FF:CC Kurenai w/o sword

OK!!!! I tried something new with shading (NEVER......... AGAIN) omg this took forever to do (since May 8th)

And yes, I decided not to do the sword... 1, because if I had, it probably would of taken me ANOTHER 1-2 friggin weeks, and school is done.... soooooooooooooo, here's kureani, my Crystal Chronicles Character.... 'White cap'/Dark coat/ w-etfh you wanna call her, clavat.... she's a psychotic merchant....

Name - Kurenai
NN - Kure (Pronounces Cure)
Gender - Female
Tribe - Clavat, white cap/Dark coat (?)
Trade - Merchant
Hometown - Termina
Sword - Rune Blade
-Steel Blade
-Marr sword
Sheild - Storm Shield
-Mythril Sheild
Armor - Mythril Plate
Accessories - Thunder Badge
-Crystal Ring
-Devil's Earring
Likes - Meat, Fish, Striped Apple
Dislikes - Gourd Potato (not really a major dislike... only a like of slight, she still likes it... but it's at the bottom of her list)
Fave Spell(s) - Cure/Curaga (pretty *____* ) & Fire/Fira/Firaga
Fave Items - Pheonix down, Cure ring, Fire ring, Strange liquid

-Other junk-
Friendly (kur- except to monsters.... and certain people Kure- *punches Hana Kohl* Me- 0___e *backs away*) Somewhat cynical, "brutally" honest, energetic, kinda paranoid, problem solver, pack rat, short tempered, likes Gil *SHINY*, shiny things, and hats... especially her own and Bal Dat's hat ^___^
Like racing friends to secret item locations
More highstrung than most clavats, she hates the phrase "Go dig dirt like a clavat", and will often resort to violence during conflicts.
Gets along with all tribes but tends to hang out with the lillities and selkies more.

Was excited to visit Leuda, but after an old selkie stole 5k gil from her she's been quite peeved at the selkies there... after a couple of times of getting gil swiped from selkies, she broke a couple of some selkie's arms and lets her (selkie) friends/caravan members talk to the inhabitants instead and shoots off threats to horribly maim (and castrate the guys.... aka take the whole damn package off) them when they get to close to her



...... the design on the sheild was fun to do ^____^
and the designs on the front clothes are from Makar's Violin... [link]

Clavats & FF:CC (c) of Square Enix
Kurenai (c) me


Done in Photoshop (CS2?)
Lineart - 4 hours (blame the sheild design >__< )
Color - about 20-25 hours a week... (5 days a week)(usually 3-5 hours a day, depending on when the photoshop teacher was in the graphics lab, and if I skipped 1 or 2 classes) sooooooo about 60-100 hours....... omfg 0_____e seriously? *checks math* holy crap!
Layers - 0_____________________________e 250 fracking layers! oh...... my god..... never again -_____-;

Hardest parts - Sheild, the gold decoration, the danglies, Shoes, figuring out how the friggin shadows were supposed to lie... esp on the sheild and face, and the eyes.... oh and the braid..... I hate braids...