Juvenile robin
This picture is of a juvenile robin that hit our deck window and died doing it. -_-7 We looked it up in a bird book. With nothing better to do with it, Dad suggested I draw a picture of it and practice actually drawing stuff in real life. So… I did. End of story. Ta-da!
Now, where’s that Keese?
This is Link! Not just any old Link, but Link made of Sculpey modelling clay by me! Most of the head and torso are filled in with foil, meaning I can’t go back and fix the lines of his face. His limbs and the Master Sword are strengthened and straightened with toothpicks. His face, his shield, his scabbard, and his sword are all painted with Games Workshop paint and I touched up the white of his sweater and pants, too, because it had a lot of green and brown smudged into it. That’s how I knew today would be the day for these pictures (hooray) because I found my sheath reference sketch in my sketchbook, with the details taken from the Super Smash Bros. Melee trophy. The shield details were from a printed out action pose picture which was done for Soul Caliber II, I believe.
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Those dots are supposed to be stars which are supposed to be blue
Tinfang Warble is a spirit, a fae, as I think Tolkien was calling them at the time, who plays the flute and the stars come out early, bright, and blue when he does. I think he’s in the Book of Lost Tales Part I. I especially like the poem with the refrain “the tunes of Tinfang Warble!” Apparently his music is so addicting it’s almost a physical need to follow him and hear more. I gave him extra-long ears because of his fae-ishness, and two pipes because those things are cool, and sitting on an (iridescent) giant mushroom over a pool based on an image in the poem. I think parts turned out rather well, although from this one and the last one you can see I’m no good at backgrounds. Oh, yes, and I didn’t give him a beard even though his name means “sparkly beard”. I’ve been working on a colour version, but it’s not progressed for about a year now.
The first story translated into English and my tactician Ceniro collide in an unfinished half-scripted novelization.
EDIT: I first published these chapters in 2007. Having gone back to them in preparation for writing Anima’s Seal this NaNoWriMo in 2015, I no longer feel this first volume stands up and I feel no regret over completely rewriting it without leaving a copy of the original on my blog (that no one reads anyway : D). And hey, it’s kind of refreshing to be able to write chapters that are under 5 pages long, can you believe it??
EDIT2: based on feedback from my beta reader and the fact that I can’t sleep, I’m editing this fic so that it sucks less.
Prologue: A Girl From the Plains
The young man walked steadily on his way, striding through the knee-deep yellow grasses of the Sacaean plains. He was rather short, and his pace was unhurried. The sun beat on his pale-green cloaked back, and suddenly he looked around and narrowed his grey eyes.
He was being followed.
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I wonder if he’s dead
Ceniro! Well, more like… the back of Ceniro’s head! and Lyn’s back! and Lyn’s house!
Sleepyhead
Today Ceniro was tired, and leaned against a tree for a nice, well-earned standing nap… I left those nifty buttons off his cloak because I am forgetful. Bad me. Funny thing is… they don’t have trees in Sacae, do they? I always thought it was a wedge-shaped piece of land that was oddly like the Canadian prairies…
The brilliant tactician
This is Ceniro’s first full-body character design sketch, and he hasn’t changed much since! Actually, it hasn’t changed at all. I faithfully follow every detail of this picture every time I draw him, except when I’m lazy…Compare it with the avatar over there… that thing is based on this picture – i.e. I copied Ceniro’s head into that picture, and then painted over it using FE colouring techniques. More on that when we get to Fall ’05. The avatar should give you an idea of what colours he has, though, like the yellow buttons on his cloak… I like those buttons… His eyes are a bit dark, though. They’re supposed to be a bit lighter grey than that.