Help an artist out with your gaming knowledge

[ArtMontef]

Hey there, so I'm an artist that had kinda crazy idea. I feel in so many cases people whine about female characters portrayals in gaming, you know, typical "male fantasy" bs.

 

But I think we already have tons of great women in gaming, from all sorts of backgrounds, genres, ages, etc. So I started doing a series that showcases alot of cool characters in video games, each portrait being black and white and one accent color. Characters I pick are generally either favorites of mine, important in gaming history, have cool designs or are immensely popular online. I try to limit it to 1 per game, because I do this series in between commissions and don't have enough time to do like 10 characters from street fighter lol. 

 

Here are the girls I have finished so far:

 

Seeing how we are on strictly gaming forum with tons of us absolutely dedicating our lives to gaming, I thought I'd ask you guys for suggestions If you have an idea and good accent color for her, drop a suggestion!

Also you get bonus points if you recognize all the girls.

[DEI2EK]

Only ones I’m not sure of in this picture is the black haired girl in the top row, last one in the second row and blue haired girl in the third row

 

really nice artwork though

 

Since I see you have Persona 4 and 5, what about Yukari or Mitsuru? Or Hatsune Miku and friends

[Tsundokuist]

Needs more Gum…

 

 

 

Otherwise, great work, I had no idea who 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 & 14 are though (I only really play Japanese games so that may be some of the issue there).

[HealedFiend13]

Personal recommendations would be: Kat (or Raven) from Gravity Rush, 2B from Nier Automata, Noire (She is literally a PlayStation) from Neptunia, Serana from Skyrim (the Dawnguard DLC), and Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite. I also really like Lulu from FF10, but seeing as you already got Aerith, wasn't sure you would want another FF character. 

Nice work on the ones you have though btw. I really like it.

Edited July 13, 2023 by HealedFiend13

[ArtMontef]

Just now, DEI2EK said:

Only ones I’m not sure of in this picture is the black haired girl in the top row, last one in the second row and blue haired girl in the third row

 

really nice artwork though

 

Since I see you have Persona 4 and 5, what about Yukari or Mitsuru? Or Hatsune Miku and friends

Thanks!
I think you mean Yennefer from the Witcher series, Rogue from Cyberpunk 2077 and Jinx from League

4 minutes ago, Tsundokuist said:

Needs more Gum…

 

 

 

Otherwise, great work, I had no idea who 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 & 14 are though (I only really play Japanese games so that may be some of the issue there).

That's actually great suggestion! Green is surprisingly hard color to pick for. And yeah, I think besides 5 which is Cynthia from Pokemon all of them are from western games lol. I won't list them yet in case someone wants to guess by themselves

[Pirelli913]

Commander Shepard: Mass Effect series

 

Accent color: Red

[Sir_Bee]

Lightning: FXIII - Pink (her hair)

Freya: God of War - Could be Blue for her sword

Tiny Tina: Borderlands series - not sure on a colour though.

Toriko: Void Terrarium - Red for the crystals?

 

Not sure if any of these meet your requirements, but thought I would throw out the ideas.

 

Your artwork is fantastic, I really enjoy what you have produces thus far, and I look forward to seeing anything new you create.

Edited July 13, 2023 by Sir_Bee

[ruexnimbus]

Probably a bit stale but I would suggest Velvet Crowe from Tales of Berseria. Accent color of yellow for her eyes as a human or red for her eyes and exposed claw as a demon.

[Boni_Neto]

Great work! I suggest Lara Croft and Yuna from FFX

[Domino_Destructo]

Lady Maria from Bloodborne (Red)

Emerald Herald from Dark Souls 2 (Green)

Ranni the Witch from Elden Ring (Blue)

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by Domino_Destructo

[Lava_Yuki]

I only recognise a few, namely Aerith from FF7, Kasumi and Marie from Persona, the girl from Danganronpa I think, and Cynthia from pokemon.

 

My all time favourite female is Lightning from FF13, I would suggest her. She the very image of the ideal female to me. Her original colour is pink, so maybe an accent like yellow as it's lightning might work

 

Other female characters I like and suggest are Milla (purple), Velvet (yellow or orange) and Shion (as blue) from Tales

Yuna (pink), Rikku(blue) and Paine (green) from FFX-2, where I picked the colours from their matching powerpuff girl.

Aranea from FF15 (red)

Aqua from Kingdom Hearts (red or green, because it's like an opposite to her original blue)

 

All these are pretty cool female characters I like for both design and also as characters.

