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I am finally done with this o|-< - "Blorbo thoughts through art memes : Lana edition"

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I remember seeing a tweet where someone was asking "If one of your DnD OC could meet and/or travel with Bell's Hells, how would it be ?" And I've been obsessively thinking about Qalaari or Spriggan or Rena & Lana or Latù meeting them....

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I tend to often draw Qalaari looking all "serious business" but she is honestly a(n unwilling) killing machine wrapped into the warmest softest marshmallow so she definitely smiles around people more often than not 😊

Thank you all for your kinds comments about her too 👉👈 it always warms my heart to see people enjoy her ;;;;;;;;;;

My babygirl Qalaari in FFXIV ! She'd most likely be a half Xaela, half Amalj'aa !

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Githyanki doodling on post-it notes that I cleaned up a lil bit Lae'zel from memory on the first (im only happy with the profile tbh), and Anma and Mitas on the second (It was SO easy to fit them in BG3 lore it's insane... I even have a whole storyline roughly figured out for them and it came together in like 30 minutes on my walk home from work.) I don't have any energy to draw nowadays except on post-its, but it's better than nothing.

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A small Qalaari doodle to explore some fits options for when we were "invited" (held hostage) in the manor of a Vampire Lady (who happened to be the grandmother of one of our group member :^)c delicious drama ensued... for multiple sessions...)

I ended up going for the left one as it was closer to Qalaa's comfort zone. The right one was more planned for if we ever managed to get to "the ball scene™ " but sadly we kicked ass too early for that and managed to escape/

(I say escape but we, somehow, managed to kill the elder vampire lady... it was... a difficult fight.)

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Please perceive my daughter..... I love her so very much

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Took the time to finish Rena's page to go alongside Lana's uvu

Through drawing all of this I had the realization that nowadays I struggle a lot more to draw Rena "quickly" - which is the complete opposite of how things were years and years ago when I first started developing her and Lana (back then it has soooo much trouble drawing Lana 'like in my head'...)

I think one of the reason for this is that I am now a lot more... specific about how I want Rena to look ? And getting her vibe right is. So. Fucking. Hard. x,) Hopefully it'll become easier again as I get used to drawing both of them more again...

(This art meme was made by shuuzaar !)

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Realized I hadn't posted these slightly cleaned-up doodles of Baraanka :>

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I participated in a wee Art Secret Santa with a few close coworkers this year. Here's the gift I made ! It was for someone I don't know THAT well so it was really fun to have an added layer of investigation to find what to draw for them 🕵️ (I also put Qalaari in there bc it's the "Red Gang")

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- Sleepless Night·s - Mitas has recurrent insomnia ever since he was a child. One of the reason he picked up sports (and cooking, and making/playing a bit of music) is to occupy those idle hours in the night. When he was young his older sister would often stay up with him to look at stars and talk his feelings out during those nights (it’s after one such conversation where she tried to help him calm down from an anxiety/emotions surge that she gave him the nickname ‘stardust’ which is really close to his heart....)

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Funny romance charts - FFXIV OCs edition (empty chart)

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My question is about Qalaa! She’s got an amazing design in every iteration so I wanted to ask what were your main inspirations for her? Also could you tell us a bit more about her story?

Hi there ! Thank you so much for your kind words about my babygirl ;A; !!! Everything started circa 2014 when I started to play Wakfu again with @shuuzaar and decided to make a red-skinned osamodas. She also now exists in multiple universes (a minotaur or tiefling in DnD, a demon/oni, a dragon, etc etc).

It wasn't a very conscious & willed thing but since I put a lot of 'myself' into her (more than all my other OCs, who have more... handpicked bits) so her build started to grow towards the larger / bigger side naturally. I'm definitely not as big, nor tall as her though (I am short and she's like, 209cm tall or sth).

Her general themes / traits are : A kind, soft & gentle soul in a body that is 'made' for killing / hurting easily because of it's size and strength. Feeling inadequate / dysphoria / struggling to accept her body because it doesn't fit what she likes (petite and feminine girls). Struggle to control flares of emotions & physical strength. And being very, oh so very gay about girls and feminine people (this is a very important part ok).

In time I've been slowly collecting pictures of athletes and people that make me think of her and trying to refine how she looks in my head ! Though, like many of my characters, the specifics tends to change depending on how I feel on the moment... sometimes I want her nose a bit more like this or like that... don't be surprised if her gallery isn't the most consistent in terms of facial features :,^)

One thing that definitely DID inspire me for her though are the marks on her body ! They are inspired from scarifications of the Chambri tribe in Papua New Guinea https://bodyartforms.com/blog/sepik-river-scarification.asp)

As for her story, well, my current DnD group where I play her has given me a lot of opportunities to flesh it out a little more >:^D I'll try to keep it short.

