September 30, 2009

I Came, I Ran, The Internet Was Slow

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Filed under: Random blog posts, Running — Tags: — Illinia @ 8:34 am

Yesterday was wierd. I went for a run, so that’s what all the talk of running is about. (I didn’t go today; I slept in. So L doesn’t need to worry about her doctor’s appointment. And I’m not too disappointed because there’s salsa tonight to rest up for.) Then school happened, as usual… In Latin class we talked about that treasure trove that was found in England. That was pretty cool. They abbreviated Domine as DNE. Then there was rehearsal, and we tried the Creston Sax Concerto first movement up to speed, and it was wicked. There was a Latiz quiz, and I was almost late because of the ME students’ music sale, but I think I did well on it. The Music Ed students were having a sale of… stooff. I’m not sure where it’s from, but they had five or six large bins of LP’s. I bought about a dozen, including World’s Most Famous Concertos, a Czech Christmas Mass, Smetana String Quartets, and Haydn Divertimentos. I mean, Mozart’s Divertimentos are just so fun; Haydn’s must be good too. They even had a record of Brothers in Arms, but Dad already owns that on CD so I didn’t get it. I ran into Dr. Syer and he saw the records I had and one of them was of a Bach multi-harpsichord concerto that Dr. Syer has someone doing in the Collegium, so he asked if he could borrow it sometime. Cool. The sale also had a lot of old books, but they weren’t nearly as interesting. In my piano lesson, May Ling was pleasantly surprised that I played certain octaves LOUD. And musically. Which made me happy because that’s been my focus of the last week! Then I came home, made a new friend on the bus (I recognized one of the first years and struck up a conversation) and found out the internet was practically dead so I couldn’t fix a mistake I made on Flaer’s character page. I mean, I put Dvorak instead of Smetana. How dumb can you get? Anyway, I fixed it just now. Chorus made me tired, but we got the Misa Tango.

September 28, 2009

Break time

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Filed under: Random blog posts — Illinia @ 2:05 pm

Hi! In the interest of usefulness on my part, I’m going to take a short break from posting images on the main site. I’m going to spend my time practicing music, instead. This will last for the next week at most.
Don’t fret too much. I’m having a lot of fun with the character pages, so those will be going up pretty frequently. I haven’t made any pictures for them yet but you can bet they’ll be up in the next couple months. But I have two compositions and a piece of fanart to work on - with deadlines! Nov 16 and Dec 25 - so I might wait a bit on portraits too. Oh, and the ever-present birthday cards that I find so fun, I have to do those. Although those take about 15 min now so I can’t use those as an excuse for anything. Anyway, cheers!

September 27, 2009

Doodles Year 2 Part 3

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Well, we’ll see how many I get done today. This should be the last of it, covering the scribbles in the last bit of Music History and all my Linguistics. Just one term of Ling because I had theory during second term at the same time.

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Esgalwen, ‘maid of Mirkwood’, MH, Feb 6 ‘08. Not bad, actually. Also someone’s head. No one in particular.

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Warning! Picture has nekkid lady! About the only nekkid lady I ever drew! Click for full image. Okay, now this one has a strange story that I wasn’t going to tell you yet but I will. MH, Feb 10, ‘09. Once upon a time, Flairé had a friend from the Dragon-lands that he suddenly found out one day that, to his shock, she was in love with him. Enough to forego modesty and pin him against a wall. I think he dropped like an eel to escape and ran around the room in circles before jumping up to perch on an arch near the ceiling, and because she was a weaver, not a dancer/acrobat/warrior, she couldn’t follow him. They… stopped being friends, though he did save her life shortly afterwards from something monstrous. Apologies to all who are offended by this picture.

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A tiny scribble of dancing maids, same class.

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First attemped portrait of Jalril ‘Mui-id’, MH, Feb 24 ‘09.

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Flairé, looking rather smug. Or something. MH, Feb 27, ‘09.

