August 29, 2010

Sardonic Marth

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Filed under: 4. Fire Emblem fanworks, Fire Emblem 1/3/6, Photoshop — Tags: — Illinia @ 11:34 pm
Oh yeah, Medeus? XD
Oh yeah, Medeus? XD

Sardonic Marth

drawn Aug 29, ‘10

(643)

Well, rocking out while painting is not recommended, but when it’s to music like this… the above picture is the result. That’s the Shadow Dragon Medley from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and it is AMAZING. I love the battle theme music in there (EDIT: I have been informed by YouTube that the specific theme is actually used for exposition cutscenes. Whatever. It’s too awesome for that). Marth is groovy! So I painted him that way. Bwahahaha.

Just a quick sketchie. Working on something much bigger (again) in yet another different style. Night, folks!

August 28, 2010

Guardian Angel

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Filed under: Photoshop, Uncategorized — Tags: , — Illinia @ 11:12 pm

angel

Guardian Angel

painted Aug 25-28, ‘10

(642)

<3

This is my guardian angel, also known as the personification of my conscience. He doesn’t always carry that big sword around, but he does use it for beating off demons - and sometimes for whacking me over the head when I do something stupid. But mostly he whaps me in the head or shoulder with his hand - or just crosses his arms and looks disapproving.

He’s also supportive when I need him, but that’s more Flairé’s job.

I was going for a sort of sunset-like background. Hovering in clouds at sunset. You know the type. (Also he still looks cool against pink. : D ) I’m really happy with his face; it’s the best face I’ve done yet. The wings were hard but I went to DeviantArt and looked at some tutorials, and they gave me some ideas. Still not quite right, but good for a first try, a first try in colour anyway! Also he’s now in the characters section.

Click the image for full-size version! Also, detail: –>angpreview2

Not much has happened recently. : P It’s summer.

Oh, well, Zela is in Lion’s Arch in Guild Wars, so… if you want to hike around Kryta with her, you know, comment, and we’ll set something up! I saw my guild boss was online today… prolly should have said hello - the guild has been quiet! Also probably because it’s summer. But when I saw him I had been afk watching Mythbusters for a bit. Anyway. I’m going to spend my last 1.5 weeks of freedom practicing and drawing! I should probably get some sort of buffer for the comics I still think I’m going to be doing…

I AM INSANE. Comics, costumes, NaNoWriMo… one of these has got to go. I think maybe I’ll skip the novel this year. Comments?

August 25, 2010

Preview

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Filed under: Photoshop — Illinia @ 9:48 pm

angpreview

Hey it’s another picture that will take me multiple days to finish! Initial comments?

I still have to finish the shirt etc… and now that I look at it his neck is kind of 2D. So I’ve got those covered. Anything else?

Marteth vs. Sandworm

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Other fanart, Photoshop — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 6:22 pm

martethpwns

Marteth vs. Sandworm

drawn Aug 25 ‘10

(641)

Hokay, so I watched the movie “Tremors” and it was freaky, and scary, but also pretty funny. : D And then I decided that Marteth would kick butt and I should draw him doing it.

That is my story for today.

Vivaldi is totally Baroque rock’n'roll. : D

August 21, 2010

Wilderness

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Filed under: Flairé, Photoshop, Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — Illinia @ 8:05 pm

wilderness

Wilderness

painted Aug 21, ‘10

(640)

Aaaaahhhh! It’s another picture!

Sorry for leaving you guys so long. I was doing… other things… like going to Vancouver and practicing piano several hours a day.

This painting has been in my head since… Sunday, July 17th, around 5:00 PM. This was during an Evensong sermon at CCC, in which the pastor spoke to us organists about how we were all wonderful people but not adventurous unless pushed, so she challenged us to ’step out of the box and head into the wilderness’ like John the Baptist and Christ and anyone else you can think of who went into the wilderness. Now that day I was really having a bad day, so the idea of ‘wilderness’ terrified me and I nearly broke down in church… but I did get this picture in my head, and I decided I felt like painting it because it’s an interesting picture.

Basically what this picture is saying is that if I ever get lost in the wilderness, I just have to remember that there are at least two people with me: my guardian angel and Flairé. My guardian angel is actually closer to me than Flairé… Well, he is the personification of my conscience, my angel, I mean.

I’m not sure about the lighting… I think I might tweak it a bit later. And one thing that is a pain is that I actually put a lot of detail on Flairé and the angel, but then I blurred them and put mist in front of them (because they’re supposed to blend into the background) so you can’t see ANY of the detail at all and in fact they look quite flat.

Okay, here is a de-fogged and de-blurred version because it looks cool too. Although Flairé is actually quite ugly. Blah.

Oh, so you want to know about Vancouver and so on? Well, basically: swordfighting was tremendous fun, and the people and the place were fantastic. But rapiers are heavier than they look. That Wednesday I went with Organist to the VanDusen Gardens, and they were lovely. Gardens are so peaceful… Great way to relax. Henry V was fabulous, and The Boy was really good, and so was Henry, of course, and some of the actors were also in Othello last year, and Organist wasn’t too sure about the interpretive battle-dancing but the bits with Princess Katherine were really funny. : D

I also got to catch up with Leslie for the first time in a while, and hopefully soon I shall do the same with KevinT because I haven’t seen him in months either. And people will start returning soon and then… then school will start and things will be insane as usual. Can’t wait! X D

I’m also most of the way through Gospel of Luke, and slowly learning more about my own religion… Soon I won’t be one of the ignorant masses anymore! X D Also my repertoire is getting learned; it’s easier than it seems. I’m memorizing the Haydn Sonata already, and I’m going to try and memorize most of the Ravel as fast as I can… the Brahms is going to take some beating before I get it under my fingers, but the hard parts are definitely the Ravel Toccata and the Liebermann Gargoyles fourth movement - they are both MM=144 and kind of ridiculously hard. : P But I shall triumph! You’ll see!

I’ve been listening to Duruflé all day. Whoo! My new favourite piece for now is the Choral from the Prélude, Adagio, et Choral Varié on the theme Veni Creator. Absolutely gorgeous. But I have to say my favourite recording of the Suite Op. 5 is the one I’ve had for years and no other. <3

Cheers!

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