[Lightning Returns FB Contest] Shadow Chaser

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Some weeks ago Koch Media Spain hold another Lightning Returns design contest. We also had to design her a new armor, but this time we didn't had the sames restrictions as on deviantART.

I decided to draw her wearing some kinf od "light" armor, as she only uses a breastplate and a shoulderguard. At first I thought that the breastplate came out a bit plain, that's why I added that kind of pattern to it, and I think it looks pretty good. I also wanted to keep something roman-alike , ans that's why I added the rope on the sides and the middle of the outfit. She also uses a blue transparent cape with an swirly pattern on the bottom part of it.

Since it's an spear based armor, it doesn't hsa a very big/heavy shield, but a simple armguard with claws on the top. The armor is very light, so she can move quicly, and it's water/wind elemental.

This desing didn't won, as in deviantART. It seems that you need to design a battle bikini in order to win.

[Practise] What r u lookin' at?

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Wow! It's been a long time since I last updated this~

Lately I've been practicing some things such as painting using photoshop and drawing male bodies. This piece is part of those practices. I can't say that I'm really satisfied with the results, but at the same time I'm not unsatisfied...it's a bit weird xD.

Anyway, while doing this I discovered that painting using photoshop is way more harder that using say, because you need to use the dropper tool a lot, and you can get thing wrong if you don't use it properly.

For making this piece, I used sandara's and  DanLuVisiArt's brushes.

You can see some of my practices here.

Lightning Returns Contest Entries

A few weeks ago deviantART held a contest along with Square Enix to celebrate the launch of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the last title of the FFXIII triology.  We (the participants) had some troubles with the contest rules, since we understood that we had to design outfits for lightning which could be original or based on the FFXIII universe, while some other people understood that we could only do the second thing. Anyway, I ended up making three different entries, come are fully-original and the others are based on the FFXIII universe:

Rising Phoenix

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For me, Lightning resembles, in some way, to a phoenix, since she has fallen and rised so many times, as phoenix do. She started being a soldier, then she was made a L'Cie, Champion of Etro and now she's the Savior, and I think that's like living so many different lifes.

The armour consists on a golden breastplate, a gloden choker, an armguard two leg-guards and a knee protector (this one and the armguard has the shape of a flame).
The other parts of her clothing consits on a leather top (where the back feathers are attached), a pair of leather shorts with a zipper on the sides, a pair of stockings, leather boots (with zippers on the middle and fire ornaments on the tip), leather belts a short glove on her shield hand decorated with feathers and a long fingerless glove decorated with diamonds in the knuckles. She also wears a cape which has the shape of three phoenix tails attached to the back of the leather top. The white thing is based on an ancient rome robe and it's attached using a rounded golden piece with a phoenix drawn on it.

This is a fire elemental armor which can absorb part of the fire-based attacks, enhances the effect of healing items/skills, increases the Attack Speed and he HP a bit.

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Crystal Knight

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I made this armor taking a little refference from her XIII-2 armor and played a bit with the shapes. The metal is specially worked to make it resemble to a crystalised L'Cie, plus this is a reminder to Lightning's L'Cie past.

Under the armor she wears a corset, a pair of little shorts (not seen here), elastic gloves and thighs andleather boots and belts. She also wears some pearls as an ornament and some crystal tears to resemble Serah's one.
The Sword and shield are also made of crystal.

This armor elements are Blizzard and Aero (or Wind, I don't know the name of the english version), and it's specially effective against Cie'th enemies. It's a very heavy armor, but also a very powerful one. It gives a high protection.

The hairpin has the ame shape as the shield.

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Unleashed Chaos

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I based the this outfit on Lightning's one from FFXIII, but I altered the shape of some parts. Also, some of the accesories and patterns are based on monsters and characters from the whole FFXIII saga, they are:

- Snow Villiers (boots)
- Caius Ballad (purple thing on her hips)
- Cid Raines / Yaag Rosch (leather bracelet on her left arm)
- Lumina (thing on her right arm and necklace)
- Zaltys (neck piece of the coat and arrow thing.
- Anubis (the squared things on the tighs and sword)
- Bhunivelze (pattern of the jacket and shield)

The jacket, skirt, bracelet and boots are made of leather, she also has a little top under the jacket, one long glove and claws in one of her hands. The claws, the decorations of the neck of the jacket and that kind of "arrow" at the bottom of the jacket are made of gold, and the blue and green parts are gems.

The main elements of this outfit are darkness and lightning, it has a low defense, but a very high speed.

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We also had problems with the sizeof the file, since it was a bit weird and didn't let us show all the detaills of our designs.
Anyway, I'm happy to have designed some outfits for my fave female Final Fantasy Character, plus Tetsuya Nomura will be the judge!

The contest resutls will be given the on the 7th, 8tn and 99th of March, so wish me luck! (I don't really think I'll win anything xD).

[Commission] Isoru

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I'm very sorry for writting this entry so late! though anyone seems to read them, YAY!

I was commissioned to draw an scene of Tali and an injured Shepard in a hospital where Tali is holding him. At first I thiught about drawing Shepard lying on a bed, but since the commissioner wanted it to be a full-body drawing, I drew them whis way, lately I knew that he wanted me to draw the first thing I thought...but I was happy to read that he liked it this way too xDDD.


The references I was sent some references for Tali and Shepard, but the images had such a low resolution that I've had probably missed some details, specially on Tali's outfit. I made a shirtless Shepard because the commissioner asked me to draw the bandages in certain places and this was the perfect way to show them, and I know that Shepard's anatomy is weird (that arm... ¬¬).


I managed to draw the perspective thanks to the awesome Photsshop tool "Vanishing Point" (I don0t know if this is the actual translation xD), but anyway I still had to look for some references for hospitals, because at first I drew so much tiles and looked more like a bathroom than like a hospital xD.