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✽ Athem ✽ 25 yo ✽ he/they ✽ I draw FFXIV ocs and sometimes other things ✽

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Wanting to work a bit more on it but got tired Took this painting as reference : Vertige by Denis Etcheverry

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Family portrait

My boyfriend asked for a lil' family portrait of his xiv wol family like this: (TW : french/stickmen)

So here's what I tried to do:

I struggle a lot drawing children haha but it's a good training ! It may change a bit as I work on it

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Happy birthday to Camille and Edouard !

Today, the 25th November, is the date of birth of Camille and Edouard so I wanted to do a little something for their birthday !

I tried to render the last drawings I made of them the best I could do in a short time.

Like the last drawing, I played with the gradient maps. Il like the black and white ver. too so here they are c:

Time for the rendering : Camille : 3h30 Edouard : 1h22

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Had fun discovering gradient maps with this doodle of Raji'to (my bf's ffxiv chara)

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Another portait of my ff14 chara, Ryouhei Maeda-Moui I started it on july, finished yesterday and im very proud of it ! it was kinda hard bc i tried a technique im not used to. i just wanted it to end so i sped up the last details haha And here's a 30sec timelapse :

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thoughts - 07-09-2025 - 00h30

i got a lil panick attack out of nowhere around an hour ago and drawing helped me to relax and calm down. It's thanks to these instants that I remember what makes me wanna draw in the first place.

Some people write, others make music or even sports, but what works the most with me is drawing. To put down on paper my emotions and thoughts, to make them alive.

But also by sharing it, i feel that it becomes real. There are moments during my days, weeks, months, that feels like dreams or that it was just not real at all. (I kinda feel that right now, it's a bit foggy idk, but eh, it's just some phases and thanks to that reflexion i'll have something to talk with my therapist on Monday lol)

Tomorrow is another day!

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Tried to render a bit a sketch of my bf's ffxiv chara (right) and mine (left) from April.

There's some clunky things on it but meh, it was fun to draw!

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There's been a while since i've drawn my babies! I might render them the best I can!

They are from a story I tried to make like 5+ years ago. Left is Camille Vopelli and right Edouard Vopelli, twins.

I'd like to take a time to go back and work on this story but don't know how to proceed. It's hard, I get lost everytime I try to haha

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Forgot to upload the finished version of the last drawing, sorry! It's not full of details but I didn't want to go too far and spend too much time on it

Finished on 09/2024

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Curious Cats

While painting, i got the visit of my friend's cats, they're really curious ᓚᘏᗢ

Of course i tried to pet them, but the black and white one prefered to look from the distance

And here's a picture of the unfinished drawing :