Daily Archives: February 20, 2007

Rekka no Ken: Chapter 3: Bandits’ Pride

EDIT: I figured out how to get the Astebreed OST out of the Steam files and into my iTunes. : ) Still can’t beat the final boss on Normal, though…

It’s much easier to ‘kill your darlings’ when you’ve had 6 years to realize how awful they actually are. : P …Don’t take this advice for children or anything. >.>

 

Chapter 2: Lyndis’s Legion     Chapter 4: Fire in the Castle

 

Chapter 3: Bandits’ Pride

 

“There’s an old fortress ahead that should do perfectly,” Wil reported, having returned from scouting ahead with Sain for somewhere to stay the night.

Sain shook his head. “I’m still not too sure about it. It’s a musty old tower. It’s probably horribly drafty and uncomfortable.”

Ceniro hesitated. “We can’t afford to camp out in the open tonight, not in this country.”

“I know,” Sain said, “but surely there is a better place we can go…”

“There isn’t an inn for miles,” Kent told him. “There are few villages, as well, and the people in them likely untrusting of us. A tower sounds defensible. We’ll have to make the best of it, it’s getting dark.”

“It sounds fine,” Lyn said. “No one’s expecting marble halls or anything.” Beside her, Florina nodded.

“At least it’s not cold,” Wil said cheerfully. Continue reading

Sain, the Green Knight

The goofy knight is portrayed on thin paper

The goofy knight is portrayed on thin paper

The goofy knight is portayed on thick paper

The goofy knight is portayed on thick paper

I got fed up with not being able to draw Sain, so I saved his official art to my computer, opened it, and zoomed in and then traced it. It works! Very simple method, and it has results. He looks pretty good. I had to adjust the contrast a lot in Photoshop, and that’s why it looks wrinkled. Compared to the one I drew next, he looks quite boyish.

Then I attempted to duplicate Sain’s handsome head with my own skills. As you can see, they are not quite adequate… I’ve done some analyses on this to discover where I went wrong, and it’s all in the little details of angle and so on.