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wolf frien

#mid.txt #ffxiv screenshots #yeah its a video but this is how I'm tagging for myself

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I might not be successful in life

#mid.txt #ffxiv screenshots #the joke is I'm still not in game either #I got a house tho

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all ARR relics done

#mid.txt #ffxiv screenshots #posted this to the wrong blog lol I'm not dead but I'm not functional #literally maybe one person looking at this will know the time that went into this #everyone else will probably scroll past going ok nerd #anyways I enjoyed these #the materia and light grind steps sucked but I ended up enjoying the books #I hope the next relic has a step like it cause it was nice just running around the world

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another one of those classic "I'm not dead, I'm just dead on ideas" posts

#daily doodling #yes I took this photo with my sketch standing upright cause I'm an old man who doesn't understand how people take good art photos #I got the scaling on my tauren wrong but my dudes they are like 10 feet tall in canon #that scaling is hard #considering my miqo'te is max height which means he's like 5'3"

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two more relic axes to the collection

#mid.txt #ffxiv screenshots #yes I also have full +2 elemental armor cause I've done that much Eureka and will do much more #I actually completed that axe a while ago #I now just have the Endwalker one left to complete and we get those quests next week #and I'll have all the WAR relics

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them

#daily doodling #ok another try at more regular doodles again? lets try #tho I started this on the 5th so don't look at me #I really need to finalize the name for the mage it's bothering me but nothing feels right for her

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a moment of care, afterwards

a request from @lookoutrogue

Alternate (cause my brain needed it):

#the witcher #geralt of rivia #eskel #gerskel #daily doodling #ty for reaching out sorry that I am a trash human who can't focus or do anything of use #I wanted to get this done before the end of year and this is technically still under the wire

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who allowed 2023 to just do that

Another year, another year end art review. I reflect, I say some nice things about my stuff, mostly I complain.

2023 was a fuck of a year, tbh. The art (and other) issues of 2022 carried through and did not let up for a moment. I don't have any way to reflect without being completely negative, so I won't. I don't hold out that much hope for 2024 but who knows, not me.

As previous years, below the cut is a piece a month I like. Some months, the choices were very slim.

January - doodle dumb I started the year doing dev for a selfish story "idea". While I could get the characters designs pretty much where I want them, that's about it.

February - some portraits and an answered question Not much to say about this - more development work. I only partially answered the question cause only Petra is really named - Warden doesn't (and won't) get an actual name and the third one only has a temp name. Again, I think about them often, my GNC little OC family.

March - moodle doodles, FF14 creeping in More dev but also me noodling on FF14. I do, sometimes, really miss playing a elezen but gosh, isn't it hard to look good in armor sometimes. (I don't have much to say about this otherwise)

April - running with the wolves A lot of Petra's story is shaped by the stories and things that I love, so this is just me feeling out ideas. Looking back at this, despite it being part of my new regular "no plan just yeet lines" method of drawing, I think the composition of this came out pretty good and it doesn't tell a little story.

May - henna Tears released and I no life'd the game for a while. While this piece really suffers from a problem I keep seeing with my art (thick and oppressive linework), I do enjoy the details in this. It was fun looking up henna and trying to adapt parts of her design into them.

June - new icon New icon! I'm getting tired of it now but whatever.

July - basic catboy For some reason, around June/July, I wanted to draw in this style. I did a few things like this. I did this not long after changing to miqo'te and still kind of like it. I did a good job I thing balancing detail with simple considering how the gear is.

August - I miss them (derogatory) It's Them, my favourite FF14 ship that I can't talk to anyone about. My major regret about this is that I did get really lazy near the end. Some of the new things I tried with this kind of work but, as usually, my line work just really brings it all down.

September - nothing While I drew in September, it was the start of the comic project. I didn't really post anything to be seen, unfortunately.

October - repostober It was nice reposting a lot of stuff that I both really still liked. I've been posting art on tumblr since 2015 and I've done a lot. I've grown a lot. It was also nice to have something to show people while the comic project slowly trucked along.

November - talk to me I'll listen The comic project. I went in with a poorly thought out script, barely any thumbnails or planning and no idea how to draw almost everyone that appears. While I don't think it looks good (it's too busy, again my lines ruin it) - I did complete it. That's something.

December - play card The latest. I just wanted to draw fabric and had pretty bad artblock after the comic completed. I think the thing I like most about this is the nails. I really enjoy the nails I draw Mido with - I wish I had them in game.

#year in review #another lame year but I guess at this point its on brand

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but Ophelia refused to drown

#daily doodling #thinking about this story idea again off and on for a bit now #I wish I could actually figure out stories cause I like all the designs so much

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I've been freed from PVP (until the next set of rewards are released)

#ffxiv screenshots #I mostly play SMN cause I'm not actually evil ok #mid.txt #now to throw this into the dresser and forget I have it

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I have very deep thoughts about Zenos

#daily doodling #final fantasy xiv #warrior of light #zenos yae galvus #endwalker spoilers #have this been done? probably without a doubt yes #did I do it really poorly? also probably without a doubt yes

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If you ever feel alone, remember: corvids will remember your face

#daily doodling #I didn't say yesterday what the doodle attempts would be so here's a dumb one #I'm trying to embrace the ugly since I kept losing hours to farming things in FF14 lol

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hello again, my new old friend

#final fantasy xiv #endwalker spoilers #hythlodaeus #daily doodling #I'm going to try for a bit to see if I can make my art tag literal and do some daily doodles #I'm saying this in the tags so that no one expects anything I guess #this is something I've been wanting to do for a while but I am in my heart of hearts a very lazy asshole

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For me, a guy who uses their iPad almost entirely for art, the year in review is always really funny.

Look at my saved references, occasional dog photo and a glimpse at my double chin!

#mid.txt #video #I'm lonely and old so I might be shitposting here more than usual #I'd apologize but literally who cares

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There's a ball joke here somewhere

#mid.txt #ffxiv screenshots #I have now cleared BA and got it THE ORB #the second screenshot sucks cause I couldn't wait for better weather

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[play card]

#final fantasy xiv #warrior of light #daily doodling #ok I don't want to play with this anymore #idk how I feel about it so meh

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Randomly peeking in to see if you're still taking commissions? I love your work.

Thank you anon for the ask, this actually caused me a lot of thought. I'm not sure what I'd call my status is but, yes, I can technically still do commissions.

With full understanding that the tumble gods will strike this post down, here's my ko-fi commissions.

Art lately has been a slow process between working full time, dysfunction and poor time management (I have just gotten into the grind that is Eureka, RIP me). But I still try and am forever grateful for the people that like my art.

Anyways, here's the current WIP I'm slowly working on.

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