Hrulash and Garekhen
painted Aug 27, ’11
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Quickie picture of Hrulash and his dragon buddy Garekhen for the Wayrift Dragonrider contest.
In the Adhemlenei, Hrulash is Tseo’s buddy, and the second-in-command of the Royal Guard; he is not that great at combat, actually, but he is the best knight for paperwork ever. But he is rather uptight and impatient, exceedingly serious, demanding of his underlings, and possessed of a good enough tactical skill that people can’t say he only got his position by being friends with Tseo. Garekhen, the dragon, is also quite serious and focussed on doing things the right way, but finds an enormous simple pleasure in flying with his friend.
I kinda slopped this together in a couple hours. That’s why the anatomy is a complete fail, even though I did try, at least with Hrulash… A few things: Garekhen has lion-like paws and no back-spikes. So with the horns and the lack of fins, he looks quite different from Hoarwilk, the other golden dragon we’ve met so far.
Hrulash’s name means Riverwave, and Garekhen is a dragon-name so the kalmaei don’t know what it means.
My room is a shambles. I have too many things that I absolutely must bring. Like hairdryers and stuff. And shoes. Why do girls need so many shoes? I’m teetering on the edge of terror (‘omg new place totally strange what if something goes wrong what do I doooooo?’) and excitement (‘wheee gonna go somewhere and do stuff and it’s gonna be great!’). The waves are getting closer together. They’ll be blended by Monday and then I’ll be a total spazz. Agh.
Had a mini-chorus party tonight! It actually works better when I just sing and not play piano, surprisingly enough. Would have though I’d remember that from all the rehearsing we did. We sang bits of Alex Nevsky, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse, Cherubini’s Requiem, the first eight bars of Dixit Dominus, etc.
Apparently Force Unleashed 2 is better than the first one. Although – a clone? Really? That’s the best lame resurrection plot device you can come up with? And what’s with all these convenient Jedi-in-hiding? (I think one reason why I like Mike Stackpole’s stories is that Jedi never actually get involved. Like the X-wing comic with the ‘ghost Jedi’. It was actually a hologram. Perfectly believable; the Empire couldn’t erase everyone’s memories, so some people still look up to them, but except for Luke and his fledgling Academy, there aren’t convenient Jedi popping up anywhere. Which is how it should be.)
Today’s picture is of a dragon. This is Christina, whose name was somehow got convoluted into (sings) “Christina the Teenage Dragon” (tune of Rudoph). I have no idea why. She seems to be designed based on a Lego dragon, and I think she looks pretty cool. She was a scatterbrained minor character while we were ‘roleplaying’ – we didn’t call it that, but that’s what we were doing. I drew an extra tail design for her. She’s also a green dragon, which brings the Lego element even more into the picture, although now I call them emeralds, along with scarlet, gold, silver, and marine dragons… those last would be blue, but I can’t think of a ‘better’ name for them. Anyway, that was just brainstormed a couple of days ago. Zela’s dragon-friend is silver, I know that.
