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Lilahcol

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Was taking a quick look at my draft for Book 1 of the Adhemlenei novels, and got the idea to do a quick picture of the Lilahcol, Flaer’s home city. This is the view from the southeast. I may have to adjust the world map, because on the world map that bend in the river is like 200 miles away or something. (I’m bad with distances.) Here it’s about 30 km, max. I think. Anyway, this is the capital city of the Lilemlen of the Adhemlenei, the Land of the Moon of the Four Kingdoms, and its surrounding villages and farmlands. Roughly.

Also I just realized that the main road actually enters the city via the other side of the city; this road is only the ‘back gate’ so to speak. It’s still a main gate, but the MAIN main gate is the other side and most of the roads go there. : P

Goo’ night.

Erd, King of the Nunathoemlen

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This is Erd, the King of the Nunathoemlen (new-nah-thow-em-len), and the father of Muila and Layalin and Kyla. (What? I don’t have any better pictures of Kyla than that? D8 ) He looks rather young in this picture… he’s supposed to look a bit older. But we’ll say this is early on in his kingship, back when he was an idealistic young sprout. Continue reading →

Rana art by Rose

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Rana, by RoseThornZero

This beautiful piece of art was drawn by Rose, who seems to be my new biggest fan, judging from how often she comments! : D We met on Wayrift, and then on DA, and this piece was part of an art commission trade there. Here is the piece I did as my half of the trade…

I really love how she captured Rana’s spunkiness. She says she enjoyed the character design, and I have to say I am amazed at the care she put into it. Also I like how she does faces, and Rana looks really pretty! In other words, it’s fabulous, yo.

Another thing you should check out is her original fantasy story! It’s very intriguing, and looks like it’s going to be really exciting. The picture I did features two characters from it (who are thus far only peripherally involved, but central plot-wise).

I do have a picture today, but I need to practice before I let myself finish it. Off I go!

P.S. This picture is much larger, but the default resize options for WordPress are a little inconvenient. Click for full-size!

Ben

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Hmm. I’m not sure if this is done. I may add more lighting effects. I’m not sure. Comments plz!

The two sides of Ben I love: the emotional, caring, slightly angsty side, and the awesome Master Wizard side.

It’s been a while since I painted one of my own guys. I should get on that.

Ben preview

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Doing another picture of Ben from Wayrift. Better, this time, although sadBen doesn’t have as much hair as rarBen. But I’m not redoing it because even that took forever. Or maybe it just feels like forever because the right side of my head is stuffed up.

Taking a break; will finish tomorrow.

AAAAUUUUGH MY NOSE

Zemi

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Zemi of Wayrift etc.!! I recall (maybe incorrectly?) that when he gets dressed in people clothes, his robe has a dragon on it… but Wren never drew it (probably because it would be crazy-hard to do). So I decided to put it on, and used brushes from here…

So, here’s the Zemi-kins showing off again. As he usually does. And so on.

You should see this picture – it comes with a delightful (though a little bit sad) story.

 

Siasara and Lusiel

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King Lusiel and Queen Siasara, for Rose in the sketch commissions. Hope she likes them! Her characters are cute. Apparently these two pick on each other, but love each other very much underneath. Betcha anything they met as young heroes, and then tried to settle down, and the universe said “nuh-uh, you’re not going to rest on your laurels! Gotta keep saving me!” Something like that.

Oh yeah, and he’s an elf and she’s a human. But These Elves Are Different, from what I can gather.

Whoops I forgot to colour in one part white. Oh well.