September 3, 2009

Anne dance

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Filed under: 4. Fire Emblem fanworks,Fire Emblem 9/10,Pencil,Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 10:28 am

 

"Squee!" said the ghost.

"Squee!" said the ghost.

Anne dance

drawn Aug 20, 2008

posted Sep 3, 2009

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anneicon So… this was drawn after I was walking down the sidewalk and I felt really really happy, so happy that if Anne my hawk laguz shapeshifter were there, she would be dancing and singing just like that. You can see she’s slightly transparent.

Happy!

I finished my Zela costume waterbottle holder bag in four hours yesterday (what a pain – I kept not having enough material, which meant more and more seams…) and the pouch/satchel/lunchbox in another four with breaks in the middle. Man, I don’t like buttonholes. I made two! And I need to make one more, so the pouch isn’t actually finished yet. The attaching straps turned out a little low. I should add something to strengthen the back so it stays box-shaped even when there’s no box in it. I also shortened the gauntlets, which means I can now play piano in them! Yaaay! Also wrote the outline of Chapter 9 of TTatJ, which I finished this morning, so I’m glad there was no salsa this week so I could get all my other things done. Today I shall lengthen the skirt of the tunic and then that will be all for this week. If I make a mini-pouch or embroider anything that will come later.

Tomorrow and for the next three days after that I will begin posting Ephraim’s Story because there are pictures to go in some of them. I sooooo need to finish playing and writing that. There are only a couple pictures, but most of them don’t have chapters written for them yet so I will do that. Maybe I can stop halfway through and continue when the Ephraim bug next hits me.

My brother liked the way this story started, as it seemed more actiony. It was also a little more sensical than Eirika’s Story. It will definitely be more sensical now, because I’m older and know more. And better. Though not better enough to not write it in the first place! : ) Not sure how many chapters there will be… hang on. About ten, making it the shortest full-game story I’ll ever write, excepting Mask of Darkness to the Island of Dreams, which covers two games in seven (long) chapters. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

One of the downstairs computer monitors died its last death, so we put the other one on Dad’s computer and we’re ordering a new monitor for the Shared Computer. Dad’s computer is so old it can’t take a flat-screen monitor. Which is really cool, in a way. New monitor should be here next week.

Found a new webcomic called Wayrift. Kind of cool; very anime-styled, but that’s all right. Long-haired prettyboys all over.

This weekend, after work and piano, my brother and I are planning to build a bunch of Warhammer terrain and find a place for it other than nooks and crannies in the hobby room. We have one river piece (will build two or three more); two hills, and a small tower. Onwards!

August 31, 2009

Esgalwen: Caribbean Blue

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Filed under: 2. Middle Earth fanworks,Esgalwen,Pencil — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:38 am
So all the world goes round and round/with all you ever knew...

So all the world goes round and round/with all you ever knew...

Esgalwen: Caribbean Blue

drawn Aug 14, 2008

posted Aug 31, 2009

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linkhomeicon Esgalwen! Small, quite anime-faced, but very cute all the same. Slim, with long black hair, and a playful glance back, this is how her husband first saw her, dancing at one of those famous parties in Mirkwood once. Though I don’t think she looked quite this young. Anyway. No shoes! Oh yeah, and she’s dancing to the Enya song Carribean Blue which is very dancable. It’s in 3/4.

So I’m happy with this picture. Yay!

Yesterday one of the girls at work gave me four cinnamon buns (I asked for them) and she wrapped them all in different coloured paper. I guess she was as bored as I was. Still, I appreciate it!

My brother is reorganizing his room. Fall cleaning and all that. ‘s gonna be fantastic for him. Me, I don’t bother going in there. That’s his territory. Now if only he realized that about my room…

If you check back at midnight something vaguely exciting will happen.

Onwards!

August 24, 2009

Marquez Danzon #2

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Flairé,Pencil — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 10:06 am
Don't ever let your feet stop moving, and lilt like you mean it!

Don't ever let your feet stop moving, and lilt like you mean it!

