(glare)
This is a random guy who popped up in one of my dreams one night and I thought he’d make a good character for Fire Emblem 9.5, so I drew him. His hair is a grey-ish green, not grey because he’s aging, but grey because anybody can have any colour in Japanese things. His shirt is probably grey-ish as well. And he glares a lot.
My brother says this guy’ll make a good villain. Shucks. He would’ve been an interesting hero.
I’m the Mage General of Etruria, and my wife is a pretty hot archer
I decided to draw this picture for the sole reason that Pent and Louise from Fire Emblem 7 make a very good looking couple, and are obviously completely devoted to each other. I’d guess that Pent is about 30, and Louise is maybe 25 (so that means according to my reckoning, they’ve been married about 11 years). Anyway, celeb gossip aside (Pent is the Mage General of Etruria) I used both sprites and official artwork for reference, and that didn’t help me with Louise because the only artwork I could find was a tiny little image about 150 by 300 pixels or so. So, her clothing and especially hair are not nearly as good as they could be, and I tried several times. Pent came out pretty good first try. I’m fascinated by the fact that his son, Klein, looks EXACTLY like him except with shorter, blonde hair.
I’m going for my sword… you’d better take cover… not that it will help…
This is the finished version of this sketch. It’s pretty good for my first full-sized CG, considering I didn’t know how to CG shiny eyes, or shiny hair (I only found that out a few months ago, didn’t I?) or how to use the blur tool. So, the highlights are painfully blatent, on the skin, but the hand looks rather good. The hair I did by drawing streaks on the brown and using the smudge tool to rub them in. I have Adobe 5.0, I think. Because I only knew about the smudge tool and not the blur tool, there are some white spots where it didn’t overlap properly, like on the back of the jaw. Then I don’t know how to draw ears still, and the tiny detail work on the swordhilt isn’t nearly as complicated as I’d like, and the clothing looks a little flat. But, all in all, it’s my first try, and it’s okay for that. I just want to say the shirt design has changed since then, and now the little stitchings are on the inside shirt which makes more sense to me.
Ooooh, it’s a boulder!!!
Whoohoo! It’s the Fire Temple! I love this picture. Link looks so good. The torches work well as well. The shading is… my best shaded picture ever. I do know the shortcomings: Link has small hands, the bottom of tunic does look like a skirt, etc. But even so, the rendition of his face (what you can see of it) is very good for me, and I think I managed to get the different colours of his clothes to look different even in pencil. There’s even some dynamicism in the pose!
My brother says this is the second best picture I’ve ever drawn.
Wh-what – Wh-who are you?
This is a depiction of Lyon encountering the Demon King for perhaps the first time. The black tendrils of shadow are coiling around him, probably whispering strange and arcane things. Lyon’s kind of scared, but he’s doing experiments in the name of peace – it’s to cure his sick father. Unfortunately… well, bad things happen. Poor Lyon.
I actually like this picture better than the previous one, but I don’t like that way of doing hair very much.
Nice to meet you, Eirika, Ephraim.
Lyon! The Prince of Grado from Fire Emblem 8 gets some more paper time. I wanted to draw him happy because he comes across as a pretty tragic character in the game: in love with Eirika, beating himself up for being physically weak and losing to Ephraim (and Eirika) all the time, even though they’re both terrific friends and he knows it, and he appreciates it, etc. Also his father getting sick and dying doesn’t help. He’s far too sensitive to be an Emperor, but with his friends’ help, he could have made it. As a sensitive Emperor, he would have listened to his people very carefully. Instead, the Demon King ate his soul. Blah. So, this is him being happy because he doesn’t get to be often enough.
I used his game sprite for a reference for his hair again, and his clothes. His face came out a bit long.
Enter name: Ceniro
Hi! I’m Ceniro
Twip! Whap! Bam!
Aaaaah, I should have put this up long ago. Isn’t Ceniro great? I’m awful at battle sprites, but here it looks pretty good. (The movie, however, does not). Still, he looks rather cute in the talk-sprite, even if the hair is not really professional-looking. And the little sprite all on its own is a finished image. It’s just the frames of actual fighting are not.
Hey, Lartan, I got my hair done
Lartan: (sob) Why couldn’t I get that?
Cedric again, this time slightly better. At least in the hair department. Still not up to the pros.
I’m a Jeigan. Just look at my ugly old face
I can talk, though.
Lartan ended up having a big head in comparison to Cedric’s small one. I haven’t got the hang of this sprite thing yet.
This is my face
This is my face talking
Cedric, in pixel form! It’s not very good. There is a revised version. Thanks to Fire Emblem Planet (wherever they are now) for the background of the top image. I think perhaps Ceddie’s head is a bit small.