Mestia ART

“Fanbook and Me”

For one of my university projects I was tasked to write a paper regarding a design focus I have for future, so I decided to draw Yotsuyu from the very popular MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV as well as myself. The focus of the paper was about interweaving anime fan-media and relating it to women self expression. 

“Alpha and Omega Beats”

An old piece I drew for a collaboration project for the MapleStory fan community. It was featuring two characters from the game, Kyle (Kaiser) and Velderoth, in the position of a Vocaloid (a synthesizer program with pre-loaded voices allowing composers to create songs) song “Alpha and Omega Beats”. 

“Your Adventure Log has Vanished!”

An old piece I drew for a collaboration project for the MapleStory fan community. It was featuring two characters from the game, Cadena and Illium, in the position of a Vocaloid (a synthesizer program with pre-loaded voices allowing composers to create songs) song “Your Adventure Log has Vanished!”

Multi scene redraw from this video featuring several of MapleStory’s current character lineup!

Was very excited to see the release of this preview that I wanted to have my own take on how the characters would look in my own personal style. 

Art Fight entries!

Art Fight is a digital online event featuring artists from around the world to “compete” in drawing as many artworks for other artists that involve their original characters and stories. I have participated in the 2020 edition of art fight for a while in the middle of my University work and drew these “attack” entries. 

“Your hair has grown quite long.”

Illustration for a Secret Santa event for a particular online pairing, Dimitri x Felix from Fire Emblem Three Houses! I wanted to illustrate a somewhat tender, and simple gesture from one to another.

“Birthday Surprise”

I had made a particular character with a story written by myself and a peer. Because it was his birthday, I decided to experiment with painting once more to draw him a piece.

“Sephiroth—But with a grapefruit.”

Commission work for a client. An odd request that I was more than willing to fill for—with the only context given to me was I was to draw fanart of the character Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 with a grapefruit. 

“Valentines SSR—Featuring Feryce Ryuuzaki!”

This was a piece created for an online community event hosted by myself on a fantasy-themed original story collaboration group. I had given the prompt of creating images with the style of receiving a rare card in a mobile game, and drew my original character to be the center!

Another piece for Hidden Street: A MapleStory Illustration FanZine.

In more recent years came the release of a new quest-dungeon area called Elludin. I decided to show the characters of the storyline as well as my other favourite player-class, Mercedes. In the story, the character was a bird who was a bit tone-deaf and involved helping them sing a chorus to find their mother—despite the ears of the player...

Illustration for Hidden Street: A Maplestory Location Zine!

I really wanted to illustrate my two favourite characters of all time from the popular MMORPG MapleStory as I was involved in. With the center piece being the characters and the background based of the location Ludibrium, I wanted to show them enjoying themselves.