Henson heroically hefts his handy Homeville-ian Homescythe! XD
Fanart for Aja’s contest! I did not win. But those who won definitely deserved it. And I’m pleased with this picture, so everything is as good as it can be!
I need to study clothes. Meh.
It’s a bunch of asylum resi- I mean, music students!
Ummmm. This was my first try at a recital poster for this year’s recital. It fell through when May Ling told me she had about a dozen Conservatory students that would otherwise have gone in the middle. : P
Here’s the finished version, to remind you what I eventually came up with.
So, this version has all the important stuff, and six music students… Tab, a nice first-year, who came out nearly recognisable, KevinN… …… …who always wears shorts, JenniferH, Endy, whose name I spelled wrong (he has crazy hair but not that crazy), Clinton, who is a brilliant – and I mean jaw-dropping good – pianist, and meh on the end.
Last night, I played Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and I nearly got to the first dungeon. Zelda is a pushy little brat, isn’t she? Much different than the princesses of the same name that I know… I mean, she knows what she’s doing, and she does it well – but she’s rather selfish and it comes across strongly. Perhaps this will be her ‘learning journey’ – after all, this Zelda has never known not being a princess! (though the other ones were the same, and they weren’t so selfish… or freaked out by everything!)
I thought someone might find this interesting, so here it is! – It’s the two sides of the piece of paper that I used to help me plot out Pent’s Story. On the one side, like so:
is a map of all the characters and how they relate together. As you can see, some of them I didn’t name at first – or at all, until it came to actually writing. And I did some digging on the Fire Emblem Wiki to find out all I could about Etruria. This chart was an amazing help to me. I recommend this method to everyone writing about a group of more than three characters. Continue reading
And now, the finished picture! Ehhhhh… I actually used the tablet a lot less with the shading/highlighting. I used it a lot for the hair, of course, but the clothes… just didn’t work with that. I need to find a way to change the settings so the harder I press doesn’t affect the width of the stroke, but how dark/light it is.
Parts I’m pleased with: Marteth’s dark purple coat; Gullac’s teal shirt; Bayn’s grey jacket. Coincidentally, they’re the ones you can see least of. : P Tam’s jacket is a close second, though. His shoulders came out half-way decent. I’m also happy with all the hair and Flairé’s face, which was worrying me. Doesn’t he look like his parents? X D
I realize that the ink lines only get in the way now. I think I will experiment in the future with not having hard lines at all. With the tablet, I can do that now!
I’m collecting Candy-cane shards in Guild Wars so I can get the Candy-cane daggers (for Gullac, when I make him) and the Peppermint Scythe (because it’s cool). I already have a Candy-cane spear. I wonder if these weapons break if you use them too much? I don’t think so. But I’m a little nervous about actually using them in battle.
Gullac: I’m not! (sproings around like a frog, brandishing his daggers and laughing insanely)
Dude, I haven’t gotten them yet. Give me another hour.
Flairé: And can you make another tailored to her?
Storekeep: I certainly can, master. Though I would have thought you’d have enough tiny clothing by now.
Flairé: (laughs) Nah, everyone deserves their own. Yes?
Storekeep: Sure. (smiles)
Leslie: (tugs on Flairé’s sleeve)
Flairé: What is it?
Leslie: It isn’t a bother… is it…?
Flairé: Now don’t you fret your pretty head about that. It’s my present to you.
Leslie: Thank you very much…!
Flairé: No prob. (both leave shop and enter the castle gate; Flairé carrying Leslie’s old clothes) (Flairé: (to guards) Hey, guys!)
EDIT: I made a statue of Leslie in the first panel. You can see it here.
(sings and dances) I wuv my tablet, I wuv my tablet…
I’m using this picture as a tutorial to teach myself how to use it, and to relearn Photoshop as the version that came with it is similar to the one we have downstairs (Photoshop 5) but of course it’s different. So I will be shading and highlighting and making shiny over the next week or so. When I’m not playing Wii Sports Resort (that is a pretty darn good game, if I do say so). The tablet is very handy in that I don’t have to switch brushes to do the the tiny corners – I just let up on the pressure. It’s great! And of course it feels like drawing which is very comfortable. It’s a pretty cool device.
