Monthly Archives: January 2007

Life is Good

Leave a Reply
Life is good when you have magic bean sprouts

Life is good when you have magic bean sprouts

Link, tending to one of his bean sprouts, experiences a moment of peace and joy. I like this picture, even though it’s not really finished: I never shaded his leg or his boot. The ear is much better and his face doesn’t look ridiculous. His glove/gauntlet is not accurate, though, and he seems to be missing his sword and shield as well. I also didn’t try shading the face because faces are hard to do and I didn’t understand their shapes at all back then. Now I still don’t…

“He launched his bark like a silver spark”

Leave a Reply
Silmaril on his brow

Silmaril on his brow

This is Eärendil, setting sail in his swan-prowed Vingelot, out from the dark cliffs with the Silmaril on his brow. This picture was based on a poem in the Book of Lost Tales Part II, in my edition on page 267: Eärendil arose where the shadow flows/At Ocean’s silent brim…

I like the older version of the last verse, though: Tracking the Sun in his galleon/And voyaging the skies/Till his splendour was shorn by the birth of Morn/And he died with the Dawn in his eyes.

It’s much more hopeful and glorious than the newer version, which has him withering in the darkness of the abyss.

Water Monster

Leave a Reply
Freaky swimming pool

Freaky swimming pool

Today’s picture is welcome relief from bad drawing. It is of Link fighting the boss of the Water Temple, Morpha. Morpha is a strange orange blob that controls the water. Link looks quite nice. I drew some sketches of poses to help me out, but he looked oddly Japanese in one of them. I wonder why. Anyway, for flaws, I can see that Link’s neck is too thick, and it’s not really as dramatic as the official art of the exact same situation, but that’s why they hire professionals!

I go in a sort of cycle for picture drawing. I draw a picture, and then if it’s bad, I hate it for the rest of my life, and if it’s somewhere around good, I love it for a couple of hours, and then I look at it again and hate it until a couple years later when I can look back a bit more clearly. This is happening with my most recent art right now, except for one. I wonder if it’ll happen with today’s drawings.

Today I got the drawing bug, so I drew two pictures. The first came when I heard Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C#- : you know, the one he always hated because it was so popular. The second came as a result of iced tea. Now, I don’t particularly like iced tea; I only know for sure that camomile tea isn’t bad. It was the thought of iced tea. I have new fanart for someone…

Timeless Ocarina: Chapter 1: Darkness in the Morn

Leave a Reply

Link’s classic adventure, with an original character sidekick.
23 Chapters.

 

Chapter 2: The Great Arachnid

 

Chapter 1: Darkness in the Morn

The sun rose, normally, casting veils of light through the Kokiri Forest. Dust motes and the ancient spirits of fairies long gone transformed them to quivering theatres of radiance.
The enchanted children of the forest, the Kokiri, who could never grow old, woke up with the sun and ran out of their tree houses to play and run on the green grass. One, a brown haired girl with a round face, and another, a sweet-looking green haired girl, played together. The brown haired girl was trying time after time to accomplish a handstand, but never balanced properly, even when the other girl tried to help her. They looked often towards a small, dark house tucked away behind some trees.
“Navi.” A deep mahogany voice called, unheard or ignored by most of the laughing children. “Come here…”
A tiny ball of light bobbled back and forth a few times, and then flew to the speaker, floating just in front of his face.
“Have you not felt the darkness in the air? Once again, malevolent forces are mustering to attack our broad land of Hyrule… The Kokiri Forest, which has stood for ages as a wellspring of life, is faltering. Even my power is as nothing…”
“I am sick, Navi. I need your help. It is time for the child of destiny to begin his journey. Do you understand?”
“Right!” chirped the fairy. Continue reading →

Rana’s Death II

Leave a Reply
Sorry, I, uh, forgot to bring a fairy

Sorry, I, uh, forgot to bring a fairy

This picture is also based on my own story, just after Link coughwinsthegamecough kills Ganon the King of Evil, only Rana gets killed too. Eeesh, how to explain…

Uh, well, she got shot, but not badly, and then got hurt again and that made the arrow go into a more fatal position? In the sequel (remember, I wrote this when I was young) Nayru and Farore, two of the three goddesses, associated with the Triforces of Wisdom and Courage which are borne by Zelda and Link respectively, were going to revive her so she could become the new bearer of the Triforce of Strength so that Ganondorf couldn’t use it anymore. Eheh. Oh, and she was ‘buried’ inside a block of ice so everybody could see her.

