FFXII (Basch/Vaan, Reks)

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Title: I can't
Artist: maho_kiwi
Rating: G; guilt, woe, etc.
File size: 624x691, 188k
Prompt: Basch/Vaan: Guilt - "I can't"
A/N: Apologies for the lateness, I don't even have an excuse for it. I'm sorry.
This one is...different, style-wise. I actually really like it, like this.

Comments

[sister-coyote.livejournal.com]

*squeee*

oh wow, the composition -- the reflection just kills me. ♥ ♥ ♥

[laylah.livejournal.com]

oh, poor Basch. so full of guilt. *pets him*

I really like how you composed this, how the reflection works. and woobie little Reks's big huge eyes. <3

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

thank you! I felt like that particular part was really important -- not that Vaan looks like Reks, but more that when Basch looks at Vaan, that's what he sees. So I needed a way to show both their faces, while having Basch facing Vaan. So! Mirrors.

<3

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

such guilt. "You'll be fine" he says. >->;

Rek's eyes will EAT YOUR SOUL

[mithrigil.livejournal.com]

I think the disjointed, wider-eyed style works for this picture, lends the whole thing a nightmarish quality. And as was said, WELL composed!

[regicidaldwarf.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HEARTBREAK THE WOOBIE EYES KILL ME! D: D: D: (But also ♥ ♥ ♥)

Yeah, this was one of my prompts, and just. Wow. The reflection, the eyes. I love it.

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could tell Reks' huge eyes were sort of ...distressing, but I did feel like it was sort of appropriate. So I'm glad it works.

Thank you~

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

HUGE WOOBIE EYES D:

oh yay! I'm glad you like it, then. ^^ Despite the trouble it gave me, it was fun, and I'm happy with how it turned out.
♥

[white_aster]

Th...the EYES OH GOD. So totally effective at being disturbing!

right under the part that the reflection shows, he's totally all bleeding and horror-movieesque, isn't he? oh god and now I need to go to bed and be haunted by woobie!eyed!Reks.... O_O

[lassarina]

I love that we can't see Vaan's face, but Reks is looking with the huge eyes and the kicked-puppy expression, and how Basch looks like he hates himself and it's almost physically hurting him to do this. Just gorgeous. ♥

[lynndyre.livejournal.com]

There's so much *feeling* in this.

Reks, who will always, always look *just like that*, and Basch's pain. Vaan has no idea what's going on, does he?

The purple makes me think of Basch's 'Fulminating Darkness' quickening. Guiiiiiiilt.

[sheffiesharpe.livejournal.com]

*sniiiiiiiff*

Nothing like a little misery and woe with breakfast. Eerie and fraught and *shiver*. Nicely done!

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

I so gasped out loud when I saw this, I admit it :| Followed, of course, by a very strong feeling of 'awwwwwww'. Really nicely done. So much emotion on Basch's and Rex's faces, but even more than that, there's an almost physical sensation of Basch pushing Vaan away, this really conveys that. Makes me want to see someone write a fic for this specific art :3

[dragonspire.livejournal.com]

Poor Basch. -pets him- So much ill fate he sees in a face. In Vaan, Reks, in his own, Noah. D: Woe.

-snuggles- I too like the composition, and I like the purple strok-y background, kind of makes it dreamlike.

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Big woobly "it's all going to be okay RIGHT?" eyes. AND IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT OKAY.

he totally is. It's just that I realized if I drew any lower I'd have to draw Basch's arm in reverse and I didn't wanna :<

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

*prr~*
He really doesn't. Has no idea why Basch is making "I've just kicked a puppy" face at him.

[white_aster]

Poor Reks. Poor BASCH. :(((

hah, I can totally respect that. :)

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

*patpat*
breakfast of champions? The idea, when I saw the prompt, was sort of like getting a swift kick in the spleen. >-> woooooe~


thank you!

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

thank you! I'm happy to hear it was evocative. Basch's reluctance seemed really important (since that was how I had chosen to interpret the guilt/I cant of the prompt) so I'm really glad that came through.
I would also like to read that fic :x *cough*
Thank you :)

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the poor guy just can't catch a break V-V

Thank you! It was sort of difficult to pull off, but I'm glad it worked, in the end :)

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

thank you!
Yeah, I'm really fond of Reks' big-eyed wooby/creepy stare. It was a fabulous prompt for that sort of thing

♥

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Oo, great expressions and body language. I love the style, too! I think it feels more alive in this style, a little sketchy with the pencils, than totally cleaned up and inked (all digital, I know, but I do digital too and I totally think the terms still apply as long as real media is what it looks like).

[sethra-bf.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks really great. I really like the composition and the coloring style. It has a really cool fairy tale illustrated look to it.

[dragonspire.livejournal.com]

Well, he ca-aan... he just. Doesn't. -shakes fist at canon- Why can't you have more pr0n! D:

You're welcome though. And yeah, I often have trouble making up something for backgrounds too. Generally try to avoid them. -is a bad Kuro-

[simargl-wings.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the puppy-dog eyes! Basch's expression! *dead*

[threewalls]

Poor Basch!

I would swear Reks' eyes are always that wide, and I like that Basch doesn't seem to have his eyebrow scar yet in the mirror-image (though, hmm, Reks' eyes went really wide when 'Basch', ehm, and it is a mirror... and Vaan's Reks' brother...).

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was pretty sure that I knew what I wanted the expressions to be doing, for this piece, and I'm glad they came out well :)
*nod* a sketchy picture always appeals to me, too, but the hard part is always deciding where the line between "sketchy" and "sloppy" is ^^;

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

thank you! This entire round of SK has been an experiment in how far I can push myself, composition wise, and it's been a lot of fun

♥

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

*phoenix downs*
nuuu don't add to his guilt! ;D

<3

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Reks does have the whole wide-eyed "I BELIEVE IN YOU, SIR" look going, all the time, doesn't he? ^^;;;

[threewalls]

So... is it Gabranth-as-Basch in the mirror with Reks?

[simargl-wings.livejournal.com]

You need a gambit!

Flist looks at pretty > KO > Raise

I am such a dork...