July 17, 2007

Soren from reference

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Filed under: 4. Fire Emblem fanworks,Fire Emblem 9/10,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 11:42 pm

Rah

Rah


Soren from reference
drawn Jan 13, ’06
posted for July 17, 2007
(229)
longshipiconThis picture was done from a reference: the artwork of Soren that I was basing it on. It’s still pretty terrible. That’s why I gave up on this one.

The Tour de France is cool. We’re watching it. I’m cheering for the Astania team. The guys in light blue. The one with the guy with stitches in both knees.
Oh! Oh! Some idiot let his dog run on the road, and it crashed into a biker. How stupid.

We won against the orcs. My lady didn’t get off another spectacular flare, but at the end of turn six, the only things left of the orcs were four Spear Chukkas with only two and a half with crew remaining, and two or three orcs in combat with Kevin’s paladins.

And we went and I picked out a colour for my room. It’s annoying. So I know the shade I want, but what’s the difference between a more blue-green sage and a silver-green sage? I just picked one, since they’re all pretty similar.

July 16, 2007

Soren, unshaded

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Filed under: 4. Fire Emblem fanworks,Fire Emblem 9/10,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 11:40 pm
"Grandmother, what a big black mouth you have!" "All the better to cast Wind on you, child..."

"Grandmother, what a big black mouth you have!" "All the better to cast Wind on you, child..."

Soren unshaded
drawn Jan 4, ’06
posted for July 16, 2007
(228)
sainsaliralaniconAnd thus began my quest to find out how Soren dressed. Which failed miserably in the ‘by memory’ category. I’m going on the neat artwork that appears in the opening video of the game. And they show Soren with green swirlies around him because the Wind spell makes green wind. Anyway, this picture is a write-off, it’s so bad, and so is tomorrow’s for a similar reason.

I actually have an extra week to write quartets in! I’ll finish the piano part this afternoon, if I’m not doing anything crazy… I have an organ lesson this morning and this afternoon I have to finish my Warhammer game with Kevin and I’m hoping Mom and Dad will take me out to pick a paint colour for my room. They’ve been saying they’ll paint it soon, and saying soon means “while I’m away at camp so I come back and find a beautiful finished room – and they won’t have a nut sleeping on the couch”. Ah, well, if that doesn’t happen, that’s all right. I can survive in my strange brown room for another few years.

Oh, yeah! Warhammer! It’s kind of a neat battle Kevin set up. It’s allied High Elves and Brets vs. Orcs. So far, we are winning. Eee, yes, my sorceress cast Conflagration of Doom on a biiiig unit with two characters in it (about 600 points worth – my girl was worth 185, to put things in perspective) and it went off, and then I just kept rolling sixes. “Does it go out?” “I rolled a six, so unless you roll a six too, it doesn’t.” “How many hits?” “I rolled a six!” “No armour save!” “I rolled a six!” (repeat?)
So, in the end, I took out about ten guys or something, and filled the remainder full of bolts from my TWO bolt throwers, and then the remainder RAN AWAY!!!! Run away from the scary elf-girl with super fire-power!
Idril: I’m a pyro?
And then I turned my attention to the Black Orcs right behind them and wiped them out, too. So far, there’s just two guys – a character and the unit champion – running towards my Dragon Princes (represented by milky white (primed) horses). We’ve only just begun turn three. He still has three units of orcs and one of trolls and two goblin shamans and some “Spear Chukkas” left. No sweat. 3/4 of our armies haven’t even done anything yet.

Headline in our paper some time ago: Policeman defends pepper-spraying mob

July 15, 2007

Galdr of Release

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Filed under: Fire Emblem 9/10,Miscellaneous Writing,Writing — Illinia @ 11:51 pm

The words to the lovely song sung by the herons, as I can hear them in the credits. Probably not accurate.

Galdr of Release

Eami sanagi ku na no not
Mo ro kok moro na met mo toi kot
Mmyan fet twa ta ti a wi me
O di kio mami

Soren and Charlotte in Serenes Forest

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Filed under: 4. Fire Emblem fanworks,Fire Emblem 9/10,Pencil — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 11:38 pm
Eami sanagi ku nana not...

Eami sanagi ku nana not...

