artbykhuggs
Art By KHuggs
@artbykhuggs (Insta/Twitter) www.artbykhuggs.comArtist and Illustrator from the PNW. Endlessly inspired by flowery ruins and historical dramas. I follow from my personal blog. Please don’t repost, use, scrape etc my artwork without permission.
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The Shadowhand
Finally taking the leap and posting some of my cosplay photos for the first time! Essek’s character and story arc is one of my all-time favorites in any piece of media, and this cosplay was really a labor of love.
💜 Essek Thelyss created by Matthew Mercer for Critical Role
💜 Cosplay and Beacon prop made by me
💜 Photography by me
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In addition to making the actual cosplay, the beacon prop, and trying body-paint for the first time, I also fulfilled a long-time dream of trying short hair by getting a real-life Essek haircut (15 inches off).
I’ll probably post photos that show the actual outfit and makeup eventually (once I work up the nerve), but I also just love how these photos turned out! They are both single, long-exposure photographs, and are not edited beyond a slight contrast adjustment and removing a couple tiny artifacts caused by dust on the camera lens.
#critical role#critical role cosplay#essek thelyss#the mighty nein#m9#essek thelyss cosplay#essek cosplay#my cosplay#my photography#artbykhuggs#art by khuggs#mighty nein#critical role fanart
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Thanks for an unexpectedly awesome day you guys! Discovered some really amazing new people and reconnected with longtime friends. Sadly must sleep, but it's been a blast 💕
This Boop feature is the most wholesome thing I’ve experienced online in a long time - feeling some uncomplicated good vibes on this hellsite today. love you guys. 🐾
#i think i might actually really get my sideblog going again because of how much fun today was#cheers yall
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RIP Jester you would have loved the Boop feature
#YouBooping?
#critical role#jester lavorre#the mighty nein#mighty nein#my dumb thoughts#but if I don’t post it today when would I?#boop
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Guys I’m on mobile and can’t superboop but just know I’m superbooping you all in my heart right now
This Boop feature is the most wholesome thing I’ve experienced online in a long time - feeling some uncomplicated good vibes on this hellsite today. love you guys. 🐾
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This Boop feature is the most wholesome thing I’ve experienced online in a long time - feeling some uncomplicated good vibes on this hellsite today. love you guys. 🐾
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Annual Egg Post!
It seems I’ve accidentally started a Silmarillion Heraldry tradition for myself! The center-top Luthien design was done in 2021 and the rest were done this week (2024). Which is your favorite?
Idril (left, 2024) Luthien 1 (center-top, 2021) Luthien 2 (center-bottom, 2024) Finarfin (right, 2024)
These designs are based on JRR Tolkien’s heraldry designs and each egg takes about 5 hours for me to create.
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“Welcome to the Mighty Nein”
Finished my first watch-through of C2 and what an incredible experience it was 🖤 I don’t really have the words, but here’s some art to celebrate these wonderful characters and their story.
#critical role#critical role fanart#critical role art#the mighty nein#mighty nein#artbykhuggs#myartwork#khuggs#art-by-khuggs#art by khuggs#digital painting#digital art
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Happy holidays my friends! Hope you have a restful and magical close to the year. Wishing you the best in 2024!
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I haven’t posted much this year but thank you for sticking with me! 2023 has flown by faster than I could have imagined and much of my free time and attention has been on other projects, recovering from burnout, and experiencing big life events with friends and family. Looking forward to sharing new pieces with you soon!
#happy holidays#every few years I try to paint the northern lights again and each time I think I get a little better#myartwork#art-by-khuggs#khuggs#art by khuggs#digital art
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“The portrait had seemed like a memorial.”
- “The Bedlam Stacks” by Natasha Pulley
I’ve started and restarted this painting a dozen times over the last two years trying to do justice to this gorgeous book.
#the bedlam stacks#natasha pulley#pulleyverse#raphael tbs#at any given moment i am mere seconds away from crying over this book and its characters#the beautiful tragedy that is raphael sends me off-the-charts feral on a regular basis#trying to get the vibes right in this was a struggle#i rarely feel happy/proud of my art but this one... this one I kind of like#digital art#myartwork#artbykhuggs#art by khuggs
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Braided Water. First painting of the new year! These braided streams are one of my favorite parts of Iceland’s landscape.