Ummmmm, now I have to decide whether I’m going to actually kill her off or have it so she doesn’t actually die, but somehow Link has to think she does or else the point of the intermediary chapters is zero. Uh, it’ll all come clear when I start putting the story up.

There used to be two fairies in this picture, Navi and the dying Naeri, but I edited them out since they were even worse than the rest of this picture. It’s called Rana’s Death II because I drew a Rana’s Death I and it was absolutely horrible. It had Zelda and Ganon in it too, and Zelda’s hair was good but the rest was terrible. This one, I like the composition (except the fairies) and the pose and shading and all, but although it’s a rather personal picture to me, I’m not happy with it anymore. I was drawing in the style I copied from the official Zelda art for Ocarina of Time, but I didn’t do it too well. The eyes are too high up. Oh, and those Hylian ears are baaaaad.

First Laugh

Leave a Reply
Aaaaaaaaaaah!

Aaaaaaaaaaah!

This picture officially introduces Rana, a young Hylian who I made up. Because I made her up when I was very young, her backstory is uncomfortably ‘Mary-Sue-ish’ or a character who is too good to be true – or a self-insert. Rana, two years younger than Link, was discovered on the edge of the Kokiri Forest by one of the Kokiri children. She was given a fairy and taken in by them, even more quickly than Link, who, as we know, didn’t get a fairy until the beginning of Ocarina of Time. Then, because she leaves the forest with Link (side-kick character) she grows up during the seven years he sleeps in the Sacred Realm.

During this time, she turned from a chubby little girl into a lithe, wiry acrobat-fighter. She uses a Hylian sword, of course, but it takes her a long, long time to find one. She was captured when she was fifteen, and had to wait two long, mind-cracking years to be rescued by Link when he came back. She had what her fairy Naeri called “over-developed vengeance complex”, and this picture is of her healing.

Link, after he beats the Forest Temple, goes to the Great Deku Tree’s glade and sees a tiny plant… which explodes out of the ground into a small tree, scaring him. He falls over on his back, yelling in fright… and realizes that nothing’s attacking him. So, when he found Rana couldn’t laugh anymore, he eventually took her there and copied what he had done, and she stared – and then laughed. Yes! Score one for the hyper side!

Link and Dark Link

Leave a Reply
Whoa! Is that me?

Whoa! Is that me?

I believe that this picture was inspired by the fact that this, Christmas ’03, was the year we were given a Gamecube and Zelda disk from Santa! I played to the Water Temple by the 10th, and I fought Dark Link, who was insanely difficult that time, and then I sat down and drew this picture. Dark Link’s head is a bit small (chopped skull syndrome, someone called it), and Link looks a bit strange, but it was pretty good for my skill level! It’s even somewhat shaded!

I love the Legend of Zelda. I own… almost all the games. I have all except for Oracle of Seasons, Minish Cap, and Twilight Princess, which I want to get on Wii and Wii is not available. Yet. Mwahahaha, I will obtain it eventually!

Heroes All

Leave a Reply
These people are cool. Or something...

These people are cool. Or something…

Here are all my heroes (people whom I admired) for 2003. They are-! Legolas, Link, Trent, Wedge, Flairé, and Sain. They are sitting on my couch in my living room, with personable equipment. Legolas and Link are, obviously, looking at the Master Sword. Trent is sitting quietly with his violin. I think he came out quite well. I’m not good at drawing ‘real people’. He’s very good as both a violinist and a fiddler, and when I hear him play in one style, I feel like he should focus on that style… until I hear him play in the other style. He played this beautiful Dvorak piece at the local music Festival once, and I just loved it. Wedge is reading one of my X-Wing series books, and he didn’t come out so well. Sain is posing, because he’s a goofball. Actually, he looks sort of like Oswin here.

Flairé is playing a (stringless) harp, and now he’s officially introduced, I suppose.
Flairé: Hi. Good to meet you people.
I’ll add a biography page sometime very soon, I think.
Flairé: That’s a good idea. No one knows me yet, and I’m your best friend!
Eheheh. Go away.
Flairé: Righto. … Why am I so short in that picture?
Shoo!
Flairé: I’m going! Bye!

