Hydaelyn Role-Players

Hello again.

I decided that since everyone is posting art stuff that I would like to post art stuff too.

I do commissions in pencil, inks, Prismacolor Pencils, and Prismacolor Markers. I'll list my basic prices from my dA commish page here--

Sketch - Pencil with shading
Bust $5
3/4 to Full  $6
Additional characters for 3/4 to Full +$2
(-2 for RPC people)

Ink - Flat lines, no shading unless requested
Bust $9
3/4 to Full $10
Additional characters for 3/4 to full +$3
(-3 for RPC people)

Color - Prismacolor Pencils, minimal marker touch-ups
Bust $15
3/4 to Full $18
Additional characters for 3/4 to full +$4
(-4 for RPC people)

Color - Prismacolor Markers, minimal pencil touch-ups
Bust $17
3/4 to Full $20
Additional characters for 3/4 to full +$4
(-5 for RPC people)

and shipping is +1.

Once ARR is out, I'll likely accept gil and I'm always up for art trades of any kind. Gift arts are random.

All the specifics of how I do art and so on are here

This isn't FFXIV-related but I'm so proud of it that I post it anyway.


Since I'm still waiting on payment for the commission, I haven't uploaded this to my dA gallery yet. (I referenced MahmudAsrar on dA's work for the background, but I didn't do nearly as well as him.)

This is a inked picture of a Draenei (Warcraft) that I did for my friend of her D/Shaman Alphasis.


This is an original character commission of an 'Elf/Demon' named Rashieka. She came out looking very elfy, but this is an example of how I did red-hair (with color pencils) before figuring out how to do it with markers.


There're some issues with the chair-leg placement and how short she looks-- but I see them now. Must avoid them in future.

This is another ink of the Miqo'te I'd intended to roll before I came up with my Roe. If anyone wants to use this for their character, just tell me and you can go ahead with it. We might even be able to arrange some color, or you can color it yourself. I'd like to see the finished product if you do.


This next one is a MATURE ('tasteful' nudity) and also unfinished representation of Azeyma the Warden.


I decided I'll redo her in the future and give her lighter hair since she's a goddess of the sun. Also, this style was heavily influence by Yoshitaka Amano's style.

Here is a picture that I posted below that I don't know if anyone's noticed of Siobhain as a youth.



10 Freebie Sketches - If you'd like your picture, of the ten slots below, colored it will only be $9 via paypal, 900 points on dA or free for an art trade. I love art trades. I don't get many.

1. Teveriel  
(Paid color upgrade soon)

2. Aysun (Took roughly six hours)

Sorry the skin came out a little darker than intended.

3. Mtoto (Art Trade upgrade-- complete in 2.5 hours)

It's meant to be looking down at her but I think I need to work on how angles effect coloring/shading a bit more. Also, I couldn't find her eye color on the wiki! So I zoomed up real close on the concept pic that Mtoto did and I was pretty sure it's brown. Apologies if I was wrong.

4. Moltove (Took roughly two and a half hours)

You gave me the option of weapons but I was afraid it was going to tack on another hour or two to what I'd done so far.

5. Ravyne (Complete in over five hours-- the pose was killing me.)

6. Deidre (Complete in 3 hours)

I gave her stockings, although I'm not 100% on whether stockings exist in Eorzea. I assume they do.

7. Eva (Complete in roughly 6 hours/Trade upgrade)

Not sure why but this picture took me forever to conceptualize. I love the character design but for some reason I feel like I messed it up by not making her 'grey'-er or super elegant. I guess the modified White Mage outfit just makes her a bit blockier than I like. If Eva doesn't like it, I suppose I will simply has to does it again. >.< Otherwise I really like the clothes and everything. Must buy more blues and purples.

8. Nahu (Completed in roughly 50 minutes)

Did this one as a sketch-- if anyone notices, I didn't draw the gloves (because if I had, then wiping off his hands wouldn'ta made much sense. Unless he's wiping off hand-sweat. O_O)

9. Xenedra (Complete in more hours than I want to admit for some reason!)

Art trade for Xenedra of Xen and Endemerrin being cuddly and her being a ninja-cat with his goggles. That is her hand up there, not his. Both his hands are located a few mere inches above her booty. Hope they like it.

10. Gerik (Complete in roughly 1 1/2 hours)

Here he is. I wanted to show him from the back since the other pictures of him that I saw were front shots-- I also wanted to try my hand at the back muscles. I referenced a realistic image of the musculature of a man from the back but I'm not entirely sure I got the skin on there perfectly. Still, I really liked how it came out and hope Gerik does too.

