I love how much the "Please note that you have entered under no duress and of your own free will" for "Liability issues" makes so much sense for Astarion the former magistrate.
I need you and everyone else to know that "Enter freely and of your own will" is exactly what Dracula says to Johnathan Harker at the beginning of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Not only that, I just confronted Cazador in my personal BG3 game and someone at the front door of the mansion literally says to your character "enter freely and of your own will" and I lost my mind and had to run around my apartment and check my copy of dracula to make sure that was a word for word quote.
I appreciate that Astarion doesn't look like an 20 year old twink like most artists seem to draw him. He's 39. He's a magistrate - man has a law degree and everything. He looks best when he's distinguished.
This! People seem to have a really hard time drawing characters that are both sexy and over 20 years old lol It's either a twink or an impossibly muscular hairy man (usually Halsin), no inbetween
Ur right, but actually he needs to look young lmao. According to the lore, Elves pretty much stop aging after 25 and age 1/10 the ratecof humans every decade. He actually needs to look young. But I headcannon his looks to the stress from 200 years.
Love the way you made Astarion in your style somewhat resmble his VA Neil, even right down to the sleeveless tops he wears in his BG3 livestreams 🤣 Also you really captured his drama-queen expressiveness. Also, that drow saxophonist was just 🤌well done!
I think the expressions as well as the outfit is from the trailer of "Dracula: a comedy of terrors". In the scene, Dracula wears the exact same shirt. Still love this animation is though
I LOVE your style, no hate on other people's artistic interpretation of astarion but I'm very picky when it comes to him being stylized haha, you nailed it!!
I’m glad you like it! There’s a lot of very gorgeous art of him out there but I admit I do like him being more dramatic and expressive. And if you can’t find what you want, gotta do it yourself hahahah
Astarion casually squeezing his hand 😂 Also love how Wyll isnt greeted lmao it feels like he's either standing in the corner or left outside Edit: Y'all I didn't mean "love" as in "I hate Wyll and think he's uninteresting" I just meant that it's comedic. I genuinely like his character, I just thought the video glossing over him was funny
@@brandondennis7527 I’m glad I’m not the only one who always leaves him at camp 😂 he is so uninteresting compared to the others. I always have Gale and Astarion, but rotate the 3rd between Karlach (mostly her), Shadowheart when it’s “her scenes” (ie nightsong/shar area), and Halsin when I want an extra Druid for owlbear shenanigans. (Laezel only joined during the creche area)
@LewisRJHope He literally looks late 20s-early 30s in the game what are you smoking, they draw him that way bc people think aging is ugly and want to draw him as a young twink
To me he looks more late thirties tbh, I think he has stress lines or something. People draw him as a young twink because he's an elf, and lorewise an elf of his age before turning should look younger than he does. @@lonely_saturn
This is going somewhat off topic but I LOVE this so much. Not only because it's objectively great content, but also because this somehow gave me that final burst of inspiration I needed to finally start drawing again and try my hand at animating a little bit. Likely not intentional, but I thank you nonetheless!
I don’t know how to express how happy that makes me. Not to be cliche but art is born out of passion, so knowing that doing something I love helped inspire someone to also go back to doing something they enjoy is heartwarming, to say the least hahah Thank you for sharing, really 💕
I love how a bunch of people saw the Dracula comedy, and collectively overlapped Dracula with Astarion. And oh gods, how RIGHT they are! This is perfection ❤
this is technically the video that officially gets me into the fandom because it's only now, with this, that I want to watch gameplay, play the game myself, make fanfics, etc. Thanks. Also I'm munching on your art rn
Definitely play it, it's so good ❤ especially after all the bad and half finished greedy-company games we have been subjected to, BG3 is such a nice treat!
Usually I’d say to keep your expectations on check because memes can be a bit exaggerated, but not here. It really has stuff like this in game, it’s great, you’re not gonna regret it.
Slinking in here before this absolutely blows up! You have such an incredible art style and talent! As Asterion would say, it's rather something special. ✨️
I am now motivated to write a fanfic where Astarion suddenly lands into the plot of Dracula. Days before the start of the novel, Dracula suddenly vanishes and now Astarion takes his place. Now he has to talk to Jonathan as if he has any idea who he is or what's going on, is like, "Sweet, I now own several houses and someone else paid for them," and moves to England. Also, Sebastian took the place of the Brides.
