I'm drawing all the FF7 men in with the same lighting direction and to keep in mind one thing...when the whole series is completed they are going to be put together in one master compilation peice. This will have a significant amount clean up done to them while maintaining the original look and feel.

Featured will be:

Sephiroth (completed)
Vincent(completed)
Tseng (completed)
Barrett(completed)
Zack (new Zack picture will be done for this)
Cloud
Cid
Rufus
Yazoo
Loz
Kadaj
Reno
Rude
Genesis
Angeal
Lazard
(No...Hojo is NOT making it in.)

I don't think I'm missing anyone but please let me know if I am and I'll decide whether or not they're going to make it in.

I began work on the next Final Fantasy 7 picture which will be done the same spirit as the Sephiroth and Zack pictures. I picked the hardest one I could think of to do first; Barrett Wallace.

I've completed the body and have to work on the gun arm and the face, which I've erased probably 5 times already for various reasons.
He's really hard! I say that for a host of reasons:

1. He always looks so pissed off, or like he's going to pound on someone. So all the references I have of him he's got cranky face on. Stripping that away and maintaining his look has proved to be difficult.
2. He's doesn't have the typical look which I'm used to drawing.
3. His features are harsh. Broad chin, charp cheek bones...
4. I'll admit, I've rarely drawn black guys and he's an asian/black combination it seems (based on the eyes). The features are a stretch for me. The nose was hard at first but then I redrew is so often that it doesn't look so strange to me anymore. Its the boxy shape of his face which is getting me.
5. He's a big guy. Seriously, he's overly muscled. I've tweaked the other guy's body shapes a little so I've messed with his...just a bit.
6. He has a freaking mechanical hand!
7. I'm trying not to give him the gangsta look he seems to have.
8. A lot of the reference shots I'm using have him with rotating features! Seriously! In some his eyes are small, in others they're large. His tattoo seems to float around his arm and change size. In some shots it takes up his whole upper arm, in others its just up on his shoulder!

Anyway, so the body is done and there's only a few things left to do (yes I'll draw the body before the head. I know that seems a little ass backwards but its what works for me. I also draw the features first before the face shape...I'm crazy that way. Its not how I learned but I find I get the face shape more accurate to what I want and get it to match up with the features easier that way.)

I'm not sure who is coming after this one but this is the list:

Cid
Vincent
Cloud
Reno
Rude
Rufus
Genesis
Angeal
Kadaj
Yazoo
Loz
Tseng (added thanks to *RavynneNevyrmore )
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Dante
Squall
Tidus

Its an ambitious list and I may add some others on there as I progress. Let me know if you think someone needs to be added to this. THEY NEEDN'T BE FINAL FANTASY RELATED.

I'll consider any character suggested (males only, not too interested in doing females right now).

First off I want to say WTF? Apparently my You'll Thank Me Later picture made someone mad?!?!? What's with that?

Anyway, I've line up a couple things I want to sketch out in the next little while, child permitting. (Colicky babies are fun!)
Not in order, I'm looking at doing pin up styles of all the FFVII men as a series (at least the original men) and possibly a few from other FF. I'm also thinking of doing one of Dante, I just don't know which version of Dante I want to use.

So I finally have a new scanner. sort of new. New to me. I mentioned to my sister in law that I had to pick up a new scanner and she just happened to have one laying around that she never used, so she gave me her scanner!
Woot!
That being said, I haven't done much and might not do much in the next little while as I said. I need to finish the rough draft of the commission and then work on that, but I'm not certain when I'm going to get much in the mood.
Reason for this is some rough news I've recently gotten which has pretty much sapped the passion and motivation right out of me.
Generally speaking, I went in to get something checked and while that turned out to be nothing they did find something more serious going on. My pregnancy is fine though I'm now in the high risk category. After the pregnancy is when I get to find out if I have to have heart surgery.
I'm not dying but if I plan to stay that way it MAY involve surgery. How serious this is however, is a mystery until I've had the baby and the can look into it properly. In the meantime however they aren't concerned that this is going to get too bad, but I'm being monitored soon to be fairly closely to make sure that doesn't change.
So as you can imagine, that is doing a number on me mentally.
Normally, it would be hard to deal with but I'm also horomonal right now.
So while I have no intention on quitting, I have a LOT of crap going on in my life right now.
Still, I have a scanner and hopefully I'll have some stuff to put up in the next little while because I have done SOME stuff recently.

Actually am doing a commission! A colour one so it'll be a bit.
No details on it though, sorry.
It will be posted but with a heavy watermark probably and only after the client has had it for a while.
I'm also getting a new scanner this week. Two are somewhat related.

Having a bad time with technology lately though. First the scanner went, then the computer, now my camera...WTF????

Not sure how much drawing I'm going to get done in the next while other than stuff which is paid, sorry. We'll see how it goes. Working full time, having a husband and a five year old, being 5 1/2 months pregnant and sleepy all the time and writing a book are cutting into my drawing time.

Anyway, speaking of sleepy, I have to go to bed.