Diagonal kissing? When was that invented?
Zela and Flaer kissing
drawn 23 Aug, 2007
posted 30 June, 2009
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Hi! Just putting up a picture before I go waste my brain cells on KOTOR II again. I’m getting close to the end. Um, this picture is… not very good. I mean, it’s better than usual for a picture of people kissing, but it’s of people kissing, and I’m not very good at that. I think. I haven’t tried in a while. Anyway, there is no real story behind this picture. It’s just Zela and Flaer, kissing. Because they do that on occasion. When their children aren’t looking. : )
Hey, if you’re in Victoria, there’s going to be a Baroque orchestra concert tomorrow on top of Mount Tolmie, apparently. At 1:30 and again at 3:00.
Um, not much to report, except that I saw a friend today - Shifra! with haircut - and my piano teacher thinks that my technique is fine. (dances) I was going to say something else… oh yeah!
You know the theme song of Red Dwarf? Of course you know the theme song from Red Dwarf. “I want to lie/shipwrecked and comatose/drinking fresh mango juice…” Anyway, it was written by Howard Goodall. But wait, you say, who the heck is Howard Goodall? Well, one person he is… in the episode of Mr. Bean in which he goes to church and they sing the hymn with all the Alleluias - I’ll look it up later; right now we just call it the Mr. Bean Hymn - and there is an ORGANIST. And the ORGANIST is HOWARD GOODALL. In case you were wondering. He also wrote an interesting book called Musical Big Bangs.
I saw four people today with haircuts.
And that’s all for today!
Uuuuuhhhhhhhh… Not sure what to tell you about this picture. I had just watched Spiderman2, and I liked it, mostly. It had its moments. Soooo…. I think Flairé jumped in front of a machine gun or something - I don’t really remember - and while his armour protected his head and torso, his arms and legs are now useless (in the picture). And Spiderman rescued him.
This is Flairé, and his usually near-invisible (when collapsed) collapsible helmet that became so popular during the second half of the war.
Hmmm… I was trying to practice both cloth and facial structure. I’m not sure I succeeded, since Link looks more like any sullen young Japanese man than, uh, himself, and his ears did something funny to his hood… Not a terrible picture, but not one I’m particularly proud of either.
This picture would never happen in ‘real life’. Esgalwen lived in Taur-nu-Fuin, Flairé in the Adhemlenei, in Lilemlen. So there’s no way they would be running together, either for fun or on a mission - I can’t tell. And they both seem awfully young; Flairé looks like he’s barely forty years old, Esgalwen perhaps fifteen. Anyway, they both came out decently, and it’s an interesting concept. And perhaps it does now have some sort of basis in ‘reality’, because Esgalwen is travelling under the name ‘Illinia’ in my winter D&D session, which is a kalmaeirin name. So perhaps she did meet Flairé and he gave it to her. Mithlas, on the other hand, still goes by his Sindarin name. So obviously either he didn’t meet Flairé or else Esgalwen/Illinia doesn’t know his kalmaeirin name. Whatever. (Flairé tells me he never met Mithlas, but Esgalwen/Illinia didn’t know that when she met Flairé, and Flairé didn’t know he was supposed to be looking for a Mithlas before he met Esgalwen/Illinia.)
Ohmigoodness, ohmigoodness, I love this picture. I’m not entirely sure what it means, but it looks like Flaer is being emo and holding a crumbling crown and Zela is holding him but has no comfort to offer other than that. And isn’t Dwinderling a great word?
Finally, a Nayru semi-serious portrait to match (and surpass) Ralph’s. I left out the hands because I knew I would ruin them. The anime hair doesn’t go so well with hairstrokes, either. But the tunic came out vaguely okay.
Then I tried to draw an actual serious portrait of Ralph. Fail. Oh well. He looks vaguely bishie. Although he has a stupid hat.
Here are some sketches of Ralph, who has a groovy 16 bar theme in the game in which he appears, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. The theme made me want to draw him, so I did. Not very well, but the reference art I was using was really really small. Not that that’s an excuse. Hooray for Ralph/Nayru.