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Published: 2008-04-29 17:50:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 3242; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 72
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Description 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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Comments: 64

faefara In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 20:43:39 +0000 UTC]

nice job.. it looks wonderful ^_~

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AyaneShinobi In reply to faefara [2008-04-30 19:38:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for commenting on this. I'm glad you think I did a good job representing Rydia. She's got a great designs. I like Yoshitaka Amano's character designs for the older Final Fantasies. He's my 2nd favourite chara designers for the FF games (my #1 favourite would be Akihiko Yoshida, the designer for FF12).

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faefara In reply to AyaneShinobi [2008-04-30 20:52:10 +0000 UTC]

i love all of the designers lol xD

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AyaneShinobi In reply to faefara [2008-05-01 21:21:06 +0000 UTC]

Yes, they are all very good. To come up with all those different character designs is amazing.

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hollowvicious In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 19:25:22 +0000 UTC]

nice work

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AyaneShinobi In reply to hollowvicious [2008-04-30 19:33:51 +0000 UTC]

Hello! Thanks for the on this. I am very happy that you like my version of Rydia. It's really fun to do fan artwork from the older Final Fantasies.

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clavriene In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 19:02:28 +0000 UTC]

she is sooo pretty!!and sexy too!!!hahahah!!! and her hair...soooo green~~~~love it!!!!when u look at her face for quite some time she looks kinda like mariah carey!! (or was it just me??) hahahaha!

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AyaneShinobi In reply to clavriene [2008-04-30 19:32:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I like her design (or shall I say, "designs", since there are a lot of versions of her). I normally don't work with green that often, but in this case I did have a good time making all these different greens. Hmm, so you think she looks a bit like Mariah Carey? *Stares at Rydia* It must be the hair!

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NimbuzZolo In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 18:46:15 +0000 UTC]

so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love your art!

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AyaneShinobi In reply to NimbuzZolo [2008-04-30 19:30:49 +0000 UTC]

I am very pleased that you like my artwork. A comment like that means so much to me; it is what keeps me motivated & going (to keep drawing more). I mean, of course I'd always draw, but when I get comments like yours (and everybody elses), it just makes me very happy and I am thrilled that people do in fact like what I draw. Thanks.

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NimbuzZolo In reply to AyaneShinobi [2008-05-03 08:13:01 +0000 UTC]

np~ =^^=

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soggymuffinhead In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 18:21:17 +0000 UTC]

Whee, sparkly stars! Oh yeah - I was wondering how you were gonna try doing that gradient thing, too. Unless you selected the whole thing, copied her, and then set another layer behind that for the gradient and stars (which I can sorta see, ahh my eyes), then it'd...be like that.

...Yeah, I don't know. XD; I like!

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AyaneShinobi In reply to soggymuffinhead [2008-04-30 19:29:31 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I tried to work witht hat who layering thing but Photoshop thinks it is funny to drive me crazy. It was laughing at me because no matter what I did, the gradient thing just would not go behind Rydia. :-p Hmm, the stars (in the bg) do look a little light. I guess it depends on the monitor; on the Mac computer (I use for Photoshop/editing/etc) the stars showed up (not too greatly, but just barely there) but on my computer here at home (an HP laptop), the stars are very faint.

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