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And again, same class. Hmm, I didn’t have to take many notes that day. (Note: drawing often helps me listen better somehow. Sometimes. Not always. In History it always seemed to. Does not help with listening to younger brothers.)

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Braden, shortly after he had an ad placed on Shaw TV about playing the Mozart D- Piano Concerto. It was pretty cool, and Stephen Brown said lots of nice things about him. And Mozart/Haydn. I didn’t manage to get to the concert with the concerto, but I did get to his solo recital, and it was good. And L was with me, which made it even better.

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Flairé fanservice! He looks happy, but he’s not. Don’t let appearences fool you! MH, Mar 10, ‘09. …I just like drawing manly shoulders and chests under very pretty faces. (Flairé: *sob*)

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I’m not sure whether I was dating this guy or not at this point, but I certainly had a crush on him. So he gets a floral background. MH, Mar 13, ‘09.

MH class, Mar 17, ‘09: L wrote on the edge of my notebook: “Bolshevik Revolution - B.S. Revolution?” I replied: “yeah, pretty much”. Such political wit. : P

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Flairé, looking grim, MH, Mar 17, ‘09.

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Flairé, again looking grim, even positively alien here. MH, Mar 20, ‘09

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Esgalwen again. MH, Mar 27, ‘09.

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SUPER TOMATO MAN THING!!! Drawn by… oh dear. I’m ashamed to say I forget. I think it was AlexR. Anyway, I love it. Same class.

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Faces, MH, Mar 31, ‘09. Link, with built shoulders, Some human girl I don’t know, and then Flairé, again looking weird.

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Flairé, MH, Apr 1, ‘09. Class began with a short biography of Dee Snider. LOL APRIL FOOL’S. Though I don’t know who Dee Snider is or who he turned into. Anyway, this is a lovely shot of Flairé, I think. Also a swirly thing with a shadow.

And now, Linguistics sketches!!

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 Flairé for teh pickel shurt, Ling, Sep 5 ‘08.

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Someone’s face, partly. Sep 9, ‘08.

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Youngish Flairé, pouting, and some incredibly long hair, Oct 1, ‘08. Also a rather haunting face that was the result of a failed sketch so I scribbled it out.

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Chibi Flairé heads illustrating my tiredness in class: SO CUTE!!! *stare* *WHUD* *zzzzzzzzz…*

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Some guy, Oct 15 ‘08. Apparently Woody Allen once said “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.” Which has nothing to do with the picture, it’s just funny.

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Glorfindel, I think. Oct 17, ‘08.

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A cool looking guy, I think. Oct 22, ‘08. A bit squished but great hair.

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Ummm… not sure who this is. Bayn? Lyrestan? Gyoriing? Oct 24, ‘08.

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Sad elf, also not sure who. Oct 28, ‘08.

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Random elf, and Rana looking very happy, Oct 29, ‘08. And Link on the reverse side of same sheet, same class. You can see both of them!

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I believe this is MichaelG but I could be wrong. That’s his sweater, though. Nov 4, ‘08.

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Flairé, MichaelG, Kylyraless not very good. What happened to Flairé? “I got prettier”, he said. XP Nov 18, ‘08.

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Flairé, Nov 6 ‘08. Also Kalmaeiring phonemic minimal pairs: f and ff (ff is pronounce bilabially instead of with the upper teeth touching the lips), sh/hc (hc is like ch in Bach but much more air and less consonant). A minimal pair is when you have two similar sounds that, when used in otherwise-identical words, change the meaning. Like ’same’ and ’shame’, or ’same’ and ’sane’. Or ‘fwei’ and ‘ffwei’. (’love’ and ‘angel’)

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Flairé pointing with his sword (through a verb construction matrix). His other hand is on his hip but it wasn’t done very well. Oh well. Actually it looks like his hair parts on the side. Oh well again. Nov 18, ‘08

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A leaf, in a discussion of connotation vs. denotation. Nov 25, ‘08.

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Flairé AND MichaelG, this time. Still trying to find out if they look similar or not. Nov 28, ‘08. Dang it, guys! Either look more like each other or less like each other! …Flairé’s prettier.

