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art & sundry | they/them | 30s, queer | occasionally nsfw

Check out #art and #oc for my art! (long press on the hashtag > "see posts by this user")
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one day, after all your choices, you look in the mirror and realize you no longer have your father's eyes

#bg3 #art #oc (my gnome tav, mayhew!)
A painting of a curly-haired male gnome looking into a mirror with despair. One of his eyes is a glowing glass eye, and the other eye is ink-dark and monstrous. Dark veins snake out from his monstrous eye, like a corruption that's slowly spreading. He is touching his face as if seeing it for the first time and realizing the depths to which he has sunk - and that there's no going back. The lighting is moody, dark, and cool-toned.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
drew former inquisitor mayhew cadash for a oneshot i'll be playing in soon! he's a rogue/artificer who found himself a strange little buddy in the deep roads

#art #oc #dragonage
A full color portrait of a male dwarf with dark hair and brown skin. His hair is greying, and his face shows definite wrinkles and creases; this is a man who has lived for some time in the world. Even though he appears to be in his fifties, he has shut his eyes to indulge in the whimsy of blowing the seeds off a dandelion. On his shoulder is a little crystal creature that glows blue. It watches the seeds fly with rapt interest. The overall feeling is peaceful, but the green, rift-like lighting adds an ominous air. A black and white portrait of a male dwarf with dark hair and brown skin. His hair is greying, and his face shows definite wrinkles and creases; this is a man who has lived for some time in the world. Even though he appears to be in his fifties, he has shut his eyes to indulge in the whimsy of blowing the seeds off a dandelion. On his shoulder is a little crystal creature that glows. It watches the seeds fly with rapt interest. The overall feeling is peaceful, but the rift-like lighting adds an ominous air.
July 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
okay but does the gruel actually taste as delicious as the honey of unexpected kindness? Well, Mayhew will always tell you so

Oats & Honey 3/3 #art #oc #bg3
A doodle of Mayhew very cheerfully eating a bowl of food labeled "the gloopiest, greyest food known to man." He, himself, is labeled with two notes: "regularly fries his taste buds with smoking, drinking, tadpoles" and "+7 Deception."
June 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
Oats & Honey 2/3 #art #oc #bg3
Page 2 of a comic. There are two simple panels on this page: one of Mayhew's eyes looking up, and one of the unhappy set to the cook's mouth. Mayhew is observing her mood, and we see a yellow spark of inspiration by his eyes. The third page of a comic. In the first panel, Mayhew thanks the cook for the offer of a bowl and then asks, "What's in this? Oats? Honey?" There's more cheerful yellow gathered around him now, and the words "oats" and "honey" have started to glow yellow. His mood as he asks is sly, kind, and a bit playful; he knows it's not oats and honey, but he wants to cheer her up. The second panel shows the cook, struck silent by the unexpected kindness. She looks surprised and a little touched, and a golden glow has started to emanate from her, too, as if the glow of the words is contagious. The 4th page of a comic. In the first panel, the cook is fully glowing with golden happiness. She's smiling as she says, "Hah! You're a far cry from such things. But if I fooled your nose- Well, I must be doing something right! Here, have more." By the time she's finished talking, her words have also begun to glow gold. In the second panel, we simply see Mayhew in profile, smiling up at her. All the glow that was once around him is now around her, and it's her happy dialogue that casts a glow on him, now. He seems very pleased to have made her happy. The fifth page of a comic. There is one panel on this page. It shows the cook's hands handing Mayhew a bowl, and Mayhew's hands cupped around hers to take it. Inside the bowl, the food is no longer unappetizing gloop, but rich, golden honey. The panel itself is lit in a golden glow. Around the panel, the cook shares her final words: "We'll need all the strength we can get to make it to Baldur's Gate. Trust me." The page itself is warmly-tinted, as if this exchange of happiness has cheered it up, too.
June 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
A BG3 comic I made about the refugee cook at the emerald grove! If you're a gnome, you get a [GNOME] dialogue option to pay a compliment when she offers you a bowl of gruel.

