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@ff_press: [FFXII/Tactics] justira: Dark Knight Gabranth (G)

Daily Doodle: Of course he's a Dark Knight. Of course.

So.

The thing is, Tactics style is apparently fabulous for displaying shapely male posterior (hint: bottom left). And APPARENTLY I now have some kind of Noah FETISH (courtesy of chaosraven NO DOUBT) and got it into my head at some point, or maybe renay gave me the idea, to thus showcase Noah. We never see his ass, but I am willing to bet it is pretty damn fine. His calves came out pretty well turned, too.

The design is meant to be more or less in the spirit of previous job class porn entries. The design is obviously taken from Gabranth's armour, with simplification inspiration (and ideas for how to simplify Noah's face) from the Revenant Wings Gabranth art. Modified to look a little closer to the standard War of the Lions Dark Knight — the... things... on Noah's legs (tassets? cuisses? what the hell are they?) were transformed into the flary tassets of the male Dark Knight (though I kept a simplified version of the design from Gabranth's). The ridiculous crowny things on his poleyns are now the (embroidered) boot cuffs of the female Knight. (I have something of a habit of borrowing from both genders' outfits indiscriminately, though I apparently particularly enjoy putting little touches from lady costumes on the gentlemen.) I tried to work in bitty spikes on his pauldrons (quite bitty).

I had the damnedest time trying to get any kind of resemblance in the Tactics style — the faces consist of a generic-across-characters eye style, NO nose, and minimal mouth. What the hell am I supposed to do with that? Ah, I tried. He rather resembles a Beoulve, though — I smell an AU.

This did turn out more than a little busy without the colours I was too lazy to apply — those would have delineated the shapes and muted the lines. But overall, quite fun, definitely going in the queue to clean up and colour someday.

Time: 1.5ish hours, not counting the time I spent staring off into space.

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( Daily Doodle: FFXII/FF Tactics - Dark Knight Gabranth )

@ff_press: [FF: The Spirits Within] justira: Jane Proudfoot (G)

Daily Doodle: After my completely ridiculous travails of yesternight (this morning, really), something that's not so.... overwrought. SO.

I adore Spirits Within, unlike, apparently, anyone with any taste in movies, any TRUE FINAL FANTASY FAN, and so on and so forth. After this last round of DOINK! I particularly enjoy Jane — and I've particularly noticed how much awesome Jane is (in the background) during the movie itself. She's smart, decisive, competent, snarky. Watch when Aki is being carted away from retrieving the ovo-pack near the middle of the film: when Aki wakes up and gets shot, it's Jane who kicks the idiot's ass. A LOT. That sort of thing. Now if only she and Aki had actually talked to each other.

Unfortunately, there's not really much of anything distinctive about her character design. She's basically The Girl. The male Deep Eyes all have completely different facial structures; Jane looks largely like any other CG lady, especially without a distinctive hairstyle like Aki has.

So this was kinda hard, especially as my realism resemblance abilities are pretty unreliable. But it was fun and much less tortured than yesterday's doodle.
Time: 10-15 mins

( Daily Doodle: FF: The Spirits Within - Jane Proudfoot )

@ff_press: [FF Tactics] justira: Cid Orlandeau White Mage (+ Bonus Cid Devout/Seer) (G)

Daily Doodle: You know what, I'll just make a new tag for this series/theme.

So Cid is the badassest party member in Tactics (he and Agrias should make out a lot I'm just sayin'). I was originally going to do him as a black mage, which is what I'd been babbling about all week. But you know what? You know what job class everyone thinks is pretty drab, boring, weak, and passive?

White mages.

And you know what a rather uncomfortable correlation is? They're all women.

So here we go. Cid as a white mage. (Note to self: Do some lady kicking ass white mage style soon.) I do think the white mage designs are as a whole not very exciting. So uh. I kind of. Went a little afield here. I always thought the male White Mage's robe was pretty damn boring compared to the female's fun poncho. Also, one of my favourite designs from the entirety of FFIII is Luneth's White Mage. Those don't... really mesh all that well with Cid's outfit, but you know what? I don't care. I had fun.

In fact, I had enough fun for two doodles again. Further notes under the cuts.

Time: ~45mins - 1hr
( Daily Doodle: FF Tactics - White Mage Cid Orlandeau )


... and then.... I couldn't resist. Because the natural evolution of the white mage class? Is the Devout or Seer, and Cid already had the hood... >.>

Time: 2-3 mins
( Daily Doodle: FF Tactics - Devout/Seer Cid Orlandeau bonus )

Daily Doodle: Reffed, with slightly modified body type. I want to do my Tactics idea but I need to sleep ._.
Time: 2-3 mins

( Daily Doodle: Back )

@ff_press: [FF Tactics] justira:
Monk Agrias Full (G)
Monk Agrias Prepares (G)

Backdated 2 hours
Daily Doodle: In the same vein as yesterday's doodle, it's a custom class design from FFT, with her only outfit and the female monk. For the pose, I tried to look at a number of refs but I didn't like any of them, so this ended up being unreffed. I had a lot of trouble because the outfits are exactly dissimilar: the monk is very simple above and complicated below, while Agrias is the opposite. I think it still turned out a little busy, but I had fun, and I love the idea of bare shoulders and arms on Agrias.

... so much so that I made a second picture for that purpose >.>

Time: 45 mins - 1 hour?
( Daily Doodle: FF Tactics - Monk Agrias Full )


I actually like the second doodle better, but I'm glad I drew the first one as well; I don't like the idea of Mr. Ramza getting an action pose and Ms. Agrias getting a passive one (plus trying to design the full monk getup was fun, however it turned out). But for all that this (the second one) is passive, I do think it shows her strength. It was hard to balance the Tactics style with the shading, and I don't think I quite did it right, but I enjoy the atmosphere of this one anyway. Ref

Time: 20-30 mins
( Daily Doodle: FF Tactics - Monk Agrias Prepares )

Daily Doodle: Aren't you the sighful fellow.
Time: 2-3 mins

( Daily Doodle: Sigh )

Daily Doodle: Slightly different style. Reffed off a model with a different body type.
Time: 4-5 mins

( Daily Doodle: Pose )

Daily Doodle: Wow I passed out so hard after work today XD Not coherent enough to draw anything, well, coherent. This was reffed.
Backdated 1 hour
Time: 5-8 mins?

( Daily Doodle: Sitting )

Daily Doodle: Zuko is such a heartbreaking dork.

"What was I thinking! Telling them I sent an assassin after them? Why didn't I just say Azula did that? They would have believed that! Stupid!" Badger-toad: *ribbit*.

Basically I love Zuko tremendously. He did actually make this face at some point and basically I heart it. It was hard to get him looking even vaguely like himself without all the angry.
Time: 10 mins?

( Daily Doodle: Avatar: TLA - Zuko )

Daily Doodle: Wibble of some kind? It's off somehow but TODAY. DANG. Superheroic efforts at work. I am BEAT.
Time: 2-3 mins?

( Daily Doodle: Wibble? )