June 16, 2010

Zela dance

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Pencil — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:47 am
Trying to be swirly, and has too much hair.
Trying to be swirly, and has too much hair.

Elyil Zela sha Yallakedma

drawn Mar 10, ’10

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So I gave up on yesterday’s picture and drew Zela instead. In her long dress. I’m not sure if I’m okay with it or if I hate it. It’s not very good, but then I look at it in a different way and think it’s okay. Whatever. I should do some colour art some of these days.

But today I have a Philosophy test to study for (darn confusing Ethics theories) and also lots of organ to practice, and then salsa! And then I should play some Guild Wars so I don’t get kicked out of the guild. :P And I have other, little errands to run too… But first I need to study.

Ooh, there’s an organ concert at Christ Church Cathedral on Friday! It’s Michael Gormley, and he’s playing Bruhns AND Buxtehude! Win!

March 23, 2010

Sword’s Innocence rough cover sketch 1

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Photoshop,Zela — Tags: , , , — Illinia @ 10:48 pm
Rah, said the dragon.

Rah, said the dragon.

Sword’s Innocence rough book cover sketch 1

drawn March 23, ’10, 10-11:30 pm

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Hey, guys! So about that book that would need to be submitted before July 1st or whatever to get a free copy from CreateSpace… well, this is my rough draft of the cover. I’m planning to get someone else to paint it ‘coz that would be cool, but I need something to show them what to do, right? So this is from this chapter, a few paragraps in. Though I’m going to rewrite the book, I’m leaving this scene in. I was also going to have a ‘dramatic confrontation’ cover, where Zela, in green, sword in hand, is confronting… Muila, in a red dress? who is looking at her disdainfully from the top of some small steps… in a dark location. But this one is WAY COOLER so I drew it first.

I used my dragon-drawing book, too!

So… in the foreground is Zela on Silver the dragon, and chasing them are three (I only put two) dragons, and then the brown spiky thing is the city, and there’s a road leading past it and to it, and there’s one of those amazing blue-green lakes nearby (there is no food colouring in Canadian Rockies water, folks! Just in case you were wondering) and the brown, rather barren mountains (green in the valleys) stretching back to green mountains and then blue, with a glimpse of the green plains waaaaaaay over on the left, and dark stormclouds capping it all. And then there’ll be a title with a twisty border and a back summary.

Oh, hey, chorus didn’t stink totally tonight! What a pleasant surprise! The weather has been gorgeous, too, and the flowering trees are just WOW. Come live in Vic, folks! It’s pretty darn good in the spring!

But I need to stop eating unhealthy food. Just need to get to the end of this week and then I can relax a little!

Huh, maybe I’ll have a go myself at this cover after Script Frenzy. Oh, I need to rewrite the other book and turn it into a PDF, too!

March 19, 2010

Symmetry

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Photoshop,Zela — Tags: , — Illinia @ 10:17 pm
OTP (One True Pair)

OTP (One True Pair)

Symmetry, finished

coloured – some point in history long before this website went live

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Click for larger image! (much larger image – 1000px vertically)

This is the finished version of this picture, which I drew specifically for the purpose that it now serves as the ‘logo’ or ‘emblem’ of my website. I realized tonight that I forgot about it. So here you are! It took me a long time to colour, especially Flaer’s hair. I used Photoshop 5 and a mouse. I realize his eyes are rather huge now but hey! You can tell they’re green. Which is good. Less happy about the cloth, but I guess it’s all right for my skill level. Grass was a total cop-out (green paint bucket, some broad dodge and burn, and then put the ‘pencil sketch’ filter on heavy or something like that) but I dunno how to do grass in Photoshop. X D

If you ever hear of a concert at which will be performed Locus Iste by Nicholas Piper, GO HEAR IT. It is AMAZING. I can’t tell you so much about Different Windows by Daniel Brandes. The stupid bus didn’t show so I was late and missed the beginning.

Did I mention the Knights of Pie? UVic fundraising organization. Bunch of guys dress up as monkly knights and put on short trials that usually end in pieing the person who can’t pay equal to the donations raised by their accusor. Ivan was raising money for a children’s hospital and was tired of MichaelG showing up late to rehearsal. Result: Epicness. Lemon-meringuey epicness.

Also I hate diminished fourths but what ya gonna do about it. Learning a stupidly hard and rather theoretical piece for some composer guy I know. It’s a good idea but just well-nigh impossible. I could rewrite the piece for myself but I’d rather be lazy and just learn it the way it is. And by rewrite I mean make a clean copy in Sibelius with such notation as makes sense to me, not rewrite the piece itself. : P

 I do like Franz Strauss, though. He wrote a second horn concerto that was just found thirty years ago and Christine may be playing the Canadian premiere. X D But Hans Pizka, the editor, is fail. He put the horn part in the wrong transposition, so Christine is playing in Eb major while I’m playing in C major. FAIL. I’ll stop flitting from subject to subject now.

