August 11, 2007

Elvish Parade

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Pencil, Zela — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 11:15 pm

Ooh, they're so shiiiiiiny

Ooh, they're so shiiiiiiny


Elvish Parade
drawn Mar 26-27, ‘06
posted for Aug 11, 2007
(244)
esgalwenavatarI love this picture, even though it’s technically not finished. There should be more crowds, for one thing; that’s why the buildings on the left aren’t done. I decided that 15 was enough knights, including Flaer and Zela - for that’s who the two unhelmeted riders are. There’s so much in this picture, like several swooning girls, talking, excited riders, city, unicorns, blah blah blah… I’m afraid to touch it in case Zela’s hair gets smudged. The horses are still not great, but they are better than some, especially Yoeath, Zela’s unicorn, who was here still called Mist. Also, the armour looks actually pretty well developed, even if it’s not armour that a normal knight person would wear. It’s been skewed by Fire Emblem. Sorry.

This picture was inspired by the Dream March from Copland’s Red Pony Suite.

Well, we have about 5 seconds of Lego movie. It takes about 5 minutes to set up a shot, adjusting everybody. Man, this is gonna take forever.

Lego Star Wars II is funny.

LinT is funny.

I like funny.

Tomorrow’s picture looks like it was drawn about two years before this one, or maybe three. It’s not terribly great. Then we’ve got a ton of Fire Emblem stuff that Kevin likes or not, a brilliant Zelda picture, and then… who knows.

I want to make metal LinT minis.

June 30, 2007

Kalmaeiric Bathing Pool

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 11:00 pm

Shower time

Shower time


Kalmeiric Bathing Pool
drawn Oct 15, ‘05
posted for June 30, 2007
(212)
glorfindeliconThe waterfall here is the best and worst part of the picture… no, it’s the best part. It’s supposed to be the place where the women of the castle of the moon come to have a shower and swim and stuff. There are supposed to be trees - that’s what the things with dotted lines are supposed to be. It will be better when I do a follow up one of these years. Meh.

Looks like a spree of Zela pictures ahead.

The page before this had a wierd, ugly scribble of an eyeball, I think belonging to my brother. Not just an eyeball, really, but eyelashes and things too. But it was wierd.

Apparently there was no Games Workshop today, so my upset brother is sitting beside me, wanting me to get on with it. So I will.

April 13, 2007

Longship

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 12:59 pm
Whee!

Whee!

Longship
drawn Sep 26 ‘04
posted for Apr 13, 2007
(134)
febandiconThis picture was inspired by the Enya song Lonships, which is perhaps her loveliest or second-loveliest song. The other one is Shepherd Moons, but this one is rather thrilling. Anyway, here’s a short piece of prose describing one version of it. The names are purely random and mean nothing.

I like the kayaks.

I went to a Broadway concert last night. Gwen invited me. The first half was just different songs, sung by different people, and they did the Stepsisters’ Lament! I like that song, it’s really funny. “So why is the fellow going crazy?” They did others, funny, beautiful, whatever. The second half was a pirate play, and the old marooned pirate captain sang “I’m Reviewing the Situation”, and it was very good, all of the show. Also there was a one-legged dapperly-dressed man who didn’t want to go treasure hunting, he wanted to be “On Broadway!” so he sang a song about it, which morphed into a hip-hop dance with tap shoes. Then he was depressed because he wouldn’t get to Broadway, so his fellow pirates sang “Look on the Bright Side of Life”. I’ve never seen Life of Brian, but I know the plot because of this. Which, by the way, doesn’t usually have anything to do with Monty Python unless it’s relevant - it is the B-Movie Comic, after all.

So now I want to look up the musicals that all those songs were in and find out about the plots.

December 29, 2006

North Wall of Moon City Palace

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms), Pencil — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:49 am
Pillars of trees

Pillars of trees

North Wall of Moon City Palace
drawn about Nov 11, ‘03
posted for Dec 29, 2006
(29)

zelaavatarsm2Another Zela picture! This time, I went for setting rather than character, and this is a terrific picture. Much better than I expected.

This picture was inspired, as began to happen more and more frequently, by music: La cathedral engloutie, par Debussy. Someone I knew played it at a masterclass, and I was enthralled… so pretty……..

Anyway, so, as well as imagining a weed-draped stone structure with light filtering down from above, and water gushing out as it rises, I also imagined a great hall of glass and stone trees for pillars, and as the sun sets, it falls full on two thrones at one end (in this picture, out of sight on the right), illuminating two figures sitting there: Flar and Stria! Stria is one incarnation, at least, of Flair’s mother (remember, Flair is Zela’s husband).

Above the hall proper are five holes in the exact spot of Casseopiea at midsummer, which somehow contrives to be directly overhead. I was pretty innocent of astronomy, and just thought of the vision it would generate, rather than actual physics, so I don’t know if this is possible. The little words and the arrow pointing to the girl say ’scale figure’. My brother says he thinks it’s a good picture!

I watched Princess Mononoke yesterday, on DVD, in Japanese, and it was just as beautiful as I thought it would be. Moro, the wolf goddess, sounds almost like a man’s voice, though. San does lose a bit of ferocity with her Japanese voice in comparison with the english dub, but she sounds much more feminine and beautiful. I haven’t watched it in English since I saw the taped version Dad taped once, but I saw the very short documentary thingie that they made of the actor’s opinions, and of course they put in short clips from the movie, so I noticed that the script is different. I wonder what’s going on. I also noticed that at the end, Eboshi’s lepers are cured! I didn’t notice that before, and I think it’s because one of them gives a gasp as she looks at her healed hands. I thought the wind blew in the other direction and Ashitaka was the only one healed of his curse, but now there’s more happy endings all around. Yay.

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