[ Blood ]
Cropped version without the gore

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A traditional pencil sketch of Cryptid's BG3 Dark Urge OC, Snake Eyes the bard, as a chibi. They are a freckled nonbinary tiefling with buns in their hair, presenting as feminine. They are bloody and standing in shock over the brutally murdered body of the tiefling Alfira. Next to them, a chibi Astarion is swooning with heart eyes. Above are even smaller chibi heads of the other companions with texts that read: "Gale disapproves." "Karlach disapproves." "Shadowheart disapproves." "Wyll disapproves." Each mini chibi head has an expression of shock, sadness, or disappointment.

[ BLOOD / GORE ]
Day 31: Your Choice!

Pouring one out for all my fellow Durge players scarred by this scene

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A traditional pencil sketch of Dame Aylin from BG3. She is facing the left in a 3/4 view. Aylin is an aasimar with humanoid features, aside from the cracks on her face. She has armor on and is wearing eye makeup. She has medium length hair that sweeps over to mostly one side. She has a smile/neutral look on her face.

Day 30: Favorite NPC

I think my fave has changed since drawing this but Aylin definitely still holds a place in my heart

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A colored, clean digital chibi sketch of Cryptid's BG3 character Snake Eyes doubled over laughing next to a wheel of cheese. Snake Eyes is a purple tiefling bard with freckles, a few piercings, and a neck tattoo. They are wearing a bardic outfit that is purple and red. Their hair is an off-black with purple highlights pulled into buns, and their horns are blue with purple tips. Snake Eyes is laughing so hard they are tearing up as the wheel of cheese asks, "What do you think you're laughing at, soldier?" The word "you're" is underlined. In the speech bubble, a tiny lineless head of the BG3 character Karlach can be seen looking embarrassed. The cheese wheel itself also has lines on it indicating embarrassment.

Day 29: Favorite Scene

Maybe not my fave or much of a scene, but it's what was stuck in my head; Karlach being turned into cheese and Snake Eyes laughing their ass off

AKA "Karlach du Fromage"
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A clean digital sketch of Astarion from BG3. He is wearing his camp outfit and smiling down at a book he is reading while standing idly.

The same image, but there's an arrow pointing to the book with handwriting that reads, "Twilight".

The same image with the arrow, but the text reads "Tav's journal".

Day 28: Favorite Companion

What do YOU think he's reading?? The Twilight one is my fave personally, he would think it's ridiculous but also unironically get into Midnight Sun

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A sketch of Astarion from BG3 and Cryptid's Dark Urge OC, Snake Eyes. Astarion sits idly with a scornful or annoyed look on his face. He's holding a hand back from being snapped at by Snake Eyes. He has a speech bubble next to him that says "Ah ah ah! We ask before we bite." The word ask is underlined. Snake Eyes is shown from behind with wrist binds struggling to break free. They have a jagged speech bubble that has action text saying "*snarl* *growl...* *CHOMP!*" and has a chibi version of their face looking feral and trying to bite at Astarion. Both characters are in their camp outfits.

Day 27: Dark Urges

If Snake Eyes wasn't busy fighting for control of her body, she would have taken great offense to that comment, Astarion

Part of a bigger sketchpage I drew
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A traditional pencil sketch of Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3, head held high towards the moon with her eyes squeezed shut and her hands together in prayer. She is crying, with a look of utter despair and sadness on her face. Her lip is drawn to appear as if it could be trembling from crying. She is wearing her armor and standing under a full moon, with text that reads, "But there was only silence."

Day 26: Abandoned

I got tired of drawing backgrounds when I drew this so instead y'all get sad Shart

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A traditional pencil bust sketch of Cryptid's BG3 OC, Snake Eyes. Snake Eyes is a tiefling with bicolored medium horns that curve upwards and slightly to the back. They have various piercings on their ears, as well as a nose ring. Their face is covered in freckles and a jagged nose scar, and they have a very prominent neck/face tattoo that has a bunch of lines made with negative space. They have mismatched eyes; one that looks like a normal human eye, and one with a black sclera. They have a look of concern on their face and are glancing to the right of the paper. Their two-toned hair is in buns secured/decorated at the base with braids.

