Final Fantasy Hacktics

He's for my Final Fantasy Tactics: EX(tended) patch.

I'm making some subtle modifications to his structure and some not-so-subtle modifications to his palette. I just wanted to give him the feel of being different from Beowulf and make the palette look less forced. Comments?

Edit: Hmmm... It occurs to me that some might dislike the fact that I removed the highlights from his hair.
My first response to myself was; "too bad, bitch! his skin tone doesn't match his hair gradient enough."
Now, after thinking about it for another 2 seconds, I think I could put the highlights back if I make him look more pale. It would fit the character too since he's supposed to be dying of some degenerative disease. Sound like a plan?

Bright blue shirt's kinda jarring, but otherwise looks good.

Yeah the blue is way to over powering. I like your idea of adding the highlights back too.

im assuming the blue is still the default, but whoever made the luso and aliste and dark knight were a little bit off

1- Sicklier complexion.
2- Less saturated blues.
3- Restored highlights.

Looks good to me.

Way way better. I would still prefer a slightly lighter blue, but that is just a matter of opinion.

Thanks. I'm trying to keep it close to the original palette.

He's got every color of the dirt spectrum.

(in other words, I think the palette's too brown overall)

Here's the new portrait for Aliste.
I gave him a new scarfy-thing using one of the mourner portraits & palette updated based on Zalbaag 2 (undead).
I included the original for comparison.
Note the deathly ill complexion.

If you're going for an ill/pale complexion, you need to up the contrast between his face and cloths/hair. Currently it looks (to me) like it was turned black and white and given a brown hue.

Yeah he definitely needs more color to his face, he is too pale. I would recommend shrinking the scarf just a bit to show of more blue and using the original skin towns.

If I use the original skin tones he won't look like he's dying, though.
I want him to look like he's about to keel over and die at any moment.
What I did was use the colors from the Possessed Zalbaag.

There is a difference between dying and dead though haha. I would recommend finding a medium between the two.

How about trying colors in between the two versions?  Aliste is dying, not undead.  All you need to do is make him a little more pale than the original.

Edit:  Dang, beat to it.  Hivemind?

Looks like he was holding a stone gun.


Consider the addition of other ill-looking characteristics.
Eliminating the blue from the portrait to allow more details, or more saturated colors for the scarf and hair.

How's this?

Perfect.

Quote from: "Cheetah"Perfect.

Agreed.

Though, I see a net of extreme pillowshading/blending on the chin line and the lower left of the scarf, as well as the neck color clashing with the black.

These are just small details, they will probably pass unnoticed.

Smashed ruined a perfect portrait for me

now that he has pointed that black neck line out to me, its very distracting...

soften it up a bit...but until that factor, it was perfect.