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Your move.

Yeah, that's Squall and Griever...at least one incarnation of him. No, it doesn't look like the Boss Griever in FF8, but then, THAT version had been altered by Ultimecia. I prefer to think of this as his ORIGINAL form. Which he reverted back to after Squall and company defeated Ultimecia.

The drawing itself came together quite nicely, though I would have LOVED to do it on a large canvas with paint , so I could put in more detail on Squall's face, or even as a digital painting...that way I could get Griever's and Squall's eyes and the gunblade to glow.

But, alas, all i had to work with was paper and pencil.

The real frustration with this drawing came in the form of my scanner.. which is too small to scan the complete image, so the bottom third of the drawing is cut off. I tried several scans and attempted to paste them together to form the complete image, but i'm not too good with that sort of thing, what with all the image editing and resizing and cutting and pasting...i couldn't get the scale right, couldn't get the images to line up correctly....Ugh. I wanted to cry. Or scream. Needless to day, I'm seriously hating my scanner, my mouse and my crappy image editing software and even worse skills.

i guess it's just as well i can't request critiques because it would be pointless since you can't see the entire image. Perhaps when I can get enough money together I'll take my entire portfolio over to a staples or office max or something and have all of my artwork scanned. Some of it is quite large, no way would it fit on my little rinky-dink scanner. When I do, I'll repost this so you can see the entire picture.
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3507x2484px 3.57 MB
Date Taken
Nov 30, 1999, 12:00:00 AM
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Kein-Sylvan's avatar
Mmm.... The actual Griever was altered by Ultimecia? Never thought of that, but it makes sense.

How is that... maybe a GF can be created from the bottom of the mind and heart of one person?... Well, Squall is no ordinary person, is the Sorceress Knight, so I think anything is possible.

Like this very much.