I’m not sure how I ended up colour co-ordinated with Flairé’s princely outfit. I think it’s because it’s a generally accepted fact that I look decent in black and red, and his outfit just happens to be black and red. Hmmmm. Oh, I just noticed that part of it is not the right colour (silly me), so I’ll fix that tomorrow. Esgalwen, too, is usually in red, but she also likes blue and green. …Marteth looks like his eyes are crossed. I better fix that. And maybe I’d better recolour Jalril’s tunic so it doesn’t look like part of his skin.
Y’know, the more I look at this picture, the more I like it. Is that bad?
Whoa! Lots of pictures today, folks! Hold on!
First, a very Merry Christmas (or whatever you happen to celebrate) from all of us here at the Adhemlenei. People in this picture: Marteth, Bayn, Gyoriing, Lyrestan; Mathaning, Gullac, Zela, Flaer, Yoeath; Flaria, Jalril, Flairé, Tam, Rana; Ceniro, Leslie, Jennifer, Esgalwen. Quite a number! Didn’t have room to fit in Silver, but we all know she wishes you a Merry Christmas too. Yes? Yes.
Jalril is just embarrassed at standing next to a girl. Who’s dating his brother. She thinks he’s funny. And cute. Tam is a cloooooowwwwn. X D Flairé is wearing his princely-type tunic which you haven’t seen before! It’s red. Continue reading
He so mischievous
“Dude.” “‘Sup?” “Your hair is blue.” “…Duh.”
Taaaaaaaaaaaaammmm!!! Tatamkanai, as drawn by me. The last you saw him was in doll form, back here. This is, so far, the best picture of him… and I hadn’t posted anything in a while, so here you are, a new hot guy. And teenage Flairé. Teenage Flairé is cute. A little short yet. Compared to Tam. They’re around the same height in adulthood.
As you can see, Tam has super-high cheekbones, deepset eyes, and multi-coloured hair. And Flairé is settling down into a very definite pattern – exotic, tilted eyes (from his mother, y’know) and a wide mouth. And everyone has long noses.
The chibi was my first draft of his total design, and the rest of the picture grew out of it. Sort of.
Leslie: Boats!
Flairé: *nod nod* : )
Leslie: Whoaaa… (seeing the castle)
Flairé: Yep. Do you want to go to the castle first, or see some stuff first?
Leslie: …Can we go to the castle? (Ringkun: Hey, Flairé! – Flairé: Hey…)
Flairé: (kind look) Sure!
Hey, another page! I finished this one early! Like, on Thursday! Lots of shiny-haired people, huh? I especially like Leslie’s hair in the third panel. Do you?
BTW, there are no prizes for spotting cameos, but I do like throwing them in there. And no that’s not Joe on this page. It could be. But it’s not.
Flairé: So this is the great harbour city of the Lilemlen-
Leslie: The Leellemming? (random guard: Hello, Lord Flairé! Flaire: How’s it going?)
Flairé: Lil-em-len. It means Moon-land. This is not the capital, but it’s close enough.
Leslie: It’s wonderful!
Aaaaaand another page is up. Took a long time to colour. So many decisions to make! Very colourful, I think. The poses of the second three panels took a long time to draw. They were hard. So the guys in the bottom, a lot of them are sailors. The people with dark skin are from the griffonland. The lady in pink is from the Dragonland. But everyone else is Moonlandish. I liked drawing the guards. You have to look kind of closely but their armour is actually somewhat shiny.
I’m completely obsessed with Duruflé’s Messe Cum Jubilo. It’s glorious and gorgeous.
I also downloaded Sphere but haven’t started messing with it yet. Fire Emblem 7.5, here I come. I hope. Coding seems to be very hard. My brother was very frustrated at it this afternoon.