CT - NRJ Ultimate Sketch Dump

CT Drawings spanning from 2014 to 2017. Earliest sketch - 1A (November 2014) / Most recent sketch - 13B (January 2017)

Point EXP Tally (Made a separate doc for the point count because it's a lot LOL)

Points Earned:
Section A - 10,300 EXP
Section B - 10,280 EXP
Section C - 7,520 EXP
= 28,100 EXP
x3 (Divine Roc Feather)

==84,300 EXP weeeeeeeeeeeeew

38,009 to Pugilist  _{.........W-wow. I didn't think I was going to hit level 99 so quickly 8'D;;;;;;;;;;;}
46,291 to... WAIT LET ME THINK ABOUT THIS--- THIS IS GOING TO JUMP WHATEVER CLASS TO LEVEL 45 INSTANTLY HOLY SHIT.
EXP to Light Summoner please~
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Man. Compiling everything together like this makes me realize how much I actually drew for this group. It hits me more just thinking about how this isn't even everything extra I have in my folders.

...But Dang now I have to give context to what each of these doodles are. //HURPS// Okay, but just to get things out of the way, the dump was made in 3 sections because SAI is a butt and I can't go past a certain canvas limit LMAO. It was also a lot easier for me to do the math sectioning it out like this. Naturally all the art and doodles are completely out of order date wise since I set things out like this. 8'D

Block post ahead sorry about that. |'D

Section A
1 - One of the earliest concept sketches for Namnco before I joined CT, specifically with him being a hume. I was deciding between two races for him, and obviously lalafell won me in the end. x'D
2 - Earliest event sketch for the guy... Oh god the proportions in this are so bad. x'DDD This was for the 2015 Summer event in specific. You'll also notice that the lines I was making for most of the sketches in this section are pretty solid compared to my later sketches since I was still making use of the pen tool at the time. I use a round brush tool for everything I do now. @ u @
3 - Someone asked me to draw an older Namnco. This is probably him past his 30's, and I can honestly see him adopting his dad's mustache somewhere in the long run. x'DDD
4 - Original sketches of Namnco's family. His dad had a completely different look back then alongside a pretty sad name, whereas the orange in his mom and sisters' hairstyles were of a different hue slightly. Also ended up changing his mom's hairstyle in the final version because I didn't want her to have the generic hair braids that foreshadow anime mom death even if as early as then I already knew she was going to be a goner storywise LMAO.
5 - Namnco's Hume uncle. He was adventure friends with his parents and retired as a farmer with them after sustaining an injury that made him lose one of his feet. Drew both a young and old version of him to show how the guy was Namnco's overall inspiration in terms of how he treated his own appearance as he got older.
6 - This was the first sketch I did of him back when he got burned by the fire spectre of Mission 5. Wanted to show how the ordeal affected him appearance wise since he wouldn't be able to pull up mohawk the way he usually does now that one of his arms were inactive.
7 - Bard Namnco. 'Nuff said. x'D
8 - Actually a pretty old sketch compared to the previous ones seen before it. More or less people were talking in chat about OC's and what vehicles they would drive, and this was the first thing to pop in my head. x'DD So what if he's too short to drive a chopper. He totally would own one LMAO.
9 - Okay, this isn't a drawing so I didn't count it for points, but it was a funny connection I made with a few others during an rp set at the 2016 Meion Flower event. x'DDD
10 - A little comic based off a scene in an rp Rennir had during Mission 5. Pretty much someone asked him how many people he killed in the arena, and it was too sudden of a question that something actually snapped in him for a moment hearing it. 8'(
11 - Prompt doodles I was doing in chat. x'DDDD I got "Feeding Bunnies", "Bunny roller coaster", "Feeding Yngvarr" (wasn't specific as to who was feeding him so that's me doing it there HAHAHAHA) and drawing something based off one of the dares Namnco got during a spin the bottle game. x'DDD
12 - Characters I was considering to take in as my Secondary OC. Never really got past the headshots though. First one is an old man going through the fighter branch from the start because he's old and needs to relearn how to fight. Second one is a Gria White Mage that never really got past his race and class. Third is the son of one of my characters outside the group whom I was going to redesign to fit the world, but ultimately didn't push through with the concept.
13 - Another Character I highly considered to take in as Secondary- even came out with an app drawing. Sadly things didn't push through after getting notes on her design and since overtime I ended up not liking her art at the end. I still really like her as an idea and concept, but otherwise I don't think I'll be tossing her into CT anytime soon, especially due to being a little inappropriate to the world.
14 - A cute response doodle to dragoonwys's comic of the two meeting after how long. Yes, Namnco would go and grab hug her like that after not seeing her in years. |D
15 - With all the talk about how Namnco was too tall for a lalafell, I eventually felt the need to doodle how realistically according to their heights lalafells should be proportioned. I admit it took me a while to first comprehend how much of a difference the height difference was in CT compared to FF14, though when I did eventually Namnco's original proportions felt extreeeemely off to me. Everyone else though didn't seem to pick it up just how tall the lalafells should be though that eventually I borrowed Fortranica's Velly to more or less give a better perspective on her actual height, which is 4'3... Yeah, lalafells really aren't that small, guys.
16 - Varrant shipping. yami-izumi's Yngvarr and yaocchi's Lorrant in specific. Someone on FB wanted me to draw yaoi, and I didn't have any yaoi ships in mind at the time so borrowed the two for a nice shipping picture instead. x'DDD

