September 27, 2009

Doodles Year 2 Part 3

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Well, we’ll see how many I get done today. This should be the last of it, covering the scribbles in the last bit of Music History and all my Linguistics. Just one term of Ling because I had theory during second term at the same time.

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Esgalwen, ‘maid of Mirkwood’, MH, Feb 6 ’08. Not bad, actually. Also someone’s head. No one in particular.

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Warning! Picture has nekkid lady! About the only nekkid lady I ever drew! Click for full image. Okay, now this one has a strange story that I wasn’t going to tell you yet but I will. MH, Feb 10, ’09. Once upon a time, Flairé had a friend from the Dragon-lands that he suddenly found out one day that, to his shock, she was in love with him. Enough to forego modesty and pin him against a wall. I think he dropped like an eel to escape and ran around the room in circles before jumping up to perch on an arch near the ceiling, and because she was a weaver, not a dancer/acrobat/warrior, she couldn’t follow him. They… stopped being friends, though he did save her life shortly afterwards from something monstrous. Apologies to all who are offended by this picture.

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A tiny scribble of dancing maids, same class.

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First attemped portrait of Jalril ‘Mui-id’, MH, Feb 24 ’09.

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Flairé, looking rather smug. Or something. MH, Feb 27, ’09.

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And again, same class. Hmm, I didn’t have to take many notes that day. (Note: drawing often helps me listen better somehow. Sometimes. Not always. In History it always seemed to. Does not help with listening to younger brothers.)

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Braden, shortly after he had an ad placed on Shaw TV about playing the Mozart D- Piano Concerto. It was pretty cool, and Stephen Brown said lots of nice things about him. And Mozart/Haydn. I didn’t manage to get to the concert with the concerto, but I did get to his solo recital, and it was good. And L was with me, which made it even better.

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Flairé fanservice! He looks happy, but he’s not. Don’t let appearences fool you! MH, Mar 10, ’09. …I just like drawing manly shoulders and chests under very pretty faces. (Flairé: *sob*)

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I’m not sure whether I was dating this guy or not at this point, but I certainly had a crush on him. So he gets a floral background. MH, Mar 13, ’09.

MH class, Mar 17, ’09: L wrote on the edge of my notebook: “Bolshevik Revolution – B.S. Revolution?” I replied: “yeah, pretty much”. Such political wit. : P

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Flairé, looking grim, MH, Mar 17, ’09.

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Flairé, again looking grim, even positively alien here. MH, Mar 20, ’09

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Esgalwen again. MH, Mar 27, ’09.

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SUPER TOMATO MAN THING!!! Drawn by… oh dear. I’m ashamed to say I forget. I think it was AlexR. Anyway, I love it. Same class.

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Faces, MH, Mar 31, ’09. Link, with built shoulders, Some human girl I don’t know, and then Flairé, again looking weird.

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Flairé, MH, Apr 1, ’09. Class began with a short biography of Dee Snider. LOL APRIL FOOL’S. Though I don’t know who Dee Snider is or who he turned into. Anyway, this is a lovely shot of Flairé, I think. Also a swirly thing with a shadow.

And now, Linguistics sketches!!

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 Flairé for teh pickel shurt, Ling, Sep 5 ’08.

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Someone’s face, partly. Sep 9, ’08.

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Youngish Flairé, pouting, and some incredibly long hair, Oct 1, ’08. Also a rather haunting face that was the result of a failed sketch so I scribbled it out.

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Chibi Flairé heads illustrating my tiredness in class: SO CUTE!!! *stare* *WHUD* *zzzzzzzzz…*

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Some guy, Oct 15 ’08. Apparently Woody Allen once said “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.” Which has nothing to do with the picture, it’s just funny.

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Glorfindel, I think. Oct 17, ’08.

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A cool looking guy, I think. Oct 22, ’08. A bit squished but great hair.

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Ummm… not sure who this is. Bayn? Lyrestan? Gyoriing? Oct 24, ’08.

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Sad elf, also not sure who. Oct 28, ’08.

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Random elf, and Rana looking very happy, Oct 29, ’08. And Link on the reverse side of same sheet, same class. You can see both of them!

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I believe this is MichaelG but I could be wrong. That’s his sweater, though. Nov 4, ’08.

