Citan: Guardian Angel Xenogears color pencils Amber Michelle	Elly: Motorcycle Babe Xenogears medium unspecified Wai Chu Yu	Primera's Gentle Smile Xenogears pencil, Painter 4, Photoshop Aki
My Body Guard Zelda: Ocarina of Time Adobe Photoshop 5, Pilot V Pen Richard Abril	The Master Sword Zelda: Ocarina of Time Rendered Image Rick Groce	Triumph of Ganondorf Zelda: Ocarina of Time mechanical pencil / Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Tom Szakolczay (T.A.S)
Frightened Little Marlene Final Fantasy VII pencil Lady Merit	The Powerful Sorcery of Bleu Breath of Fire Series Prismacolor pencils AnnMage	Musashi strikes a pose Brave Fencer Musashi pencil Marcus Eakers
Mog in the ANSI Ages Final Fantasy VI ANSI screen Hung T. Nguyen	Come to Me, my Son... Final Fantasy VII ball point pen Leng Sy	Lady Dragonrider Faris Final Fantasy V ink, Photoshop 5 Sandara-3

Critique Corner

Critique Corner Session Four: Sabbatical...

Hiyas everyone...Well, a month of dutifully working as Fanart Maintainer, I'm plumb exhausted. If you don't mind, I'll do one critique for today, and then keep the bigger plan I had for Critique Corner till next week. (We'll cover faces...I need to dig up some research anyway.) sorry about this! Artist: Artemis Subject: Relm Arrowny and company Medium: pencil, crayon Comment: Anyway, my problem is that I'm not very good and pencil crayon shading! Can you help me?! And I'm also not very good at mesureing out the width and length of eyes! Don't panic! Lorelai shall help (uh yeah...well, I'll try) ^_^ Let's see, about shading...I suggest that you take an irregularly shaped object, put it under a lamp, and then draw it. Concentrate on the shadows. This object can first be a stuffed animal, then try a pair of wrinkled jean, or for the ultimate challege: Crumpled paper. When you're comfortable with these shadow practicies, have somone stand in sunlight and draw them as fast as you can (no need for detail; we're just looking for shadow and light.) that's the only way you can build up an experience of where light and dark usually falls on a human being, or an orange, or an airship, or a silk dress. Practicing helps you form "stereotypes" in your mind so you don't always need to work off a live model. As for length and width of eyes...anime eyes tend to be much closer together than real human eyes, because anime eyes are, in short, HUGE. And their faces consist of no noses (or hardly any). I'll do a sketch next time on the human face, and post it in critique corner, ok? thanks for writing Artemis!

Lorelai's Final Comments

Whew...I'm pooped. Still working on an archive of fanart. (If all goes well you'l be able to see fanart, sorted by update, back from the days of Maniscalco!) Also, please don't be vexed if the art just taken off this page aren't in their proper categories by game yet. It takes me hours just to get this page up alone...the others will be placed slowly but surely, at most a couple days later. Also...any volunteers to string up the Critique corners into downloadable files??? I don't have Adobe Distiller, and I wanted to use PDF format. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested in being a nice person and helping Lorelai out. ^_^ (and impress me by whipping out some credentials if you wish, hehe) One last thing..is the resolution ok for everyone??? I shrink fonts down a size often; you people with WebTV, are you ok with it? Can you read all I type? Please tell me if there are any problems, we'll solve them right away! -- Happy to be serving the RPG community! -- Lorelai (and boy do I mean POOPED...)