January 23, 2007

Profile Portrait of Link

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Filed under: 3. Legend of Zelda fanworks,Link,Miscellaneous — Tags: , — Illinia @ 4:19 pm
Fear me and my whiteboard, for I can draw Link!

Fear me and my whiteboard, for I can draw Link!

Profile Portrait of Link
drawn Feb 12, ’04
posted for Jan 23, 2007
(54)

zeladanceiiavatarThis is a picture I drew on my whiteboard one day when I was bored. Dad took a picture of it with his digital camera. I like this picture! Navi’s nice, too.

Eh, I haven’t updated for a few days because of busy-ness and also tiredness. Now I’m annoyed because I have to go back and fix everything I let slide. Well, it’s my job, and I’ll try not to do it again, but I know it’ll happen. Probably when exams of any kind come up…

Did I do a real comparison of Last Exile DVDs yet here? No? Well, at Amazon.ca, like I said, you can get the 7-DVD boxed set, with about four episodes per DVD, English and Japanese dubs, and a bunch of extras, all for the low, low price of $134! At this other website, they sell Last Exile (and Tsubasa season 1!) on three (3) DVDs, Japanese only, English subtitles, for $30. That’s the one I want! Hahahaha!

Hey, if anyone’s ever played Super Smash Bros. Melee, Ocarina of Time, Four Swords, Animal Crossing, etc. you may find this person’s Deviantart gallery, which contains joke comics on all of the above and a couple others… and pretty funny ones, too. Also contains Marth-bashing (literally) animations, which I actually don’t mind. Nearly 300 pictures in there.

But she says that Link on the Wii is right handed! Aaaaaaah! Backwards! Aaaaaah! Must… obtain….. unaltered……. GC….. version…… (head explodes) Seriously, who made that decision? It’s bonkers! Even in the very first game, when you see Link from the front or the back, he’s using his left. From the side, they just flipped the same animation (lazy) but he’s always, always, always used his left.

I went and found my own proof. Go to the Twilight Princess site, click on Screenshots, and go to the sixth screenshot: where Link is facing an Ironknuckle thing. Now scream “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” in classic Star Wars (and everything afterwards) style.

Heh, but I heard Wii has Navi and the GC version doesn’t… To get nine-tenths, or the other nine-tenths? That is the dilemma…

Note: I still have some dates messed up – I still don’t have anything up for the 22nd, but I’m fixing that tomorrow because I feel I did enough work on this today.

Fixed now.

January 22, 2007

Link Through the Ages

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Filed under: 3. Legend of Zelda fanworks,Link,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 4:16 pm
I, II, III, IV, yay!

I, II, III, IV, yay!

Link Through the Ages
drawn Feb 13, ’04
posted for Jan 22, 2007
(53)

rinakoavatarYesterday we watched Castle in the Sky. My brother said “Let’s watch a movie” and I pointed out several, including about six of my Miyazaki collection, and whenever I got to Castle in the Sky he went “Yeah, yeah, yeah!” So we watched it in Japanese, because the Japanese is better than the English as usual, even though my brother still insists on calling Pazu as Potsu like the English Sheeta did. We enjoyed it, although it was a bit longer than I’d been planning for and so I didn’t get a chance to update or send in my contribution to the fanart contest at Prime of Ambition. I don’t even remember what the prize is, I just wanted to send something. I like Sly’s Link costume.

Anyway, this just outlines the different Links and how they fit into my own interpretation of the Zelda story… first comes the snub-nosed Link I, who saved Zelda in the first two games: The Legend of Zelda and The Adventure of Link.
Next, there is the both handsome and adorable Link II, who found his inner hero in A Link to the Past, continued with Four Swords and The Oracle of Seasons and finally returned to his Zelda’s side after The Oracle of Ages.
Then, there is Link III, whom we all know and love as the hero of The Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, and in a fit of insanity, I placed him in Link’s Awakening as well.
As an epilogue, we have Link IV, of Wind Waker fame, as well as the new ones I haven’t played yet that are in the ‘toon’ style: Phantom Hourglass and quite possibly Minish Cap, with Vaati coming back in a bishounen incarnation or something instead of a wierd black blob. I think Wind Waker had just come out, though, because that’s the only one written below his little head.

