Final Fantasy Hacktics

Any better?
I've cleaned up Etna's hair and link's hat, as well as playing with the contrast on Etna's skin.

Also something completely unrelated

How to say it.... Your style is somewhat "cartoonish", the hat on Link was perfect, very FFT-like, you have made it plain, and very cartoonish. Same goes for Etna, we had a great looking portrait for her somewhere, IIRC Jupi did it, if you could find it, you would see how she should look. It's still better than your first portraits ofcourse.

Wait a sec Kage, that Link portrait looks pretty damn good, except for the hat like you said. Needs shading on his high forehead as well. I think you could use this with my Link, well if you want to...

So I tried something different with link's hat.
Went backwards process-wise with Etna's hair.
And played around and made two other characters
1st being "wut is this I don't even"
and the second obviously a knight.

I'm tired now.
Sleep time,
ciao,
later,
bye.

Nice improvements of the shading of young links hood. Etna still needs a lot of work with the hair, keep at it though I think you are going in the right direction. First it was a bit pillowy, now it is too animish.

Alright, you gotta take pieces from existing portraits. Custom creations take so much work. You're not ready for this yet. I know it sounds harsh, but you have to do this. Look at the shading styles and the general shapes of your latest two creations. Now compare them to existing portraits. They're way off.