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July 31, 2010

Esgalwen, in colour

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Filed under: 2. Middle Earth fanworks,Esgalwen,Photoshop — Tags: Esgalwen — Illinia @ 3:10 pm

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Esgalwen, in colour

coloured July 31, ’10

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Whoo! More farting around with cheater brushes! This one took me… pretty much exactly an hour, and is based on this sketch. I think I like the sketch better than the painting, but at least the painting wasn’t TOTAL fail this time. Imo.

Okay! Time to practice!

Via Choralis is buying a piano. Pretty cool, except that the only one I’ve seen so far apparently needs a little under $1000 in tuning pin repairs. Not that encouraging if you ask me. But whatever. It’s got a nice big sound for a 5’7″. Then again, I only have an upright at home, so pretty much most pianos would sound bigger than mine.

Yesterday’s picture is captivating. I can’t stop looking at it. : D I just wish I had the skillz to animate it so Ceniro turns a little and winks at me/you/us.

I still have about 17 more pictures lined up to try to colour, so we’ll see what I do next. I think I’ll do the Eliwood one and fool around with cell shading, because it will be FUN. : P

Also: KID ICARUS LOOKS COOL. SO DOES CELL-SHADED ADULT LINK. Nintendo is evil, making fab characters like that. And you should check out my strange organ playing at the same time, too. It’s very quiet, though. So be careful when you go back to watching ordinary movies because I don’t want people to get mad at me for having to turn up their volumes all the way and then get blasted by sound. : P

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January 1, 2010

D&D Party

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Filed under: Esgalwen,Pencil,Uncategorized — Tags: D&D, Esgalwen, Illinia, Kellan Dunn, Myra, Torrigan — Illinia @ 10:36 am

Angry, slow, clueless, and insane. XD Love 'em all.

D&D Party

drawn Nov 14, ’09

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This is the roleplaying group that involves two people named Kevin, and three UVic music students. On the left is Myra, who isn’t any of these. Myra is a human cleric who really, really, really wants to be an elf. She has red hair and a lightening sword. She’s played by Katherine, the sister of our DM, Cedric the tenor. Next is Torrigan, the righteous but good-natured Paladin of Pelor, played by KevinT. Next is Illinia, *coughesgalwencough* who is played by me. She’s looking for someone, it seems, and has gained a hawk companion in her travels. Last is Kellan Dunn, and he’s a mechanic awesome a former circus clown. He’s six foot tall and bald, and greatly enjoys acting insane. I mean, we’re not sure if he’s sane to begin with. He also loves money. He’s played by KevinM.

Oh, and hey, Corel Painter 4 is really weird compared to Adobe Elements 7, but it’s really good for doing ‘pencil’ sketches. …I have about a dozen fanarts lined up to do. Don’t worry, that includes Adhemlenei fanart. : )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

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December 28, 2009

Christmas in colour 2009 (finished!)

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Ceniro,Esgalwen,Flairé,Photoshop,Rana,Zela — Tags: Bayn, Ceniro, Christmas, Deerfleet, Esgalwen, Flaer, Flairé, Flaria, Gullac, Gyoriing, Jalril, Jennifer, Leslie, Lyrestan, Marteth, Mathaning, Rana, Tam, Yoeath, Zela — Illinia @ 12:52 pm

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Christmas in Colour, 2009, finished!

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And now, the finished picture! Ehhhhh… I actually used the tablet a lot less with the shading/highlighting. I used it a lot for the hair, of course, but the clothes… just didn’t work with that. I need to find a way to change the settings so the harder I press doesn’t affect the width of the stroke, but how dark/light it is.

Parts I’m pleased with: Marteth’s dark purple coat; Gullac’s teal shirt; Bayn’s grey jacket. Coincidentally, they’re the ones you can see least of. : P Tam’s jacket is a close second, though. His shoulders came out half-way decent. I’m also happy with all the hair and Flairé’s face, which was worrying me. Doesn’t he look like his parents? X D

I realize that the ink lines only get in the way now. I think I will experiment in the future with not having hard lines at all. With the tablet, I can do that now!

I’m collecting Candy-cane shards in Guild Wars so I can get the Candy-cane daggers (for Gullac, when I make him) and the Peppermint Scythe (because it’s cool). I already have a Candy-cane spear. I wonder if these weapons break if you use them too much? I don’t think so. But I’m a little nervous about actually using them in battle.

