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Description Milla: "Apologize. Now."
Alvin: "Okay okay, I'm sorry. For real. Stop crying already, ok?"
Elise: "...*sob*"
Tipo: "Alvin is stupid idiot!"
Rowen: "Alvin-san, you're causing me grey hair faster than age this far."
Alvin: "Sheesh, Rowen your hair is already all gray!"
Leia: "I'll kick your butt for this Alvin, you can count on it."
Alvin: "C'mon not you too, I'm already about to lose my head here."
Jude: "Ah Milla, no need to be so harsh. Let's put our weapons away, ok?"
Milla: "Jude be quiet for a moment, he deserves this."
Jude: "Please... I don't know how to attach a head once it's off."

Ah finally finished~ I have no idea what Alvin has done to make Elise cry but the others aren't amused so he must have gone a bit overboard this time. Shame on you AlvinxD

This is a picture I started in last July... I started sketching it then and thought about drawing only Alvin and Elise, but then after sketching the roughs of them I added Jude and Milla too. After that I thought I would just have to add Leia and Rowen too|D The rough sketches were done in July, but my rough sketches are VERY rough (like, stick-figures and stuffxD). I then got a lot of other things to do and got around sketching the cleaner sketches later, I sketched Milla around the beginning of September, same for Leia. Rowen somewhere in October and then the rest much later in November. Also made the lineart in November-December and then coloured it bit by bit till now.

So it took me almost half a year to finish thisxD That's why Millas pose looks much more stiff than Alvin's. She was the first I sketched out and Alvin was the last.

I would be very happy to get some feedback for this picture. It's the last one I'll submit this year (I think) and I would like to improve my art next year a lot so people pointing out mistakes from my most recent piece (which is not a gift or commission to anyone) would be very helpful Though I wouldn't want to hear any critique on the character designs since they are not mine, but from the game Tales of Xillia.

And for those who are afraid of leaving critique to an artist, don't worry, I'm looking for honest feedback and definitely won't get angry or start disliking anyone for giving me advice (It even sounds silly to me to get angry if someone is offering help). So please help me if you have some tips or think something could use some work. I'll open the critique feature on this too so feel free to use it (even though I hate the stars system|D).

Of course I would also like to fangirl with other Tales fans who are getting excited of Xillia too


To : I would like to receive some help and maybe even redlines to one/some/all of the poses. Anything you see off in the anatomy ( especially hands;_; ) and if you have time then some tips for colouring too Any help would be really appreciated.



Also, this was actually meant to be a remake of this but in the end it looks nothing like it. But I like the comparison anyways(:

Jude/Rowen/Leia/Elise&Tipo/Alvin/Milla/Tales of Xillia (c) Namco Bandai
art (c) =ScytheDancer
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Comments: 40

Bluediamondpikachu83 [2019-11-21 05:41:37 +0000 UTC]

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Ayahime0 [2013-11-21 07:18:18 +0000 UTC]

Poor Alvin, but seriously, great artwork.
I wanna play TOX right now! Damn you, Gaius and Muzet! Let me beat you and finish the game!

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ScytheDancer In reply to Ayahime0 [2013-11-21 13:07:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Glad you like it^^

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Ayahime0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-11-21 18:21:28 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome

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PascalOfPiers [2013-08-24 08:52:55 +0000 UTC]

Y'know...it really would be in everyone's best interest to off Alvin. He's cool and all, buuuut...

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ScytheDancer In reply to PascalOfPiers [2013-08-26 19:49:22 +0000 UTC]

Aww don't be too harsh on the man, he's just a bit lost in life;^; Buuuuuuuut he is very awesome in ToX2, I recommend to play it once it's out in English (unless you can play it in Japanese, then I recommend you to play it right away: D)

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PascalOfPiers In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-08-26 20:47:20 +0000 UTC]

Well, yes. I like him. (He is my least favorite playable character, but I like all of them anyway) buuuuuuuuuuuut...it's his fault Ivar got the Lance going.

