I made a Magnus drawing to match my Merle one that I made a few months ago! I’m going to get them printed and, if I get the chance, give them to Travis and Clint at the NYCC TAZ event this Friday!
The greatest part of Candlenights is that it is so all-consumingly long! My gift for @evitcani-writes for the @ttazce2017 Candlenights Exchange! This is less of a single piece and more of a hodgepodge of multiple ones, and hopefully youll still enjoy that! It meant I got to draw more Kravitz and Magnus so we all win here.
[image: an animated illustration of Magnus, off-kilter as if he’s about to be knocked off his feet. There’s a bright spark in the center of his chest which he’s reaching up to grab, and light is shooting out of his back. He has a look of shock on his face and tears in his eyes. His form flickers and shifts slightly.]
ok still working on how i draw them but taako DEFINITELY wears what justin did for knights templar 2
[ID: Two sketches featuring Taako. First: Taako is an olive-toned elf with medium complexion and blond hair. He’s a long, hooded brown robe with a black sash, and a long olive green cloak with patterned trim over it. He is turned slightly right and glances backwards, smiling. He’s holding a navy blue umbrella. Text says “Taako’s good out here.” Second: Merle, Magnus, and Taako, shaded orange on loose-leaf paper. Merle is short, and only reaches Magnus’s knees; he’s holding a book. Magnus puffs out his chest, hands on his hips, and grins. Taako smiles serenely; his hands are in his pockets. /ID]
this is over a year old at this point but I’m a bit surprised I never posted this here! I drew this while listening to balance for the first time back in may of 2020
[ID: Digital art of Magnus Burnsides from The Adventure Zone: Balance. He is dressed in adventuring gear with his axe and shield on his back and Steven on his belt. He sits crosslegged with a wide smile, resting his chin on his hand. It’s captioned “Magnus rushes in!” End ID]
[ID a three panel Adventure Zone comic done in a sketched style.
In the first panel, Merle, an older dwarven man with a long beard, short ponytail, glasses and wearing a flower-print shirt stands with a reassuring smile on his face. He holds up both of his hands, one of which is made of wood. Behind him, Taako (a slim elven man in a large hat and high-wasted pants) stares at a shattered window quizzically, while next to him Magnus (A large human man in bulky armour with a short ponytail and choppy beard) stares down at a rock that looks as though it has been thrown from the broken window. Attached to the rock is a scribbled note that reads: “F*** THE BOB. -Not Brian”. Merle, facing off-screen, says: “Listen, he may be an idiot but he can read; I’ll be–”
In the second panel, Lucretia, an older dark skinned human woman with tight curly white hair, an elegant dress and holding a wooden staff which winds around a small orb, says: “My organization’s in the hands of an idiot?”
In the third panel, Merle is seen again, his hands still up and his expression now more desperate to reassure. He says: “No no no no no no… THREE idiots!”
@paticmak made me listen to The Adventure Zone and I just finished Petals to the Metal! I really wanted to draw them with their masks
[ID: two drawings. The first is of Taako, a dark-complexioned elf with dark hair that falls past his chin and is adorned with a few beads and bands. He’s wearing a mongoose mask over the upper part of his face and a striped shawl over his head. His fists are clenched and he looks angry as he says, “You know, I’m traveling around with the boner squad and I never get to say what I’m feeling! I have emotions! It’s not all abraca-fuck-you and what have you!”
The second drawing is of Merle, Magnus and Hurley, staring wide-eyed as Taako continues to rant. Merle is a dark-complexioned dwarf with gray braided hair and a short beard. He’s wearing an owl mask. Magnus is a pale-complexioned human with light reddish-brown hair and blue-painted fingernails. He’s wearing a bear mask. Hurley is a light-skinned halfling with olive tones and chin-length black hair. She’s wearing a ram skull mask. From out of frame, Taako says in all caps, “I have a beating heart! I’m multi dimensional! I’m a fully realized creation! Fuck!”]