Oats & Honey 1/3 #art #oc #bg3
Page 1 of a comic. In the first panel, Mayhew, a gnome with dark curly hair and pointy ears, inspects an unappetizing meal in a cauldron. It looks gloopy. The cook, an elderly tiefling, is ladling him a bowl. In the second panel, the cook tells him, "Best to fill your belly now. While we still can." She's in a dour mood.
June 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
dragon age au. mayhew cadash, red lyrium smuggler and rift lover, staring fondly at a tear in the veil

#dragonage #art #oc
A black and white sketch of a bearded man with greying, dark, curly hair pulled into a haphazard bun. His beard is similarly haphazard. He's smiling in joyful, childlike wonder, which highlights both his missing canine tooth and the smile lines around his eyes.
June 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
a smooch for a new spell learned. one adoring, love-filled smackaroonie, right to the forehead. devastating

#galedekarios #bg3 #art #oc
A black and white sketch of two characters. Gale, a bearded, heavyset human with pale skin and dark hair, leans down to kiss his partner. He's smiling into the kiss, very proud. His partner, Mayhew, is a short, darker-skinned gnome with pointed ears, a beard, and curly dark hair. He's smiling too, pleased and embarrassed as Gale kisses his forehead, and he is looking at his own hand, where he has just conjured magical fire for the first time. The two of them are very physically comfortable with each other, and the scene is cozy and warm - one study session among many, perhaps.
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
More mercaleb posting! If you missed it, I once illustrated @ariadne-mouse.bsky.social's amazing #shadowgast mer-au.

Ch 3: the sea longs for Essek
Ch 4: Essek faces off with a gull and loses

#criticalrolefanart #art
A two-panel drawing showing that the ocean is has its hooks in Essek. In the first panel, his eyes are wide and shocked. In the second, seaweed has wrapped around his ankle, as if it wishes to anchor him in the tide. Around both panels, an ocean wave sweeps in. A drawing showing a face-off between Essek, who is holding a glass of wine and looking very affronted, and a seagull, which has rudely perched upon his large arcane leyline device. In a that classic seagull way, it seems totally unfazed by any affront.
March 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
My most beloved project in CR fandom was illustrating the #shadowgast mercaleb fic by my good friend @ariadne-mouse.bsky.social. I cannot recommend the story enough if you, too, inhaled folklore growing up.

Read here: archiveofourown.org/works/391374...

ch1 art: ominous scritches, 2: free sashimi
A digital painting of a clawed hand rising from the water to scratch the chin of a fluffy cat on the dock. The wide, witchy moon has just risen from the waves, and it lights everything in a mysterious, pretty green. A red-haired, pale merman, Caleb, offers the viewer a slice of fish from the fish he just gutted with his claws. He's floating in the water and lit from below by an unearthly green light. His expression is friendly, even welcoming...or perhaps it just seems so to the unwary.
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
art timelapse of that Gale & Tav smoke break 🚬😉 (ft my gnome Tav, Mayhew)
#art #galedekarios #bg3 #oc
February 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
gale and my gnome tav taking a smoke break from adventuring. they'll be back on the clock in 15, pinky promise

#bg3 #galedekarios #art #oc
A warm-toned monochromatic drawing of two men. One, Gale Dekarious, a human man, is lying down on the ground. Standing over him with feet planted on each side of his torso is Mayhew, a small-framed gnomish man. We only see Mayhew's lower back and legs, and one of his hands holding a lit a cigarette. He seems cocky and powerful. Gale is staring up at him with an appreciative, smug smile and reaching up to unbuckle Mayhew's belt. It's a very suggestive moment.
February 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
he gives you this look when you put godlike power on a shelf he can't reach

#galedekarios #bg3 #art
A digital sketch of Gale Dekarios with dog ears, one perked and one floppy. He is giving the camera some incredibly intense puppy eyes.
January 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
It's a sketchy study of "In Bed, The Kiss" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who paints intimacy very well. I wanted to sketch something sweet last night
A historical painting of two figures embracing while sleepily curled up in bed.
January 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
waking up to sleepy gale kisses

