Here are two presents which I painted for other people! There are three more presents waiting to be given, so you won’t get to see them until next week. : D
First! For Aja of True Magic the webcomic, Gauth Schönen!
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Appropriately enough, I was in the middle of my Tsubasa binge, so I decided to make him as over-the-top Japanese-y pretty bishie as I could. Which is not very much, but it’s more than usual. I also tried out a new technique – using the regular brush on partial opacity. Other people use this to great effect and I’d like to get better at it. I actually really like this picture. : )
Second, for Aywren and Syntyche of Wayrift webcomic, Aur, from Dreigiau! In three versions!
1 – regular colour, from the pencil sketch (but redoing the arm to be more dynamic ; )
2 – experimenting with shadow and highlight layers set on ‘soft light’, which looked cool on their own
3 – and the final, in which I stole a picture of a lion off the internet (actually, from a page with a really cute story)
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Eheheh… I kinda went all out. Except the background is a little whatever. Anyway. Aur is my favourite character, I think. ^_^7 I was meaning to colour this for a while, but didn’t get the time until recently.
Me? What was I given?
Well, I now have a framed and autographed (pretty sure!) picture of Andy Schleck. (so sexyyyyyy… <3 ) And a discarded SaxoBank foodbag from the Tourmalet this year. (which stage I still have not watched… that’s the stage Ryder came in 4th, isn’t it?) Luuuuvvvvvvvv…
I was also given Don Quixote and Dante’s Divine Comedy, and a music psychology book, and a camera, and a LBS (La Bottine Souriante) CD, among other things… presents we are going to share include the COMPLETE Jeremy Brett=Sherlock Holmes series, including the movies, and The Day the Universe Changed on DVD, and Fantasia/2000. I think we have enough books and movies and games to last a while. Oh, and a fabulous organ CD that opens with a Langlais piece that just makes me glee with power and excitement. : D
But I’m going back to bed because I was hired at the last minute to play for a midnight service at a church, so I’m still beat.
Merry Christmas and custard.
) and I was thinking really hard about the voices – Ben’s ‘deep warm golden’ voice, Kip’s ‘now, now…’ Cecil’s heroic tenor, Kain’s deep snarky voice, Edge’s irritable baritone, the huge differences between Pren/Joran/Rosa/Rydia, and… Chase. He’s just a little kid. But if you look between the cracks, he’s recovering more and more subconscious awareness of who he used to be (AAAUUUUURRRR 
) or else the author uses him to fill plot holes – JUST KIDDING, AYWREN! Anyway, so I am a big ChAur fan and any excuse is good enough to try and draw him. He’s a lion-bishie! X D
