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Obligatory OTP of all OTP pics:

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Yikes, I'm pretty sure most of the OTP pics this year were for #clerithmonth. I need to get my act together.

And now the review:

Original meme by: fatalrain

The Pic I Like the Most

I haven't drawn Barret in years, and I was nervous to draw him again because big, muscly men are not my forte. I was pleasantly surprised that he turned out as well as he did. Tifa looks great too, so that makes the picture even better.

Honorable Mentions:

I actually liked a lot of my pictures this year. For most of them it's because of how the colors came out, for others it's because I was able to pull off certain poses.

The Pic I Like the Least

The eyes look horrible, and it sort of ruins the face. It's a shame really, because Driselle's adorable, and I really screwed her up.

Dishonorable Mentions:

Like with the Driselle picture, I found all three of these pictures had no saving grace. At least some of the other shoddily colored pictures looked nice as sketches, which is more than I can say for these.

The Most Faved Piece


I had a feeling one of my Fire Emblem pieces would be at the top, but I'm surprised it was this one. I guess m!Robin/Sumia is more popular than I thought.

The Least Faved Piece

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I am not counting any of the pieces I submitted on the 31st because that's not really fair. Anyway, all five of these had only 1 favorite (yay for no goose-eggs except for the last minute pics). The Inaho piece is poorly drawn, so I can definitely understand the lack of interest. I'm surprised someone faved my ID (speaking of which, I need a new one since I dyed my hair). The EliteFourShipping pic is probably because it's a rare-pair, same with the CarawayJulia piece. As for the Cleris piece, there's profanity, implications of sex, and a mature content label, so...yeah.

The Piece That Took Awhile

I had actually drawn another piece before this one, but decided to start over. Then I debated with the shoulder armor. Then I added the polka dot effect.

The Piece That Took No Time

Threw this together in less than 30 minutes (maybe even less than 20).

Most Artistic Piece

Easily the most background heavy piece I did in 2015.

Honorable Mentions:


All of them has some sort of a background. Also, is it just me, or did I go a little overboard with the sky background.

Least Artistic Piece

Then again, it was never meant to be artistic in the first place.

Dishonorable Mentions:

At least the RichAss picture had an outline. As for the Cleris one, I didn't want to pick on it too much.

I have a number of pictures that I didn't post this year, so I'll link to them when they're on my Art Tumblr.

Thank you ,
cleris4ever

Decided to start my fanfiction that nobody cares about up again.

For those of you who remember, I had a fanfiction up here in 2012 called Another Life, Another Story (which you can still read in my gallery), and back in 2009 called XoXoSimpleMemoriesXoXo (it's no longer up, and thank god because the title was horrendous). I decided to rename it Anxious Hearts, after the song that plays when Cloud and Aeris first meet in Sector 8 after AVALANCHE blows up the Mako Reactor No. 1. Part of the reason I renamed it was because I made a few drastic changes:

1. I cut out one of the couples the story focused on entirely. This is probably the biggest change I made because it changes the flow of the story. I did this for two reasons: first of all the characters were too OoC for my liking, and I try to avoid OoC whenever I write a fanfic; the second, and biggest reason, is because I always had trouble writing a pivotal chapter involving the pairing, and ended up giving up because of it. I don't want to give up in the middle of the fanfiction anymore, so I felt it was for the best. If you're curious, you can see my official announcement here.
2. I changed the way the story starts. Rather than the story being a result of Cloud wishing for happiness, I made it more of a "what-if" scenario. What if Aeris hadn't died in the Forgotten City? My story is meant to focus on what happens after the game ends, but some of the what-if scenarios that happened during the original story will be brought up in the story itself.

I've decided to do some fan-art projects on my art tumblr. You can find them here.

I'm not posting them here because a lot of the drawings are pretty old, and not very good. Take a look if you want.

Thankies ,
cleris4ever

It's that time of year again!~

OTP of all OTPs Pics:



Pic Review

Original Meme by: fatalrain

The Pic I Like the Most


There were a few pieces I was considering for this spot, but in the end this one won out for me. I think this is probably the best Cleris piece I've ever drawn, Cloud and Aeris both look decent (something that is rare because Cloud's hair is a bitch to draw, especially when he's facing to the left like he is in this picture), and I really like how Cloud looks sort of like he's pulling Aeris in for a kiss with the way his hand is positioned.

Honorable Mentions:

I feel like all of these were either super adorable, really fun to draw, and accurate in the facial structure.

The Pic I Like the Least


This was not a hard decision. Once I stumbled on this piece as I was going through my gallery for pieces to put in this spot, I knew immediately that this was going here. I don't think anything else I posted on here this year is nearly as bad as this disaster of a picture. Kuzuryuu's head looks deformed, and he looks like he just had one of the guys from Jackass do that razor stunt on him, and poor Peko doesn't have any eyebrows.

Dishonorable Mention:

Raine looks really awful in this picture, but Laguna looks decent, so that saved it a lot.

The Most Faved Piece


I'm not surprised that this one was the most faved piece of the year, especially given Frozen's popularity. What did surprise me was that twenty-eight people added this to their favorites, I actually thought the number would be way lower. None of my other pictures came close in terms of number of faves, I think the second highest was eighteen, but I'm not too sure.

The Least Faved Piece


For the first time in forever, all my pics were faved. For the first time in forever...okay I'll shut up now. I think 2014 is the first year where all of the pictures I drew had at least one fave, unfortunately for these two pieces that one fave was all they got, and looking at these two pictures, I'm not too surprised. The one on the left likely suffered due to lack of recognition, as the game Radiata Stories is unfortunately not very popular, while the one on the right likely suffered due to it being, from what I can tell, a fairly unpopular ship from CLAMP's X/1999. I'm slightly saddened that neither of these two got more than one fave, especially the one of Kamui and Kotori because of how proud I was with how Kamui turned out, but at the same time I can understand why.

The Piece That Took Awhile


I can't recall for sure which piece took the longest, but I remember attempting this one a few times before getting this. On my first attempt Saria came out really well, but Link looked like complete and utter shit that I had to start over before I ripped a hole in the paper. It took a few more tries before the faces came out the way they ended up coming out, and even then it took me ages to get the hair right. I actually almost scrapped this one because I screwed up outlining Link's right eyelid, but by that point it was two in the morning, so I was all screw it, I'm just going to submit this one.

The Piece That Took No Time


Just a quick doodle to honor my queen on her birthday. I did not do her justice .

Most Artistic Piece


I had a few pictures I feel like I could have potentially put here, but in the end I chose this one. I drew this one night while I was listening to the song "Drifting" off of the FFVIII soundtrack, and for some reason I always associated it with Raine's death. I don't know why, but it's probably because I find that song to be the saddest one from the game, and I always found Raine's death to be absolutely tearjerking because of the circumstances surrounding it. As much as I put myself down alot when it comes to my art (and this is no exception, as I complained about my inability to draw flowers in the artist's comments) I really think this piece conveyed what I was trying to convey, which is why I put this particular picture in this spot.

Honorable Mentions:

BACKGROUNDS (in one form or another)! Enough said.

Least Artistic Piece


Easily this shipping meme thing I did earlier in the year. While it was put together very well, I didn't really do much aside from drawing the lines connecting the characters. And the worst thing about this is that it isn't even up to date.

Dishonorable Mention:

This shipping map is no more up to date than the one above, but at least I drew the characters on this one.

I'm thinking of maybe posting some of the pics that I didn't post this year, as well as other years on my art blog. If you want to see them check here

Thankies ,
cleris4ever