Huhhhhh… My kingdom is falling apart and my wife keeps running away to fight people…
Not a good picture of Flaer. His hair is too plastered to his skull. But I really really like the Moon-land emblem on his sleeve. Pretty Flaer!
Leslie: What is going on?
Flairé: I dunno, but… …you’re here, right?
Leslie: So… do you know Jen?
Flairé: Yeah, of course! D’you think that just because you’ve travelled back in time a few million years that I wouldn’t know my best friend?
Leslie: Even though she’s not actually born yet?
Flairé: Uh, yeah. I guess that would be the case. *THINKING*
Leslie: hahaha (He’s just as odd as Jen said he’d be… but he’s nice and friendly. But how did I get here, and what am I going to do?)
Whoohoo! And it’s time for another page. No background because I still don’t trust myself on ’em.
Leslie politely demands an explanation; Flairé is singularly useless at explaining things in a straightforward fashion. (I think second-to-last panel has him looking very pretty. <3 ) I wonder if he’s acting clueless in order to string the reader along with mystery. …Nah, that can’t be it. He’s just clueless.
Haven’t drawn the next page! I’d better get some done before next week! It’ll be an adventure!
I think his eyes are too light. I’m going to start using the dark green marker for him.
Flairé: Hey there! How are you?
Leslie: …I…uh…
Flairé: Well, I’m very pleased to see you. Miss Leslie, right?
Leslie: F-flairé…..?
Flairé: That’s right!
Whoo! It seems that Flairé already knows Leslie somehow. How could that be? Oh my dear goodness!
I don’t actually know. Yet. But I always have fun drawing Flairé. Stupidly faint coloured pencil background because I felt pen felt too permanent and I’m not so good at backgrounds yet.
W00t! I broke the 10,000 word mark in the Zela novel! I introduced an awesome new character whom I only vaguely knew before as “that friendly guy” and he had never appeared in text before, just in my head. I named him Tam.
W00T IT’S A PIANO
Huzzah! Now come listen to us all play brilliantly!
I think it might be rather long, so I hope you’re not sick of piano by the end of it.
I drew that based on the actual piano we will be playing on, using my grey-scale art markers. Also a golden art-style Sharpie. And a yellow non-Sharpie marker. And Photoshop. It wasn’t so hard once I got started.
You can’t tell that I used a different marker around the Steinway logo if you print it out. Click for a large, printable image!
Leslie: “And what’s that sound? Where is it?”
(walks through the trees until she meets… Flairé! Playing his pipe.)
So Leslie figures out where she is by who she meets. And we introduce a new character. He’s very pretty here. : D
No NNWM words just yet. I have my outline ready to go. I’m going to start on that now, and get maybe the Prologue (again) done before church. I don’t think my previous Prologue is quite bad enough to be scrapped yet, but they say you must start from scratch – punishable by death! So I’ll rewrite it anyway, because my ideas have changed a bit since I last wrote it. The thing is to not let on that they’ve changed, because I liked the effect of the first time. But it means something else now, so I have to reflect that too.
I’m going to try and get a chapter and a bit done today.
I still need a title for the thing! I’d like to call it something like “Adhemlenei: First Blood” or “Beginning of the Fall” or anything with “Sword” in it. Especially anything with “Sword” in it. I have the other three books named, just not the first one!
Leslie: “I’m so tired… my pieces aren’t learned, and I still have my theory assignment to do…” (ed. This is a practice room 😛 )
“Maybe I’ll feel better after a quick nap…”
Later…
“Where am I?”
To be continued…
So, here’s page 1 of the Flairé comic. And yes, as far as I know, this is totally realistic. Up until the last two panels, anyway. I used colouring pencil to do the reflection in the mirror.
Well, this is the beginning of an exciting new endeavour! I’m going to try my hand at a weekly webcomic. The script is done, and I have a buffer of six weeks. This comic is only 36 pages long, counting the cover, but that’s most of a year so I think I’m good for now. And I can always think of new adventures later. There’s at least one more episode in concept form, with a bunch of new characters. But that’s waaaaaaaay in the future. Right now, enjoy! First page will be up next week. Huzzah!
For those of you who are new: Welcome! This is the first page of a webcomic that will be updating on Sundays (hopefully at 12:00 noon Pacific time), starring my original character Flairé in his original homeland the Adhemlenei, and my best friend Leslie. And some other completely insane nutcase who by all rights shouldn’t even be allowed to exist there. ; ) And yes, the adventures are non-canon so they have no real bearing on the story that should be written about Flairé, his mother, and the darkening world around them… written sometime in the next decade or three. Yep. Again, welcome, and good luck!
Yesterday there was lots of D&D-ing. It was great fun, although Illinia didn’t talk much, as usual. She needs to talk more. I think the setting is confusing her. Her player coloured the above picture and drew a hot picture of Torrigan (the Paladin of Pelor in our party) on her script. But it was tons of fun. And then we all went for dinner at Shabu Shabu at about 8:00 and got completely stuffed. Yum.
Next time I will totally play Flairé. : D
*cue manic laughter and Leahy*
The logical next step for my new Christmas ’08 Art Pens was to draw Flairé!! I mean, combine them with my existing French-Greyscale art markers. I like these results, even if I still don’t know how to draw hands. Nice boots, I would say. And hair. His face is a little bit creepy, though. I decided I was tired of calling him Flairé all the time, so I titled this picture Kickbutt McAwsum. On second thought, that’s a silly name. I should have called it Kickbutt McAwsumpants. <3
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.
Whoohoo. I’m thrilled. -_-7
I have to say… sweatdrop. Y’know, that anime convention that an embarrassed or exasperated character has a large rain-drop shape on the back/side of their head.
This picture is a long-running joke at school… One of my friends just loves the movie “Lisztomania”. Which begins straight away with something I don’t want to see. Apparently a metronome is involved, and then I stopped listening to the preview discussion. So, this friend holds a party once a year where everyone (everyone interested) all goes to watch it. lx-sama once asked if I was going, and I replied “I’d rather gouge my eyes out with a rusty screwdriver first”. That inspired him to a fit of that deep chuckling giggling that sets everyone in the area either giggling too or backing away slowly. It’s a little sinister. Very gratifying, personally. A different time, I told him I would come if my head was swathed in so much duct tape I could hear nothing and see nothing. I think. Correct me if I’m wrong, guys? Anyway, there was some talk of duct tape and eyeballs, but I don’t really remember what happened. All I really remember is this picture, in which Flairé kindly did swath my head in duct tape and let lx-sama drag me off hyperly. Hooray for excited chibis. You can see I misspelled Liszt the first time. Pickles. This picture did amuse lx-sama greatly, so that objective was accomplished.
Sort of mixed media; Flairé is in pencil because he’s the most realistic. I love Flairé. He takes such good care of me.
lx has shiny hair.