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"Alright, so I will! I do. I do. I kiss her." I'm a bit late to the party, but here's my celebratory Imogen and Laudna artwork!! + some details:
apologies for a) the lack of a rock chisel in Laudna's hair, b) the shitty background and c) imogen's sleeves being incorrect!!
I'm super excited for the future of these two. My commissions are currently open (with a short waitlist at the moment), so if you're interested, make sure to dm me for details! I'll get around to making a proper post about commissions details that I will pin to my dash. <3 <3 <3
the idea to draw imogen and laudna as this still from céline sciamma’s portrait of a lady on fire (2019) came to me in a dream. might do more movie redraws with these two because digital painting is fun and rewarding!! even though drawing fabric takes so so long. I also included close-ups on some parts I’m proudest of.
if you’re interested in a digital commission feel free to dm me!! I also have a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thislifewasneverours
might I add
bold moves from both of them
is he...
you know,
more eloquent with his fingers?
“It doesn’t seem real.”
so laura bailey’s lean in was probably just her adjusting her chair but I like to imagine a world where it was a WILD acting choice, either way this episode killed me and I missed laudna so much, so I animated for the first time in a hot second. sorry it’s so short and not great looking but my god marisha and laura kill it every time with these characters and by it I mean me, help.
laudna and imogen temult as joseph paelinck’s orpheus and eurydice
forgive me for the orpheus and eurydice parallel with these two but I can’t help but see it. these recent episodes have destroyed not just my pussy (sorry) but also my heart and soul. I had to paint something angsty and moon-washed and sad, so here you go!!! complete with some close-ups on their faces. I love them, I miss laudna, I am very excited for the coming episodes.
if you want a digital commission or just wanna support my art then here’s the link to my ko-fi:
https://ko-fi.com/thislifewasneverours
laudna and imogen temult as egon schiele’s death and the maiden.
crossed over to critical role for my third old painting redraw!! this one is a bit more obscure than the kiss or the meeting on the turret stairs but I love it very much and think it quite suits imogen and laudna.
okay but what if imogen is a kalashtar
I know I don’t really post on here BUT I have an imogen theory. This might have already been said but she has a lot of similarities to the kalashtar race from ebberon??
kalashtar are a race created from the union of a human and a dream realm spirit known as quori, which is then passed down through generations, so it’s a hereditary thing. In appearance they essentially are sort of like aasimar in terms of looking very human with some little weird almost alien twinges.
kalashtar have a specific trait called severed from dreams: Kalashtar sleep, but they don’t connect to the plane of dreams as other creatures do. Instead, their minds draw from the memories of their otherworldly spirit while they sleep. could possibly explain some moon shit??
ALSO they CAN READ MINDS and SPEAK TELEPATHICALLY TO OTHER CREATURES. It also mentions in some sources that Kalashtar’s eyes flash and glow when they’re experiencing strong emotions, which happens to imogen sometimes.
I just wonder if matt and laura worked on melding the kalashtar into a version that would work in exandria, so maybe not a quori spirit exactly but something ruidus-related? maybe this is all coincidental and maybe someone has said it already, who knows, but I’ve been thinking about it for a little while!!
If you don’t wanna cry don’t think about the fact that by Campaign 3 Vex has probably lived more years without Vax than she did with him
Me when Laura Bailey and the characters she voices: 🛐 🛐 🛐
To all her characters- smash, smash, a million times smash. To Laura, in the most respectful and consensual, delulu way possible smash me please. Abby please f me 🙏 Also Nadine also having big arms was the biggest win I had ever experienced. In addition Serena was my first game crush since I played skyrim when I was like 8.
MJ, I won't lie I didn't even realise it was her but I always thought she was so fine.
(Little) Vex sketch
now for something completely out of left field. PERCIVAL FREDERICKSTEIN VON MUSEL KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLO THE THIRD! I only had to spell check one of those names. I have biases in this show and it's him.
edit: forgot to put the og ref for the last one
Okay, TLOU fans! When that scene happens in season 2 we need to defend Abby's actress at all costs!
