JIHAUS'S PROFILE

DAY 23



Only one today, this time the Mystic which was formerly Time Mage. This example is one of several in this assignment in which a new idea for an outfit didn't hit me instantly, so I thought about something from another culture instead. Even in FF the differences between a white mage and a time mage are somewhat small as if it wasn't for some indentifying patterns or garments they could easily be the same class ( hilariously the priests I designed look like FF Time Mages with more elaborate robes anyway) and convey the same archetype (squishy magic user), so I wanted to do something with a more distinct visual difference. Hopefully it's not too weird, heh.

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Wunderbar!
These are some nice little sketches. Luv for chocolatier (or Is it Choco-latte-ier?).

It's chocolatier but I'm sure that Ocean can easily be persuaded to change it since tasty things are involved. Heh.

DAY 21



I was trying to see how it would turn out if I made fancier painted portraits by tracing and painting on top of my pencil sketches. I kinda like how it looks but I could probably clean it up more. I pretty much used the colors right from Ocean's sprites for consistency and because he's better at picking colors for shading than me. Also as awesome as it is that the male brawler totally looks like a 70s guy, I'm not that happy with the angle of his head and I might change it later when I have more time. Until then I'll probably hit up the rest.

DAY 19




Today's PB classes, featuring the former Blue Mage turned steampunk Alchemist and the former Summoner turned 80s car mechanic Machinist. Definitely a change of wardrobe between the concept art and the sprite on the latter though, but the general feel is the same either way and that's all that counts.

Thanks for the comments! The really heavily armored girl in question is definitely doing the same thing as space marines in 40k, so you're definitely spot on with that. I am actually also in agreement with Nova's because personally I tend to hate armor that only looks cool but doesn't look practical, which is what a lot of artists designing heavy armor/powersuits tend to do; that's why I made sure that a person can still reasonably fit in that thing.

But yeah the armor on day 10/17 are not meant to be a very mobile suit of armor and can be best described as a walking fortress, where it's meant to defend a place and be largely stationary. That's why she has a far lighter suit of armor (day 11) underneath all that and can purge the armor if necessary. The rest of the ladies are a far more practically armored, with the "sofa lady" of day 14 being a bit more like a sci fi-ish form fitting armor suit really (dat sexy lines). With the details, since I use history and real armor as my inspiration, a lot of the fancier ones really do get this detailed and ornate (moreso even) so I go crazy with that with these stationary drawings and integrate as much of their motif as possible. Obviously if I had to either do a comic of them or animate this in 2d, I'd have to SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the detail or else I'd kill myself, heh.

Thanks, I'm a bit of an excessive world builder so I'm very particular about details on characters as well as whether they're relevant to cultures, etc. Unfortunately these are no more than doodles at work so they'll be rough around the edges in general, and can best be considered concept art.

DAY 16



For characters that have more intricate or layered outfits I like to draw these style sheet type of things that I refer to as OCD diagrams, which are really just me filling a sketchbook page with details on a character's outfit, especially details that aren't normally seen. In this case I'm illustrating that this girl is in fact as much of an armored bastard as the rest of them. Also, that gun is actually not functional as a regular gun and is instead a magic-using implement called a "castgun" used for offensive magic by sorceresses like this lady.