Well. I am rather pleased with him. Hope you'll like him as well, folks 🩶
Gale as the Evening Start from Alphonse Mucha ✨
Yes I know, I know, Mystryl is technically dead at this time, but she was still (as Mystra is now) the embodiment of the Weave, so I put her old symbol instead of the newest Mystra one, as a marker of Gale's love for magic, rather than Mystra herself.
And I've swapped the original design from Mucha to have a good view of the orb.
Others in the series can be found here :
Astarion as 'The North Star'
Shadowheart as 'The Moon'
Wyll as 'The Morningstar'
Lae'zel as 'The Comet'
Next (and last, for now), Karlach ❤️🔥 No idea when I'll get to her though ^^
I thiiink he's done? I'm gonna call him done. He might be my favourite that I've done so far.
Wyll as The Morning Star from Alphonse Mucha ✨
Shadowheart is here as The Moon
Astarion is here as The North Star
Lae'zel is here as The Comet
Gale is here as The Evening Star
I'm only missing one for the Evening Star to complete the serie hehe
It'll probably be Lae'zel. Then if I wanna do all the companions I'll have to make up additional star themed ones... Karlach as the sun, Gale as the Midnight Star? That would work right?
Did I believe Astarion's hair would be a pain? That his scars would be challenging? Yes. The damned Selune's moons on this fabric were way worse 😆
Anyway. Really happy with it!
Inspired by the series of The Moon and the Stars panels from Alphonse Mucha, here's Lae'zel as 'The Comet'. Trying out original compositions for once, because I'm keeping the final one of the original Mucha panels (The Evening Star) for Gale. Probably.
That fabric killed me (as usual). And I could probably make it better but I'm tired x) so here it is :3
Others in the series can be found here :
Astarion as 'The North Star'
Shadowheart as 'The Moon'
Wyll as 'The Morningstar'
Alright, I promised a Wyll post, here it is!! This is a portrait that actually exists in my canon timeline of the tadfools with Natavriel hehe
Details under the cut for the interested and curious <3
In act I, Natavriel saved Oskar. You know, the annoying pet artist that is being kept as an """intern""" by the Zhentarim. Astarion rolled his eyes really hard when Tav decided to save this guy, and then had an anneurism when Tav actually gave Oskar some money on top of that. Really, Tav??
But, for those of you who have never saved this guy (I know I don't, most of the time xD), when you do, you can find him later in Baldur's Gate as the newly wed husband of Lady Jannath (you can also find him if you don't save him, only in the Guildhall, instead). Their house is assaulted by poltergeist, and the reward for getting rid of the hauting is... a painting!
Tav thought the two people in the team who might want a portrait were Astarion, and Wyll. Gale is rich enough that he probably already has one in his tower, or so they reasoned 🤣
Astarion's answer was something along the lines of : "you want me to sit for hours in the company of that man?? No, thank you darling, I am not that desperate." Also, at this stage of the journey, if he wants to see his face he can just ask Tav to create illusions for him. If he has to trust someone else's eyes to tell him how he looks, he'd rather trust Tav's than Oskar's.
So they offer to Wyll instead. And when Wyll says yes, the others chime in to make Wyll look incredible for the portrait hehe
The horn jewellery is, of course, courtesy of Tav (as is the ring). Then Astarion takes him shopping for an outfit. Not that he doesn't trust Wyll's fashion sense, but there's no way Astarion is missing a shopping trip for clothes, and Wyll doesn't get a say in it haha. Astarion knows Tav well, and knows the jewellery will be more than enough in terms of embellishment, so he goes for something elegant, but simple, because there is such a thing as "too much", and we wouldn't want that, now, would we? But Wyll still gets a fancy half cloak to finish the outfit. Shadowheart tags along.
Tav and Karlach would have tagged along as well, but they are busy shopping for : a new prostetic eye :3 Karlach bribed Yenna to ask Wyll if she could see his fake eye, and then asked Gale to magically create a duplicate of it so they could size the prostetic without him. Karlach was initially going to buy one a bit more discreet, maybe obsidian black to not be a stark contrast to his one good eye, but Tav thought it would be nice if it matched the horn jewellery, and Karlach agreed happily :3 (I wrote that for the winter solstice post and liked it, so now it's canon for my tadfools <3)
Astarion miiight have second thoughts about his refusal when they receive the painting lmao xD Oskar is annoying, but he is a good painter, I hope I did his painting skills justice :3 And I hope I did Wyll justice too hehe (I have to say, that red eyes of his is very satisfying to paint xD)
I like to think that when Wyll comes back from the Hells a few years post canon, he gets the painting slightly modified to match his longer hair (new opportunities for Tav to make jewellery!! haha) and eventual battle scars, but I haven't thought about it too hard yet, so I might change my mind xD
Redrawing a meme for today's prompt of the pride event : Polyam :3 Because these three are a thing in my timeline, and I cannot let this day pass without celebrating polyamory 🥰
Had a long debate with myself to decide who would be flipping off people between Shads and Karlach, Shadowheart won. Mostly because she's the tiniest of the three and that made my job easier to redraaw the reference lmao
And yes, I've extended Halsin's tattoo. Because.
Thank you @worfs-glorious-hair for the event 🏳️🌈✨
Little pride doodle for today's prompt of @worfs-glorious-hair's Pride Event :3
Technically, I drew that one for the Blue prompt and then forgot to post it ^^ So have it now for the "Bi" day, even though Astarion identifies as pan, technically, these two are both swinging both ways (or all ways, any ways, really xD). And I usually use the bisexual label for Storm, even if he would not care either way lol. I just didn't wanna post it for mlm day cause neither of them is gay x)
This would be one morning they spent during the days of travel between Reithwin and Baldur's Gate, where Storm helped Astarion remember how to swim (that's why they're naked, lol, they're not having sexy time here).
I like the idea that Astarion is very confident that Storm will never push his boundaries when it comes to sex, and therefore feels safe being naked (and even cuddling) together 🩶 Makes me happy.
One day' I'll write a one shot about the kind of physical closeness that they develop during the time of the game where Astarion does not want to engage in sex and how moments like these feel important to Astarion in the reclaiming of his bodily autonomy, because it's very precious to me. But in the meantime, have this little crumb!
Also, Storm's horns look like cat ears from this angle and I find that hilarious xDDD
