March 10, 2010

Flairé shirt files

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Coloured Media, Flairé — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:34 pm
We all like pickles. Except for AlexR and .t

We all like pickles. Except for AlexR and .t

Yeah? 'Sup?

Yeah? 'Sup?

 Flairé shirt files

drawn sometime last fall

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I now have a shirt with these pictures on them, so now I can show you the pictures!! Top image is not full size but full size is 900 px across and I didn’t think you wanted that.

Flairé’s tunic came out wonderfully smooth on the shirt, and… the rest of him, too, actually. Except for his face. It was a little blotchy. I remember making a Photoshop-smoothed version, but I must not have emailed it to myself. The shading on the hair and sleeves is by my French Grey art makers; the shading on the cloak is from a black marker, a grey marker, and the grey marker gone over twice to get a darker shade. It might not wholly make sense, but it looks pretty good, I guess. Actually on the shirt itself it’s a little hard to tell.

Anyway. You like? I like for sure.

I may make a CaféPress shop to sell these at some point. Good idea? Let me know! (comments plznthx!)

March 7, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Loon in the Darkness

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drawn Mar 3-4, coloured Mar 6, ‘10

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          (a small hand appears through the doorway with a torch)

          Jen: Leslie! Are you all right?

          Leslie: Jen?! What are you doing here? And why do you have a sword?

          Jen: Ummmmm… I’m here to rescue you! And it’s a rapier, ’cause I actually know how to use one sorta! And no Saxophone Alex jokes!

          Chibi Saxophone Alex: Bwahaha

…No, Chibi Saxophone Alex is not actually there. But he would probably make an inappropriate comment at this point, so I drew him in because I felt like it. Oh, and hey, it’s me! I’m not sure what you folks will think of self-insertion. But as long as you consider me just as another character, I don’t think you’ll be bothered. More will become clear next page.

I was doing the colouring late last night and I really nearly messed up on the backgrounds.

…Drawing Alex was fun. : ) Maybe I’ll put him in a future episode. He’s so unpredictable, though. It would be hard to write for him.

I had a birthday today! I actually had it about two weeks ago, but we saved it for today because last week was recital. I was given great presents all of them:
a digital painting magazine;
a ‘how to draw horsies’ book, ages 6+ : ) ;
a small metallic watercolour painting kit;
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass;
THE NEW NOROUET CD OMIGOSH OMIGOSH WHEE;
a biography of Alex the Parrot;
the black NaNoWriMo 2009 Novelling Machine shirt;
and The Dark is Rising, second book in the series of the same name.
Also I’m counting my recital dress as a present because the money used to buy it was a present.

YAY! Time to rock out to some hawt French-Canadian traditional music, yo!

Note: Éric Beaudry, who is in Norouet and who is also in La Bottine Souriante, was performing with LBS at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies during the ‘Let’s Lampoon Canada’ segment with the flying moose, and that short glimpse of him/them was all it took to completely change my view of the Games.

Anything else happen this week? Well, I went to an orchestra concert on Friday (I’m getting worried; orchestra doesn’t turn me on like it used to) and afterwards I went out with Kira and Kevin and three Alexes and Thor and Connor and Nathan and Cedric and Maris, and had pizza and… alcoholic cider. O_O It was interesting.

If anyone starts teasing me about it I will be severely annoyed so don’t plzkthx. (I still don’t hold with drinking, personally : P )

This is a good CD. Go listen to it. : ) These guys are awesome. I <3 French-Canadian trad. music.

Edit: IT HAS THE SHOPPING LIST SONG OMIGOSH SQUEE

February 21, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Creepy Bishounen

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drawn/coloured Feb 21 ‘10

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          Leslie: (falls out of large Abduction-bag™)Who are you? W-what do you want with me?

          Burly soldier: Be quiet, shrimp. (whaps Leslie)

          Cardinal-Jay: 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_O7 Hmmm.

It’s an indistinct blobby room! D :

I picked up a book that talks about LotR at the church today! Wow!

