My husband’s review was, “it looks like he’s doing a murder on himself” and so now I can’t unsee that. However, I’m also terrible at drawing, so I don’t know that my lack of FF7 knowledge was a hinderance here. “I’ve never played a Final Fantasy but I knew two things about Cloud Strife: spiky hair, big sword. Also I really thought he and Sora went shoe shopping at the same place. “Even if Cloud has gotten a beautiful glow-up in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, there is something about the cold, dead fish stare from the original I can’t get out of my head.

Oh and that ridiculously large Buster sword on his back.” - Owen, age 46 Chelsea Stark “Having never played a Final Fantasy game (ducks rotten vegetables) the only minds-eye concept of Cloud Strife that I have is his low-poly version, with the square eyes and Naruto hair. The red marks are the blood of Cloud Strife’s enemies - and yes, it’s real blood.” Owen Good The most striking thing about Cloud is his knife, so I chose to focus my efforts there. “Cloud Strife is probably the only Final Fantasy 7 Remake character I could pick of out a lineup of Final Fantasy characters. If you can’t get enough of our illustrious art, please see Polygon Draws Sonic (yikes) and Tom Nook.

Polygon Draws host Jenna Stoeber was “worried about the human figure” - particularly the staff’s ability to perfectly capture Cloud’s famous figure - but we all did pretty dang well.īut who was the best? There must be a winner! Please let us know after thoughtfully considering each artist’s statement as well. In celebration of the release, the Polygon staff took on a challenge: to draw Cloud Strife’s blue eyes and blonde hair. Who isn’t in the mood to revisit a classic?

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