The expressions, the art styles, the gorgeous colouring and framing. You are one to watch out for! You are so talented and the body humour is so good as well and this reference is perfect for Astarion. He looks soooo beautiful in your style. His pretty smile lines and devilish smile 💅 Can’t wait to see more
This is my new headcanon for Astarion's underdark ending. Just put this in a cave and swap out Alexa for my bard durge, and I am transported. And if Gale was visiting, there is no way Astarion would pass up on the opportunity of freaking Gale out about entering a vampire lair.
I can't count how many times i've watched it already on insta and now that i've found it on youtube i will keep replaying it here too 😍 you draw them sooo well!!
This is amazing!!!!!!! Freaking love the sass you gave Astarion!Also, you have really stretched the word "Animatic" here with a bit of polishing this would be a 11/10 animation!❤❤
Ahhhhh I know this art! I know that Tav! I LOVE, ABSOLUTLY LOVE, how you draw the characters. Not as young freakishly beautiful people. But more grounded and true to their age and I am ALL FOR IT.
Astarian's expressions have lived rent free in my head for the past two weeks. Edit: Just rewatched for the saxophone playing drow. It's not just Astarion's face, lol
I love how much the "Please note that you have entered under no duress and of your own free will" for "Liability issues" makes so much sense for Astarion the former magistrate.
So true
I caught the likes at 666, as the good Count intended.
What
Me when a new hire comes up to me
I need you and everyone else to know that "Enter freely and of your own will" is exactly what Dracula says to Johnathan Harker at the beginning of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Not only that, I just confronted Cazador in my personal BG3 game and someone at the front door of the mansion literally says to your character "enter freely and of your own will" and I lost my mind and had to run around my apartment and check my copy of dracula to make sure that was a word for word quote.
I appreciate that Astarion doesn't look like an 20 year old twink like most artists seem to draw him. He's 39. He's a magistrate - man has a law degree and everything. He looks best when he's distinguished.
This! People seem to have a really hard time drawing characters that are both sexy and over 20 years old lol
It's either a twink or an impossibly muscular hairy man (usually Halsin), no inbetween
This interpretation is so far the best I've seen. He's adult, with distinguished facial features and his emotions are so well-executed.
Ur right, but actually he needs to look young lmao. According to the lore, Elves pretty much stop aging after 25 and age 1/10 the ratecof humans every decade. He actually needs to look young. But I headcannon his looks to the stress from 200 years.
@@anttwo Oh. I never thought about, um, emotional damage and all these years of captivity and abuse that should deal some impact on his appearance.
What astarion would look like if he never became a vampire, and just aged like a regular elf
Oh my, you perfectly captured Astarions cheeky vibe. This is beautiful. I will now replay it 100 more times.
Thank you!
Astarion has “theater kid” vibes, he’s a dramatic and cheeky fella so I imagine him being very expressive
Same here 😂😂 I shall send this off to my friends as well
Love the way you made Astarion in your style somewhat resmble his VA Neil, even right down to the sleeveless tops he wears in his BG3 livestreams 🤣 Also you really captured his drama-queen expressiveness. Also, that drow saxophonist was just 🤌well done!
I love the Drow saxophonist. Nice touch 😂
I think the expressions as well as the outfit is from the trailer of "Dracula: a comedy of terrors". In the scene, Dracula wears the exact same shirt. Still love this animation is though
I'm headcanoning that the drow saxophonist is Bard!Tav
@@VanNessy97Im a dragonborn bard Tav. Bard Tavs are hard to play but so underrated
Bard Tav is shipping, HARD. 😂
"The gang goes to visit ascended astarion" *always sunny in Philadelphia theme starts playing*
Love it. Bloodweave is truly full of comedy.
You know it 😌
I LOVE your style, no hate on other people's artistic interpretation of astarion but I'm very picky when it comes to him being stylized haha, you nailed it!!
I’m glad you like it!
There’s a lot of very gorgeous art of him out there but I admit I do like him being more dramatic and expressive.
And if you can’t find what you want, gotta do it yourself hahahah
Astarion casually squeezing his hand 😂
Also love how Wyll isnt greeted lmao it feels like he's either standing in the corner or left outside
Edit: Y'all I didn't mean "love" as in "I hate Wyll and think he's uninteresting" I just meant that it's comedic. I genuinely like his character, I just thought the video glossing over him was funny
He immediately went back to camp, since there isn't a mizora cutscene happening.
Wyll’s just standing there watching. Something’s happening there and he’s not sure if he should intervene
Yikes….
How is that a “love” like what
@@brandondennis7527 I’m glad I’m not the only one who always leaves him at camp 😂 he is so uninteresting compared to the others.
