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Art trade for @/SillyBard of their WoL Sandre Sawyer!! 

My 'small surprise' took a little longer than expected >>;; but I wanted to do this beautiful bard justice and give him all the stars in the sky. I had a lot of fun! <3

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #Warrior of Light #Art Trade #Friends WoL #My Art

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Long over due WoLShip of my boi and @/Hobi__14's Helios

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #Warrior of Light #WoLShip #My Art #Koh'a Betwanhe #Helios Dhanu

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Herein I commit the chronicle of the traveler.

I saw an amazing reddit thread after the 5.3 trial about Azem & how their Sygil is the same as the Scions Travellers Gear helmet.

So I drew my WoL in their Level 70 WHM gear, and then their Scion Gear they're given at the start of ShB.

#FFXIV Spoilers #shadowbringers spoilers #FFXIV Art #WoL #Warrior of Light #My Art #Koh'a Betwanhe

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Custom Icon Commissions I offered on Ko-Fi a whilst ago for:

@/TheMagicMeep @/crocarlisle @/Gamingyuwu! @/Selphie_ @/ACN_Jade

#FFXIV #FFXIV ART #ESO #ESO Art #Commission Art #My Art

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My submission for @ffcreatorsguild! 

They've put together something amazing and the end result of this project was AMAZING to see. Everyone worked so hard! And it was such a relief to learn the SqE Dev teams received these gifts everyone put their hearts into to thank them.

My strongest memory was joing my FC, and it's been a lot of fun! #FFXIV #FFIXVART

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #ffcreatorsguild #Memories of Crystal #My Art

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Freis Kisne, a pleasure. Probably?

Art gift for LegendofWes ft their Viera WoL Raina Kisne, introducing her 'little' brother, Freis, to my WoL.

We were memeing after the male!Viera news came out and the speculation they might be shorter than the female version. Though whether they're tall or short, we'll be vibing with our headcanons! /cheer

#FFXIV #Viera #Male Viera #warrior of light #Gift Art #My Art

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Mornings Are Warmer With You, ft. It's not all fun and adventure...

I have exactly one setting: Hurt/Comfort. 

Alternatively, Blue should not be left alone because they will either make tooth rotting fluff, or crush someones heart with angst. 

Interesting to see how my art style never has any consistency at all tho lmao

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #Warrior of Light #G'raha Tia #WoL/G'raha #My Art #Koh'a Betwanhe

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I haven’t updated a lot of my art on here in a while, so I’ll be cross posting a lot of stuff over from twitter/pillowfort to fix that.

Which by the by, you can follow me there @ 

SFW / General - https://twitter.com/Blue_Sails

NSFW - https://www.pillowfort.social/BlueSails

As always: No Repost. No N//F//T. No A//I usage. 

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Father & Son

I have so many sketches of my WoL when they were a child with their parents. They’re so much fun to draw! I really have no idea what kind of clothes they’d wear, so I’ve been patching together parts of my fave in-game gear.

Since we’re heading to Thavnair and Radz-at-Han, we’ve seen a lot of concept art for it, and know from past quests that there’s were Alchemists and Dancers are a big thing. I can make vague guesses to clothing aesthetics, but not much. Also, there’s a loooot of MoonKeeper surnames that haven’t been used by NPC’s yet... And all of those unused names have an Indian/Middle East kind of theme to them, and Radz-at-Han seems to be based on Rajasthan. I’m kinda hoping I’ll meet an NPC with the Betwanhe clan name. I just really want to be able to pick somewhere on Hydaelyn’s map for where my WoL comes from;;; But I’m way too into lore to just pick randomly. 

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #Miqo'te #Warrior of Light #Koh'a Betwanhe #My Art #Some kind of spoilers below the cut if you don't follow the live letter/patch news??? #incredibly specific 5.55/6.0 hope

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Weapon of Light.

I posted this to twitter earlier, but I always forget to update my art blog here, so~ I kept seeing amazing art of players WoL’s turned into Lightwardens, and I really wanted to explore that idea for myself!

Koh’a started ARR as an Archer, and soon switched to learning Conjury. They’ve been a White Mage ever since. Guess it didn’t pay off in an AU like this.

