Lawful Good, Not Lawful Stupid

Freya - Final Fantasy

here’s a definitive and totally subjective rating of davids

donatello: 3/10 honestly pretty embarrassing, but worth a mention. just your run-of-the-mill, oh-you-haven’t-heard-we’re-copying-classical-greek-sculpture-now david. stiff, awkward, and pretty dopey looking twunk. has the same expression of someone being told dona-fucking-tello sculpted this. can’t even hold his slingshot bc it’s too gay. don’t worry there’s a redemption arc on its way.

donatello pt 2: 9/10 fucking superb you funky little gay man. total glow up. a complete deviation from the norm by a well-known deviant. takes contrapposto to sultry new heights. look at this lad’s little hat and boots he’s not a nude he’s just naked. some people say goliath’s head is modeled off of donatello himself literally he was horny enough he said “step on me” in full fucking bronze. goliath’s helmet has little gay greek reliefs on it, not even remotely subtle. look at the feather going up his thigh and tell me u didn’t cross your legs when you did. commissioned by the medici for their palace, which makes it even cooler by association. 

verocchio: 8/10 ily baby a perfectly fine lad, looking at him makes me smile. his little dress is so cute with its stylized arabic psuedo-script border, and the floral pasties? adorable. something about goliath’s head feels a little disjointed, but you know what? fuck him. he’s not important. david’s the real star here in his little cheerleader get up. what really makes me biased towards this one is that the model was supposedly verocchio’s star student, the young leonardo da vinci. and look how fucking radiant he is! love it.

michelangelo: 7/10 technically this thing’s great. look at the fucking veins on the hand that’s absolutely mental. but all in all it lacks the overtly homosexual intrigue of some other davids and, frankly, i expected more from well-documented gay disaster michelangelo. obviously a classic but also makes it prone to being too over-saturated. i do love his yaoi hands though.

the technology and chemistry used throughout these epochs is a primary focus, including archaic forms of transfusion, as well as the heavy use of dangerous chemicals such as quicksilver/liquid mercury, and how these “scientific” achievements were misused, and how practitioners inadvertently hindered the betterment of society. the entirety of the game takes place within an inescapable waking nightmare brought on by heavy abuse of these volatile compounds, where everyday citizens are replaced by bloodthirsty lycanthropes to represent the horrors felt by many a victorian writer. even the iconic saw cleaver that most base their steampunk narrative on is nothing more than an oversized straight razor, perhaps based on the historically ineffectual employment of barbers as bloodletting doctors in the 19th century.

Today’s drawing. In the past year I’ve tried getting better at hiding my ink mistakes, because I don’t always plan super well. 

The hand I drew on the foreground knight was toootally f’d, so I decided her sleeves were black and that she was going to have a hand in a completely different place.

#protip It’s definitely not a perfect improvisation, but as long as you make it more comfortable for the eye to rest on areas other than that where your mistake lies, you can make it less noticeable.

There’s a notal rats nest of lines down there where her hand used to be, but her belt, the folds of her sleeve and her hands are all drawn with more information and sense than that pile of lines, so your eye (or at least mine) gets pulled to them rather than lingering on the black sleeves.

Learn from the past with the Final Fantasy Anthology - including Final Fantasy V and VI.