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Now that I've completed the ten pieces I wanted to do, I'll still be accepting commissions on dA and here, as well as art trades. Just PM me for/with details.

Commissions: OPEN
Art Trades: OPEN

In Progress:

Teveriel- Ink and Color
Finished the Teveriel picture. As I mentioned on my dA page where I uploaded it, I read platinum blonde and colored it the platinum blonde I imagine (aka Draco Malfoy blonde) and when I looked at the tiny signature of Teveriel, it looks like it's far more silver. I apologize if it was meant to be silver. Q_Q

Nahue- Ink and Color


Finished the Nahue picture. The skin might be look a bit too dark because I gave it the pure white shine that I stopped using a while ago. I like the result though, and how Nahu does too.

Vee- Ink and Color

This is the inked version I've done so far. Got to apply colors. Her nose will be furry along the bridge and dark underneath as per Vee's exacting specifications. <3


And colored!

Shippu- Complete Ink and Color. Shawnzy's Shippuu with his fur shrug. I was getting tired of the solid gray background so I reverted back to my thick-outlines with some color about the edges.



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Random Pieces

A picture of Siobhain as a child, moments before beating three children within inches of their lives. I intend to ink and color this one day when I feel so inclined, and after some critiques I've gotten already, I think that some proper coloring and shading and extra detail will make the wall look more like a stone wall and less geometrical. I also think I'll be adjusting the lines into more of a brick pattern than they are right now.

I'll be uploading things as I finish them. Thanks for looking, comments are welcome and criticism is appreciated.

You already hear it from me all the time, but I love your work =p. Great job on those 2.

Not bad at all. I might have to get something commissioned in the future.

Thank you as always, Rav.

And anytime, Rex. I think I can work around the not-knowing-what-style-hair thing for your Roe if it becomes too much trouble.


Edit: I forgot to mention that I have ten free sketchy-thing slots open. It'll be pencil and likely not clean as it's supposed to be practice for drawing something as quickly as possible, but if anyone's interested in a freebie sketch of their character, feel free to pm me with some reference pics.

Good stuff! But I already knew that. >D

Love,
Your DA Stalker Friend

Great style you've got there, suppose my only complaint is that your design for Azeyma has a very oriental flair which is a bit odd as the Twelve are strictly unique to lands of Eorzea, having little influence or effect on the east asian themed lands of the Far East continents. (The only thing we know about the mythical far east is they go by an animal zodiac, though we don't know which animal correlates to Azeyma in the grand scheme of things.)

Just my 2 gil. Some food for thought.

It's true, she does. It was intended, as otherwise I don't have much reference with Eorzean fashion except for concept art for the class sets I can find on line and none of them seemed 'noble' enough at the time so I just went with the Amano wispy things with asian influence. But it will be noted and I will attempt to rectify it.

Also:

Here is a new piece. Took me about two hours to do with the inking. I'm only -linking- it here, not uploading until I have clearance from the person/organization from whom I used a stock photo as reference.


I used Tigg-Stock (from deviantARt)'s photo for reference for the pose, but changed it a bit since I wanted her to be holding a shield. I also flipped it in the hopes that I wouldn't have all my characters facing the same way, then ruined myself by having her head direct to the left. Pew.

I also used the FFXIV paladin armor concept for a reference for her armor. This is the first time I've (I hope) successfully drawn armor and I'm pretty happy with the outcome.

And finally, she is in her teen years in this picture-- hence why her hair is long and she is a bit on the thinner side.

Lookin' good there, would love to see that with some nice color splashed on it.


Though I do have to nitpick (I apologize, not intending to come off as rude or anything) Roegadyn are perhaps my favorite race so I have a particular fondness for them, as well as being picky about lore details. So just two things to mention. 1) Roegadyn have rounded ears, as seen below

And 2) She's a hellsguard yes? Currently, all Hellsguard have a unique facial trait in that the underside of their noses is darkened, rather animalistic in nature.

Of course, I'm just assuming this is indeed your Roeg character. And since we have yet to see the full extent of Female Roeg customization we cannot be certain whether these traits will remain true.

Still, just things I thought I'd point out, for preparations sake if anything, so if these things remain true you may have to create character reasons as to why she has different traits than normal Roeg, or perhaps make changes to the character in general.

Shawnzy Wrote:Lookin' good there, would love to see that with some nice color splashed on it.