You can see my style for Link III has developed since I started: here I’ve found the look I want, and I use it with very small alterations indeed through the next couple of years. He’s also the only one in profile, which probably means something: I think I thought the others were more recognizable in 3/4 view. Also, Link taught me to draw profiles, but I probably overuse them since absolute profiles are rather rare. I like the long nose, but the eyes are probably still too high up.

I can see that I started to draw a 3/4 view of adult Link III behind the finished picture, but I erased it. He must have been ugly.

January 21, 2007

Redead Pirates

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Filed under: 3. Legend of Zelda fanworks,Link,Pencil — Tags: , , , — Illinia @ 4:08 pm
Redead + Stalfos = Zombie Pirates?

Redead + Stalfos = Zombie Pirates?

Redead Pirates
drawn Feb 5, ’04
posted for Jan 21, 2007
(52)

rinakoavatarHyumph. I remember this was drawn because a) I had to watch a freaky movie called Pirates of the Caribbean, and b) I was beating the Shadow Temple, the freakiest Ocarina level I’ve ever seen. So, Will is trying to explain to Link what they’re up against, and Link is trying to fit this in with his own knowledge, so their conversation is a bit as follows…

Will: They’re pirates, cursed so that they can never die. In the moonlight, they turn into skeletons.
Link: Oh, so… That sounds like… Redead!
Jack: Redead?
Link: They must be Redead that have been turned into Stalfos at the same time.
Will: Whatever you think.
Jack: What are you talking about?
Link: Redead are actually Undead, only I killed so many that they’re not exactly UNdead anymore. They’re tricky.
Jack: And what under the sun are Stalfos?
Link: Uh… They’re not exactly under the sun, are they? They’re large skeletons. They take about half a dozen hits with the Master Sword.
Jack: You’re a strange guy.

Yeah, Link’s a straaaange guy according to these 19th century nutters. So, I didn’t like the movie too much, but I enjoyed this picture, even if they all look like dorks.

I found out at my Telemann rehearsal that the down bow symbol for strings comes from an abbreviation of the Latin word for “noble” and the up bow symbol is the abbreviation of the Latin word for “vile”. This is why they look sort of like an n and a v. Odd, no? This was because the down bows mostly come on the down beats, and the down beats are more important – more “noble”.

January 20, 2007

Zela and Flair Dancing

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Pencil,Zela — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 4:03 pm

I know you, I walked with you once upon a (waking) dream

Zela and Flair Dancing
drawn Feb 4-5, ’04
posted for Jan 20, 2007
(51)

portrait3Well, I’m unable to see the end of Last Exile at this time due to some kind of technical problem that I cannot comprehend. Oh, well. I’m looking forward to the day when I can. Maybe I’ll rent it from a video store. I could buy it at Amazon.com for about $134, but I’m not that desperate. (note: those ‘popular quotes’ are from the English dub: in the subtitles of the one I saw, Ravey actually yells “Your chivalry is rotten! Rotten!”) I’m going to start watching the beginning again now that I know who’s who. I like Sophia best as second-in-command rather than her new role. It’s the lipstick, I think, that spoils it.

This picture is of Zela and Flaer dancing, and I drew it after watching a very romantic movie with lots of dancing: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. I kind of like the artificial way that her dress swirls… Here I was going for the same kind of tall slenderness that I got in the first picture, but it didn’t work as well, especially with Flaer because he’s not wearing a robe, he’s wearing a tunic-ish shirt thing. Whatever them medieval-type folks wore. As you can see, he now has long black hair, and they are the exact same height. My Aunt Monica saw this and said it looked like they were kissing. Well, I left out the mouths because they looked bad, and I’m terrible at drawing people kissing anyway, at least not good at doing it in the style that I call a ‘kiss’ but other people probably call something like a ‘long peck’. (???) I do not understand modern society, but I do think this is a decent picture for my skill level. (Flaer is suffering from chopped skull syndrome, though)

Dancing is an important part of Flaer and Zela’s relationship.