#galedekarios #bg3 #art #oc
A sketch of two men lounging in bed, cuddled up close under the covers. They are kissing sweetly; the kiss is lazy and intimate, the kind you'd give to a lover in the morning before the day has drawn you both from bed. The human man, Gale, is heavyset, with a beard and an earring. His medium-length brown hair is tousled onto the pillow beneath him. He has his arm around the small frame of the other man, Mayhew. Mayhew is a gnome with dark, curly hair, pointed ears, and a goatee. His cheek is dimpled by a tiny smile. Both men have subtle marks: the Orb insignia spirals up Gale's neck, and an old scar runs up onto Mayhew's cheek. A crop of the same sketch of two men embracing in bed and kissing. The crop focuses on the kiss and the sweetness of their expressions.
January 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
two sketches I still really like from the gods-in-the-clouds piece. it was originally way more domestic and a tad less sfw

#bg3 #galedekarios #oc #ocsky #art
A digital sketch of Gale Dekarios, a human man, and Mayhew, a gnome. Gale is reclined on a couch, and Mayhew is perched above him. Mayhew is entirely nude. He's tilting Gale's head back and smiling. Gale is very much enjoying this; he is fully clothed with his hand in his pants. The same digital sketch of Gale Dekarios, a human man, and Mayhew, a gnome, from further along in the drawing process. Gale is still reclined on a couch, and Mayhew is still perched above him, but the poses have changed. Gale now has his hand lightly curled around Mayhew's foot, and Mayhew's expression is subtly different - a bit more intimate.
January 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
worship that goes both ways

[god gale/ascended tav, mayhew]

#bg3 #art #galedekarios #oc
A digital painting of a scene at dawn, above the clouds. Two godly figures lay reclined in the clouds: Gale, a silver-skinned, blue-robed man, and Mayhew, a tanned, green-robed man astride him. Mayhew is tilting up Gale's chin, and tucking back his silvery hair, and Gale is languidly allowing him to do so. They stare at each other with mutual looks of adoration; Mayhew's is tinted with challenge, and Gale's is content and appreciative. There is overall a sense of intimacy, as if we're peering through the clouds at a private tumble between godlings.
January 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
god gale painting timelapse 🌞

#bg3 #art #galedekarios
January 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
the god of ambition waking to his realm of infinite possibility

#bg3 #art #galedekarios
A digital painting of Gale, a bearded, blue-robed man with silver skin and hair, staring out over his godly realm. He is the god of ambition, full of confidence. A peachy-gold dawn greets him.
January 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
oh my god it's like the 5th result hahahaha 🥰😭🥹
a screenshot of google image search results showing that my art is, indeed, one of the first google image results for "leyendecker kiss"
December 6, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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continuing the backfill of old art over here, have a #shadowgast leyendecker kiss 🧡💜

#criticalrolefanart #art
A digital painting of two people kissing. Caleb Widogast, a white man with red hair, is embraced by Essek Thelyss, a dark-skinned elf with white hair. One of Essek's arms curls around Caleb's back, holding him close. The other holds Caleb's hand to his heart. Essek leans his head down to kiss Caleb tenderly. In return, Caleb melts into Essek's embrace; he tilts his face up and kisses Essek back with a small smile on his lips. Essek is dressed in rich, embroidered clothing. Caleb wears a simple, dark coat, and a pale scarf. In the background around the two of them, there are faded paintings of decorations and spell components: an hourglass, a clock, pearls, ribbon, a platinum thread.
December 5, 2024 at 10:16 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
mr. the shadowhand

#art #criticalrolefanart
A digital painting of Essek Thelyss, a Black elf with white hair, who is staring at the viewer. He's dressed in a fancy collar and pauldrons. The colors of this picture range from magenta to dark purple. He seems powerful. An Essek painting in the sketch stage, rendered in deep purple and bright magenta. The same digital painting of Essek Thelyss, fully finished, in black and white.
November 26, 2024 at 2:31 AM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
when you're on your aeorian honeymoon and FINALLY get your hands on the second mini beacon...and the neutral evil comes out for a moment
#art #criticalrolefanart #fanart
Essek Thelyss from Critical Role stands in the ruins of Aeor, holding up the second mini beacon that was not destroyed to save the world. He is using a glowing spell that lights up the crystal. He looks intensely pleased and a little villainous.
November 25, 2024 at 5:32 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
another oldie but goodie. dark scourger AUs i will always love you