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Isshak-Gravi [2013-04-08 14:06:17 +0000 UTC]

Hey! I was wondering: can we use this in our Tales of Xillia newsletter please? We really like it

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ScytheDancer In reply to Isshak-Gravi [2013-04-08 14:13:28 +0000 UTC]

Tales of Xillia newsletter? I haven't heard of it before, is it online newsletter or something? And sure, as long as my signature (the dA url) isn't removed you can use it in the newsletter Thank you for asking^^

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Isshak-Gravi In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-04-08 15:35:53 +0000 UTC]

Yes it's a newsletter sent to all our European, Asian and Australian territories And of course there's a link to your work!

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ScytheDancer In reply to Isshak-Gravi [2013-04-08 16:36:37 +0000 UTC]

Wow nice^^ Thank you

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ForeverTALES552 [2012-12-29 09:59:17 +0000 UTC]

Ei vitsi, tää on aivan mahtava, nauroin hauskalle dialogille kauan! Alvin on nytte pahas pulas, opettelis jo tyyppi välttämään niitä XD
Toisaalta minkäs sille voi ku tyyppi tykkää Tipon härnäämisestä.
Anyway värit ja varjostukset on hyvin tehty ja asennotkin on itseasiassa yllättävänki hyvän näköisiä, etenki tuo Millan miekkakäsi. En ole sen kummempi perspektiivi/väri asiantuntia, mut tää näyttää kokonaisuudes erinomaiselta

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ScytheDancer In reply to ForeverTALES552 [2012-12-29 10:09:40 +0000 UTC]

Kiitos paljon>w> Hyvä että viihdyttixD Oli hauskaa käydä keskustelua päässä hahmojen välillä samalla ku työsti tätä kuvaa: D Ja Alvin saa todennäköisesti "BAHO":n kaiverrettuna nahkaansa, jos ei saa Eliseä taas hymyilemääx) Ja tosi hyvä, että Millan miekkakäsi ei näytä hirveeltä, tappelin sen kanssa hyvän aikaa ennen ku olin tyytyväine:'D

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ForeverTALES552 In reply to ScytheDancer [2012-12-29 11:37:32 +0000 UTC]

Tottakai, hyvää kuvaa pitää aina kehua ;D
Mitä baho muuten meinaa? (en oo kuulukkaan koko sanasta orz)

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ScytheDancer In reply to ForeverTALES552 [2012-12-29 11:55:53 +0000 UTC]

Haha "baho" on Tipon keksimä haukkumasana AlvinillexD Baka (tyhmä) + Aho (idiootti) = Baho lyhyesti. Tipo käyttää sitä Alvinista aika usein pelin aikana. Mielenkiintosta nähä miten se käännetää enkkuversiosxD Fanikäännöksessä oli "jerkron" tai jotai.

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ForeverTALES552 In reply to ScytheDancer [2012-12-29 19:28:57 +0000 UTC]

Just, jotenki niin Tipon tapaista yhdistellä sanoja
Haha olishan se kiva tietää mitä ne kääntäjät keksii;
"jerkot", "Iderk" etc. ? XD

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FallenAngelGM [2012-12-29 04:16:30 +0000 UTC]

Sweet drawing!
I hope to see you in this [link]

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ScytheDancer In reply to FallenAngelGM [2012-12-29 08:58:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks^^
I'm not sure if I'll have time for drawing a contest entry, but the deadline seems to still be rather far away so I'll see what I can do

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Sovereign64 [2012-12-29 03:20:54 +0000 UTC]

Nice group picture. ^__^

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ScytheDancer In reply to Sovereign64 [2012-12-29 08:56:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you^^

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Sovereign64 In reply to ScytheDancer [2012-12-29 09:02:00 +0000 UTC]

No problem. BTW, today is my birthday.

