UPDATE!! Captain Falcon was officially confirmed on the Smash Dojo on February 22, 2008. 2-22!!



I was technically going to wait until Sakurai put up the update for Captain Falcon... but he was confirmed a few days ago, so I figured I might as well post it anyway. (He was just sitting around and waiting in the Semi-Confirmed Waiting Room after Goroh was AT'd and the Red Alloy got his moves. FOR SIX MONTHS.)

Yeah, so back story... Falcon was semi-confirmed when Goroh was turned into an Assist Trophy on July 2, 2007. I drew this on JULY 30, 2007, because I figured Captain Falcon would be confirmed soon. Boy, was I let down.

So guess what? Today's the 30th of January, and the six-month anniversary of when I drew this. So I finally decided enough was enough, and I posted it.

PROS:
*ZOMFGBBQLOL IT'S CUTE!!!
*FALSAM IS CUTE!!
*Like, my first official piece of FalSam artwork. I've drawn them once before, but the other one looked really bad.
*I spent a lot of time with this one.
*Good references! "How to Draw Couples" book (pose), Japanese fanart (character design), tutorials (color), and SSBM/SSBB gameplay/screenshots (color/details).
*For such tiny detail, I loved how the emblem on Captain Falcon's back turned out, especially because Samus's hand is blocking most of it.
*COLOR! And I took that VERY seriously! I did almost all of the lines stroke by stroke (evident on Captain Falcon's jacket/body-suit uniform). And I put in some pretty good shading too!
*Speaking of COLOR and REFERENCES, I couldn't completely use 's hair tutorial (because I don't have Paintshop and I used colored pencils for this), but some parts of it were helpful to me.
*It might only be a variety of colors, but I actually had a freaking background in it.
*I went to great lengths to protect this picture for six months. I kept it in one of those binder pockets and in a binder itself on a table in my room that doesn't get much sunlight so the color wouldn't fade and so I'd know where to find it if that day ever came up.
*This is how I portray Captain Falcon in Swordplay (Falcon has been seen with black hair or brown hair; I used his brown hair style in SP), so this could be considered Swordplay art. YAY!
*There are a lot of pros listed here.

CONS:

* I used a mechanical pencil, .05 lead for the lineart. Now, Samus has blonde hair and a paler skin tone, so I had to use a lighter peach tone for her skin and yellow for her hair... and some of the pencil began to bleed, clearly near one of her eyes.
* Her mouth is slightly smudged in some parts.
* I wasn't quite sure about belt placement for Captain Falcon, and it looks like I put it a little too high... now his butt is even bigger than mine!
* Some of the shading on his uniform looks odd.
* That big blurry blue spot on his "driver's seat".
* I think I drew his shoulder guard (an epaulet, maybe?) at the wrong angle...
* I don't think I colored Samus's uniform right...
* And I hate how her ear turned out. And her ponytail. I'm not good with ponytails yet...
* Yes there's a background, but it should have been better for the bounty hunters.
* You can tell where I was getting lazy on the checkerboard background, huh?
* I hate my handwriting. And how hard it is to see the letters.

Still, it was really late when I finished drawing this, and by the time I was done, my blue and golden-yellow pencils had gone from a normal size to the size of my middle finger.

This picture is dedicated to not one, but TWO people.

First off is , because her Valentine's Picture from 2005 brought up my interest in FalSam. No Valentine's Picture, no FalSam in my life. And that would just be sad.

Second is , because her hair tutorials helped with some of my coloring and because ElRoy is to CH and TCE/AtA as FalSam is to me and SP.

Breakdown:

Time of Completion: 7-30-07, 12:47 am
Background Sketch: 22 minutes
Background Color: 91 minutes (1 hr, 31 min)
FalSam Sketch: 80 minutes (1 hr, 20 min)
FalSam Color: 151 minutes (2 hrs, 31 min)
Total Time: 344 minutes (5 hrs, 44 min) over the course of 1 day (Technically 2, but... )

Welcome back to Brawl, Captain!