Angry Anime Link colour 1
coloured July 28, ’10
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Hoo, it’s another sloppy experiment, this time with some sort of artsy cell shading… Not the greatest. I think I will try again on this picture using more serious techniques or something. Cause I think this picture could actually look really good if I just knew how…
Version of this drawing.
…Neck is waaaaaaaaaay too skinny.
MASSIVE picture upload today. In fact, this is just the first part. Just my Theory/Composition book. More tomorrow.
A girl’s hair, Theory class, Sep 18, ’08. She was sitting in front of me and it looked nice.
Nieron Lyrestan sha Lilemlen, Theory class, Sep 29, 2008. Not a good representation of Lyrestan.
Wet Flairé, Theory class, Sep 29, 2008. A pretty decent representation of a wet Flairé.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Here’s the not-so-good version, done the day before.
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
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.
Cranky half-dressed Flairé, Theory class, Nov 3, 2008. I dunno. Man-practice. (Flairé: *facepalms*) With three different left hands.
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.
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.
Link, Theory class, Nov 24, 2008. Check out those shoulders.
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.
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.
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.
???, Theory class, Jan 5, 2009. This year! Flairé is sleeping, and then… somebody’s eye. I dunno.
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.
Bodies, Composition class, Jan 8, 2009. Just some figures.
“Can’t draw today”, Theory class, Jan 15, 2009. I don’t know who any of these people are.
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.
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.
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? 
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.”
Heads, Theory class, Mar 5, 2009. Flairé, soldier-boy, Rana, Link, and Flaer. Soldier-boy is a fellow student…
I don’t know who, Theory class, Mar 16, 2009.
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.
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.
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
Some of these lovely ladies are either immortal or underage, y'know... or both
Trail of Broken Hearts
drawn Feb 21, 2008
posted Aug 6, 2009
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So, this picture is a concept that’s been in my head for a long, long time. It’s that the Legend of Zelda series is full of beautiful (or not) women, and they all love Link, while Link the Hero himself only sees Princess Zelda and his duty to her and the kingdom. So, I’m afraid that I did a terrible hack-job on this picture, but I’ll just count it a sketch for now. He’s supposed to be walking down a road (in a city, in my head, but for some reason it’s in the countryside heading towards a crimson-gold sunset. And there are supposed to be absolute crowds of women lining the sides of the road, not just the scattered figures above, each of them named or nameless NPCs that love Link and are ultimately disappointed, while he follows his sun, his light, the very thought of Princess Zelda.
So that’s what this cruddy sketchy picture is. Someday I shall do a better job.
You don’t get to see the next picture in the book because it’s even more unfinished. Tomorrow’s picture that goes up is really, really awful, but it will go up because it at least looks like something.
I won the Warhammer battle yesterday; my commander challenged his champion and eventually won, and we were playing “Kill the General” so I won! I also managed to slay an entire unit of 5 Knights of the Realm (KotR, not to be confused with SW:KotOR) with my Dragon Princes, and he managed to kill a Dragon Prince with a lowly archer at range. So we both had high points. And it didn’t go on too long. I wonder how today’s will go.
I like The Boar’s Head. Did I mention yet that it has an interesting mix of English and Latin? It does.
Finished another chapter of The Tactician and the Jewel. Starting Chapter 3. This is fun! It’s probably not nearly as sneaky as I think it is, but I’m enjoying very much the writing of intrigue, subtlety, and mean badguys. Woot. It makes the good guys more awesome. Looks like the Rescue option is going to beat the other two clean out of the field on the poll over on the right.
I went to salsa last night (two and a half hours SOLID salsa dancing for the win) and afterwards Jon lent me one of his CDs because I said I liked one of the songs. Jon is fabulous.
Ahhh! I can't stand this colour scheme!
Monster colour
coloured ???
posted Aug 3, 2009
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This is another Photoshop colouring experiment that I did one day – can’t remember when. I started with the head and went from there. I soon found that the hands of the original were not very helpful… it was a struggle to get them to look half-decent and in the end I think I just redrew them. Tunic skirt looks pathetic, but the torso looks quite good. Too bad it’s obscured by the blubbery tentacle thing. Took me a while to figure out how to make it transparent in the way that I wanted it to be. Navi came out well. The background was a lazy cop-out, but hey, I didn’t use a reference in the first place so I just did something more interesting than blank walls.
Was too tired and distracted to post yesterday; I had insomnia of a sort Saturday night. I couldn’t get to sleep until at least 3:00AM and then I had to get up for church at 7:00. I’m only really feeling the effects of it now, because it has a bit of a delayed reaction. Well, I got lots of sleep this morning, and tomorrow I don’t have to work, so that will be pleasant.
