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Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI.

I really enjoyed Final Fantasy VI, but I had no intention of drawing anything for it. This was inspired by Poets of the Fall's music video for their song "Daze". I never heard of this band before, but the video just popped up as a recommendation on Youtube and I clicked it because the thumbnail looked cool.

I immediately loved the song itself. Heck, I wanted to buy the album on disc after hearing some of the other songs too, but it's an import for me and I couldn't find a decent price for it.

In addition to the song though, I also loved the jester(?) character of the singer. The design was cool and, combined with the design, the personality conveyed from the body language and facial expressions totally made me think of Kefka. He came off as pompous, arrogant, sinister, maniacal, destructive...it was perfect.
As if that wasn't enough, some of the lyrics were really fitting (like "Set the world on fire"). It was practically screaming at me to do something with this.

As this was done solely because I saw that video, I based Kefka off of the lead singer Marko Saaresto/the jester. I'm horrible with likenesses though, so it probably doesn't look much like him. I did purposely alter some things, but other inaccuracies to his likeness were not intentional.

I didn't want to use the more recent Dissidia Kefka designs and wanted to go to the original Yoshitaka Amano work instead. The problem with trying to draw from Amano's designs though is that the design isn't consistent between the pictures. So if one picture doesn't have all the reference I need (like if the angle doesn't show something) and I need another picture, the designs in those those multiple pictures aren't going to match up. Heck, even in-game, his design wasn't consistent.

So I mostly based this design off a single Amano work. I just chose the one I liked most. I did take little elements from other designs though, and made up a bit myself.

Description
Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI.

I really enjoyed Final Fantasy VI, but I had no intention of drawing anything for it. This was inspired by Poets of the Fall's music video for their song "Daze". I never heard of this band before, but the video just popped up as a recommendation on Youtube and I clicked it because the thumbnail looked cool.

I immediately loved the song itself. Heck, I wanted to buy the album on disc after hearing some of the other songs too, but it's an import for me and I couldn't find a decent price for it.

In addition to the song though, I also loved the jester(?) character of the singer. The design was cool and, combined with the design, the personality conveyed from the body language and facial expressions totally made me think of Kefka. He came off as pompous, arrogant, sinister, maniacal, destructive...it was perfect.
As if that wasn't enough, some of the lyrics were really fitting (like "Set the world on fire"). It was practically screaming at me to do something with this.

As this was done solely because I saw that video, I based Kefka off of the lead singer Marko Saaresto/the jester. I'm horrible with likenesses though, so it probably doesn't look much like him. I did purposely alter some things, but other inaccuracies to his likeness were not intentional.

I didn't want to use the more recent Dissidia Kefka designs and wanted to go to the original Yoshitaka Amano work instead. The problem with trying to draw from Amano's designs though is that the design isn't consistent between the pictures. So if one picture doesn't have all the reference I need (like if the angle doesn't show something) and I need another picture, the designs in those those multiple pictures aren't going to match up. Heck, even in-game, his design wasn't consistent.

So I mostly based this design off a single Amano work. I just chose the one I liked most. I did take little elements from other designs though, and made up a bit myself.