In other news, there is a Reading Bake today, and I will try and go. I’m not sure if I should make pumpkin muffins or The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever which came out of a Martha Stewart magazine, believe it or not.

Homemade Chinese food for supper tonight! Yay!

February 14, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Dun Dun Dunnn!

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drawn/coloured Feb 13-14

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              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… |: (

Hey, guys! Colour will be up later! Obligations now.

Dun dun dunnn! : D

Oh, Happy Valentine’s. Also the Feast of St. Cyril and some other bloke who spread the Good News in Russia long ago.

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.

We cooked all afternoon. It was crazy. Mom went insane for V-day and made Caeser salad (actually I did that part - anchovies are, like, pure salt) and chicken pot pies with pastry hearts and almond flavoured ice cream and heart shaped cookies. I got to decorate most of them (with pink icing) so I put lots of movie quotes. Like “As you wish”, “I know” (Han Solo), ”Someday my prince will come”, “Kiss de girl”, “So this is love”, ”INDYYYYY!” and “If music be the food of luv, play on”. My brother helped a lot, though he has forgotten Cinderella.

Also I watched a review of The Phantom Menace which is insightful and indepth, and hilarious, but has a LOT of swear words because the reviewer is pretending to be an ignoramus. But if you ever hear me saying “What’s wrong with your faaa~aaaace” it’s from that review because of the Nemodian with the wierd face implants. The one who says “They’ve gone up the ventilation shaft!” D : “How do you know that? Seriously, how do you know that? What’s wrong with your faaa~aaace?”

And 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.

January 31, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Abduction!

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THAT GUY. HE IS A NINJA.

THAT GUY. HE IS A NINJA.

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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 17, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Names, Names, Names

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drawn Dec 31 ‘09/coloured Jan 10 ‘10

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          Flairé: We’re going to go now, Yoeath. Unless you want to stay longer? (Leslie: Ummm… shrug?) We’re going to meet my sister and get some food. You know!

          Yoeath: Get along with you then, Zelaré.

          Leslie: Ummm… I thought your name was Flairé?

          Flairé: Well, most people call me the son of my father. But she’s friends with my mother, so she calls me the son of my mother.

          Leslie: Ohhhh…

          Flairé: Bit awkward that my little brother calls himself Marteth Hciristial Zelaré, though…

          Leslie: ?

…Confused yet? : P

Well, it’s not important anyway. As you can probably tell, Leslie already knows a good deal about kalmaeirin naming conventions due to hanging around me a lot. o_O7

Next page is in production. Next three pages are in production. At the end of it, something happens, so hang in there!

January 10, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Crowds of ‘Em

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drawn Dec 31, ‘09; colour Jan 10, ‘10

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          Yoeath: Are… you staying long, little Leslie?

          Leslie: I don’t know, Yoeath. I just got here, and I’m so confused…

          Yoeath: That is all right. You little ones often are. Although it is not as if you come here often.

          Leslie: Have many people come here?

          Yoeath: Only a handful. Young Flairé takes care of them when they do.

          Flairé: That’s right! There’s my fudhuindili, her fudhuindon - though I don’t think he remembers much - also a few really random people you wouldn’t know. Like Illi- Esgalwen.

          Leslie: But - oh. Really?

          Flairé: Yup! : )

Yoeath struggles with personal pronouns while Flairé gabbles on about people he knows while still being mysterious. It’s a problem that I, my brother, and Flairé, Gullac, Zela, and Marteth all have. Flowering bushes take forever, and I’m pleased with today’s chibis.

Cheers!

Last night was Natalia’s Rosca party. We had a teeny tiny salsa circle (three couples on about a six foot square of floor) for a couple dances and Ana brought her guitar (and has Gerudo Valley on her iPod! Win!) and it degenerated into Spanish kareoke. I chose Virgen by Los Adolescentes (of course) but could only really handle the refrain. Good times. Today I have a horn rehearsal at my house (ooh, different) and a flute recital to go to and then hanging out time!

