Saturday, October 31, 2020

Halloween on Fresno Street

 

Yes! I finished this before midnight!

Halloween Great Ace Attorney 2 picture, done at my sister's suggestion. While it is about a holiday and what happened on that day in Ace Attorney, it's not of the same series as my 12 Christmas pictures and the Good Friday 2019 one, thus the different style and title format. After all, I'm not sure if Gossip was actually there on Halloween; was that when he was ...investigating ...those guys? (I'm keeping this spoiler-free). Anyway, it's more about the mood than the accuracy, thus also the presence of Madam Rosaic.

Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Baker's Dozen 6 - Detective

 

The sixth of my 13 Ace Attorney fanart prompts I'm doing this year as an abbreviated Inktober. This theme is Detective, and I chose Dick Gumshoe, because he's my father's favorite Ace Attorney character. And I went all film noir with it. In the movie he had cigarettes, didn't he? Or was it Phoenix? Or was it both? I should watch the movie again.

You may think I'm running out of time, but since this isn't formally an Inktober, I can continue it however long it takes! (And it's not like one can't do that with a formal Inktober, anyway).

Here is the prompt list.

Friday, October 16, 2020

Baker's Dozen 5 - Defendant

 

The fifth of my 13 Ace Attorney fanart prompts I'm doing this year as an abbreviated Inktober. This theme is Defendant, and I chose Espella.

The reason why is her percentage of being the defendant: out of the four trials in that game, she's the defendant in three of them! Also, since this is my Inktober this year, it's good to have some drawings with a spooky mood! I've actually drawn her for Inktober before!

I think this drawing is the best of these so far! That means this is working as training!

Here is the prompt list.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Baker's Dozen 4 - Victim

 

The fourth of my 13 Ace Attorney fanart prompts I'm doing this year as an abbreviated Inktober. This theme is Victim, and I chose Doug Swallow.

Mainly because I had this composition in mind, but also, he's a pretty crucial figure if you think about it. ...And when I was looking up references for him, I noticed a resemblance in his face and hair, and a similarity in how he fell, which would give him an ancestral reason to wear a British flag shirt if a certain person lived out his days there, which is not unlikely...

Which yields an awesome parallel, really. Doug saved Phoenix, in the case where Phoenix is accused of the murder actually committed by a beautiful young woman who steals poison from the university pharmacology lab. What's really sad, then, is that Doug and Phoenix didn't get the chance to become friends.

The prompt list is here.

Monday, October 12, 2020

Baker's Dozen 3 - Prosecutor

The third of my 13 Ace Attorney fanart prompts I'm doing this year as an abbreviated Inktober. This theme is Prosecutor, and my choice is a major spoiler of Great Ace Attorney 2: The Resolve of Ryuunosuke Naruhoudo, so the picture is below the cut.

Monday, October 5, 2020

Baker's Dozen 2 - Sidekick

 

The second of my 13 Ace Attorney fanart prompts I'm doing this year as an abbreviated Inktober. This theme is Sidekick, and I chose Luke Triton!

I particularly portrayed him during the time when he was being--minor spoiler follows--Phoenix's sidekick: lying low in the back streets of Labyrinthia. But as an adherent of the assertion that Ace Attorney and Professor Layton are one story, I'd probably accept any suitable Prof. Layton character for any of these prompts if you can make an argument for it.

Here is the prompt list.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Baker's Dozen 1 - Attorney

 

The first of my 13 Ace Attorney fanart prompts I'm doing this year as an abbreviated Inktober! The first theme is Attorney, so I chose Apollo Justice.

Skills I want to work on in this exercise: speed, dynamism with simple compositions, precision with an ink-filled waterbrush, close-ups, male faces, and proportion and placement of facial features so as to achieve something between anime and realism and not uncanny valley. On that last one, I'm not sure I quite got it here: Apollo looks kinda weird to me. But that's the point, to see my weaknesses and improve on them!

The prompt list is here.

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Holmes hugging

 

Iris Watson and the Great Ace Attorney version of Sherlock Holmes. It's just the sweetest thing!

There was a time when I would draw a lot of quick, pencil-and-ink-wash pictures of characters hugging. I am glad to say, this time has come again.

This isn't part of the Ace Attorney fanart prompt list I just embarked upon, by the way.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Baker's Dozen fanart prompts

 

Having just finished watching a translation of Great Ace Attorney 2, I'm raring to draw a bunch of Ace Attorney fanart! And it's Inktober time, but I know I won't manage every day, so I settled on thirteen prompts, a baker's dozen.

For each one, I might choose my favorite exemplar of that category, or that I think is most iconic, or whom I haven't drawn before, whatever! 

If you draw and like Ace Attorney, feel free to join in!