Huhhhhh... My kingdom is falling apart and my wife keeps running away to fight people...
Flaer in marker
drawn Sep 7, ’09
posted Nov 16, ’09
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Not a good picture of Flaer. His hair is too plastered to his skull. But I really really like the Moon-land emblem on his sleeve. Pretty Flaer!
Have to run to rehearsal now.
I love Alain’s Litanies. So dancable!
I have forgotten how to spell, haven’t I?
The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Episode 1: Lost Blackbird: Page 4: Not Very Helpful Explanations
drawn Oct 11; coloured Nov 9, ’09
posted Nov 15, ’09
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Leslie: What is going on?
Flairé: I dunno, but… …you’re here, right?
Leslie: So… do you know Jen?
Flairé: Yeah, of course! D’you think that just because you’ve travelled back in time a few million years that I wouldn’t know my best friend?
Leslie: Even though she’s not actually born yet?
Flairé: Uh, yeah. I guess that would be the case. *THINKING*
Leslie: hahaha (He’s just as odd as Jen said he’d be… but he’s nice and friendly. But how did I get here, and what am I going to do?)
Whoohoo! And it’s time for another page. No background because I still don’t trust myself on ‘em.
Leslie politely demands an explanation; Flairé is singularly useless at explaining things in a straightforward fashion. (I think second-to-last panel has him looking very pretty. <3 ) I wonder if he’s acting clueless in order to string the reader along with mystery. …Nah, that can’t be it. He’s just clueless.
Haven’t drawn the next page! I’d better get some done before next week! It’ll be an adventure!
I think his eyes are too light. I’m going to start using the dark green marker for him.
Will post about my fabulous Vancouver adventure (lots of adventures around here…) tomorrow or later tonight or something. Cheers!
SAFE is not the word he'd use to describe it.
Flairé’s Ride, Part 2
drawn Oct 11-12, ’09
posted Nov 14, ’09
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And the thrilling conclusion to the horse chase yesterday! Sort of. He makes it to the next village ahead of the raiders, and I had extra space so I drew a butterfly. His butterfly. Whatever. I mean his butterfly cloak pin. Whatever. This picture and the one before it were inspired by Mark Knopfler’s Speedway at Nazareth. Which is a song about racecars. Go figure.
Anyway, today I’m in Vancouver! …And that’s about all I have to say! Except that I’ve been looking forward to this for a month!
Ride 'em cowboy! Ummmmm... no?
Flairé’s Ride, part 1
drawn Oct 11, ’09
posted Nov 13, ’09
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I used my soft-sketchy pencils for this one. Inspired by the Mark Knopfler song Speedway at Nazareth, especially the 5 minute instrumental second half (and maybe just a little bit of the horse race part of The Reivers suite by John Williams). I would say whoohoo but it’s not that great. Again, it’s just a concept. I was drawing while listening to the music so I had to work really fast. And by fast I mean that I blocked out the frames, and then scribbled in with just a couple strokes what happened in each frame, and then sketched it in full afterwards.
Flairé has been sent by his mother to warn the next village over that the main front is retreating to their position. Or something. Flairé is still quite young, a teenager, really, and quite cocky, and not really the fighting equal of those chasing him – yet. He is their equal at horse-riding. WOOT GO FLAIRÉ. The last frame is three poses within seconds of each other; he’s somehow spun around, watching the curve to see if his pursuers will come around the bend in the cliff, but then wheels his horse around and gallops off before they show up.
Guys, I can’t draw horses. Stop trying to tell me I can. : P
Next page of this tomorrow! I’ll be in Van, listening to an organ concert in the evening!
I think I have the hang of this candy/writing thing now. Whenever I get really stuck, that is, for more than 30 seconds, I go and get a piece of candy or two (I’ve usually written around 500 or more words, so I’ve earned it, anyway) and by the time I’ve gotten it, or by the time I’ve unwrapped it, or at the latest by the time I’ve stuck it in my mouth and started chewing, I know what to write next.
However! Just because I’m up to 30,000 words doesn’t mean that all those words are interesting. After I eliminated that character, things deflated a bit too much, and lampshades started popping out all over. When I edit it, I think I will cut a lot of that middle part. Jump closer to the end. It’s the beginning of the end, folks! Oooooh.
I think I’ll be done sometime next week. Then I’ll start looking forward to next year and Book 2. This has been a most interesting and productive experience, though maybe my teachers might disagree if they knew I was doing it. Anyway, I think my word-count curve is pretty interesting. It starts out slow, and then shoots up, and then it will probably level out a little – around 2000 or 3000 words a day, instead of 5000 or that whopping one day 10,000. They said people often have trouble in the 20,000′s, but I didn’t. I think I must write differently than other people? Or maybe my stuck point is yet to come. Well, I guess I’m lucky in that, if I get stuck, I can always just pick a random facet of kalmaeirin civilization and discuss it. That’s kind of fun.
I think I’ll rename the book “The End of Nations” or something like that. It’s more relevant than “Sword’s Innocence”. Also when I edit it I need to make Zela much more the focus. Flairé’s been hogging attention again, the rogue.
Flairé: Not a rogue! Bard with epic finesse-y broadsword skillz!
Whatever.
EDIT: Found something cool through the NNWM site, and made something with it. It’s like a doodle with words. And it’s generated.
Here’s a music one not by me.
EDIT 2: Zela cosplay pictures are up!! Look and see!!
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