 

Then, at the very back of this book, comes my kalmaeirin piece Yale sha Milihcin (Song of Innocence), discussions on kalmaeirin music, music notation, and a rough draft of the first section of the score-scroll for the Yale sha Milihcin.

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Not sure who this is; could be Flaria. No date.

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“What good is singing yourself into tranquillity and then dancing yourself into estacy?” demands Flairé, attempting to explain why it is rare to have a slow song and fast dance together in the popular song/dance form. “I said that!” he said proudly, pointing to it, after I wrote it down. “Good fer you…” I replied sarcastially.

 

DONE! It only took me all day! Good thing I didn’t have anything else to do. Though three hour long naps on Sunday are great. :)

You now have Zela’s bio up in the Characters page! I like doing these bios. They’re fun. Flairé’s is coming shortly.

The stupidest spam message ever: “Thanks because of sharing. The battle-cry on the at one waffle is genocide me.” It’s exactly the same as another spam message I got once, except the first one was in plain English.

September 26, 2009

Doodles Year 2 Part 2

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And here is my history/Ling notebook from second year… Today is just Music History. Tomorrow will be more Music History, and possibly Linguistics as well. But for today here’s a bunch of sketches. (MH stands for Music History)

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The famous I LIKE PICKLES Flairé, Music History, Sep 3 ‘08. Elbows too high, but otherwise the first sketch of my concept for a t-shirt.

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Nieril Kylyralessa sha Nunathoemlen, MH, Sep 30, ‘08. Bit too much hair around her face, actually.

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Nieron Flaer Flaré sha Lilemlen, same class. I like Flaer. I really do. He’s often overshadowed by the more dramatic members of his family. But he’s a nice guy.

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Zela and Flaer, same class. More terrible attempts at drawing kissing! Actually, this was my go-to picture for kalmaei. “Which one’s the girl?” Only 50% of questionees got it right. Meh.

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Little Flairé heads, MH, Oct 6, ‘08. So cute! Three different expressions for your perusal. ‘not amused’, ‘?’, and ’so there!’.

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Sometimes L scribbles cute little things in my book, too.

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“Juliet Mitsuaishi”, a character I have no memory of creating, MH, Oct 14, ‘08. Or what franchise she was for. I’m guessing something Japanese.

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Just thought I’d mention the Felix MENDELSSOHNNNNNN!!!!!!!-Bartholdy that I put in my book… MH, Oct 21, ‘08. Also on Nov 25 we listened to Mussorgsky’s song In Four Walls - Sleeplessness and apparently the text is similar to a kalmaeiring song (which is considerably less depressing, however). Here’s what I wrote: -dark sleeplessness -dark dark dark -time is rushing on yet the night is endless

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 MichaelG, Linguistics101, Nov 21 ‘08. Fellow student with very nice black hair when it’s not chopped off severely. Drat the military and their haircuts! Also Flaer, next page. AND lx-sama and MichaelG’s hair, MH, Nov 21 ‘08. SO SHINY. (pokes hair)

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Little Flairé luv!! And different people’s hair. MH, Dec 2, ‘08. Flairé’s hair, someone else’s hair, someone who is apparently not Bob, and lx-sama’s hair.

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Vaguely chibi people, MH, Jan 7 ‘09. Flairé is watching me exude a heart.

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Not very good scribbles of MichaelG, same class. Sorry, Michael!

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Ceniro looking awesome, not-Ceniro looking not-awesome, and humans in the 21st Century according to evolutionists?! MH Jan 14 ‘09. Love that middle shot of Ceniro.

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Looooommming Sunken Cathedral. MH, Jan 16, ‘09. Well, we got to Debussy!

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Someone’s face, same class. Looks to be drawn from an actual person, but he’s not labelled.

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Flairé looking coy, same class.

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Flaria swooning, Flairé’s ear, MH, Jan 21, ‘09

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Zela, same class. Nose way too long.