So just two things to mention. 1) Roegadyn have rounded ears, as seen below


And 2) She's a hellsguard yes? Currently, all Hellsguard have a unique facial trait in that the underside of their noses is darkened, rather animalistic in nature.

On the matter of ears, I did have some problems at first deciding whether to make them more round or keep them a bit more exaggerated, as I prefer to draw pointier ears (even on Legolas and the Hobbits from LOTR, and their ears are comparably more round than other elves/halflings I've seen). I did cut them down from the super Blood-elf style length I had originally because she came out looking much more Elezen than Roegadyn.

Of the noses-- I try not to shade in ink anymore, as it's my personal preference but now that I've seen a Hellsguard a bit more closely, I'll make a note to darken the underside of her nose somewhat when I do get to applying color. Thank you for pointing this out.

Also, finished Teveriel's picture (see above).

Yeah, I guess that's just my beef. She looks like an Elezen to me, and it just brings to wonder why make her a Roegadyn if you want pointy ears like an elf? Just seems like an odd trait for a race that has predominately large rounded ears. It'd be similar to a plainsfolk lalafell having rounded ears, or a miqo'te having dog ears or some such. Just seems odd and bends the lore a smidge more than I'm particularly comfortable with.

But maybe it's just me, I'm not particularly fond of elf-types so it probably rustles my jimmies to see a race I like be given elfish traits.

And hell, I could be proven completely wrong once ARR comes out and they very well might have the option for more pointy ears. In which case I'll just have to suck it up and eat these words. But currently, all evidence within game currently dictates a certain way. So eh.

Even then, there's easily tons of interesting ways to explain such pointy ears, I'd just avoid any backstory for'em to include them being like that when she was born. There's plenty of religious or traditional forms of body modifications that a more spiritual race like the Hellsguard would likely perform. Just some more food for thought.

This is the image I referenced besides a the concept art picture of Merlwyb where her hair feathers out to cover her ears . I've seen the 3D renderings of her, I haven't paid much attention to the males, and yes maybe their ears will be bigger, maybe not, I doubt they will-- but my drawing's ears are no where near as extended as an Elezen's. If they were completely round, and from this angle they would have to either point or be rounded, she'd just look like a Hyur with funny eyebrows.

I want to play a Roegadyn because I want the stats, I want the body, I want the face, I want the background for a Hellsguard, I want the skin, I want everything about a Hellsguard. Drawing a picture in my style to my preference isn't bending the lore any more than anyone who's ever drawn a Miqo'te with 'cat girl' ears rather than the sleek, realistic ears that they have and it's exaggerating a tad to compare what I've done to her ears to dog ears on a Miqo'te.

I never intended to 'rustle' anyone's 'jimmies' when I drew this picture, and for that I apologize-- but I have my way of drawing and I will continue to draw that way until it suits me to change it. I do appreciate your concern. I don't intend to mention her ears any more than I have in the wiki, and I didn't make any effort to give a length in inches or the angle at which her ears pointed because it simply didn't occur to me.

My jimmies haven't been rustled. I thought it was a nice concept, and considering we have all of two Roegadyn females to go from, a damn good one at that. I think he was honestly just trying to help/give you tips. Shawnzy has a way with words even when he intends well. :3

Pointy ears, not pointy ears.. I always thought they had pointy ears.

Tev's looks fantastic as well. You did great on the Black Mage AF.

Aysun Wrote:My jimmies haven't been rustled. I thought it was a nice concept, and considering we have all of two Roegadyn females to go from, a damn good one at that. I think he was honestly just trying to help/give you tips. Shawnzy has a way with words even when he intends well. :3

Pointy ears, not pointy ears.. I always thought they had pointy ears.

Tev's looks fantastic as well. You did great on the Black Mage AF.

Thank you. I can understand his stance on the matter.

And yeah, Tev sent me a ref so I looked up the Black Mage garb and thought I'd die trying to sketch it. I might have made his face a little manlier-- won't get away with that on Highlander or male Roe faces. >.<

Yes, my intent was not to insult or tell anyone what to do, but was just pointing out certain details that are currently established within the game. Knowing Siobhain is relatively new to setting and game it's best to get things understood correctly the first time, lest someone go on believing one thing and then metaphorically having the rug swept from under their feet.

Basically, it's easier to retcon and fix things when the idea is still fresh and young, rather than later when time investment and more attachments to the character are made.

To use an old idiom, it's best to nip certain problems in the bud.