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Published: 2008-04-29 17:50:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 3242; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 72
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After many failures with trying to experiment with Photoshop (I wanted a gradient background), I just decided to put in a "Sea Foam Green" colour with barely there stars. I hope it doesn't look too tacky. I wanted a colour to compliment Rydia's green (but I wasn't going to put orange or red...eek! Even though they are complimentary colours, that would make the picture look really scary.)So I hope everybody likes this.
I just didn't want to leave in a plain white background.
This is Rydia from Final Fantasy IV. This design is pretty much original by me, yet inspired by all the bajillion different designs/version of Rydia. (Don't you just "love" how video game character artwork is so inconsistent?) She also has big 80's-esque hair, so I had fun with that as well. And for once, my greens were being good (usually green watercolours are hard to work with. At least for me they are.)
Drawn with black India Ink & then coloured in with watercolours.
Rydia character design (c) Yoshitaka Amano
Final Fantasy IV (c) Squaresoft
Fan Art (c) J.E.McNeese. Please do not copy, put this on any other site, or steal this image. Do not try to use this design and then claim it as your own.
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Hello! This is not Photoshop. I did this with watercolours. The only Photoshop I used was the green background with the stars. 
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oh im soo sorry
i guess i got confused with the bg
thats really nice for traditional!
and yay traditional! soooo many people do photoshop im glad u do traditional
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Ha ha, no need to apologize. 
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Thanks! It was fun to draw & colour in, especially because of all the green colours. Rydia has some neat designs.
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Awsome job on her outfit all the detail and colors turned out very well ^^I really like her pose too. She almost reminds me of some sort of rock star great work ^^. :d
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Hello! Thank you so much, I am glad you like this!
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I love all the detail again in your outfits and I also love the detail in her hair great work keep it up!
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Aloha! Thanks for the 
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your welcome, Ya I love to draw long thick hair :3
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Yay for Rydia! I haven't finished playing that game, but I did like her. Awesome work and designing your own look for her. You make me want to dabble in watercolours with wonderful pieces like this!
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Thank you so much! Watercolours are fun; slowly but surely I am getting used to them. It's taken me years to get where I'm at (and I want to get better).
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captivating
for some reason i wanna see her do the audition routine from flashdance haha
oh and love the star theme + how youre showin off her inner thigh
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I've actually never seen Flashdance. I'll have to check it out.
I made her have a lot of stars because Amano's versions of her has stars.
Thanks for the great comment.
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Love the pose, looks very natural
As always, your details and colouring are great.
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Thanks for commenting on this! I'm glad you like the pose I gave her. I'm glad you say so, especially coming from somebody (you) that is a master of drawing different poses.
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Thank you so much for the
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Yet another mind-blowing art piece! The green hues give the whole painting a mellow and laid-back feel. The bits of details here and there are awesome. I see no reason why you would need photoshop, dear.
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Thanks for the great comment on this.
As for Photoshop, sometimes I will use it for backgrounds because I admit, more than 80% of the time I don't know what the heck to do for a background.
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Same here. I just don't understand digital medium that much so I just stick to what I do best.
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Aloha! Thanks for the comments on this. I'm happy that you like it.
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Hi Xenosnake! I'm happy that you like this & called it "beautiful". That comment means a lot to me. Thanks (and double-thanks for the
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wow, this is definitely one of your best works, I adore the colors of her hair, its very pretty.
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Aloha! Thank you so much for the
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*falls over backwards but ~Tdino catches!*
*_* So lovelyyyy. <3 I love her hair and her costume lots. XD +faving
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Wow, thank you so much! I'm very happy that you this!
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She is lovely! I like the green motif. Your fabric designs are wonderful.
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Thank you for the great comment on this.
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I love fashion. I subscribe to Vogue because i consider fashion to be an art form. (Plus I like looking at the pretty women)
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I agree with you on saying fashion is an art form. Especially the couture. A lot that type of fashion makes me think, "Wow, that seems like a costume. I'd be a great character design." It's very inspiring to me.
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I have no idea how people come up with fashion design. It's a mystery, but I enjoy it.
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That is such a gorgeous Rydia design! *loves*
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Thanks, I'm glad you like my version of Rydia (although a lot of it is inspired by all the designs of her, mostly Amano's).
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rydia's design for the DS 3-D remake is sooo much simpler than her original. It's kind of annoying actually, since the original is so pretty
I love the variety of greens and all the stars!
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Yeah, Rydia's DS design is a lot more simple...but I did like stars on her sleeves (that's where I got the idea to put stars on the fabric hanging from her forearms). I did notice [Amano's] Rydia design[s] had a lot of stars, so thats why I made Rydia with all the stars.
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ah, I thought the sleeve stars were so cute!
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Yay! Great Rydia.
Glad to see more FF4 art. ^_^
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Thanks for the
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Jeezum Crow you're an amazing artist. You really need to be doing... umm... a webcomic. Or something. I mean. Wow...
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Wow...thank you very much! That comment really means a lot to me. (Double-thanks for the
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I don't know. I think if you have the time to do art like this you could probably do a webcomic, too. You'd just want to take your time and build it a whole bunch of pages in advance.
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Trust me, I don't have time to do art as much as I would like. I can barely get in a drawing once every two weeks. (If it seems like I submit a lot of art at once, it's actually because I did it when I had time & saved it to submit it later).
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