I forgot about Gaiden with Forsyth/Lukas and Mae/Boey. I suppose another archtype that Gaiden changed was not having a regularish Jagen, something which is also shared by Fates(except for Revelations) and Three Houses. Which brings me to today’s sprite, Gunter. I think he is the only gen 1 Nohrian that doesn’t give a child, whereas the Hoshidans have a few gen 1 characters that don’t give children (Shura, Fuga, Izana and Yukimura).
Next up is another gen 1 Hoshidan Male
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So I find Gunter an interesting Jeigan. In the prologue routes he is your classic Jeigan, except unless you play Revelations, he doesn’t really continue being a Jeigan the further into the game. Design wise he is sort of an older style’d Frederick with the Great Knight armour being similar but sort of scaled down a bit. His armour uses a lot of different shades of black and grey so he did end up using alot more colours than I expected. I wasn’t 100% on how his face scar turned out, but it was difficult to sort of fit with his wrinkles and age lines, so I have an alt where he has no face scar. If I were to revisit this one, I’d probably re touch his eyes and his shoulder plates.
Finally a Gunter portrait! He’s my favourite Jagen, even if he doesn’t conventionally fit into the archetype. Conquest gives him an interesting role as a reliable chip, Shelterbot, emergency kill option, and stat backpack, especially for Corrin. His backstory is cool, too, as a sort of “Dark” Jagen, which I find fascinating.
I got carried away, no chance for a guess gang. I guess I’m a bit incensed being close to doing another 100 sprites in a year (currently on 88), but I highly doubt I can make 12 more sprites before 2025. In other news I’m on 20/84 main playable characters from Fates, so hey we’re about a quarter of the way there.
Next character is another gen 1 Hoshidan retainer.
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So Kaze, Corrin’s sole Hoshidan retainer (Felicia, Gunter, Jakob and Silas are all Nohrian). Personally ninjas didn’t feel like a equivalent for cavaliers, but they were pretty cool. I definitely rated Kaze over Saizo when I was playing Fates, but Asugi over Midori (their kids). Even though I shrunk his head and hair compared to his reference by about 2 - 3 pixels, it still looks pretty big (Puzon’s head is massive). Other than his head size, I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out though.
Nope not Yukimura, I decided to finish off the Ninja trio, which only now am I realising they’re like the Cavalier trio from FE7. It actually feels like less than 9 days considering I’m probably going to be preoccupied with Christmas day and and New Years eve.
Next character is going to be a gen 1 Nohrian non retainer. This should narrow down the guessing pool greatly.
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So since I had completed the other ninjas, I felt like I might as well finish the trio. Interesting that these ninjas share their colours with the cavaliers from FE7 (Saizo/Kent, Kaze/Sain, Lowen/Kagero). Kagero deceptively has a lot of colours, so much that I had to not add the tassels to her clothing as they are red and I didn’t have any colours left for that (let alone her hair bow which was white)). Otherwise, pretty happy overall with how she turned out.
Close, but this time its Charlotte. You know she is the first unpromoted female playable axe infanty fighter in Fire Emblem? I always felt her outfit didn’t make 100% sense, like I get she’s trying to be seductive, but she tries to act more demure to attract nobles, but her outfit sort of screams anything but. If I don’t get to finish another sprite before Christmas hits, this is the Christmas one , wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
The next character is going to be a gen 1 Nohrian retainer. Not as narrowed down this time.
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More crazy amounts of hair. Charlotte the first playable female unpromoted axe fighter. I used to think she was one of the more rather buxom characters in Fates and Fire Emblem overall. However after drawing her and looking at references, in Fates she is not actually that buxom, and its more so her outfit giving her a more prominent cleavage window. Anyhow I feel like the Fighter and Berserker outfits really run against the public image she is trying to portray (a demure, beautiful damsel, looking for a wealthy noble husband). Like it has really open arms, legs and midriff which if you go by her strength, should be really toned as hell if not muscular (I have nothing against muscular or toned women, just that it doesn’t fit what she is trying to sell herself as). I suppose the collar and shoulder pads at least hide how bulky her neck, upper back and shoulder muscles should be. Anyway, I really like how her hair turned out and was nervous about getting the armour and hands right, but I think they turned out well as well. I still think the weakest point in the sprite are her hands so there is a handless alt.
Not Leo’s retainers, one of Elise’s. Managed to squeeze in one more before Christmas hits here in Australia. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you all enjoy your festivities!
The next character is going to be a gen 1 Nohrian father.
