Artist's Commentary
Celes has always been my favorite character in all the Final
Fantasies to draw. She is not my favorite character in the game, but
she's an absolute joy to draw -- especially since I have her clothing
design to memory after studying all of the various designs in the Amano
Yoshitaka drawings. I wanted to portray a sense of movement in this
piece -- though I'm not so sure if I succeeded or not.
One of my favorite things about creating a picture of Celes is
coloring her hair. In all of my current drawings of her, I have decided
to put pink highlights in her hair. Why? I'm not sure. Perhaps I saw
it that way in one of Amano's drawings, whether he did that intentionally
or not. Whatever the case, I feel that it adds a little depth, perhaps a
hinting that she was never quite a normal human being.
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