We are not repeating history! Laura Bailey didn't deserve it and neither does Kaitlyn Dever!
They are actresses, not the character.
doing questionable things like rewatching a bard’s lament for “fun” and scanlan and vex you will always be famous. the fact that scanlan brings up that they’ve travelled across planes to fix vex’s daddy issues but then it’s vex’s daddy issues that ground her rebuttal to scanlan when she tells him to stop treating kaylie like an object. and god. vex’s “fuck him! fuck him for not saying anything sooner. and fuck us for not asking.” in the immediate aftermath, and then once she has time to put her walls back up, vex’s “my take-away from scanlan is that we all talk too much.”
the fact that vex was the one who made that comment that without his magic scanlan is just some guy but he’s also the some guy that vex spends the campaign looking up to (even if she does it through barbs and snark), the fact that when vex was fighting against saundor hearing things like “unproven ally” scanlan was all jokes until he realized how much vex believed what was being said to her. the fact that when scanlan comes back, it’s vex who literally sees through his disguise.
what do you mean scanlan was a deadbeat father who discovered a daughter that he did love but loved only as an object until vex called him out on it? what do you mean vex was a woman who struggled to forgive in part due to her crapshoot father and she was the first to forgive scanlan when he came back?
vex and scanlan also have such interesting interactions in terms of the balance of snark, silliness, and sincerity. it’s not uncommon from any characters of sam or laura’s since they are both silly little guys who also love drama and roasting each other especially when it comes to character rp, but as always it’s so dynamic when it’s the two of them bouncing off each other, especially when they’re doing so through scanlan and vex who are already bitchy characters (affectionate) with humour as a deflection method. but it’s a silly and deeply sincere moment when vex finally puts the witch hat scanlan gave her back on with his promise that he won’t run away from the final battle. it is one of my favourite laughable moments in c1 but it also reeks of sincerity when scanlan asks vex if she prefers planetar scanlan or normal scanlan and vex tells him he is fucking hot as a planetar, but she loves him like he was and he’s her favourite when he’s just himself.
like. they’re insane do you understand. the dawnfather asks vex to prove herself and scanlan turns her into a dragon to help her succeed, pelor asks vox machina what vex means to them and scanlan says she’s greedy and mean and the most perfect of them all. the knowing mistress asks scanlan to prove himself and vex escorts him on a broom he unlocked for her and then she picks an impossible lock for him, ioun tries to remind scanlan that his strength is the joy he provides to his friends and he makes a deflective quip that he’s really powerful and vex undercuts his deflection with a sincere assertion that he is. scanlan cast his last wish spell letting her see her brother on her wedding day. vex sent herself across the continent alone with her worry and grief while scanlan’s corpse lay awaiting resurrection to ensure that his daughter could be there to either bring him back or say goodbye.
they are the platonic chosen soulmates of all time to me. i make a post like this like once a year minimum and it’s because they Haunt me. both sam and laura said what if we made high charisma characters using their charisma as a shield and humour as a weapon and they saw through each other’s masks but they never explicitly talked about it to one another. good riddance to talks machina but i will never forget the episode post bard’s lament with laura and sam where sam revealed that vex was the only one who said anything that actually got through to scanlan and another episode where laura revealed that the reason vex was so angry and sad when scanlan left was that vex felt like her and scanlan had a unique bond where they were the only two who really saw one another’s masks for what they were. also laura providing the insight that while vex was actively working on being more forgiving, another reason she was so open and happy with scanlan when he came back was that vex didn’t want to scare him away again.
what am i supposed to do with all that? be normal about scanlan and vex? literally impossible
" It kind of feels different than I thought it would after all of the books that I read, you know? "
fucking damn candela obscura is gonna be my new obsession curse you critical role.
being autistic is great what do you mean seeing a cute drawing of a character you love and the actors who played her in both versions of that series and her face model posing together has cured my mood
also i love this so much its so cute
Commission for @kabunn , what a great idea to bring all the Abs together! It's game Abby, Laura Bailey, Jocelyn, and TV show Abby.
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