Ok managed to fit another one in, that leaves me with 3 more to go before 100 completed this year.
I’ve done a fair bit of Hoshido in a row, now and I’m not sure what the split is for Hoshido/Nohrian left, but pretty much all the playable cast are the enemies in each other’s routes so it doesn’t really matter I guess. The task may look daunting, but taking it one portrait at a time and I’ll get there eventually.
The next character will be a gen 1 Nohrian retainer.
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So Oboro is more of a challenge sprite wise in terms of colour palette. She has two different blues (hair and clothing), a white collar, two different oranges (shirt/bow and ropes), a black chest plate with sort of tan decor. I think I managed to sort of balance everything out so it worked out. The things I would revisit on this one would be her eyes, and maybe her hair shading. I couldn’t quite get her eyes to do that slight closed look she has going on.
Will you do angry face Oboro as well? With the shadow over her eyes and all. Maybe make her eyes angrier in the normal portrait, since shes known to have a resting bitch face. I think it would be cool.
I felt like I’ve done a lot of flowers and then realised most of them were either private or observation only. To be honest I’ve been contemplating a parts section that people could use for splicing things but its pretty far down on the list of submissions, however if you want to see all the flowers (F2E parts), I’ve done in recent memory, I’ll put them at the bottom of this post. (However their source sprites (excluding Mozu) are not F2E)
As for Oboro, I figured out the problem I had with her eyes and it was her eyebrows had to be changed again (because her fringe covered the part that made her look more angry), so I’ve updated Oboro and also made the angrier alt.
The next character is going to be another Gen 1 Nohrian father.
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FE 14 Fates - Oboro
So Beruka, a nice simple design, who really does dress for the part of an assassin, except for the fact that she is not an assassin. However because she is so short, you only see her cloak and her headband in this portrait, so it was a simple portrait to make. She also doesn’t use a lot of colours, so I could be a bit more free with the colour palette and use 4 tones to add some character to her hair.
Alright another Nohrian is down. I think in general I like the aesthetic designs of classes in Fates over Awakening. There are still some oddities and fanservice bait, but overall they look like they’d feel better than some of the weird designs from Awakening.
Also yes, its definitely going to take some time to reach all the characters in Fates, but if you look I’ve already done 32 Fates characters, which I think is close to 40% of the cast. I’m going to see if I can eek out two characters in the next round and finish off that 100 for 2024, then slow down a bit.
The next two characters have MyCastle requirements to recruit.
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So Silas, your first Fates Cavalier. I like his and Sophie’s cavalier armour over Peri’s and the general design of Cavaliers in Fates over the ones in Awakening (the toilet bowl collar guards?). Heading into this I was concerned about his armour, since it looked a bit complex shape wise, but in the end the thing that I struggled with ended up being his hair. So if I were to revisit this sprite it’d definitely be his hair.
Well you got the order right. With this that is 100 new character portraits I’ve drawn this year. Not all of them are public or F2E, so in the compilation image below, there won’t be exactly 100, still its a nice look back on what I’ve drawn this year.
Here is to facing a new year with a new resolve… and 60ish more Fates characters to draw. However the pool of Gen 1 has significantly shrunk.
The next character will be a Gen 1 non retainer
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So Fuga, was relatively straight forward, especially since I had done the bead necklace before on Rinkah, so the main focus was his face likeness, hand and earring. For a shirtless guy I still managed to use pretty much the entire colour palette. The thing I was most unsure for Fuga was his hand. His fingers and hand look huge in his portrait in Fates, so when I decided to draw his hand here, its not quite as big. If I was to revisit this one, I’d probably look at his eyes again
Izana at face value looks simple, however he does have a lot of colours used in his portrait (make up, apron cloth thing, jewelry decor, hair, under shirt), so there was a bit of adjusting to work out his colour palette. Other than that, I think the thing that bothered me the most was working out his talking frames. If I revisit Izana, I’m definitely looking at his talking frames again. Side on portraits are always a bit awkward to create speaking frames for.
My year in portraits (not including alts and private/observation only portraits) in no particular order or grouping;
Yeah, some months ago I also did a shirtless character that still managed to use the entire color palette, and making talking frames for side on portraits can be a bit difficult to do, I mainly only make them if it either fits the design or drawing it in other way (like more centered) will make it more impossible to fit the entire design.
The last non Corrin Fates Royal. Overall I’m pretty happy how this one turned out, although I had to shrink the portrait by one pixel in height for insertion. Her head turned out slightly larger than expected, but I think its because of the headdress. I did skimp out on the little detailing on the back of her headdress, but thats because moreso there isn’t a lot of space there. I’ll probably get around to doing her Mysterious dancer alt soon too.