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Rainy Flairé and random kalma, MH, Jan 27, ‘09. I like Flairé here.

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Nieron Marteth (sorta) sha Lilemlen, and Esgalwen, I think, though I’m not sure. Same class.

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Wozzeck is the villain to whom we are sympathetic in Berg’s opera of the same name as the title character. So who is the hero? asks my teacher. “I am,” says Flairé, with his nose in the air. : D MH, Jan 28, ‘09.

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A flower and wind spirit. Same class.

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Tiny tiny Ceniro! MH, Feb 4, ‘09

 
So that takes us partway through second term, and through the first third of my notebook. More tomorrow.

Am very tired today. I accidentally worked an extra hour at work today because their clock was wrong and I didn’t know it was wrong because they don’t close at the end of my shift like they used to. They have a ‘restaurant’-type deal going on, with menus and formal waitresses and alcohol and everything. But I got to show around their new evening dishwasher, who’s really really cute, so that wasn’t too bad today. I forgot to tell him about the squeegee for the floor, though, and I have a feeling he might need that. But he catches on fast.

Yesterday I went to the performance of .t’s show The World Outside. It was pretty epic. I didn’t like the beginning, but I did like the music with the clip of the waterfalls. And I have the DVD, so I can listen to it (on lower volume : S ) as much as I want! : D And I liked the end, of course. The pretty sparkly bits. Meh, you know me. Of course those would be the bits I like. Oh, and the very very very beginning, with the title, that part was epic.

Last night after the concert, I went out with friends to a drinking establishment for the first time in my life… I didn’t drink myself, though the fruity drinks don’t look as bad as, say, beer. But I don’t need alcohol to get drunk. Just ask Kira, who took me outside and calmed me down after I went into hysteria. That’s what happens when I’m up for more than 16 hours and the atmosphere is excited. …It was pretty surreal. That might have been Kevin’s fault, though.

Then I felt bad for not doing much besides all that yesterday so I came home and wrote down the bit that .t’s show inspired in me, a bit of Zela’s story with Zela and Gullac…

And yesterday morning I bought a laptop cooler pad, so that’s good. It’s a little noisy, but now my table won’t catch on fire.

September 25, 2009

More Stalling

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Filed under: Random blog posts, Running — Tags: — Illinia @ 8:06 am

Hi! In the interest of getting useful stuff done today (which I didn’t yesterday, I’ll have you know - besides the three hours of piano) I’m not going to put up the university sketch dump part 2. Instead, I’ll post a character profile later today. Perhaps not as interesting, especially as it’s probably going to be of Ceniro, whom you’ve most likely already read about, but it’s better than nothing, right?

I’m playing in Fridaymusic today, with Christine, and going to Thor’s show The World Outside this evening. And I need to practice the second variation of the Dutilleux and draw three portraits. Good times.

Btw the days of my flab are numbered…

And due to a fascinating discussion on the True Magic forum about The Silmarillion (touching on Glorfindel (<3), Fëanor, the Silmarils, Mandos, filial love, who died first, im/mortality, and what constitutes tragedy), I’m going to be digging up and posting a poem I once wrote about one of these subjects. I should also totally draw more Glorfindel art. But not today. Maybe tomorrow.

September 23, 2009

Doodles, year 2, part 1

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MASSIVE picture upload today. In fact, this is just the first part. Just my Theory/Composition book. More tomorrow.

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A girl’s hair, Theory class, Sep 18, ‘08. She was sitting in front of me and it looked nice.

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Nieron Lyrestan sha Lilemlen, Theory class, Sep 29, 2008. Not a good representation of Lyrestan.

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Wet Flairé, Theory class, Sep 29, 2008. A pretty decent representation of a wet Flairé.

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Daneel Olivaw, Theory class, Oct 5, 2008. My favourite character from The Caves of Steel and sequels, by Isaac Asimov. He’s a robot! With genuine emotions, sorta!

