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| Kat (she/her) | Bi-romantic asexual | Australian amateur artist | D&D/ Critical Role art | lolita fashion illustrations |  -Usual weapons of choice: Acid-free printer paper Copic Manga Illustration Paper Copic multiliners, sketch and ciao Sakura Microns Faber Castell coloured pencils uni-ball Signo white gel pen various gel pens

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Syol and Baku November 13th, 2022 My D&D OC Syol and her elk mount, Baku. I finished this picture during a power outage last year and forgot to post here. Her outfit was commissioned from @/angeliets on Twitter.

Syol lost control of her wild magic around that time, and was unsure about using spells the following session. She's feeling better about her magic now though!

I used Copics, pencil and gel pen on marker paper.

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Dusk - 7th June 2022

I drew a glen with the sunsetting in the Feywild for the background, *hopefully* what was envisioned for the character. I have never seen Erika play before but I already love their character so much! I hope to improve my background skills, but I am really happy I persevered with it!

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March 13, 2022 Aurora Watch Taskhand Verin Thelyss of Bazzoxan Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep When I saw the preview image of Verin in the upcoming Call of the Netherdeep campaign guide I was in love immediately and had to draw him. Since then cleaner pictures have been released so I may redraw this beautiful melancholic himbo again, maybe with his brother Essek. Essek is still my comfort character, but I feel like Verin might be the hotter Thelyss. My housemate disagrees though, lol

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This is my first D&D character Syol Cithreth, the wild magic sorcerer. I started playing D&D in June 2020, and I drew my first design of Syol 14th June 2020 (left) and finally redrew her today 25th July 2021. I have been drawing a lot more over the past year so it's interesting to see how it's changed. I love how big I draw elf ears; and I think they are my favourite race mostly because of them XD Sadly we had to abandon to Waterdeep campaign as two players dropped out but I hope to play as Syol again. Syol is 100 years old, and 6 feet tall (183cm). She left home after her magic caused trouble to try and find someone to help her control them. Please do not use my character!

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Older Shadowgast - July 10th, 2021 "You look dashing, Professor Widogast!” “Are you sure, schatz?” “I’m pretty sure, young man” I lost my dear cat of 18 years before drawing this so I had a lot of feelings. Essek is wearing a straw hat to protect him from the sun, an orange ribbon is a nod to Caleb's tendency to choose orange for personal things. Caleb is wearing the scarf based on his Eiselcross outfit. His robes are black and red like the outfit designed by Jester in episode 97. The staff is made of purple wood like that in Dynasty buildings, with a dodecahedron crystal atop like a Luxon beacon. The flower crowns are orange and purple, the colours I associate with Caleb and Essek. No angst, just softer, older Shadowgast. 🧡💜

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Verin - June 30th, 2021 TW: scars, blood Taskhand Verin Thelyss, himbo (affectionate) I had intended on drawing fan art with the Thelyss brothers together but, I got stuck on drawing Verin. Love him and we never saw him, lol. It would have been amazing to see an interaction of Essek and Verin 😭 This is a bit risqué for my normal art, but Marisha’s head canon was he shirtless so… Also as a side note I have no idea what insect-like armour leather would look like, so I took some liberties.

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Love is stored in the elf ears- June 15th, 2021 So, on Twitter someone made a joke about grabbing an elfs ears to show how much love you had for them and this stupid idea for a comic came into my head. I am a long ear elf believer, and this notion seemed very sweet.

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After Campaign Adventures - June 2nd, 2021 Some say they were close colleagues...

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The Genesis Ward screencap redraw- April 30, 2021 "if one is to keep their nose in a tome, somebody else needs to be paying attention."

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Showboat- April 27th, 2021 "I zip past Essek, and just showboat, just a little bit" *Matt checks notes for six seconds* Critical Role- C2 EP135

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Duality of a man... Essek redemption arc, please accept 💜 Picture 1- Essek and Verin Theylss Picture 2- Nott the Brave and Essek (from C2 E57 In Love and War) Picture 3- Essek (from C2 E132)

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Sarsaparilla! 7th March 2021 This is the biggest COPIC piece I've done since high school (A3 size), I'm so happy I completed this! I hope I keep improving. Last year, getting into D&D and Critical Role has been a positive aspect to my life. It’s wonderful to feel like I want to create art again. This piece is inspired by Campaign 2 episode 127 and 128. I am super happy with how ‘Team Firestorm’ turned out. I love how the fire looks. Caleb looks very badass but with hindsight feel he should have a bit of blood and maybe some soot on his clothes. Last two episodes were so intense!  Also this was the first complete piece I can remember drawing with an older character, a short adult character, interesting lighting; just so many firsts and so many things I have learnt and hope to continue to improve!

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16th February 2021- Warmer Welcomes “It’s so good to see you!” “Ah... ahem. It’s good to see you too, Jester” Platonic relationships are just as valid as romantic ones. More wholesome moments pls I love how Jester’s skin turned out on this one!

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9th February 2021- North Star “At the moment, does Essek plan on helping us?” “You see this distant star that twinkles, and when it does, you feel a sense of safety and familiarity that would confirm a yes” Another Critical Role fanart, this time of my current favourite NPC Shadowhand Essek Theylss in Eiselcross, probably about to kick Lucien’s butt. I really wanted to draw him bundled up with hot cocoa or something softer but I ended up drawing him cool instead. Maybe next piece? I made a mistake with the spell he is casting and spilt whiteout on it, so I performed some surgery splicing another piece of paper down and redrawing it. Copic on X-Press It Blending Card with gel pens and multi liners.

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My housemate’s belated Christmas present arrived yesterday and I am so excited! There is so many wonderful tutorials I can’t wait to try out the techniques in here!

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29th October 2020 - Essek, Caleb and Frumpkin People are really split over Essek. Some people think Essek is a war criminal and everyone else thinks he’s the perfect love interest for Caleb. And... Guess what my first fully coloured picture of Critical Role was! Usual art supplies, I may update more deets later. I was very nervous about uploading this... I haven’t drawn male characters in a while and I know the anatomy is off. But, please enjoy my fave CritRole ship so far <3 

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1st November, 2020 - Caduceus and Melora The Wildmother A piece I completed recently, Caduceus and his patron, The Wildmother. This year I began watching Critical Role after my friends finally got me to play D&D. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing! And I also have been loving Critical Role! I am on the second campaign, the Mighty Nein. I never expected to fall in love with the show so much, but I have become very invested in it.  I have done another piece of my current ship (but I’m embarrassed, I will try to post later). I really wanted to draw Caduceus when it was finally confirmed he was asexual. I had a hunch not too long in, and was ecstatic to learn he was canon ace/ aro. Taliesin Jaffe has done a lot of justice with representing this orientation. I had become so used characters that seemed to be coded ace only get ‘cured’ or ‘fixed’ later in a tv series. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Taliesin. So with the picture, I drew it on Copic Natural White Illustration Paper, lined with Sakura Micron, Copic Multiliners and random gel pens, and coloured with Copics.  I really wanted to draw a full colour background, and I’m so happy I did. It made me wish I still did digital art; sussing out colours and fixing my mistakes would have been soooo much easier. I did make a mistake under his nose which I tried to fix with gel pen, I hope it kind of worked? Anyways friends, enjoy. I am going to be posting a more D&D related stuff, hope it’s okay. I still love lolita art but I felt stuck, and this means I can do more different things!