#critical role
Timelapse of my latest piece! c3e23 spoiler warning
gaslight gatekeep girlboss
(I missed them a totally normal amount)
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a quick Yasha bc I haven’t drawn her in ages
little moon lonesome
Still thinking abt young laudna
New timelapse!
Needlefelted Fearne Calloway + Lil Mister :D
Thinking abt the person laudna was and should have been
[ID: Top text reads “Nova’s 2019 summary of art”. Underneath are twelve drawings, one for each month, most of them critical role fanarts. /end ID]
It’s been a year of very much ups and downs in productivity, even more than usual, especially after I started uni again. But I can still tell that improvement is happening, and I even managed to squeeze in one last tarot design before the year ended, and I’m pretty pleased with that!
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The Sunrepresents positivity, vitality, happiness and fun. It portends good fortune and success in the direction you are moving towards.
Here’s Twiggy! This has been in the works since… I think not very long after she showed up? Because to me she’s just the personification of the Sun card, on both a superficial and a deeper level. Of course, we don’t know a whole lot about Twiggy, since she was only there for one episode, which definitely made this a lot harder, and that goes for all of the things I’m talking about here, they’re all based off what little we have, because that’s really all one can do.
To me, she absolutely represents that unrestrained, sometimes childlike joy and enthusiasm for life and excitement and new things. And despite her surely having had less happy things in her past (she mentioned that her parents died a long time ago, and she’s also clearly been around a whole bunch of different things, ending up on a pirate island), she retains an energy and air of innocence, retaining her optimism, friendliness and cheerfulness even in the face of a whole bunch of strangers, an uncertain future and fighting a god damn fucking dragon.
Of course I had to include Trixie, as well, hopping along the way in front of Twiggy, her faithful companion (much like the hamster unicorn I included for Jester’s Fool card), and also an animal I at least associate with fun and play and curiosity. The apple is just, well, an apple. There’s no very deep apple symbolism going on here, more of just a general, Twiggy eating sweet things that she enjoys (and then maybe she got distracted by something else and the apple landed by the wayside). The sunflowers, of course, are a reference to the Rider-Waite-Smith design, and one I felt was fitting both for Twiggy and for the composition, to go along with the sun itself, and the happy fun ball.
Then there’s that. The Happy Fun Ball of Tricks. That I obviously had to include, and I early on knew I wanted to do with this very composition (as much as it pained me several times in the process). This ball she stole off some guy she didn’t like who didn’t deserve it (whether or not she knows more about this that she never told the nein), that she played with and did tricks with and that turned out to be quite more than just a fun ball of tricks. But I like the idea of it, this shiny beautiful golden ball, held up towards the sun, played with as a fun toy doing a bunch of cool tricks, that actually contains a whole bunch of sub-dimensions and an ancient wizard and a whole slew of terrifying monsters. And, you know, she killed a dragon in there. Which is certainly encompassing of positive outcomes, and of accomplishment! It’s not that the struggle and the dark and the difficult doesn’t exist, it’s about being able to overcome them, and gain knowledge, and bring back hope and happiness. And I think Twiggy represents all of that, in her strengths, in her joy and energy and confidence, and all her wonderful qualities that made her such a joy to watch, even if she was there for only a short little time.
[ID: a digital drawing of Beau from critical role wearing her new outfit, in shades of dark blue and grey, with gold details, and tall boots. /end ID]
i kept starting to do arts with beau in them but wanted to have her new expositor outfit included, but also didn’t know how to draw it? so i ended up just giving it my own attempt instead, based off the description matt gave us. featuring jester-approved abs window and new grey belt.
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[ID: four photos showing various details of my casual cosplay of Jester from critical role. 1: shows me from the waist up eating a pink donut. I’m wearing a blue Jester wig with a pink bow, lollipop earrings, rainbow bracelets, white t-shirt and a dark green hoodie. 2: shows the top of my t-shirt and the lowest part of the neck. the t-shirt is white with a donut embroidery. i’m wearing a pink ribbon choker with a red teardrop gem and a longer necklace with a locket at the end. the locket is open and inside is a picture of beau. 3: a pair of feet wearing pale seafoam green shoes with pink ribbon laces, and purple socks with a pink donut pattern. 4: three pins pinned on a dark green fabric. one is shaped like a heart and has text that reads “girls like girls”. the second is a rainbow, and the third is a pegasus, for lack of a unicorn. /end ID]
I did this very gay casual Jester cosplay back in the beginning of October, and then slightly forgot to post anything? But here are Some Highlights!
