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Pit and Link

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Badly drawn heads float in preparation for their Wii debut

Badly drawn heads float in preparation for their Wii debut

So I’m so far behind that I decided may as well just put it up. Um, let’s see. I guess the new Super Smash Bros. Brawl site had just gone up, and I decided to draw Pit because he looked really cool. He’s Greek! Huzzah! Except he didn’t come out nearly right, and then I tried TP Link, but he didn’t work either. Too bad this is only Pit’s second incarnation – it’s really cool, but he’s so old – the first games came out in 8-bit or whatever! It’s a bit painful. Oh, well. He’s getting some recognition now. And I understand the first game is insanely hard (as most early games are) due to not-quite-perfect game mechanics, etc.

Oscar

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The cheerful, yet responsible knight

The cheerful, yet responsible knight

I like Oscar, the green social knight from Fire Emblem 9. And I don’t really like his official art; in the artwork, the ‘caveliers all’ wallpaper, and his sprite, he looks different in all of them. So I did his sprite because I like it the best. He’s got some heavy-duty looking armour. Not like some of them, where it looks three-quarters decorative.

 

Marth

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The Prince of Altea charges

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.

Frelia’s Finest

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Royal and Knight... but not the usual ones

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.

Tunic Study

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It's a shirt.

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.

Glorfindel, shaded, again

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Is there something over there, like a Nazgul or anything?

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!

Guy with Green Hair

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(glare)

(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.

Pent and Louise

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I'm the Mage General of Etruria, and my wife is a pretty hot archer

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.