Is it finally time?
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Unfortunately, its not time yet for Opheila. I made a conscious decision after doing Selkie, Forrest and Ignatius in a row to not do so many same coloured hair characters in a row (in this case blondes).
While also being sick I managed to finish another steam backlog game, one that I picked up because I happened upon its OST one day ages ago (2nd game I’ve picked up just based on randomly hearing it’s OST). Its called OPUS: Echo of Starsong (a short 8-10 hourish game thats sorta more like a short novel with some gameplay elements) I enjoyed it a fair bit and I kind of want to draw a character or two from there maybe. Its a Chinese indie game that is a bit anime inspired (reminds me a bit of CoMix Wave Films (Weathering with You, Suzume, 5 Centermeters per Second and Your Name), it was interesting because I originally had it in Jap dubs until I noticed some of the Chinese influence and concepts and then swapped to Manadarin dubs (but I think if you play with what ever you prefer, it will still be fine all the same).
Anyway since we’re down to like 7 gen 2 characters I won’t differentiate based on faction, so the hints are purely on gender only. (FYI there are only 4 Females and 3 Males left).
The next character is going to be Female.
I’ve updated the Fates post with the below entry under F2E - Fire Emblem (FE Fates Saga - FE 14 - Nina)
FE 14 Fates - Nina
The last Fates archer. Nina like her father ended up using a lot of colours, although hers were more varied (red and black cloak, white hair, dark blue under shirt thing with yellow trimming, white top and black glove things). So balancing her palette was another challenge again. I think besides her hands, her headdress thing was the hardest thing to sort of translate. Her hands also were a bit hard, mainly because I was staring at them a while before I realised what pose they were really doing. I had considered not doing them, but they were crucial to how her cloak was shaped and moving (she’s pulling her hood back in her pose), so they’re there to stay. If I were to revisit, its probably the hands and the headdress.
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You know looking over the class breakdowns, there are a lot of cavaliers in Fates, despite having a faction that has no horsemen. There is 5 of them (Xander, Siegbert, Silas, Peri and Sophie) I suppose the Hoshidan equivalent would of been either Myrmidons or Ninjas, but they only get 4 of each (Ryoma, Hinata, Hana and Hisame or Kaze, Saizo, Kagero and Asugi).
The next character is going to be Male.
I’ve updated the Fates post with the below entry under F2E - Fire Emblem (FE Fates Saga - FE 14 - Sophie)
FE 14 Fates - Sophie
The clumsy cavalier. Unlike her father she has a lot more hair volume, so it pretty much stretches from side to side on the hackbox. Another thing was I took the hand out of her pose because she is using it to hold onto her lance in her portrait in Fates. Because I can’t fit the lance in here I decided to remove it. Her pose is very side on though which leads to a very narrow look. Since she is also missing the cloak her father wears, she uses less colours and her design is also a a bit more simpler too. I think if I were to revisit, I’d may be add the hand.
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IDK why, but I always confuse Sophie and Cynthia. I guess because they’re both Gen 2 female cavs in 3DS. Neither of them stand out to me much as characters.
Also, you can’t keep teasing us with Ophelia, dude!
Cynthia is a pegasus???
also Cynthia does hero stuff she’s more like Percy tbh lol
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Nevermind. I’m dumb. Maybe I got confused because of the “pega-pony-princess” line
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PEGA
IT’S RIGHT THERE
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I think out of the characterizations of the Royal kids, I think I like Shiro’s the most. The idea that he wants to overcome his dad through sheer effort and weapon triangle advantage rather than his inheritance (he only takes on Raijinto if everyone is really desperate such as in Heir of Fates) is pretty based.
I’ve also gotten largely over COVID now, just dealing with post viral coughs so I’m out of quarantine
The next character is also going to be Male
I’ve updated the Fates post with the below entry under F2E - Fire Emblem (FE Fates Saga - FE 14 - Shiro)
FE 14 Fates - Shiro
Another Fates Royal, personally I think I like Shiro the most out of the Royal Kids. Design wise, his outfit is simple, but he does require a lot of colours again, actually more than his father with the addition of a black/dark blue headband, chest plate and shoulder trimming. What is fun about his pose though is the hand on neck pose he has. Which I was happy to fit into the hackbox, that was fun. I think the weakest part however is the armguard clothing on his arm though. If I were to revisit, that part is probably the bit getting looked at again.
