The Prince of Altea charges
More proof that I can occasionally draw! This is one of my brother’s favourite pictures – that I drew. It’s of the Marth Smash Trophy from Super Smash Bros. Melee. It did come out well, although the tail end of the cloak clearly has some problems with subtlety – and not just in my picture.
Eami sanagi etc. etc.
Um… I decided to draw the herons singing again. Leanne’s hair is slightly better, but not much. And I don’t like either of their expressions. The squiggly line down the centre is supposed to be there; it shows they’re not as directly face-to-face as the picture would suggest.
Royal and Knight… but not the usual ones
This picture is of another Fire Emblem 8 couple that is probably pretty uncanonical: Innes and Syrene. I wrote a story to go with this, too. Innes’ clothes are terrible, and Syrene’s hair. And they didn’t fit together quite right. And Innes’ steel bow is pretty hacky, and I’m not sure what happened to his quiver. Syrene’s armour was a little better.
It’s a shirt.
I expressed an interest in learning to draw cloth realistically. Dad suggested I get something – a magazine, perhaps – and pick something out of that and draw it. I picked a photo from the National Geographic that was lying around the living room, a photo of a young boy hauling himself up to look into the barrel of a giant (disused, I think) tank. Here is his shirt. Proof that I can draw well on occasion.
Is there something over there, like a Nazgul or anything?
Glorfindel returns. With bad shading… I was trying to recreate my oddly successful picture here, just with the face looking more like Glorfindel. Well, he looks more like Glorfindel… in anime land. Blah. And the shading looks like he got his face dirty. But, this picture marks the point where I first began to be interested in clothes as a part of a picture!
(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.