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“Welcome to the Mighty Nein”

Finished my first watch-through of C2 and what an incredible experience it was 🖤 I don’t really have the words, but here’s some art to celebrate these wonderful characters and their story.

#critical role #critical role fanart #critical role art #the mighty nein #mighty nein #artbykhuggs #myartwork #khuggs #art-by-khuggs #art by khuggs #digital painting #digital art

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🏴‍☠️  CREW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:  ArtByKHuggs 🏴‍☠️

ArtByKHuggs is contributing page art to Freedom in the Dark!  

ArtByKHuggs is a self-taught digital artist and illustrator from the United States. She is endlessly inspired by flowery ruins, historical dramas, and fictional characters. Black Sails is one of her favorite shows to cry over and she's so excited to be joining the talented individuals in this zine!

Follow her @art-by-khuggs on Tumblr and on social media and her website:

artbykhuggs on Twitter and Instagram

artbykhuggs.com

Welcome aboard, pirate!

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The Shadowhand

Finally taking the leap and posting some of my cosplay photos for the first time! Essek’s character and story arc is one of my all-time favorites in any piece of media, and this cosplay was really a labor of love.

💜 Essek Thelyss created by Matthew Mercer for Critical Role 💜 Cosplay and Beacon prop made by me 💜 Photography by me

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In addition to making the actual cosplay, the beacon prop, and trying body-paint for the first time, I also fulfilled a long-time dream of trying short hair by getting a real-life Essek haircut (15 inches off).

I’ll probably post photos that show the actual outfit and makeup eventually (once I work up the nerve), but I also just love how these photos turned out! They are both single, long-exposure photographs, and are not edited beyond a slight contrast adjustment and removing a couple tiny artifacts caused by dust on the camera lens.

#critical role #critical role cosplay #essek thelyss #the mighty nein #m9 #essek thelyss cosplay #essek cosplay #my cosplay #my photography #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #mighty nein #critical role fanart

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Race Against The Dawn

EXU Calamity was truly a heartbreaking and incredible piece of storytelling to experience. It’s been on my mind for weeks now, so please enjoy my first-ever piece of CR fanart, featuring Zerxus and Tempus.

#critical role #critical role fanart #exu calamity #exandria unlimited #zerxus ilerez #exu zerxus #exu spoilers #exu calamity spoilers #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #myartwork #digital art #for real though it was insanely good #I really want to rewatch it but I also don’t think I’m mentally prepared to deal with the pain again so soon #have a feeling I’ll be coming back to it again and again in the future though

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Wrapping up the year with a reread and small tribute to one of my favorite books, “The Bedlam Stacks” by Natasha Pulley ❄️

Digital Painting. 13 Hrs.

#natasha pulley #the bedlam stacks #pulleyverse #merrick tremayne #by ‘favorite’ I mean I cried for three days straight and it’s lived rent-free in my brain for over a year #this time I decided to process it by painting for 13 hours instead of just staring at my wall for the same amount of time #am I going to revive my old personal blog so I can scream into the void about this book - yes #shoutout to my friend @R who allowed me to bully her into reading it too #<3 #myartwork #artbykhuggs #khuggs

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“A dollop of milk and seven sugars”

I know I’m late to the party, but I finally binged OFMD last weekend! (And then immediately watched it again while painting this!) 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈

Digital painting, 12hrs

#our flag means death #OFMD #ofmd fanart #ofmd stede #ed ofmd #something something stede as a lighthouse something #really happy with how this piece turned out <3 #I’ve never painted tattoos before and they were so much fun???!! #when I tell you I struggled with adding the colors though my goodness #art by kuggs #artbykhuggs #myartwork

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“The portrait had seemed like a memorial.” - “The Bedlam Stacks” by Natasha Pulley

I’ve started and restarted this painting a dozen times over the last two years trying to do justice to this gorgeous book.

#the bedlam stacks #natasha pulley #pulleyverse #raphael tbs #at any given moment i am mere seconds away from crying over this book and its characters #the beautiful tragedy that is raphael sends me off-the-charts feral on a regular basis #trying to get the vibes right in this was a struggle #i rarely feel happy/proud of my art but this one... this one I kind of like #digital art #myartwork #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs

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Braided Water. First painting of the new year! These braided streams are one of my favorite parts of Iceland’s landscape.

Digital painting. 4hrs. Based on my photos from Iceland last summer!