Marquez Danzon #2

drawn May 14, 2008

posted Aug 24, 2009

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kentsainhorsesicon This picture was inspired by the ever-popular Danzon #2 by a certain composer named Marquez. It is fantastic and should be danced to the world over. It’s so fabulous Flairé and Flaria danced to it and I tried to draw their halting, lilting, sometimes (in Flairé’s case, anyway,) twitchy dance movements or, as here, gliding, lilting, whirling, intricate dance movements. In their style of dance, there is a lot of expression with the shoulders as well as the hips and feet. There is more I could say, but I’d need a lot more room. A lot more room while I hash out different ideas and try to get down what I think about various different styles. Like they have certain leg extensions like in ballet, but they dance in circles that appear heavily choreographed (there’s no caller, and it just weaves in and out and spirals like crazy), or they dance in couples, and in that, both genders lead for different parts, and there’s a lot that resembles acrobatics (like helping your partner up so s/he can do a flip over your head and stuff like that) and then there’s single dancing, which has even more acrobatics like standing on one hand and handsprings and wild spins. Though that’s more for the fast ones. The slow ones sometimes you’re lucky to catch anyone moving. Well, not quite, but they do move awfully slowly. They move less acrobatically and with more focus on beautiful positions and reaching with their long limbs.

In this picture, they’re doing a sort of lilting, exaggerated moon-walk, mirroring each other. Although that makes me think of Leahy’s The French, which is one of Flairé’s more favourite lilty dances. Whoo.

That video is great, by the way. Gustavo Dudamel is just surrounded by a SEA of strings. And that’s not even counting the ranks of winds and brass and the percussion team! I first heard it played by the UVic orchestra, and that’s where I fell in love with it.

I overused the word ‘lilt’ today, didn’t I?

I need to dance more. I’m a blob. Ick.

I’m not very good at keeping suspense up to a climax, I don’t think. We’ll see. Half-done the first half of the first battle in Chapter 7. Very actiony chapter. Needs more plot. Hmmm. …And I forgot what else I was going to say. Oh! Yesterday I drew some Eliwood/Ninian fanart. First I’ve done of either of them in a long long time. Drawn to the tune of ‘Stars and Midnight Blue’ from Enya’s ‘And Winter Came’ CD. I think it would look gorgeous coloured in an iridescent, shiny, glossy fashion. I’d go look for an example, but then I would get stuck looking at pictures on DeviantArt and I’d never get anything done.

Four more days of work!

May 6, 2008

Howl and Sophie dancing

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Filed under: Japanese franchise fanart,Pencil — Tags: , , , — Illinia @ 9:16 am
Waltzing through the air

Waltzing through the air

Howl and Sophie dancing
drawn Jan 21, ’07
posted May 6, 2008
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zeladrumdanceicon

Sorry for the long wait! I am back now, and I’ll update more frequently than once every two months now.

Today’s picture is of Howl and Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle. I think this picture came out well; it feels more than two-dimensional. Of course, his face is completely off.

I thought I had a lot to say, but I don’t really… over the past two months, I failed to get into either a Performance major or a Composition major, I played well enough in Festival, I recorded my concerto, I obtained recordings of both Chorus concerts this year, I discovered Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Star Trek The Next Generation, and Bruce Lee, and I just picked 14 inchworms off of my little brother who went running down at the golf course. I also discovered that I don’t know where a certain file is, of a card I drew in November and scanned because even though I found it slightly embarrassing, I like to keep records of all my pictures. I’m also wavering between completely on top of things and so far sunk that I have no idea how to start recovering.

March 5, 2008

Flairé Dancing

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Coloured Media,Flairé — Tags: , — Illinia @ 9:51 pm

diddlediddlebopbop

diddlediddlebopbop


Flairé dancing
drawn Jan 2, ’07
posted Mar 5, 2008
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flaericonMore marker! Flairé finds this a typical position, I think. That’s actually a pretty small drum, really… Ooh, and he has his whistle-flute!

Hmm, not much to say today, except that I might have a new summer project. I’m not giving away much now, but suffice to say that I find it funny. Oh, and it has robotic frogs.

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