New art? New art. Fanart of DS (Darkstar) Cecil Harvey from Wayrift! Aywren and Syntyche have been getting buckets of fanart recently, so I may as well add to the pile. I like DS Cecil and his fluffy hair.
Just threw this together. Will do more fanarts later. Tomorrow. And yus, I mixed hard and soft shading. Whatever.
If you want to see my grad recital, it’s now on YouTube here.
Updates on my life, whether you want to know or not:
I’m back from playing for my saxophonist at the Provincial music festival. He played super, and so did the quartet, but they all only got runner up. But whatever. I’m very proud of all the saxophonists. Although we had a bit of an adventure getting back! Also I now know about five times as much Queen as I did before going. I also watched a whole episode of The Daily Show, which I’d never seen before at all, and I ate way too much. Also now I believe I am sick because my throat is all swollen.
The painting I’m working on is pretty decent; I’m working on the dragon now. I think I pretty good job of her eye.
I’m listening to my recital CD and I should have some vids ready to post soon. The guy in the recording studio must be a nerd, or else I spoke clearer than I thought I did, because he managed to get the title of the encore, and the composer, right down to the birth date. : D Well, love to him anyway, whoever it was. It’s a little sloppier than I remember, but recordings never sound as good as live, because when it’s live you get caught up in the energy of the performer – hopefully. Or else they’re just bad. Although the Dutilleux sounds pretty decent. And the Haydn. The Brahms is just crazy-hard… and I haven’t listened to the Ravel or encore yet.
Actually now that I’ve heard it, the encore sounds better if you can’t see how I flail all over the keys. XD
It’s amazing to think that only a few months ago I played a whole recital that impressed everyone. Someday, someday, people’s emotions will be my playthings! (just kidding, lol)
WIP 2
Some progress. You’ll notice the clouds are completely different from last time. That’s right, I completely redid them again. I still have a few tweaks to make, but things are better. Also I added shiny to the armour. You can’t see it at this resolution but I’m happy with the horns on his helmet. Maybe tomorrow I’ll finish Tseo. Then for the hard part – Hoarwilk.
EDIT: Better, neh? More limbs attached.
Yay for movie soundtracks! I’ve been listening to both How to Train Your Dragon (on YouTube until the CD I ordered comes in) and Treasure Planet. Makes me want to watch them. Yes, I like Treasure Planet, shut up.
Now I’m going to go watch the Narnia movies. For real this time. EDIT: Spent so long on Tseo I didn’t. Argh. They’re due tomorrow and I have a recital to play in.
I believe I forgot to upload these when I first made them… These are the main characters of this year’s Script Frenzy script. The boy is Edmund Williams and the girl is Charlotte Allister. I made these with the… how do you say it? Gaia Dream Avatar maker. : P Basically, they met at some sort of co-ed boarding school, and then Edmund graduated, and then Charlotte was adopted by some cranky lady and courted by a creepy man, so Edmund has to somehow save her. …Yeah it’s a pretty bad script. But it’s the first time I ever tried to write historically-inaccurate Victorian teen romance, so whatever. It was fun.
At the end they run away to Transylvania with Danny the Gypsy (hey-o, Danny!) but in the sequel (if there will be a sequel : P ) they have to come back to England so Edmund can succeed his father as Lord Williams because his cousin who became Lord Williams is dying but determined to cause trouble in the meantime. …That might be even a better plot than this one. Also, it’s not really Victorian if the only resource I have is Jane Austen. Keh.
I’m sitting outside on the deck right now (not in the sun, because then I couldn’t see the screen – I’m having trouble even now) and it’s quite nice. There are bumblebees all over the apple tree.
WIP 1
Here’s what I worked on today! It took me a long time to do clouds. First I tried doing it in Corel Painter, but for one thing I only have the Painter 4 and also my computer is slow so the whole process was not terribly successful. I ended up with a lovely impressionistic background, but… that’s not really good enough for clouds. I should learn to draw clouds on my own, because here I’m just using the Photoshop Cloud Brush that I found in the back of my Digital Art magazine.
I think it needs more yellow. It’s not warm enough yet.
Tomorrow I will finish Tseo’s basecolours and start shading; Hoarwilk I won’t start for a while. I want to check on drawing dragons. I notice that NeonDragon tends to draw her scaley-dragon noses all the same way and it’s not quite what I’m going for. Research time!
EDIT: Since even these clouds don’t look like what I have in my head, I’m scrapping them and starting AGAIN. : )
This picture is inspired by “Kings and Queens” by the band 30 Seconds to Mars, and it is a most excellent song. It has a good baseline. Anyway, here’s Tseo on Hoarwilk his dragon, soaring through the clouds together. Go listen to it and look again!
Note to self – obtain the NeonDragon book about drawing humanoid characters. Also practice with the dragon character book.
This will be painted at some point! Hopefully I can do a wispy painty painting and tell you that that’s how the original looks where it is slapped on some wall at the Dragonland castle. <3
Some notes on why the picture is the way it is: all the sapient creatures in the Adhemlenei are ridden bare-back. If you think this looks uncomfortable, what with Hoarwilk’s backbonespikes, well, they deal with it. Also, you may notice that Hoarwilk has rather human-like paws, whereas Silver in the book cover does not so much. This is on purpose. Silver comes from a family that has fairly cat-like paws; Hoarwilk (who is gold, by the way) has more lizard-like toes. Also Hoarwilk has cheek fins and no head-horns.
Dragons with head-horns: Silver, Lumi (you don’t know him yet), Kirstril’s partner (I don’t know him yet!), Shlaes’ partner.
Dragons without head-horns: Craegaarhck, Hoarwilk.
Anatomy practice that somehow turned into my angel. : ) His shins are not long enough? Just enough to make him seem top-heavy, not by much.
I am much closer to having a clean room!!! I actually vacuumed today!!
I will post a really good picture tomorrow. Can’t wait!
