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This has been added to the gallery, thank you! -R51

It's been quite awhile since I've submitted any new fanarts to CoN. Haven't been on the internet lately (like 2wks) and when I had previously, I wasn't feeling motivated to actually submit something here.

(comments taken from my deviantART post, May 17th)

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This was a lost painting till that Celes sketch got me to thinkin' about the other ones. When I went to look for the sketches in question, I came across this watercolour. It's very similar in style to {link} , because I drew it at the same time. I wasn't 'feeling' the painting part of it at the time, so I just put it away, and went on to watercolour the other one instead.

Minimal colours used in this piece: yellow ochre, grey, green, purple. I think this has to be a new record for least time spent painting. It took a whole two minutes to put it out. It sure is easy when the drawing is done and you're not using a lot of colours.

I wanted to show the two sides of Cecil, the dark knight and paladin. Now, this is something I've done before (try, 'done many times') but the subject still appeals to me. I didn't want to get bogged down by putting in lots of detail or parts of him not pertinent. When I did the watercolour part, I found something still missing and that's when I threw on that rough ink swatch. For some reason, it really finished the piece for me.

Cecil Harvey, Final Fantasy IV

Media: ink and watercolour

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 18th July 2005 17:59

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kame, tortue, tortuga, schildkröte, tartaruga, turtle

"Arthur Dent?"
"Yes."
"Arthur Philip Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're a total knee biter."

I'm digging it. The look in the eyes is perfect.

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very nice. 2 minutes, you say? Instinct tells me that that's not physically possible, but for now I'm gonna believe you. One thing though, it looks somewhat feminine to me, and strangely it doesn't seem to me much like cecil (but don't let that get you down, I'm the visual equivalent to tone deaf).

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follow me through the lands
you will burn hordes of hell
in the deadly raging flames of revenge"

Rhapsody - Flames of Revenge

it's neat how you tried to show his two sides.
striking eyes!

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very nice. 2 minutes, you say? Instinct tells me that that's not physically possible, but for now I'm gonna believe you. One thing though, it looks somewhat feminine to me, and strangely it doesn't seem to me much like cecil (but don't let that get you down, I'm the visual equivalent to tone deaf).

*cough*

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It took a whole two minutes to put it out. It sure is easy when the drawing is done and you're not using a lot of colours.

It took me 2 minutes to throw some watercolour on it, since I had previously had done the ink drawing (like x months before). The actual drawing maybe took me about a half hour when I had completed that part of it so many months ago.

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kame, tortue, tortuga, schildkröte, tartaruga, turtle

"Arthur Dent?"
"Yes."
"Arthur Philip Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're a total knee biter."

Lovely! I like the watercolorness, though it was quickly done. I love the mask, it's got this metallic look to it. The hair's really pretty, too. ^.^

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

That's fantastic! I honestly can't find anything wrong other than the image being a bit large.

I think you captured Cecil perfectly, and your talent with watercolors is still quite amazing.

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If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

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i really liked the eyes! there prettiful! lol, i also liked that you know hiragana too! im not too good with water colors, so yeah ,...lol
very very nice

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like the animation i made for my photo? lol