I'm going for my sword... you'd better take cover... not that it will help...
Zela Avatar Unsized
drawn Apr 29, ’06
posted for Aug 29, 2007
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This is the finished version of this sketch. It’s pretty good for my first full-sized CG, considering I didn’t know how to CG shiny eyes, or shiny hair (I only found that out a few months ago, didn’t I?) or how to use the blur tool. So, the highlights are painfully blatent, on the skin, but the hand looks rather good. The hair I did by drawing streaks on the brown and using the smudge tool to rub them in. I have Adobe 5.0, I think. Because I only knew about the smudge tool and not the blur tool, there are some white spots where it didn’t overlap properly, like on the back of the jaw. Then I don’t know how to draw ears still, and the tiny detail work on the swordhilt isn’t nearly as complicated as I’d like, and the clothing looks a little flat. But, all in all, it’s my first try, and it’s okay for that. I just want to say the shirt design has changed since then, and now the little stitchings are on the inside shirt which makes more sense to me.
I opened my music history package for university. Why do they have to insult our intelligence by putting the ‘score’ to 4’33″ in the anthology book? I wonder if it’s on the CD. At least it only takes up half a page. Still, there is this song at the very beginning, from a Greek stela or something and it’s very nifty to look at. The stelae, I mean. There are two. Am I even using the right word?
I picked up Fire Emblem 8 the other day, but guess what I did. Instead of going to Ephraim’s game (for which I’d have to get my brother’s permission to delete his current game) I went and played my uber-hyper-powered character game. I mean the post-game Creature Campaign, in which Lyon with his unbreakable Naglfar spell plows through the baddies like BOOM or something. I’m going to try to get Saleh’s stats up to max by getting a golden jewel and buying loads of stat-filling items at the Secret Shops (which are an actual game function, not a cheat). After that, who knows. It will take me a while to get through Lagdou Ruins anyway. Anything with Gorgons in it is pretty hard. Unless it’s that Mount Neleras map, in which case it seems easy. I don’t know why.
My room is grrreen! Dad likes quoting that woman from The Wind in the Willows movie. Mrs. Carrington-Moss. It needs another coat, but I will be in before school starts (much to the relief of my parents (and me)).
All Henson fans rejoice! He is once again in control of himself! And Gauthicus is better than Kiku. Ha. No telling where Henson’s running to, however. He’s probably not completely sane – or awake – yet, and thus doing something stupid.
No story bits today, but I am writing stuff.