[ID: A digital group drawing of the tres horny boys from TAZ balance on a dark pink backdrop, shaded in red shades with yellow highlights. Magnus, a large buff Chinese man with heavy armor, curly hair and a scar on his right eye smiles brightly at the camera, carrying Taako bridal style. Taako is a tan elf with a light-haired mullet and curtain bangs, a thin goatee and a gap toothed smirk. he wears a wide-brimmed wizard hat with stars and a bow on it, a long trench coat, a fluffy boa and feather earrings, and he has the umbrastaff dangling from his right hand. Merle is on the right side of the picture, hanging off Magnus and leaning his head on his wooden hand; Merle is a dark-skinned dwarf with thick glasses, an eyepatch, a white fluffy beard and white hair done up in a bun. He is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and leather armor, and is smiling as well.]
I had so much fun reading through the new @theadventurezone TAZ: Petals to the Metal graphic novel! Taako is always my favorite part, and I loved this panel so much that I felt compelled to draw it in my style! @careydraws did such a wonderful job on the original as always!
this is over a year old at this point but I’m a bit surprised I never posted this here! I drew this while listening to balance for the first time back in may of 2020
[ID: Digital art of Magnus Burnsides from The Adventure Zone: Balance. He is dressed in adventuring gear with his axe and shield on his back and Steven on his belt. He sits crosslegged with a wide smile, resting his chin on his hand. It’s captioned “Magnus rushes in!” End ID]
Institute of Planar Research and Exploration(IPRE)
“I saw all of existence all at once. I saw a dark storm, a living hunger eating it from within. But I saw a brilliant light heralded by seven birds, flying tirelessly from the storm. I saw seven birds: the Twins, the Lover, the Protector, the Lonely Journal-keeper, the Peacemaker, and the Wordless One.”
The good thing about having his own house, away from the other crew members, is that Magnus could sing as loud as he wanted, burn as much food as he possibly could, or even walk around naked, and no one would scold or laugh at him. The bad part about living in his own house is that it was really damn lonely. Suffocatingly lonely, to the point that Magnus sometimes forgot he was actually a person and not just a ghost living in this house. The dogs helped a lot, but the feeling persisted.
This is why he crossed the street at seven this morning and knocked on the door to Barry and Lup’s house, inviting himself inside when neither of them answered. They had an incomplete puzzle on their coffee table that Magnus started to work out. When Lup came downstairs around an hour later, she stopped to stare at Magnus, blinking a few times as if he was a trick of the light, and then kept on her way to the kitchen. A few minutes later, she brought him a cup of coffee and then, presumably, went back to the kitchen to start on breakfast.
Barry stumbled down the stairs a while later, hair still wet from a shower. Magnus snorted when he stopped in the exact spot that Lup had, taking off his glasses to clean them, and then squinting at him as if Magnus had just been a smudge on the lens.
“Uhm,” Barry said. “What'cha doing here, bud?”
“Bored,” Magnus said, shrugging. “This puzzle is fucked.”
“I think you’re just bad at puzzles, Mags,” Barry said. He came over to the couch, sitting himself down next to Magnus and bending over to look at what was done so far. Maybe Magnus being bad at puzzles was a fair assessment, because he had only got some of the edge pieces put together, and the wizard hat of whoever was in the middle.
They sat there, mulling over the puzzle for a while. Barry started connecting pieces that Magnus didn’t even know were in front of him. By the time Lup came out with food and more coffee, Magnus had resigned himself to watching Barry do the puzzle, instead.
“Eggs,” Lup said enticingly, shoving a plate into Magnus’s arms. She set two mugs down on the coffee table and Barry picked one up without looking away from the puzzle. He took a sip and then grimaced and put it back down, picking up the other one.
“Sorry,” Barry said. “Thought that one was mine.”
“It’s in my mug, babe.”
The mug was a deep red with the words “don’t talk to me until I’ve killed you with this mug”. Very Lup-esque.
“I’m doing a puzzle,” Barry said. “I didn’t look!”
“We’redoing a puzzle,” Magnus said.
“No, I think Barry’s doing it,” Lup said. “Take a break to eat, babe.”
Barry glanced up- Magnus was already eating part of his plate. Ham and eggs and toast, all very good. Lup slid his plate towards him and Barry sighed, sitting back and reaching for the forks she had brought out too. There was silence for a while as they ate. It was a much nicer silence than sitting in his house, alone, eating mediocre eggs and ham. Lup was the first to finish, setting the plate aside on the coffee table and leaning down to look at the puzzle. Magnus was finished too, but he didn’t know where to put his plate so he just sort of held onto it.