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Hair, Theory class, Oct 9, 2008. Some shiny guy on the left (I have no idea who, could be lx-sama, could be… some video game hero, I don’t know). The girl is Juno Eclipse from Star Wars: Teh Force Unleashed, and the blank face is no one in particular, and the last guy is supposed to be Ceniro. Some distracting bits were edited out of the scan.

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Moar doodles from the same class. Flairé’s head at an experimental angle (failed), Esgalwen, and Glorfindel. I think. Also edited for clarity. And yes, this is what most of my notes look like. Messy messy! And I was recommended not to go to the Darmstadt New Music Festival because apparently they’re very picky about whether you call something ’serial’, ‘dodecaphonic’, or ‘12-tone’. Not that I’d appreciate the music much anyway!

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Scratch (Blackberry), Apple, and Scratch-son. And a cloak. Theory class, Oct 20, 2008. The cloak is from planning my costume. The other people are a family (from the Griffon-lands) spawned from a stray joke of lx-sama’s. He asked me to make a character named X-ray (Ekssré), so I did. The guy with the big sword is Kess, Blackberry, but he adds a bit and calls himself Ekess, Scratch. His wife’s name is Apple (going with the fruit theme here). His baby son’s name ought to be Kessré Blackberry-son, but since his father usually goes by Ekess, he eventually grows up to call himself Ekessré. So thar. : P Thank goodness I wrote a bunch of this down long ago in Excel.

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Here’s the not-so-good version, done the day before.

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Nieron Mathaning sha Lilemlen, Theory class, Oct 23, 2008. Ohmigosh, this is the BEST picture of Mathaning I’ve ever done. It has both pen and pencil in it and… I just love him. I mean, it. Not sure what he’s doing with his feet there, but his boots are shiny. <3

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AndrewP, Flaer, Theory class, Oct 27, 2008. This followed a page of composition notes notes about how to make the hood and gauntlets (and sword) of my costume. Andrew nearly fell asleep in the desk beside me, so I drew him. And then I drew Flaer for the heck of it.

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Cranky half-dressed Flairé, Theory class, Nov 3, 2008. I dunno. Man-practice. (Flairé: *facepalms*) With three different left hands.

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Esgalwen, same class. Similar to how she is drawn on my D&D sheet from Cedric’s campaign. …We should totally play that sometime, but one member is moving to the Interior in a month and Ced himself is not sure where he’s going to end up living-wise. But Esgalwen is pretty. Though her character sheet has a ton more junk on her character design.

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Heads, Theory class, Nov 13, 2008. I can’t remember who the guy on the left is. Not at all. He looks straight-laced. Always a good thing, usually. The guy on the right is supposed to be Ceniro.

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Link, Theory class, Nov 24, 2008. Check out those shoulders.

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Nieron Menad Faeré (sic?) sha Lilemlen, Theory class, Nov 27, 2008. Looks definitely less prissy than he looks now. Maybe I should change him back.

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Flairé and Leslie, Theory class, Dec 1, 2008. Big Flairé on a stump (yay!) and little Flairé (fail). Also Leslie, because she’s pretty. But I didn’t do her very well.

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Dooooodles, same class. Standing person is… Esgalwen. You can tell by the necklace. Random hair is Gauthicus from True Magic (hasn’t appeared yet) and on the right Navi is telekinesising Link’s hat. Link looks Japanese.

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???, Theory class, Jan 5, 2009. This year! Flairé is sleeping, and then… somebody’s eye. I dunno.

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Heads, same class. Flairé??? at a tricky angle, not very good at all. The fuzzy thing is… I have no idea what that thing is. Then there’s Sangwine, looking pretty, and Rana, looking squished. And Naeri.

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Bodies, Composition class, Jan 8, 2009. Just some figures.

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“Can’t draw today”, Theory class, Jan 15, 2009. I don’t know who any of these people are.

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Flairé, with wings, Theory class, Jan 19, 2009. Flairé, sporting his strap-on wings, or rather trailing them on the ground, because he’s… he looks slightly depressed. Awww. The angel-y guy I don’t know who he is. Also some wierd head on the next page.

