Hakee, it's me, Sheng Long Gradilla, and the following is a picture of the Female Knight from Final Fantasy Reprise, as well as a very simple step-by-step guide to draw. This guide will change in the future, with new stuff.

Draw in paper, a simple picture of the CHR. You don't even have to finish the drawing, it'll just be a guide for you to draw.

First, enter your favorite paint program, start a new image with the Verge color palette and make a big Zoom, I recommend 600%. Now do the outline. You can either scan your drawing and color its outlining, or try to draw it again in while looking at the paper drawing. I don't recommend you beginners to try the first choice, it'll be a pain in the ass for you (if it's your first time with a paint program, of course!). Choose a color darker than the one that will be used to fill the adjacent areas (Pink hair? Try orange outlinning!).

Now fill it with the colors. Don't fine tune the details yet, just fill, and fill, and fill. Once you finish, it'll look kinda flat, but that's fine, you'll fix it in the next step.

It's now time to add all the details (the mouth, the eyes' iris, and everything). I recommend using a soft difussion in the face shading, being that the Verge's Color Palette has plenty of skin-like colors, which will make things easier. Add the shading between eye and eyebrow, the facial expression, the hair's shadow, etc. Last, sharpen the details to everything, and add scars, marks, spikes, anything that comes to your mind, and ... Haaka! It's finished ^_^

Wasnt that easy? It took me five hours the first time I made a CR2, without a guide, from scratch! It now takes me an hour or so. That means it'll probably take you two or three hours in the first try (thanks to this guide), but don't feel sad if you spend a whole week! I have eight years of experience in drawing (six years with MS Paintbrush and a 16 color (4-Bit) video card, and ONLY TWO YEARS with MGI Photoworks and a 4,294,967,296 color (32-Bit) video card).