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Leyna-art β Dissidia Aces: Vs Sice
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For #DissidiaAces For Round 1 of the tournament I'm facing *Aureta 's Sice (FF-Type 0, the lady with the wicked looking scythe)) with Balthier (Final Fantasy XII), my tournament character. The setting is meant to be a generic forested part of the World Map.The concept is to that you pick a character (you enter a choice of 3 possibles) and then face off against other Final fantasy characters in painted battle.
I haven't played Type-0. According to the Wiki, Sice is fast, but she is vulnerable at close quarters when she moves in for the kill. Balthier is off balance and trying to turn enough to catch her with a point-blank shot - but guns are slow. Who will win?
Critique very welcome, in the comments or via the official critiquing system.
One reason for entering this tournament was that I'm hoping to improve my painting of anatomy, and also trying to paint more dynamic scenes. My paintings tend to be very static, usually. I'm hoping this will be good practice. For this painting I've concentrated on these elements, and kept the colours, lighting (which I know is a bit dodgy) and background simple.
I used various dA stock photos as pose references. These include [link] by ~spiked-stock , [link] by `FantasyStock and [link] by *SenshiStock Balthier's gun and his outfit referenced from [link] by ~CaptJapan .
The background was inspired by [link] by ~mjagiellicz
Tumblr post: [link]
Edit: Made a few small corrections based on advice received. Thanks!
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In this kind of fight, I honestly don't see Balthier fighting her, or any type of woman in the first place. I can see his partner Fran on the other hand. Also Balthier wouldn't be that close if he has a ranged weapon. You would usually see him farther away, looking all cool and calm at this.
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Really? Because I didn't see anything in FFXII to indicate Balthier had any issues with fighting women. Also, this was for a challenge to help improve painting skills (as mentioned in the notes) so I chose the more dramatic scene.
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I love both of these characters...but I'm going to have to go with Sice. She's just THAT cool.
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The amount of details on the characters is astonishing! =O
Paint dynamic scenes was one of the reason I joined dissidia aces too^^ (But my drawings are still kind of static XD ) I wish you good luck with your practice and with the tournament
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Thank you! Hopefully this will give me lots of useful practice, as well as being fun
Good luck to you too! I've just been admiring your Round 1 entries - I wouldn't call them at all static. All the characters have so much personality and individuality, too.
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Iβm sure it will ^.^
Oh, thank you!! Itβs so nice to hear that <3
The fact is, they are not as dynamic as I would like them to be XD Iβve always been very critic towards myself
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Epic!
Like really you just picked my two favorite characters and made something awesome!!
I love you
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Thank you
I haven't played Type-0 yet, but Sice sounds pretty cool.
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I haven't played it completely through either (because it's only available in Chinese and Japanese here)
And she is really cool. And she's really fun to play with
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This is too awesome, great job on everything. Love that Balthy <3
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So that's what happened to it.....
I always did wonder what ever happened to Chakan's weapons.
Now Aureta has to collect the warhammer, battleaxe, and scythe.
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Not sure I get this reference ?
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Sorry 'bout that, I'll explain.
The reference is to an old SEGA Genesis videogame called: "Chakan: The Forever Man"
It's a game so niche, that even DA has almost no art ref for it.
(It's also rather infamous for being really hard, and had no ending made).
.......Hold on a minute.....
Okay, I just did a DA search, and it seems that nowadays there are "114" Chakan related pics.
(a few of which are not related to the videogame though).
ANYWAY,
In the game you control the main character: Chakan,
and you must collect 4 special weapons to advance.
These weapons are a warhammer, battleaxe, scythe, and grapplinghook.
The scythe weapon you drew here for the "Aureta" character,
looked (to me) a lot like the grapplinghook weapon used in this game.
When I came across your pic here a few days ago,
the old memory popped up and compelled me to write my previous comment.
But I do have to admit,
it has been YEARS since I played that game
and I may be totally wrong about this whole scythe/grapplinghook weapon thing.
Ah well.
Nice talking with you.
