Later again. Like, by a few hours, yo.
Leslie: (sitting quietly in large jail-type cell) I’m so scared… and bored… They still haven’t told me what I’m doing here… I think it’s something to do with Flairé…
Door: *THUMP*
Leslie: ?
Door: *swish* (opens softly)
I hate drawing bars/stairs/perspective. She came out pretty good in panel two, though. I wasn’t going to add the little aside in panel one but then I thought “what the heck, it’s supposed to be light-hearted, really”.
Hi! I’m scared stiff. It will be absolutely fabulous if a million and one things don’t go wrong. The one I’m most worried about is tensing up like a board for the first half of the coda of the Liszt. Other than that I should be equable to whatever happens. Hopefully I don’t have any memory slips.
…This is really quite a lot of music. I only realize that occasionally.
Cheers! Hope to see some of you there!
Lion-man is stoic man
I felt like posting something! The only thing I have left to do today is practice (and study Latin and play Guild Wars – Kessex Peak is still waiting!) so I decided to put SOMETHING UP. Especially since I’m bored and I’ve been listening to Kalmaeirin playlists on my iTunes for the last two hours while I wrote my Linguistics paper for this week.
Soooo… this is the first picture I drew with Corel Painter, with the pencil tool and my glorious tablet, and it is of Aur from Dreigiau. It’s not very good, so I didn’t send it to Aywren. I mean, it’s better than the last picture of Aur I drew. But still not really good enough. Though I think it’s decent enough to be posted. The scribble of Link I did a few weeks ago, though… X P That will not be posted. Ugh.
I think I gave Aur too much eyelashes.
Cheers!
Leslie: (falls out of large Abduction-bag™)Who are you? W-what do you want with me?
Burly soldier: Be quiet, shrimp. (whaps Leslie)
Elkyari: Be nice, soldier. You don’t know how long we’ll have to keep this one.
Leslie: (shiver)
Oh my! A nice looking red-haired guy! Maybe he’s a good guy! …Maybe not. But now that I know he doesn’t look like a sack of potatoes maybe I’ll make him into an actually character. I mean, he doesn’t even have a name.
I’m sad that you can’t see how buff Mr. Bad Guy is because his suit is so dark, so here is the lineart. He looks a little psycho, though. o_O Hmmm.
It’s an indistinct blobby room! D :
Kyla surprises Lyrestan!
I drew a quick sketchie for people who celebrate Valentine’s Day. I wasn’t gonna, but there you are.
Princess Kyla has made a human style Valentine’s card for Prince Lyrestan! I think he likes it…
Flairé: Flaria, be a sweetheart and grab me some travelling things, would you? I need to go look for Miss Leslie.
Flaria: What’s happened?
Flairé: The extremists have snatched her out from under my very nose. They’re an alert gang… I’ll make sure they’re not so alert after tonight… |: (
Dun dun dunnn! : D
Kitchens are hard. Flaria puts her hair in a braid when she’s working in ’em. Good idea, no? And I’m not sure what Flairé does with those long dramatic laces on his gauntlets. I think he tucks them inside somewhere.
Determined Flairé is determined. And sexy. Imo.
I went for a walk today in the bright sun, and my brother and I basically spent the whole walk trying to calculate if it was more sensible to use a single bolt or take advantage of the Warhammer High Elves’ awesome repeater bolt thrower which fires six shots at S4. We determined eventually that there is indeed a higher chance of killing knights (or whatever) by using six bolts. Mystery solved! After much math, including factoring in Lady’s Saves and things like that…
Did you ever realize just how present the piano is in the Battle of Hoth? Awesome.
Well, it’s not the exact same as I had in my head (maybe I should have gone with the first sketch after all) but it is finished and hopefully it is recognizable in some small way.
I must run or else I will be late for Ling. Which would be terrible because Ling is so cool. D :
(Much later, after Ling and Lat and teaching) I want to draw a picture of a Nintendo-character orchestra performing Mozart’s Requiem. That would be fantastic.
Ahem. Abou the picture – well, I fixed the Op. number on the Beethoven and added a date so people know when to actually show up. : P I don’t think it really looks like me. Except that it does bear a frightening resemblance.
Mom says that it looks like me… except elf-y-er. (X-man says that it looks rather “Faerie tale”, which I suppose is the same thing) So… if all my elf drawings look vaguely like me, and I draw myself vaguely like my elves… well, firstly that means I have a lot of practice drawing my elves. But what else does it mean? (tries not to overthink this. … … …)
Any better?
Okay, so this is the product of today’s messing around with a tablet and no real concern for sanity realism. I’m not sure what’s going on with the hair. The highlights are too stark. I will fix that tomorrow before I get it put into poster fashion and printed.
I was pleased to learn that when you extend the canvas in Photoshop, it somehow finds the stuff that was off the edge in Corel Painter. Isn’t that nice? Now I can finish my shoulders and the rest of the hair trailing over them, and the upper edge of something resembling clothing. It’s just a head/shoulders shot, don’t worry. I adjusted the lips. Do they look better? And duh, I added eyebrows. They were hard, surprisingly.
I think I also need to make the end of my nose more pink (I have a pink nose) and also more highlighted so you can see it’s there. : P Not sure what to do about the ear. It is, contrastingly, too dark, but that’s more like ‘just right’. But I do like being able to see myself with perfect skin for once. : P
In relation to the recital this is for, I still have those two pages of Dutilleux to memorize. But I worked on some other stuff today, and I think it will actually be really good this year. As opposed to last year. And any other time I’ve ever performed.
Things to adjust: lips (too pressed together – actually reminds me of Laine but that’s just me) – shadows (more around eyes, I think) – hair (haven’t really started yet) – eyebrows (haven’t put them on because I’m forgetful)
I’m actually quite happy with the nose. Noses are hard for me. Good thing I traced this one.
Corel Painter Essentials 4
Flairé: Miss Leslie? Did you find your room all right? (sniffs the air) ! Leslie?!
(sees note on the floor): The little human is ours. You can do nothing to help her, Nieron Flairé. Bow to our wishes!
I like drawing Flairé. I only wish his castle matched up to him. Oh well. If you’re wondering that is a hallway that has bedrooms and such off of it. Except you can’t see the doors because… the walls have pillars sticking out of them. That you can’t tell. Yessss. : P
I am solar powered! I must be, because the last couple of days have been beautiful! And suddenly I feel like doing things! Practicing, playing Guild Wars, cleaning up, drawing, running – I went for a run yesterday!
Flairé: Yes, I’m very proud of you. (pats head)
Yay! So now it’s kind of misty out today-
Flairé: Great West Coast weather. My fave!
-but after we get back from the Via Choralis concert in Sidney I am going for another run.