Soren and Charlotte in Serenes Forest
drawn Jan 3, ’06
posted for July 15, 2007
(227)
ravenandcoiconThe first picture in a new category! Fire Emblem 9: Trail of Blue Flames is the latest Fire Emblem (soon to be superceded by Fire Emblem 10: Goddess of Dawn) and the last one for Gamecube. By this time I had figured out that, Eliwood notwithstanding, Fire Emblem characters try to be named with real names. Some of the names may not be exactly common, (L’Arachel, Lyndis, Ephraim, Elincia), some of them may be as ordinary as Kyle, Wil(l), Priscilla (apparently the easiest-to-misspell-name-in-the-universe), Joshua, Natasha…

Anyway, this is a perfectly loony picture. Soren, the withdrawn mage, and Charlotte, a very young OC with a troubled past (orphaned and kidnapped by bandits, etc.) are watching Reyson and Leanne (go, heron-folks!) restore their (the herons’) anscestral home of Serenes Forest from a grey, withered mess into a lush jungle. Reyson has the greatest voice. The restored forest is on the left, and they’re watching the golden lights – the scratchy, squiggly things behind them in this picture – head off into the distance on the right, leaving restored forest behind it. Those golden lights move quickly, you know. You can see my version of the galdr here.

This is about the only picture Charlotte appears in because she’s not a very important character, even to me. She has dark blue hair and blue eyes. I think. I’m not sure. Basically all she’s good for is being a sort of Ike-Ilyana combo – good at drawing Soren out in the same way that Ike does, and having an Ilyana-ish personality – sans ravenous hunger. She acts as Soren’s shy, little-seen servant. By her own choosing. Because Soren doesn’t bother taking care of himself. He’s pretty thrifty. He’s had his own troubled past. And I didn’t know yet how to draw his clothes. He has black hair and red eyes, if you don’t know him.

July 14, 2007

Glorfindel, shaded

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Filed under: 2. Middle Earth fanworks,Glorfindel,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 11:35 pm

Where's the hobbit?

Where's the hobbit?


Glorfindel, shaded
drawn Jan 1, ’06
posted for July 14, 2007
(226)
ravenandcoiconAnd, of course, Glorfindel follows Legolas. It seems like they have a partnership or a deal or something. Except this doesn’t really look like Glorfindel, but it’s supposed to be him. Huh.

Randomosity: “Why do Canadians say Eh?”
“Because it’s better than Huh!”

Different context, though. That was on a T-shirt I saw yesterday. Mom took me shopping and we bought me two pairs of shoes. One is a super pair of sandals – Chaco brand. I kept thinking that they just need to add a ‘bo’ to the end and then they’ll have all the Final Fantasy fans buying them or something. I hardly know what a chocobo is, though – I only just found out that Final Fantasy is ‘sorta kinda like Fire Emblem’. I think a chocobo is a sort of yellow ostrich.

Um, this isn’t about the picture anymore… so, I was going to draw Glorfindel with Frodo in his arms, but Frodo didn’t co-operate. I also tried to exaggerate the shading, and I think that helped somewhat. This was another turning point in my drawing. I still don’t know how to draw ears. When I figure that out, that will be the next turning point. The turning point after that will be when I figure out how to draw hands. So far I have probably one pair that I’m really happy with. However, I’m proud of the way the hair turned out in this picture. It’s great. The rest of this picture is dumb, but the hair is not.

Oh, and I bought Tsubasa Vol. 11 because they didn’t have Vol. 9. That’s okay, though, because Vol. 11 finally has Piffle World in it!

Okay, now I know exactly how the end of Link’s Awakening goes, but I don’t think I have enough material to make a consistant-length chapter. You might have to settle for an epilogue-y climax.

I went to The Hylia this morning and clicked on the Big Band Live soundtrack, and I never knew the Shop Theme was so cool! It’s fabulous big band style. Also there’s a rollicking cool version of the Zeldafranchisetheme/HyruleFieldfromOcarinatheme medley. At least, it’s musically identical, with all the counterpoint and submelodies, but with a foot-tapping percussion section. And Epona’s Song actually has words! The Zelda Big Band Live CD can be bought (at a hefty price) at Amazon, too.

I just visited LinT, and… (swoons…)

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