August 27, 2009

Self, couch

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Filed under: Pencil,Uncategorized — Tags: — Illinia @ 10:14 am
It's mah hand!

It's mah hand!

Self, couch

drawn July 9, 2008

posted Aug 27, 2009

(513)

cenhuglynicon Soooo… I was bored, and decided to draw myself as I flopped on the couch, a very normal pose for me. Most of the lines are in vaguely the right place, but it’s rather a confused mess to the eye, isn’t it? Doesn’t help that I drew my right leg too small, at first.

By the way, I will be taking down the Fire Emblem chapter poll when I get back. You have only a few days left to try and influence me to rewrite Chapter 7!

I won the Warhammer siege battle yesterday! Just barely, but I managed to get some guys through the screen of knights and through the gate  and into a tower, just after my eagle-mounted character cleared out the tower. His eagle was dead by that point, of course. I needs more elves. <_< >_> (runs off and makes wishlist)

August 26, 2009

Symmetry

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Pencil,Zela — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:13 am
Floatin' in space, oh my

Floatin' in space, oh my

Symmetry (a.k.a. New Site Logo)

drawn July 4, 2008

posted Aug 26, 2009

(512)

hatchlingicon Well, guess what this is! Hint: look at the top left of your page. The very top. No, higher than that. No, lower than the toolbar. …Yeah! It’s the ‘site logo’ thingy that I made up to go as part of the title image. Except in pencil. Looks pretty similar, doesn’t it? After I get near everything else up, then I’ll post the colour version and you can see that, too.

So, this is the natural outcome of the earlier Symmetry pictures. With my own characters, instead.

Didn’t spend all last night writing Ceniro, though I did get halfway through Chapter 8. (spent a lot of time impulsively searching images on DeviantArt again. Blah.) Only two and a half more chapters to go! This chapter, where dramatic stuff happens and our heroes go off chasing the villain, next chapter, where the heroes try to confront the villain, and the last chapter, where everything wraps up. Yay Peg knights. (that is, Pegasus knights for those of you never needing to resort to slang to get the info out of your mouth in a short period of time.) I should bring my new art books along with my sketchbook(s) to Van tomorrow. Well, today I shall get everything ready! Oooh. I don’t think I should go to salsa if I’m planning to get up at 6 in the morning, which I might, depending on what I decide after I check the bus schedule. This is pretty exciting. I’m excited about a lot of stuff, though right now it’s not showing on my face. And there’s a Warhammer battle scheduled for this afternoon, apparently, after I get back from BUYING TEXTBOOKS SQUEE. And a change purse. I used to think change purses were dumb, but that was before I had too much change to fit in my wallet. Silly quarters and twoonies. And anything else that looks cool, just because.

People keep praising kneadable erasers. Am I using mine wrong? It doesn’t seem to work for me.

The next six days will all be automatically updated. Isn’t that cool?

Onwards!

August 25, 2009

Art books and Warhammer

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Filed under: Miniatures,Random blog posts — Tags: — Illinia @ 8:54 pm

Well, today after my piano lesson I went (first to the bank and then) to the art store, Island Blue… great store. I needed a sketchbook, as I may have mentioned earlier. I bought two; one for pencil stuff, black cover, smooth pages, coil binding, and one for pen/marker stuff, also coil binding. I will need to do something about the cover of that one, though, as it has some idiot marker manga rollerblading doke on it and I don’t like him. I also randomly bought some little decorative brad thingies (like the binding things you find in duotangs, just not attached to a book) and I think they might go either on the Zela costume or in something Warhammer-y. Then I passed by the paper section, but I didn’t get anything, even though that Japanese stuff is soooo seductive. There was a little bag about 8″x5″x1″ for only $10 and the first sheet in it was this gorgeous blue with white cranes on it. So pretty. But, y’know, what am I going to do with it? …I should have bought it. : P

Then I went to the art book section, and I found two books there: Dragonart by someone with a website named NeonDragonArt, which I’ve actually been to before, and John Howe’s “How to Paint Like Me It’s a Cinch Anyone Can Do It” – ahem, I mean, “Fantasy Art Workshop”. The previous title was what he “wanted” to call it, according to him in the introduction. I have the idea that he’s a jokey kind of person. : D It’s a great book. But I think I’m most excited about the sketchbooks. Heeheehee.

My mom got a fashion magazine last night. I’m horrified. o_O7

Played a Warhammer battle today. My skirmishing White Lions + AwesomeCommanderDude (played by Penlod) took on my brother’s Bretonnian pleasant peasants in their castle.

Flairé: You so wanted an excuse to say ‘pleasant peasants’, didn’t you?

Yup. Anyway, I won, due to the fact that my guys have massive strength and hitting capability. 60% losses, including the commander, but 100% enemy losses, so that’s… pretty darn amazing. I managed to sidestep the boiling oil, so I’m very lucky, actually. I think maybe he should have taken rocks after all. Oil causes major damage, but only if you’re dumb enough to stand under it. Still, wasn’t expecting to win that crushingly. It did come down to the very last turn, but I was rolling great hitting and wounding dice. His archers didn’t do too badly with their shooting, either. Here’s a shot of melee two turns after I got up the walls.

