Me before meeting Wulbren: Oh man, Wulbren will be so happy that his husband Barcus is moving heaven and earth for him! Barcus is such a cool guy for going this out of his way to help his totally platonic friend and I cant wait for the reunion where they get marrtied and adopt all the tiefling orphans and live happily ever after!

Me after meeting Wulbren:

Team building

Sketched down the armour and the sword a bit closer ✍️

Reblog if it's okay to invade your ask box.

Always

I accidentally drew Astarion as Heisenberg…

has marrow ever lost it and given in to the urge to squeeze batstarion until he bursts and turns back? in a little explosion of fur and blood with a cutesy eep? ill see myself out

Honestly, all Marrow really wants to do with Batstarion in the urge moments is to eat this little soft sweet meet cake and give him all her love... So not a single piece of fur and a drop of blood will be lost. She's greedy 🖤

Another quick sketch ✍️ I'm trying to come up with a quick drawing technique to create scenes in sequences like in a... *cough cough... graphic novel 👀

Astarion's beach coffin

Inspired by this art piece:

loving the idea (these are just some of my HCs for a soft A!A) that Astarion turned Tav so he could forever have someone to love. Like he created Tav to be loved and held by him. Gave Tav life eternal, made you part of him, for that reason alone. he didn’t create spawn!Tav to fight, or even scheme really (Astarion does all the work) — you literally just sit around Astarion’s palace, eat good, life forever, and party with your gorgeous pale bestie/lover.

that’s also the very first thing he does as the ascendant is turn his lover. He needs Tav/Durge to be his forever.

Astarion doesn’t really know how to love, so he just gives all that he can. I think with time, A!A can grow. Him and Tav’s love and relationship will only evolve, and a soft A!A just wants his consort to be happy. needs his consort to be happy.

You can even run off with Karlach and Astarion is just like “yeah i’ve just been preparing things for when you come back to me” like some kinda nesting bird (once you return to him, you won’t ever leave again. but he spoils you so much you don’t ever want to)

like imagine him decorating the palace with things he thinks Tav will like, or will impress Tav. Having the freshest intelligent blood waiting for them upon their return from the hells.

ugh this is romantic TO ME

Yeah, playing into the Dark Urge is evil and all, but I don't think it truly beats the pure, sadistic, unadulterated evil of playing as a morally good character throughout the entire game, only to shift at the end. Just picture it. The entire time you've convinced everyone around you that you're a genuinely kind, helpful, and loving person. You're dependable. You're empathetic and go out of your way to listen to people's worries. In a Dark Urge run, you lose Karlach and Wyll, potentially Gale; if you don't threaten him into staying, and Selûnite Shadowheart. By the time you finish Act 1, everyone knows exactly what type of person you are. You're a monster and you like it. Every terrible action you take is expected. No one's surprised. Some even enjoy it. But just imagine you fool everyone. Imagine you save Astarion from Cazador and break his cycle of abuse. Imagine you help Karlach slay Gortash and give her hope for the future. Imagine you convince Shadowheart to reject Shar and reunite with her parents. Imagine you show Lae'zel the truth behind her queen and encourage her to rebel. Imagine you talk Gale into giving up his ambitions and soothe his insecurities. Imagine you break Wyll's contract with Mizora and save his father. You become the one person they can rely on. You make them feel heard. Cared for. Safe. Then, at the end of your wondrous journey, you betray them. You reveal your true intentions, which was to take control of the brain all along. There were no warning signs. No indication that you could ever do something so vile and wicked. You hid your desires well. All that intimacy and compassion was nothing more than a set up for your own twisted amusement. You've wanted to hurt them from the start—and you do. You smile as you take control of their minds, sensing their pain, sorrow, and fear. You feel their skin crawl. You feel their hearts shatter as they realise what you've done. Why? How could you? They trusted you.

The Dark Urge has nothing on that.

a little study i did to try to depict Essek looking as realistic (within my style) as possible. you can tell i was serious by the fact that i blacked out his clothes so as not to get distracted from the task at hand /j

i encounter a few persistent issues when i draw Essek; it's not only in him not being a real person that i can't look at to then draw accurately as far as his facial features are concerned, but also in the fact that purple people don't exist. i can't study, from pictures or real life, how skin of that color would behave in different lighting, how the blood vessels would appear from underneath it, what shade the sebum would highlight the nose and forehead with, and on and on and on. i can only make an educated guess, and it takes a lot of mental math each time 🤭 so here i tried paying special attention to the realism of it all, to see if i'll learn something! my art is somewhat (semi-)realistic as is, but there still is a fair amount of stylizing going on, and i wanted to have a bit of fun figuring out where it happens. so far noticed that i tend to exaggerate facial features and make them larger than they would probably be on a real person (noses and eyes in particular), and my art could benefit from more different hues when i'm doing skin, especially green.

very excited to try doing Caleb next \o/

detail!

tip jar!

The one and only: The pale leech.

Wanted to do a little screenshot redraw of the scene after All That Remains since it makes me need to chew holes in things.

constantly imagining that astarion throws up hair balls in the middle of the night from eating rabbits and whatnot

he asked to dance and she couldn't say no [original]

Detail shots - It looks even better up close if I may say so myself! 🫠

My favorite parts are the yellow jewels and how the gold embroidery turned out on her sleeve and dress! 😊

The Ancuníns, Baldur's Gate, ca. 1535 DR

Many thanks to @wilteddreamsofbaldursgate for both inspiring me and encouraging me throughout the whole process! 💜

I can't wait to print out my make-believe family and put it up on the wall, hehehehe