Shades of Greyfell

Almost-Half Year Update (Life & Patreon)

Good timezone to all fellow Blades!

I hope everyone's been doing good and okay, as I'm pretty much recovering myself after wild weeks of merch prep and attending both the FFXIV fan event last Saturday, and a game event at a local game shop the next day.

LIFE UPDATE

Among the four events I've tabled, this last one was the best in terms of sales (got to get back the table fee ...

Pocky Day

Something I worked on last November 11th in celebrating Pocky Day (11.11), but never got to finish it until I got a bit of strength of drawing tonight while I'm still recuperating from the events in the past week.

FFXIV Dawntrail: Brute Bomber

I guess this is the last one to grind for the upcoming XIV event, featuring the boss of the third fight in the Arcadion raids: Brute Bomber!

He's the only guy among the four combatants, so of course I had to draw him LOL. (I did prep a human version tho I'd prolly just work on it some other day)

It's also interesting how to work on rendering with a different skin color compared to w...

Chibi WoL Gurei~

How do you even chibi hahahaha, tho fortunately had some references (looking at you Nendoroids) so managed to pull it off!

I'll be handing out stickers of my boi's WoL version in the upcoming XIV event (so this is included in the grind hahaha)

Time for a taste of knuckle sandwich a la Prishe!

Kinda grinding on FFXIV merch so I have my hands full early this week (as you've seen my recent Bakool Ja Ja post) so now featuring Prishe's FFXIV look!

Patch 7.1's a week away so we still dunno why she looks like that yet, especially the design screams boss design as she was confirmed to be the first boss as "Prishe of the Distant Chains" of the first FFXI Alliance Raid in XIV!

I'v...

FFXIV: Dawntrail - Summer Bakool Ja Ja

Okay finally have Bakool Ja Ja! Although I ended up just making him summer-themed LOL

His proportions were a bit different than Zoraal Ja (who had juicier pecs hahaha) so it was interesting to draw him, especially the non-human head shapes!

This'll be one of the prints I'll prepare for the upcoming FFXIV fan event in the next two weeks~

Chibi-ro and Argent: Growth Drive -Stage 1 Highlight #2-

And here I thought Argent's taking the lead around that time, until suddenly Chibi-ro gets a burst of a growth spurt, actually catching up with Argent's still-growing height!

Decided to go with full-body pieces for this one, and boi I was on an art high working on this last night!

Will be posting this publicly probably by tomorrow or on Friday, and then hopefully can work on the Sta...

Chibi-ro and Argent: Growth Drive -Stage 1 Highlight #1-

Just a smol update at that one moment when Argent gets a bigger growth spurt than Chibi-ro, seeing as both of them are growing mostly at the same rate.

...I may have underestimated the engagement values, they're growing so huge at the moment!

Blades of Growth sneaky update: Chibi-ro caught up with Argent and even getting to grow bigger, already on a 3 feet difference lead thanks to ...

Chibi-ro and Argent: Growth Drive -Stage 1 START-

Here's the almost no-text version of the growth drive, featuring Chibi-ro and Argent! (I also included the one with text but no watermark!)

Check the posts on Bluesky and Twitter, m...

Birthday Special Extra: Hyro Remake + Style Study

I recently got Hades 2 and boi even though I haven't cleared a run yet, it's been kinda addicting (got to finish the story part of Hades 1 at least before playing it) so I had the mood to draw something Hades-style again as my last one with Gurei was what, 2021?

And I also wanted to prepare an extra for my birthday special with Hyro's old design (which unfortunately was only one, as he wa...

Birthday Special [4 of 4]: Remaking/Redrawing Gurei's past outfits

I dunno what was my 14 y/o self onto when he designed this 4th outfit, but it was pretty much Gurei's last design before I did the 5th design which most of you are familiar with (not the current one which was a revised version of that one, but the one with long sleeves yet)

It was also the peak of Gurei's hair being too spiky af but was still long until his current hairstyle.

[EDIT:...

Birthday Special [3 of 4]: Remaking/Redrawing Gurei's past outfits

Imagine I was so used to drawing Gurei with a longer hairstyle to signify a timeskip from his first look, he having a small mullet even. This was the replacement design of the 2nd one, and was prominent during 2007-2009.

Having a brighter palette of blue/white/red compared to his black/grey/red scheme from his past two outfits, I made it so to symbolize him getting rid of the cursed blade...

Birthday Special [1&2 of 4]: Remaking/Redrawing Gurei's past outfits

Decided on a drawing prompt of me drawing Gurei in his old outfits (with the second one I'm to post on Twitter later on so it's a Patreon-first!)

