by Pie » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:29 pm
I'm really happy you all like the two pictures! XD It always makes me really happy to hear what you've all been saying. =D
I've been meaning to talk about the April picture once I posted the Ryozo picture, but The Ryozo picture just took much much longer than I estimated. ^^; The idea behind the picture is that April is Maki's official stalker. XD They've been that way since when I first met April online. I'm not sure what Maki's doing either except that she's loosely talking to a yoyo about camel poo/soap. XD I don't know why but I like to keep referring back to that quest because it's one of the few things in RO that's really tortured RO players and has brought many of us together (like the Troy "rock/paper/scissors" game XD). I'm sure it's pretty common for people to say how much they hate that quest because of:
a) needing many green herbs which we can't buy.
b) needing a ripe apple which has like a 0.1% chance drop from porings. (who wants to hunt porings, right? >.<)
c) having to go past Thors level 2 THREE TIMES!
d) the fact that when the quest was bugged when it was first implemented. The camel wouldn't poo the soap ingredient and would only poop out potatoes, not only that but even after it was fixed, the success chance for camel poop wasn't so high. Many people wasted THOUSANDS of green herbs doing that quest.
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As with the Ryozo picture; the idea behind it is just that when Fairy Tail was small and it was just a bunch of friends going to Nameless, we'd all make fun of Wiz's peco about being fat. It's been a while, but I think Ryo and Maki were saying something one day about eating Wiz's peco... I don't remember. XD That's basically it. =o I came up with idea to draw this all the way back when I was drawing Maki's picture. Wiz was a huge contribution to making the picture how it is now by expressing his ideas to add the Wild Rose (I didn't know Alice summons them XD), strapping the broom to Alice's back, making the Wild Rose carry Ryo's Orc Archer Bow, making the knight drop his sword, putting a sleeping guard next to the gate, and adding the brass vines on Prontera gate. I've tried a couple times doing the brass vines and both times they turned out looking really bad. I was going to give up on it, but Wiz really insisted. It ended up looking "not-so-bad" on the third try because I decided that I'll just really VAGUELY follow my reference screen shot and do the vines the way I want instead.
oh, and about Ryo's falcon- I kinda forgot to draw it in my rough, but I remembered after I finished doing the line-work but I didn't know where to put it. I figured that since Ryo's not really a falconer, then it should be okay that he doesn't have his falcon. XD Of course you can just say he ate his falcon if you like. >.> XD
Thank you all again for your compliments and thank you Ryozo for your reaction after we presented the drawing to you. XD Your reaction is definitely one of the highlights to drawing! =D