Digital painting. 4hrs. Based on my photos from Iceland last summer!
#digital painting#landscape#digital plein air#iceland#landscape painting#artbykhuggs#art by khuggs#art-by-khuggs#myartwork#khuggs
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Wrapping up the year with a reread and small tribute to one of my favorite books, “The Bedlam Stacks” by Natasha Pulley ❄️
Digital Painting. 13 Hrs.
#natasha pulley#the bedlam stacks#pulleyverse#merrick tremayne#by ‘favorite’ I mean I cried for three days straight and it’s lived rent-free in my brain for over a year#this time I decided to process it by painting for 13 hours instead of just staring at my wall for the same amount of time#am I going to revive my old personal blog so I can scream into the void about this book - yes#shoutout to my friend @R who allowed me to bully her into reading it too#<3#myartwork#artbykhuggs#khuggs
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The Strays of Amalo
Just some wishful fanart of Thara and Iäna because, let’s be real, a whole lot of Things™️ are suddenly going to make sense to Iäna once he sees Thara’s apartment and meets the cats.
Digital Paining, 12hrs
#thara celehar#iana pel thenhior#the witness for the dead#the grief of stones#the goblin emperor#katherine addison#let’s be real Thara’s basically a stray who keeps turning up unannounced at the VO#and Iäna’s afraid of scaring him off and just keeps offering him food from his mother’s restaurant.#im just too invested in this sad lonely cleric and his dramatic theater boyfriend#myartwork#khuggs#artbykhuggs
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Hope you’re having a spooky and safe Halloween weekend!
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Hi friends! It’s pretty rare for me to talk about personal things on public spaces like this, but I’m making an exception today to talk about an anxiety disorder that I live with. More under the cut to keep your dash going :)
This week is OCD Awareness Week. OCD is badly misrepresented in media as a cute/quirky personality trait when it’s actually a debilitating and isolating mental disorder that latches onto the things a person values the most.
OCD is a cycle of any scary intrusive thoughts (obsessions) that an individual tries to make go away by performing actions (compulsions). Compulsions can be physical or mental. At my worst, I was spending 8+ agonizing hours PER DAY performing compulsions.
OCD is not curable, but it is treatable. Thanks to proper treatment, I’m back to living a full life and have met some incredible and brave individuals through this experience.
If I could have done one thing differently, I wish I had looked for help sooner rather than suffering for years. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Please, please: whatever you’re struggling with, don’t wait until it gets horribly bad like I did. Advocate for yourself; you’re worth it.
If you’ve gotten this far, thank you so much for taking the time to read! If you’re interested in learning more about OCD, the IOCDF website is a fantastic place to start.
With love, KHuggs
Original art and typesetting by me. This Latin phrase has been particularly inspirational to me in my recovery journey.
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I read “The Binding” by Bridget Collins last month and it’s been living rent-free in my head ever since, so of course I had to paint something.
#self reblog#because I just reread this again almost a year to the day since the first time#and damn if it didn’t f*ck me up as much - if not more - than the first time#2am existential crisis on a work night?#it’s more likely than you’d think#the binding
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Race Against The Dawn
EXU Calamity was truly a heartbreaking and incredible piece of storytelling to experience. It’s been on my mind for weeks now, so please enjoy my first-ever piece of CR fanart, featuring Zerxus and Tempus.
#critical role#critical role fanart#exu calamity#exandria unlimited#zerxus ilerez#exu zerxus#exu spoilers#exu calamity spoilers#artbykhuggs#art by khuggs#myartwork#digital art#for real though it was insanely good#I really want to rewatch it but I also don’t think I’m mentally prepared to deal with the pain again so soon#have a feeling I’ll be coming back to it again and again in the future though
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“A dollop of milk and seven sugars”
I know I’m late to the party, but I finally binged OFMD last weekend! (And then immediately watched it again while painting this!) 🏴☠️🏳️🌈
Digital painting, 12hrs
#our flag means death#OFMD#ofmd fanart#ofmd stede#ed ofmd#something something stede as a lighthouse something#really happy with how this piece turned out <3#I’ve never painted tattoos before and they were so much fun???!!#when I tell you I struggled with adding the colors though my goodness#art by kuggs#artbykhuggs#myartwork
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