On the subject of patience.. something I've noticed with other aritsts is that the more time and detail they put into their work, the more time you tend to spend looking at it. Even if it was based off a shoddy sketch, if you spend multiple hours on a picture, it'll at least look interesting. From what I've seen. But like.. staying on topic. I dug up and scanned this old sketches I did of Zack, when one day I thought it would have been hillarious having some random maco accident, or jenova cell thingy turn him female.
http://home.earthlink.net/~seiki666/ima ... /zack1.jpg
The one on the right was what I thought would happen if Aerith got her hands on him/her. Make her wear her clothes, or something.. and then I did this thing
http://home.earthlink.net/~seiki666/ima ... /zack2.jpg
of a sorta female SOLDIER Zack napping. And right now, I'd like to say whoever made that 'Random RPG Gurl' generator thing that was on the webpage. Dear god, I worship you. *_*: When I found that, I was hitting that 'Lightning strikes again'! button like fifty times, daily. It was incredibly entertaining, for some reason. And I did a bunch of sketches of the random characters I found.. but there was one I ended up with reaaaally liking.
http://home.earthlink.net/~seiki666/ima ... latina.jpg
So, I hit it, and get Platina, Artificial human Sword Saint (17 years old), with black eyes, long white hair in ribbon. Her favorite thing being her father's broken sword, cooking, and the color orange.. coming from a swamp, or some such, and tending to dress in armor or some such.. my memory's kind of sketchy on that part. But I just had to draw this one a few times.
I think I also ended up with a catgirl dressed in a bunny suit. That was just funny. I WUV YOU!