This drawing is a picture of the character Squall Leonhart from the videogame Final Fantasy VIII. The original character design is by Tetsuya Nomura. This picture was composed entirely in Photoshop and was completed in April of 2004.
I was aiming to make a more realistic (less animated looking) Squall, using Nomura's design as the basis.
This was the first time I ever really dove in and tackled painting a whole image in Photoshop. Up to this point I was mostly painting over ink or pencil illustrations of mine. I learned a lot by just jumping into this, and I've learned a lot since then, too. As a result, there are probably things I could change on this but I prefer to leave it as is, since it was a learning piece and it's kind of nice to see how I've progressed since making this. I'd prefer to continue making new art instead of going back and editing older work.
This almost looks like what Final Fantasy 8 would be if Han Solo (Harrison Ford) were to decide to play as Squall... I just hope he's not stroking his wookie too hard.
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right at 15 seconds.