lost in past

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study

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nightmares

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Under the Linden Tree

(or: all the times henry died because i forgot to switch the outfit)

prints ((:

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when you wash all of your clothes but forget they need time to dry

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as always this was supposed to be just a little portrait, but then i wanted it to be half body, but you can’t have an empty background so why not making a whole practice piece

some close ups~

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a pages caring hands

based on Solomon Joseph Solomon's "A Page Buckling On A Knight’s Armour" because that's just them

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solas, before the fall of the hair

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🧎

prints available here (~:

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your honor, i love her

prints available here (~:

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very excited to meet mr. pridesire 🙏

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the first episode did not disappoint

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very excited to meet mr. pridesire 🙏

print available here (~:

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hoo, it's been a while,,,,

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Dorian 🐍

apparently this is becoming a little series now with all of my romances turned into a little keychain 😭

love the spinning!!

next will be fenris and zevran and then lucanis and anders for my friends hehe

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Hey! I wanted to ask you what tools do you use for these beautiful backgrounds? For example on that painting with Zevran with the red crows. It's absolutely stunning and as a beginner artist i can't comprehend how you managed to do that😭 Love your artwork btw! Prints and Solas' necklace you made are just perfect, even package was beautiful, happy to find you on Tumblr aswell!

heya anon!

thank you so much <33

in short: just experimenting with brushes and texture jpgs/pngs!

i only have the layers anymore that actually ended up in the final illustration, but i tried to remember my thought process and hope it's giving an useful insight. there was definitely more of trying and figuring things out than shown here, but i don't have these layers anymore, because otherwise the files would get way too big (bigger than already anyways lmao)

some resources:

the mentioned brushes by merlin

the artist bunabi makes a lot of great brushes and stamps for that kind of art as well! they also have a lot of free stuff.

i'm not good with describing things, so i hope this makes somewhat sense lol

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This will be long-winded and not really a question, but bear with me ;_;

I am so in love with your art because not only is it pretty to look at, but it is making me feel lots of things.

For example, the dancer Astarion one? I am so in love with the juxtaposition of the seductive act, the lavish jewellery, and his ribs and hipbones protruding visibly. He's expected to lure and perform while starving, and it's just so perfectly depicted!

Then there's the Zevran surrounded by treasure... Ugh.

I am putting together a wall of angst in my new flat with my favourite video game characters, and these two prints will go on. No other artist captures the feelings of the backstories so perfectly and translates it into traditional style paintings like you do.

I can not afford to commision you directly, but if you ever feel like releasing some painfully beautiful art prints of Fenris, Anders and Gale, I will be the 1st to order! They also have tragic backstories, but I cannot find any prints that reference those directly either, which is a massive shame.

Seriously. The last time a painting affected me this much emotionally, I was standing in a museum, eyes glued to every detail of something created centuries ago.

thank you anon for this kind message <3

i appreciate you mentioning me capturing the backstory! because i always try to be respectful to the character and their personality and the backstory, which sometimes feels a bit hindering and containing in the ways of how i can portrait a character, but even though they're fictional and i can't hurt them, it feels like the right thing to do for me.

i really hope inspiration strikes me for fenris, too! i wanted to make a bigger illustration with him for so many years now, but nothing hit me yet, haha. (i also recently replayed da2 but the game was so bugged that i technically was romancing him, but also kinda not, so i feel like i've missed a few things there).

i'm happy to hear that my art gives you the same feeling like those century old paintings! <3

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Cullen 🌼

no matter how many screenshots i use as references he ALWAYS looks different in them lol seriously do not understand this man's face

prints available as always ♡︎

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𝖅𝖊𝖛𝖗𝖆𝖓

another one in that series <: