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ruushes · 13 hours

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everyone shut up. werewolf druid shart.

#yes!! yes!!!#the scar on the wolf form… 🥺#also tattooed shadowheart… op you’re doing groundbreaking work #shadowheart #bg3 #queue

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ruushes · 19 hours

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The new Lego D&D set was revealed yesterday and it includes the CUTEST painting ever, obsessed

#oouuuhhh 😭😭#holding their egg im 🥺🥺😭😭😩#what if i actually love dragonborn so much and somehow never realized. i think I have been discovering this lately

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ruushes · 21 hours

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These are the actual colours I painted with, but I played around a bit with gradient maps to get a few variations... I like them all, and cannot really decide which I prefer. Ref is from this.

#sooo lovely #the skin tones are almost opalescent #and i love a brushy painterly painting style #queue

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ruushes · 21 hours

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I love your most recent comic so much I had to screenshot my favorite faces from them here please know you made my night.

haha thank you i like these ones too!! interestingly they're both very close to their initial sketch:

which is the case w a lot of the drawings i wind up happiest with! if something just isn’t working out the way i want it then returning to the original sketch or making a new sketch usually helps ☺️

#talkin #asks #that one of nox especially #i drew that and was like ok that’s perfect do NOT fuck this up lol

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ruushes · 3 days

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Thank you for answering my ask and also adding DRAWINGS!! 😍 I tried to come up with some Nox-esque questions, so: 1. What is Nox' favourite pastime? 2. Small talk Astarion style: How would Nox kill him and how would Astarion kill them? 3. If Nox could keep a body part of their companions as a souvenir, what would it be, why and from whom? 😅

yayayayay thank you for asking more about them!!! ☺️☺️☺️☺️

they're very social and prefer pastimes involving other people like chatting or playing games. they can't focus for long so things like reading and writing are difficult, but they like to be read to, and they're sort of rediscovering a long-repressed artistic side with doodling and sketching. a big collector and inventory organizer as well

somewhat context dependent but i think ultimately they would want to eat each other ☺️☺️

so i thought about this a normal amount and i think they would keep small bones with symbolic significance:

Gale - frontal - protects the part of the brain associated with higher cognitive function. maybe a little on the nose, but also literally on the nose, which they think would make him laugh.

Shadowheart - temporal - guards the part of the brain which houses memory. loss and recovery of memory and identity were fundamental to their connection. they'd also keep her lunate wrist bone for the pun.

Lae'zel - lacrimal - small part of the skull that houses the tear ducts. nox and lae'zel relate to one another deeply re: loss and grief. they'd keep it close at hand and rub it when they missed her.

Astarion - maxilla - naturally.

Wyll - hyoid - anchors structures in the mouth and throat. allows one to speak freely, to breathe freely, as they connected over their desire for and conflicting feelings towards freedom.

Karlach - manubrium - uppermost part of the sternum. a place of connection and protection in the body for the protector and the emotional core of the party. sits right above the infernal engine.

#nox #my ocs #talkin #bg3 #such good questions thank you thank you thank you 😭😭💕💕#I love to be asked abt them… I am in your debt ❤️

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ruushes · 3 days

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#well. we did almost just get busted for stealing a dismembered clown pelvis. which apparently is a crime in this small-minded community #bg3

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ruushes · 5 days

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every time i draw them being cute together i have to also draw them being deeply irritating to maintain perspective and universal balance

#nox #astarion #bg3 #my art #my ocs #first one works either way bc i dont think either of them are big criers but they ARE both the type to tear up when things get emotional #and then immediately use it in an argument

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ruushes · 7 days

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I was expecting anything but not Bard

#70% warlock and 60% wizard were the highest #tho i would reverse them #NOT a charisma caster let’s be honest

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ruushes · 7 days

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some sketchtharas

#that teal highlight is delicious and I am eating it #plus this is digital??#it has such a tactility to it!#minthara #bg3

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ruushes · 8 days

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i love that the notes on that ‘had your warden ever killed anyone before the start of dao’ poll are full of mahariels being like well. yeah

#also in smaller numbers broscas and aeducans like 🤨#my mahariel is built different tho (substantially worse)#dao #dragon age #talkin

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ruushes · 8 days

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if you have multiple wardens, choose your first/most canon/most interesting warden, whatever you want.

extra credit: when do they kill a person for the first time? How does that impact them/shape their experiences?

#no but not for moral compunction or lack of opportunity #he just sucked at and was very very afraid of fighting #rly the last guy you'd want to run into two humans in the woods with #tamlen evaluating the two on two and looking at ailill hands shaking starting to cry abt to throw up like 'we'll let you go this time 😒'#in gameplay it worked out that the first person (people) he kills are part of the group of refugees that attacks you in lothering #which i love mwah chef's kiss it's just the worst for him #ailill mahariel #my ocs #dao #dragon age

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ruushes · 8 days

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You won't reach a point where you don't need references anymore 😭

Even artists who freedraw regularly still do studies, refer to their past work, keep character sheets at hand, etc

Please don't impose that expectation on yourself just because of a live demo, tiktok, or timelapses especially

#fr fr the point of refs and studies isn’t to eventually not need them #im sure there are artists who dont use ref and still make great stuff but if you want the thing to look like the thing use a ref

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ruushes · 9 days

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Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

#literally tho #i dont rly like small/big artist terminology #but thats not rly the point here so that aside 💯💯💯#i wouldn’t say im a ‘big artist’ but ive def had an increase in engagement over the years ive been sharing art online #and its NEVER ENOUGH #the goalposts move constantly #and the returns? you know they’re diminishing #STILL working on this mentality after all this time it’s super hard. stupid numbers. but it has gotten a lot better at least.

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ruushes · 10 days

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