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Larsa

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Princeling with grey hair

Princeling with grey hair

At this time, I was interested in, and watching through, the cutscenes of Final Fantasy XII on YouTube. Was quite taken with Larsa… he’s very admirable. Very heroic, and sure to grow into one of those wonderful naive, passionate, do-gooder heroes I admire so much. And handsome, with that pretty hair and nice voice. He stays noble, even tragic, even when his elder brother morphs into a salivating rampaging monster. : P

Anyway, I only started using a reference about halfway through the picture, which is why I think his shirt isn’t quite right… I tried to make it interesting with pen-stroke textures. I think it worked, although parts of it would have looked better smooth. As you can see the ear is not developed at all. Odd, that. I was working on it, though. You can see that in the last Zela picture.

Elfinessé was a little over a year old when I drew this picture. Huzzah!

Zela

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You are boring.

You are boring.

Hey, look! It’s a marker picture! It’s a portrait of Zela, and that’s about all I can tell you because I forget the circumstances of this drawing. It’s not a bad picture, either. Mostly. It could be better. But then, so could everything.

Trio

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Silly kitten hurt her foot...

Silly kitten hurt her foot…

This is a picture, obviously, of Link, Rana, and Saria (sans fairies). They’re returning home to Kokiri Village from a long day of playing in the Lost Woods, where Rana hurt her foot. Again, I can’t do perspective too well, and I didn’t use a reference for Saria. So that’s why she’s not wearing her cute little green boots. Link turned out the best again, but still looks funny.

Link and Rana

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Sweetheart, your head is shaped like a balloon...

Sweetheart, your head is shaped like a balloon…

Hello and greetings! This was a quick sketch of Link and Rana… it wouldn’t have been so quick if it had turned out right. Anyway, I started with Link’s head, and it turned out GREAT. Izzenee handsome? The rest of both of them, not so well. Perspective was not my strong point, and it still isn’t, to a large degree… Rana’s body is okay, althoug she looks a bit too skinny, or maybe a lot, and her tunic doesn’t sit right, and her head is not so good because, again, of perspective. I have the nagging feeling that I almost got it, that if I just change a few lines and move her features over a tad, it would be perfect. But I don’t know how. As you’ll see later, I tried again, and this time it was marginally better but Link’s face was not so good. I should point out that they’re wearing their clothes from the Twilight Princess period.

I want my organ…

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...I miss it... why didn't Zelda put one in when she redecorated?

…I miss it… why didn’t Zelda put one in when she redecorated?

Ganondorf got short-changed in Twilight Princess! This was originally my brother’s idea, and he says I didn’t get it right. That’s okay. I put my own interpretation on it. I suppose if they repeated the setup from Ocarina people would say ‘hey, what is this, Ocarina2?’ which would be justified… but Ganondorf playing organ is pretty cool. Even if it reinforces the stereotype that ‘organs are evil. Or at least creepy. And malevolent.’ Not too shabby a rendition of Ganondorf, for me, either. Could have been better, but I couldn’t figure out how much detail I could fit in to one page. Looks like I could have put in more, but it was smudging. I wanted him to be really shadowed and spooky. Contrast to the very short Zelda suspended above him. Ran out of room.

Song

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Trio of musically inclined and deformed friends

Trio of musically inclined and deformed friends

I tried to draw this picture on the success of the last picture, but it didn’t turn out so well, for a few reasons. First reason is that that harp is ridiculous. Second reason is that Silver the dragon (the intellectual descendant – who shares nothing with her predecessor – of Christina the dragon) has a very long tail and really awful arms. Yoeath the unicorn isn’t so bad. But anyone who knows what a horse looks like will be able to tell that she needs work. And her horn is lopsided.

True Love Awakens

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He fell over on a bunch of rocks!

He fell over on a bunch of rocks! And can’t get up! : P

Hey, this picture! I like this picture. I think I drew a draft of it somewhere in my notes but I couldn’t find it. Oh well. This one is better, for once.

The gist of the story: Flaer meets Zela in the forest; Flaer falls in love with Zela; Flaer tells Zela he loves her; Zela doesn’t know what to do; Flaer doesn’t know what to do; a few months later he wanders back into the forest and walks around until he throws himself down for a nap (Author’s note: on a pile of (mossy) rocks? Huh? He must be more masochistic than I thought…); Zela finds Flaer sleeping; Zela falls in love with Flaer.

Yeah, a pair of young idiots the both of them. But I like this picture. Flaer’s hair is all tumbled; his hands aren’t totally lame; Zela is recognisable with her hair down. All good points. Plus the background which exists, more or less. Mostly less.

FLAER SO PRETTY.

Anyway, this picture furthers the story, at least a tiny bit. It concretizes a portion that had always existed in amorphic, nebulous form. I have no idea if I’m using those words right.

Me, Myself, and I

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"******" is about the only way to sum up this picture, yeah.

“******” is about the only way to sum up this picture, yeah.

This is a picture most likely drawn in frustration of some sort or another. In it, you can see a chibi version of all the most hideous parts of my soul mocking me and being chased by a rather bloodthirsty chibi version of the ‘good’ parts of my soul. Or something. While being watched bemusedly by the real me. Actually, no part of me ever drinks, swears, and runs around in her underwear. That’s just sort of symbolism for all the things I hate most about various anonymous bits of humanity in my vicinity. Anyway, it’s all just supposed to be a cute little joke.

[edit from the future: now I swear constantly! lawl]

These Two

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Violist meets kalma. Kalma is not impressed by parallels drawn by pianist. Chaos ensues?

Violist meets kalma. Kalma is not impressed by parallels drawn by pianist. Chaos ensues?

TEXT: “You mean to say that this guy, who you can’t even remember how to draw, looks like me?” “Yes. Frighteningly so. And his name’s Michael, not ‘this guy’.” “Ye’re crazy.” “You are crazy.” “(gravely) Thank you.” “Seriously, now, if you cut your hair and got amber contacts and somebody changed their height by two feet, you’d look like brothers.”

Well, then, this is an odd picture… this was before my violist friend got his hair cut, when it was still long and fluffy and pretty. For whatever reason, I thought he looked a little bit like Flairé, so I tried to draw it. I think the picture came out decently well, except MG doesn’t look like MG and I’m missing my glasses again. My self-image still doesn’t actually have glasses, if you can believe that… I’ve been wearing them since I was 13 or 14 and they still don’t register. Probably because I think I look at least a little bit nicer without them. Flairé’s arms are too short, and my head is too big. But bits of this picture don’t look too bad for an imagined scene of (mostly) real people. And I like Flairé’s hair, of course. The picture-altering program messed it up at the last minute, of course. : P