Ah super intended chandlers! Cant wait for a unforgettable luncheon!
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So I managed to get the 10 sprites for Spritetober completed, with one more day to go. Originally I was contemplating for this pair to actually release a trio and do Yang as well, but I decided that Blake alone was probably enough. This year alone I’ve drawn 93 portraits. That’s pretty crazy, the past two years I was rushing portraits out the door to make it to 100 by New Years, so maybe I’ll slow down, take longer breaks and or maybe do some more work on some personal art projects once I hit the hundo. My friends did just get me Pokemon ZA for my birthday earlier in the month and I should play that.
Also here is a compilation image of this years Spritetober sprites;
Heroes and Villains, Rivals and Nemeses’
I’ve updated the main post with the below entries under F2E - Non Fire Emblem Properties (Non Game Franchises - Rooster Teeth - RWBY - Adam Taurus and Blake Belladona)
RWBY - Adam Taurus
So Adam is set up originally as a major player and a strong villain that the heroes have to overcome. Acts edgy and is pretty much a furry Vergil with a tendency to favour black clothing (with formal coat styles) and his Iaido style wielding of his katana. I thought I was going to struggle with his hair since its kind of a mess in his OG model from RWBY and is inconsistent between his art depictions in other related media outside of the OG web series. However honestly his mask ended up being harder to do, because the red on it requires his mask to be bigger to draw the detail on it, which would make it disproportionate to the FE GBA proportions. Otherwise I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. I did prefer his Season 1 - 3 outfit designs over his later ones, even if its less detailed. It sorta fits his personality as a wannabe edgy bad guy better.
RWBY - Blake Belladona
The second girl of the main cast that I have drawn. Like Ruby this is her season 1 - 3 design, so she still has her long hair and wears a bit more black to her white still. Because I was using some dark blacks as base I ended up using the outline colour a lot in her hair. Although I probably could of easily given myself an extra tone by reducing the eye colour by one tone, but I think it turned out well enough. So she is a faunus like Adam and Sun who are basically kind of like Laguz where they have elements of their animal (tails, horns, ears, etc.) and usually the have aspects from their animal part enhanced (eg cat Faunus can be more agile). Like the Laguz the faunus are discriminated against in the worldbuilding of RWBY, so to hide her identity initially, Blake wears a head bow that covers her ears so there is an alt available without the head bow. I actually drew the ears first then the bow over the top.
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So I’ve been following the League of Legends Worlds Championships again this year and well its pretty nutty again if you’ve been following some of the regional scenes. The finalists are not who were expected to be there going in and hopefully that means the finals which is on Sunday (9/11) for me are going to be a banger.
So here is another League of Legends portrait (although she hasn’t seen pro play this year in the worlds tournament). I do dabble in it occasionally when friends want to play or when there is a fun casual game mode, but the Worlds season always makes people want to play more. Senna is one of my favourite champions to play, mainly because I don’t have the hands to play some of the hyper moving or complex characters.
I’ve updated the main post with the below entries under F2E - Non Fire Emblem Properties (Other Games - Riot Games - League of Legends - Senna)
League of Legends - Senna
At first her design appears simple, she has like two primary colours (White cloak and black underclothing and hair. However she ended up a bit more complex palette wise because she also has a gold pattern on her cloak, plus a gold shoulder plate, shoulder emblem, chest emblem and her locks also have gold pieces of jewelry wrapped around them and capping them. In addition to this she has glowing green eyes. Fortunately for me while I was playing around with her skin tone, I couldn’t actually get 5 suitable differing skin tones so she actually only has 4. I also decided not to try and sub in the red under colour of her cloak and just fill the few bits you see with the darkest brown and border tone. The one less skin tone actually allowed me to comfortably have gold for the the gold bits and even have green for her glowing eyes.
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I never played the game again or watched another world championship, but as a support player, I love seeing the girl with the really hurtful shot in the late game… oh yeah, and the healing shot.
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So my favourite team won the Worlds Championships and their ADC (bot lane auto attacking carry, usually a ranged champion) was the Finals MVP. The final champion he played in the final match was Miss Fortune. Now there has been a bit of drama surrounding him throughout the year and now more recently his exit from the team, but still wanted to draw a character to celebrate his win.
In other news, I’ve been taking a break, currently about 2 thirds through Pokemon Legends AZ and I have to say its a pretty good Pokemon game (I haven’t watched or read reviews before going in), despite being confined to Lumiose, its pretty big. There aren’t really loading screens so you get a nice sense of scale of the city and there is some limited parkour that expands the map (the map is not just the streets and parks of the city, but you also traverse the rooftops sort of like a PG Assasins Creed style). Still another reason why it took a while to draw something else was because I also was facing a bit of a spriters block. However I think I’ve got an idea on what to draw next. Tossing up between another Advance Wars CO, another Adventure Quest character, another Marvel Rivals character or another OC.
I’ve updated the main post with the below entries under F2E - Non Fire Emblem Properties (Other Games - Riot Games - League of Legends - Miss Fortune)
League of Legends - Miss Fortune
So I’ve been also meaning to draw Miss Fortune at some point especially in her current Captain Fortune outfit (which is her current canon outfit, but not her original default one)). Her hat was always going to be a challenge to fit into the hackbox so it is shrunken a little bit, but still remains reasonably sized I believe. Her hat design is kind of inconsistent in a lot of the art references I was looking at so this is the design I ended up on. The other challenge is the feather sticking out the back of it is usually a lighter purple, but I ran out of colours due to also needing yellow/gold trimming (which meant I couldn’t double up with her rosier skin tones). Otherwise she turned out pretty well. She was also obviously the inspiration for my Roseanne pirate OC as well.
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Cool hat imo
So its been a while and we hit December now. I finished Legends AZ’s main story and honestly, I quite enjoyed it. The story has some surprising progressions in it and a number of the characters are quite whacky. The gameplay felt pretty smooth although I will say not having abilities in it does dumb down some of the strategy and did change the way I approached some things (eg Levitate pokemon are now weak to Earthquake and you ain’t going to get stopped from OHKO Pokemon with Sturdy). Aside from that I’ve been playing some more Nightreign in anticipation for the new DLC, so looking forward to that too.
With this I’ve done a CO from every faction except for Blue Moon. I’ll probably get around to doing the AW 2 complete cast eventually and maybe some DS ones as well (Javier, is my 2nd favourite Green Earth CO), but I won’t make it a project to do in one go like I did Fates and Awakening, I still want to draw a number of other things.
I’ve updated the Non Fire Emblem Properties post with the below entry under F2E - Non Fire Emblem Properties (Nintendo - Advance Wars - Kanbei)
Advance Wars - Kanbei
The main leader of Yellow Comet (although they got renamed to Gold Comet in Reboot Camp). I decided to go with his OG Advance Wars 2 design. I think its my favourite as it strikes a nice balance between his cartoonish caricature look in Advance Wars 1 and his more serious look in Advance Wars DS. For some reason his Reboot Camp design reminds me of Arin Hanson/Egoraptor from the Game Grumps more so than Kanbei. His regular costume is actually quite plain, but even so his cape was annoying to shade and I’m still not 100%% happy with it. Then for his alt design his chest plate and cape is based on Lundgren’s armour from FE 7. Then I decided to torture myself and make him a version of Ryoma’s shoulders from FE Fates. + his armour is coloured in gold with silver trimming which was actually quite hard as I had to work with only 3 tones for his silver trimming rather than the 4 I have used for others such as Silas, Frederick and Gunther, but I’m overall pretty happy with how his alt turned out.
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