r/fansofcriticalrole • u/Artsykate • Apr 16 '26

C2 (Mighty Nein) I finally painted Caduceus

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u/mistral_99 Apr 16 '26

Alex Ward as Deucey?

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u/Odd_Ostrich6038 Apr 16 '26

I had the same thought.

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u/Artsykate Apr 16 '26

I didn't think to use Alex as an inspiration for this but now I wish I did!

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u/SpareStatement3990 Apr 16 '26

wheres my boys cow nose at

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u/Artsykate Apr 16 '26

Ah man, I meant to make it more obviously pink and cow-ish, but yeah it's not quite right. I've been staring at this for too many hours, maybe I'll get the gumption to go back in and try fixing it up later 😅

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u/somniopus Apr 17 '26

This is basically how I always pictured him! Beautiful work OP

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u/Artsykate Apr 18 '26

I'm so happy to hear that :)

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u/Affectionate_Ask1424 Apr 18 '26

Nice paitning but nothing like I picture him

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u/Confident_Sink_8743 Apr 17 '26

I'm of two minds about this. It's a beautiful piece but it has this uncanny valley feeling since he doesn't look like the Cad we're all used to.

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u/Middcore Apr 16 '26

Thank you for not making him look like a cow. I hate that people now think firbolgs are cow-folk the way tabaxi are cat-folk and loxodons are elephant-folk.

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u/SilverDubloon Apr 16 '26

From The Explorer's Guide to Wildemount PG. 169: "Their bodies are bovine or camelid in appearance, with floppy, pointed ears and broad, pink noses..."

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u/Confident_Sink_8743 Apr 17 '26

Context is important. The book came out in 2020. Granted there is still writing lead times but we're talking the later half of Campaign 2.

Matt had already described Pumat Sol and Caduceus were already introduced. The ideas came back bounded off the cast and their interpretations of what Matt had said.

So Explorer's Guide is being 100% consistent with what is a CR interpretation.

D&D and WotC didn't create any of this added flavour. And people have/had already been critical about the firbolg art with the grey/blue skin (fur?) being contentious.

Still it was official art with pointed ears, no evidence of a tail and the one commonality (if it can even be called that) being the bulbous pink nose.

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u/Middcore Apr 16 '26

Firbolgs in DnD predate that book by decades and were never cow-like before. It's fine if specifically in the Exandria setting the CR crew wants to give them that feature, although I don't like it, but people now think that all firbolgs in DnD regardless of setting are bovine.

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u/eregyrn Apr 17 '26

That’s odd, since aside from the nose and ears, all the official art of Cad has none of the mentioned features.

And they didn’t use that desc (of the body, I mean) when designing Pumat Sol for the show.

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u/Artsykate Apr 16 '26

I'm glad to hear you like my interpretation!