I always have Gale and Astarion, but rotate the 3rd between Karlach (mostly her), Shadowheart when it’s “her scenes” (ie nightsong/shar area), and Halsin when I want an extra Druid for owlbear shenanigans. (Laezel only joined during the creche area)
I am so happy someone did this AND that it was someone that draws Asterion looking as mid to late thirties as he does in game
the game makes him look older than he should, so I guess some people choose to draw him in a more lore accurate manner? I think
@LewisRJHope He literally looks late 20s-early 30s in the game what are you smoking, they draw him that way bc people think aging is ugly and want to draw him as a young twink
To me he looks more late thirties tbh, I think he has stress lines or something.
People draw him as a young twink because he's an elf, and lorewise an elf of his age before turning should look younger than he does. @@lonely_saturn
This is going somewhat off topic but I LOVE this so much. Not only because it's objectively great content, but also because this somehow gave me that final burst of inspiration I needed to finally start drawing again and try my hand at animating a little bit. Likely not intentional, but I thank you nonetheless!
I don’t know how to express how happy that makes me. Not to be cliche but art is born out of passion, so knowing that doing something I love helped inspire someone to also go back to doing something they enjoy is heartwarming, to say the least hahah
Thank you for sharing, really 💕
Hope you have fun drawing and animating 🫂
Astarion's face at 0:41 is Sending Me, thank you for this masterpiece
He looks like that one cat with the knife pointed at it lol
Gale makes such a good Jonathan Harker omg. Perfect choice
I love how a bunch of people saw the Dracula comedy, and collectively overlapped Dracula with Astarion. And oh gods, how RIGHT they are!
This is perfection ❤
this is technically the video that officially gets me into the fandom because it's only now, with this, that I want to watch gameplay, play the game myself, make fanfics, etc. Thanks.
Also I'm munching on your art rn
Definitely play it, it's so good ❤ especially after all the bad and half finished greedy-company games we have been subjected to, BG3 is such a nice treat!
Usually I’d say to keep your expectations on check because memes can be a bit exaggerated, but not here. It really has stuff like this in game, it’s great, you’re not gonna regret it.
Same
AHHHH This is fucking incredible. THANK YOU for drawing Astarion like the 39 year old guy he is!!!!! And oh my god the expressions are priceless
Slinking in here before this absolutely blows up!
You have such an incredible art style and talent! As Asterion would say, it's rather something special. ✨️
Thank you so much!❤
This video will continue to kill me . comedy AND fantastic art. holy shit
The style is just simply adorable! Really love how it turned out 😍
Thank you!!
I just discovered this Broadway play this morning. And instantly was reminded of astarion
I am now motivated to write a fanfic where Astarion suddenly lands into the plot of Dracula. Days before the start of the novel, Dracula suddenly vanishes and now Astarion takes his place. Now he has to talk to Jonathan as if he has any idea who he is or what's going on, is like, "Sweet, I now own several houses and someone else paid for them," and moves to England.
Also, Sebastian took the place of the Brides.
This is Ascended Astarion once he starts living as the new lord of the mansion xD
So is Tav responsible for his playlist?
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin Indeed they are xD
(Btw, I love Villainous too!)
I just can't with the facial expressions. 😂 This is perfect and is going to live rent-free in my head forvever.😌
whats the original audio
Pov: you came to visit ascended Astarion and his spawn Tav after a few years
I'm completely obsessed with this 😭😭😭
I like to imagine this is how he greets most of his guests, I just love how you drew everyone
You’re a legend for mixing these two together and the art style is chef’s kiss 👩🍳 😘
Two Gods: Vampire Lord and Ambition Lord.
Both share same passion
I just watched it like... 8 times on loop? Why am I still making seagull wheezing noises?
It's genius, thank you!
This audio had no right to fit so well with Astarion XD
I love how their facial expressions and body language look so expressive
The way you draw star is absolutely delicious I’m a little obsessed w it
Fem Dracula is something I didnt know I needed.
Love love love the way you drew him, he looks his age in the best possible way 💛
I actually saw the show and honestly could totally picture Astarion performing the whole play XD
The expressions, the art styles, the gorgeous colouring and framing. You are one to watch out for! You are so talented and the body humour is so good as well and this reference is perfect for Astarion. He looks soooo beautiful in your style. His pretty smile lines and devilish smile 💅 Can’t wait to see more
Man Dracula the play was so gooodd he was shirtless so much lmao
The time and effort put into this shitpost video is unreal *bows head respectfully*
I am going to absolutely eat your art style, holy shit, this is incredible!! Absolutely love all the details in the facial expressions
The world simplification of Astarion is incredible
What a wonderful artstyle!
