcanon that Essek simply changes his hairstyle depending on what he's in the mood for that day

(also, here's another permanent Essek headcanon of mine: he has a naturally asymmetrical upper lip)

let me know your favorite shade of Essek hair in the tags! 🤭

[zmeess]

i'd wanted to play around with Caleb's hair color for a while, so i did! gave him a few different hairstyles just for the hell of it too (feat. my scourger Bren design in the bottom right-hand corner, because why not).

i am actually a big fan of the shade Caleb has in the official character art, i find the fact that his hair is more brown than red very charming for some reason 🤭 though i always end up giving him bright red hair in my art. the temptation to use it as a visual metaphor for fire is too strong i suppose 😔

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[atleastweasel]

Happy belated Valentines, critters!

[atleastweasel]

Just chucking this in here from last year. Feels real good to see my progress.

[zmeess]

happy valentine's day, friends! 💜

a week or so ago i ran a bunch of polls on what kind of shadowgast picture i should draw for v-day, and y'all have helped me build something really fun! especially with the three winners of the color poll (purple, teal, and orange!). i don't know how much of a 'regular shadowgast' this picture has turned out to be (regular shadowgast are probably studying ancient tomes in a dusty library as we speak), but let's say that i am giving you the plot bunny gift of figuring out the setting of this scene 😏

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[zmeess]

if you were following me on the bird site about a year ago you probably saw me ramble about my headcanon that drow have dark purple/black blood, and i love that hc so much that i always wanted to incorporate it into my art somehow. and well. naturally you gotta do that by turning towards some trusted wizard tropes (read: hand kink) and letting Essek show some tongue

this baby was posted as a sketch on my boosty last summer and i coyly said then that 'we'll see if i'll be able to finish it in a month or seven tee hee'. and you know what? i have, and i'm proud of myself. i hope you enjoy

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[mintywolf]

Bells Hells go a-wassailing.

✨ Happy Holidays! ✨

[kawareo]

Picks him up like a stray cat

reversed!

[zmeess]

i haven't really worked on any personal/non-commissioned drawings in quite a while due to just *waves hand around* life stuff, so i tried getting back into it today, and i tried getting silly with it. use a different style, a different brush texture here and there. same wizards though! sneaking a naughty wizard kiss at whatever winter holiday market exists in the empire before Essek has to recast his disguise ❄️

[paddington-two]

it's that time again! find your age in your spotify wrapped top 100 & tell me what song you get 🥰 mine is talking to yourself by carly rae jepsen

[everything-catastrophic]

Baby Amer with his Hellhound puppy!

Amer and Ukmil belong to @seoribite

[seoribite]

amer and faefyx, respectively.

[zmeess]

i just wanted to do a couple of screencap studies of some pouting wizards. like we all do

personally i love that Caleb's pouting expression is 'angry wile e coyote', while Essek's is 'William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The Song of the Nightingale. 1895, oil on canvas'

i mean.

[arcanesouls]

Remember when I drew Vax and his three daggers? Well... I do. Fly far, Champion of the Raven Queen.