Also I think I may have enticed one or two new people to come to salsa. Come, guys! It’s terrific fun! Wednesday nights, 7:30, Vertigo in the SUB! Be there and I’ll show you the moves (actually Sam will show you the moves and I’ll help)!

Duruflé is the best. THE BEST.

January 3, 2010

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Unicorn

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drawn Dec 29, coloured Dec 30

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          Leslie: What’s that?

          Flairé: A unicorn. Hey, Yoeath!

          Leslie: Awwww! (goes running off - freezes suddenly as Yoeath turns and blinks at her)

          Yoeath: Hello? And what is thy name?

          Leslie: L-leslie

         Yoeath: Thou may call me Yoeath.

         (Flairé: Yo, the current usage says ’you’ is casual, not ‘thou’… Yoeath: *blinks*)

Whoa, those flowers were a little bit of a trick. Aaaaand the background is a bunch of random squares. Whatever.

I’M WALKING BACKWARDS FOR CHRISTMAS - The Tuscan Salami Scandal

Over Sea, Under Stone would make a fantastic movie! I read it last night. Now I want to read the other four.

And that is my announcement for today. Yup.

P.S. I am DONE watching FFIV. I watched the whole thing (without sound because someone was trying to narrate - badly) in the SNES version on YouTube. It was a good story, and now I understand Wayrift a lot more. And Darkstar, especially Darkstar. Yay!

P.P.S. Today is both Professor Tolkien’s birthday and Epiphany! Hooray!

December 27, 2009

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Elven Ethics

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drawn Dec 14, coloured Dec 26, ‘09

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            Flairé: And can you make another tailored to her?

            Storekeep: I certainly can, master. Though I would have thought you’d have enough tiny clothing by now.

           Flairé: (laughs) Nah, everyone deserves their own. Yes?

           Storekeep: Sure. (smiles)

           Leslie: (tugs on Flairé’s sleeve)

           Flairé: What is it?

           Leslie: It isn’t a bother… is it…?

           Flairé: Now don’t you fret your pretty head about that. It’s my present to you.

           Leslie: Thank you very much…!

           Flairé: No prob. (both leave shop and enter the castle gate; Flairé carrying Leslie’s old clothes) (Flairé: (to guards) Hey, guys!)

Ehhhhh, can’t talk now - watching My Neighbours the Yamadas. It’s gotta be Miyazaki’s most random movie yet.

I beat Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squad DS. The ending was pretty lame too. Now I’m playing Zelda: Spirit Tracks. I got to Zelda’s bedroom and she immediately makes Link get changed into hero ’recruit’ clothes. She says she didn’t look, but I dunno. X D

Oh, and… CHIBIIIIIIIIIIS!!!! AHAHAHAHA

December 13, 2009

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: To the Castle!

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drawn Dec 6-9, coloured Dec 10, ‘09

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           Leslie: Boats!

           Flairé: *nod nod* : )

           Leslie: Whoaaa… (seeing the castle)

           Flairé: Yep. Do you want to go to the castle first, or see some stuff first?

           Leslie: …Can we go to the castle? (Ringkun: Hey, Flairé! - Flairé: Hey…)

           Flairé: (kind look) Sure!

Hey, another page! I finished this one early! Like, on Thursday! Lots of shiny-haired people, huh? I especially like Leslie’s hair in the third panel. Do you?

Next week’s page is already in production. Maybe I will get a buffer back! That would be pretty cool.

Currently listening to the Tallis Singers on CBCR2, which my friend told me about. Yay music.

BTW, there are no prizes for spotting cameos, but I do like throwing them in there. And no that’s not Joe on this page. It could be. But it’s not.

The Wayrift RPG… I was playing it yesterday, but the ESC key is being really really slow for some reason. I wonder why? But I had a look at some FE tilesheets… I have to reposition them all, because there are lines one pixel wide between them all, and I don’t want that. And they could use some more tiles, like another carpet corner tile that seems to be inexplicably missing. Hmm.

My sleep schedule is completely messed up. Silly obsessions!

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