The first look is pretty much a simplified version of how 13 y/o me ripped off Cloud's AC outfit so might as well make a personal twist out of it.

The second look is a mix of Cloud and Auron-inspired (with a wee bit of Sephiroth for the wi...

Just a lil' something for celebrating my birthday~

I know my Patreon's still a bit bare-bones right now and hopefully I can manage to work on something a bit more consistent in the future.

So as celebration for my birthday, here have six HD + non-watermarked pieces of the past year for all members, three for my main and three for my alt! (Lowkey pretty much a free trial of what I've been posting here!)

[2024-10-09 / REUPLOAD] Okay a more proper comeback I guess haha

Realized my last macro piece was way back in July, so let's change that now.

Why not go back bigger than ever and definitely still growing even more?

[2024-10-01] Gurei

Starting off October with Gurei, been wanting to try this certain body angle and I think I managed to pull it off~

[2024-09-18] Chibi-ro

Drew this one quick featuring Chibi-ro while I needed to warm-up for making commissions last week~

FFXVI - Clive Rosfield

Posting my Clive fanart as celebration to FFXVI's PC release!

[2024-09-09] Hyro Close-up

Initially made for that 4-image art trend on Twitter recently, but here's the uncut + HD version (it's a whopping 4k wallpaper actually hahaha)

[2024-09-05] Gurei -quick piece-

Have the recently drawn shirtless Gurei I made last week as an attempt to warm up and bonk my creative slump~

FFXIV Dawntrail - Zoraal Ja

This was something I planned on doing for the upcoming FFXIV fan event I'm going to table on, started working on this last August 25th and streamed some of its lineart process!

I'm also planning to make one for the other Dawnservant candidates (Wuk Lamat, Koana, and of course Bakool Ja Ja), hopefully I can push through with them in the later months.

Hi-Fi RUSH Character Portraits (2023)

As promised, here's the compilation of my Hi-Fi RUSH character artworks that I worked on last year and I'd say they're some of my best at the time (hopefully can recreate this composition style for other series too!)

August Update!

Hey there! Hope everyone's doing alright for this month~

Activity's been a bit slow for August due to multiple IRL factors:

• On-off creative slump there again

• Personal issues (both IRL and online) that kinda struck me emotionally and mentally, making slump a bit on the worse end more

• Currently tending to my right ear (I feel it's almost recovered...

  2024-08-22 04:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Gurei Zurealis - FFXIV Endwalker Glam Edition+ -

Needed a new FFXIV WoL portrait so I ended up working on this one~ (tho yes I am still biased with Gurei's OG scars), and probably a Patreon-first HD variant with Gurei's OG hair haha

Have also decided to keep my signature at the side for future Patreon posts where it wouldn't obstruct the illustration like how my obnoxious watermarks do.

A comeback on this side hopefully!

Have a quicc comeback piece after being away on this side for so long~ (last work I did was last March)

Hopefully can get the drive and motivation to work on macro stuff again. 💪

FFXIV Dawntrail - Zekowa

Wasn't expecting Dawntrail to give me a good boi to draw LOL

While others have their eyes on Bakool Ja Ja, Zekowa here's been reminding me of my gremlin Chibi-ro (coz fellow short king too)

[2024-07] Week 2 WIP Compilation + Kinda Update

2 WIPs for now, as I've been occupied with Dawntrail + life rollercoasters for the past few weeks.

• One of the new NPCs introduced in the middle of the Dawntrail MSQ is a Midlander Hyur named Zekowa and he's been giving me Chibi-ro energy for being a gremlin somehow LOL, hopefully can finish this before or after PICOF next weekend!
  
• And speaking of, have a Chibi-ro ...
  2024-07-12 08:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Gurei Zurealis - FFXIV Viper ver. -

First non-watermarked, HD version piece featuring Gurei in Viper's artifact gear in FFXIV: Dawntrail!

Finally got to finish this piece today, just in time as I wait for the final hour before early access of Dawntrail begins hahaha

Doing that Yeah! trend on Twitter

Doing resource recycling (with my emotes) so have these Yeah's with my bois hahaha

[2024-06] Week 3 WIP Compilation

Might as well showcase some WIPs here for this week!

• The Viper-Gurei one is pretty much to pair with my Pictomancer-Hyro that I posted a while back, and is currently what I'm hopefully trying to finish before Dawntrail's early access comes out next week.

• A scrapped pose idea for my Pictomancer Hyro piece, tho looking back now it actually kinda looks nice haha, proba...

  2024-06-18 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post