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Very good job with balancing the palette on Nina! I imagine this would make it hard to recolour her to have tanned skin like her old man, but maybe I’ll give it a shot anyway.
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I think Nina’s skin can recolour easily, the only thing to be adjusted would be the clothing yellow trimming, everything else I don’t think uses her skin colour from memory (although the white does use the darkest skin tone, but Nile’s darkest skin tone I think is the same as the regular darkest skin tone) that and you’d have to use the white from the hair to add in the white to her eyes (they’re using her skin tone at the moment).
We’re down to the last 3. I had actually decided the order I’d draw these characters in from Midori, so I guess we’ll make that the game. What is the final order of characters?
I’ve updated the Fates post with the below entry under F2E - Fire Emblem (FE 14 Fates - Kana (M&F Versions))
FE 14 Fates - Kana (M&F versions)
So I decided to do both Kanas in one go, mainly because their Fates portraits aren’t actually too different from each other and aside from some slight facial differences and pose differences, they’re pretty much the same. I was torn on what colour to make their hair. I looked at the different portrayals of the Corrins and Kanas and decided on the slight beige/grey thing that Smash F Corrin and Male Heroes Corrin are depicted with. Aside from that, both have a lot of hair volume it makes their heads look huge. I think if I revisited them, I’d maybe add one more tone for their scarves. I originally thought I’d geta bit of shoulder in and accounted for that, but didn’t they didn’t end up fitting after drawing their scarves.
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hmm my guess is that the order for the last 3 is
Mitama → Siegbert → Ophelia
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kanananaaaa
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Hopefully you know how much this is appreciated especially in the self randomizer where most Fates characters at the beginning
Didn’t have any portraits . (because of you I think we’re almost fully done with all the fates so thanks your name is attached to almost all the characters in Fire Emblem Fates)
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Well I actually finished Mitama, two days ago, but decided to put off posting her until the next portrait was ready as well to pretty much state the final order. Something I noticed was that a lot of gen 2 Hoshidans have their arms/hands in their portraits, you’ll notice it more when I post the compilation of the main playable cast of Fates once the last portrait is done.
Looks like one of the ones everyone has been anticipating has finally come to as well.
I decided for the last 3 portraits I’d draw them in reverse release order of when I drew their parents (Xander being 1st, Owain being the 2nd (yeah I know its not Odin, but technically he is Ophelia’s dad), Azama being 3rd).
I’ve updated the Fates post with the below entry under F2E - Fire Emblem (FE 14 Fates - Mitama and Ophelia)
FE 14 Fates - Mitama
Mitama, is an interesting design. So both her and her Father have star shaped pupils, but thats obviously a bit too hard to portray accurately at this small of a scale, but the reverse colouring of her pupils still conveys it. Which is similar to how I did the Mark of the Exalt eye for Lucina Alts (coloured that eye differently). Another interesting thing about Mitama, is that she can’t get her “canon” hair colour legitimately in Fates (non of her possible Mothers can have that shade of pink that is used in all her non Fates portrayals). Other than that I think the thing I drew the worst for her was probably her hands, which is why there is a handless alt, but then it makes her look a bit wierd since she isn’t looking at the card she is writing on. I did try a different pink to Soliel as well to differentiate her hair, and I think it turned out alright if a bit pale.FE 14 Fates - Ophelia
So I had completed Mitama first and then noticed that she has a similar head and shoulder pose to Ophelia, so she was pretty straightforward to start after doing Mitama. her design was actually surprisingly simple and also a bit more buxom than I remembered. Like Nyx they both have intense hair volume except she is blonde (I used my Lissa’s hair tones) which made it a bit harder to shade than Nyx’s. She ends up using less colours than Odin, which was nice for the colour palette. The only thing really that tripped me up was I completely forgot about her eyebrows after doing her lineart for her hair and body, then decided if I tried to raise everything like 2-3 pixels to fit them in, it would throw out the proportions. Still I think she conveys Ophelia well enough.
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Yay!!!
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I gave a shot to try and add the eyebrows myself. I think it looks slightly better… but not perfect.
It’d be cool to see you come back to this portrait sometime and do the touch ups yourself. Though, you should do it after a long deserved rest. All your stuff is amazing!
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If we’re doing edits here is a version of Fates Anna more accurate to the game!
I gave her SIX fingers lol
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Thank you, I might actually need specifically this for something one day lol
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Hope Xander doesn’t kill Ophelia by accident for leaving Siegbert at last
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