 

I also like some of the cute female ones like Yuffie in FF7, and Cheria in Tales of graces, 

 

 

[MarkusT1992]

Some that I would suggest are:

 

Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)

Elli (The last of us)

Mizuki (AI: The Somnium Files)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Neptune (Nrptunia series)

 

Those are some from games I recently played.

[DrBloodmoney]

These are great!

 

Really awesome work - very impressive! Personally, I don’t recognise every one, but, know the majority - and that’s only because of my own lack of gaming knowledge, as the ones I do know are dead on!

 

Personal recommendations for some maybe a little left of field women in gaming would be:

 

Selene from Returnal (yellow)

Nyx from Hades (Purple)

Amicia from A Plague Tale (brown)

Alex from Life is Strange: True Colours (Blue)

Elika from Prince of Persia 2008 (white)

Internationale from Invisible Inc. (orange)

Eliza from The Quarry (grey)

Parvati from The Outer Worlds (yellow)

Kara Hassan from Rollerdrome (red)

Juliette from Lollipop Chainsaw (yellow)

Senua from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (blue)

Violetta from The Artful Escape (purple)
Penny from Flipping Death (black)
Lola from Afterparty (brown)

The Emerald Herald from Dark Souls II (green)

Jesse Faden from Control (red)

 

 

and maybe…

 

GladOS from Portal! (Grey)

 

 

 

 

[Iris Heart]

I could suggest Mai Shiranui or Yuri Sakazaki from Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games.

 

The characters there are:

 

Aerith - Peach - Clementine - No idea - Cynthia

Kasumi - Kassandra - Aloy - Someone from The legend of Zelda - No idea

Marie - Chun Li - Samus - No idea - Shantae

Junko

 

Sadly, Iris Heart is not popular or even an iconic character in Hyperdimension Neptunia series, so, I refrained myself of suggesting her.

 

Edit: Please, don't like my comment, I wanna keep my current likes counter just like it is now.

Edited July 13, 2023 by Iris Heart

[PXNKCAT]

Love the idea, they look lovely!

 

I recognize almost all of them except for four. You already explained who two of them are, and the other two are in the middle of the far left column.

 

I’ll give you some of my favorite female characters as my suggestions. Apologies for not including accent colors for them as I honestly think you would do a better job choosing according to the vision you have for your artwork.

 

My Suggestions :

 

-Bayonetta from Bayonetta series.

-Dandara from Dandara.

-Chell from Portal series.

-Lara Croft from Tomb Raider series.

-Lifeline, Loba or Valkyrie from Apex Legends.(couldn’t choose one.?)

-Ei/Raiden Shogun from Genshin Impact.

-March 7th from Honkai: Star Rail.

-Hornet from Hollow Knight.

-Coco from Crash Bandicoot series.

-2B from Nier series.

-Mai Valentine from Yu-Gi-Oh! series.

-Jesse Faden from Control.

 

Love these badass women.?

[Breakingthegreen]

I love this art, it's stylish, I know all of them bar the three in the top right corner (dragon age and pokemen for the upper two maybe?)

 

My favourite is Kassandra out of the art you've made, It's the shading that makes it stand above the rest for me.

 

Here are some suggested characters too with possible colours:

• Tali Zorah vas Normandy (purple suit/visor) 
• Rivet (Yellow arm)
• Nariko (Red hair)
• Seuna (Blue Celtic Paint) 
• Xion (Black Coat and Hair)  
• Nilin (Maroon hair) 
• Lucina (Dark Blue hair) 
• Billie Lurk (Red jacket and eye) 

 

(from mass effect, rift apart, heavenly sword, hellblade, kingdom hearts 358/2 days, remember me, fire emblem awakening, dishonored death of the outsider.)

Edited July 13, 2023 by breakingthegreen

[Redgrave]

Those look great and I really like the face on Princess Peach ? I recognize all but the one on the right of Zelda. I don't know her name but I assume she's from Cyberpunk.

 

As for ideas to offer:

 

-Yuffie from FF7 (black for her hair, or green for her sleeveless sweater top)

-Lady from Devil May Cry (black)

-Trish from Devil May Cry (blonde)

-Bastila Shan from KOTOR (yellow)

-Ranni from Elden Ring (blue)

-Nyotengu from Dead or Alive (black)

-Mileena, specifically from MKX because that's my favorite design (purple)

Edited July 13, 2023 by Redgrave

[GothGirlMaxine]

I don’t know if we’re doing humans only but hear me out…

 

Rivet from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart or Liara T'Soni from Mass Effect

[ArtMontef]

Thank you all for the suggestions! I am keeping a list and actually I am asking for suggestions in few places to see who people look the most for

 

Gaming has alot of kinda bubbles that people are in. Some play only japanese games, some play only shooters, some play only rpgs, etc etc. So doing more "broad" research is important to me, so I don't stay in my own bubble. For example being mainly PS player I didn't think of Cortana, but on reddit she was one of the most suggested one! I don't want to spam replies to everyone, so thank you alot guys!

