Japanese fanart sites: part 4

This is probably the last update for Japanese fanart sites that are hopefully link-free. Again, if you have other sites to recommend, please let me know!

Sky Lodge by maiyue

FFT, FF12. Beautiful watercolor and digital paintings in rich colors. I guess technically this is not a Japanese site, but it is a must-see!

ジャポニカラクガキチョウ by アスパラ

FFT. Graceful painterly sketches, plus a game blog with sketches of many NPCs. Also, an amazingly beautiful and sad animation of the epilogue. One of my faves!

Pine-Pinx by sueble

FFT, FF12, Vagrant Story. There's only 1 FFt fanart, but this artist has such lovely delicate paintings, I'll link it anyways!

APM by タカオ

FFT, FFTA, others. The artist has a cute retro style, sparkly-eyed and absolutely precious. Colorful art and oekaki that you just have to see.

mangetsu-an by mangetsu

FFT, FF12. Wonderfully rendered digital paintings and sketches, dreamy and natural. Actually, you'll have to search for FFT, but just enjoy the other fanarts!

7m by 藤縄
This last site I'm not sure about linking... I am terrible at Japanese so I'll not link it for now. Too bad! Because it was really funny and cute.

Japanese fanart sites: Pumpkin head!

http://pumpkin.sakura.ne.jp/

This is a Japanese oekaki board for Final Fantasy Tactics related fanart. I love looking through their giant archives (back to 2000!), there are tons of talented artists and super cute artwork about all of the Ivalice games, plus random stuff. People in Japan are ridiculously talented and goofy.

Errr sorry, I haven't been updating much. I haven't actually succeeded in poaching rare items and I haven't gotten further in the Cloud subquest, which I really need to get cracking on. Right now my brother is stuck in a battle and I am not able to play, heh heh.

Here's a goofy tegaki I did, I never finish these things.

Japanese fanart sites: part 3

Well, many of these sites haven't been updated in a while, but they still have lots of pretty art for those of you who are looking for more Tactics fanworks.


89 by ひたき
Tactics, Advanced. Cute sketchy style with soft colors, be sure to check the logs for tons more funny doodles.


okoanism by おこあん
Tactics. Very bold semi-realistic style, like graphic design. Lots of character and generic class sketches to delight your eyes!


e倉庫 by 藤沢 明
Tactics, Advanced. Bold lineart and bright colors, with a really unique SD. Lots of generic class and old-man art that never fail to amuse me.


キラメクヒト by toppy
Tactics, others. A gorgeous painting and dozens of cute little oekaki sketches scattered about in a cheerful style.


4cc by スズシロ
Tactics, Advanced. Tons of beautiful sketches and little paintings in a bold and colorful style. Lots of funny group pictures, generics and other cast members, too!


Q-m3 by ツミレ
Tactics, others. Lovely painterly sketches, not too many.


国立少年　by 今村陽子
Tactics. I managed to get a doujinshi from this artist and it is not only gorgeous but funny. Lovely soft shading with beautiful antique texture.


リセット by 扇
Tactics, Advanced, 12. Funny and adorable drawings with bright colors and a fresh vibrant flair.


RMKYU by きゅきゅ
Tactics. Cute sketches and comics that I wish I could read better! Lots of Ramza love = awesome.

Yuguewood

I just fought the battle at Yuguewood, not too hard. I still have difficulty enticing characters in, but I suppose that's a tricky skill to use. Also, I have a dancer now, and that is way amusing watching her dance. Still haven't made much headway in the mage path, though. I just finally got a summoner, how long until I get a calculator and a bard?!



Here's a fanart of Ovelia. I drew the lineart on tegaki which is why it looks kinda awkward, and finished it up on Photoshop. I have no idea why she's sitting like that, that's just how it turned out.

Does anyone have any tips on completing the quests and getting the bonus? Sometimes the tavernmaster tells you that a specific type of person needs to go on this quest, but I have yet to guess correctly on which one. Like for example, this latest Diving Expedition requires people with strength and endurance and I tried every combination of buffed up characters, monks, geomancers, knights, squires, dragoons, and it just won't give me the bonus!

Goodbye Scorpio...

Have some hideous oekaki fanart of Cardinal Alphonse Delacroix and Cuchulainn the Impure. Nasty fellow, but love the Scorpio demon design, so disgusting.

I know I'm missing a few deaths, such as Gustav, Bart and umm... people we suppose to be dead. Maybe later. I don't even know who's next, who's next? Anyone?

Since it will be a while before the next deaths, I guess I'll do some of the living characters now, hah hah.

Japanese fanart sites: part 2

Gaea Studio by Mos (Chinese)
Tactics and XII. Elegant lineart with a beautiful painterly style, reminiscent of antique watercolors. One of my favorites, from China.


Wistarial by Touru
Tactics and Advanced. Gorgeous set of b/w oekaki with striking and stylized flair, lots of pairings.


Mitsuboshi by 星風スイ
Tactics Advanced and XII art with a little Tactics thrown in. Humorous and lovely watercolor style, very unique.


Tabiuta by 東雲みと
Tactics. Tons of art, both lovely and cute. Lots of the Beoulve siblings, which I highly approve of.


花斑月 by かのこ
Tactics, Advanced, XII. Lots of fanart from all 3 series, sensual and softly colored. I wish I could be this prolific and talented!


+ silk + by ふじやひよこ
Tactics, Advanced, Advanced 2. Lots of adorable art and comics! Check out the log and the chocobos made of food, there is so much cuteness on this site, it hurts.


趣味端座 by konton
Tactics, Advanced, Advanced 12. A very clean, sharp style with amazing coloring. Covers many FF series in a signature look.