Qalaari was born from an unplanned pregnancy. Her mother, Aamira Molandine, was someone with a very weak health due to a blood curse running in her family (more on that later) ; but despite her health she decided to keep the child and see the pregnancy through. Her father, Temhos Croquelune, is a member of a tribe of "beast folk" (this is tweaked and adapted to fit in various universes when I can) and, while enamoured with Aamira, was really not ready to have a child, and to potentially have to raise it alone should Aamira die while giving birth. After yet another argument with her about getting an abortion for her sake and the sake of them both, Temhos ran away during the night and never came back.

~6 month pregnant Aamira found refuge in the Croquelune tribe under Temhos' sister roof, Olgha (who also had a crush on Aamira & both her and her brother tried to court her). The travel took a heavy toll on Aamira's already weak health and yet she somehow miraculously survived the delivery of her (very) big and healthy baby girl Qalaari. Qalaari was raised in a very loving home by Aamira and Olgha, but developped a big resentment towards her blood father, especially since after giving birth, Aamira remained a very sickly person with a broken heart. Aamira died when Qalaari was 13, which kind of forever scared her and worsened her struggles to control her emotions.

Remember the Cursed Blood thing ? Well basically, it's a curse that either 1) eats you alive if your body is too weak to handle it (Aamira's case, which is why she had a weak health from the beginning) OR 2) enhances the physical potential of your body, but tends to make you lose control and become little more than a beast (Qalaari's case). So yeah... she's trying to get better but she has a lot of healing to do with her inner child and that's not easy... especially with the layers of self hatred the cycles of her life are bringing in :^) !

EDIT : I FORGOT TO ADD that Qalaari is currently exiled from the Croquelune tribe. The circle scar on her clavicle is the mark of the exiled, who are sent away from the tribe for 3 years before they can come back. The practice exists to try and get people to grow 'outside of the community' before coming back in it as a slightly different person. The once-exiled people are reintegrated in the tribe when they return if possible. Olgha, Qalaari's aunt-in-law and adoptive parent, has a mark like this! This exile is definitely not the best solution ever but it's been done for so long in the tribe that it's hard to yknow... challenge the system of it.

Anyway if you've read to this point, thank you for listening to me fail miserably to keep this short... Qalaari is one of my dearest OC, so it's really hard not to gush about her in a 3 hours TED Talk everytime...

Thank you for this kind ask ! Hope you'll have a good day :> !

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Teeny tiny Lana doodles bc I’ve been thinking about her again... I recently has a ‘oh’ moment and ‘got’ her and it’s made thinking about her (and Rena) SO much more fun and interesting :^)c

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Feeling bits and pieces of Lana & Rena's story fall into place these past weeks/months since I've started to re-think about them is so satisfying.... I really wanna find something better than the first/old version of their dynamic ! (I don't blame young me, I didn't know any better back then haha) There's still a lot of weird spots and events & changes to figure out (especially their order of arrival) but it's so so fun thinking about them again aaaaa, I missed my messy girls so much

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I made Fenqor in Baldur's Gate and I HATE how right I was about how beautiful he'd be... HE'S SO PRETTY SO HANDSOME I HATE HIM !!!! My flamboyant asshole child... (old art for reference... initially they were a sylvari elementalist in gw2 !)

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id like to know abt taki they look so cute 🙏🏽

Hi there ! Oh man, I haven't thought about Taki in so long !

He is a 'zoan' which is the fancy name I found for humanoids with animal features in my world haha. Taki specifically was part monkey, he has larger-than-usual ears, a long golden tail & prehensile feet (possibly fur here and there too). His design was very heavily inspired by character from a manga I used to read back in the day which, in french, was call "666 Satan". I think in english it's called O-Part Hunter??

Taki is one of Felyx' close friends. And especially one he can be a bit of 'a stupid lad' with, which y'know, we all need a friend like that hahaha. He is also the emotional counterpart to Lily, a person that is very emotionally closed-off and didn't get to learn about the little things in life... Taki helps her connect all of this and learn how to feel and understand emotions... Which is a recurrent pattern in characters I make I realize years later. I tend to make very emotional intuitive & intelligent boys & male-presenting character while making very harsh & emotionally closed girls & woman-presenting characters x)

Sorry there isn't that much more meat to him than that. He is the byproduct of a time where I thought my head-world would be centered on Felyx (but is now much more centered on Rena and Lana, while Felyx remains an important part of it !)