So, firstly, my apologies for going off the intended path today gang. As I mentioned on the last update, the previous strip was the end of the story arc and since the two week hiatus and guest art doesn’t begin until next week, I intended to draw a one-off with the side characters today.
However when push came to shove… I couldn’t think of thing to draw for it. Normally when I do between-storyline side-character strips I’ve thought about them in advance, planned them out some, and I know what it’s going to be before I draw it. That wasn’t the case here, as being one-strip short of ending the arc at the close of the week just kind of… didn’t happen. And I couldn’t think of anything off-the-cuff for a side character story that would fit in a single page.
So, with the deadline approaching, I went for the first thing to pop in my head: Fire Emblem fanart. I’ve been playing a lot of Fire Emblem Awakening lately, and decided to draw Selkie and Amanda cosplaying as two of my favorite characters, Maribelle and Cordelia.
Sorry again for the filler, but rest assured I intend to use the next two weeks productively. As a reminder, I am taking a two-week hiatus starting with next week. I’ve got some really great reader-submitted guest comics to share for those two weeks, though, so please don’t go anywhere! There’s some really fun drawings and comics sitting on my desktop that I can’t wait to share with all of you!
Enjoy, and I’ll see you in two weeks when Selkie comic strips resume. It’ll be a “shoe”-in.
I can’t decide who I like more. I think Amanda wins ever-so slightly because she looks like a total badass here.
Oh, completely unrelated note, I spoke with my mom for the first time in a while and she apologized to me. Anyways, hope you have a wonderful Christmas Dave! Looking forward to the guest comics for sure.
That’s amazing, I’m happy for you! Merry Christmas to you, too. 🙂
I just finished my last final today (at this point ive been up for over 2 days…and for some reason im not tired. ) so im gonna start on my art.. probably tomorrow. Couldnt get it by the deadline cause of school but itll eventually make an appearance 🙂
I look forward to seeing it!
Oh come on. I mean, I know appropriateness and all, but are you seriously trying to tell us that Selkie’s character wouldn’t be Tharja? Or maybe Henry?
I chose Maribelle for superficial and personal reasons. Superficial: she and Selkie both have prominent hairbows in their outfits. Personal: I freaking love Maribelle. She’s a sassy bitch and I adore her for it.
If it were a pick by Selkie herself, I think she’d probably like Nah.A child-like non human trying to fit in to the world, who tries to be super-serious in the support conversations but when you take her to battle roars about how strong she is before breathing fire on people.
Similarly, I chose Cordelia for Amanda because red hair and direct-about-things attitude, but I think if Amanda herself picked a favorite character, it’d probably be the Avatar, because she would make it look like herself and it’d be the strongest unit in the army.
I love this art. If Amanda did choose, though, I see her choosing Severa because of all their similarities.
Have a great break and holiday.
I did think of writing a guest comic with them talking like stilted George Lucas characters, but since I can’t draw (It’s in the geneva conventions, along with me not allowed to sing, look it up under war crimes) that I would have to take some old comics, erase over the dialogue, and write over it. And I didn’t want to be that guy.
I feel awful… How is it that I never realized that Selkie has four fingers… I… I am ashamed of myself!
You don’t need to shame yourself ’cause she’s only got three (unless you count the thumb as a finger).
That was a reply to Ayana >_>
I’m glad you didn’t pick the loli dragon.
Oh yeah no, there was No Wi that’d happen. Nah.
Selkie actually looks amazing with that hair style(Amanda looks great too, but I had no idea I would love Selkie with that hair)! I love this. I’ve never gotten into Fire Emblem, but I love how this turned out.
Selkie is so adorable and sassy looking.