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So I haven't done any fan art in years (my professional art revolves around wildlife, animals and birds), but there's only so much refreshing of BG3 forums one can do while waiting for Patch 5 news - so I thought I would do something creative with my time.

Take a peek into my sketchbook...

First one was Astarion (of course!) Started as a loose sketch while on a long phone call, decided I might as well keep going, for the sake of practice. It's not quite right but I'm calling it done:

Lae'zel is my second favourite companion in the game. She is very blunt, direct, she tells it like it is - but I feel like her staunch beliefs in her society's ways are about to get very shaken as the game's story goes on, and I look forward to seeing her grow as a character.

She is drawn in pencil and black ink pen - I thought she deserved a more direct approach in line work.

Wow these are amazing. How many long phone calls would that Lae'zel drawing take?

These are really nice quality ^.^

Thank you!

Both of these took about 2-3 hours each, but I wasn't in a hurry.

Looks great!

2-3 hours! Not days? 😁

They look great. Well done.

Those are amazing! Well done!

Those are really well done

it's really beautiful. I have always envied (in a good way, as we say, "white envy") to such talented people

I'm going to assume that's a non-english saying

Russian one or maybe some other slavic country using the same.

OP, you totally nailed Lae'zel. I can hear her asking "What!?" - with her common annoyed by those low life forms intonation, when I look at the picture.

Yes. you're right and i wasn't sure how google would translate it. but this phrase accurately describes my feelings

I would say pale envy is better translation ...
And i feel it too.

I wish i could draw at least half as good as you do.

Lovely!!!

It's ok I understood it. It sounds like something sinister in English but it's in fact a perfectly harmless and even positive form of envy! Thank you.

Thank you all for your lovely comments! <3
I will most likely draw Shadowheart next...

Start of a Shadowheart sketch - just the basics for now. Shading, outlines etc to come later.

Looks really good, I especially like Lae'zel.

It's been a very quiet day for me, so I managed to finish Shadowheart sooner than I thought...
Somehow her expression changed a lot between the sketch and the finished inked version. I was trying to aim for "sad but hopeful Shadowheart".

Wow. Shadowheart looks amazing!!!