I already said on tumblr but pfhahaha this is *fantastic*, masterful job
oh my god is that dracula and the comedy of terrors references
nope that's just the play itself lmao
I literally went to New York to watch this play after seeing this animatic, thanks!
me playing medic tf2 at 0:06
The scream I screamt when I saw this on my recommended 😩😩😩, your art is so good bro!!! Keep it up honestly 🤩🤩🤩
OMG YESSS the cross over i didn't knew i wanted
Omg i passed by the og video clip of the audio and I loved it to bits. It fits so much with the characters! 😂❤ your art is really pretty!
I love this, he's so fabulous and ridiculous, it suits him so well, and the art style is magnificent I'm in love 😩👌💕 more pls
This is doing Gale’s amazing hairline a disservice
The artstyle is SO GOOD
Why is this so accurate. And btw, your art is AMAZING.
YES! I found this clip and knew this twinkish dracula was familiar...
This singlehandedly got me to play Baldurs Gate
The dude with the instrument looks like he's so done with the dramatic entrance 🤣
i SWEAR seeing this scene with Count Dracula's actor just screamed "Astarion."
This is my new headcanon for Astarion's underdark ending. Just put this in a cave and swap out Alexa for my bard durge, and I am transported. And if Gale was visiting, there is no way Astarion would pass up on the opportunity of freaking Gale out about entering a vampire lair.
This is so good! Btw, is 0:25 a Ghirahim reference?
No, I think he would've had an earring
I can't count how many times i've watched it already on insta and now that i've found it on youtube i will keep replaying it here too 😍 you draw them sooo well!!
I love how much expression you put in their faces omg
Somehow I knew this was gonna be the audio from the thumbnail 😂
You do realize we absolutely need more of these now, right? 😉Love this so much~
This is amazing!!!!!!! Freaking love the sass you gave Astarion!Also, you have really stretched the word "Animatic" here with a bit of polishing this would be a 11/10 animation!❤❤
Your art style is STUNNING I love the way you draw them, including poor Wyll just standing off to the side 🤭
As a Dracula musical fan and someone with intense astarion brain rot- thank you
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THESE CHARACTERS ONCE IN MY LIFE BUT NOW..? I AM OBSESSED...
Ive watched this too many times for my own good XD The animation, the audio, I would love more
I know NOTHING about this game but I love this man
IM IN LOVE WIGH THE ART STYLE
you draw them so perfect oh my god
The way this perfectly seems like something Astarion would do 😭😂
Ahhhhh I know this art! I know that Tav! I LOVE, ABSOLUTLY LOVE, how you draw the characters. Not as young freakishly beautiful people. But more grounded and true to their age and I am ALL FOR IT.
I can tell you worked hard on this and it was so worth it
I love this so much, Astarion is perfect for this xD
Okay, but why is this my favourite thing? I swear, within the 8 months that it’s been out, I’ve watches it almost once per day.
i find this delightful
I love everything about this.
Tremendous illustration skills! What a mix of composition, expression, and fluid figures - maximum kudos, I hope to reach your level one day.
I was so invested, that I thought this was at least a 10 minute video. x'D
This art style is absolutely beautiful
this looks SO good oh my god, how long did it take you to finish this??
Thank you!
Took me 4 or 5 days since I had to work a little bit at a time because of work 🥲
google how can i eat a youtube video?
THIS IS SO GOOD
Hahaha a great mashup, I wold love if the Dracula show comes over here or at least is recorded to them rent
The delivery of "QUITE a journey" was so Gale
you dont even want to know how many times ive rewatched this
What do you mean this isnt how we first meet Astarion? This is exactly how it went
Oohhhhhhh The broadway’s musical Dracula audio !!!!! Awesomeeeee ❤
YOUR ART STYLE IS JUST AAAAAAA *eats phone*
God I love this! The expressions and faces are so good!
Damn, Bloodweave in the air thoo
Oh WOAH I don't even go there but this is flawless. Your style is magnificent--
NAUUURRR YOU DID NOT JUST USE THIS AUDIOOOO. IT IS SO PERFECT!!!!!
rewatching this over and over again
Astarion’s entrance is giving ✨ Rocky Horror Picture Show ✨ and I’m here for it lmao
I have no idea what I just saw, but the gigglefit is unreal...
idk how to explain it but you draw delicious, i'm fully delighted
I LOOOVE THE WAY YOU DRAW HIM
i like how he kind of looks like his VA with the way you draw him
Astarian's expressions have lived rent free in my head for the past two weeks.
Edit: Just rewatched for the saxophone playing drow. It's not just Astarion's face, lol
Bro this would fit so well with Rocky horror picture show as well
I'm obsessed with your style! You draw all of them so well.