#digital painting #landscape #digital plein air #iceland #landscape painting #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #art-by-khuggs #myartwork #khuggs

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The Strays of Amalo

Just some wishful fanart of Thara and Iäna because, let’s be real, a whole lot of Things™️ are suddenly going to make sense to Iäna once he sees Thara’s apartment and meets the cats.

Digital Paining, 12hrs

#thara celehar #iana pel thenhior #the witness for the dead #the grief of stones #the goblin emperor #katherine addison #let’s be real Thara’s basically a stray who keeps turning up unannounced at the VO #and Iäna’s afraid of scaring him off and just keeps offering him food from his mother’s restaurant. #im just too invested in this sad lonely cleric and his dramatic theater boyfriend #myartwork #khuggs #artbykhuggs

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Hope you’re having a spooky and safe Halloween weekend!

#happy halloween #halloween 2022 #digitalart #artbykhuggs #myartwork #art by khuggs #khuggs

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Hi friends! It’s pretty rare for me to talk about personal things on public spaces like this, but I’m making an exception today to talk about an anxiety disorder that I live with. More under the cut to keep your dash going :)

This week is OCD Awareness Week. OCD is badly misrepresented in media as a cute/quirky personality trait when it’s actually a debilitating and isolating mental disorder that latches onto the things a person values the most.

OCD is a cycle of any scary intrusive thoughts (obsessions) that an individual tries to make go away by performing actions (compulsions). Compulsions can be physical or mental. At my worst, I was spending 8+ agonizing hours PER DAY performing compulsions.

OCD is not curable, but it is treatable. Thanks to proper treatment, I’m back to living a full life and have met some incredible and brave individuals through this experience.

If I could have done one thing differently, I wish I had looked for help sooner rather than suffering for years. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Please, please: whatever you’re struggling with, don’t wait until it gets horribly bad like I did. Advocate for yourself; you’re worth it.

If you’ve gotten this far, thank you so much for taking the time to read! If you’re interested in learning more about OCD, the IOCDF website is a fantastic place to start.

With love, KHuggs

Original art and typesetting by me. This Latin phrase has been particularly inspirational to me in my recovery journey.

#ocd week #ocd awareness #living with ocd #tw ocd #myartwork #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #khuggs

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🌸 Desert Bloom 🌼

Something I’ve wanted to paint for a while but finally got inspired to actually do it! Hope you’re taking care of yourself this spring!

#desertbloom #super bloom #myartwork #khuggs #art-by-khuggs #artbykhuggs #sometimes my inspo comes from unexpected places and this was one of those times #am I getting emotional about the sun moon and stars #and flowers that suddenly bloom in the desert #obvious yes #is this all a metaphor #also yes

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All & More

Joe & Nicky from that scene. Painted as a thank you to my wonderful friend for always dragging me into the best fandoms, most recently TOG.

(Digital Painting, 10hrs)

#the old guard #nicolo di genova #yusef al kaysani #joe and nicky #joe x nicky #TOG #digital painting #myartwork #artbykhuggs #this is for @R who simultaneously ruins and improves my life by getting me into shows I end up caring about way too much #I wouldn’t have it any other way <3 #was not prepared for how invested I was going to be in these character and their whole found family #I took the - as if alone - scene direction and really ran with it here okay #seriously though please don’t repost or tweet it pleaseandthankyou

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“I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but whether there is any light behind me I cannot tell. For I cannot turn yet.” - Eowyn “The Return of the King” JRR Tolkien

#LOTR #lotrart #lord of the rings #eowyn #myartwork #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #digital art #digital painting #it's always a good time to paint lotr fanart

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A New Story For Nassau

So excited to share my full @blacksailszine piece! This scene still gives me shivers every time I rewatch it and I’m thrilled to have gotten to paint it for such a cool project!

The zine is free to download and filled with incredible work by so many talented people, go check it out here: https://blacksailszine.itch.io/

#black sails zine #freedom in the dark #fitd zine #black sails #myartwork #art-by-khuggs #artbykhuggs #khuggs #art by khuggs #digital art #digital painting #blacksails

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I read “The Binding” by Bridget Collins last month and it’s been living rent-free  in my head ever since, so of course I had to paint something.

#the binding #bridget collins #emmett farmer #lucian darnay #I for real just can't move on from this book #it was so damn good #i couldn't read anything new for like 3 weeks because i was still processing #they're sunshine in a dark world and it makes me cry #myartwork #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #khuggs