True Love Awakens

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He fell over on a bunch of rocks!

He fell over on a bunch of rocks! And can’t get up! : P

Hey, this picture! I like this picture. I think I drew a draft of it somewhere in my notes but I couldn’t find it. Oh well. This one is better, for once.

The gist of the story: Flaer meets Zela in the forest; Flaer falls in love with Zela; Flaer tells Zela he loves her; Zela doesn’t know what to do; Flaer doesn’t know what to do; a few months later he wanders back into the forest and walks around until he throws himself down for a nap (Author’s note: on a pile of (mossy) rocks? Huh? He must be more masochistic than I thought…); Zela finds Flaer sleeping; Zela falls in love with Flaer.

Yeah, a pair of young idiots the both of them. But I like this picture. Flaer’s hair is all tumbled; his hands aren’t totally lame; Zela is recognisable with her hair down. All good points. Plus the background which exists, more or less. Mostly less.

FLAER SO PRETTY.

Anyway, this picture furthers the story, at least a tiny bit. It concretizes a portion that had always existed in amorphic, nebulous form. I have no idea if I’m using those words right.

Me, Myself, and I

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"******" is about the only way to sum up this picture, yeah.

“******” is about the only way to sum up this picture, yeah.

This is a picture most likely drawn in frustration of some sort or another. In it, you can see a chibi version of all the most hideous parts of my soul mocking me and being chased by a rather bloodthirsty chibi version of the ‘good’ parts of my soul. Or something. While being watched bemusedly by the real me. Actually, no part of me ever drinks, swears, and runs around in her underwear. That’s just sort of symbolism for all the things I hate most about various anonymous bits of humanity in my vicinity. Anyway, it’s all just supposed to be a cute little joke.

[edit from the future: now I swear constantly! lawl]

These Two

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Violist meets kalma. Kalma is not impressed by parallels drawn by pianist. Chaos ensues?

Violist meets kalma. Kalma is not impressed by parallels drawn by pianist. Chaos ensues?

TEXT: “You mean to say that this guy, who you can’t even remember how to draw, looks like me?” “Yes. Frighteningly so. And his name’s Michael, not ‘this guy’.” “Ye’re crazy.” “You are crazy.” “(gravely) Thank you.” “Seriously, now, if you cut your hair and got amber contacts and somebody changed their height by two feet, you’d look like brothers.”

Well, then, this is an odd picture… this was before my violist friend got his hair cut, when it was still long and fluffy and pretty. For whatever reason, I thought he looked a little bit like Flairé, so I tried to draw it. I think the picture came out decently well, except MG doesn’t look like MG and I’m missing my glasses again. My self-image still doesn’t actually have glasses, if you can believe that… I’ve been wearing them since I was 13 or 14 and they still don’t register. Probably because I think I look at least a little bit nicer without them. Flairé’s arms are too short, and my head is too big. But bits of this picture don’t look too bad for an imagined scene of (mostly) real people. And I like Flairé’s hair, of course. The picture-altering program messed it up at the last minute, of course. : P

Epitaph of Seikolos

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Pretty hair

Pretty hair

Pretty girls

Pretty girls

Hello! Happy 4th of July to folks who celebrate that kind of thing, and happy Saturday to those who don’t care.

This is a picture inspired by the very first piece in our MUS120A anthology, the Epitaph of Seikolos, one of less than 50 Greek musical pieces that have been found, and one of the more complete ones. Can you believe it was on two little pillars and some idiot filed off the bottom of one at some point so they would be the same height? No, I can’t either. Some people are just ignorant jerks.

Anyway, I really like the piece; it’s really pretty on the CD, even if we don’t know exactly how it was performed, so I drew a picture of a girl singing it. Maybe someone she knows just died and this is the song that was written for them. Perspective is awful on the lutist, but I like the dresses. And there’s some sort of background.

The upper head was drawn on the top margin of my linguistics notes. It’s actually better than the full drawing, but that always happens. I’m still pretty content with the big drawing.

Went for a short run this morning. Am somehow 5 pounds lighter than last night but felt slower. It’s very mysterious.

Brothers-in-law

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Difficulties in not-using honorifics abound

Difficulties in not-using honorifics abound

Ephraim and Seth. Not much to say, except that they both have short legs but Ephraim somehow looks okay despite that, and Seth has a way-cool coat. And they’re both not exactly like the official art.

It’s really dumb how there’s only official art (that I’ve seen) for about ten random characters in Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones.

And yes, I did realize that the KOTOR II patch has not yet been released. I’m looking forward to it, though. Eeeee.

Foxhunt

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"Foxhunt, eh? Let's give 'em a run for their money."

“Foxhunt, eh? Let’s give ’em a run for their money.”

Oh dear. Oh dear dear dear dear. Um, we had rented the ‘new’ Star Fox game for Gamecube, and my brother got to the very last level. It was pretty cool. Multiplayer was a bit frustrating when I clearly shot but nothing came out of my gun and then I was KO’d, but it was a good game – good graphics, good music, good voices, better plot than, say, Star Fox 64 (although yes, I know, the point of the game is to fly well, not have a good plot. But SF64 is so hilariously inane!) and fun combat.

