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Magus from Chrono Trigger.

Chrono Trigger was one of my first RPGs, and probably still one of my favourites. It was also perhaps the first game where I really noticed and appreciated the music. I guess because it was more story-driven than what I usually played, it had the potential for a larger range of moods and emotions. Chrono Cross had fantastic music too. Magus had a cool theme song and even though he wasn't one of the strongest playable characters (at least not as far as I noticed), I often liked having him as the party leader because I thought his sprites/animations (especially his floating "run") and design were cool.

In 2006, I kinda redid a Magus picture from 2002.

2002: eric-3.deviantart.com/art/2002…
2006: eric-3.deviantart.com/art/2006…

I thought it would be fun to redo it again to see the changes. I wasn't really crazy about doing the front view again though, or dealing with figuring out the proper lighting of having the moon behind him (those two old pictures are so wrong...). So I was thinking of a different idea and this came to me pretty quickly. The pose and angle are really simple, but I was focusing on playing with the look of the cape and hair flowing to make it more interesting.

So it's too different to be a redo now, but oh well. I originally was going to add his scythe in his left hand but after drawing the cape and kind of making it one of the main focuses of the picture, I didn't want the scythe to cover any of it.

I never understood why the sprites for Magus never matched the illustrations. The sprites have a dark blue/purple cape, while the illustrations have a dark magenta or red cape. I always thought the sprite's colour scheme looked better, but I would stick to the illustration's colours since I thought that was the "right" one and I wanted to be faithful.

But this time, screw it, I'm going with the colours that look better to me.
Though...uh...the colour I was going for got kinda lost anyway due to the colouring style. I don't know how to do dark colours in this softer colouring style while still making it look soft. I was also trying to use different colours to shade the same area. For example, not using just darker blues and lighter blues to colour a blue thing, and instead using blue as the base and throwing other colours on to make parts darker and lighter.

So the blue ultimately got lost. But now it's like between the blue/purple of the sprite and the dark magenta or red of the illustrations, so it's like I'm combining the two/finding a middle ground. That was the true form of my intention all along...mm-hmm ...

It was kind of weird at first colouring a dark character like Magus in all these light, soft colours, but I like how it turned out anyway. I tried loosely basing the colours of the background on Magus' room where you fight him, but again, it kinda got lost in the colouring style. There is still a bit of blue at the bottom from the blue flames on the floor and orange from the statue thing with the fire behind him in his room.

Description
Magus from Chrono Trigger.

Chrono Trigger was one of my first RPGs, and probably still one of my favourites. It was also perhaps the first game where I really noticed and appreciated the music. I guess because it was more story-driven than what I usually played, it had the potential for a larger range of moods and emotions. Chrono Cross had fantastic music too. Magus had a cool theme song and even though he wasn't one of the strongest playable characters (at least not as far as I noticed), I often liked having him as the party leader because I thought his sprites/animations (especially his floating "run") and design were cool.

In 2006, I kinda redid a Magus picture from 2002.

2002: eric-3.deviantart.com/art/2002…
2006: eric-3.deviantart.com/art/2006…

I thought it would be fun to redo it again to see the changes. I wasn't really crazy about doing the front view again though, or dealing with figuring out the proper lighting of having the moon behind him (those two old pictures are so wrong...). So I was thinking of a different idea and this came to me pretty quickly. The pose and angle are really simple, but I was focusing on playing with the look of the cape and hair flowing to make it more interesting.

So it's too different to be a redo now, but oh well. I originally was going to add his scythe in his left hand but after drawing the cape and kind of making it one of the main focuses of the picture, I didn't want the scythe to cover any of it.

I never understood why the sprites for Magus never matched the illustrations. The sprites have a dark blue/purple cape, while the illustrations have a dark magenta or red cape. I always thought the sprite's colour scheme looked better, but I would stick to the illustration's colours since I thought that was the "right" one and I wanted to be faithful.

But this time, screw it, I'm going with the colours that look better to me.
Though...uh...the colour I was going for got kinda lost anyway due to the colouring style. I don't know how to do dark colours in this softer colouring style while still making it look soft. I was also trying to use different colours to shade the same area. For example, not using just darker blues and lighter blues to colour a blue thing, and instead using blue as the base and throwing other colours on to make parts darker and lighter.

So the blue ultimately got lost. But now it's like between the blue/purple of the sprite and the dark magenta or red of the illustrations, so it's like I'm combining the two/finding a middle ground. That was the true form of my intention all along...mm-hmm ...

It was kind of weird at first colouring a dark character like Magus in all these light, soft colours, but I like how it turned out anyway. I tried loosely basing the colours of the background on Magus' room where you fight him, but again, it kinda got lost in the colouring style. There is still a bit of blue at the bottom from the blue flames on the floor and orange from the statue thing with the fire behind him in his room.