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ScytheDancer In reply to Sovereign64 [2012-12-29 09:26:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow Happy Birthday then

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Sovereign64 In reply to ScytheDancer [2012-12-29 11:17:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Lord-of-Judgement [2012-12-28 21:30:54 +0000 UTC]

That's a nice little story you have there. xD What did Alvin do now? (wait, what didn't he do?
Loved it!

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ScytheDancer In reply to Lord-of-Judgement [2012-12-29 08:56:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I had fun forming that convo in my head while working on thisxD
Haha maybe you could write a short story about what happened before and after this picture;D Will Alvin get "BAHO" carved into his skin by MillaxD?

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DeadCobra [2012-12-28 20:20:16 +0000 UTC]

Great

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ScytheDancer In reply to DeadCobra [2012-12-28 20:21:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Adagnitio-0 [2012-12-28 16:46:19 +0000 UTC]

hehe, nice job Scythe! as always.
your way of rendering really intrigues me

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ScytheDancer In reply to Adagnitio-0 [2012-12-28 19:24:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I'm trying to experiment a little with the colouring and wish to get better at it^^

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Adagnitio-0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2012-12-29 03:12:28 +0000 UTC]

do you mind sharing some tips Scythe? sorry for the sudden interest... it's just so interesting XD

by the way, how's Tales of Xillia 2 going?

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ScytheDancer In reply to Adagnitio-0 [2012-12-29 08:51:37 +0000 UTC]

Tips? For colouring or finishing touches? Sure I can answer the best I can regarding to my drawings I'm glad you find it interestingxD

I've watched the whole playthrough on YT since it's hard to find time to play together with my friends now that it's December and soon New Year, but we're almost finished with the game though. And god I love the story even though I don't understand everythingxD And I'm surprised that I find myself playing as Jude much more often than playing as Alvin, I guess it's because I played Alvin so much in Xillia, and I just LOVE Jude's outfit in the sequel so I guess that has something to do with it tooxD I'm also playing my own playthrough of Xillia now that my friend lent it to me and I and my friend are going to take my PS3 and Tales games to Desucon Frostbite in february to introduce new people to it and let fans play together in the con. We already got permissions and everything done so now all is left it promoting a bitxD

How have you been doing? Busy in december but now resting on holiday?

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Adagnitio-0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2012-12-29 14:23:20 +0000 UTC]

of course! it really makes your drawings good.

ahaha, and Jude... how's his character progression? and believe he's more mature than before, right?
and alvin... lol, i remembered our talk back then.
and that would be a great idea! how i wish i can try playing that. of course... tales series isnt that popular here in our country.

yeah, im using my holiday break quite wisely. like eating, and bumming around XDDD
though, i have to do my thesis from time to time >__>

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ScytheDancer In reply to Adagnitio-0 [2012-12-29 16:23:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks<3 Well I make all my pictures with SAI mainly, only add finishing touches with Photoshop CS3. I have been doing almost all my shading work with the water tool on SAI, but lately I have also started using the "fringe" option in my shading layers. It creates a nice darker edge to the shading which makes the hair look pretty nice. I try to choose my shading colours to be a bit different than the base colour, like in Alvin's jacket here I made the shading colour a bit less saturated and to the darker brown, and then added a multiply layer of red gradient on it. After that I just added some red on a luminousity layer which opacity was around 30-40%. For finishing on Photoshop I merge all the layers except the background, make a copy of it and use gaussian blur (~2,5 or 3,5) on it and then lower the opacity so that it looks good (usually I lower it to somewhere around 10-20%). Often I also fix the colours with the levels option or double the blur layer and put its layer mode to "overlay" or "colourburn" and lower its opacity even more. I'm still experimenting with the layer modes and try to understand them a bit betterxD I hope this opened my working methods a little

Oh I love Jude in ToX2~ He's more mature but still feels like the Jude from XilliaxD<3 And Alvin is... Alvin|D He and Leia still have their "secret handshake" victory quote and they even act like "hey you ready? let's do it!"xD

Yeah Tales is not very well known in my country either... Mainly because there are absolutely no promotion of the games, most of the fans have heard about it from their friends and only few has picked the games from the shelves by coincidence. So I and my friend are going to give a presentation of Tales series in that con and also provide the new curious people and the old fans a chance to play it together. And yes, I'm excited of playing with other fans myself too: D

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Adagnitio-0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-01-07 12:43:48 +0000 UTC]

Water Tool? is that a default tool in SAI? and that Fringe option... i haven't seen that yet O___o.
Gaussian Blur... my bestfriend XDDD and those layer styles really do help.