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Flairé, MichaelG, Kylyraless not very good. What happened to Flairé? “I got prettier”, he said. XP Nov 18, ’08.

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Flairé, Nov 6 ’08. Also Kalmaeiring phonemic minimal pairs: f and ff (ff is pronounce bilabially instead of with the upper teeth touching the lips), sh/hc (hc is like ch in Bach but much more air and less consonant). A minimal pair is when you have two similar sounds that, when used in otherwise-identical words, change the meaning. Like ‘same’ and ‘shame’, or ‘same’ and ‘sane’. Or ‘fwei’ and ‘ffwei’. (‘love’ and ‘angel’)

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Flairé pointing with his sword (through a verb construction matrix). His other hand is on his hip but it wasn’t done very well. Oh well. Actually it looks like his hair parts on the side. Oh well again. Nov 18, ’08

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A leaf, in a discussion of connotation vs. denotation. Nov 25, ’08.

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Flairé AND MichaelG, this time. Still trying to find out if they look similar or not. Nov 28, ’08. Dang it, guys! Either look more like each other or less like each other! …Flairé’s prettier.

 

Then, at the very back of this book, comes my kalmaeirin piece Yale sha Milihcin (Song of Innocence), discussions on kalmaeirin music, music notation, and a rough draft of the first section of the score-scroll for the Yale sha Milihcin.

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Not sure who this is; could be Flaria. No date.

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“What good is singing yourself into tranquillity and then dancing yourself into estacy?” demands Flairé, attempting to explain why it is rare to have a slow song and fast dance together in the popular song/dance form. “I said that!” he said proudly, pointing to it, after I wrote it down. “Good fer you…” I replied sarcastially.

 

DONE! It only took me all day! Good thing I didn’t have anything else to do. Though three hour long naps on Sunday are great. :)

You now have Zela’s bio up in the Characters page! I like doing these bios. They’re fun. Flairé’s is coming shortly.

The stupidest spam message ever: “Thanks because of sharing. The battle-cry on the at one waffle is genocide me.” It’s exactly the same as another spam message I got once, except the first one was in plain English.

September 23, 2009

Doodles, year 2, part 1

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MASSIVE picture upload today. In fact, this is just the first part. Just my Theory/Composition book. More tomorrow.

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A girl’s hair, Theory class, Sep 18, ’08. She was sitting in front of me and it looked nice.

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Nieron Lyrestan sha Lilemlen, Theory class, Sep 29, 2008. Not a good representation of Lyrestan.

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Wet Flairé, Theory class, Sep 29, 2008. A pretty decent representation of a wet Flairé.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Here’s the not-so-good version, done the day before.

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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

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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.

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Cranky half-dressed Flairé, Theory class, Nov 3, 2008. I dunno. Man-practice. (Flairé: *facepalms*) With three different left hands.

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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.

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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.

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Link, Theory class, Nov 24, 2008. Check out those shoulders.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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???, Theory class, Jan 5, 2009. This year! Flairé is sleeping, and then… somebody’s eye. I dunno.

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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.

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Bodies, Composition class, Jan 8, 2009. Just some figures.

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“Can’t draw today”, Theory class, Jan 15, 2009. I don’t know who any of these people are.

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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.

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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.

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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? :)

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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.”

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Heads, Theory class, Mar 5, 2009. Flairé, soldier-boy, Rana, Link, and Flaer. Soldier-boy is a fellow student…

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I don’t know who, Theory class, Mar 16, 2009.

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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.

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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.

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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

September 5, 2007

Glorfindel Stands Watch

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Filed under: 2. Middle Earth fanworks,Glorfindel,Pencil — Tags: , , , , , — Illinia @ 10:21 am

Shiny in the moonlight of Middle-Earth

Shiny in the moonlight of Middle-Earth


Glorfindel Stands Watch
drawn May 13, ’06
posted for Sep 5, 2007
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firetempleavatarGlorfindel, badly shaded, and everyone else, badly drawn, and a background, badly filled in. Whoohoo. Does it look like he’s glowing? I don’t think so. But I guess subtlety is good there because I don’t think he’s supposed to be neon, for example. Just lighter than he ought to be. It didn’t come out.

The picture is of the time during the flight to Rivendell, after they met Glorfindel. I think the closest hobbit is Merry but I’m not sure. There’s a pony, too.

