Final Fantasy XII (Vaan/Penelo)
Jul. 6th, 2007 07:55 amTitle: Airship Maintenance: Serious Business.
Artist:
maho_kiwi
Rating: G
File size: 1010x517, 100k
A/N: Prompt: #23 Final Fantasy XII, Vaan/Penelo: Mechanics, engineering - in the belly of the airship

Artist:
Rating: G
File size: 1010x517, 100k
A/N: Prompt: #23 Final Fantasy XII, Vaan/Penelo: Mechanics, engineering - in the belly of the airship
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:14 pm (UTC)Btw, I really love your art.
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:27 pm (UTC)aw, thank you :3
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:11 pm (UTC)Love the look on Penelo's face. And upside-down Vaan. ♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:30 pm (UTC)even I think Vaan looks ridiculous, so I imagine Penelo will be laughing for hours.
Upside down Vaan. Never not funny.
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:11 pm (UTC)SO much love for the effects of gravity in this.
And the gold/brown/bronze tones--it's so warm.
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:33 pm (UTC)Gravity is fun to play with ^^ Er, in a more than "and then everyone stayed anchored to the earth" sort of way.
Yes, I love warm tones. I almost always end up adding red filters to stuff when I'm done (and that's after I've picked out all warm tones to begin with). I think it just makes a piece look that much more vibrant.
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:37 pm (UTC)And though they're really cute, is it wrong that my favorite part of this is the tool box? I think you did a wonderful job on that little detail, which somehow makes the rest of the piece work. ^_^
Yay for backgrounds and detailed objects! :D
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:43 pm (UTC)Thanks! I r practicing my backgrounds! I think my favorite part of this was the detailing on Penelo's outfit, and also the wires in the airship (there are even wires up there in the panel with Vaan, but they got sort of...hard to see, at this size. Buu) I really enjoy doing little fudgy detailing, but it seems like I'm always running out of time/patience, before I get to. I was glad to have the extra time on this one. ^^
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Date: 2007-07-06 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 04:20 pm (UTC)Thank you :3
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Date: 2007-07-06 04:37 pm (UTC)just yes yes yes. SO MUCH ENCOMPASSES MY LOVE FOR THOSE TWO, RIGHT HERE <3333
Thank you for drawing this.
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Date: 2007-07-06 05:20 pm (UTC)I had a lot of fun drawing it, so I'm glad that it came out as cute to other people ^^ I'm sure whatever Vaan had to say was very important! But it's just going to have to wait until Penelo is done laughing.
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Date: 2007-07-06 05:42 pm (UTC)I love their expressions, how clearly it looks like Vaan has no idea how entertaining he is right now. ^^
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Date: 2007-07-06 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 06:09 pm (UTC)Very nice piece! :)
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Date: 2007-07-06 06:45 pm (UTC)thank you!
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Date: 2007-07-06 06:58 pm (UTC)I actually like how they're not the total focus of the pic? How there's more background around them. It makes them look like so much more a part of their environment and makes it more relaxed somehow? :) With it a little bigger and with all the open space, this'd make the cutest desktop pic. ^__^
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:54 pm (UTC)yeah, in the original conception of this pic, the background and the composition were pretty important, in my mind. I'm glad I was able to work that stuff in, mostly like I wanted ^^
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Date: 2007-07-06 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-06 09:03 pm (UTC)I loved it when I saw the preview, I love it now. Makes me happy.
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Date: 2007-07-06 09:33 pm (UTC)\o/
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Date: 2007-07-06 10:09 pm (UTC)...Part of this, I'm sure, is that I'm not an artist, and so the coloring process is still sort of magical to me. ^^
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Date: 2007-07-07 02:31 am (UTC)I guess to me, it feel like seeing the picture is a lot of the punch to the image. Like the climatic scene. You wouldn't want to show that off prior to posting the story.
So showing, say, a sketch of something that will eventually be colored and have a fabulous detailed background seems okay, but then showing an image that only lacks color feels like a lot of that punch has been taken out. People have already seen it, so it doesn't feel like the interest will be there.
Like posting an un-betaed, un-edited version, and then the clean version. The one is better than the other, but most people aren't going to take the time for the second one, because they already know what's going to happen, doesn't matter that it's going to happen better in the second go-round.
Of course, I'm neurotic, so.
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Date: 2007-07-06 11:52 pm (UTC)So cute, Vaan looks totally different with his hair like that, it's strange, but awesome. xD And I really like how it's off-center, a good composition. :3
Sadly, I only have on icon with Vaan in it. D:
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Date: 2007-07-07 02:28 am (UTC)He really does. It's sort of fascinating, really, the difference a hair-style change makes. Thank you :3
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Date: 2007-07-07 04:46 am (UTC)I think you do a wonderful job with expressions in general, and it really shows here, especially with Penelo's body language. Aww.
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Date: 2007-07-07 04:07 pm (UTC)Thank you! Often it feels like I'm drawing the same two expressions for everything, so it's nice to hear that they come out well.
♥
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Date: 2007-07-07 06:55 am (UTC)I really love the way you manage body language, how it says so much and adds to the expressions and the whole mood, and I also adore how warm the colors are.
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Date: 2007-07-07 04:08 pm (UTC)One of the things I've been working on, with my art, is trying to make actual scenes that look more organic and natural. For the longest time, all I did was profile-style shots of people, standing around, looking at the "camera" Moving away from that has been sort of an issue for me, but I'm trying!
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Date: 2007-07-10 12:11 am (UTC)thanks~