Creepy young man…
Hmmm… I was trying to practice both cloth and facial structure. I’m not sure I succeeded, since Link looks more like any sullen young Japanese man than, uh, himself, and his ears did something funny to his hood… Not a terrible picture, but not one I’m particularly proud of either.
Run, kids, run!
This picture would never happen in ‘real life’. Esgalwen lived in Taur-nu-Fuin, Flairé in the Adhemlenei, in Lilemlen. So there’s no way they would be running together, either for fun or on a mission – I can’t tell. And they both seem awfully young; Flairé looks like he’s barely forty years old, Esgalwen perhaps fifteen. Anyway, they both came out decently, and it’s an interesting concept. And perhaps it does now have some sort of basis in ‘reality’, because Esgalwen is travelling under the name ‘Illinia’ in my winter D&D session, which is a kalmaeirin name. So perhaps she did meet Flairé and he gave it to her. Mithlas, on the other hand, still goes by his Sindarin name. So obviously either he didn’t meet Flairé or else Esgalwen/Illinia doesn’t know his kalmaeirin name. Whatever. (Flairé tells me he never met Mithlas, but Esgalwen/Illinia didn’t know that when she met Flairé, and Flairé didn’t know he was supposed to be looking for a Mithlas before he met Esgalwen/Illinia.)
Crown made of silver sand, ultimately
Ohmigoodness, ohmigoodness, I love this picture. I’m not entirely sure what it means, but it looks like Flaer is being emo and holding a crumbling crown and Zela is holding him but has no comfort to offer other than that. And isn’t Dwinderling a great word?
Okay, sadly that’s all I have to say about this picture right now. Maybe I’ll remember something later. But I do think this is a great picture.
Y’know, any of the Oracles would make great bobble-heads…
Finally, a Nayru semi-serious portrait to match (and surpass) Ralph’s. I left out the hands because I knew I would ruin them. The anime hair doesn’t go so well with hairstrokes, either. But the tunic came out vaguely okay.
I need a haircut soooo bad…
Then I tried to draw an actual serious portrait of Ralph. Fail. Oh well. He looks vaguely bishie. Although he has a stupid hat.
Aaaah, Nayru! I’ll save you! Overly-dramatically!
Here are some sketches of Ralph, who has a groovy 16 bar theme in the game in which he appears, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. The theme made me want to draw him, so I did. Not very well, but the reference art I was using was really really small. Not that that’s an excuse. Hooray for Ralph/Nayru.
Here’s Ralph’s Theme. I’ve tried to arrange it before, so I can add it to my arsenal of ‘video-game-themes-I-can-play-on-piano’. I should try again sometime.
Wheeheeheeheee!
I have a picture, though when I became free to post it, it was too late in the evening to scan it as people were already sleeping. Oh well. It is a picture of a Zora in Great Bay, because Zoras are gorgeous. They swim like darts, like minnows, like swallows, and it’s pretty fun to leap out of the water like a dolphin, if you can manage not to stall. This isn’t Mikey, just a random Zora.
They’ll make your teeth look like this guy’s
I <3 NY! Except I’ve never been there…
These were actually drawn by my Dad on a blank cardboard box that came inside a cereal box. I forget what kind of cereal. Some vaguely health-oriented cereal. Nature’s Path type cereal. I’m not sure. Go buy some healthy cereals until you find one with two blank boxes inside. It won’t hurt you, anyway. I think these pictures are hilarious, but then I laugh at a lot of things.
“I can see the sea!” “That’s supposed to be physically impossible, darling.”
Esgalwen and her goldenhaired husband, on vacation or something after the war in Minas Tirith. Or at least in a tower that has a view of Anduin down to the sea. With the White Mountains on the right.
Squeegles!
Little Rana!! She’s so cute! She… has gigantic eyeballs! O_O