Day 25: Tav

They got their lobotomy at Volo's

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A digital watercolor painting of the entrance to the Temple of Shar in Baldur's Gate 3. A statue of the goddess Shar is the centerpiece, surrounded by dark candles and two braziers. Behind her is a dark purple wall with a circular opening. The painting is a beautiful mix of blues, purples, and some pinks and oranges. Shar has a headpiece covering her eyes and is holding two jagged scimitars or swords. She is decorated in gold. She stands on a pedestal near some stairs, some of which have water trickling down them.

Day 24: Hidden Temple

The Sharran one, not the gameshow one :P
Definitely still wanna revisit this one sometime

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A pencil bust sketch of the character Lae'zel from Baldur's Gate 3. Lae'zel is a Githyanki, a race that looks akin to an alien elf. Her dark hair is pulled back into a ponytail, and she also has multiple braids with metal rings on them in her hair. She has several black geometrical spots on her face, as well as streaks of what looks to be war paint, if not further markings on her skin. Lae'zel has a look of anger or annoyance on her face. She is drawn in 3/4ths view looking towards the right.

Day 23: Githyanki Warrior

The water in Faerûn is turning the friggin' frogs gay /j

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A digital painting of the Baldur's Gate 3 character Kar'niss. Kar'niss is a drow elf with the torso and head of a drow, but the legs and abdomen of a spider. Here, only his top half and the spider abdomen are pictured. Most of his skin is covered in a chitin or exoskeleton, save for the middle of his drow abdomen and his face, and the middle of his neck. He is tilting his head upward and gazing to the upper right corner of the painting. He has pale skin, silvery white hair that's a wavy medium length, and orange eyes with black sclera. He also has 5 smaller black spider eyes covering his face on the viewer's right side. He has various deep scars on his face. He's holding a curved wooden stick with a pretty, spiked metal lantern hanging off of it that is glowing light against the dark teal background.

Day 22: Light in the Dark

I know people thirst over this spider man because it may not have gotten engagement on twitter but it sure did have thousands of views from the tags

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A traditional pencil bust sketch of Gale Dekarios from Baldur's Gate 3. Gale is a human man with medium-length wavy hair pulled back from his face, and a full but manicured beard that isn't too thick and is trimmed near his skin. He has a mark or tattoo that looks like a mysterious ball of magic flowing from his sternum to his neck.He is wearing a dangling earring with the symbol of Mystra. He is smiling and glancing to the right.

Day 21: Weave-Touched

This man thinks he has so much rizz eating boots and telling people they're stinky

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A traditional pencil sketch of the Shadow-Cursed lands from Baldur's Gate 3. Depicted is a big, gnarled, dead tree with various unnatural holes forming in it. It also has one large naturally forming hole. Next to it is an old brick archway with dead vines hanging from it. Coming from the archway and the holes are some wispy bundles of shadow-curse energy. Some grass grows alongside the tree along the path from the arch.

Day 20: Shadow Cursed

Still can't tell if I love or hate the weird trypophobia trees in Act 2

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A traditional bust pencil sketch of Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3. Shadowheart is a half-elf with long black hair in a braid that has tiny chains around it. She is also wearing a chain circlet, and a hair accessory at the top of her braid. She has a half-smile on her face, and her eyes are decorated with mascara and dark eyeshadow. Her bangs and surrounding hair are very straight-edged and harsh in cut/style. A scar crosses over her face just under her right eye to over her nose bridge.

Day 19: Daughter of Darkness

God's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world. Still one of my favorite ones I drew throughout all of Illithidtober

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A digital painting of the Adamantine Forge/Grymforge in Baldur's Gate 3. The painting depicts a large, circular area flowing with lava. There are four circles platforms with almost-connecting paths that create a bigger, broken circle. In the middle is a large mechanical hammer striking a circular anvil, with sparks flying off of it. On the lower left platform is a copper colored lever used to control the hammer. In the background are some cliffs and a lava-fall.

Day 18: Glowing Forge

I'm notoriously underpracticed with backgrounds but I still really like how this one turned out

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A traditional drawing of Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3. She is lined in ink and colored with both ink and colored pencil. Karlach is a tiefling woman with scarlet skin covered in burn scars and small metal vent ports. She has medium black hair with red highlights that is shaved on one side and is pulled over her shoulder. It has a few small braids in it. She is giving a big smile and glancing at the viewer with her bright orange eyes. Her chest is glowing slightly. She has some freckles on her face.