The thing that was distracting me is the new story I’m writing. I finished Chapter 1! And a fantastic chapter it is too, if I may say so myself. Afraid to tackle Chapter 2 right away, but we’ll see how I feel tomorrow or maybe later tonight after piano. I’m very excited about it, and it occupies my brain every waking moment when I’m not practicing. I mean, I have a plot!!! That’s so unusual!!! I also have about 75% original characters, including Ceniro because the tactician is basically an enigma left up to the player in Fire Emblem 7. I drew a floor plan of the main hero’s home, too. I decided I’m not going to post any of it until it’s finished (much like Ephraim’s story, though I haven’t actually finished many chapters on that one) so that I can make sure it all works and also so you can participate in the paragraph below.
Keep checking Adhemlenei, because sooner or later I’m going to find a voting widget thingy and stick it in the sidebar and ask: would you rather read a chapter in which the villains besiege the heroes and a) the heroes wage an epic defence, or b) should the villians be allowed to carry off the main hero’s wife, thus requiring the heroes to stage a valiant rescue? So far, I have one ‘defence’ response, one ‘other’ response (counterattack), and one ‘smartalec’ response. So:
1) Defence: 33.3% (1 vote)
2) Rescue: 0% (0 votes)
3) Other: 33.3% (1 vote)
4) No answer: 33.3% (1 vote)
And I forgot what else I was going to say so off I go to practice before I fall asleep. And then I will see about Chapter 2. Shall I draw you FE maps for the battles as well as scene illustrations? I almost finished the first scene illustration (I’m planning to do about a dozen per chapter – not gonna happen… but I’ll try anyway…) but I was held up by reference issues with one of the pre-existing characters.
The pictures for the next few weeks will probably go back to your regular old sketchbook scans for a while. And yes, off I go now.
Hun, your head is still balloon-shaped...
Sitting
drawn ???-Jan 19, 2008
posted July 20, 2009
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So, this is the follow-up to my earlier picture here. This one is not as good as the first one. Bits of body are shaped better, but a lot of it is shaped worse. Rana’s eyes are reeeaaaally weird. I like her ankles but the rest of her is even more awful than the last time. She’s too small, too. Link has somewhat more detail, except on lower arms and legs, than last time, and his face is at least recognizable…
I wrote some Ephraim-ness today! Not much, yet, but I shall keep going, slowly. I’m working on Chapter 4, but I think I’m going to add some beginning stuff, because Myrrh just… shows up. Randomly. Out of nowhere, with no explanation as to what she does when she’s not on-screen. So I need a new Chapter 1 and to add notes to Chapters 2, 3, and 4. And so I would be starting Chapter 5. It will mesh with Eirika’s Story, but it won’t be copy and paste (much – just the speaking text from shared scenes, because it would be really weird if it was different!). It will take a look inside Ephraim’s head, perhaps more than we went inside Eirika’s head. Maybe that’s a scary thought. Well, it will also look at different scenes than Eirika’s, although I don’t think I will gloss over much; I’ll just be adding stuff, trying to make it more ‘real’ feeling. There are a few glaring plot holes in Eirika’s Story, mostly to do with the love story. Well, Ephraim’s Story has no romance so plot holes there won’t be a problem. Sorry, kids. He just doesn’t seem to go with anyone. Tana is his best shot but what if she ends up with Cormag? Cormag deserves some comfort after having his awesome bro murdered. So in ‘my canon’ she doesn’t end up with anyone because she probably ends up with someone after the story, I just don’t know who so you can decide for yourselves. Sorry for the long explanation.
My toes hurt. Still. I wore my walking shoes to Rueda last Wednesday and they STILL HURT. I think there are bruises under my big toenails or something. Apologies to people who didn’t want to hear that. Please, please, anyone around, don’t step on my feet. It will completely incapacitate me. Thanks.
Odd thing – I wrote a letter to a near-complete stranger yesterday, and I couldn’t think of a way to say something, so Dad took over the computer and said it for me, and what he said was very pretty and elegant, but it wasn’t what I would say. I’m so awkward. I try to be gracefully awkward, but that’s a fine line to walk and it mostly comes out awkward. This is leading into a rather existential discussion of self that I’m saving until I’ve discussed it with more people -
Flairé: Like me!
- so I’m not going to continue that thought at this time. Also I’m afraid it might offend someone. Or guilt-trip them. And I soooooo don’t want to guilt-trip people. I know how bad it feels, for sure!
Mmmm, muffins.
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