Pent 2
drawn May 30, ’11
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Oops, my bad. This one came before yesterday’s. But anyway, you notice the different style. This one is much more anime-flavoured, while the other one has some attempts at vague realism. Also, I failed at this one.
Man, how long has it been since I used the Fire Emblem category?
Let’s do more. : D
But wait! Secret project – and cyclists – first.
Pent
drawn May 30, ’11
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Iiiiiit’s Pent! Drawn back when I was kind of obsessing over trying to put him in Sims3. Still haven’t managed it to my satisfaction, not that I’ve done any work on that whatsoever since the Tour started.
I think I had things to say, but I have forgotten them. Well, I finished re-reading LotR, and y’know, last time, I really noticed how funny Tolkien is. He is hilarious. This time… I got a lot more of the sense of the incredible sadness… and a loooot of high language. Man. Talk about character-stripping. By the time the coronation rolls around, there are so many characters that used to have, well, character! And then they all start talking the same. And I wonder – you know, it talks about how Merry and Pippin were chilling in Minas Tirith, and then Legolas and Gimli roll up and they apparently do a lot of talking and laughing and being buddies, and I wonder – what did they talk about? It’s not important to the epic as a whole, but there’s an opportunity to see these people in ‘normal’ circumstances.
But the Scouring of the Shire is awesome. They come home, notice things aren’t right, and seize the initiative! Pippin goes all Gondor-knightly on some bully, and then Merry is like “lol, these guys have noooo clue about tactics!” and you know, they used to be ordinary hobbits, running terrified from Black Riders. Well, they’d still probably run from Black Riders. But you know what I mean. But now they have absorbed (by osmosis, you know) some of the bad@$$ery of the people they’d been travelling with, and of course hanging out with armies for months, you’re gonna learn something about tactics. So poof! they become great heroes at home as well as abroad. Get a chance to show what they’ve learned in the setting that fits them best. And I still cry at the end when Frodo goes away…
Also I’ve seen a lot of FE10 fanart recently. Maybe I should get on that, since it seems to get better, maybe, as it goes on. (But the first 13 chapters are soooo inane!!! >:O )
The Farseer
drawn Aug 17, ’09
posted Nov 17, ’09
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This picture can be found in the story chapter below, and is the last of the illustrations for the Pent story to date. I rather like this one; I had no reference for Pent but he came out rather well. This was the second picture I drew, so it’s a little out of order. In this picture, Ceniro is receiving a magical device designed to help him plot strategy. It’s like a GPS, sort of. I’m rather proud of the wilted flower by the waterbarrel. The stick thing that Pent has is his heal staff.
I’m listening to the Alain Litanies again… I borrowed the music from the UVic library today, so I should be able to start learning it in December after classes end! It’s exciting, but the quote at the beginning is rather sad. Of course, I can’t speak French terribly well, so I probably have it wrong. It reads: “Quand l’âme chrétienne ne trouve plus de mots nouveaux dans la détresse pour implorer la miséricorde de Dieu, elle répète sans cesse la même invocation avec une foi véhémente. La raison atteint sa limite. Seule la foi poursuit son ascension.”
In other news, the Liszt is going well, and I think I’m going to write about Mendelssohn and Folksong in my paper that’s due next Wednesday. Hooray! And I need to get working again on NNWM because I’m only 5000 words ahead now. And I have chorus testing tomorrow. Gah! There’s so much to be done at once! What am I doing here? Oh, it’s suppertime anyway. Goodbye! (runs)
Rekka no Ken Vol.2 Cover
drawn Aug 27 ’09
posted Oct 29, ’09
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Woot! This is my big dramatic cover for The Tactician and the Jewel, showing Ceniro valiantly vaulting over a rock, and his employer about to kick big fiery butt over on the right. And, of course, all the minor Player Characters around him with their names attached so I don’t forget who is who. A few of them you might know, if I drew them in greater detail! Some of my friends have already seen this. Apparently they like the horses. This is flattering.
…Actually you might know all of the PCs if I drew them in greater detail and you knew what my inspirations were. I’m only missing a couple of guys, like the shaman. He’s not at the part of the story this scene is from, which is a generic battle scene somewhere between chapters 4 and 5, I think?
Erk and Ceniro reunite
drawn Aug 10, ’09
posted Oct 29, ’09
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This was actually the first image I did for this story. I just had a very clear image what Ceniro and Erk would look like in this scene, and what their surroundings would look like. I even tried perspective. This is still a big deal for me, even after all these years. Ceniro looks really good, and Erk is not unrecognizable, I think. The random lords and ladies in the back are random. Yay!
Someday I’ll colour all the images to go in this story. But not now. I have complete awe for those people who manage to churn out multiple gorgeous colour pages a week with seemingly little effort. This isn’t a webcomic, don’t get me wrong. (Though it will end up as a playable FE7 fanmade RPG if I get my hands on enough time to mess around with that Sphere stuff, and it might be awesome as a webcomic in my opinion) But these random pictures would be so much better in colour. Oh well. I guess I’d better get a tablet.
As for the story itself, this is my account of what happened to my tactician during the gap between the two halves of the game. And it gives me a chance to hang out with Pent, who is super cool. And Louise. Together they probably make the best married couple in videogame history. What do you think? Anyway, this plot is all highly original and I’m very proud of the first half. This chapter probably seems a bit long. But I was enjoying myself. I did a lot of research into FE6 to find suitable villains and minor characters from Etruria to round out this story. I mean, there’s not a lot on Etruria in FE7! So I scraped together what I could. There’ll even be some cameos from vaguely important people besides Douglas. Huzzah!
Oh, and ROFL. Epic win for Hallowe’en. Epic win, ma’am.
Speaking of which, I need buttons.
I'm the Mage General of Etruria, and my wife is a pretty hot archer
Pent and Louise
drawn Apr 30, Louise finished May 13, ’06
posted for Aug 30, 2007
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I decided to draw this picture for the sole reason that Pent and Louise from Fire Emblem 7 make a very good looking couple, and are obviously completely devoted to each other. I’d guess that Pent is about 30, and Louise is maybe 25 (so that means according to my reckoning, they’ve been married about 11 years). Anyway, celeb gossip aside (Pent is the Mage General of Etruria) I used both sprites and official artwork for reference, and that didn’t help me with Louise because the only artwork I could find was a tiny little image about 150 by 300 pixels or so. So, her clothing and especially hair are not nearly as good as they could be, and I tried several times. Pent came out pretty good first try. I’m fascinated by the fact that his son, Klein, looks EXACTLY like him except with shorter, blonde hair.
Take a look:
Klein:
Pent (and Louise):
The happy parents
The Klein sprite is from Fire Emblem Planet, way back when, and the Pent and Louise sprites are from a compiled sprite image from a website called The Spriter’s Resource. Hooray for resources.
EDIT: I seem to have lost the Fire Emblem Planet Klein picture, so this one is from Fire Emblem Blog.
One of my new resources is my Student ID card. The photo’s not as terrible looking as I thought it was.
Without video games to resort to, my brother is an irritable pest today.
My room is a pretty colour. Huzzah.
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