And cool pic.
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Thanks for the explanation! It is a cool looking weapon, in any case.
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She's too close to him.
Also, a different camera angle (diagonal) would have looked better.
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Yes, the picture looked better (more dramatic) with them closer together so she has ended up too close.
Do you mean just rotating the image as it is, or actually changing the viewpoint?
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Changing the viewpoint. Perspective is just more exciting. I see the camera banking, though. That's a plus.
Plus, it's not right to have a person with a spear swinging too closely. It's analogous to a person with a dagger who's swinging from 10 meters away.
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I like it, very atmoshperic. Her pose looks right, and very dynamic (though maybe not practical, as an attack pose... that's a long swing, gives the opponent time to react). The guy's legs aren't quite right, I feel. I think his right leg is a bit too small.
Your coloring is top-notch.
What I'd suggest is more general... I'd take some time not working on fully colored pieces (since you got the coloring part down pat, really) and instead just doing pencil sketches. Anatomy, poses and drapes. Like, take a sketchbook wherever you go and do quick sketches of people and clothes. Drape some clothes over a chair and draw the folds. I also learned a lot about anatomy from some books, most notably Jeno Barcsay's Anatomy for the Artist. I don't like Burne Hogarth's style but I found his book Dynamic Figure Drawing very helpful when it comes to poses.
Once you got that stuff internalized, you'll rely much less on references and the overall result will look more organic.
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Thank you! I definitely chose drama over practicality in her pose
I keep intending to spend some time sketching, particularly anatomy, though usually I get distracted by all manner of interesting challenges instead. It is great advice, though, and I'll aim to get some sketching time.
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I keep intending to spend some time sketching, particularly anatomy, though usually I get distracted by all manner of interesting challenges instead.
Yeah, I can see that... bit like doing pull-ups for climbing practice instead of climbing up a real wall. But in the end I found the whole anatomy study really satisfying, too. I came up with a practice method that I posted about in my LJ a while ago ([link] ). Basically you cut pics of naked (or scantily clad) people from magazines and draw in the muscles, using books on anatomy as reference. I found that worked *really* well, plus it's fun.
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That sounds like a great way to learn about muscles. I'll give it a try sometime. Thanks!
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Personally, I think she's a goner. He has plenty of time do double her over with a shot to the belly. The question is if he can evade her blow, which she may have time to land.
Good artwork, great characters ^_^
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Thank you! I rarely paint action scenes, so this was a fun challenge.
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Wonderful! I love how you researched your opponent and their weakness and incorporated it into your painting! This is really well done!!!
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Thank you! Balthier is not exactly the best fighter - if he wins it is most likely due to luck or sneakiness, so I went with the first option for this picture
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well, I wish you the best of luck!!!!
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Thanks - and to you, too!
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geez all these different people are soo good i dont think ill last long in the tourny ._. great work
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Thank you and good luck with your own battle.
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Ermahgawd this is EPIC, I love it so much, Balthier and Sice are such cool characters, it's awesome seeing them together!!
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Thank you 
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The amount of detail in this is great!
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Thank you! Static poses are a big problem of mine so that is good to hear - and thanks for the advice about Balthier's leg. That shouldn't be difficult to fix.
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Amazing, the background is awesome, love the poses ^o^ Both characters look wonderful!
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This is really great! I love the expressions and the motion in the picture! I can really see how the two of them are moving.
I hope you enter the next round (because your style is beautiful and I can never get enough of Balthier ;3)!
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Thank you! Trying to paint something with a sense of motion was a really interesting challenge
(and yes, I hope I get the chance to paint Balthier some more!)
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Waow! I'm so happy to see Baltier in this tournament 
And You did a very great job! I hope you'll go as far as possible in this tournament (I want to see a lot of Balthier artworks 
Good luck for the next! (and don't forget to submit your entry to the DissidiaAces group
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I'd been planning on doing a Balthier painting eventually, so this is just the excuse I needed
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That's great! I'm so happy to see Balthier in this tournament 
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