So first sprite for the new year. It still feels like Hinoka got the shortest end of the stick when it comes to royal retainers across both Hoshido and Nohr. I wonder though, if its more of case (based on what I recall/heard) was that Kagero was going to originally be the older Hoshido Female royal and not Hinoka (this probably was changed because then, she wouldn’t contrast Camilla as well as current Hinoka does), which would of meant someone would of gotten current Hinoka as a retainer probably and maybe one of the Hoshidan royals wouldn’t of landed both Azama and Setsuna.
Next character will be a gen 1 female non retainer (there are only 2 left)
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Hinoka’s other retainer. It’s been two years (Cloud) since I last did a sprite where the character’s back is facing the front. I think this time it worked out better, more so because Setsuna’s hair isn’t as extreme to draw and her pose is a also a bit easier to draw too. Overall pretty happy with how it turned out, I had to sacrifice some small details on her headdress thing and her collar, but thats the nature of the smaller GBA style sprites vs their larger 3DS halfbodies. Her hair looks a bit bigger than regular characters, but thats because her pose has her hair sort of leaning outwards. If I were to revisit this one, I’d probably redo their clothing.
Unfortunately you lost the coin flip here. Here is an amusing self fact. In 3 years I have drawn 3 different Annas, each one is a different one of Kozaki’s 3 Annas. So I guess you get the Anna retrospective below. My approach to some things have changed in 3 years and you can see the different in shading styles and proportioning of body parts. Although some of the colouring maybe be due to a result of palette limitations.
The next character will be a gen 1 male Nohrian (there is only 5 left I think and only 12 gen 1 left overall). I may see if I can fit in Mysterious dancer alt for Azura in while I’m at it too.
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With this, I’ve have created Anna’s first 3 playable appearances and Kozaki’s three versions of Anna now. Overall I think this one’s hair probably turned out the best even though its only 3 tone. She does end up using a lot of colours (her coat, coat clasps, top, glove, hair) so I had to get creative with the colour palette again, which is always a challenge and joy. I had to simplify some details on her though as I couldn’t quite work them out on a smaller scale (the flower pattern trimming on her neck clothing and the gold chain connecting the cloak clasps for her cloak). I did forget to do the black strap as well though. As for the hand, I did get a bit lazy and copy and pasted it from my Awakening Anna because the hand pose was the same. If I were to revisit this one, I’d probably take another shot at the missing details from her clothing again. I also have done a handless alt or her here as well.
Anna Retrospective below; (FEH Anna (CCC Submission), Awakening Anna, Fates Anna)
As a resident Anna fan (my favourite Gen 1 unit in Awakening and “waifu”), as well as the character I killed Sombron with in Engage; I dare say you’ve captured Fates Anna’s likeness and expression perfectly!
I forgot about her 6 finger issue with her Fates art. While I think it would be fun to do some more different Annas, I think I’d get bored of using reds a lot quite quickly. Maybe I’ll do some more Anna’s somewhere down the line and you could do an an Anna multiverse.
With Jakob I’ve completed Corrin’s retainer group, with Kaze being literally the only Hoshidan in it. The next character is going to be another gen 1 Nohrian retainer.
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With this, all of Corrin’s personal retainers have been done. Jakob also surprisingly uses a lot of colours in his colour palette (hair, white shirt and crevat, black vest and gloves, purple trimming and hair tie and the blue gem), so there was some creative colour palette juggling again. I’m mixed on how his hand turned out which is why I have made an alt without his hand as well. Otherwise his hair would be what I’d revisit next as well. His hair looks more white in Heroes, but his Fates portrait definitely is grey hair.
So my time is getting a bit more stretched this time of year, so progress is a slowing down, but I think its also healthy to take your time with sprites as going away and coming back to them or not rushing through multiple steps makes for an ultimately cleaner looking sprite. I’ve also been contemplating drawing a few non Fates characters once Gen 1 has been finished as well, but we’ll see how I feel when that comes around.
With Arthur completed, thats three sets of Royals and their retainers completed, so check their little compiled groups out below.
The next character is going to be a gen 1 male non retainer (I think there is only 2 left so, you have a coinflip here).
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Elise’s other retainer, the All Might expy, the hero with the worst of luck. I think character wise he has a fun design. Even though he is essentially design wise a All Might, American Comicbook hero expy, it makes him standout as a character in the otherwise grim medieval aesthetic Nohr have going on. It does make for a challenging colour palette as he has his blue undersuit, the red/brown armour highlights and leather, the green/grey armour shading, his pearly whites, blonde hair and light blue eyes. I had to sacrifice the blue eyes as there just wasn’t a tone available in there for them. Overall I’m pretty happy with how he turned out, just wish there was one more tone available for his eyes.
