Welcome to Sketch Artist! I feel so good!

   I'm Nich, filling in for Andrea while she goes off to seek a faraway mystic's help for her rare case of ArtistDie. We told her that all she needed to do was choose life and then live, but apparently she'd rather trust a professional.

   This week's update gives us a spookily outsize Soul Reaver pic from Dave Cawley, while SerNdipT shows a picture of Kefka that's scary for entirely different reasons. FFVI is also represented by pulpy's aptly-titled "57209nhSwn03j" and Lunar Blade's "Edgar & Sabin." Wulfmune's "Leon," Wrexsoul's "Jill Valentine," and Evil Tiger's "Reunion" make up the cutesy portion of the first gallery. Evil Tiger also contributes "Dark Serge," a picture of the nasty side of Chrono Cross' hero. To round out the first gallery on entirely different ends of the spectrum, we have more hyper-weird Maniac Mansion fan-art from J.J. McCullough and a somber portrait of Krelian from Dee.

   For those of you wondering where all the Final Fantasy VIII art got to, look no further than the second gallery. No less than five pieces await you there, from the tempestuous "Quistis' Repose" to the more introspective "Overcast Sky." There's also a picture of Link and Saria playing the Ocarina, some rare Sakura Taisen fanart, an Amano-esque picture of FFVI's Terra, and a funny Wild Arms piece exploring the problems of programming androids in COBOL.

And that's all for this update. With luck, Andrea will realize that love can bloom even on a battlefield, and return next week to do this a lot better than I can.