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Sketch for Zela avatar

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When I get my hands on my sword...

When I get my hands on my sword…

I leave today after lunch, so here is a meaningful picture. It’s the pencil sketch I drew in preparation for making a new website design; probably this one. Yes, this website had been brewing for at least a year before I put it up. And you didn’t see Elfinessé 1 or Zela’s Page, both of which have been around for a couple of years, and both of which are junk. Comparatively.

She looks nice in this picture.

So this sketch is for my avatar. I had trouble with the positioning of the hand, and also I forgot to draw in the hair before I scanned it. So I free-handed the hair in Photoshop when I coloured it (more on that later, when I put up the colour version) with a mouse. And I still didn’t know how to do ears, which is another setback. Maybe I should recolour it!

Carl and Mark

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Dude...

Dude…

These two guys are named Carl and Mark. Carl is the one with the (red) sweatshirt and Mark is the one with sunglasses. They’re from an original (gasp) story bouncing around in my head. Carl is a bummy jerk, thinking of dropping out of Grade 11, and Mark is the school genius and a bit fussy about his appearence. Their class goes to some (foreign?) city where Carl wanders off, bored, Mark goes to go get him, and the bus leaves without them. The part requiring suspension of disbelief follows (until I can sort it out realistically) because somehow they have no way to call home. Or talk to the police. Or anything. They’re ‘stranded in civilization’. And have to work together to make it back. Wow, how clichéed. At least it’s my own characters and my own setting messing it up, not some FE or LZ (or, heaven forbid, ME) folks in their own nerdy world (where, admittedly, it might be easier to come up with an excuse for the scenario).

Soren and Charlotte in Serenes Forest

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Eami sanagi ku nana not...

Eami sanagi ku nana not…

Fire Emblem 9: Trail of Blue Flames is the latest Fire Emblem (soon to be superceded by Fire Emblem 10: Goddess of Dawn) and the last one for Gamecube. By this time I had figured out that, Eliwood notwithstanding, Fire Emblem characters try to be named with real names. Some of the names may not be exactly common, (L’Arachel, Lyndis, Ephraim, Elincia), some of them may be as ordinary as Kyle, Wil(l), Priscilla (apparently the easiest-to-misspell-name-in-the-universe), Joshua, Natasha…

Anyway, Soren, the withdrawn mage, and Charlotte, a very young OC with a troubled past (orphaned and kidnapped by bandits, etc.) are watching Reyson and Leanne (go, heron-folks!) restore their (the herons’) anscestral home of Serenes Forest from a grey, withered mess into a lush jungle. Reyson has the greatest voice. The restored forest is on the left, and they’re watching the golden lights – the scratchy, squiggly things behind them in this picture – head off into the distance on the right, leaving restored forest behind it. Those golden lights move quickly, you know. You can see my version of the galdr here.

This is about the only picture Charlotte appears in because she’s not a very important character, even to me. She has dark blue hair and blue eyes. I think. I’m not sure. Basically all she’s good for is being a sort of Ike-Ilyana combo – good at drawing Soren out in the same way that Ike does, and having an Ilyana-ish personality – sans ravenous hunger. She acts as Soren’s shy, little-seen servant. By her own choosing. Because Soren doesn’t bother taking care of himself. He’s pretty thrifty. He’s had his own troubled past. And I didn’t know yet how to draw his clothes.

Glorfindel, shaded

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Where's the hobbit?

Where’s the hobbit?

And, of course, Glorfindel follows Legolas. It seems like they have a partnership or a deal or something. Except this doesn’t really look like Glorfindel, but it’s supposed to be him. Huh.

So, I was going to draw Glorfindel with Frodo in his arms, but Frodo didn’t co-operate. I also tried to exaggerate the shading, and I think that helped somewhat. This was another turning point in my drawing. I still don’t know how to draw ears. When I figure that out, that will be the next turning point. The turning point after that will be when I figure out how to draw hands. So far I have probably one pair that I’m really happy with. However, I’m proud of the way the hair turned out in this picture. It’s great. The rest of this picture is dumb, but the hair is not.

Legolas

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Father?

Father?

This picture is my best so far. As in, up until Dec 23 ’05. It’s even shaded, so it looks a little 3D! This day, according to my sketchbook, was the day on which we did a Lord of the Rings marathon. We watched 5 discs.

I still didn’t have the hang of shading faces yet, and I still don’t know how to do clothes. I like the cloak very much, though! But the hands need to be bigger. At least they look like hands!

Link

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Look at me, I have pointy ears

Look at me, I have pointy ears

I drew Link again, in my mini-sketch book. That’s about all I have to say about this picture, except that it’s actually sort of shaded. It doesn’t look so good, but don’t laugh! It’s my first step on the next section of the path to greatness! Or something…

Evylyin

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Uh-huh?

Uh-huh?

I imagined something different for Evylyin’s hair, but it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, both times.. Hey, why are the girls in Dragon Booster all ‘toothpick’ girls? Everyone seems bizarrely angular and thin. And please, really, why do the ‘dragons’ look like dinosaurs? I’ve said this before, I know… it just bugs me every time.

The Princess and Curdie Poster

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Happy ending before it starts

Happy ending before it starts

This is a movie poster for a lovely little novel called “The Princess and Curdie” which is actually the second of two. The first is called “The Princess and the Goblin”, and it’s just as sweet. They’re obviously fairytales, written by a guy called George Macdonald. And I made a movie poster for the second one. It’s supposed to be in the castle, and the marble floors are shiny, and the rug thing at the bottom is red.

Zela Small Family Portrait

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We should have dressed up a bit more... at least Mom let her hair down

We should have dressed up a bit more… at least Mom let her hair down

Yes, one of my faceless pictures. Hey, I think it works, and even looks good sometimes. Family portrait of the first four members of Zela’s family. The other five I didn’t have character designs yet for. Though, I did write their names on the side, in preparation… and it looks like wise Bayn has his name as Bayn-nu. Well, I don’t know. Anyway, Zela’s got her hair loose for once, and the pose sort of works, but their feet all look stupid. And Flairé must be shy about his hands or something.