Hi! Still working on the Flairé comic page. Had way too many concerts this weekend, for a grand total of 7 hours listening (and performing). Two of them were fabulous. The third was too long. More later. I need sleep as I was insomniac last night and got up too early today. And I need to get up early tomorrow to practice my concerto so I don’t get my butt kicked in my lesson. : P
The Screwtape Letters are pretty funny. More later.
Okay, when I start feeling like I need to make fifty Borg posts, I know it’s time to post something here.
1) I almost have my concerto completely memorized. Except for a few notes here and there and the Eb major part near the end.
2) Aja is officially doing my book cover! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-
3) I don’t have to do a really really hard modern piece, but I started rewriting it to make it clearer anyway.
4) I am all stocked up for Script Frenzy. Tab and I bought between us about $50 worth of candy. But we’ll eat it slowly. One after every page. Speaking of which,
5) I downloaded Celtx, the recommended free script writing program. I have not fired it up yet, as I have been dealing with other stuff (see above). But I’m pretty excited.
6) I wrote a fairly detailed outline of my first script. That should last me a few pages. It’ll be a long one. That comic will probably take me a couple years to do!
7) When Tab and I were coming back to the school from stocking up, WE SAW BABY BUNNIES!!!! Aren’t they the cutest things you’ve ever seen? I adore baby bunnies; I think they’re the cutest things EVER.
[baby bunny pictures have not been sent to me yet; in their place, here are other baby bunny pictures that I took last year]
[NEW BUNNY PICTURES]
8) I tried out Celtx and it’s actually pretty good. The formatting is easy; you just hit ENTER until you get to the part you want. So it starts at SCENE 1 and you write the descriptor (EXT; FOREST; EVENING) or whatever, and then you hit enter, and it gives you FRAME 1 (I’m in comic book mode) and you write a description of what’s happening in that scene. I guess you’re supposed to be super detailed for you artist, but since the artist is me, I don’t care. Then you hit enter, and it gives you CAPTION (the little box for the narrator?) and then you hit enter again if you don’t want that and it gives you CHARACTER, and then you write a name, and then you hit enter, and then it gives you a line for that character’s dialogue. After you hit enter, it will let you write the dialogue for another character. Or you can hit enter and go directly to the next frame. It’s actually really easy.
It’s strange. The term is coming to an end, and I have all these ambitious plans. I want to publish the book, the T-shirt(s), write comic scripts, finish the other comic, finish the character bio portraits (Flaer is gorgeous), re-read Beowulf, and start my new repertoire. Actually, not even new repertoire excites me right now. Except Duruflé. Oh yeah. Duruflé. Now that’s good stuff. I guess I want a (short!) break from (piano) music.
Oh, and I also want to EXCERCISE MORE. After some good nights of rest. : P
St. Matthew Passion today!!
Rah, said the dragon.
Sword’s Innocence rough book cover sketch 1
drawn March 23, ’10, 10-11:30 pm
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Hey, guys! So about that book that would need to be submitted before July 1st or whatever to get a free copy from CreateSpace… well, this is my rough draft of the cover. I’m planning to get someone else to paint it ‘coz that would be cool, but I need something to show them what to do, right? So this is from this chapter, a few paragraps in. Though I’m going to rewrite the book, I’m leaving this scene in. I was also going to have a ‘dramatic confrontation’ cover, where Zela, in green, sword in hand, is confronting… Muila, in a red dress? who is looking at her disdainfully from the top of some small steps… in a dark location. But this one is WAY COOLER so I drew it first.
I used my dragon-drawing book, too!
So… in the foreground is Zela on Silver the dragon, and chasing them are three (I only put two) dragons, and then the brown spiky thing is the city, and there’s a road leading past it and to it, and there’s one of those amazing blue-green lakes nearby (there is no food colouring in Canadian Rockies water, folks! Just in case you were wondering) and the brown, rather barren mountains (green in the valleys) stretching back to green mountains and then blue, with a glimpse of the green plains waaaaaaay over on the left, and dark stormclouds capping it all. And then there’ll be a title with a twisty border and a back summary.
Oh, hey, chorus didn’t stink totally tonight! What a pleasant surprise! The weather has been gorgeous, too, and the flowering trees are just WOW. Come live in Vic, folks! It’s pretty darn good in the spring!