The same image, but with just the lineart and no color.

Day 17: Infernal Soldier

Do you think she'd let me make grilled cheese on her biceps?

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A traditional Posca pen painting of the Underdark as depicted in Baldur's Gate 3. The painting is on black paper with various bright Posca colors used. In the image are many giant, bio-luminescent, blue mushrooms. Nearby are also some smaller clusters of neon yellow mushrooms, some blue and fuschia fungi and flora, and some tall orange mushrooms that are smaller than the blue ones. There are also some large, pointed rocks and cliffs. On the cliffs are some reddish orange fungi growing. In the distance beyond the silver-grey path are more of these mushrooms and cliff fungi, but darker shades to depict them as appearing farther away.

The same image, but with a slight neon tint to it as the image was taken under a purple/blue light, giving the appearance of being under a blacklight.

Day 16: Underdark

I wanted to scan and upload these but I couldn't find where I put 'em. It was very hard to capture on photo but this is Posca on black construction paper, which turned out SUPER cool under blue light

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A traditional mixed media bust drawing of Wyll Ravengard from Baldur's Gate 3. The drawing is lined in ink and uses pencil for different values. Wyll is depicted facing the left with his eyebrows raised and a big smile on his face. His cornrow dreads are pulled back into a small ponytail at the base of his neck and he has a clean shaven face with some stubble showing. His right eye (viewer's left) is made of stone and depicted as white. He has various deep scars running across his face from previous battles. The drawing has a decent amount of line variation/weight.

Day 15: Blade of Frontiers

I really wanna redraw Wyll again without the time constraint, I wasn't quite a fan of the combo I did with both ink and graphite

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A traditional ink pen drawing of the spider lair in the Whispering Depths area of Baldur's Gate 3. Depicted is a rocky cliff with 4 spider eggs enwebbed on the surface. Next to the eggs is a small Phase Spider near a single bone and skull. To the right, a large Matriarch Phase Spider is on a bridge-like web that presumably connects to another cliff. In the top left corner of the drawing is a spider web in the foreground.

Day 14: Spider's Lair

I don't think I've EVER drawn spiders before making this sketch so they're just a little scrunkly

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A traditional ink bust drawing of Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3. Astarion is a high-elf with short, fluffy, almost curly combed-back hair that sticks out in all directions. He has long pointed ears and piercing red eyes, as well as an obvious set of fangs covered in blood. Some fresh blood also drips from his mouth. A hint of red lighting can be seen on the paper from Cryptid's RGB lights.

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Day 13: Pale Elf

I love One (1) vampire man and his name is Astarion
(a lie, I love many vampire men, but especially this one)

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A rough digital painted sketch of the Riverside Teahouse from Baldur's Gate 3. The left of the image is a lush green and flowing with nature. A large tree surrounded by stones, a birch tree stump and a pull-cart behind it can be seen. The house here is covered in ivy and has a string of banners across the front. However, the middle of the house blends to reveal a darker version of the scene; the house adorned with a ram skull and dead trees and vines throughout the right side of the scene.

Day 12: Witch's Hut

This is a concept I'd love to revisit when I'm not on a time constraint, I think this could be a really cool piece if I had time to actually render it

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A clean digital sketch of Cryptid's Dark Urge OC, Snake Eyes shouting at the BG3 character Gale. S.E. is sitting up from sleeping on their bedroll, leaning back on their arms with one knee pulled up towards them. They are drawn in a more anime-inspired style and have a stylized look of anger/horror on their face with their mouth wide open in a scream. A speech bubble is next to them that reads some swear written in grawlix, followed by "GALE!" in all caps. Gale is barely seen at the foot of their bedroll holding one of their magical boots attached to their leg with his mouth open as if to eat it. Gale looks embarrassed to have been caught.

The same image, but without the grawlix. Instead, Snake Eyes is seen saying "DAMMIT, GALE!".

