[david_lital]

Yo'n stuff! I'm dL, from Midgardsormr (I'm known as davidlital over there xD)

I've been playing FFXI on and off for about five years, and it's been one of my major sources of inspiration over the years. I often used the models in the game for gesture studies, as well as references for interesting details in costuming and armor design. What really draws me to the visual style of FFXI is it's "fantastic naturalism", if I can call it that. The designs within the game maintain an air of functionality and form while still being magical; the armor and weapon designs look like they could actually work in real life, even though they're very ornamental.

That being said, this topic will be a small collection of some of the sketches, studies, and illustrations that I've done over the years inspired and cultivated from FFXI. I hope you enjoy what you see as much as I've enjoyed creating making these works ^.^

To start off, this was one of my first armor studies I did from the game. I'd recently switched to a low-level thief and had been building him up over several levels, and finished working with him at level 37. Somewhere in there, probably around level 30 or so, I did this armor study while camping some NM. I've always liked it when artists included the "unseen" bits of armor into their characters, such as the earrings and cloaks. So, here's my thief, complete with an empress hairpin, noct gloves, noct doublet, noct brais, bounding boots, and two wing earrings. I forgot the cape and the necklace I was wearing at the time, and forgot to illustrate them when drawing this.



More to come in the future, including signature images, button designs, and cute stuff!

[david_lital]

Yo! Been a little bit, thought I might post a new pic!

A little backstory here. When I hopped on my dark knight recently, I decided to give him some of the best gear money could buy for a level 37. This included centurion's scale mail, empress hairpin, bounding boots, royal squire's mufflers, beetle earrings +1, spike necklace, nomad's mantle, mercenary captain's scythe...and a pair of bastokan subligar. Now, I'm going to admit here, the amount of damage I was able to do was astounding, and I didn't take too much hate for it; I played the job pretty well. However, there's something humiliating about playing a job class hell-bent on mass mob murder...but my bare thighs are showing beneath the flaps of my scale mail.

So. To further that idea, I drew this:



I was so glad when I could upgrade my legs xD

More to come!

[david_lital]

Alrighty! A new piece!

This is a button-sized sketch I made. I plan on coloring it and making it into a button for consumption at local conventions. Should be neat!



The figures are dressed in the Christmas attire (Starbringer or whatnot). The reason being is that, on Midgardsormr, there's a neat player named Xmasgirl who is always dressed in the dream gear. Every now and then I'll join Xmasgirl and bring the cheer to our local Jeuno community. It's a lot of fun.

So, on the right is Xmasgirl in the dream robe, dream boots, dream hat, and that nifty dream bell. On the left is yours truly, in a dream robe, dream hat, evoker's bracers, evoker's spats, sprinter's shoes, and wind staff. The red/green color scheme is fantastic ^.^

More to come in the near future!

[treelo]

Awww, I want a cute little mithra like that. I'm assuming that is supposed to be a stocking in the top right, because it just looks like some poor soul has decided to hang themselves. Which isn't a very festive thought.

[david_lital]

treelo, on 30 October 2009 - 11:45 AM, said:

Awww, I want a cute little mithra like that. I'm assuming that is supposed to be a stocking in the top right, because it just looks like some poor soul has decided to hang themselves. Which isn't a very festive thought.

Actually, that's the shoe of the Dark Knight character in my second post. I happened to draw them on the same page, so...xD