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The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Sword Discussion

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Leslie: Teehee… that is definitely something he would make fun of…

Jen:   : D   (opens door to cell)

Leslie: What was that thump?

Jen: (hugs Leslie) That was Flairé knocking somebody out. I hope you didn’t think it was me! I’m not that good!

Leslie: Then what is the swo- rapier for?

Jen: Well, I can defend myself long enough that Flairé can come to my rescue. I’m about an equal sparring partner for Deerfleet.

Chibi Flairé: (is not there) You’re prolly wondering why I brought her along, then…

The title of this page comes from the fact that my sword-expert (not really) brother refuses to acknowledge my rapier as a rapier. He says it looks like a sabre. He also wants to know why Leslie and I have shiny on the back of our heads where the (offscreen) torch doesn’t shine.

EDIT: It’s totally not a rapier. It’s a combat foil or something. Like, it has a sharp pokey tip, but it doesn’t have the stiffness etc. of a real rapier. I know this now.

I would totally talk in emoticons if I could.

Bad art this week. Sorry.

Flairé shirt files

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We all like pickles. Except for AlexR and .t

We all like pickles. Except for AlexR and .t

Yeah? 'Sup?

Yeah? ‘Sup?

I now have a shirt with these pictures on them, so now I can show you the pictures!! Top image is not full size but full size is 900 px across and I didn’t think you wanted that.

Flairé’s tunic came out wonderfully smooth on the shirt, and… the rest of him, too, actually. Except for his face. It was a little blotchy. I remember making a Photoshop-smoothed version, but I must not have emailed it to myself. The shading on the hair and sleeves is by my French Grey art makers; the shading on the cloak is from a black marker, a grey marker, and the grey marker gone over twice to get a darker shade. It might not wholly make sense, but it looks pretty good, I guess. Actually on the shirt itself it’s a little hard to tell.

Anyway. You like? I like for sure.

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Loon in the Darkness

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(a small hand appears through the doorway with a torch)

Jen: Leslie! Are you all right?

Leslie: Jen?! What are you doing here? And why do you have a sword?

Jen: Ummmmm… I’m here to rescue you! And it’s a rapier, ’cause I actually know how to use one sorta! And no Saxophone Alex jokes!

Chibi Saxophone Alex: Bwahaha

…No, Chibi Saxophone Alex is not actually there. But he would probably make an inappropriate comment at this point, so I drew him in because I felt like it. Oh, and hey, it’s me! I’m not sure what you folks will think of self-insertion. But as long as you consider me just as another character, I don’t think you’ll be bothered. More will become clear next page.

I was doing the colouring late last night and I really nearly messed up on the backgrounds.

EDIT: It’s totally not a rapier. It’s a combat foil or something. Like, it has a sharp pokey tip, but it doesn’t have the stiffness etc. of a real rapier. I know this now.

Aur scribble

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Lion-man is stoic man

Lion-man is stoic man

I felt like posting something! The only thing I have left to do today is practice (and study Latin and play Guild Wars – Kessex Peak is still waiting!) so I decided to put SOMETHING UP. Especially since I’m bored and I’ve been listening to Kalmaeirin playlists on my iTunes for the last two hours while I wrote my Linguistics paper for this week.

Soooo… this is the first picture I drew with Corel Painter, with the pencil tool and my glorious tablet, and it is of Aur from Dreigiau. It’s not very good, so I didn’t send it to Aywren. I mean, it’s better than the last picture of Aur I drew. But still not really good enough. Though I think it’s decent enough to be posted. The scribble of Link I did a few weeks ago, though… X P That will not be posted. Ugh.

I think I gave Aur too much eyelashes.

Cheers!

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.