“Where did we get a puzzle that was literally just a picture of Taako?” Lup asked after a few more minutes of Magnus watching them put it together. Sure enough, under the wizard hat Magnus had put together by himself was Taako.
“I think he gave it to me for my birthday,” Barry said, snapping another piece in place.
“Sounds about right,” Lup said.
Another silence. Barry and Lup were putting together the puzzle much faster now. Magnus took a sip of his coffee. As they put Taako’s apron into place, Magnus cleared his throat and said,
“How’s it feel being like, a lich?”
Barry’s hand stilled over one of the pieces. Lup hummed.
“Lich-y,” she said. Magnus huffed out a little laugh. “I don’t know how to describe it, Mags. Wanna share why you wanna know? ‘Cause I’m ninety percent sure my ass willget fired literally and metaphorically if I help you become a lich.”
“I don’t wanna be a lich,” Magnus said. “I’ve had enough of living forever, thanks. I just kinda like… I don’t know. Like when you got your body back after so long, did it feel weird? Like too fleshy?”
“Yeah,” Lup said. Barry nodded in agreement.
“Lonely?” Magnus asked.
“I… wouldn’t use the word lonely,” Barry said. “Not exactly, anyhow. But it is sorta weird going from like… not being contained within anything directly into a breathing body again. Kinda like-” he snapped his fingers, screwing his face up for a second as he thought. “Like, uh, Wonderland? When you were dead, and then you were only kinda dead inside the mannequin? It’s like… so much, all at once. But also not enough, y'know?”
“No, I get it,” Magnus said. “It was very- very disorienting. I didn’t like it very much. I just? I don’t know. Usually, when I die, I just die. But then I was dead but not dead? More than when we were on the Starblaster. But I wasn’t alive, I just wasn’t dead. That doesn’t make sense, does it?”
“I got'cha. Sounds rough, Mags,” Lup said. Magnus nodded, not sure what else to say to make himself make sense. “D'you wanna talk about it or d'you just wanna watch us do this puzzle. Or both, I guess.”
“Kinda wanna talk about it,” Magnus said. “Never really had to chance to, I think.”
“Go for it,” Barry said, taking a sip of his coffee. He snapped another piece of the puzzle in. “We’re here to listen, bud.”
Finished my Magnus pop! (Progress image) (Based on this incredible designby@defenestratin) Railsplitter is a little hard to see, but its there on his back, which I may replace with the chance lance depending on my mood. i love him so much
[image description: a drawing of Magnus from the chest up. He’s a dark-complexioned man with long, dark brown wavy hair pulled into a ponytail. He has thick sideburns and a scar across one of his eyes, and he’s wearing gold armor.]
A LOT of The Adventure Zone fanart incoming. I’ve been caught in an art slump since forever, so listening to this wonderful D&D podcast, has really gotten them nasty creative juices flowing and I’m all for it. Here we have les tres horny boys on display.
3 years since the TAZ: B finale and I miss the THB so, I did a little remix of a friends epic drawing (@lazilycoloredtaz on insta). The idea of Merle just having a shirt with horny on the back? Exquisite
ID: A digital comic. First image is of Magnus, Taako, Lup, Lucretia, and Merle resting on a mall bench with a bunch of shopping bags. Magnus and Lucretia sitting opposite their companions. They all look in various degrees of bored and tiredness. Merle, a dwarf man, is asleep. Magnus, a human man, rests his head on his arms as his hands. Taako, an elven man in a wizard hat and a hoodie, mutters, “Who’s great idea was it to give the van keys to Barold and Capt'n Port? It’s gonna take like, two hours to track them down.” Lup, holding a cellphone in one hand, raises her other hand to her face and shouts, “BLUE!” into the air. The second image shows a zoomed-out view of the group in the center of the busy mall. The following panel shows the same view, now with a word bubble from somewhere on the second floor, a responding “JEANS!” The third image zooms back in on the crew, all looking puzzled about the shouting, save Merle, who is still asleep. End ID.
it’s their version of marco polo
@blupjeansweek beginnith! it’s not midnight for me so this counts for day 1 prompt: bluejeans
