Thumbnails I drew for my Final Fantasy IX stream VODs on YouTube!
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Garnet Til Alexandros/Dagger as Flora
Magic Winx
Enchantix
Believix
Sophix
Lovix
& Harmonix
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⚔️"Rusty!?! I am Sir Adelbert Steiner of Alexandria!“⚔️
Trance!Steiner to celebrate his birthday month 😎 I’d love to draw him again soon!
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Oh I understand completely, his stupid hat is annoying to pin down so I’ll happily provide what tips I can offer. (I don’t usually write about step-by-step art progress so I hope this is comprehensible lolll)
For starters; I do a bit of cheating since I own his bring arts figure. But it genuinely makes understanding his hat at different angles so much less of a headache. Here are some refs I compiled to help give a more detailed look at how it works!
Also after poking around a bit, I think his hat is based on a Morion? It’s also worth having a look at those for visual references.
I had a lot of trouble figuring out the exact shape at first, but he essentially has three ‘segments’ of the hat with two stripes of ribbing before coming up to this awkward tip.
(Though the tip of the hat doesn’t really have that point like in my sketch, I tend to include it because I personally like the sillhouette it gives him. Also sort of maintains that weird dent it has.)
Jumping to the brim, it is usually the first part of the hat I start drawing, it helps out the direction and angle of the rest of the structure. I do a curved stroke just above his eyes and figure out a crease around the front of his helm.
I always make sure to keep an eye’s length of open space from his head. (I don’t quite known how to phrase that properly? I’m still talking about the shape of the brim.) It slops down quite far around his head shape, so I always try to make sure that it feels less like an awkward hat sitting atop of his head and moreso covering around his head.
I think the next best thing I can suggest is just to try doing studies of his hat at different angles. Use these photos as a reference if you want to practice!
There are definitely ways I can also improve on drawing his stupid hat myself as well, and building up that structure freehand is a good step towards understanding it. If anyone has anything they’d like to add, I’d be interested to hear.
(edit: i didn’t talk about the feather- do whatever you want with that thing?? i like to give it more volume than it should probably have)
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Final Fantasy IX - Random Battle 35
Random battle from Final Fantasy IX, Festival of the Hunt concluded and the disturbing developments in Burmecia, Garnet’s disappearance with Steiner and an old friend of Zidane’s joining the part. Zidane, Vivi and Freya head out towards Gizamaluke’s Grotto, a cave passive through the mountains to Burmecia, on the way the trio are attacked in a wooded area by a Hedgehog Pie.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy IX check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VII check out this video.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VIII Remastered check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy X HD check out this video.
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Final Fantasy IX - Random Battle 34
Random battle from Final Fantasy IX, Festival of the Hunt concluded and the disturbing developments in Burmecia, Garnet’s disappearance with Steiner and an old friend of Zidane’s joining the party. Zidane, Vivi and Freya head out towards Gizamaluke’s Grotto, a cave passive through the mountains to Burmecia, on the way the trio are attacked by a pair of Hedgehog Pie’s.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy IX check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VII check out this video.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VIII Remastered check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy X HD check out this video.
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Playing through FFIX rn and is clinal depression a prerequisite to becoming a dragoon why is every single one of you bitches sad
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Final Fantasy IX - Random Battle 33.1 & 33.2
Random battle from Final Fantasy IX, this is part 1 of 2. Safely arrived in Lindblum after a close shave with a Black Waltz and the South Gate. Zidane heads out alone onto the Lindblum Plateau, here he is attacked by Carve Spider and Axe Beak, the battle dragged out longer by the Carve Spider using is Web attack which inflicts slow.
Random battle from Final Fantasy IX, this is part 2 of 2. The Axe Beak dealt with, just the web casting Carve Spider to handle.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy IX check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VII check out this video.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VIII Remastered check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy X HD check out this video.
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Final Fantasy IX - Random Battle 32
Random battle from Final Fantasy IX. Safely arrived in Lindblum after a close shave with a Black Waltz and the South Gate. Zidane heads out alone onto the Lindblum Plateau, here he is attacked by and quickly dispatches a pair of Carve Spiders.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy IX check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VII check out this video.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VIII Remastered check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy X HD check out this video.
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Final Fantasy IX - Random Battle 31
Random battle from Final Fantasy IX. Safely arrived in Lindblum after a close shave with a Black Waltz and the South Gate. Zidane heads out alone onto the Lindblum Plateau, here he is attacked by a pair of Axe Beak’s.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy IX check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VII check out this video.
For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VIII Remastered check out this video.
For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy X HD check out this video.