Gullac: I’m not! (sproings around like a frog, brandishing his daggers and laughing insanely)

Dude, I haven’t gotten them yet. Give me another hour.

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December 26, 2009

Christmas 09 – still a colour WIP

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Christmas in colour ’09 – still WIP

hair/eyes coloured Dec 26 ’09

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Wheeee! Still lovin’ that tablet. And the pillow. The pillow worked splendidly. This is my progress for today. Tomorrow I will colour skin, and the comic, which will go up instead, and then Monday I will do clothes. O_O7 And then I will figure out how to shade all the white areas, like Yoeath. Leslie, Flairé, and Rana’s hair is the best of this picture. I had to restart my computer before my tablet would work, though.

If you want a hilarious story, go buy Star Wars: Battlefront: Elite Squadron for Gameboy DS now, because the story is laughable. Ummmm… it’s the story of this Gary-Stu (= unrealistically perfect) clone who’s half-Jedi because the Kaminoians stole some DNA from a visiting Jedi and plunked it into two clones, and the player is one of them. He fights for the Republic, meets his father, questions his life, gets shot by his Empire-loyal brother, their father Grey tries to convert Empire brother, thinks he succeeds, and totally gets shot in the back. Then, “15 years later”, this Gary-Stu of a clone is in command of Grey Squadron of the fledgling Rebel Alliance. And cloney-boy pwns everything in his path while… a) chasing after the Death Star’s laser, which is en route to the Death Star, and he captures the transport, and… the Death Star still gets a laser. What the heck!? b) defends Yavin Base from Imps who magically show up inside the base, where there are no Rebels, and then finds and destroys a jamming device that magically prevents X-wings from taking off. Again: what the heck?! c) flies into space and is in the trench(!!?!) behind Darth Vader who is behind Luke. My brother just flew into towers and didn’t exactly help. So what kind of support was he supposed to provide? At the moment, he’s on Hoth, where they had to defend the Rebel base from Imps BEFORE going out and engaging them in the icy plains canyons. Where he takes a speeder there and then jumps out to fight on foot.

…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA that’s the lamest story I’ve heard in a long time.

Oh, and Kota shows up for a cameo. And we’re pretty sure cloney-boy becomes a Jedi at some point because you can play as a Jedi, I think, in some parts, so the story’s gotta include it somewhere. We’re hoping he dies gloriously because we think he’s a twit. X D X D X D This story is, like, worse than the new Kyle Katarn games. Oh, and there’s a love interest named Sharra. (facepalm) Whatever.

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Merry Christmas in Colour, part 1

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Merry Christmas 2009, in colour! part 1

coloured Dec 25, ’09

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Aaaaaaaaand this picture should make a lot more sense now. Or maybe a little. Depends how much you were paying attention the first time? ^_^7

(sings and dances) I wuv my tablet, I wuv my tablet…

I’m using this picture as a tutorial to teach myself how to use it, and to relearn Photoshop as the version that came with it is similar to the one we have downstairs (Photoshop 5) but of course it’s different. So I will be shading and highlighting and making shiny over the next week or so. When I’m not playing Wii Sports Resort (that is a pretty darn good game, if I do say so). The tablet is very handy in that I don’t have to switch brushes to do the the tiny corners – I just let up on the pressure. It’s great! And of course it feels like drawing which is very comfortable. It’s a pretty cool device.

I’m not sure how I ended up colour co-ordinated with Flairé’s princely outfit. I think it’s because it’s a generally accepted fact that I look decent in black and red, and his outfit just happens to be black and red. Hmmmm. Oh, I just noticed that part of it is not the right colour (silly me), so I’ll fix that tomorrow. Esgalwen, too, is usually in red, but she also likes blue and green. …Marteth looks like his eyes are crossed. I better fix that. And maybe I’d better recolour Jalril’s tunic so it doesn’t look like part of his skin.

Y’know, the more I look at this picture, the more I like it. Is that bad?

Christmas dinner was great. The turkey was extra good this year. The sweet potatoes were mashed, instead of sliced in chunks as we normally have them, and they tasted like pumpkin pie. I have been wearing my contacts for 30 hours and my eyes are not particularly tired or strained, despite staring at screens all day. I wuvs my pillow.

Did I mention we toasted marshmallows on the fire in our fireplace? They were nommy. Om nom nom!

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