warrior of light: from a realm reborn to endwalkerfinally finished this set of headshots for j&rsquo

warrior of light: from a realm reborn to endwalker
finally finished this set of headshots for j’azir! these span across seven years in my own headcanons, and a lot has changed since he was a rogue in limsa lominsa… (spoilers under the cut for all expansions, shadowbringers and endwalker especially)

anyway i worked on-and-off on these for over a month since i want to put less pressure on myself to produce art ~~and burn myself out~~ and even though i’m still not drawing as much as i want to, it’s working out pretty well so far :)

ARR (age 23-25): the simpler days of being a young rogue in limsa, where everything was new and exciting, in particular joining up with the scions
HW (age 25-26): a lot happened in heavsnward, but post-vault left him grief-stricken and exhausted, while still being in the middle of a thousand-year war
SB (age 26-28): stormblood gets interesting, because yet another war has been waged, but he’s thrown into a role he didn’t wish for, and apathy sets in quick (which didn’t last long as it’s redirected into single-minded rage…)
SHB (age 28-29): the biggest appearance change is the light poisoning, and he gains glowing freckles and eyes, and hair that’s lightened several shades… these effects eventually faded but never truly went away especially the eyes and the freckles
EW (age 29-30): …which brings us to post-endwalker, where by this point he’s gained a single blue eye thanks to the joining with ardbert (at the end of shb), and some choice facial scarring thanks to the final dance he shared with zenos