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Final Fantasy: Advent Children Fanart

Full View please, it looks better that way. My finished digital commission artwork for my good penpal from Nippon, Ayane. She asked me to draw Cloud Strife from the FF:AC movie in my "quasi" style. I had alot of fun drawing this, considering that I actually started to use myself as a referrance model with the help of a mirror. The background is a simplified sketch of mixed places I had drawn when I was in the harbour of Rotterdam a few weeks ago. Below you can click links of the progress of this particular piece, and see that I actually drew all the stitches of his knitted shirt by hand. Alot of thanks and admiration for that goes out to the girl from the Punk Knitters LJ-Community, without them I would have never figured out what kind of knitpattern his zipped shirt uses. The whole piece is all created in Painter with custom brushes, no retrace apart from the rough sketch to the 1px linetool clean lineart. I used Photoshop to add the logo and text and compress the file for webview, because Painter 7 is not very good at handling such things. Thank you for looking.



Cloud Strife & all Final Fantasy indications is property of Tetsuya Nomura, Square-Enix
Fanart by KRB