I'm done making excuses. There will be updates to this site come hell or high water. (And I mean that quite literally. In the past couple of weeks, I've dealt with a flooded basement as well as an upper respiratory illness that may have resulted from the mold infestation in said basement. However, whatever doesn't kill you just makes you weak and debilitated, as they say.) So there are a trio of flying, winged insects from Final Fantasy IV, namely the SandMoth (which anybody who has played the game for ten minutes has probably seen), the RockMoth, and the extremely reclusive GlomWing (who, besides having a wacky mistranslated name, is almost impossible to find if you don't know exactly where to look). I have painted all of these lovely Lepidoptera, and I invite you to let them into your home, eat your sweaters, and cover you in their multi-colored wing dust. Next month marks the conclusion of my second year of working on the monsters of Final Fantasy IV. Progress from this point on may grow increasingly more challenging, partly due to the fact that I'm saving some of the really difficult baddies for last (I'm looking at you, Zeromus), and partly because there are still a few beasties that I simply have no idea how I'm going to build.
0 Comments
There are lots of monsters from Final Fantasy IV that are just regular animals with a nasty attitude. Alligators, birds, turtles, etc. Then there are these gigantic flying eyeballs with bat wings. That's a bit more unusual. I built one of these several years ago (the FloatEye), back when I figured I'd just make one Final Fantasy monster and call it good. Then, I got this crazy idea in my head to build all of them (no, I'm not sure what's wrong with me), so I ended up redoing that one in addition to the three other baddies who share the same sprite design. Two of them, the FloatEye and Red Eye, are doin' hard time on planet Earth, while the remaining two, the dangerous FatalEye and the deadly Plague, live on the Moon. Check 'em out! Also, I started building monsters from Final Fantasy IV in May 2017, so this month marks the one-year anniversary of this grand and glorious endeavor. Usually I'll bounce around randomly from Star Wars to Transformers to Ninja Turtles projects, but this is the first time in my career as a hobbyist that I've devoted an entire year to a single franchise. In the last 12 months I've finished up 37 creatures from Final Fantasy IV. There are roughly 200 monsters and bosses from the game, so at the rate I'm going, I can expect to get them all done within five years. (Check this space in 2023 to see how far I've gotten!) |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
Illustrator, writer, painter, sculptor, collector of toys and cats, observer of things. Categories
All
|