Do nothing.

At the prision scene with Locke, when in front of Celes you are given two choices: Releasing Celes from her chains or... "do nothing". I did "nothing" at first, just contemplated that pixelated sprite chained to the wall and figuring out how would the scene look like in a higher definition console. I am a pervert.
I had to dig deep into my videogame bondage archives to find this little sketch. This is my celes interpretation since there is no official art or outfit (yoshitaka amano´s art is very vague...) so lots of references from the web gave way to this design.
Handled a bit different the shadowing and lighting. Duplicated the color layer, changed the hue sat to a darker tone and whenever I wanted some light, I just passed a soft eraser. Trying really hard to get away from my usual soft cell shading and going more into digital painting. Still, skin is softly shaded with some blur filters, but mostly done with pressure sensitive opacity brushes. Some bevel and emboss layer effect on the metal ornaments learned from nebeshiniez videotutorials.
Pose and proportions took the most time. Lots of anatomy revisions were done. Once that was set, coloring and background were done in a day.
Played and finished FF 5 (boring),7(awesome!! tears were shed),8(good change of pace, really liked it),9(dramatic story didnt fit with the silly characters),10 (abandoned it for a year before retaking it and owning it),12(Very dense maps. Lots of help from walkthroughs. Loved the vagrant story feel of it.). I have started playing ff6 lots of times but haven´t gotten the dedication to beat this 16 bit masterpiece....