"He lifts me up."
"He keeps me grounded."
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I FRIKKIN LOVE Ashton and Orym's dynamic. And what better symbol for them as a magical stone that floats?
I think it's their symbolic foils that make me love the pairing so much - stone and air. It's the same thing with Caleb/Fjord (fire/water) and a bunch of my other favorite ships.
Didn't quite achieve the ethereal smoky effect I wanted on the Brumestone. However, it's a lot better than my first few attempts. And I had fun with the airbrush and some of my new paint pens! The pose idea came to me when I was traversing the Water Temple in Tears of the Kingdom and gravity is just a little lighter there. Then I was drafting a bunch of different poses based on ballet dancers and then practicing drawing LOTS OF ROCKS.
I'm a little bummed that I wasn't able to finish this prior to their outfit changes and later GROUP DRAMA, but stupid hospital stuff happened, and I had to put this on hold.
Image description under the cut!
Medium: Copic markers, airbrush, acrylic paint pen, white gel pens, metallic watercolors, Sakura Micron pens
[Image Description: Ashton stands with his back the viewer, in what looks like a hazy demi-plane with no solid landscape. His right around is around Orym's waist, where the halfling hovers a little above him. Orym cradles Ashton's face with one hand, and his other on Ashton's back, his hand partially covering the "Just Don't" sewn into the back. It looks almost like it says, "Just Do It." Several large chunks of raw Brumestone float around them, giving off a hazy, magical aura. Ashton's head-lights sparkle above.
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Breathe, Breathe, Just Breathe
Orym, Ashton, and Laudna | Critical Role
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Something about stripping women of autonomy and responsibility for their choices because a man said he'd back up whatever they do but has a preference just does not sit with me right at all in the current Critical Role discourse. Like woman can't want power on their own, it has to be a man forcing them. Woman can't choose their own corruption, it has to be a man corrupting them. Heck, a woman PLAYER can't decide it's more interesting for her character to take a darker turn, it needs a man's approval first. Let woman be fucked up all on their own. Having a man say he'll support bad decisions isn't making the decision for her. This is actually a pretty misogynistic line of thinking that's bugging the hell out of me. Woman aren't pure and perfect brings who only make good choices until men are there.
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Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war…
Oh Team Issylra, the world is dark, but you will see the sun again.
CR always comes at me with these fantastic scenes when my art block is throwing a fit, but I wrestled it into submission to get this one out after six different poses and (looks at the timelapse) 12 HOURS?! Lordy. Anyhow, here’s some variations since I couldn’t settle on one.
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Orym in the style of JC Leyendecker for another @artists-guild-of-exandria project!! We did an art history style swap and it was a blast!
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me after a liam o’brien ship once again destroys me with less than a minute of dialogue
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