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Section B
1 - AFF kid designs for Rennir and Helga if they ever have children. x'DDDD ...Well, the first two at least. The extra one on the side was a suggested combo between Joran and thesmallestjay's Andre.
2 - If I remember right, a random discussion in chat lead to me associating Namnco as Naruto and Rennir as Iruka. x'DDD
3 - Winter prompt.
4 - If Namnco were a hume part 2. Totally a big difference compared to the first "hume Namnco" sketch I made all the way back in 1A. LOL Also threw in a Rennir doodle with him since he's very much like a father figure to Namnco.
5 - Baking prompt I got. Picture is pretty self explanatory.
6 - ...Okay, long story cut short, mom took me to a drag queen show some while back, and for some reason I imagined Rennir wearing one of the outfits in the show.
7 - In FF14, I happen to have the butler outfit which looks heeeella nice on both Namnco and Rennir. Someone in chat gave me a fancy outfit prompt, so of course I ended up doodling the two in that specific outfit together. x'D
8 - Rennir in one of his FF14 oufits alongside the new haircut I got for him in game. Drew this around the time I finally entered Heavensward. @ u @ Was relating this look mostly to the time Rennir was finally out of the Arena and experiencing the world finally. He happened to get a heavy addiction to gambling at some point though, hence the dialogue. The fact is also based off how for a long while "Gambler" was the only title I had in game. x'DDD
9 - Someone posted Hanzo from Overwatch in a sexy bunny outfit and asked for a Rennir version... 'Nuff said.
10 - Hairstyle change sketches I did for Rennir based off Sabin from FF6. Tbh I honestly still want to cut Rennir's hair to look like this. 8'D Might make it a legit hair design for him down the line.
11 - Rennir's parents. Clearly you can see from whom Rennir gets most of his features from. x'D
12 - Supposedly Rennir through his adult years, from his life in the arena to going out into the world on his own. Most hairstyles are based off what I have given him in game or storywise.
13 - #SaltRennir... Okay, but seriously, brother and friends were joking in the Free Company chat that it's how they imagine him cooking in game, and then they joked that I should draw Rennir as SaltBae. x'DDD Of course it got hard to resist. 8'D
14 - AFF Rennir. Probably how he'd look once he gets a family and business of his own. 8')
15 - Was in the mood to draw Rennir as a dad so took features off one of the kids from 1B and tried to make up a scenario. 8'D Take note tho, the kid is technically not canon yet. Gotta discuss that first with Yams.
16 - Sketch and lineart pic based off a moment that happened in RP. Really wanted to show Rennir at his weakest during his visit to Ivorium prior to Yngvarr's match whereas yami-izumi's Helga showed the more softer side of her character while comforting him. I honestly would have finished this picture if it wasn't for the perspective trouble I realized I was having with it. OTL Maybe I might touch the work again, but I think I'd go and just redraw the image altogether instead.
17 - 6 u 6 ;;; ....