WHAT!? "hey you ready? let's do it!".... that sounds.... really really different.

that goes exactly the same with ours... i knew Tales of because of friends.

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ScytheDancer In reply to Adagnitio-0 [2013-01-07 15:21:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah there is a water tool in SAI, in my version it's in the first row most right tool. The fringe option is a layer option, you can find it above the layer mode where it reads "effect" and choose "fringe" from the dropdown menu.

Well I didn't translate what they said in that victory quote earlier since I didn't really have time, but from what I understand now Leia starts with "Alvin, let's do it" (or maybe "let's go for it") and Alvin says "alright alright" and continues "today we really did..." and then he and Leia continue "...good job!" which is actually a pun. The real word for "good job" is おつかれさまでした ("otsukare-sama deshita") and Leia says the shorter version おつかれ "otsukare" and adds her name レイア "reia" in the end which makes it "otsukareia!", pretty funny pun if you ask me since Alvin used to say otsukare a lot in the first Xillia and maybe Leia is poking a little fun of him again since they have become such good friends;D
Also, if you don't mind spoiling one more victory quote, Jude and Ludger have a "secret handshake" brofist version;D [link] (0:17->) that same video also has the one with Alvin and Leia.

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Adagnitio-0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-01-15 12:37:33 +0000 UTC]

OH! so that's what it means. XD i was kinda wondering about that "otsukareia" for a long time. ahahahha
and nice, looks like Jude and Ludger have a good friendship.

and i am very sorry for the replying late. im kinda busy with ore no thesis. XD

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ScytheDancer In reply to Adagnitio-0 [2013-02-17 17:22:43 +0000 UTC]

lol no need to apologize about late replies because I've been awfully busy for the whole beginning of the year, including this weekendxD (god this is a month old reply already...|D) I haven't had time to do anything besides school and part time job. I had also promised to give a presentation about Tales series in a convention this year which was this weekend (I gave the presentation with ~luinie yesterday, I was nervous but it was greatxD) and I had to work on the materials during late nights in order to get everything done in timexD Anyways, after the presentation we went to the gaming room and put a PS3 up with 4 controllers and switched between ToGf and ToX whichever the con-goers wanted to play and boy did we have fun!xD

Anyways, good luck with the thesis, I'll be doing mine next yearxD

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Adagnitio-0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-02-18 13:37:01 +0000 UTC]

and it's been a month!? ahahaa, i cant believe that comment happened for quite a time now.
school and a job huh? good luck with that. hopefully you'll get things done smoothly.
glad to hear you had fun with the convention. obviously im still jealous

and thanks... im done with my thesis by the way. and it went good.


i just noticed that we're not watching each other here in DA. hahaha. we've been talking for a while now, so i think it's time for me to watch you

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ScytheDancer In reply to Adagnitio-0 [2013-02-19 19:45:36 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad to hear your thesis went good, have some rest now after it's over ...I'm not seeing a peaceful day before mid April|D I do have a one week winter break coming but it'll be full of writing an essay and finishing drawings I still owe for people.

lol you're right! This is the second time after new year that I haven't watched a person I thought I was watching alreadyxD Oh well, better late than never, thanks^^

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Adagnitio-0 In reply to ScytheDancer [2013-02-20 01:35:43 +0000 UTC]

damn, essays are such a hassle. good thing im done with those things. and alright, at least you still have time to draw for others

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