He talks too much, but he’s nice. I use him in all my (adapted rules) Dungeons and Dragons games.

These people were drawn over a period of time. Legolas was drawn first, in November, and Link took from November to December. The others are labelled, so Sain was drawn on the 13th of December, Trent on the 16th and 17th, and Wedge and Flairé on the 17th.

Edit: The kalma above in the picture could actually be Flair.

 

Yesterday I went to the local Games Workshop and built a pile of elven rocks with a waterfall on it. Nifty, but I’ll make the next one on my own when I don’t have time constraints. It’ll turn out even better!

Fire Emblem Band

Leave a Reply
You can't take it with you.../No matter what you do!

You can’t take it with you…/No matter what you do!

Fire Emblem! Wha!

Ahem. This picture is of four of the characters of Fire Emblem 7: Rekka no Ken (Blazing Sword) and they are in a rock band.

Why? Who knows? Well, I now have to tell you my life story, so hold tight. I was playing Super Smash Bros. Melee with my friend Bobby, and I liked being one of these two handsome swordsmen with long cloaks, and I asked him about them, and he didn’t know much, but he told me that Roy was a prince and Marth was some other guy, and they both came from this game called Fire Emblem. I forgot the name several times, but then I began to research it on the Internet, and I found some sites that talked about it. They were talking about the newest (at the time) game, which would be the first to be officially released in English.

Soon after, I read a copy of Nintendo Power somewhere (I sure didn’t own it… school library, maybe?) and was formally introduced to all the characters of the first ten levels, along with a brief walkthrough and a ‘how this game works’ article. Wow, was I intrigued.

So, I was listening to the Alan Parsons Project CD we have, and I started imagining Sain singing the lead… and this picture followed. I plotted out where all the others would stand, but I never got around to drawing them.

Kent took more time than the others, as I was a bit afraid of him since he didn’t have any official art that got released in North America. He was started on December the 2nd, and finished January the 19th, and he still didn’t come out that well! Anyway, I’ll just put a couple of things below about the cast in this crazy excursion…

 

Character
 Role
Lyn
 Guitar (rhythm and solos)
Kent
 Bass guitar, vocals
Sain
 Lead vocals, solo guitar
Florina
 First violin
Wil
 Keyboards, vocals
Dorcas
 French horn, back-up vocals
Erk
 Viola
Serra
 Cello
Rath
 Second violin
Matthew
 Saxophone, vocals
Nils
 Flute
Lucius
 Clarinet, I think, or was it harp?
Wallace
 Percussion


As you can see, I don’t know much about the way rock bands work. I just went by what I heard. Here’s who sings what.

 

 

Tracks
 Lead vocals
I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
 Sain
Eye in the Sky
 Sain
Games People Play
 Sain
Time
 Kent
Pyramania
 Sain
You Don’t Believe
 (Sain?)
Lucifer
 N/A
Psychobabble
 Matthew
D***ed If I Do
 (Sain?)
Don’t Let it Show
 Sain!
Can’t Take it With You
 (Sain)
Old and Wise
 Eliwood guest solo


My favourites are Eye in the Sky, Time, Don’t Let it Show, and Old and Wise.

In Time, the singer sounds a lot like Kent does in my head. That’s why I put Kent as singing it. Don’t Let it Show is very beautiful, and I imagine Sain writing it for his girlfriend.

SPOILER FOR MY STORY (which hasn’t been put up here yet…)
Old and Wise almost perfectly describes Eliwood after his tactician is killed in the second-last chapter. I had to change a couple of lines:
you follow(ed) where I go
I’ll miss you when you go
When they ask you if you knew me (they being people in the afterlife – not changed, but context added)
as the final curtain falls o’er your eyes

Crowned with Stars

Leave a Reply
Calacirca and a bowman...

Calacirca and a bowman…

Last picture for Middle Earth for a while! First picture of the new year! Huzzah!

Huzzah has a lot of meanings for me, but more on that later.

This picture is of Legolas, stepping out onto the bank of Anduin to shoot the mysterious and sinister black shape in the air. The Big Dipper, or Calacirca, is over his head. Frodo sees “the dark head of the elf crowned with stars”… It was so beautiful I tried to do a picture of it, and it worked pretty well, but I never finished it. I may do a CG Photoshop version sometime. That would look really nice. Or maybe I’ll use my new markers!