Okay, I survived my first day. Guess what: there are two guys named Michael with black hair in at least two of my courses. Nice to talk to. The other Michael I know has brown hair and is at Camosen. UVic is a little confusing at first. It was misty when I started out – 7:45 AM. Hungry by 11:00. Linguistics was GREAT even though we didn’t formally get started yet but if I want to skip Year 1 Music Theory, I will have to drop it because Year 2 Theory is at the same time. And then I’ll have to find another course to fill in the credits. Blah.

I got enough stuff out of the living room to vacuum and to wipe the coffeetable, but there’s stuff on other smaller tables and I discovered my shoeboxes and poster tubes are still in the front closet. And my room is still awfully messy, with at least two piles of stuff still to sort and half a table of knicknacks that have no current home. After my piano practice, and perhaps a FourSwords session with my brother, I get some more done. I finished my homework for today. Easily.

September 1, 2007

Glorfindel, shaded, again

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Filed under: 2. Middle Earth fanworks,Glorfindel,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 10:13 am

Is there something over there, like a Nazgul or anything?

Is there something over there, like a Nazgul or anything?


Glorfindel, shaded, again
drawn May 10, ’06
posted for Sep 1, 2007
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watermonstericonGlorfindel returns. With bad shading… I was trying to recreate my oddly successful picture here, just with the face looking more like Glorfindel. Well, he looks more like Glorfindel… in anime land. Blah. And the shading looks like he got his face dirty. But, this picture marks the point where I first began to be interested in clothes as a part of a picture!

I began writing an ‘essay’ on the biological make-up of the Kalma’ei. I’ve just gotten to enzymes. I will be referring to the (slightly gruesome) note I made on this site here.

I just realized that Glorfindel’s gallery doesn’t have his minis in it (gasp). This shall be fixed… in a while. It’s not really urgent, is it?

My room is very nice looking. Tomorrow it will have stuff in it again.

July 14, 2007

Glorfindel, shaded

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Filed under: 2. Middle Earth fanworks,Glorfindel,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 11:35 pm

Where's the hobbit?

Where's the hobbit?


Glorfindel, shaded
drawn Jan 1, ’06
posted for July 14, 2007
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ravenandcoiconAnd, of course, Glorfindel follows Legolas. It seems like they have a partnership or a deal or something. Except this doesn’t really look like Glorfindel, but it’s supposed to be him. Huh.

Randomosity: “Why do Canadians say Eh?”
“Because it’s better than Huh!”

Different context, though. That was on a T-shirt I saw yesterday. Mom took me shopping and we bought me two pairs of shoes. One is a super pair of sandals – Chaco brand. I kept thinking that they just need to add a ‘bo’ to the end and then they’ll have all the Final Fantasy fans buying them or something. I hardly know what a chocobo is, though – I only just found out that Final Fantasy is ‘sorta kinda like Fire Emblem’. I think a chocobo is a sort of yellow ostrich.

Um, this isn’t about the picture anymore… so, I was going to draw Glorfindel with Frodo in his arms, but Frodo didn’t co-operate. I also tried to exaggerate the shading, and I think that helped somewhat. This was another turning point in my drawing. I still don’t know how to draw ears. When I figure that out, that will be the next turning point. The turning point after that will be when I figure out how to draw hands. So far I have probably one pair that I’m really happy with. However, I’m proud of the way the hair turned out in this picture. It’s great. The rest of this picture is dumb, but the hair is not.

Oh, and I bought Tsubasa Vol. 11 because they didn’t have Vol. 9. That’s okay, though, because Vol. 11 finally has Piffle World in it!

Okay, now I know exactly how the end of Link’s Awakening goes, but I don’t think I have enough material to make a consistant-length chapter. You might have to settle for an epilogue-y climax.

I went to The Hylia this morning and clicked on the Big Band Live soundtrack, and I never knew the Shop Theme was so cool! It’s fabulous big band style. Also there’s a rollicking cool version of the Zeldafranchisetheme/HyruleFieldfromOcarinatheme medley. At least, it’s musically identical, with all the counterpoint and submelodies, but with a foot-tapping percussion section. And Epona’s Song actually has words! The Zelda Big Band Live CD can be bought (at a hefty price) at Amazon, too.

I just visited LinT, and… (swoons…)

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