You look very Japanese today, dear.
This is a vaguely interesting picture in that it’s the first time I’ve drawn Rinako since… well, the last time. Which was May of 2007. My style seems to have changed dramatically. The position didn’t come out exactly right, but… whatever.
Silly kitten hurt her foot…
This is a picture, obviously, of Link, Rana, and Saria (sans fairies). They’re returning home to Kokiri Village from a long day of playing in the Lost Woods, where Rana hurt her foot. Again, I can’t do perspective too well, and I didn’t use a reference for Saria. So that’s why she’s not wearing her cute little green boots. Link turned out the best again, but still looks funny.
Sweetheart, your head is shaped like a balloon…
Hello and greetings! This was a quick sketch of Link and Rana… it wouldn’t have been so quick if it had turned out right. Anyway, I started with Link’s head, and it turned out GREAT. Izzenee handsome? The rest of both of them, not so well. Perspective was not my strong point, and it still isn’t, to a large degree… Rana’s body is okay, althoug she looks a bit too skinny, or maybe a lot, and her tunic doesn’t sit right, and her head is not so good because, again, of perspective. I have the nagging feeling that I almost got it, that if I just change a few lines and move her features over a tad, it would be perfect. But I don’t know how. As you’ll see later, I tried again, and this time it was marginally better but Link’s face was not so good. I should point out that they’re wearing their clothes from the Twilight Princess period.
…I miss it… why didn’t Zelda put one in when she redecorated?
Ganondorf got short-changed in Twilight Princess! This was originally my brother’s idea, and he says I didn’t get it right. That’s okay. I put my own interpretation on it. I suppose if they repeated the setup from Ocarina people would say ‘hey, what is this, Ocarina2?’ which would be justified… but Ganondorf playing organ is pretty cool. Even if it reinforces the stereotype that ‘organs are evil. Or at least creepy. And malevolent.’ Not too shabby a rendition of Ganondorf, for me, either. Could have been better, but I couldn’t figure out how much detail I could fit in to one page. Looks like I could have put in more, but it was smudging. I wanted him to be really shadowed and spooky. Contrast to the very short Zelda suspended above him. Ran out of room.
Trio of musically inclined and deformed friends
I tried to draw this picture on the success of the last picture, but it didn’t turn out so well, for a few reasons. First reason is that that harp is ridiculous. Second reason is that Silver the dragon (the intellectual descendant – who shares nothing with her predecessor – of Christina the dragon) has a very long tail and really awful arms. Yoeath the unicorn isn’t so bad. But anyone who knows what a horse looks like will be able to tell that she needs work. And her horn is lopsided.
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.
“******” 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]
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
Pretty hair
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.
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.