Nova is soooooo soft she’s a big sweetie baby who wants pets and attention constantly and I wish I could scoop her up and snuggle. But alas 😭 (I think as a formal feral she’s still terrified of being held)

Noooo Nova jumped on the bed again a second time and Cosmo chased her off this time 😭 I was really hoping she could start to see it as a safe spot. Maybe more time is needed…

Screaming crying throwing up Nova voluntarily jumped on the bed and chose to loaf in Cosmo’s space!!! And Cosmo is letting her!!!

At ease #ffxiv

I've been messing with high key drawings for a while to understand how the values work...hopefully all of those Bato Dugarzhapov master studies are paying off...

At ease #ffxiv

Having a meeting with my principal in 5 min where I essentially grab him by the scruff of the neck and tell him to review my deliverables on time so he can stop calling me at midnight to brainstorm, I will let you guys know how it goes

I know it’s always a perspective of “the grass is greener on the other side” but my god I am so jealous of people who make a living off of art. I have so many ideas and I want to draw all the time. I would never wish corporate hell on anyone. Surely anything would be better than this 😞

I try very hard to avoid venting on TL but I had to work until 2:30 am this morning after working my entire weekend + pushing midnight days last week and I am truly just on the brink. Every day I get pushed closer and closer to the precipice and I can feel that something is going to break

Rewatching EW cutscenes and I like how Zenos at the end acts as a little cheerleader for not only WoL, but also the player. “But why does it still live? Surely it [despair] is no match for you.”

today is my thirtieth 🕯️ it is a milestone I crawled to, but one that art helped guarantee. thank you for being here to share in the woes and wonders of life — but most importantly the imagination. the stranger, the better. here's to that strangeness.

Since I adopted her 4 months ago, Nova has turned into a bigger attention hog than Cosmo…she trills all the time and after each meal (which happens 4x a day) she sits by my chair and looks at me for pets. And I have to pet her for 5-10 min before she leaves 😂

I came home from a walk and both of my cats came to greet me…Nova started to demand pets while Cosmo was loafing nearby…happy…

Warmup drawings...I don't draw Zenos often enough #ffxiv

How are folks functioning on Mondays 😭 The way my brain is just so overstimulated trying to process all that I need to do

Warmup drawings...I don't draw Zenos often enough #ffxiv

Either way I had a really fun trip and am feeling recharged! Will try my best to survive the work week and focus on some cool incoming drawings currently in the works :3

Every time I take even a short vacation, the amount of apprehension and dread I feel returning to work 😭 I just want to go home and draw

Taking redeye flight and jumping into a busy work day with client presentations, I’m going to throw up 😭

My friend and I chose to brave the wait for the Ride the Rhythm activity and for the whole hr I was looking up FFXIV dances and practicing a bit in line…except when the moment came the spotlight fell on the person next to me 😂

There was lots of love for Dancing Green this Fanfest haha it was so fun!

Trading out my remaining stickers/sticker sheet plus some postcards! My friend and I are floating around C22/D1

I ran out of WoL stickers…if anyone wants an Elidibus sticker…lmk…

The sticker trade crowd was a tad difficult to handle and I still have many WoL stickers left + a bundle of Elidibus stickers…I will see if anyone is trading near the spot tomorrow and try again

Fanfest Day 1 was so fun! Really excited for the new expansion and all of the game dev changes. Thank you to everyone who traded a sticker with me and/or accepted my prints 😊 I’m happy to send them off to new homes

everybody cheered!!! #ffxiv

Did they turn paladin into a main tank role…am I forced to main tank now…

I feel like I’ve been injected with so much energy to draw and work on my projects!!! 😭 I’m so glad I came here

Ohhh honestly I really like the Switch 2 idea, I can play on my bed and even on the go I personally can see a lot of benefit!

The art direction for Evercold looks amazing aaaahhhhhhhhh

An icy, winter world vs Halmarut’s representation of botany and life ohhhhhh this contrasting theme is so tasty!!!!!

Ice themed aesthetics absolutely tickle me pink I’m gonna explode

Ice themed aesthetics absolutely tickle me pink I’m gonna expmode

Presenting the next expansion coming to FINAL FANTASY XIV: Evercold!

God I’m so excited for the new expansion, the way I can feel life being injected back into me

Omg if I want the Scion stickers it’s via a scavenger hunt…I can’t get the G’raha sticker unless I do the Gondola photo op [screams]

The art on the convention doors was really beautiful ahh now I want to draw too 😭

Is the line for registration still long 😭

Everyone with their plushies and I feel bad I didn’t bring my Emet but I’m not risking him getting stolen a second time…

Crawls off the plane barely alive, NA Fanfest I made it!!

Looking at the calendar…it is also time to start planning for my annual once-a-year comm openings LOL oh dear there is actually much to be done!

Some unsolicited lore but my big dream when I was 14 was to table one day…and every year I just never sought out the opportunity until now, where I’m finally able to put that dream to rest. I spent the last few months focusing on it, so now that I’ve wrapped it up…what shall my next project be…🤔

And I do have some leftover FFXIV prints and postcards so I will bring them to FanFest this week (!!!) for trade!

Overall I don’t think I would try to table regularly but maybe 1-2x a year would be nice! And ideally at larger fan conventions next time (though I’d definitely have to split a table with someone…how does that work…)

In terms of which print sold well, I think it’s a tad hard to judge with the nature of this convention but the prints I expected to sell based on online popularity…did not do as expected haha but it’s not exactly a reverse correlation…

Finished the final day of tabling! Overall thoughts from a first-time tabler… I think in general it was fun - people were excited to see my prints and I really enjoyed talking about my art and the characters to people. However, since it wasn’t that busy, most of the time was…/dreadfully/ boring 😭

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

The amount of people who asked me if I had tabled/will table at ANYC and their shocked looks when I said this was my first time selling anything 😭

I have some additional observations on correlation between irl sales vs online popularity and whatnot but will wait for end of day tomorrow to share my thoughts…since all of this is so new I’m taking notes and want to be transparent on my learnings and feelings…

First day thoughts from a first-time tabling vendor: I underestimated the amount of sitting to be done at conventions…I didn’t know sitting could be so exhausting