Bolormaa - FFXIV Au Ra commission

The second in a series of commissions from a regular client. This is Bolormaa, a much darker, more sensual Au’Ra, a race from FFXIV (an online MMORPG). She’s a creature of seduction and the night, though she is damaged.

The client gave me complete freedom over the pose, the background again, though this time one of the costumes from the screenshots they sent me I really liked (after painting all the gold details I may rethink liking the costume! Only kidding - this character has so many gorgeous options).

I got stuck for a while with the colour scheme. Although her skin is pale, it has a notable blue tint to go with the hair, and her eyes are red. The costume was a pink/ red tone so for the longest time I felt overwhelmed by nothing going with the red and blue. I found some artworks that had lots of blues and red-pink tones in them and generated a loose colour scheme from them, making clouds of random colours. I love painting starscapes and I’d purchased a digital kit with a whole bunch of brushes and textures. It was literally me just playing with stars and galaxies and clouds… but it was enough that it got me out of the funk and I could happily finish the painting.

I’m thinking about opening up a limited number of cheap commissions like this for December/ January where I have complete control and there are no revisions (unless I’ve forgotten a detail - like I initially forgot the scar, oops). If you’d be interested, let me know!

Painted in Photoshop

The initial sketch I sent to the client