January 31, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Abduction!

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Coloured Media, Flairé, The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé — Tags: , — Illinia @ 11:24 pm

 

THAT GUY. HE IS A NINJA.

THAT GUY. HE IS A NINJA.

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The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Episode 1: Lost Blackbird: Page 15: Abduction!

drawn Jan 24-26, ‘10, coloured Jan 31, ‘10

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           Leslie: Well, this has certainly been a weird day… I had a nap and I wake up… in Jen’s head? (shakes head) No, it has to be real. Flairé is so nice, and Flaria is such a good cook… (dark-clad figures creep in through open window and grab her) Ah!

Working on colour. Will try to get it up tomorrow. Need to find dark red marker that’s not purple. Markers drying up.

Aaaaaah! Something happened! Oh noes!

Hold on to your instruments, things are actually going to go pretty fast from this point on. I guess I need to work on pacing more.

How do you like the attempt at moonlit floor? That’s not a moon in the upper right panel - it’s a stained glass window.

Sorry I’m late again. I was getting ready for Christine’s recital! She looked like a goddess of spring, with a light green silk gown and a silver clip in her golden hair. And she played fantastically, of course! Laura was pretty amazed at the end of the trio (Pantheon by Elizabeth Raum) because we filled the hall with so much sound. And yesterday was spent cleaning and watching movies (Beauty and the Beast twice, a BBC show about space and stuff, a different programme about Mozart, and Spirited Away just for kicks). And now I am practicing. Or supposed to be. Also we renewed our rented FFIV and Lego Indy 2, because Kevin is really really close to beating FFIV (Theobez (and Bluya!) for the fail! : P hahaha). Now I need to reread Darkstar AGAIN. Oh, and Apollo, from the Raum trio mentioned above, would be a GREAT theme song for Aur. Yesssssss.

My Bach is all memorized! Huzzah! And memorized good!

Now I go to beat the Beethoven into submission tomorrow. (sigh) The exposition of the first movement is acting up again. If I can’t keep that under control, how am I going to learn the (difficult) coda of the last movement?

And then I will memorize the rest of the Dutilleux because I want to play it on Thursday. If not I will be breaking out the Beethoven.

January 27, 2010

I Found My Nemesis

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Filed under: Random blog posts — Illinia @ 9:36 am

The Cilantro Conjurer, destroyer of taste buds. : P From here.

Apologies to those people who are fans of cilantro and/or Mexican food, which uses it. (I too like Mexican food, but I can’t stand cilantro)

Was messing around on Aja’s Art Blog and found a picture I’d never seen before. The Hamster Kicker. How did I miss this?

January 26, 2010

I Totally Dare You To Dance

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Flairé, Photoshop — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:39 pm
I *totally* dare you to dance. Like, right now. DO ET! XD

I *totally* dare you to dance. Like, right now. DO ET! XD

I Totally Dare You To Dance

painted on Jan 8, ‘10

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Oooh, it’s a painting! Not Photoshop, but Corel Painter. I was messing around with it, trying to see if I could get it to work. I think I did. In a rudimentary fashion, anyway.

One new thing I tried was highlighting from two different light sources. Well, that’s rather fancy talk for what I really did. I just highlighted from a neutral light source, then applied the blue layer and added orange highlight on one side - for the fire - and white on the other - for the moon. It’s a little bit too subtle but too much looked really bad.

The attitude turned out pretty good, though.

I painted this while listening to The Kilforna Set from the Chieftains Album Water in the Well. Great tunes!

Am beginning my recital poster as soon as I post this.

Hey, I need a pianist to sub for me at a short and rather informal choral concert on Sunday. It’s only an hour long with an hour long rehearsal beforehand; good pay and transportation provided. Comment or email me if interested and available and dwelling in Victoria! : P

January 24, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Spazz Time

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Coloured Media, Flairé, The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé — Tags: , , , — Illinia @ 1:24 pm
  • Current music - listening: Indiana Jones soundtrack

 

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The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Episode 1: Lost Blackbird: Page 14: Spazz Time

drawn/coloured Jan 15/24, ‘10

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            30 seconds later:

            Flaria: Oh! A person. How old is she? Does she like music? Where did you get the dress?

            Flairé: Her name is Leslie, she’s 19, and she plays music everyday. We got the dress at Avumal’s place. Miss Leslie, this is my over-excitable sister Flaria.

             Flaria: *eyeroll* Hello, Leslie! I’m very pleased to meet you. What do you like to eat?

             Leslie: What is there?

Hi! I need to go do stuff, so here is the finished ink of the page. No colour; that will come later.

AAAAAHHHHH IT’S A FEMALE FLAIRÉ just kidding.

Oh, yes. As soon as Flaria meets the new girl her thought is only hyper curiousity and whether she’s hungry.

This room needs a little more colour. The next time you see it, it will have some red drape-y things. Almost wasn’t going light the candles, but then I figured that it would only be natural. And I’m running out of yellow marker! : ( I will try and fix that for next week but I make no guarantees.

Oh and I don’t think the “switching back and forth” in the first frame was too successful. I will do better next time. I also forgot Flairé’s sword in the second panel. He just took it off really really fast? Those kalmaei are fast, you know.

Successfully played two churches this morning. Not bad. Played the 3rd mvmt of Bédard’s Quatre Pieces en forme du Messe and the Menuet Gothique by Boellmann.

Okay I have rehearsal and lots of practice, so here I go.

January 23, 2010

OBJECTION

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Filed under: Random blog posts — Tags: — Illinia @ 10:04 pm

Oh hei. I just beat Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations.

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This is the greatest coincidence thing I have seen this week.

As you can probably guess, Godot was making coffee metaphors again...

As you can probably guess, Godot was making coffee metaphors again...

 …Not much else to report. Except that I still haven’t touched FFIV (from whence that reference comes ftw) and we rented Indiana Lego DS II, which could be a problem. : P

Also I had really really bad circulation today due to sitting really really still for a long long time. My hands were just frozen. : (

Two churches tomorrow oh noes.

I will be drawing tomorrow’s comic tonight, which will still be late, I think, (sorry) and exploring North Kryta.

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