The buzz for this upcoming Final Fantasy title is HUGE people are cosplaying the cast members before it can even come out LOL - i'm pretty excited for this and Final Fantasy Versus myself, and can't wait for both games to release. Taking all this into consideration, it was only a matter of time before i did fanart for it : )
The Picture
The first thing i had to decide on for this one was- how was i going to do this. It was after a while that i came up with the idea of actually turning this one on its side and bringing the bars down ( like wide screen format movies ) Then i decided on a close up of our main heroine Lightning
( i swear who ever names these characters must be a huge fan of the weather, right? "Cloud", "Squall", "lightning", "Storm" LOL )
Anyway, as for the picture itself, i wanted this one painted , i thought i would look cool. I had to make a few choices for this one- like where to place the close up, and what kind of bg action visual would i use. In the end, i went with an idea based on the first trailer with the battle music i love to DEATH right now.
When looking at the ref, i can see lightning, believe it or not, is actually one of the lesser complicated characters in the franchise ( wow LOL ) and she also has some very interesting color choices. Decent color theme in my opinion - but what stuck me most was the eye color- then the hair. It has sort of a strawberry blonde look to it, and takes on different shades in different light. So i decided i wanted to really go with bolder colors ( looks edible )
in the end, i'm alright with this one- had to fight to get it to this point, believe me, this one was a trainwreck , and would still be one, if not for Joodlez's keen eye and knowledge * ty as always jubz <3 *
so, that about wraps this one up
tl;dr - FF13 is going to be kick ass, and her hair makes me want cotton candy.
as always, i'd love to know what you guys think : )
Tools: Tablet, Photoshop CS 3
Final Fantasy/Lightning (c) Square Enix Tetsuya Nomura
apparently Tetsuya did do the design for lightning - thanks guys.
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Holy crap! Now that is NOICE!! Way different direction with your style than what I'm used to seeing. And I agree, FFXIII will be a genre-defier like VII did in the Playstation era and VI in the SNES era.
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Totally NICE....& the train wreck is not at all evident. Your Lightning Piece came out wonderful! I FAVed it ^_^
By the by, i didn't know my boy Tetsuya Nomura wasn't doing the character designs this time!!! (i would put the Wow! emotacon, but i dunno how) That's....a surprise...I'm such a fan of his characters : ? If it's not Tetsuya, then i WILL find out who it is!!!
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By the by, i didn't know my boy Tetsuya Nomura wasn't doing the character designs this time!!! (i would put the Wow! emotacon, but i dunno how) That's....a surprise...I'm such a fan of his characters : ? If it's not Tetsuya, then i WILL find out who it is!!!
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