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Ulysses Barker and Miss Sybil, attending a social gathering at their friends' estate.

Based on one of many story pitches spun by my friends in our voice chats - this one was about a group of Victorians who after experimenting with the occult are ripped from 1867 Scotland by a time-space vortex and thrust into the future. Ulysses wakes up in a hospital in a sleepy Canadian town as the clock strikes midnight on new year 2000. He's determined to hide the truth of his circumstances to avoid being declared insane and sent to an asylum. Oh, and there are some monsters released by the vortex that one can only see at the corner of the eye and never quite remember the encounter clearly...

Like most of them the pitch was vague, but I have a soft spot for hijinks involving time-travelers trying to pass in an unfamiliar era, charming redheads and pretty dresses, so I just had to design and draw the main character and his fiancée.

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In my quest to beat Skyrim after all these years I finally played through the Dawnguard DLC. Which... I kinda hated TBH. (Perhaps stacking the two worst areas in the game - Blackreach and Soul Cairn - back to back in the quest chain just wasn't the best choice, idk.)

But I can understand all the Serana love. She is cute and certainly among the most likeable characters in the game. She was my sole companion in my pain and I'm glad to have had her around for the ride.

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Your honor, I love them. — me after seeing each of these for 15 seconds in their respective reveals.

The special appeal has a range, I cannot say no to a big buff (and fire-breathing?!) lady badass or a fabulous horny orlan. Very excited to see the fruit of the amazing work undoubtedly put in by the development teams behind these games!

Taash is a qunari dragon slayer in Dragon Age: The Veilguard by BioWare

Yatzli is an orlan wizard in Avowed by Obsidian Entertainment

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Post-Art Fight indulgence - an old DnD-ish character of mine - rogue/warlock Vairanis. (He's a bit of an edgelord.)

I originally designed him circa 2013 for a fantasy parody comic I never ended up writing, and a friend of mine never shut up about wanting me to bring him back, especially pressing me to make a reference sheet for Art Fight. So I did. And then the friend decided he wasn't interesting enough after all. 😢

So I guess I'll just draw him for myself now, because I'm happy with the redesign. I guess given his backstory as a sealed and banished student wizard he'd go for the Pact of the Tome boon.

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Keerah for drawing_angie and Diana Koray for @itsberru

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revenge for @lidsel!

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Vesuria for @chaoticcomposition

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Hi, this is the pinned post. Here's what you can expect on this blog:

general art themes: mainly fantasy, history and especially historical fantasy

current hyperfixations: #sims, #baldur’s gate, fantasy Italians

other plans for the near future: some original DnD-themed stuff, time-traveling Victorians, BG commentary comics

#art - all art posts

#gamedev - any gamedev updates I may post in the future

#fanart - fanart posts

#original projects - Lidsel originals (I don't have project-specific tags figured out yet, please bear with me)

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Erik Korsson for @erisperitas ⚡

Decided to make it steampunk, then realized since it's electricity-themed it's technically Teslapunk instead. 😄

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@thedenofartworks's Mr. Midas to kick off this year's Art Fight!

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Happy Pride Month, everyone!

I am once again late to the party having finished only one of multiple pieces I have started in celebration.

Disclaimer: I have never played Overwatch, but I've always loved the design of Tracer and wanted to draw her for a while.

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Figured I should do something for #Mermay this year. Namely, draw one of my biggest Sims townie crushes.💖🌊

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I had been thinking about a good Barbie Movie fanart idea for months when it occurred to me that since Babs is inspired by Barbie this would be a perfect couples costume idea for her and Ollie.

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I posted a silly sketch of this guy almost a year ago. My obsession with him has not waned since. Truly, I am a sucker for a grumpy man with a tragic backstory.

Here with his one true love - books - properly supported to avoid damaging the spine (many thanks to the librarians who suggested a book cradle!). Also yes, he's blond and not actually old (was going for just-been-through-absolute-hell look in that previous sketch and might've overdone it).

He's part of a cRPG project I've been working on. The setting is historically-grounded low fantasy, largely inspired by 17th century south/eastern Europe.

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"M'lady... *tips morion*"

Based on a friend's suggestion that I should draw Sir Anomen "as the m'lady dude tipping a conquistador helmet", prompted by many discussions about BG2, its companions and us repeatedly making fun of the character and his default epilogue story. #ItWasThe90s and some things did not age well...

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Inspired by @velnna to do one of those color wheels, immediately had to cheat because this idea needed 9 characters.

Old faces and new faces! (no Wyll cause I found him rather bland, at least in Early Access which I based it on, as I started working on it in June)

Happy Baldur's Gating, friends!

(Imma go not play the game now, because apparently I'm having really bad texture issues, hoping a patch fixes it)

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Morgyn, my beloved.

I recently realized that the fandom characters I’m most invested in are Sims 4 NPCs.😆 I have a list of favorites I really wanted to draw and I’m currently prioritizing the LGBTQ ones for Pride Month, starting with Morgyn cause they’re the best.💖