I accidentally dated this picture as Jan 4-5. I must have been confused.

From now on, pictures are a bit random, although there will be much Zelda, until about March ’04, when there will be much Fire Emblem and then after that become extremely jumbled again. Also, a lot of them are terrible. -_-7 I’m still learning how to draw here.

You may have noticed that I left off the total number of pictures in the info: I was getting tired of it. Sorry. Too much trouble for me. Well, if you want to know how many pictures I have, just go to ‘Newest Picture’ and look at the number there.

January 19, 2007

Old Ones

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Filed under: Pencil,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — Illinia @ 11:57 am
Merry, Will, and Captain Toms

Merry, Will, and Captain Toms

Old Ones
drawn Jan 25, ’04
posted for Jan 19, 2007
(50)

untitleddanceravatar50th picture! Cool!
Anyhoo, this is a picture of three great characters from the pentology (like a trilogy of five) called The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. The bearded man is Merriman Lyon, a mysterious figure who everyone seems to know casually. The elderly man on the right is Captain Toms, a kindly old seafarer who lives in a big stone house with his lovely red dog, Rufus. The boy in the middle is one of the most main characters: Will Staunton, an eleven year old boy who wakes up on his birthday and finds the world upside down and discovers a startling heritage. He’s my favourite character.Although Will is eleven, in ‘reality’ he is an ageless, powerful Old One, one of an ancient group called the Light (who are fighting against the Dark, no surprise there) who seem to centre on Welsh myths like King Arthur. All these three in this picture are Old Ones. Will is the youngest and last, and Merriman is the eldest. I liked The Dark is Rising very much.
Well, I have some translation troubles with The Last Exile: the last few episodes have been translating the first line – which is English anyway – as “Just keep on trying, keep on flying, I will be the light” which makes about as much sense as “need to run” which isn’t much sense in the first place. Also, the “calling, calling the stars” has been re-configured in the Japanese subtitles as “(Umi no) mukou ni hikari ga sasu hou e” which means now “Towards the rays of light that slant downward beyond the sea of clouds”. I like the first version better. Here it is compared phonetically with Japanese pronunciation:

U-mi no       ka -  ri-n, ka-ri-n da su-ta-su
U-mi no mu-kou   ni hi-ka-ri    ga sa  -  su hou e

‘ou’ is normally pronounced as ‘oh’ in Japanese and ‘i’ as ‘ee’. The ‘ru’ in stars is left out, as they sometimes do (Fiya Emuburemu, anyone? – Fire Emblem) Anyway, this seems a little far-fetched when I clearly do not hear the second version. The ‘hou e’ is, in the first version, just a melodic cry or moan a couple of bars after the line ended.
Now, I don’t understand or speak any Japanese at all (well, besides such useful phrases I picked up from the Tsubasa anime like ‘shinjimasen’ and ‘mahou’ – more useful would be daijobu and Chikoi-wan or the words like ‘wakarimasen’ from some of the Japanese courses I took) so I can’t tell which is the actually correct version. The second version makes no coherent sense, anyway. However, lots of people hear English song lyrics differently. Here’s proof.
 
 
 

 

I’m also a bit confused about Ravey: all the subtitles on Leslie’s DVDs say Ravey, yet the title of one episode is Etude Lavie (in English text, not subtitles) and other sites call her Lavi. I also like Aru and Arvis instead of Al and Alvis.
Greek is used liberally in The Last Exile. Cool. Here is a site that includes some translations.
I just learned from DiscDrive that the phrase “no strings attached” comes from the silk industry – if there was even a slight flaw, they would put a string on the end of the cloth.

 

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