Summer Break

Summer break with Vaan! It's begun!
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Small edit~ I changed some stuff that was bothering me, although it's still not perfect!

Ummm... :D I dunno what to say about this. First time submitting a human work, so I was kinda nervous. But whatever! Everything in this, pretty much, was one big experiment. I downloaded the free trial of Corel Painter Essentials 4, and it's reallyyyy nice. I did the background in that, and Vaan in cs2. It could be better, but.. gosh, this was like the first time I really got tired of something I was working on. And man, this pose is so cliche!
Here's some references I used, haha. [link] [link] [link]
And I used a Metal Tutorial for some stuff, although I didn't do a good job on it.
Lots of KH and FF music was listened to while I worked on this rofl.

Critique appreciated!