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Jun 15, 2011 17:25

Sometimes I think I should possibly not be doing this making prints and stuff for money thing. After seeing so much interest in my Suikoden pins and hearing about at least one person who wished to see more Suikoden prints, I got all inspired to make some more related art with hopes of actually finishing them and being able to sell them. And if I ( Read more... )

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unimpressive June 15 2011, 23:12:13 UTC
I vote for beavers.

Wait, no, that's stupid.

Last I checked IV was very much a black sheep, and II is still the rarely-disputed best from the series. How about Flik and/or Viktor? Clive? Killey? Shu? Bob? I have no idea who's popular.

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quatrina June 15 2011, 23:23:04 UTC
Haha everybody loves II best and I'm just like, I don't even really care that much about any of the characters in that one. Especially Riou, he can jump in the lake. Basically if I do anyone from II it's going to end up being Raura and everyone will be like WHO THE HELL IS THIS?

I shoooould be drawing Flik and Viktor and all the main heroes and their BFFs or whatever, basically everyone they actually MADE A FIGURINE OF but nooope, hey how about I stick a couple more farmers in this lineup? Jesters? Narcissists? Anyone else equally useless? Yyyyeah.

I took a break from messing with these to try to resurrect an old SaGa Frontier picture of mine instead. FIFTY STEPS BACKWARDS!

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unimpressive June 16 2011, 00:58:14 UTC
I totally support doing Vincent de Boule or any other narcissist.

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unimpressive June 16 2011, 01:00:23 UTC
NO WAIT GO FOR QLON

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onewaystair June 16 2011, 00:10:10 UTC
I vote for Kika because swords + pink hair on a hot grumpy chick. And Hortez, because people seem to like Egyptian shit, generally, even if they have no idea what it's referencing.

Do you hate Sasarai as much as you hate Luc? Just wondering since he's fairly popular as well and has a much nicer outfit. :V

Also people are insane about Yuber to the degree that it scares me (and I love him, or at least to hate him). And Albert, who I think is an incredibly, inexcusably boring shadow of a Silverberg but your mileage may vary.

If I tried to do this I might end up illustrating loving homages to Wilhelm's glorious clusterfuck of pink Civil War-era-esque sideburns and un-stache, so I can't say much about liking minor characters more. I do like most of the main characters and their rivals, but in a relative sense they are so boring, compared to the bit characters. The only one I find interesting is Nash, who is most interesting when he is older and... not a main character anymore. I also have a disturbingly persistent fondness for Rody, who ( ... )

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quatrina June 16 2011, 00:25:58 UTC
Wilhelm's sideburns, yes please. XD

Kika was actually the first one I did, and I'll probably finish her at least. I find Sasarai more tolerable for not being a total self-absorbed angstmuffin. I might be able to bring myself to draw Suikoden II Luc because I liked him back then, but I'd much rather go draw somebody ridiculous. All my favorite characters are in III and IV, so I will probably end up inadvisably stuck mostly in those two games. XD

At least Rody can fight at all! I wish Barts and Hortez could, because I am convinced they would totally kick ass. XD Okay they would almost certainly suck BUT I'D TAKE THEM EVERYWHERE ANYWAY.

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blumelon June 16 2011, 02:39:28 UTC
As much as I love Jeremy, I'd say Kika or Ted would probably be the best for selling in the future. They're quuuuiiiiiite a bit more popular lol. I actually thought these were supposed to be tarot card type prints at first!

It's probably too hard for me to care one way or the other about Luc since I never played 2 and maybe he got development there or something that explains why he turned in 3 like that? It just seemed like "oh hey I'm the minor dude who stands near this brick or whatever doing nothing much and then two games later BIG BAD all of a sudden"... What? Haha.

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quatrina June 16 2011, 02:52:38 UTC
See I know that and yet there is absolutely NO WAY I am not going to at least draw Barts and Hortez. Trishtan would mostdef be up there, but I couldn't decide on a pose for him. XD And haha back in the day I actually was working on Suikoden Tarot cards, but that really never got anywhere and I don't really think I could do it again.

No, it really did come out of ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE. :D He was just kind of a brat who stood around the tablets in the first two games. So disappointing. :D;

Maaan I miss those three guys. XD I need to do a decent Urabiseinen picture sometime too.

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chibibritt June 20 2011, 17:58:20 UTC
Might sound weird, but make a sign that literally says "well-loved characters from unloved series"

It will get attention. Add some glitter or something bright and I bet people will pay attention to it.

At the very least they will talk to you and maybe ask for commissioning things a lot of artists have never heard and such.

Just a thought.

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quatrina June 20 2011, 18:05:53 UTC
Haha maybe, but I'm still stuck on the unloved characters from the unloved series. I probably should put more consideration into my display now that you mention it. I will start thinking about what to do for AnimeFest I guess? Maybe I'll try to do a couple representative posters of those unloved series so I can put them up and people will go "OMG THIS PERSON DRAWS THIS!" XD

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