#laudna is so so fun to draw

[yudol-skorbi]

laudna is SUCH a delightful character to draw

[avatarkasia-art]

them ladieeees

[elzorton]

broken heart, broken mind

or just an excuse to draw some witches

[mintbees]

Dermatologists hate her! two time corpse still looking fresh with this weird trick

[ariadne-mouse]

"It's just Delilah."

[clar-a-m]

Imogen and Laudna bouldering AU, inspired by @theunqualified1's fic Chalk It Up To Luck

More drawings for this fic here

[hexxxcapades]

bell's hells portraits!

[tumbly-s]

Tried my hand at some line art! My favorite CR ships kissing <3

Bonus with no specific ship in mind under cut

[lunarrolls]

team issylra continues to be doing great can’t wait for the reunion

[zelreedsandwrites]

Every day I get closer to adding another writing project to my to do list

[strawbie-doodle]

the fucking ninja turtles are making me lose sleep

[bjarkanart]

"Let's do terrible and beautiful things..."

Fun fact: I started drawing this yesterday using one of @brookesmartt's pictures as reference (I hope that's okay btw) cause I was looking for a cool pose to draw Laudna in her new outfit only for them to be super fast and post their new cosplay of Laudna and holy shit, it's fucking amazing! I was so hyped by it, I had to finish this illustration as soon as possible!

That's one way to inspire someone and I sure ain't complaining 👀

[torheit]

So much fun making a full big drawing with copics!

Especially Laudna and Imogen 🥰

[xandrikart]

In this post's tags I said that I might drop a bonus. Here it is!

I am not satisfied with the work because I changed the composition the last moment and dropped some details that, I think, helped to better understand the story. And the story is that those are the gifts for Chetney!

And before I started drawing the fanart itself I came up with the designs for each carved wolf because it's fun (even when I knew that most of it would be lost). Here they are!

You can find text from the images here below

Gifts for Chetney! FRIDA: They tried to learn by copying Chet's work. But they weren't sure how to finish the bottom. Imogen: …I think it's a horse. Ashton: Soapstone carving! Also, when you google carved wolf 90% of them are howling. So I made sure that Ashton's isn't. FCG: They made it with their saw out of a wood block. Laudna: She did carved the wolf's head. Dorian: Visual arts can be difficult. He messed up the proportions a bit… But he decorated it! Orym: The beginner friendly carving. I think he would actually try to learn how to carve, so he would start simple (especially after getting roasted the first time). Fearne: Nailed it on the first try because she's Fearne. Then stole Chet's paints. Deanna: And Deanna knit the new hat!

[fruitbuses]

Did some Laudna fanart for a gift exchange. I know nothing about Critical Role (in fact I thought it was roll, like roll the dice) so I know I took liberties. She was fun to draw, though. Right up my alley

[arabella-strange]

imo the Grand Demon of Loathing is going to hit them all with reasons they hate (or could hate) themselves already:

Dorian's is all the reasons he was in the closet, all the reasons he was overshadowed by Cyrus, all the people he failed to be good enough to help (all the reasons someone he might love would not want him)

Imogen is her father's disgust, Liliana's choosing power over love for her daughter, Imogen's hypocrisy of also wanting power for personal gratification and lying to her friends (and herself) about it, her deep deep desire to be normal and the knowledge that she was a freak instead, her inability to save Laudna and her own doom to be alone (and deserve it)

Ashton's their many many failures, the times when they should they could rise above others and proved how pathetically they fall instead, it's FCG's death and the Nobodies' departure and parents who didn't care about them enough to reject power -- and their inevitable same fate, and all the reasons they deserved to be left behind

Orym's is being just a small little guy, just a toy soldier in front of a monumental horror, his inability to save people, and his inability to stick to his own better principles when those he loved most would have wanted him to (the ways he is letting down their memory and dragging down his friends now), and possibly his Fey doom to be alone and shackled forever, because he's just not as powerful, not as strong, not as good as they were or as he tells himself he is

Fearne's is her dark side again, her flightiness and selfishness, all the times she was a ditzy fool in the face of the grave seriousness of the world, all the times she made terrible choices and others paid for it (all the people who were glad they left her)

And perhaps most of all

Laudna's is already out there—all the negging Delilah has done to isolate and control her; it's the way she is powerless and her friends are special, it's that she always drags everyone down and they deserve to be free of her, it's that she is not fun-scary but just a rotten mistake and it would be better if she let herself go and stopped pretending to be worth saving

= Dominox has to be about preying and drawing on the ways that people shrink when they believe they DESERVE the worst of what they get. It's about pure Loathing and "insecurity"—it's the howl of the Abyss.

Fun!

[p.s. I do think Chet's beats coulda been more powerful if Matt had had another week to think of them. Like yes I guess Chet is haunted by accidentally killing people but he has been pretty resilient about that prospect. What he hasn't been so casual about is hurting his friends. It's why he chewed Ashton out so bad after the first Shard incident. It's why he peacocks so hard to all the higher-ups they meet. He doesn't want to be discounted and he really doesn't want to lose another family. I think if he gets Dommed again, it would also have to be about that.)