Category Archives: Pencil

Sleeping Angel

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Sleeping in the music basement - a common pasttime, though not necessarily for angels.

Sleeping in the music basement – a common pasttime, though not necessarily for angels.

Uhhhmmmm… this is a picture of a friend of mine that I got from a certain social networking website. So, drawn with a reference… didn’t stop his hair from coming out incredibly plasticy. And then I drew wings just for fun. I like wings. I should draw all my friends with wings and see what they look like. : D

Woot, Flairé shirt! I had to redraw the top of his head because it wasn’t high enough… When you make a race with long noses, it somehow shoves their eyes up higher than half-way up the head. Which is too high.

Note to Gullac: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Gullac: (with matches in hand) Awwwwwww……

The Angel Gabriel from heaven came

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...His wings of drifted snow, his eyes of flame (sorta)

…His wings of drifted snow, his eyes of flame (sorta)

Wow, we’re less than a year behind! Exciting. Maybe. Anyway, this is a picture drawn based on the Christmas hymn of the same title. It’s an exotic image, wings of snow and eyes of flame. But my interpretation didn’t work this time. Well, maybe the wings worked sort of, but the eyes didn’t really work. Also his hair was supposed to be that curly Greco-Romanesque style hair, but you can’t really tell, can you. And his robe wasn’t supposed to look wrinkley, just drapey. Oh well. But it does sort of look like he’s glowing, which is good. I used colouring pencil all over this, even if you can’t tell apart from the eyes.

Today I remembered I have some basic colouring markers and I got the urge to start my Flairé T-shirt that I want to make. I drew the front image, which is based on this picture (bwahahaha), and coloured it and everything. Now I’m working on the back image which is a portrait of Flairé himself and the pencil sketch has turned out rather well. Now let’s see if the inking and colouring turns out well! (*is nervous*)

Renaitian, Gradonians, and Frelians

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Sorry for not posting yesterday and for posting late today… was working on Ephraim’s Story Chapter 6 so that I could post the picture that went with it. But now it’s done, and I can turn my attention to other things. Like not re-reading Wayrift. <_< >_> Actually, I finished the second run through and yes, it made even more sense this time. (Love Tsu…) Anyway, this picture is of Ephraim hailing Duessel, from a little farther away than a ‘Talk’ command would cover, but it’s dramatic enough. Syrene/Vanessa/random pegasus knights are in the air. Stick figures are the rest of the Frelian army. Epic Ephraim is epic. Duessel is Duessel. Random knightly-dudes are Deussel’s random knightly-dudes. XD ‘Nuff said.

Fort Rigwald

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As usual, today’s picture is down in the chapter; but today, there are two pictures! I drew an illustration for the beginning of the chapter and the end of the chapter. And for all that I couldn’t remember what people were talking about and I had to go and restart the game and play it again to find out. Oh, my background for the second one is laaaaame. The first one I don’t think is too bad, though.

I’ve been working on the last chapters of The Tactician and the Jewel (sooooo close!! Chapter 9 really is finished now and I’ve started the outline of Chapter 10) but I took some time out to write the Rigwald chapter. Bit rushed, perhaps, but it gets the plot across, yeah? I hope it’s not too boring. …You know, I have a scene in which the ‘hero’ of TTatJ’ is not present – and I discovered how much he overshadows everything. I got to spotlight some minor characters! Yay!

Ephraim Meets Syrene

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A small sketch of where I (gasp) replace Seth and co. with Syrene!! (down here towards the end of the chapter)I think it makes sense, personally, and considering I already wrote Eirika’s Story and have most of the characters in there, especially Seth, I needed to use other characters to provide emphasis. I’m gonna miss Kyle and Forde, though. They were wasted on Eirika’s Story. But they needed to go with her. No more silly banter from the social knights, but Syrene is here to save the day! I like her. I pair her with Innes, though that’s probably so uncanon that people are shooting me dirty looks now. I’m not sure what to do with the other Frelians, though. I don’t find them the most interesting characters, actually. I’ll figure out something.

Renvall Rescue

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Scroll down to find the picture somewhere in Chapter 3 of Ephraim’s Story. I forgot the horses! I guess I wasn’t confident enough to draw them. The left side of the page is a quick summary of what they say during that scene in the game. As you can see I didn’t follow it exactly. I find it’s smoother to read and less predictible to the reader that way. I mean, EVERYONE and their kitchen sink knows what Lyn says in the Prologue of Rekka no Ken in the game. Also it avoids what one fanfic author, through Erk, called RDOO’s: Random Displays of Obviousness.

Fire Emblem Rescue

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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

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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

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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!