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Fire Emblem Rescue

Franz is blind! Oh noes! jk

Franz is blind! Oh noes! jk

There are so many illustrations/parodies of the Fire Emblem Rescue command, so I did my own. Only it’s not a parody. See, this is what should happen when you have two horse mounted guys and one rescues the other. Duh! So there you are. Franz and Amelia from Fire Emblem 8 demonstrate after cavalier!Amelia gets hit by an arrow. Franz doesn’t have eyes because I thought that would ruin the effect somehow. Meh.

I dragged out my Zela costume yesterday. I’m going to make a pouch thingy to go on the belt, so I can carry my lunch to school. I also need to find a quick way to attach my waterbottle. And I think I want to make a new tunic, make it longer, more formfitting in the waist. And I’m going to make a wood/plastic sword. Yep. That’s my big plan. I’m going to try the pouch first because I still have material left from the cloak that I can use. Oh, and I want to add little detail things to the costume all over because y’know, it’s quite a plain costume. I know that a ton of, say, strappy or dangly things would only get in the way of moving swiftly and silently through the forest and/or fighting, but there must be something I can do. I’m thinking about embroidered ivy on stuff. y/n? And little bits of stitching to the black shirt/pants as if it got torn once and mended. And add length to both the sleeves and neck because the shirt is actually too small. And fix the gauntlets so they don’t cut off circulation when I try to play piano. o_O7

And then maybe I’ll buy red material and start working on a Flairé costume because Flairé would be awesome to go as. Although I’d need a long shiny black wig. Hmm. And the cloak would be insane because I want to make his fancy cloak with the embroidered phoenix on the back that you haven’t seen yet. Whee!

Guitar Duet

It can't be Yasashisani. That's too cute for this picture.

It can’t be Yasashisani. That’s too cute for this picture.

So this is Flairé and Flaria, playing their crazy-shaped kalmaeirin guitars somewhere in their home which is full of archways and pillars and little benches and wierd little windows onto the next corridor over. o_O A-yup. I really like how this picture came out, especially Flaria’s dress. And the hair and faces and guitars aren’t too bad. I also like Flairé’s jacket.

Found a fan translation of a Dragon of Darkness/Sword of Light manga. I feel bad reading it on the internet, because the (very good) artist went to a lot of trouble to make it and I’m not giving anything in return, but it’s MARTH and I can’t resist. I shall need to see if I can buy it somewhere, even in its original Japanese form. I’ll just put in sticky notes with the translation or something. : D I also want the Ocarina of Time manga, for some reason. And definitely the Oracle of Ages/Seasons manga…

Finished Chapter 8 of The Tactician and the Jewel! Will start on Chapter 9 later today but the framework is so bare I will have to spend a little extra time on this one as I’m not sure what happens at all. I don’t even know if the showdown occurs this chapter or the next chapter. Maybe it should be both. Hmmm. …Ceniro rules! : D

Anything else? …Not really. Onwards!

Esgalwen: Caribbean Blue

So all the world goes round and round/with all you ever knew...

So all the world goes round and round/with all you ever knew…

Esgalwen! Small, quite anime-faced, but very cute all the same. Slim, with long black hair, and a playful glance back, this is how her husband first saw her, dancing at one of those famous parties in Mirkwood once. Though I don’t think she looked quite this young. Anyway. No shoes! Oh yeah, and she’s dancing to the Enya song Carribean Blue which is very dancable. It’s in 3/4.

So I’m happy with this picture. Yay!

Yesterday one of the girls at work gave me four cinnamon buns (I asked for them) and she wrapped them all in different coloured paper. I guess she was as bored as I was. Still, I appreciate it!

Lyn’s Legion

It's not a Gameboy. Honest.

It’s not a Gameboy. Honest.