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The first non Corrin playable knight in Fates. When I think about it, you only have Effie, Benny and Ignatius, which is still more than the two you had in Awakening. Thankfully Kozaki at least from the chest up has made easier armour to draw for the armour units in Fates (its the other uniques and Royals that have the more complex outfits this time round). Effie easily fitted into the hackbox and overall turned out well. I think if I were to revisit this one, I’d maybe look at the colours again.
Yeap, our Christmas is usually a bit toasty, which is was yesterday.
I always thought thieves with bows would be cool and sort of make sense in that they would be scouts or stealth archers (almost every one of my Skyrim playthroughs), so when Awakening gave Assassins bows, I was like ooh its happening. Then Outlaws in Fates became a thing and I was like, it makes sense and looks cool.
Anyway the next character is going to be a gen 1 neutral character (recruitable on all routes).
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Your Fates Nohrian Thief (Outlaw). There isn’t much to say about Niles, His clothing is really simple, which makes it easier to balance his colour palette. He also has a surprising amount of colours in his portrait (grey/brown skin tone, white hair, blue cloak and eyes, grey top with pale gold triming and black triangles and a pale gold clasp), but it worked out pretty straight forward. I I feel like his head is maybe slightly small, but I thought it was bigger when I was drawing the lineart, so I had shrunk it a pixel. Otherwise his pose is pretty simple to draw and I don’t really have any issues with this portrait other than maybe the eye.
I also was looking over some older frames for Captain Falcon and wanted to change them around and touch some up (plus his visor a little) so he has also been updated;
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Managed to fit in another Outlaw today. I feel bad killing off recruits, so I never choose the boots, however I know a lot of people who play I guess competitively/optimally, always go for the boots. I feel like Shura has some of the most potential interesting backstory and Hoshidan world building, but I think was kinda tacked on late (Due to lack of supports, etc). He was apparently training to be a royal retainer ninja like Saizo, Kaze and Kagero and I think if I recall correctly he was in the head family of the Kogha clan as well. Then after the Mokushu ninja killed the Kogha, then he sorta ended up on an elite ops kidnapping mission from Yukimura (Hoshido’s head strategist) to kidnap Azura). Crazy world building and connections for someone with like jack all supports and a menu choice to kill or recruit.
The next character will be a gen 1 Hoshidan non retainer.
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Your other gen 1 Outlaw… or pair of boots. What is it that they eat or drink in Fates that gives them crazy hair volume? Hoshidan males particularly have a lot of volume (Ryoma, Shura, Azama, Takumi, Sumeragi, Hinata etc). His hair was always going to be the challenge to fit into the hackbox, fortunately his pose makes it really easy. It also made his colour palette easy to deal with too, since he only shows his scarf and upper cloak which is black also black, so you only need to have spare colours for his scarf after his two coloured hair. If I were to revisit this one, I’d maybe play with the black colouring a bit and see if I can get a nicer transition in the black shades.
You were pretty close on that guess, but no cigar. I’ve been a bit preoccupied with playing Marvel Rivals with some friends, it does take me back to the OG Overwatch days, but everything is in third person instead and every character has a ton of abilities like a MOBA… You know what, it sorta plays kinda like a cross between Smite and Overwatch now that I think about it… Some of the characters and costumes have some cool designs for inspiration in there, so maybe next year I might draw a character or inspired design from there.
The next character will be another gen 1 Hoshidan non retainer.
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The actual kid from Fates and not a 1000 year old dragon or mage stuck in a child’s body. (Well Mozu is also a kid). Overall this one turned out alright. His head is actually a reasonable size this time, but his hair is kinda poofy any big, so that makes his head look a bit bigger. The blue on orange headdress thing kind of hurts the eyes where its a bit brighter, but there wasn’t space to fit outlining between the two colours. Aside from that bit I think if I were to revisit this one, I’d maybe re shade his hair a bit.
So doubling down on the Mozu guess pays off. As for listing all of the characters in Fates seems a bit excessive…
Since starting this endeavor I’ve drawn like 18 additional Fates characters and put them in the main post, I suspect in probably a few portraits I’ll probably hit the character limit again in the main post and have to move the Fates cast into their own post. Especially considering there is like 80ish characters in total in Fates.
The next character is going to be a Hoshiden gen 1 retainer.
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The villager for Fates and the first playable female one (Faye didn’t exist in the original Gaiden). Mozu at first viewing is pretty simple, however freckles, a pink flower, silver clasps and a differing brown between her cloak, hair and shirt makes for a lot of colours to try and balance. I had to sacrifice the silver clasps for the pink flower (I suppose I could of done a white flower and gotten the silver clasps). I didn’t like how her shirt turned out, but thankfully in the portrait her hand sort of covers that up.
, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
