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The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Creepy Bishounen

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Leslie: (falls out of large Abduction-bag™)Who are you? W-what do you want with me?

Burly soldier: Be quiet, shrimp. (whaps Leslie)

Elkyari: Be nice, soldier. You don’t know how long we’ll have to keep this one.

Leslie: (shiver)

Oh my! A nice looking red-haired guy! Maybe he’s a good guy! …Maybe not. But now that I know he doesn’t look like a sack of potatoes maybe I’ll make him into an actually character. I mean, he doesn’t even have a name.

I’m sad that you can’t see how buff Mr. Bad Guy is because his suit is so dark, so here is the lineart. He looks a little psycho, though. o_O Hmmm.

It’s an indistinct blobby room! D :

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Dun Dun Dunnn!

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Flairé: Flaria, be a sweetheart and grab me some travelling things, would you? I need to go look for Miss Leslie.

Flaria: What’s happened?

Flairé: The extremists have snatched her out from under my very nose. They’re an alert gang… I’ll make sure they’re not so alert after tonight… |: (

Dun dun dunnn! : D

Kitchens are hard. Flaria puts her hair in a braid when she’s working in ’em. Good idea, no? And I’m not sure what Flairé does with those long dramatic laces on his gauntlets. I think he tucks them inside somewhere.

Determined Flairé is determined. And sexy. Imo.

I went for a walk today in the bright sun, and my brother and I basically spent the whole walk trying to calculate if it was more sensible to use a single bolt or take advantage of the Warhammer High Elves’ awesome repeater bolt thrower which fires six shots at S4. We determined eventually that there is indeed a higher chance of killing knights (or whatever) by using six bolts. Mystery solved! After much math, including factoring in Lady’s Saves and things like that…

Did you ever realize just how present the piano is in the Battle of Hoth? Awesome.

Recital Poster 2010

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Well, it’s not the exact same as I had in my head (maybe I should have gone with the first sketch after all) but it is finished and hopefully it is recognizable in some small way.

I must run or else I will be late for Ling. Which would be terrible because Ling is so cool. D :

(Much later, after Ling and Lat and teaching) I want to draw a picture of a Nintendo-character orchestra performing Mozart’s Requiem. That would be fantastic.

Ahem. Abou the picture – well, I fixed the Op. number on the Beethoven and added a date so people know when to actually show up. : P I don’t think it really looks like me. Except that it does bear a frightening resemblance.

Mom says that it looks like me… except elf-y-er. (X-man says that it looks rather “Faerie tale”, which I suppose is the same thing) So… if all my elf drawings look vaguely like me, and I draw myself vaguely like my elves… well, firstly that means I have a lot of practice drawing my elves. But what else does it mean? (tries not to overthink this. … … …)

WIP with eyebrows

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Any better?

Any better?

Okay, so this is the product of today’s messing around with a tablet and no real concern for sanity realism. I’m not sure what’s going on with the hair. The highlights are too stark. I will fix that tomorrow before I get it put into poster fashion and printed.

I was pleased to learn that when you extend the canvas in Photoshop, it somehow finds the stuff that was off the edge in Corel Painter. Isn’t that nice? Now I can finish my shoulders and the rest of the hair trailing over them, and the upper edge of something resembling clothing. It’s just a head/shoulders shot, don’t worry. I adjusted the lips. Do they look better? And duh, I added eyebrows. They were hard, surprisingly.

I think I also need to make the end of my nose more pink (I have a pink nose) and also more highlighted so you can see it’s there. : P Not sure what to do about the ear. It is, contrastingly, too dark, but that’s more like ‘just right’. But I do like being able to see myself with perfect skin for once. : P

In relation to the recital this is for, I still have those two pages of Dutilleux to memorize. But I worked on some other stuff today, and I think it will actually be really good this year. As opposed to last year. And any other time I’ve ever performed.

