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Female Ninja from Nostale

I don't quite know for how long this has actually been flying around unfinished somewhere between my PSD files. Maybe two or 3 months or even longer...?
I stopped working on this when I finished the base colors and got too lazy for all the patterns on her clothes.

I've been playing Nostale for a year now and as a swordsman, the Ninja or Blade is my most favourite SP out of all.
So I always wanted to draw her one day. And as an anime practise it was more than helpful to me.
As the first attack you get with your Ninja creates such an arcana-like seal below them, I thought of drawing her kinda floating above this circle shortly before attacking.
The sketch didn't look as well as the final result because I didn't get the face right, so I had to edit it while inking it in SAI. I had a hard time getting all the details right from only my own Nostale screenshots and one single reference picture I found on the net. Most difficult were the gloves/bracelets, the belt and of course the patterns on this... how to call it... coat?

However, as no background colors as of grass, mud or stone wanted to work out well with the arcana circle I had to drop the idea of a "preparing to attack" scene and was forced to come up with something else. So I thought of the place within the soul gems, like when you talk to the stone in the middle and their souls appear right in front of you.
I tried that and it worked.

The idea for the title came from the Nostale Ninja's tagline "Blade - Bringer of Peace" and I really thought it fits this picture, because I always found it very calm and peaceful within the Soul Gems, mostly because of the melody playing in there.

Female Ninja © Nostale
Art ©

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Time Taken: 9 hours
Tools used: Paint Tool SAI & Adobe Photoshop CS2
Original Size: 1046x1555 px
Layers: 44
Brushes used:
Arcane Circles-Symbols Brushes by ~redheadstock

Description
Female Ninja from Nostale

I don't quite know for how long this has actually been flying around unfinished somewhere between my PSD files. Maybe two or 3 months or even longer...?
I stopped working on this when I finished the base colors and got too lazy for all the patterns on her clothes.

I've been playing Nostale for a year now and as a swordsman, the Ninja or Blade is my most favourite SP out of all.
So I always wanted to draw her one day. And as an anime practise it was more than helpful to me.
As the first attack you get with your Ninja creates such an arcana-like seal below them, I thought of drawing her kinda floating above this circle shortly before attacking.
The sketch didn't look as well as the final result because I didn't get the face right, so I had to edit it while inking it in SAI. I had a hard time getting all the details right from only my own Nostale screenshots and one single reference picture I found on the net. Most difficult were the gloves/bracelets, the belt and of course the patterns on this... how to call it... coat?

However, as no background colors as of grass, mud or stone wanted to work out well with the arcana circle I had to drop the idea of a "preparing to attack" scene and was forced to come up with something else. So I thought of the place within the soul gems, like when you talk to the stone in the middle and their souls appear right in front of you.
I tried that and it worked.

The idea for the title came from the Nostale Ninja's tagline "Blade - Bringer of Peace" and I really thought it fits this picture, because I always found it very calm and peaceful within the Soul Gems, mostly because of the melody playing in there.

Female Ninja © Nostale
Art ©

::about ::
Time Taken: 9 hours
Tools used: Paint Tool SAI & Adobe Photoshop CS2
Original Size: 1046x1555 px
Layers: 44
Brushes used:
Arcane Circles-Symbols Brushes by ~redheadstock