Novak Yu

Two flying ships on a double page: the one on the left has a fish shape, while the one on the right has a turtle shape. Both are mostly made of blue colors.

In Raizh's world, The Tzin Republic is the smallest of the nations on Gaya Continent. Yet, it remains powerful thanks to the Flying Vessels, some small ships built with a "Maen Avel", a mysterious stone that makes them fly over the mountains and the oceans!

First art of 2026! 🖤❤️
Hoping to make it into a riso print

Middle guy's hat was indeed wrong bUT CHAOS WAS CONTAINED👊🐸👌 Still need to fix things as I do lineart ;A;
#art #wip

A green, purple and yellow watercolor sketch of a dragon

Dragon sketch!
#artpost

More personal project time!
About to toss a coin to decide whether or not the middle guy's ear is fine. I am this👌 close to grabbing a towel and some cardboard from the recycling pile to see if his hat is working 🤡
#art #wip

Outfits

Hilda wearing a black hoop skirt dress and a luxurious fur stole, posing in front of an ornate fireplace that is illuminating the outline of her massive heels through the fabric of her dress.

AU Hilda as a Noble Lady #FFXIV #FFXIVART #art

Digital painting of a meteor shower. In the foreground a character with large glowing wings looks into the distance

Shower

Find ways to balance them and have little goals to keep you from tipping that balance. Look retroactively at yourself and truly do what makes you the happiest. It doesn't mean you wont work, i see it more as, finding a way were work isnt actively depriving you from the one thing you care most about

But if I could offer a bit of advice, as someone who went through the same issue, look deeply at all the things you do, and see if you can organize yourself in a way where art takes as much of a priority as your game streams.

Over the time I've followed you, even when I stopped seeing your posts for years, there was one thing that I saw whenever your posts would show up. It was how you wanted to work on your comic. To me, it seemed as if you tried your best to do it, but work always came first, which made a lot of sense.

After a while, I learned that this was the way my subconscious begged me to draw, and over time, I learned to make more time to draw until everything balanced out, and I was able to do whatever else I needed to do without remorse

Even when I have free time, If I pick playing games over drawing, the entire time I have a hard time concentrating on the game because *something* is bothering me even when I can't tell very well what it is.

Don't know if this makes sense, bad english here but I hope this helps. You know how people say to listen to your body? My brain can't concentrate on games when I know there's something else I love dearly and want to do (art)

Tidying up the twenty tangents+ that I'm sure are still out there haunting me...Not fully convinced on the side window, lowkey regretting not throwing some perspective lines to make sure the orientation is right 😶

#art #conceptart

Man it came out so good!! I can almost imagine this as a leather like texture journal, the kind you can glide your fingers through the little creases and trace all the tiles 🥺be right back planting a money tree cause i NEED IT

You put into words what my brain was fighting hard to compute😂It having all kinds of the same colors IS what makes it not stand out as much. Great eye!

White is just so tempting 🥺, but sometimes it draws your peripherals to it or ends up drowning the focus point 😭. Red pretty much makes my eyes concentrate on the tree and prepares my brain to find a similar motifs in the next pieces

You've got this!

White is elegant(im a white background sucker), but it doesn't make me focus on anything in particular. Although that might change depending on how it's rendered 🤔 such hard choices!

Woah, they are so beautiful! It's hard to pick, but if you go by context and what you wish to draw attention to... say, the tree in the middle, red immediately draws my eyes to it. The 2nd one to me highlights an earthy vibe, kind of highlighting the "nature" of your project

Happy Halloween! except to the ghouls that thought it was fun to make me sick >__>

While the saints are away, the Eorzea Symphony of imps practices. Be glad we can't hear them

#art #ffxiv #halloween

Having to redo persp lines+base sketch for the fifth time because you felt that one line wasn't hitting right. Just lemme do lineart 😭

#art #lineart

Gpose has always looked so intimidating, but trying it with the new photo mode was fun 🥺 got me all giggly
#FFXIV

It's actually the same patch length as the past expansions, excluding endwalker. What I found interesting is how EW, while longer, had less set up quest for DW unlike any other expansion (EW had 3, others had around 14-19) Either way it does feel short, I had been thinking about it a while ago...

You can always dial it down and start small, similar to IRL conventions. Try it out on a smaller scale as a one day event and see how you feel afterward. Making something big sounds fun, but with that comes all the stress from each little thing going bad.
You can do this, but take care of yourself!

Xie Lian 🌱
#tgcf