WIP with no eyebrows

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Things to adjust: lips (too pressed together – actually reminds me of Laine but that’s just me) – shadows (more around eyes, I think) – hair (haven’t really started yet) – eyebrows (haven’t put them on because I’m forgetful)

I’m actually quite happy with the nose. Noses are hard for me. Good thing I traced this one.

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The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: His Sense of Smell is Just That Good

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Flairé: Miss Leslie? Did you find your room all right? (sniffs the air) ! Leslie?!

(sees note on the floor): The little human is ours. You can do nothing to help her, Nieron Flairé. Bow to our wishes!

I like drawing Flairé. I only wish his castle matched up to him. Oh well. If you’re wondering that is a hallway that has bedrooms and such off of it. Except you can’t see the doors because… the walls have pillars sticking out of them. That you can’t tell. Yessss. : P

I am solar powered! I must be, because the last couple of days have been beautiful! And suddenly I feel like doing things! Practicing, playing Guild Wars, cleaning up, drawing, running – I went for a run yesterday!

Flairé: Yes, I’m very proud of you. (pats head)

Yay! So now it’s kind of misty out today-

Flairé: Great West Coast weather. My fave!

-but after we get back from the Via Choralis concert in Sidney I am going for another run.

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Abduction!

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THAT GUY. HE IS A NINJA.

THAT GUY. HE IS A NINJA.

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Leslie: Well, this has certainly been a weird day… I had a nap and I wake up… in Jen’s head? (shakes head) No, it has to be real. Flairé is so nice, and Flaria is such a good cook… (dark-clad figures creep in through open window and grab her) Ah!

Aaaaaah! Something happened! Oh noes!

Hold on to your instruments, things are actually going to go pretty fast from this point on. I guess I need to work on pacing more.

How do you like the attempt at moonlit floor? That’s not a moon in the upper right panel – it’s a stained glass window.

Sorry I’m late again. I was getting ready for Christine’s recital! She looked like a goddess of spring, with a light green silk gown and a silver clip in her golden hair. And she played fantastically, of course! Laura was pretty amazed at the end of the trio (Pantheon by Elizabeth Raum) because we filled the hall with so much sound.

I Totally Dare You To Dance

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I *totally* dare you to dance. Like, right now. DO ET! XD

I *totally* dare you to dance. Like, right now. DO ET! XD

Oooh, it’s a painting! Not Photoshop, but Corel Painter. I was messing around with it, trying to see if I could get it to work. I think I did. In a rudimentary fashion, anyway.

One new thing I tried was highlighting from two different light sources. Well, that’s rather fancy talk for what I really did. I just highlighted from a neutral light source, then applied the blue layer and added orange highlight on one side – for the fire – and white on the other – for the moon. It’s a little bit too subtle but too much looked really bad.

The attitude turned out pretty good, though.

I painted this while listening to The Kilforna Set from the Chieftains Album Water in the Well. Great tunes!

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Spazz Time

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30 seconds later:

Flaria: Oh! A person. How old is she? Does she like music? Where did you get the dress?

Flairé: Her name is Leslie, she’s 19, and she plays music everyday. We got the dress at Avumal’s place. Miss Leslie, this is my over-excitable sister Flaria.

Flaria: *eyeroll* Hello, Leslie! I’m very pleased to meet you. What do you like to eat?

Leslie: What is there?

AAAAAHHHHH IT’S A FEMALE FLAIRÉ just kidding.

Oh, yes. As soon as Flaria meets the new girl her thought is only hyper curiousity and whether she’s hungry.

This room needs a little more colour. The next time you see it, it will have some red drape-y things. Almost wasn’t going light the candles, but then I figured that it would only be natural. And I’m running out of yellow marker! : ( I will try and fix that for next week but I make no guarantees.

Oh and I don’t think the “switching back and forth” in the first frame was too successful. I will do better next time. I also forgot Flairé’s sword in the second panel. He just took it off really really fast? Those kalmaei are fast, you know.