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John Cage, Theory class, Jan 29, 2009. AAAAAHHHHHH IT’S JOHN CAGE LOOK OUT!!! He showed up in a slide the teacher was using, so I drew him. : P Also this page has the word GARHYA in big letters at the top, so I must have been unhappy about something.

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Flairé in snow, same class. Yeah, I must have been really depressed about something. Don’t know what, though. Lack of a love life? Too cold/terrible weather? Not enough sleep? …I don’t remember that time. (who wants to remember theory class, anyway? :)

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Kalmei, Theory class, Feb 2, 2009. Flairé is napping, I think in his sister’s arms, at the top. That’s supposed to be Esgalwen, not related to the scene beside her, but she’s not very good. Down at the bottom of the page are Flairé and Flaer. This page also has a short note about kalmaeirin music: “Kalmaei - searching for the most beautiful sounds to express the beauty they see in the world - music is more expressive than words even music with words - which actually just makes things easier to express but wordless just as deep. They don’t prefer one to another on average.”

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Heads, Theory class, Mar 5, 2009. Flairé, soldier-boy, Rana, Link, and Flaer. Soldier-boy is a fellow student…

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I don’t know who, Theory class, Mar 16, 2009.

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Heads, Theory class, Mar 19, 2009. I think these are all supposed to be Lyrestan, except for the tiny ugly Ceniro head at the top and the Kylyralessa head at the bottom.

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WHAT, Theory class, Mar 30, 2009. Uh…….. I don’t know. I really don’t know. Tattoo designs? XP I think that’s supposed to be me.

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Heads, Theory class, April 2, 2009. Gullac (?) at the top of the page. Mathaning in the middle. Marteth (lookin’ good) at the bottom.

And then I have half the book still blank, with a few pages devoted to love-sick poetry and the structure of kalmaeirin language and music at the back. The poetry is awful. But that’s normal for love-sick poetry.

 

What, you’re still here? Wow. Well, here’s what I’ve been up to the last few days…

TUESDAY I LEARNED THE SECRET TO MY PLAYING PIANO. I have to keep my rib cage open, just like singing, and relax everything, and everything magically sounds BETTER. WOOT. I will be practicing all the spare minutes I have, believe me. Except for the times when I’m looking up Lieder for MUS 421. Blah. And eating. Drat eating. A little. So I’m very motivated on fixing my two problems. Yayness!

If you search ‘Adhemlenei’ on Google, you find… some very interesting things. You find: Adhemlenei (of course). About Adhemlenei. Some sort of cache of one of my posts on another site, apparently hitting up for free ‘Warhammer’ ad credits. Whatever. Elfinessé, the old site. Other things include stuff that I’ve linked to (which automatically puts a post and link to Adhemlenei on those sites - like I Can Has Cheezburger) and sites that say ‘Adhemlenei has been registered as a domain name’. But fourth down the list is a wierd link that says ‘games workshop >> Blog Archive >> Ephraim’s Story: Chapter 1′. And I have no idea what this is from or what it’s for (it looks like a bot… >_> <_<) but if you click on it (I believe it’s harmless) it seems to have taken my post for Chapter 1: Unbroken Heart, run it though several (bad) translators, put it back into English, sprinkled around the words ‘conspicuously demeaning conspicuously’, and stuck it up among… random other things with the same treatment. It has no relationship with Games Workshop at all. HYSTERICAL. Probably the funniest thing you read today, even without knowing what I wrote in the original chapter, unless you go and read The Eye of Argon MST, which is not suitable for people under 13 years old.

I also did Rana’s character page, except for the image, which I haven’t made yet. I would like to thank the Sygnus Figment Registry for their excellent character page layouts, which I shamelessly copied from.

