In Drell(Drow Hell)

I'm here to fuck spiders.

[sadpsionicist]

Hi, I'm Nexus, 28, the it/he/she pronoun user.

My main is @birdwizardofficial and my general fandom blog is @birdwizardfandom.

I've caved and made a drow blog to put lore here for reference and I will absolutely be mass reblogging people's oc content because I love it. ❤

You're beautiful, have a good day. 😘

[tantlisart]

Why does the House Do'Urden glyph look like it was drawn by a matron's favorite daughter? And the symbol was approved because there was no one who would contradict the matron. ￣ ￣|||

[pallasillustration]

Lolth vs. Eilistraee

Getting into DND lore (thank you Baldur’s Gate 3) and was really into the drama of the drow pantheon. I wanted to draw something showing the cosmic battle between Lolth and her daughter and had a fun time with this piece 😊.

[kosmogrl]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

theyve got some insane elfpictures on this site

[f-ernace]

[knave3]

all the drow ocs should get together for a drink and swap war stories. no poisoning allowed though.

[ordr]

Thanks for sexualizing peoples trauma fuckhead

anytime

[ath3alin]

so fucking humbling to be like “no I like that character a normal amount” and then you can literally feel your heart rate spike at a mention of them like a dog that just heard the word “treat”

[gloura]

did you guys know about this thing

[kelandrin]

OC Question

How does your OC feel about killing?

[gloura]

you guys should never ever worry about your drow ocs being too edgy or melodramatic bc in the official novels there is a guy who hid under a pile of dead bodies when he was 6 so the nobles rampaging through his impoverished neighbourhood wouldn’t kill him and also another guy who was literally flayed body & soul by lolth after being sacrificed to her by priestesses. and that’s just two characters… you’re all so good dw

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

it’s called having a heart of gold you fucking idiot

[sirfetchd]

how it feels to be obsessed with your own ocs but you cant think of what to say about them

[zaudrathir]

Eilistraee's Manifestaton

Tools: ReShade, Otis_Inf, Lighty Lights, QSAT, Pretty Particles, Moth VFX Mods: Coranzan’s Outfit, Face/Hair Mods, Dye

[mogruith]

@sadpsionicist I wanna print out your whole tag rant and give it a hug, I really loved seeing this in my notes so, so much. But I'm grabbing just this part of it so I can address it 'cause you're definitely picking up something I put down that I didn't think anyone would notice. Thank you so much for these tags, they made me so happy.

I wanna nerd out a bit about what you picked up.

For the record, I know it just seems like sad little drow meow hours to some, but this is a significant moment in his story. This took me about a month of sporadic attempts to capture the idea I had in my head.

So, the hair is the beauty of the technical wonder called hotsampling using the Otis_Inf Tools for detail, and then IGCS_DOF for the depth and smoothness of the details. THE COLORS!! Thank you for picking this up. 😭 And to even go to the extent of picking out the colors!!

First of all, I am not one for editing in Photoshop, I don't really have the vision for what I can do with a shot in post processing, so I really try to make the image entirely in BG3 with lighting tools and ReShade.

So for this, I very specifically set up two pinpoint lights to shine in his eyes to reasonably match the color of the moth, partly because I like a uniform color palette so an image doesn't come off as too busy. I don't have a direct before and after, as this shot took me days of iterations to attempt, some with and without that light. Here's a without:

And this is adding the pinpoints, for comparison.

By the time I got to the shot I posted, I realized a lot of the expression was lost in shadow so it got brightened overall. In a slight tilt of the camera, it is a little more obvious

And there is an intention behind it as you have surmised, besides the samey color palette. To those who don't know his story, this is Eilistraee manifesting to him as a swarm of moths after tearfully venting his frustration with trying to join her clergy for over a century and being rejected for the crime of being a man (things that simply happen in canon).

The idea is that she IS there despite her apparent absence, and HE does manifest her will in the world, despite not having had the rank.

Seriously THANK YOU for picking this up. I mostly did this for myself but it is SO SO rewarding to know that you took a deeper look at this and found what I was putting down.

Seriously, thank you.

[sadpsionicist]

I had a feeling there was symbolism there. Really cool insight into your process, I love learning about the technical aspects of being a creator. It's so interesting what you did with the lights in his eyes, they used to do that in old films to make an actor's eyes shine and add a pop of drama. I think it's neat how we often reverse engineer old tricks to achieve the results we want. And thank YOU for giving us Coran and all the work you put into your vp!!!

[sadpsionicist]

I got tagged by @gloura @f-ernace and @thepoisonjackal . Thank you!

Last Song:

Favorite color: PURPLE!!!

Currently watching: Dragonball! I've never seen it. Goku is actually a very likeable character, I see why he's so popular.

Currently reading: Rereading Where The Forest Meets The Stars by Glendy Vanderah. I was surprised by how much the story touched me the first time and its become something of a comfort read for me now.

Current obsession: The Forgotten Realms!

Last Google search: Breeches. Needed an art reference.

Currently working on: Trying to come up with ideas for the settlement project and coming up short. Otherwise I've just been doing a lot of photo studies for my art.

I tag @dastabby @mogruith @fastsquirrel977 @happy-amateur and @dykestelmane , plus an open tag for anyone who wants to!

[gremlininho]

[the-notorious-kgb]

Oh but when i do it i have an exhibitionism problem 🙄

[zaudrathir]

Eilistraee's Manifestaton

Tools: ReShade, Otis_Inf, Lighty Lights, QSAT, Pretty Particles, Moth VFX Mods: Coranzan’s Outfit, Face/Hair Mods, Dye