#shadowgast art

[prismantis]

a number of shadowgast sketches i never finished, including art for @atlasarcana's echo bren fics 🔮

[nightfaeses]

"The pits of hell call for us, let us make our home there." 🩸

[halebobgr]

yes, we've had one forehead touching yearning scene, what about a second one in the blooming grove?

[awesomefroggy]

"All we need is time.

Sit on the front porch, kick off your shoes.

We don't need nowhere to go, we don't need a tune."

— Dancing Shoes by Green River Ordinance

Was looking at art I've done for this fic and realized that this never made it over here! This ended up being the final playlist art for the fic and it still makes my heart happy.

[lynkhart]

'Maybe you and I are both damned, but we can choose to do something and leave it better than it was before.' This moment in ep 97 lives rent free in my mind forever, and I've been wanting to draw it ever since I first watched it live. I have so many feelings about these two, and their relationship over the course of the campaign (and beyond) means so much to me. While not yet fulfilled or entirely convinced of his own worth, at this point in the story, Caleb knows he’s on the right path. That alone is progress enough, but that he uses his own experiences to help another escape those same chains of guilt says such a lot for his development. When he tells Essek that his ‘venom’ was learned, he’s also talking about himself and his own history of being manipulated and gaslit, with the implication being that it can be un-learned just as efficiently. Essek describes himself as selfish and as a coward, forever putting his own wants and desires first, yet over the course of his journey with the Nein we see his priorities change drastically. Having friends gives him people to care about, something he’s never had before, and it changes his outlook on life completely.

I think it says so much about the other characters too, that they befriended this person they barely knew, and when he was revealed to have done such terrible things, their first reaction was to give him comfort and an opportunity to atone. Jester held his hand while he confessed, and afterwards, while they didn’t immediately forgive him, they saw the good in him and wanted him to be better, which ultimately feels like what the entire campaign was about, leaving places (and people) better than they found them.

They began their adventure wholeheartedly believing that they were both, in their own way incapable of love. But, in the end, no matter how damaged and guilt-stricken they were, they found in each other a kindred spirit, a path to redemption, and ultimately, love. Whether their relationship lasted for a couple of years or multiple decades is irrelevant, what matters is that while it did they had a happy and fulfilled life together. (tl;dr I just bloody love these two wizards you guys. T.T) Anyway, I finally decided to paint this scene earlier in the week, using my newfound favourite website Magic Poser Web to set up their poses for reference, then drew everything in Clip Studio Paint. I'm not 100% happy with some of it, ad the background isn't as I imagined it to be when I watched the stream, but it's close enough that I'm satisfied!

[stickandthorn]

Modern shadowgast date doodle - 

Beau once said that they didn’t need to bring books on every date. Neither of them agreed.

[agentmintea]

some Critmas Exchange angst for @settiai (but with an accompanying happy ending on ao3, I promise!!)

So love the one you hold And I'll be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light

[rainbowcaleb]

it was only after I did this quick sketch that I realized I got the name of my own fic wrong. 🙃 anyways, enjoy a little visual to my @essek-week​ day 1 fic, rings of bronze.