Since they started an ARC i liked the idea of this image looking like a physical weapon, a golden arrow, but still with the healers aesthetic mixed in from the LVL 80 gear. 

I tried to throw in a few more references too, his face became more of a mask because we started ARR in one, the circle on the mask combined with the halo as the symbol for [5.3 Spoiler]. The sun rays became the string for the bow, and that was a stroke of luck when I was resizing things and realised how well it’d fit.

I had so much fun making this! And out of curiousity I decided to time how long this took to make. Not including the time spent researching, this took 22 hours to complete, over three days! 

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #Shadowbringers #Warrior of Light #Lightwarden #Sin Eater #Koh'a Betwanhe #My Art #Some notes and character thoughts under the read more!

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“Muuuuuum!!!”

Sometimes you just got to be an embarrassing parent and smoosh your child. That’s just how it be. I can easily imagine mama Koh being an overly affectionate parent, and teasing her son.

I have so many doodles of silly family shenanigans. Slowly but surely I’ll chip my way through them

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #WoL #Warrior of Light #Koh'a Betwanhe #My Art

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Betwanhe Family

Lately I’ve been drawing a lot of Koh’a with his family, imagining what his childhood was like before becoming the WoL. I’ve always imagined his mama was a Moon Keeper and his dad a Sun Seeker.

There’s a lot of Moon Keeper surnames that exist in the game but havent been used for any NPC’s yet. So I hope one day I get to meet an NPC in the next expansions with Koh’a’s clan name. It’d be kind of hilarious to see my headcanons get obliterated. 

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #WoL #Warrior of Light #Koh'a Betwanhe #My art

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Skybuilders’ Ranking: Savage

To everyone who took part in the Ishgard Restoration Ranking, congratulations on your titles! :D I hope you all managed to get some rest and sleep after our collective life choices.

As exhausting as it was, it was so much fun making so many friends in the Diadem, and all of the wholesome headpats. Hahaha! 

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #Ishgardian Restoration #Skybuilders' Ranking #WoL #Koh'a Betwanhe #my art

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Drew something silly after 5.4! 

I can only image that Fray has some Thoughts(TM) after [redacted]. I know I sure did :’D Can the WoL ever catch a break???

Full image is linked here to hide 5.4 spoilers :D

#FFXIV #Shadowbringers #Shadowbringers Spoilers #5.4 Spoilers #Fray Myste #Koh'a Betwanhe #My Art

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Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to @omateki! They asked to see Mihashi hanging out with friends for #oofurixmas2020! Wishing you a kinder year, and one full of Mihashi’s smiles <3 ^^

#oofurixmas2020 #oofurixmas #oofuri #(I originally posted this to twitter yesterday for the submission deadline but reposting this onto tumblr today)

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Raina Kisne, Warrior of Light.

For my wonderful friend, @twilishark ! Their laptop can't handle FFXIV, and so I went and got a Retainer so they could use the character designer to make their Viera Warrior :D  She’s such a cool character, and currenty haunts my WoL, hoarding all of my materia lol.

#FFXIV #FFXIV Art #WoL #Warrior of Light #Viera #Raina Kisne #My Art

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‘Lost Afflatus’ WHM Healers Set

Drew this for Endyart’s #AFesthetic twitter challenge. Posting to art blog too :D 

The aim was to create recognisable AF gear for your WoL that fit your aesthetic.

I really love the level 70 and 80 AF gear for WHM. The high collar always makes Koh’a look so much taller than they actually are! They had really nice metal detailing I wanted to emulate...andforgottoaddtothebottomoftheskirt*cough*.

Though I wish the WHM gear would have shorter skirts/robes, cause they’d be much more practical T w T

Something also important to me is that armour should be battle ready! (Which is why the Deepshadow gear set is my fave), so I added some influence from that so there’s chainmail underneath the robes! Elegance and practicality, heck yeah!

I love the aesthetic of the 80 AF weapon, and also the new Bozjan weapon. I’d love something that fit that sort of aesthetic again. More lily themes!

#FFXIV #AFesthetic #WoL #WHM #Miqo'te #Koh'a Betwanhe #My art #description under the readmore