I gotta finish Soren's reference sheet 💀

Freed from the rendering mines and I'm SO HAPPY to be sketching again. Have a little Arcadion WIP #wip #radiantsketch #xeljesal

Save a dance for me ☀️ #roguetrader #heinrixvancalox #roguetraderxheinrix #vonvalancius #sorenvonvalancius #art #ocsky

I feel so free now that I've finished that Leyendecker study 😭 working on some Arcadion artttt ahead of savage stuff next week

Save a dance for me ☀️ #roguetrader #heinrixvancalox #roguetraderxheinrix #vonvalancius #sorenvonvalancius #art #ocsky

I thinkkkk I've finished the Leyendecker study I've been fighting for like two weeks...gonna post it later to cap off my 2025 art 😌

Revisiting some of Xel'ia's Arcadion glams as we close in on savage season and honestly it's been so fun to play dress up for this raid series 🥹 #xeljesal

I have many 7.4 thoughts but most pressing perhaps is that the doom train is so SILLY but by GOD it made me laugh. And the trial is fun!!! Need to do the ex now that I'm back from vacation

People Of The Jury They're In Love-

Making a von Valancius/Heinrix playlist and sighing as I add take me to church to it It's gonna be all Florence and Hozier at this point but no one else embodies practically religious, reverent yearning like they do let's be honest

Xel is like...stupid strong. She's got a lot of survivability between her agility (drg), her healing abilities (whm), and her tanking ability (dark/pld), she really is a force to be reckoned with. Fighting alone isn't ideal -- it takes a lot out of her, both physically and mentally.

Made the mistake of trying to get painterly for the study I was working on and now I regret everything 😭 should have left it a sketch good lord

Thinking about this again as we close in on raiding season

Bright as moonlight, soft as a sigh 🌙 A little romance tarot card for my Warden, Vanya 💫 #ocsky #dragonageorigins #tabris #art #vanyatabris #DA:O

Oh, to be kissed by the sun 🌅 #ffxiv #ffxivart #wolstinien #xelstinien #estinienvarlineau #ocsky

GAH I've missed her 🥹😭

Starlight ✨ [2023] #ffxiv #wolstinien #ocsky #ffxivart

I kiss her on the nose

I gotta do a Soren x Heinrix Leyendecker study at some point, they're driving me insaneeeee

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

I wanted to see my characters and visions come to life at first -- and that remains one of the driving forces of my creativity. But also! Nothing compares to the feeling of improving at your craft, at being able to create things you could only dream of before and surpassing your previous bests.

Still playing rogue trader dress up... All I can offer are wips for now but I'm gonna pull it all together in a nice reference SOON

GAH I've missed her 🥹😭

WE HAVE TO GO BACK IN IT DIDN'T RECORD OUR CLEAR LMFAO

got kicked out of ffxiv literally as we got the duty complete screen on the third arcadion fight LMAO

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

Should be illegal to have to work on patch day 😭 gonna do the last arcadion stuff later with friends but I probably won't get to do story til tomorrow 💀

biting her and biting her and biting herrrrrr

I kinda miss the gimme cat ngl

I crave Violence 🐈‍⬛☄️ #ffxiv #ffix #gimmecat #thearcadion

god emperor's chosen and holder of the writ of trade and all that 📜🦅

Just tell me how to keep breathing whilе pretending I'm not drowning I don't know if I could I watched a door closе for good 'Cause I couldn't keep it open - I Can't Hear It Now, Freya Ridings A bad end for Sydni, remaining trapped in the memories of everything they've lost 🎨 #bexarttag #OCsky

Gotta drop the 2025 art summary now that I've finished off a piece for December! I have to say, it's been such a good year for art 😭 I made a conscious effort to be more bold with my colors and lighting this year, and I feel I really made progress in leaps & bounds! #2025artsummary

Gotta drop the 2025 art summary now that I've finished off a piece for December! I have to say, it's been such a good year for art 😭 I made a conscious effort to be more bold with my colors and lighting this year, and I feel I really made progress in leaps & bounds! #2025artsummary

Soren von Valancius give me once chance

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Commissions are BACK OPEN! ✨ Please note that my turnaround time is 2 months and any requests that come in now will NOT be completed in time for Christmas. Thank you so much! 💜 vgen.co/rbillustration

"I'll see to it personally." 🔥 #OCsky #roguetrader

Gonna finish this rogue trader portrait up later and may I say I think I cooked? This color palette has been such a headache but I am SO happy with the end result

I went into rogue trader like..."idk if my character will end up romancing anyone, she's is super iconoclast and everyone is so dogmatic hmm" I did NOT expect Heinrix van Calox to give me such bad brain worms but JESUS. They were cooking with his writing 💀

I rarely jump on trends because they're usually over by the time I get to them, but I really wanted to give the Frieren challenge a go! 🎨 #bexarttag #FrierenChallenge

Soren von Valancius ur lucky I love you because LORD these colors are giving me a headache

Xel would be dragoon/white mage/dark knight! Though in my headcannon, her brand of white magic is used in conjunction with other classes. It would be pretty rare for her to go full WHM bc she prefers to be at the forefront of things; she's much more likely to be running as DRG/DRK.

Got stuck in the airport for a few hours last night while my Thanksgiving flight got more and more delayed, so I eventually just cancelled the trip rather than be up all night. But on the plus side, it got me working on Vanya's post-Origins Antiva fit again!

On this issue of Interstellar mag... 💫💙 #OCsky #LuminaV #DnDoc

On this issue of Interstellar mag... 💫💙 #OCsky #LuminaV #DnDoc

I am inconsolable over her she's never done anything wrong ever

Working on a portrait of my space-princess-who's-not-a-princess bc I cannot wait to RP her in our next campaign 💙😭

I think a lot about the time Xel'ia and Thancred argued in the First and how they were both probably at their worst, and both said some prettyyyy cruel and uncalled for things. They make up eventually but WHEW it was acidic. Shadowbringers, am I right?

I finallyyyy sat down to start writing Xel'ia and Estinien in Reunion (yes I said I'd do this months ago but I didn't) and I have to say I am delighted by my own cat girl. She's soooo sure she can be normal about seeing Estinien again until she opens her mouth. A couple of snippets I'm fond of