So all this rambling doesn’t really tell you how I was inspired to draw Fox McLeod and Krystal back to back with their laser-gun thingies surrounded by the very startled members of a British fox hunt.

…I don’t remember either. So you don’t get to find out. The only thing that turned out half-decent was Fox’s right leg (his right leg. The one on the left). And I used references! Oh well. Maybe I need more practice.

I BEAT KOTOR II! I agree with certain people who I have never met – the ending is lame. What happens to Remote and G0-T0? Did they pick up Exile (Selyn, I called her – Selyn Tekeri)? How did Mira and the droids get there? What happened to the rest of the crew? Who was flying the Ebon Hawk? Shouldn’t all the characters get mini-quests on the final level and then stand together against some great menace? – not Traya; she’s a one-on-one with the hero/ine and I have no arguments there. Am I thinking too dramatically? Will I go download that patch? …Hmm. On visiting the site, that seems like a really good idea. Not today, though. Or tomorrow. Next project is… finishing Lara Croft. Then my model X-wing.

Rana by Moonlight

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An eight year old child in the body of a twenty year old woman... and the nightshirt of someone a lot bigger than either

An eight year old child in the body of a twenty year old woman… and the nightshirt of someone a lot bigger than either

Hey there, and Happy Canada Day! Although it’s almost over. I went to a Baroque concert and got a sunburn, but the concert was pretty good. I’m also almost done playing KOTOR II. At last! I’ll be able to waste time on something good!

Uhhhh… or something like that.

This picture I like very very much. Doesn’t she look perfect? Big eyes and looking as if taken by surprise in the middle of the night, with only Naeri her fairy lighting up her young face. This is one picture that I must really apologize for my poor scanning/image manipulating equipment. I don’t have Photoshop of any description on this comp, and I’d like PS 5, but it doesn’t work on this comp because it’s too old. Anyway, I think her legs are too short, but I’m really happy with the rest of it. No real story behind the picture, although I imagine her in the hotel in New Kakariko (Twilight Princess-ish era).

I guess I should get a new Photoshop, but that costs money and I don’t use it except for this and the occasional – very occasional – CG painting. So I’m going to be patient for now. I can be very patient about some things. Like when the Wii came out. I was so patient that they stopped selling FE10 before I even got the console to play it on. I wonder if that will happen with FE11. Probably, although availability won’t be the issue there. I could easily buy both right now if I wanted to. If I didn’t think I should save my money a while longer. Which is rather dumb, because then they’ll stop selling FE11 and it’s the remake of 1 and 3!!! : P

Zela and Flaer kiss

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Diagonal kissing? When was that invented?

Diagonal kissing? When was that invented?

Hi! Just putting up a picture before I go waste my brain cells on KOTOR II again. I’m getting close to the end. Um, this picture is… not very good. I mean, it’s better than usual for a picture of people kissing, but it’s of people kissing, and I’m not very good at that. I think. I haven’t tried in a while. Anyway, there is no real story behind this picture. It’s just Zela and Flaer, kissing. Because they do that on occasion. When their children aren’t looking. : )

You know the theme song of Red Dwarf? Of course you know the theme song from Red Dwarf. “I want to lie/shipwrecked and comatose/drinking fresh mango juice…” Anyway, it was written by Howard Goodall. But wait, you say, who the heck is Howard Goodall? Well, one person he is… in the episode of Mr. Bean in which he goes to church and they sing the hymn with all the Alleluias – I’ll look it up later; right now we just call it the Mr. Bean Hymn – and there is an ORGANIST. And the ORGANIST is HOWARD GOODALL. In case you were wondering. He also wrote an interesting book called Musical Big Bangs.

Spiderman and Flairé

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*Someone* got hit with a machine gun...

*Someone* got hit with a machine gun…

Uuuuuhhhhhhhh… Not sure what to tell you about this picture. I had just watched Spiderman2, and I liked it, mostly. It had its moments. Soooo…. I think Flairé jumped in front of a machine gun or something – I don’t really remember – and while his armour protected his head and torso, his arms and legs are now useless (in the picture). And Spiderman rescued him.

I don’t know what I was thinking anymore. But it is kind of a funny picture. And Spiderman came out well, and Flairé is wearing his crazy helmet. It doesn’t look so good in this picture, though. And there’s a background.

Flairé’s collapsible helmet

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And it even whitens your teeth! ...No.

And it even whitens your teeth! …No.

This is Flairé, and his usually near-invisible (when collapsed) collapsible helmet that became so popular during the second half of the war.

…I totally just made that up, but it’s canon now.

I actually like this design. I will try and keep it if I ever draw it again. And I didn’t make up the part about him wearing the helmet, because I’ve known he wears it all the time – heck, I don’t think he takes it off – but I just made up the part about it being in use during the second half of the war. I didn’t even know the war had halves.

Flairé: It didn’t. Continue reading →