This is Andy. Also me. (drew this today as my new social borg site picture for the duration of le Tour) (I’m not sure where the picture is from because I saved it randomly off the internet a year ago)
July 14, 2010
June 10, 2010
Joe the Elf and company
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- BOBBLEHEADS?
Joe the Elf and company
drawn Feb 28, ‘10
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Ahahaha, I like these guys. On the top left! We have Joe the Elf, looking waaaay too over-excited as usual. Next to him is his buddy/bunkmate/roommate/fellow soldier Doug, who is actually much too smart for Joe and beats on him verbally a lot, and who was resurrected by Sam at some point in the past. Next on the right is Steve, the cheerful Tiranoc Chariot driver who joins the team and is basically the group’s transportation. On the bottom left is Sam, the lovely lady mage who gives Joe a reason to show off. And last is Hercules, who is not an elf, but he’s so tough he doesn’t care.
Hercules was inspired by a five-minute MST3K clip on YouTube of the movie of the same name. Hercules basically is da tuff guy, and in this little roleplay, his primary role is to punch Joe. In the head. Repeatedly. He gets killed by a random ballista in an orchard, and then his ghost comes back and bothers Joe.
All these people are from a random Warhammer-themed roleplay my brother and I did. To read part of the plot, go to the previous picture (which is in a more ’serious’ style, for irony).
I think the art style of this was partly inspired by the angel webcomic Paradis, with its oversized eyes and wacky eyebrows.
Dentist appointment! (runs)
Oh yeah, and plug to my friend Alex with his MySpace page. I haven’t listened to his music yet, but he writes strange and interesting things, so go take a look!
June 9, 2010
Joe and Sam
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Hey! Your hair is longer than mine! <3
Joe meets Sam
drawn Feb 28, ‘10
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Who are these crazy people? I’ll tell you. The guy on the right is Joe the Elf, a Warhammer High Elf who is highly emotional, crazy spastic, and amazingly good at combat even though he’s still only at picture books despite being an adult. The girl on the left is his true love, Sam (Samantha), a very powerful magegirl who is sweet and intelligent and calm(er).
Once upon a time, Joe was stationed at a fort on the sea. Some orcs attacked! Joe lost his captain, whom he called Boss (but his captain gave him all his stuff like his magic sword with his dying breath) and also his bunkmate Doug, and his captain, with his other dying breath, charged him to go to the capital and warn the king. Joe ran through the woods, meeting a Tiranoc chariot driver named Steve (nice elvish names, hey?) who drove him to the next town on the way, a big huge useless gate. There he met Hercules in the inn, but he ran away (Joe, that is) after he got punched in the face. To this day, Joe still whimpers and hides when anyone mentions Hercules. Then he wandered around until he met Sam and convinced her to join the party.
Yay?
Joe has ridiculously long (like, Sephiroth-long) blonde hair. You’ll be seeing him at least once more, so stay tuned.
Boo. I hate Philosophy of Ethics. Discussing ‘what makes it right to do such-and-such?’ Why can’t people just do it? We watched ‘Crimes and Misdemeanours’ yesterday, and that’s is a movie, and it made me frustrated to tears to think that there are real live people who do those things every day. (also the woman should have gone with the desperate balding guy - he was the only guy I could even begin to connect with, besides the young girl. I will admit he seemed a little too desperate, and really rather negative in general, but he is also adorably awkward)
Sooo… why is it I find it so easy to do the ‘right thing’ more or less? Why is it I’d never even consider half the (morally wrong but widespread) things that so many people seem to want to do? Is it the usual upbringing+nature+seclusion that people usually cite? Why do other people seem to ignore the possibility of consequences? Everyone is naturally selfish, because our own selves are readily apparent but other minds are not, but… why do some people act the way they do? Are they completely blind?
The personification of my conscience is very good at reminding me of consequences, and I’m very grateful to him/her/it, and I’m perfectly happy with the life I have. lulz.
March 27, 2010
BABY BUNNIES!!!!1!
...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!!
February 10, 2010
Recital Poster 2010
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Well, it’s not the exact same as I had in my head (maybe I should have gone with the first sketch after all) but it is finished and hopefully it is recognizable in some small way.
I must run or else I will be late for Ling. Which would be terrible because Ling is so cool. D :
(Much later, after Ling and Lat and teaching) I want to draw a picture of a Nintendo-character orchestra performing Mozart’s Requiem. That would be fantastic.
Ahem. Abou the picture - well, I fixed the Op. number on the Beethoven and added a date so people know when to actually show up. : P I don’t think it really looks like me. Except that it does bear a frightening resemblance.
Mom says that it looks like me… except elf-y-er. (X-man says that it looks rather “Faerie tale”, which I suppose is the same thing) So… if all my elf drawings look vaguely like me, and I draw myself vaguely like my elves… well, firstly that means I have a lot of practice drawing my elves. But what else does it mean? (tries not to overthink this. … … …)