WiryWyrm

she/they ⟡ 23 ⟡ currently suffering from BG3 brain rot ⟡ please do not repost my art

[wirywyrm]

BLOG CONTENT WARNING Some of my art has gotten more attention than I was expecting, so although I plan on making a proper little intro post for my blog, I will leave this here for now- just In case there’s anyone who wants to avoid certain content.

Browsing my blog you can/may eventually see:

-Moderate* Gore (Blood, cuts, bruises, etc)

-Body Horror (Mostly in the form of monsters)

-Partial Nudity

-Suggestive art

That’s all. I won't be posting/reblogging anything incredibly NSFW, but I thought I’d include a little warning nonetheless.

[slightlyplant]

i love wyll ravengard

[whomstbutalsojustmo]

...thought I'd make a sketch dump. I have a lot of Tavs, but Ezlyn WAS my first baby for this fandom, so I'm a little biased towards them.

And I realized I don't think I've conveyed their personality well enough...? Imma try and change that.

[mistercrowbar]

Scritches

Aldiirn is surely slipping into the grasp of that no-good Gale and Astarion is upset about losing his meal ticket, nothing more. That adorable meal ticket who has just come stumbling onto Astarion's cranky party. Silliness ensues.

9 pages!

Sorry Gale, your freak just doesn't match Aldiirn's freak. 😭 Whose freak is apparently [checks notes] teaching guys not all physical contact has to be intimate and robbing them of worthless loot.

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This scene actually had a sketch draft from way back in 2023 and since ballooned from 2 pages to this. I took inspiration from Spino's modern AU scene and touched on some Araj-adjacent stuff since I got some other plans for her scene. Originally, Astarion was going to get the scritches like a kitty, but I decided to flip it around and make use of Aldiirn being ticklish hehe.

Hope you all enjoy this silliness as much as I enjoyed drawing it!

[wirywyrm]

Happy early Halloween from Auntie Ethel.

[wirywyrm]

One tiny pet peeve I have for certain pieces of BG3 fanart and fanworks, is that I wish when people made stuff of the companions or their Tavs/Durges as much older versions of themselves long after the events of the game, they would experiment with the setting instead of keeping it the standard high fantasy one from BG3 itself. 

There’s nothing wrong with it. All the art/fan fiction I’ve seen is absolutely amazing, and I have no intention of being the fun police.

However, some of these characters have potential lifespans ranging from 150 to 750 years. Astarion is pseudo-immortal and could technically live over a millennium. There’s just so much room for creative world building, and historical/fictional inspiration when deciding how technology, science, and magic could’ve progressed. If, y’know, Toril isn’t doomed to suffer some semi-apocalyptic progress regressing event every century. You could mess around with rune-tech, aether- punk, steam-punk, etc. I’m just saying, urban fantasy 1920s inspired Shadowheart, Halsin, Minthara, and Astarion getting drinks together at an old tavern turned speakeasy, is a possibility - and I think that’s cool as hell.

Maybe urban fantasy just ins’t everyone’s cup of tea. That is A-OK. But It’s a something I definitely want to draw when I finally have the time to do so.

[mistercrowbar]

The ups and downs of herding a group of lunatics and weirdos, a series of little illustrations for the BG3 Yearbook Zine! Go give it a look, it's free and full of great characters, art, VP, and writing! 😁

I had some trouble drafting illustrations for the zine and thought to myself, why can't I draw a scene unless it's for a comic? So I decided to treat these like comic panels and it worked out pretty well!

[wirywyrm]

The funniest thing about treating your RPG game characters like an OC, and not just yourself playing the game, is the experience of potentially loving villain/antagonist characters - while your poor OC despises them with a burning passion and is possibly actively trying to kill them. Even in the cases of characters where you just love to hate them, it is so funny to be playing the game when a certain character appears and going “Yippee! 🥰” to a hard cut of your OC on screen filled with rage.

[baldursghaik]

Her rooms played host to the most important conversations in the city.

[gothicspork]

Misgendering up ahead in these pages. Hyve hasn't realised their gender identity yet to correct the adults in the room.

Also, I could be misrepresenting Kelemvor and his church to fit my narrative. Boils won't apologize for that but I would.

Famine joins the game and assigns himself as the weekend dad figure to Hyve.

[wirywyrm]

This is pretty much just a repost of my previous Act#3 reference with a few changes made +an extra thing.

In terms of the changes- I ended up giving Arthur a sort of 5 o'clock shadow, similar to how I drew him in his aged-up designs, minus the gray hair. I’ve been meaning to make a change like this for a little while. However, I was initially stumped on what direction to take design-wise. The thing is, I’m actually quite happy with Arthur’s overall appearance at the moment. The one thing that was bothering me was just how young he looked compared to Gale, given he's romancing Gale. Now, I could’ve partially fixed it by making Arthur taller or Gale shorter. However, I’m fine with my head canon heights for the BG3 characters, and I enjoy a snappy underdog leader who bosses around people significantly taller than them. So I went with the easiest solution for making any male or masculine-presenting character look older, and gave him some facial hair.

Apologies to anyone who was a fan of Arthur’s previous look, but take solace knowing that if he were clean-shaven, he’d look exactly the same.

[wirywyrm]

As someone who has played as/encountered/fought high-level spell casters in DND, an Arch Mage with insecurity issues is like one of those cheetahs that need an emotional support dog.

Like, yes, he can summon fire and lightning, and kill a man with a snap of his fingers, but he also just occasionally needs someone to give him a hug and tell him he’s worthy of love, ok?

[wirywyrm]

I’m contemplating giving Arthur a beard, or something similar. Even though it’s going to look really uncanny until I get used to it. Because Arthur’s supposed to be in his mid-to-late 20s physically, but due to his shorter stature and lack of facial hair (he also just has a young face*), standing next to taller/bearded characters (mainly Gale), he occasionally looks more like a 20-year-old, and it’s been driving me crazy for a while.

[meanbossart]

"Small Cruelty"

[wirywyrm]

Your OC as a Forgotten God

If your OC was a forgotten god, which sacrificial offering would awaken them?

Use this quiz - Picrew Opt 1 - Picrew Opt 2

Thanks for the tag @quinthebard! I meant to do this sooner, but after taking the quiz, the results I’d gotten for Arthur had inspired me. The description they’d made for the quiz is very cool, and the Picrew could not achieve the vision I had created in my head. I mean, your OC as an ancient god forgotten by time??? Go forth and retrieve the accursed tome of abstruse and occult knowledge from the cloister where it has resided undisturbed for nary a century, for dark fantasy IS MY JAM. I just don’t draw it very often 😅. Anyway, here’s my take on Arthur as a forgotten god based on the Quiz/Picrew:

Don’t know who to tag for this one, but feel free to participate in this tag-game yourself!

[wirywyrm]

I finally finished a basic Act 3 reference for this fella.

I miss his big red coat :( , but I tried to incorporate aspects of his original outfit into his armor and camp clothes. Although I do find it amusing having Arthur wear a full suit of plate armor, even if it technically counts as medium armor in-game, when he’s only got 2 levels in Paladin. He is still 83% bard. He may look like he can kill someone now, and can in fact kill someone (the amount of radiant damage this man can do in a single turn of combat feels illegal), but he’s still just a silly lil guy.

[gothicspork]

For my Astarion shrine.