🇵🇷Boricua🇵🇷

I finally got myself to paint winter for the seasons series that I started over an year ago. The idea behind this mini portrait series is to portray all four seasons through/as male characters, so this is Winter for the series. 

I wanted to challenge myself to paint more males as well when I started the series, as coming up with appealing and varied designs for male characters is more challenging for me. But I want to paint these portraits equally detailed and keep the nature-inspired aesthetics present in the designs. About the character concept behind this illustration: being and embodiment of icy cold winter, it would follow in his footsteps where ever he goes, and all things would be covered in ice and frost in seconds upon his arrival. As weapons he could use weapons made of hard, magical ice as well as ice spells. Because the theme for this was winter, I stuck to cold color palette. I kind of felt that I needed to paint a simpler portrait for a change after painting many bigger paintings in a row. In any case, I hope you guys like it! Programs used & info Layers used: around 400 Paint tool SAI: basic painting Photoshop: adjustments and after effects

FFVI - Terra Branford

FFVI fanart, Terra Branford. Even now, after playing the part many times, I can’t help but get goosebumps when the game starts and her theme start to play while they march towards the mine town Narche planning to use her in order to destroy it. Absolutely fantastic mood that never loses it’s charm. As her inventory art pic and in game sprite had light greenish hair, I always imagined her to have one instead of blond shes sometimes portrayed to have.  I like Yoshitaka Amano’s style and design for her as well, but also the one they ended using in the game. So I merged all of those things together in this portrait.

Tools: Sai and Photoshop, don’t remove the source or repost outside tumblr.

Cool!

Original work for practice. I tried to work with different blues here, with limited color palette. I have also been trying to paint different face angles to get better at them. I also experimented with my painting process and painted this a bit faster than I usually do. So this was the result of those experiments, she is some kind of a winter spirit.  ^^.