And I went to salsa last night, which was outside as the usual space was being used by someone else. They had some iPod speaker thingies, and Jon had his iPod, so there was music outside under the stars tents! The advanced group learned some difficult new moves, and I’m starting to understand Cetenta, but I’m definitely doing something wrong with my arms in Cocoon still. I should move easily into the enchufla, instead of awkwardly flailing around after the ducking turn trying to get my arms in front of me. Sam is very nice about it, though. And helping Matthew with Cetenta helped me to remember it properly. And afterwards, on the bus, Anna and I talked about Latin because Latin is awesome. The only thing was that I got huge blisters while dancing and limped all the way home after the bus. But it was worth every step. ^_^7

Excuses, excuses

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Filed under: Random blog posts — Illinia @ 7:47 am

Hi! No picture today, since I’m away from my computer from 7:15 this morning to 10:00 tonight, and it’s university sketch dump time! So, be patient, and you’ll get about thirty pictures sometime tomorrow. As compensation, I’ve updated the Characters page a little more. All the characters have some words down on them. I’m getting to the point where I can start constructing the individual character pages. But I need to make colour character art for all of them. Fun!

September 22, 2009

Falling

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Filed under: Flairé, Pencil, Running, Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 8:17 am
"Yes, I am that confident."

"Pffft, who needs two hands anyway? I'm using the other one to rescue kittens."

Falling

drawn April 19, 2009

posted Sep 22, 2009

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mirkwoodfamiconThis is a picture of a time when I was depressed, so Flairé caught me on the way down… One of my friends says “he’s very confident he can catch you, reaching up with only one hand…”

Yes, yes he is.

Hmmm…. my repertoire is no good, I gained 10 lbs in the last month, and my favourite headphones broke. BUT. I went for a run. And I will continue doing this until something shapes up.

I have two links for you: SLEEP from Nova Science Now, and Shimmer, a YouTube video of Sims people based on a webcomic.

ONWAAAARDS! I have a Latin test today. There is Latin in Missee Lee, an Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons book, and I suspect there is some in Alice in Wonderland…

September 21, 2009

Next year’s poster

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Filed under: Miscellaneous, Pencil, Uncategorized — Tags: — Illinia @ 7:51 am
WHAT YOU DOIN' WITH A BLACK AND WHITE POSTER IT'S S'PPOSED TO BE GREEN

WHAT YOU DOIN' WITH A BLACK AND WHITE POSTER IT'S S'PPOSED TO BE GREEN

Next year’s poster

drawn Mar 24, 2009

posted Sep 21, 2009

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reddanceiconActually, that would be this year’s recital poster. …If I ever get around to taking it. See, it needs to be in a pine forest near sunset. Which means fall because spring never gets around to that sort of atmosphere by the time that recitals and juries are on.

My recital poster for last year was okay. It was a little last-minute, which is all my fault. But I had this specific image in mind. So I will do it this year.

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The recital was okay too. But this year it will be great.

(stops staring at computers and goes to practice)

(comes back long enough to say: btw the days are getting shorter - the sun goes down at 7 and comes up at 7, and it’s getting colder because the furnace comes on in the mornings. Yikes! And it seems to be getting to the time when I dump all my notebook sketches from second year on you. Yay! (leaves again))

September 20, 2009

Flairé, dancing again

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Flairé, Pencil — Tags: , — Illinia @ 1:01 pm
Kalmaeirin ballet: looks painful

Kalmaeirin ballet: looks painful

Flairé

drawn Feb 1, 2009

posted Sep 20, 2009

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zelaavatarsm2I was bored or something and drew a quick sketch of Flairé with limbs that are much too long. …And that’s all I have to say.

My brother found a set of sketches that I made of a pair of adventure game characters… the Connell siblings from two of RinkWorks’ Adventure Games Live. Kenneth Connell, from the spacey “The Perils of Akumos”, and his sister Karla Connell, from the college sci-fi “Trail of Anguish”. I guess I’d better put those up. But they’re really old and ugly. Well, maybe not. But the pictures are old.

I’m going to an organist thingy today. …And that’s all I have to say there too.

Kate Beaton is still fabulously random. And I just found a comic about Romans. Yay!

Also a fantastic comic about vampires and the French Revolution. Bite Me. I mean, Woot.

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