Eli - 26 - White ✡✡ - They/He - Just a lil dude
Icon by Me
Header by Steadfastpetrel
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[Icon ID: A digital bust drawing of my OC Leandre (he/him) set against a red background with teal cloud patterning.]
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[Header ID: A digital painting of my cat Maddie laying in grass, dappled with sunlight as she peacefully sleeps. Maddie, a tan tabby cat, is curled up in a ball, resting her head on her paws. There are several violet flowers and baby's breath surrounding her in the grass.]
[Image description: A primarily dark toned digital drawing of a singular mostly barren tree. Several bright flowers, colored in a rainbow gradient, somewhat fill in the dark branches. White text beside the tree reads "You are worthy of the deepest joy". End description.]
[ID: A digital drawing of Vax'ildan, Essek Thelyss, and Dorian Storm. Essek is in the middle, looking towards Dorian and talking. Dorian is to the right, looking at Essek and smiling, and Vax is to the left, looking towards Dorian with a smile. End description.]
a little study i did to try to depict Essek looking as realistic (within my style) as possible. you can tell i was serious by the fact that i blacked out his clothes so as not to get distracted from the task at hand /j
i encounter a few persistent issues when i draw Essek; it's not only in him not being a real person that i can't look at to then draw accurately as far as his facial features are concerned, but also in the fact that purple people don't exist. i can't study, from pictures or real life, how skin of that color would behave in different lighting, how the blood vessels would appear from underneath it, what shade the sebum would highlight the nose and forehead with, and on and on and on. i can only make an educated guess, and it takes a lot of mental math each time 🤭 so here i tried paying special attention to the realism of it all, to see if i'll learn something! my art is somewhat (semi-)realistic as is, but there still is a fair amount of stylizing going on, and i wanted to have a bit of fun figuring out where it happens. so far noticed that i tend to exaggerate facial features and make them larger than they would probably be on a real person (noses and eyes in particular), and my art could benefit from more different hues when i'm doing skin, especially green.
short ID in alt text and longer one below (it cuts out otherwise..)!
Did another one of these 😸 still learning how to draw powerchairs and all! it's fun :-)
previous drawings of the series; [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
[Image description: Digital drawing of multiple disabled characters, all in pastel blues and purples. In the top left is a long-haired man with a cane, leaning towards a Black girl in a powerchair, who's shyly looking away. Below them are two people; an older white trans woman with many vitiligo spots, and a young Black enby with visible goiter. They are discussing something while wearing face masks and gesturing with their hands. In the center of the image is a fat Black woman in a light pink hijab, smiling and doing a peace sign; she has an orthosis on her left leg with a cheetah pattern. On the right side of the image is a scene between three people; a dark-skinned Indian woman is elevating herself with her powerchair to take a picture of a Black girl using a similar wheelchair, and her girlfriend who is missing his right eye. They're both smiling and posing for the picture. Behind them, a white trans girl using crutches and a trans guy with achondroplasia are looking at each other lovingly. End image description.]
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having a wonderful time here in the Dorian fanclub lol
[Image Description: A drawing of Dorian Storm from Critical Role in an imagined outfit. Dorian has a gold band around his head like a crown with his hair folded within it inspired by an ancient Greek hairstyle, it flows before him and ends in cloud-like curls. He wears a white, high collared vest with golden emborder of leaves on the outer edges and a bird with golden feathers in the front. The hem of the vest is asymmetrical with one side longer than the other and going down towards his thigh. Underneath the vest is a blue quilted gambeson and under that is a light gold chiffon shirt with billowing sleeves that are gathered at the lower arm with leather armbands. he has a blue half cape made with the same cape in his original art and a silver pauldron over that same shoulder. the pauldron is shaped to look like wings. At his hips he has his flute axe, blade and Bertrand's sword and on his back is the mandolin. He also has silver shin armor that melds with his original winged boots and very shiny black leather pants. Dorain leans on a brown wall in a seemingly causal cool guy pose with one arm extended. He looks to the right with a smile on his face, but it does not meet his eyes. End ID]