Delita + Ovelia

The CG scene with Delita and Ovelia is full of drama. How many times does he use the word "endeavor" anyways? "Try" is a real word as well, you know. But in all seriousness, it was really sweet and just a little chilling for him to speak to Ovelia in such a way, that manipulative bastard. I would fall for it, too. No doubt.

http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/uentries.php?u=13506
Sketch of Ramza in his chapter 2, 3 armor. I like how he's still wearing thigh-high boots, but hey, at least he looks like a male now and less like a trap.

I heard the Japanese version doesn't get voice acting, that is kind of weird, I think. It would be like watching a silent animated movie, I would get the feeling that I was going deaf, hah hah. I mean, why didn't they get Japanese seiyuu to act it?

Milk, please!

Drawing from Tegaki-e. I like to know who orders milk at a bar. That seems like ultimate in suspicion to me!

My brother has the PSP today, so I'm playing some Tactics Advance at the moment. I'm at the last battle now, but I haven't finished all the missions yet, so I'm wasting several years waiting for the right ones to pop up. Very annoying...

Insanity at Orbonne Monastery pt. 1

Urgh, last night I started the first round at Orbonne Monastery and it was killer! I had to restart a couple of times because I stupidly left some characters equipped with random "optimize" items. Finally I forced myself to stick with the battle and eventually won with everyone intact.

First off, the 3 dragoons were seriously powered up with mythril spears and of course, my healers kept on dying in one blow even though we were several levels ahead. Not just that, but one of them kept charming Agrias and making her do Judgment Blade on us. Good thing Ramza knocked some sense back into her with some shurikens. And you know what, I never use time mages myself, but they have some irritating spells that almost always work on my team. Grah!!!

Slowly but steady, healing and reviving at every turn, I managed to get rid of the time mages and chemist. Ramza and my white mage successfully ganked some nice armor while Agrias went around and collected crystal abilities, hah hah. Overall, I admit the AI was a worthy challenger. Looking forward to fighting Isilude and Wiegraf in the next battles.


He looks pretty fabulous with his fur sleeves, hah hah. Good old Gaff, I liked his attitude, all full of sassafrass. But a failure in the end.

Japanese fanart sites

This is for my own reference, some banner links to Japanese sites with Tactics/Advance/XII fanart. I was hoping to find other overseas fanart sites, but apparently not. For any of you who want to view these sites, have Japanese fonts available and of course, don't take any artwork w/out permission. The last thing I want is for these sites to close down because of my linking to them.


Ensemble by Azryu
Tactics, Advance, Advance 2. Very cute artwork faithful to the original style, mostly concerning gameplay, story characters and original generics.


Roda de Estrela by Nasu
Tactics, Advance, 12. A gorgeous unique style of painting, some cute stuff as well.


Astro Scope by 弓月 愛
Tactics. Hasn't been updated in a while, but has a large gallery of beautiful art faithful to the style. Also contains flash and flash games?


Hanairomoyo by 昼田
Tactics, Advance, 12. Elegant anime style fanart with cel-shading. Only a couple of Tactics, some 12, but very cute and purty!


Sasuraiyokotyou by Watami
Tactics, Advance. Adorable fanart, with beautifully painted cast pictures and quite a few cute drawings of the generic classes.


Toritoto by Hana
Tactics, Advance, Advance 2. Lovely and adorable painted/CG style, I think the the 10 year anniversary comic is the cutest thing to have ever cuted.


BUZZ by 極
Tactics. Amazing b/w sketches and painterly style. Lots of SD and AU art of the less-popular characters as well! Chibi-Weigraf blows my mind...


cor by 小町あんこ
Tactics, Advance. The front page has tons of cute and pretty fanart from various games in a vibrant and original style.

"She saved my life, you know..."

Tietra Heiral. I had originally intended this to be an artblog as well, so I am trying to memorialize as many of the characters as I can, in my own... unique... style. I clearly need to plan my pictures out better.

Chapter 1: The Meager

Finished chapter 1 last night. That battle with Argath was grueling, I still don't understand the utter and shameful weakness of my buffed up characters. But trying to steal items always makes an easy battle much more difficult.

The CG movie afterwards was lovely but rather anticlimactic. I seemed to recall the original explosion at Fort Zeakden having much more impact. But that may have just been a first impression and possibly a sound quality issue on the handheld console.

The dialogue throughout the battle was pretty damn heartbreaking. Argath's reasoning and constant barrage against Ramza and Delita sounded just as cold and callous as it did the first time I played the battle, especially when you consider he is only 16 or 17 years old and not even a knight. But then, he did have a shameful past to compensate for. And alas, Delita's anger with Ramza, TEARS.

Homage to Mileuda Folles, it was especially sad having to kill her.

Welcome!

Greetings, noble reader! I just wanted to start off with a warm welcome to whoever is reading this, if anyone at all. Probably not...

My brother and I, with great cost to our pocketbook and grievous injury to the truck, purchased a refurbished PSP just for this precious game. At this point, I have logged in several hours and leveled Ramza (an Aries) up to level 7. The gameplay is as delightfully challenging as ever. The opening CG movies are gorgeous, and the voices are as stuffy and medieval as I would have wanted. (Though what was with changing Ramza's infamous "Surrender now or die in obscurity!" line?!! It was classic! I dislike the new version, doesn't have the same ring of arrogance to it.)

My greatest complaint is the terrible load time during certain moves, which I hear was even worse in the Japanese version. I also miss the random Engrish spell and attack names, that was a charming and amusing component of the original, but I guess it would have made the lag worse. Also... Argath Thadalfas? That thounds thuper gay.

Overall, just as fun as I remembered, and the translation is much smoother and classier. Here's to further adventures!

Recent fanart!
Save the Queen (Agrias Oaks)
Ser Agrias (Agrias Oaks)
Gunner and Knight (Mustadio and Agrias)