And in with the new. Yes, fellow subbers and yuri fans ( for those of you who are into it, anyway XD ), I am doing away with the Fire Emblem portraits and doing my own. The idea was sitting in front of me all along. As an avid fan of the Sims series ( having played it since its inception in 2000 ), I realised I could use their stances as a base for some of my portraits from my old Sims2/Sims3 screenshots. The stances themselves are anatomically correct ( most of the time, anyway ), so I can flip the portraits now without getting those dreaded errors.

For their outfits, I just used the old FE edit portrait as a base from which to work from ( since Tristy's armour is tricky to freehand ) and ended up with this after about 5-6 hours of sprite work.



I was literally whistling as I did her, because I somehow managed to make Tristy even better looking ( if that were possible ) by changing her colour scheme and giving her softer, more feminine eyes. Matches her armour too. <3

But boy, she sure looks damn good in royal blue armour and a white cape. I'm happy with the way her shading came out as well. And dat sprite... Come to think of it, Tristy now reminds me of Fire Emblem's Geoffrey ( the same dude on whom Leon from FFD was roughly based ) in his third tier outfit ( as a Silver Knight, Geo has the same royal blue armour and wears a white cape. And looks damn fine <3 ).

HUGE image in hide tag.

That's Geo as a Lance Paladin for those of you who aren't well versed with earlier Fire Emblem games. =) And the character in my avatar's younger brother lol. Senri Kita did amazing work for the Tellius-based Fire Emblem games. She's the same artist who did Marth's Fire Emblem Awakening Spotpass artwork.



And there's Ianna's base, still waiting to be coloured. ^^ Her eye still looks a bit wonky though.

So the end result is ultimately something that, while still rooted in traditional FE design, feels more like a work of my own rather than an edit/recolour. And everyone prefers original works over rips/edits, anyhoo. =)


I really, really, really like this new title screen too. It's very striking.

But dayum, Tristy ( had to fan myself several times, lol ). You can still create striking female characters without showing little to no skin. Tristy is living proof of that. Oh, and Ianna too. XD No bikini armour for my lady knight, no siree!

Will update with Tristy's expression set and Ianna's full colour portrait.