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[ID: a digital lineart drawing of fjord and caduceus from critical role. they’re sat on the ground with their backs to a big tree, fjord asleep with his head on caduceus’ shoulder. caduceus is awake, holding his staff on his blanket-covered lap and looking fondly down at fjord. /end ID]
the wildmother’s lads having a Rest
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[ID: a digital drawing of beau and reani from critical role. they’re standing with their arms around each other, faces near but not touching. it’s snowing and night time, and they are lit up by the glow from reani’s halo. reani is looking at beau’s eyes, while beau is looking down at reani’s lips, fond looks on both of their faces. /end ID]
while collecting all my art i realised i STILL hadn’t drawn any beau/reani, and i had this idea of drawing them out in the snow ever since their episode. like, im sure when they said they’d “go for a walk” they didnt actually mean… go for a walk. BUT. i just imagined them going for a walk outside in the snow to be alone for a bit and kissing and holding each other with snowflakes falling all around? very romantic.
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[ID: a square grid collage of 18 drawings of different critical role ships, alternately sketches and coloured or greyscale. from left to right, top to bottom, they are: beau/jester, beau/keg, fjord/molly, jester/yasha, beau/keyleth, jester/beau/yasha, beau/yasha, percy/vex, keyleth/vex, artagan/percy, gilmore/percy, percy/keyleth, jester/calianna, pike/vex, allura/kima, pike/percy, jester/beau/yasha/keg and percy/vax. /end ID]
for funsies (and The Aesthetic lbr) i wanted to make a collage of all my cr ship arts (one of each ship ive drawn), and obvs i dont Love All These Ships Equally but i still think there’s some… obvious biases lmao. if you remove the images with jester, beau and/or percy in them theres like four left.
(also im aware that obvs not everything is going to be everyone’s cup of tea which is why im slightly wary of posting something that smushes just… everything together. but it was fun, and it looks it imo! so just, please refrain from talking shit about ships in the tags? because i will see them and so will whoever you’re reblogging from probably.)
ANYWAY on a lighter note i just love drawing gay shit love those smooches and cuddles and suggestive glances its my bread and butter and i will keep going, and maybe add More Things to this collage in the future! there’s certainly more CR ships out there that i like, so………..
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[ID: a digital bust drawing of beau from critical role, using her new design with the fur-lined sleeveless coat and the scar across one eye. she is wearing a golden circled woven into her hair on the side visible to us, a single green gem peeking out between braided hair, and some leather strips tied around parts of it on the side of her forehead. she’s looking off to the side and smirking. /end id]
so uh Smart Hot Beau (she was already smart and hot, tbf) courtesy of jester fixing up her hair to keep the aesthetic going while also getting a magically boosted brain is uh. pretty good huh.
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[ID: a digital drawing of Jester from critical role. she’s in an oversized teacup (or perhaps she’s just very small), her skirt floofing up over the edge, and her legs kicking up in the air on one side, while she’s leaning her arm on the handle. Her other arm is holding up a huge donut. there’s other (similarly proportioned) baked goods and berries floating all around Jester and the teacup, and from the edge of the teacup hangs a tea bag label in the shape of the symbol of the traveler. curved around the bottom and top of the image is text that reads: “I like my clerics like I like my tea. Strong, sweet, and with baked goods”. /end ID]
somehow it took me ages to actually post this but HERE SHE IS im so happy with this its so cute imo!! i entirely stole (with permission) this quote from @grandmafftarkin, so all credit goes to her for a) saying it in the first place, and b) inspiring me to do this entire artwork.
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[ID: a digital drawing of Jester from critical role, from the knees up. She’s standing with her feet apart, hands on her hips, looking at the viewer with a big, open, slightly mischievous smile. She’s wearing a pink top, dark blue shorts and a darker pink skirt, or fabric, attached to the back of her shorts, flowing in the wind. /end ID]
after the con and now watching some art videos on youtube i just Really Really wanted to draw again, i missed it so much, so here’s a fairly quick cute jester!
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