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-Best Of Series: Ignis Ref-

First Uploaded: July 16, 2015, DeviantArt

I don’t usually think much of reference pictures once I’ve drawn them. They’re certainly fun to draw, and they’re important to understanding and developing characters, but they tend to be simplistic and overloaded with words. This ref is special because of Ignis, who came to me in a daydream, and who I was able to translate successfully to art the same day. Rarely do characters ever come out as I expect them to the first time, and that’s usually fine, since character development is about discovery, but Ignis is the only time a character’s jumped right out of my imagination and onto the screen. 

I was so happy with how this reference turned out that, at the time, I had an immediate fear that I would never want to draw Ignis again, since there was no way any other depictions of her could measure up. Fortunately, I got over that fear, and she’s been one of my more popular characters ever since.