Ty Grenier

This website contains the art of Ty Grenier, including digital and traditional full illustrations, sketches, works in progress, and anything else he deems cool enough to show to everybody.

FF7 WIP Update

After the sketch, I really went back and forth a lot (too much) on what kind of process I wanted to take to finish this one. I made some colored backgrounds with the intent to just paint over the sketch with color and light, I thought about making refined line work before laying down flats and building with light…ultimately I turned off the colored background and started rendering the character in black and white without much of a light source, and then once I start coloring I’ll add some more dramatic lighting.

So far I’ve got Red XIII, Cid, and Tifa decently far along. Barret has a long ways to go, Aerith needs some more time, and nobody on the right is really even touched. I need to redraw Cloud entirely and I’ve been avoiding it (tried once to fiddle existing stuff around into a new pose, but it’s waaaay too stiff).

I take commissions. Pricing is completely dependent on each individual project, so please contact me and we can work out a plan.