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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Leena

Leena from the classic PSOne RPG Chrono Cross. Here she's wielding Serge's weapon, the Swallow, a fairly unique dual-oar type blade weapon, instead of her own arsenal of Kitchen Utensils.

I found myself playing the Chrono Cross Remaster recently released on PC. A classic JRPG that had beautiful presentation in the graphics and music (for the PSOne era), and a fairly fun variation on the turn-based battle system which I'm surprised wasn't replicated elsewhere. It was unfortunately hampered by a poorly realized main story, strained connections to its predecessor Chrono Trigger, and the decision to have a cast of dozens of playable characters with little to no depth, over having a smaller, stronger cast. Leena here is just one of many who gets shafted in the story, and joining early in the game, and then very quickly relegated to warming the bench like a quickly caught-and-forgotten Pokemon. Screw that, I say! My team needs its feisty red-head to bitch-slap the enemy into submission!

Y'know, I never really intended to do Fan Art of commercial properties, since I have so many goddamn characters of my own, and I also like just randomly designing new ones, but my designs are usually pretty simplistic. Which isn't a bad thing in principle, but I decided I wanted to draw a character that had a more complicated design than I usually go for. JRPG characters usually have some pretty elaborate costumes, and Chrono Cross was what happened to have my attention this week. I liked Leena's look as an unusual, but not-too-outlandish, fantasy outfit to try my hand at.

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Wings of Grace

 

I still haven't really come up with an actual plot for Strange Shades. At this point, I think I'm just going to keep it as an art gimmick and keep doing the occasional character or scene drawing until either a story finally emerges, or maybe it'll just stay an art piece that one may eventually be able to interpret some tale from. Not sure if I ever described the plans for of the power layouts, but each color is supposed to equate to a power.

Primary Colors: Red equates to physical enhancement, Blue to telekinesis/energy blasts, and Yellow to summoning creatures.

Secondary Colors: Green summons energy objects (usually some kind of weapon or tool), Orange enabled mental enhancement for creating gadgets, and Purple I haven't decided yet.

Tertiary Colors: Pink would be empathic powers, Brown I'm not sure yet.

Shades: White and Black and Grey don't manifest powers, but bold and pastel variations of the main colors might alter the way the powers function slightly.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Blade Tail

 

Used a 3D model as the "undersketch" to see how much of a difference it made. Think it came out alright.

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Scythe Girl

 

I still never get tired of pretty ladies with scythes. :V

Roxxy vs Rabbit

 

Strange Shades still flits across my consciousness now and then. Here's Roxxy battling a rabbit-person from another world-fragment.