Well! Here is Ceniro, and he’s just going to make me squeal with delight, because I always like it when he shows up. In this picture, he’s actually journeying with Eliwood, but Lyn took time out for ‘Lyn’s Legion’, the Original, to get together, so there’s Florina, the little figure on the left, Wil sitting between her and Lyn, Lyn waving her sword with rather long arms… and Kent and Sain, who are too far away to tell apart. And their loyal friendly tactician is sitting under a tree a short distance away, just enjoying the fact that they’re there again, and not even looking at his Gam- farseer. Seriously, it’s not a Gameboy. Really. It has buttons and stuff, but they’re not Gameboy buttons. Actually, the latest design has no buttons. I figured that would be beyond the imagination of medieval spellsmiths. It might have had levers, but its designer thought those would maybe catch on things and just generally be too unwieldy. So it has a purely magic interface. Now, at least.

Anyway, this picture is wholly uncanon, as Lyn would never steal the tactician very far away from the army when the world is in jeopardy. And Lyn’s Legion ought to include Erk, Serra, Matthew, Rath, Wallace, Nils, Ninian, and Lucius, regardless of the fact that they joined after Sain and Wil coined the title. So… this picture is not very realistic, but… Ceniro is my squeezy! Or something. (*Ceniro leaves hastily*) I wonder where he’s going. Probably afraid for his life. Oh well.

Yay background!

The Matrix Triumvirate

Somebody's got shiny hair.

Somebody’s got shiny hair.

I watched The Matrix for the first time just before this picture with my friend lx, and he said to me in the middle of it: “I like Neo’s coat. Get me Neo’s coat, Jen.”

So I did. Except it was in a picture. And chibified. Eee, chibified lx is cute. Also included are N as Morpheus, since he’s ‘older’ than us, and I’m Trin because I’m a girl. Also I like her shiny shiny leather vinyl spandex? clothing stuff. The Triumvirate part comes from an idea of lx’s, that we three should be a composing triumvirate, especially after the part where Christopher said he prays nightly that we should become composers.

I might yet become a composer. Just not full time, and not at UVic. So that dream should not be wholly abandoned. : P

That’s a rifle I’m holding demurely behind my back.

Symmetry

Floatin' in space, oh my

Floatin’ in space, oh my

Well, guess what this is! Hint: look at the top left of your page. The very top. No, higher than that. No, lower than the toolbar. …Yeah! It’s the ‘site logo’ thingy that I made up to go as part of the title image. Except in pencil. Looks pretty similar, doesn’t it? After I get near everything else up, then I’ll post the colour version and you can see that, too.

So, this is the natural outcome of the earlier Symmetry pictures. With my own characters, instead.

People keep praising kneadable erasers. Am I using mine wrong? It doesn’t seem to work for me.

Marquez Danzon #2

Don't ever let your feet stop moving, and lilt like you mean it!

Don’t ever let your feet stop moving, and lilt like you mean it!

This picture was inspired by the ever-popular Danzon #2 by a certain composer named Marquez. It is fantastic and should be danced to the world over. It’s so fabulous Flairé and Flaria danced to it and I tried to draw their halting, lilting, sometimes (in Flairé’s case, anyway,) twitchy dance movements or, as here, gliding, lilting, whirling, intricate dance movements. Continue reading

Warhammer comic page 10

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So. Um. Elfin is cute! Though his horse is a little small.

Flairé: You lost the battle, didn’t you.

Yeah, I think so. But I managed to twist it into a moral victory. Or something. I have the idea I was going to continue it, but I didn’t get around to it. And so I don’t remember what happened after that last frame, if anything.

Still plugging away at Chapter 7 of The Tactician and the Jewel. The opening is starting to take shape. Not sure how to get into the action yet, though I have some good ideas for the action itself.

Warhammer comic page 8

 

The ‘two-page spread’? The Bret general charges my general, drawn on two separate sheets of paper and clumsily joined in Paint because I have no Photoshop. Oh well. You can tell what’s going on, can’t you? There’s not much else behind the Bret lord. Just his horse’s tail. So you’re not missing anything. If you really think you are, save the picture and have another look. …unless you have larger screen resolution than I do (1280×800) and then it doesn’t matter. I think there was supposed to be dialogue, too, but I have no idea what it was. Looks like blue-eyes got his helmet knocked off pretty quickly, though. I guess that means he’ll fit ‘Penlod’ in my spearmen a bit better.

Check back tomorrow to see what that last scout from the page before last is doing! 😛