I want to be a great visual artist, textual artist, sonic artist… painter drawer animator model maker author poet musician composer pianist organist violinist singer… Did I miss anything? Prolly. Hahaha.

January 16, 2010

Too Many Guild Wars Screenshots

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Filed under: Miscellaneous — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Illinia @ 11:09 pm

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Okay, folks, it’s that time of something again when I dump a whole bunch of pretty pictures I didn’t really make on you. : P First is Tam at that lovely lovely waterlily pool in the southwestern Catacombs – by the devourers on the inside, and vaguely near Orion on the outside. So pretty! Tam is my Elementalist character who is part warrior – hence the sword and shield outfit. But I really meant to make him half Paragon so he could use a spear to effect. Meh. Perhaps that will change. But the blue hair stays. X D

Just to make clear, this picture is from underground (with a cracked ceiling, admittedly).

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Tam and my brother’s main, Kellan Dunns, goofing around in the back of the mountains.

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One of Flairé’s new coats, with a nice red dye job. Yay! New gloves, too. Scaley.

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Say hello to one of my other alts, Gullac. This character has been deleted until I unlock the Assassin class so he can use daggers. He’s a Necromancer as a first class, though, because it has more appropriate hair. And posture. And faces. Though his hair could be a shade darker.

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Tam, dynamically using that sword of his. He won. Even though he was fighting four bandits and a wolf.

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This picture is because I’m an Orion fangirl because there’s a bear’s face on the back of the bear!!! 8 O

Do you see it? Do you see it?

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Tam, standing in that particular spot in Green Hills County where you can look into the Catacombs. I find that so very very cool, because if you go into the Catacombs and stand on that bridge, you can look back out. Whee! Oh, and it’s pretty, too.

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A melted snowman near the forges in Lion’s Arch. With one of Flairé’s footprints.

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Gullac, sittin’ on the stairs… in the Catacombs… bein’ an emo little boy…

Gullac should not be emo. o_O7

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This looks cute somehow. (the /stand animation)

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Zela (helmet on : P) and Adriano (my brother’s alt) goofing off while waiting for Orion to head up to Foible’s Fair to see his girlfriend Ralena. I’m playing violin, he’s playing… guitar. Neither very well. : P

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Flairé gave in to the pestering of his friend Kellan 8 O and had a few eggnogs in Ascalon. Obviously Kellan is still in the giddy stages while Flairé is already feeling the effects. Heh. …Why is normal eggnog alcoholic?

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Showing Adriano the Wise’s true height (short). He’s based off a gnomish monk character for a verbal roleplay we did once and his most popular spell was Blind (“The guy taps you on the shoulder.” “Adriano casts Blind!!” “… For the fifteenth time?” “Yes!!!”)

What is little known is that he goes bald underwater… true story. In Guild Wars, I mean.

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Flairé’s current new coat (in a fetching shade of green where possible), as he is blowing up bad guys on one of those far west Krytan story missions in the moonlight. No tubas, though. Oh, and I got his leather pants dyed blue. I think they look nice. I also removed his creepy hunter mask to see what his mouth looked like while talking in cutscenes. …It’s okay, I guess. I dunno. I’ll have to see more.

Organ crawl was great, today. I learned all about the digital side of the organ, which was a complete mystery to me before. You should all come to the RCCO convention in July!!! It’ll be a party!!! …Actually the convention itself is rather expensive. Come to the concerts. Unless you’re an organist. : )

December 28, 2009

Christmas in colour 2009 (finished!)

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Christmas in Colour, 2009, finished!

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And now, the finished picture! Ehhhhh… I actually used the tablet a lot less with the shading/highlighting. I used it a lot for the hair, of course, but the clothes… just didn’t work with that. I need to find a way to change the settings so the harder I press doesn’t affect the width of the stroke, but how dark/light it is.

Parts I’m pleased with: Marteth’s dark purple coat; Gullac’s teal shirt; Bayn’s grey jacket. Coincidentally, they’re the ones you can see least of. : P Tam’s jacket is a close second, though. His shoulders came out half-way decent. I’m also happy with all the hair and Flairé’s face, which was worrying me. Doesn’t he look like his parents? X D

I realize that the ink lines only get in the way now. I think I will experiment in the future with not having hard lines at all. With the tablet, I can do that now!

I’m collecting Candy-cane shards in Guild Wars so I can get the Candy-cane daggers (for Gullac, when I make him) and the Peppermint Scythe (because it’s cool). I already have a Candy-cane spear. I wonder if these weapons break if you use them too much? I don’t think so. But I’m a little nervous about actually using them in battle.

Gullac: I’m not! (sproings around like a frog, brandishing his daggers and laughing insanely)

Dude, I haven’t gotten them yet. Give me another hour.

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