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.
Hu! He! Te!
This is from playing Super Smash Bros. Melee and deciding to try to learn to use a sword the same way as Marth, who appears quite proficient. Roy is good too, but I usually use Marth. I don’t really know why. Maybe it’s because I’ve heard that he is hated world-wide. Anyhow, this is his B-side chain (hold the control stick to the side and hit B repeatedly, and rhythmically enough to not degenerate into mashing which will break the chain). Read the moves from Right to Left, because he’s moving left, so that’s how I drew it. Also, his salute, his ‘taunt’, his pose, and he says something in Japanese which I have since learned is “Minna, miteite kure!” which is “Everybody, look at me!” ^_^ Gladly.
This must be heaven, since it’s impossible
More Zelda! This is, from left to right, Link II, Princess Zelda from Link II’s time, Raven, Link III, and Rana. This incongruous meeting is of all my favourite Zelda characters, I suppose, of that time… Sorry about Zelda. She was nice, but the scanner wasn’t big enough. Rana looks wierd. The Links look good.
The other day when thinking about the Oracle of Ages manga, I realized how well the backgrounds were drawn. It really seems like Raven comes from a medieval era, and Link comes from an era that is still medieval but is more civilized, in the appearance of the buildings and the roads and so on. Also, in the ‘future’, there is no monarchy of Labrynna, which adds to the ‘modern’ feel of the ‘future’. Raven comments on the industrious, pleasant look of the future on one page when he is rescued briefly to that time. Also a couple of other plot points make the earlier Labrynna feel more… like a pioneering, budding village. A farming village.
Woman? What woman? That’s just a bunch of seaweed!
This mermaid was drawn on the spur of the moment, trying to emulate a flowing, dreamy style that I did once before of a dryad and a swanlady and a peacock – all three in one being, connected to each other. So, in this, you can see the fish, perhaps, without the girl. Her hair and arms should look like seaweed, and I tried to give her face a bit of a haunting, otherworldly expression. Unfortunately, I don’t think my skills are quite up to that.
After some deliberation, I put this in Zela’s world. Why not mermaids? They can be shy secretive creatures if they don’t play a large role in the story, which I’m sure they won’t.
Look, ma! No hat!
These two pictures of Link were also drawn during the BC Provincials. My mom scolded me for not paying attention, but I think it was worth it, since these pictures illustrate my concept of Link’s hairstyle, which we otherwise can’t see under that nifty hat of his. Also it was intermission.
Black and white this picture would be in any case
This picture was drawn while I was attending the 2004 BC Provincial Music Festival, and it is of the stage of the hall at UVic where it occured. I brought my sketchbook, and I used it a lot for scrap paper in writing down what I thought of various pieces, but I also used it for drawing and this is the result. Having the Provincials on the Island is really very convenient. Last year it was in Prince George and it was rather expensive. I’m not sure whether I hope it’s again in Victoria, or at least in Vancouver, or that I don’t go this year. Anyhow, realism is demonstrated by the sketch above, even if it’s not done very well. I think the second piano was for the seniors’ concerti. I was in intermediate that year.
Hylian blondes are cute
A half-length portrait of Raelle, finished concept sketch. Very pretty is she, I think. This fair lassie’s full name is Raelleanoranda, because her mother is insane. (like Gaila – the stereotype I singlehandedly crafted of a stout, overbearing, ‘fashionable’, social-climbing mother). Raelle herself is a nice girl, called Ella by her girl friends, Ray by her father and her boy friends, and Raelle by everyone else. She has a sister named Chrysanthemum, married to a nice guy named Peter, I think. Raelle ran away from an arranged marriage to a fat, drunk general in the Hylian army and she ran to Labrynna. You see, I thought Raven was so handsome, and his marriage was guaranteed, that I took the liberty of making up a suitable match for him. She is cheerful, able to wield a sword, and likes fishing and gardening. Blonde hair, blue eyes. I tried to make Raelle’s hair the kind of over-the-top waves like Nayru, the Oracle.
AAhhhhh! It’s a head!
I chose an unusual subject for a picture this time: me! Aaaaah!
As I wrote at the bottom of the page: “It is strange to see a decapitated, frozen copy of myself staring back at me.” I’ll say. It still gives me a little shivers. And I got my haircut since then, so I look different… Well, it’s not bad, but I have a bigger nose than that.
The goofy knight is portrayed on thin paper
The goofy knight is portayed on thick paper
I got fed up with not being able to draw Sain, so I saved his official art to my computer, opened it, and zoomed in and then traced it. It works! Very simple method, and it has results. He looks pretty good. I had to adjust the contrast a lot in Photoshop, and that’s why it looks wrinkled. Compared to the one I drew next, he looks quite boyish.
Then I attempted to duplicate Sain’s handsome head with my own skills. As you can see, they are not quite adequate… I’ve done some analyses on this to discover where I went wrong, and it’s all in the little details of angle and so on.
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.