In all seriousness though, it's technically a finished picture, but I never got around to posting it. Decided to include it into the dump since I didn't feel the quality was up to standard for my gallery for one reason or another.

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Section C
...On a side note, if you haven't been paying attention to chat or weren't aware of things going on in CT, then this whole section should come as a surprise to most since I haven't actually posted anything Jorandre related to my gallery this past while, and truth be told, Joran and Andre are actually my first legit gay OC ship. Joran also happens to be my first completely gay character.
I personally really like where their relationship went regardless of how long Joran was being stubborn with it initially. x'DD

1 - One of the first sketches I did of Joran after posting him to the group. It was also this sketch that made me realize I drew his harp backwards on the app. @ A @ Also a wild Andre in the corner. x'D
2 - A fun doodle I did during Yngvarr and the Brigadiers' visit to the Aegyls. People found it funny how in a nutshell 3 bunnies and a dragon lady went to meet a bunch of birds. This was the first image to enter my head reading that.
3 - Jaromir; he's Joran and Juno's older brother. He kind of came out randomly when Yngvarr asked the twins in RP if they had other siblings and forced me and fort to quickly come up with something on the spot. x'D I have fleshed him out more as a character since that random discussion though, and eventually I ended up drawing a head shot to get him a proper face too. Might give him an app one of these days.
4 - Comic doodle response to something thesmallestjay drew. This was actually drawn sometime early into their ship. x'D
5 - Got prompted "Frolic" in chat and this came out. LOL
6 - I'd say this is the first legit ship pic I drew of them when things were pretty much confirmed between the both of them. I'm someone who's actually very particular with heights and proportion, and knowing how obvious of a height difference the two had, I wanted to draw a good view on how small Andre was actually compared to Joran, though without letting Joran tower him (that happened in another sketch... 6 u 6;;; ). Ended up with this sweet picture, which I admit is a bit too nice of a sketch I'm surprised I still haven't fully turned it into an artwork.
7 - A draw the squad meme Featuring yami-izumi's Yngvarr and yaocchi's Lorrant again. x'D
8 - A FUNNY CONNECTION I MADE IN CHAT ONE DAY DURING A PRETTY SERIOUS RP IF I REMEMBER RIGHT.
9 - What if Comic wherein Andre takes his mom's lessons to the extreme and ends up actually following after her completely. Also what are guns. How do you draw them.
10 - Got prompted to draw out something from an rp scene. Ended up choosing a pretty sad one between Joran and Andre.
11 - Comic doodle I made when Andre was finally taken back in after the incident in the mountains. Surprisingly this was the first thing to enter my head when Andre found out he had to be cuffed for a whole week... Well, among other things.
12 - So during a pretty serious RP with Oseike's Mjorna and chocominty's Klein, people started making jokes about the group taking Yngvarr's convertible to go shopping and save Andre. Ended up drawing the 3 as humans riding said car because the discussion got pretty dang funny and I had Bruno Mars' 24K Magic stuck in my head at the time. LOL
13 - Klein asked Joran what he saw in Andre, and this was the response image I drew to the question. There were actually other drawings included with this, but I'm contemplating if I want to render them out and put into an animatic for laughs. Kept them off the dump since I'd be getting exp for artworks twice in hindsight, and this thing is already hard to compute for. ;;
14 - Bruno Mars Joran, because having 24K Magic on repeat really didn't help me at all.
15 - This was technically my first attempt at a serious shipping picture for the two when things had started to really blossom between the two, but the load it was having on my PC was too much and I was again having too many proportion and perspective issues with it that it got too hard for me to work and continue it.
This in specific is the scene in rp wherein Joran ended up realizing Andre had feelings for him and that he too was slowly starting to grow to have feelings for him as well. He's not looking too happy in the picture though since he wasn't sure if he was ready for anything to go further and overall had personal inhibitions that were keeping him from pursuing things with anyone. Thankfully he got over that stage eventually.

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Also wow that took me forever to type out.

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