So Corel Painter 12 was on sale yesterday… for 50% off… which meant it was only ridiculously priced, as opposed to super-ridiculously priced. So I got the trial version, and drew a bizarre picture of Gyoriing. (Shush, I haven’t drawn in about a month.) I tried out a few different brushes here, including pencil, digital airbrush, art marker, and digital watercolour.
I also drew a terrifying picture of Gullac, but you don’t get to see it. : P Continue reading
Actually, this picture could be called ‘Crimson and Seafoam Green’, but close enough.
Elinian fanart!!! (Eliwood/Ninian) First time in a long time, huh? Anyway, I drew this listening to the Enya Christmas song Stars and Midnight Blue. At least, it’s sort of wintry. And it’s on her Christmas CD. It’s more a love song than a Christmas song. Doesn’t matter, anyway. I made the picture wintry, and Ninian’s still in her bare-shoulders outfit because she’s half dragon and doesn’t care about the cold anyway.
Recovering from sick. And I found an RPG maker. Some sort of software called Sphere. Haven’t downloaded it yet; planning to wait until Christmas holidays. I think I should try turning The Tactician and the Jewel into a real RPG. Which is finished, by the way. That would be cool!
EDIT: One of the challenging things about novelizing a turn-based strategy game is that real life isn’t turn-based, so one has to adapt it from a TBS to an RTS. Which everyone probably already realized, but it’s easier to realize when you’re actually writing it. : P
Chapter 5: Blood of Pride Chapter 7: The Black Shadow
Chapter 6: Siblings Abroad
When the last dark mage had fallen to Lucius’s light magic, Ceniro explained to the group that Florina had seen a fortress to the south that seemed to have more members of the same sinister group that had attacked Nils just now, and asked her to lead the way.
There were some high hills and a small river in their way, so they were not as quick to reach the fortress as Ceniro had hoped, but after a few minutes of quick marching, a small castle appeared on their right. It did not seem particularly heavily guarded, but still there were only twelve of them, counting Nils, Ceniro, and Serra, who had no combat abilities.
“I hope this is the right castle,” Wil said as they approached. “It would be kind of silly to attack it only to find it belongs to someone completely unconnected.” Continue reading
Bluuuuuuue eeeeeeeyes
I drew Eliwood! I was trying to make his eyes look big and tragic, but all they came out as was upset. Darn. Anyway, I like this picture! His hair looks like his without being anime-rigid!
It makes them feel wanted
Eliwood is not the hugging type, except when Ninian is involved, and then he likes sweeping her off her feet anyway. So, they both turned out pretty good in this picture. Except Eliwood’s hair is a bit not poofy enough. And I can’t do hands.
Romantic golden forest setting
This is based on the Eliwood/Lyn ending shot from Blazing Sword, and it’s a great picture, except Eliwood and Ninian is slightly more palatable to me, so I replaced Lyn with Ninian. (Lyn goes with Hector) It didn’t turn out so well. Well, Eliwood looks good from the waist up, I suppose.
The young lord of Pherae
Eliwood is sad! Oh, no!
I tried to draw this from his sad sprite in the scenes after his father dies, but he’s not leaning forward enough.
Romance is in the air
I drew this picture because the picture at the end of the game with an Eliwood/Ninian pairing makes poor old Eliwood look kind of… wierd. My picture is not much better. Drat. Then I drew something sappy in the top left corner because I had extra space. Should let you know that Ninian seems to have shrunk in that one and that I’m not good at drawing kisses.
Hector… dropped out of the picture, though being the most vocable.
Now, this was supposed to be Eliwood, Hector, and Lyn. Only I cropped Hector because he was so terribly lame, so it’s just Eliwood and Lyn listening to off-screen Hector holding forth on something. Probably about axes.
Return of the sweet, gentle dragon-girl
This picture is the counterpart to this picture, and based on another Enya song: On Your Shore from the Watermark CD. You see, I played through the game the first time without getting any supports (though I broke down and supported Eliwood and Hector to C at the Shrine of Seals level because the ‘support’ option in the menu was bugging me) and then Ninian left for her otherworld home (well, she died first, and I cried for two days because Nergal was so evil and Ninian was so good). So, I wondered, if she was in love with Eliwood, how did they get a happy ending? How was Roy born?
The obvious answer is… Eliwood married someone else. But that couldn’t be! Of all the Fire Emblem games I have played, Blazing Sword is the one with the most obvious pairings – or at least with the ones I’m most set in (Wil and Florina, for example). So Ninian had to marry him somehow.
So, that’s why I drew this picture. I made up a story where Ninian can’t bear being seperated from Eliwood anymore and tells her brother Nils to seal the Dragon’s Gate behind her; she’s going back to the Elibe world. And she doesn’t swim from Valor Isle – where the Dragon’s Gate is – to Elibe, either… some boat comes along since Eliwood and Hector and Lyn started publishing the fact that the island is NOT cursed. On the left is her exiting the front door of the Dragon’s Gate, and the middle is her on the sea shore of Valor Isle, and the one on the right is her meeting Eliwood in the garden of Castle Pherae.