June 22, 2010

Mini Sketches

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Brightly coloured faces!

Brightly coloured faces!

And then there's Joe.
And then there’s Joe.

Mini Sketches
drawn between Sep 9, ‘09 and Mar 1, ‘10
(630)

Hi! This is a small, brightly coloured, neatly arranged sample of sketches that I accomplished at school or related to school, as these are on mini-flashcards. The blue and green ones are on Latin flashcards; the pink ones are when I decided to devote a whole pack of these to drawing - they come on a handy ring, even.

So! From the top is Flairé, asking if I’m going to put his name in Latin (Flaireus?) and then a random and really bad sketch of Fiora the pegasus knight from FE7, and then Zela, moody and broody as usual, with a list of descriptive terms on the back, which I shan’t list here as we know them already, then Rana (cover of part 2 of the Latin, with her name declined in singular), and then Tam is the cover of the random sketchies (he’s a little skinny, but I’m actually quite pleased with him!) and then a dramatic picture of Flaer (woooot luv ya buddy) and then Menad, smiling to show the dimples (a new development when I drew that) and with one of his two dogs, and then Bayn and Lyrestan to try to show the difference between them (fail), and then someone who could be Mathaning.

And then Joe the elf. Oh my.

I built my dream house in Sims3! There are no musical instruments besides the guitar, and I want to put an organ in, so I just put the biggest sound system they had and called it even. But you should see my brother’s ridiculous house. It’s… ridiculous. It’s five stories and he lives alone. The first floor and a half are all that are furnished at the moment. The bottom floor is for parties. So there’s a kitchen big enough to feed an army (appropriate, considering the guy is in the military). The cabinets cost a ridiculous amount alone. And he lives upstairs with his cheapo furniture scattered haphazardly across the unfinished space. He works one day a week as an astronaut and then paints the rest of the time.

I LOVE ORGAN in case you didn’t receive that sentiment yet. I had a lesson yesterday, and although the Duruflé sounded like crap the ending was pretty glorious crap. FULL ORGAN. Wow, I get an adrenaline rush just thinking about it. Also, the Alix Goolden organ has a working console. AWESOME.

I use too many caps.

June 10, 2010

Joe the Elf and company

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Filed under: Pencil, Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , — Illinia @ 9:25 am
BOBBLEHEADS?
BOBBLEHEADS?

Joe the Elf and company
drawn Feb 28, ‘10
(623)
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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Filed under: Pencil, Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 11:09 am
Hey! Your hair is longer than mine! <3

Hey! Your hair is longer than mine! <3

Joe meets Sam

drawn Feb 28, ‘10

(622)

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.

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