FFT: Potion on the Way

This is another experiment in style and medium. Inked with brown ink and painted over with washes of drawing ink, it's the FFT chemist ready to throw a potion to a needy soul. Yes, the potion bottles in FFT look like that - the Character Card Set depicts it as this elegant glass bottle. I always wonder what they do with them afterwards.

As for the style, I found myself using a mix of Yoshida's hatching technique and my own line art. The good thing, too, was that the drawing ink and my nibs flowed on the watercolor paper like silk. As for the preliminary studies, it took a while to find a dynamic throwing position. Thank God for gesture drawings!

Medium: Winsor & Newton Drawing Inks on cold-pressed watercolor paper (4"x 6")

Final Fantasy Tactics, Chemist job class original illustration - Akihiko Yoshida/Squaresoft/Square-Enix (1997, 2001, 2008)