Day 11: Nighttime Visitor

He's just trying to get his ✨Gale Dinner✨
Here are both versions but I think the grawlix makes it 10x funnier

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A digital lineart drawing of Astarion from BG3 and Cryptid's Dark Urge OC, Snake Eyes. They are snuggled up by the fire with Snake Eyes leaning against Astarion. Since both are similar in height, their horns are very close by to Astarion's eyes. Because of this, Astarion has a speech bubble saying "Careful with those, darling, you're going to gouge my eye out." Snake Eyes has responded "Awwh, but then we'd match!" Astarion replies with "aha, No."

Day 10: Resting at Camp

Snake Eyes PLEASE be normal for 2 seconds

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A traditional bust Posca painting of the BG3 character Alfira. Alfira is a tiefling bard with light purple skin with blue undertones, medium-length dark purple hair with fuschia highlights, and long hooked horns that are a dark gray. She is wearing a blue and purple jester collar and gazing up and slightly to the left with a smile on her face. The image is zoomed out to show the sketchbook and a few Posca pens.

Day 9: Bard
Alfira my beloved

Process of this one is up on my Patreon! Some of the details got changed/muddled on this one when doing Poscas due to using a different paper than usual

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A clean digital sketch of various BG3 characters celebrating at camp. Depicted in the foreground is Astarion and Cryptid's Dark Urge OC, Snake Eyes. Snake Eyes is a tiefling with freckles, medium-sized horns, and buns with braids around them. Their eyes have black scleras. Astarion's arm is around them and he is giving them a sultry look. To their left and slightly in the background is Shadowheart in her camp outfit drinking a goblet of wine and glancing at the two flirting. In the background behind a campfire are Wyll and Gale chatting with goblets in their hands, and a sitting Scratch (dog) and Bear Halsin.

Day 8: Celebration

You can really tell where my priorities were when I drew this one

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A traditional pencil sketch of the BG3 Narrator Amelia Tyler as a Dungeon Master, sitting behind a DM screen with her hands folded beneath her chin. She has a mischievous look on her face as she gazes down at the table in front of her, which has DnD miniatures of the characters Karlach, Shadowheart, Astarion, and Cryptid's Dark Urge OC Snake Eyes (a tiefling bard). Karlach's mini is flexing, while Shadowheart's is praying; Astarion has one hand on his hip and a dagger in the other, and Snake Eyes is playing their lute.

Day 7: Narrator

I actually had the pleasure of showing this one off to Amelia Tyler herself when I met her 🥹 BG3 just wouldn't be the same without our beloved narrator/DM

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A digital sketch of the goblin camp in BG3. In the center is Volothamp Geddarm looking very distressed as if he is about to be attacked. Next to him to the left is an armored goblin giving him a thumbs-down. To his right is a goblin named Gribbo, looking frustrated with her arms crossed. In the foreground is a large piece of meat roasting on a spit. To the right are Cryptid's goblin OCs: one chasing an owlbear cub and the other drunk at a table.

Day 6: Goblin Camp

Threw my goblin OCs into this one too! Would you rescue Volo??

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A traditional pencil fullbody drawing of a harpy woman, inspired by the ones in BG3. She is crouched like a feral animal ready to strike, her wings, dark on top and white near the bottom feathers, are spread out and she is baring her sharp teeth. She is wearing a necklace made of bones and a bird skull and has her dark hair pulled back in a long, unkempt braid. Her hands and feet are bird talons.

Day 5: Harpy

Listened to the Harpy Song on loop while drawing this one, as one does

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A digital painting of the Emerald Grove's sacred ritual area in Baldur's Gate 3. Various textures are used, and the color palette is mainly greens and some brown and tan. The centerpiece is a raised circle platform with 3 statues; a wolf, a large bird, and a buck. In between the statues is a small pool of water and an altar with a brown statue of a figure placed upon a rock. The grove is surrounded with patches of grass, a few trees, some stone pillars, and a stone arch. Some small blue and purple flowers are sprouting from a few grass patches.

Day 4: Druid Grove

I love drawing big ol' blades of grass

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A traditional chibi ink-lined drawing of the BG3 NPC Dammon. Dammon is a tiefling with tall devil horns, a blacksmith's outfit/apron, and short undercut hair pulled back into a bun. He is holding a smithing hammer and has a kind expression on his face that always looks slightly worried. The image has no color.

Day 3: Tiefling(s)

Your local blacksmith

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