#gorions ward

[ratscrap]

sika portrait made for a recent bg2 playthru :-)

[noblcgames]

[xanfeursel]

Xan leans down, and your lips meet in a soft, eager open-mouthed kiss.

[thedarkjerg]

Lol, the combat chatter in bg2 are hilarious and repetitive.

Also bhaal is more terrifying in bg1 and bg2.

[exodeath42]

When your make your durge a spitting image of your Gorions Ward-

[crimsonender]

Mikaila Orchard sucks at Paneling

I debated making this a video or not. But, I decided against it. If you guys are interested in me making videos about this sort of thing, let me know and perhaps it's something I could cover in the future.

So Mikaila Turkleson aka Mikaila Orchard has always made... questionable art. To me it seems like a weird amalgamation of Equestria Girls and Sophie Labelle's art. Anatomy bad character design bad etc etc. I don't however see a lot of people talk about her paneling.

Recently, Mikaila and presumably her partner, Lily Orchard started a new art endeavour. I assume to turn over a new leaf and bury the now-infamous Pokemadhouse. You can find it over at bhaalspawnfunnies. It appears as if the blog will focus around the player character of Baldur's Gate 1, Gorion's Ward, and their half sister, Imoen. This is the first entry.

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Where to start? My first impression is that this is very poorly drawn, and low effort even by Mikaila's standards. The speech bubbles are low contrast against the background. The ground/floor blurry blob looks extremely bad. As a fellow artist I get the distinct impression that Mikaila did not want to draw this piece.

Moreover, there's a huge issue with the panelling and pacing. Comics are really cool in that you can kind of use panelling and negative space to "time" jokes, leading the eye where you want it to go and using framing and other art tricks to make a punchline land a little better.

This "comic" has none of that. There is no pacing, there is no comedic timing. It's all bland and presented as a block. I took it upon myself to re-panel this piece, and I've made two versions: One, with Mikaila's art style and visuals, but with the panelling slightly adjusted to be more punchy and effective, the other I completely redrew, using the same joke.

Excuse the sloppiness. I'm not going to expend too much energy polishing and gilding this turd.

That being said, this is already a huge improvement. Even if Mikaila isn't at the technical level of a professional artist, this is very attainable with only a few more minutes of effort. The timing is punchier, the speech bubbles draw your eyes down the page, and even without colour coding, it's clear which of the characters is talking. This isn't exactly a hot take but in my opinion you shouldn't need colour coding on a comic page to denote who is speaking. It should be very obvious! Moreover, speech bubbles should be included in the composition, not added as an after thought.

I'm guessing the original comic took her less than an hour to make. I think I'm being generous here, honestly if this took her more than twenty minutes I would be concerned. Being generous though I gave myself one hour to make a version completely redrawn.

This was again, very quickly put together and of course is in no way perfect, but its to demonstrate what a little bit of thought can do to improve a comic page. I decided to change the pose of Gorion because making family guy references should be a a cardinal sin for artists, as well as make the characters a little more recognizable. "Aryana" is, notably, Lily's OC and bears little resemblance to the canon character of Gorion's Ward, but considering Baldurs Gate does allow character customization and dialogue choices, I decided to make their gender a little more ambiguous so players of any gender could see their version of Gorion's Ward in the comic, but kept the elf with long dark hair appearance from Mikaila's original. I also looked over the pic after I was all done and ready to upload and noticed some small flaws I could easily fix, and went back and did those things. You should always go over your pieces when you're finished them with fresh eyes before you submit them as a final piece.

Again, this certainly isn't perfect and I'd probably put more effort into a piece with characters I care about and a joke I actually find funny, but I hope this demonstrates that pacing and expression really are everything in comics.

[blighted-elf]

Baldur's Gate 3 - Minthara 1/?

[prajjna]

some doodles of bdg3 ..

my character in bdg1! they're ranger class! :D couldn't choose their name yet but uh.. maybe start with E or smth idk

I just love Jaheira n Minsc sm

me update:

after I played bdg3 almost 420hrs and I got bored a little bit with it so recently started to playing bdg1... (actually I was not a fan of the D&D before so I never expected to me making character and playing game but .. yea.. yk.. ppl change

first time I launched the bdg1 and I thought 'wow. this is fucking old ... can i possible to handle this.. ' 😂 but i found this is fun as much as bdg3 ?!? so happy to enjoying another bdg series hehehe

+ I don't draw much like before bc I can't enjoy drawing like I used to do 😔.. this makes me fucking sad but its been already few months and well.. Idk why and how to solve this problem so maybe now I have to accept this miserable terrible fucking unhappy status :/ so I'm just doing my other works and playing game! anyway, I'm well haha and hope y'all doing good too

+ OH n I also heard about some NEW COMICS of TF2222222222 THEY REALLY DID IT CANT WAIT TO SEE ITTTTT

[basketobread]

anyone here fw my ugly jester bard character named Dahlia (they/she)

[lilyvalorchard]

This is the reason why Solid Lily desperately wants to chase Rebecca Sugar out of animation, so she can take "the place that was rightfully stolen from her" and create....well, whatever the hell this is.

Then I realize this is also the real reason Lily hated Baldur's Gate III. Because it was nothing like her awful, sister x sister coffeshop fanfiction here.

[pepto-bismolfan]

If Gorions ward had a nickel for every time they’ve been tricked with magic into maybe killing a person they care about

They would have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice…

[xanfeursel]

funny twitter meme

[thedarkjerg]

A brief dive into: Amelyssan/melissan the blackhearted. Mr.Bhaal's priestess.

This lady right here was the most calculating priestess of bhaal.

She took on the form of a fair, demure woman of plain appearance.

She was really a two faced bitch.

She held a high opinion of herself.

Amelyssan was capable of pretending her greatest desire was to help other people.

In reality she was a psychotic and an irredeemably evil twat.

She served as a deathstalker.

In the years following bhaal's death, she catfished people into thinking she was one of bhaal's children.

She was powerful in both divine and arcane magic, spellcasting that was only increased in power with more bhaalspawn essences she consumed.

Having seen his own death, bhaal came to toril, years before the event and impregnated mortal women of different races. Creating the infamous bhaalspawns.

Their purpose was to eliminate each other, so his highness could return.

Amelyssan's job was to perform rituals that would complete bhaals return.

Guess what she did?.

She sought to gather the power as her own and become a goddess herself. Miss delulu over here.

After bhaal's death, she changed her name to melissan, pretending to be a benefactor who took pity on the bhaalspawns, but was secretly plotting against them.

So when they kill each other, she'll suck their essence out of them.

In order to do that she gathered the remaining bhaalspawns and created the five, promising them powers of demigods when bhaal was resurrected.

Long story short, she was defeated, and the divine essence was stripped and presented to the surviving bhaalspawn (gorion's ward) to do what they wished with it.

[mikaila-orchard]

Real conversation in BG2

[blighted-elf]

Baldur's Gate - OCs + Romance - Gorion's Ward / Tav / Durge

[prajjna]