Finally done!
If you have some time you can read the whole story behind this picture...

Now I'll be careful when I talk with my friends, because it all started here.
I was talking with a friend about super smash bros brawl, and we talked about the fact it was "very high quality fanservice", since this whole game looks like it comes from the brain of an hardcore fanboy.
Especially the story mode looks like a huge fanfic... But well at least the game is fun.

The conversation then obviously chained to the other most known "fanservice game" : DOA extreme beach volleyball, and then I said : "Now you know what game would conquer the world? The same thing with the girls from Final Fantasy!"

We made a few jokes according to this, and since it was a time when I drasticly lacked inspiration and will to draw, I thought : "hey, why not? With that many girls, I sure should get back to drawing". Well, it worked!

After all Final Fantasy is probably the series that, among the "overpopular ones", deserves the most this status : high technical quality, artistic ambition and no fear to make the series change drasticly to give new experiences ( FF7 with its SF universe back then, FFX-2, and now FF12...).

And like almost anyone on this planet, this series inspired me and influenced me, at least a little. It deserved some kind of tribute from me.

All this are good reasons for this huge fanart that really isn't like me, the creativity-defender...
But it fullfilled its purpose, and now I feel like drawing again, yay!

I'll post all girls separately later, to allow you to see them better. You won't lack updates for a while!

Characters from left to right :

Maria from FF2
Celes from FF6
Rikku from FF10
Lenna from FF5
Refia from FF3
Terra from FF6 (in esper form)
Garnet from FF9
Yuna from FF10
Fran from FF12
Ashe from FF12
Aerith from FF7
Tifa from FF7
Yuffie from FF7
Selphie from FF8
Freyja from FF9
Quistis from FF8
Rinoa from FF8
Rydia from FF4
Faris from FF5
Rosa from FF4
Lulu from FF10
Penelo from FF12

WARNING : With the new versions of the "before FF7" era, some characters exist in different versions. I based most of my drawings of the old characters on the in-game sprites of the old versions, exept:

- Maria was done according to her new sprite in the PSP version of FF2
- Refia was made based on her new CG version
- Rosa as well.

All characters copyright Square-Enix, a.k.a the god of the modern youth