But I need to stop eating unhealthy food. Just need to get to the end of this week and then I can relax a little!
Huh, maybe I’ll have a go myself at this cover after Script Frenzy. Oh, I need to rewrite the other book and turn it into a PDF, too!
The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Episode 1: Lost Blackbird: Page 22: Baby Griffon
drawn/coloured Mar 21, ’10
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Leslie: Deerfleet?
Jen: A really nice young guy. He wants to be a warrior like Flairé, but he’s not very good yet. Like me. (Jalril is shiny and serene, with a baby griffon curled up at his feet sleeping) Nice dress, by the way.
Leslie: Thanks! Flairé got it for me.
Jen: Anyway, shall we go? We have to make sure Flairé’s all right.
Leslie: If he’s not all right, aren’t we in trouble?
Jen: O_O This is true. (runs up stairs) Flaaaaaiiiiiréee!!
Hi! I’m very pleased with the way Jalril turned out. And look he has a widdle baby griffon with him! Leslie is somewhat perturbed by my hyper good cheer.
Darn. I forgot the flowers in the grass.
If you take a look at the sidebar, you’ll have no doubt noticed that I have decided to participate in Script Frenzy (the April NaNoWriMo, after a fashion – only this is to write 100 pages of script in 30 days!). You may even have noticed that it’s going to be about Flairé. Maybe you will panic, thinking that I’m going to abandon this current comic. Well, fear not. This one I will be sticking with to the end (which is in about ten more pages). But I do have plans for sequels, and while I will be taking a break between episodes to recuperate the old creative abilities (and maybe to improve my art? maybe?) I do want to continue this project.
My brother is also going to do maybe his own private Script Frenzy for an opera libretto.
The Script Frenzy website, by the way, is well worth visiting if only for the plot generator on the front page.
Anyway, I also found out that I need to start working on the Sword’s Innocence novel – the deadline for a free copy from CreateSpace is beginning of June (when I’ll be in ON, anyway).
Teachers: don’t stress too much. I’ll start working on all this writing stuff AFTER CLASSES. While searching for a summer job. And learning new repertoire. : P Festival next month, too. Ah, well, time to finish memorizing the concerto.
OTP (One True Pair)
Symmetry, finished
coloured – some point in history long before this website went live
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This is the finished version of this picture, which I drew specifically for the purpose that it now serves as the ‘logo’ or ‘emblem’ of my website. I realized tonight that I forgot about it. So here you are! It took me a long time to colour, especially Flaer’s hair. I used Photoshop 5 and a mouse. I realize his eyes are rather huge now but hey! You can tell they’re green. Which is good. Less happy about the cloth, but I guess it’s all right for my skill level. Grass was a total cop-out (green paint bucket, some broad dodge and burn, and then put the ‘pencil sketch’ filter on heavy or something like that) but I dunno how to do grass in Photoshop. X D
If you ever hear of a concert at which will be performed Locus Iste by Nicholas Piper, GO HEAR IT. It is AMAZING. I can’t tell you so much about Different Windows by Daniel Brandes. The stupid bus didn’t show so I was late and missed the beginning.
Did I mention the Knights of Pie? UVic fundraising organization. Bunch of guys dress up as monkly knights and put on short trials that usually end in pieing the person who can’t pay equal to the donations raised by their accusor. Ivan was raising money for a children’s hospital and was tired of MichaelG showing up late to rehearsal. Result: Epicness. Lemon-meringuey epicness.
Also I hate diminished fourths but what ya gonna do about it. Learning a stupidly hard and rather theoretical piece for some composer guy I know. It’s a good idea but just well-nigh impossible. I could rewrite the piece for myself but I’d rather be lazy and just learn it the way it is. And by rewrite I mean make a clean copy in Sibelius with such notation as makes sense to me, not rewrite the piece itself. : P
I do like Franz Strauss, though. He wrote a second horn concerto that was just found thirty years ago and Christine may be playing the Canadian premiere. X D But Hans Pizka, the editor, is fail. He put the horn part in the wrong transposition, so Christine is playing in Eb major while I’m playing in C major. FAIL. I’ll stop flitting from subject to subject now.
I want to be a great visual artist, textual artist, sonic artist… painter drawer animator model maker author poet musician composer pianist organist violinist singer… Did I miss anything? Prolly. Hahaha.
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