 

Also for those wondering, girls in order are:

Aerith from Final Fantasy VII

Princess Peach from Mario Bros series

Clementine from Telltale's The Walking Dead 

Yennefer from the Witcher series 

Cynthia from Pokemon 

Kasumi Yoshizawa from Persona 5 Royal 

Kassandra from Assassin's Creed Odyssey 

Aloy from Horizon series 

Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda (totk version)

Rogue from Cyberpunk 2077

Marie from Persona 4 Golden 

Chun-Li from Street Fighter

Samus Aran from Metroid 

Jinx from League of Legends 

Shantae from Shantae series 

Junko Enoshima from Danganronpa 

 

Small edit: 

Also I have been doing alot of planning already and have few girls sketched out and prepared, but they are waiting for more free time to get finished, I started: Lara Croft, FemShep, 2B, Marina from Splatoon, Aqua from Kingdom Hearts, Ellie from TLOU and rough idea for Bayo

Edited July 13, 2023 by ArtMontef

[Kristen Danielle]

Is no one going to suggest our female badasses from Resident Evil? Claire (red) and Jill (blue top). 

[Adsor_]

Regina from Dino Crisis
Aya Brea from Parasite Eve
Leona Heidern from KOF

[Breakingthegreen]

Wanted to add some non-triple A games that I'd thought of just after I press send:

• Stella (Yellow shirt or Green hat)
• Hat Kid (Purple everything) 
• Quill (Red bandanna) 
• Tangent (I dunno, she's fairly monochrome with hints of lavender I think?) 
• Zoe (Orange hair) 
• Ellie (Red Hair) 
• Abigail (Purple Hair, tbh she's not my favourite in the game... but the purple...) 
• Aliya Elasra (Blue Headscarf) 
• Freya Fatima (Green hair) 
• Madeline (Orange Hair) 

 

(from Spiritfarer, A hat in time, Moss, I was a teenage exocolonist, Road 96, Henry Stickmin, Stardew Valley, Heaven's Vault, Coffee Talk, Celeste)

Edited July 14, 2023 by breakingthegreen

[KennethMcCormick]

No Chloe nor Elena from the Uncharted series yet? Quite surprising on a PS website... Pick the colour you want, I’m a black on black kind of bloke...

 

Otherwise, Jade, from BG&E.

Edited July 14, 2023 by KennethMcCormick

[esstee11]

No ellie tlou, or max/chloe LiS ?

 

Great work btw ?

Edited July 14, 2023 by esstee11

[Abby_TheLastofUs]

If the purpose is to combat the perception that gaming lacks great female characters and that the medium isn't full of characters that serve as male fantasies then around half those characters should be axed and it'd be more fitting for Samus to be in her iconic Power Suit, not the Zero Suit that has like 30 minutes of playtime and may give people a false impression of the character.

 

Otherwise it's inadvertently proving the criticism right and holding video games to a lower standard.

 

Creating a list of great characters is always going to come into conflict with characters that are iconic and beloved. A lot of characters that are considered great by gamers, don't really compare to great characters from other mediums.

 

It doesn't even mean those characters are bad, but it doesn't do video games any favors if one person lists off Siobhan Roy, Selina Myers, Kim Wexler, Diane Nguyen, Claire Fisher, Fleabag, and Nora Durst as examples of great TV characters and then another lists Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, Shantae, Marie, Chun-Li, Jynx, and Samus Aran as example of great video game characters.

 

By the way, that's not a criticism of anyone for liking such characters or those mentioned by others here, I like a lot of them too. Just my take on how to approach the notion that video games are lacking in great characters, particularly women. 

 

For my character suggestions.

Kreia from Knights of the Old Republic II

 

 

Bree from Boreal Tenebrae

 

 

Mae from Night in the Woods

 

 

Saddie Adler from Red Dead Redemption 2

 

 

Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3

 

 

Min from Butterfly Soup

 

 

Marissa Marcel from Immortality

 

Morgana from the The House in Fate Morgana

 

Karen Reynolds from Life is Strange 2

 

Klaasje from Disco Elysium

 

Samantha Greenbriar from Gone Home

 

 

Ophelia from Elsinore

 

Edited July 14, 2023 by Abby_TheLastofUs