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Latest Strahd art exchange! This one was a gift for @tateringss (and I also hope @emp-roar sees it :3).

The lore goes that if the weather is bad on Saint Dumitru's day, the coming winter will be mild. Strahd and Alek endure a cold downpour while sharing dinner (balmus or mamaliga) in the command tent. The rain is seeping in through the canvas, but Alek downs his cup of wine and uses the goblet to stop the drips from falling on Strahd's head, heedless of his own damp fate.

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I can finally share this!! Made for a summer CoS art exchange! :3

(tumblr istg don't come after me, he's covered)

For @hadopelaegic ✨

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Strahd/Alek in my sketchbook :3

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Final art fight attack of 2024! ✨ ~ a Renaissance Portrait for @baellielurk

Some fun details:

Hair inspired by 1490s Italian Renaissance portraits (feminine)

Costume is relatively vague but masculine for the same era

This specific vine in the background doesn't exist, to my knowledge, but the colors were plucked from a Burgundy Heart Redbud tree

The brush I used on his robe made it look like velvet, so I ran with it

Accomplishments:

First full scenic background! aaaaa

Tested out several brushes I hadn't used before

First time trying to paint clouds

Improved my understanding of color/shading

I may have only done two pieces for artfight this year (my goal was four, oops) but I learned a ton and I'll be excited to try it again next time! :3

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Not sure how saucy you can get before tumblr will call you on it, but have a dose of Stralek sketch. ♡

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@guardianinthemist Fixed it 🖐

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Little mid-session doodle. The gang arrived in Har'Akir and decided they ought to blend in. Ezra had mixed feelings about this.

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~ᎶᎧᎧᎴ ᏋᏉᏋᏁᎥᏁᎶ~

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A daydreaming millennial of androgynous late-diagnosed autistic ilk. I write essays and drabble and sometimes I draw or sew things.

Ravenloft

I'm into the old Ravenloft novels and Gazetteers. I like sifting through the stories and pre-5e content like it's historical research. That's fun for me.

Costuming Barovia

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Alek Gwilym

Alek is a man in P. N. Elrod's novel I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire. He appears as Lord Strahd von Zarovich's second-in-command during the war and his steward thereafter.

Stralek fanfics on AO3

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Ezra Sunstar

My sweet fire genasi boy. After having completed both a Curse of Strahd campaign and an epilogue Descent into Avernus, Ezra is still going in a pbp rp, in which he has ventured into an alternate-universe Lamordia to rescue the love he never thought he'd find: Ernst Villers.

Creative Writing

I'm working on an MFA. It's not so much literary as it is an attempt to broaden my knowledge of the craft and connect with core facets of the human experience. I find writing to be therapeutic. It helps me process thoughts, ideas, and emotions.