#art #shadowgast #criticalrolefanart
An illustration of Caleb and Essek in a dark AU where Caleb stayed a scourger. He sits in a white-and-gold chair, covered in blood. Perched in his lap is Essek, who stares with a smug, sharp smile at the viewer. His arm is casually-yet-possessively draped over Caleb's shoulders. On the floor are blood smears and a single arm belonging to Trent Ikithon. It seems that Caleb has just murdered Trent, and both he and Essek are celebrating the moment.
November 16, 2024 at 11:15 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
an old #shadowgast comic i did during the eiselcross arc!

[ #criticalrolefanart | #fanart | #art ]
A comic that shows Essek watching Caleb and Jester in the distance. Jester is proselytizing to Caleb's cat, and Caleb is listening. By his expressions, it is clear that Essek is fond of both of them, but has feelings for Caleb. Caleb sends a loving look at Jester, who doesn't seem to notice. The last panel is Essek's bittersweet smile as he assumes his own feelings are unrequited.
November 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
saturdaysky.bsky.social
i had tooooo many thoughts for a bsky post, thank you for the excellent question!!

Short answer: yes, he'd oppose it.

Long answer: he cares about people, but he's a wizard with wizard disease and some stunning gaps in his self-awareness (love that for him, wouldn't have him any other way)
A screenshot of Gale meta that says: I think he'd deeply oppose it! Mostly. In game he consistently talks about - yay, we're helping people! I love that! - we're not just going to ignore [helpless person], are we? - cruelty is wrong - violations of consent are especially wrong And he seems to feel passionate about all that! He really does care about people. However... IMO he's more of a big picture guy, and he's not all that self-aware. I'd peg him as more interested in joining smth like the Inquisition (grand cause which speaks to his faith + morals & is centered around a fascinating matryoshka doll of magical mysteries) than like, getting in w the Shadow Dragons (who speak to his morals but the work requires enduring perpetual ugliness/risk/discomfort & there's no grand magical mystery). A screenshot of Gale meta that says: I think Gale is morally opposed to the corruption in Tevinter...but Gale is also the kinda guy who sees that people suffer in BG3, empathizes with that, and then decides the solution is to become a god to fix it. Conveniently, this also means he gets to indulge all his curiosity, obtain ultimate power, and prove every doubter wrong, of course 😂 If there's one thing Gale is very adept at, it's finding ways to justify his own self-interest for the greater good. He's probably used some of that corruption to gain magical items of interest, tbh! And I don't know that I would trust his solutions for fixing corruption because the second thing he's good at is finding ways to propose his own dramatic self-immolation for the greater good. That's another grand and meaningful action, but maybe not one that helps truly dismantle a corrupt system, y'know? Screenshot of Gale meta that says: I think Gale of Minrathous cares about people. More even than Dorian does at the start – Dorian's pretty self-absorbed when you recruit him imo, and his personal quest is also focused on how he, personally, was affected by Tevinter's systems of cruelty (just recruited him again in my replay). He's got a lot of growing to do at the point he joins the Inquisition. He wants change, but I think his reasons are a little questionable, just like Gale's would be if he joined. Gale's self-absorption would look different; he's deeply curious about people/the world around him, and he already notices and cares when ppl affected by injustice. However, his solutions tend to be self-serving, whether he realizes it or not, even if he also genuinely wants to help! He cares...but he's a wizard with wizard disease, regardless of universe. Gale of Minrathous would love to crack open the vault of heaven and check out the throne of the Maker just for the thrill of doing it, and he'd justify it with all his good intentions. So…yes! He'd oppose the corruption and its attendant cruelties. Effectively? Ehhh. But he opposes it.
October 29, 2024 at 11:22 PM