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Penlod attacks

Penlod attacks

Moongod

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms) — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:20 am
Reverse silhouette?

Reverse silhouette?

Moongod

drawn May 18, 2008

posted Aug 25, 2009

(511)

ranaavatar2 This is based on a really strange dream I had once. There was an old man with long hair, but he turned into a very beautiful young man still with silver-white hair, and I followed him up some moonlit stairs. So when I woke up, I thought: “He would make a fantastic boyfriend for Flaria!” So I drew him and her together at the top of the same stairs.

Hey! It’s a kiss that isn’t quite as lame as any of the others!

Can’t… break… addiction… to… writing. It’s so annoying! I’ve already told you how I’ve been writing… read through, write a paragraph… read through, write a paragraph… I realized one problem with Chapter 7. I had been trying to give one character the pwnage spotlight, but it wasn’t working. Then I realized I was being too heavy-handed with the ‘show, don’t tell’. So I deleted a bunch of stuff because the battle was dragging on a bit long anyway, and it might be better now. I can’t tell yet. The battle is still way too long, but I don’t think I can edit any more and it will just have to carry over into the next chapter which doesn’t have a huge plot content in it anyway. If I wrote it the way that I outlined it, it would be dramatic, but short. Which is not necessarily a bad thing! The drama would more than make up for the short. I just want to talk about this all day. I can’t wait to finish it and put it up for you people to read or whatever you do with these things. I really want to write more stories about Ceniro. Maybe I’ll write one about his life up until Lyn’s story-ish. But later. After I finish this one and Ephraim and then Eliwood and Hector. I’m going to restart from the beginning of Eliwood’s story (I have four chapters already written, but it’s all really old material and not up to my present standard, however high that is – I really can’t tell) and try and do a goooood job, even if that will be half-scripted. I’m going to rub in the typo in the game, too. Y’know when you recruit Jaffar around Chapter 26? Hector rants for a bit, and then stops and says “Ok. I’ve said my peace.” It’s “piece”!! Argh! There are two more typos. One is in the paladin unit description (“Knights who have dedicated their live to justice” or something like that) and I don’t remember the other one but I’m fairly sure I would notice it instantly if I found it again.

Canada’s Worst Driver 2: on TV, and painful. Looking for when Star Wars Clones comes back. Oct 2. Darn you, Rex. Now Rex has distracted me from Ceniro who is distracting me from piano. Piiiiiickles.

Also watched Casablanca with my brother last night. Slightly confusin’, but very well done. Great acting.

Life is frustrating, live long and prosper, I’ll be back tomorrow.

August 24, 2009

Marquez Danzon #2

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Flairé,Pencil — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 10:06 am
Don't ever let your feet stop moving, and lilt like you mean it!

Don't ever let your feet stop moving, and lilt like you mean it!

Marquez Danzon #2

drawn May 14, 2008

posted Aug 24, 2009

(510)

kentsainhorsesicon This picture was inspired by the ever-popular Danzon #2 by a certain composer named Marquez. It is fantastic and should be danced to the world over. It’s so fabulous Flairé and Flaria danced to it and I tried to draw their halting, lilting, sometimes (in Flairé’s case, anyway,) twitchy dance movements or, as here, gliding, lilting, whirling, intricate dance movements. In their style of dance, there is a lot of expression with the shoulders as well as the hips and feet. There is more I could say, but I’d need a lot more room. A lot more room while I hash out different ideas and try to get down what I think about various different styles. Like they have certain leg extensions like in ballet, but they dance in circles that appear heavily choreographed (there’s no caller, and it just weaves in and out and spirals like crazy), or they dance in couples, and in that, both genders lead for different parts, and there’s a lot that resembles acrobatics (like helping your partner up so s/he can do a flip over your head and stuff like that) and then there’s single dancing, which has even more acrobatics like standing on one hand and handsprings and wild spins. Though that’s more for the fast ones. The slow ones sometimes you’re lucky to catch anyone moving. Well, not quite, but they do move awfully slowly. They move less acrobatically and with more focus on beautiful positions and reaching with their long limbs.

In this picture, they’re doing a sort of lilting, exaggerated moon-walk, mirroring each other. Although that makes me think of Leahy’s The French, which is one of Flairé’s more favourite lilty dances. Whoo.

That video is great, by the way. Gustavo Dudamel is just surrounded by a SEA of strings. And that’s not even counting the ranks of winds and brass and the percussion team! I first heard it played by the UVic orchestra, and that’s where I fell in love with it.

I overused the word ‘lilt’ today, didn’t I?

I need to dance more. I’m a blob. Ick.

I’m not very good at keeping suspense up to a climax, I don’t think. We’ll see. Half-done the first half of the first battle in Chapter 7. Very actiony chapter. Needs more plot. Hmmm. …And I forgot what else I was going to say. Oh! Yesterday I drew some Eliwood/Ninian fanart. First I’ve done of either of them in a long long time. Drawn to the tune of ‘Stars and Midnight Blue’ from Enya’s ‘And Winter Came’ CD. I think it would look gorgeous coloured in an iridescent, shiny, glossy fashion. I’d go look for an example, but then I would get stuck looking at pictures on DeviantArt and I’d never get anything done.

Four more days of work!

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