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Rana’s Death II

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Sorry, I, uh, forgot to bring a fairy

Sorry, I, uh, forgot to bring a fairy

This picture is also based on my own story, just after Link coughwinsthegamecough kills Ganon the King of Evil, only Rana gets killed too. Eeesh, how to explain…

Uh, well, she got shot, but not badly, and then got hurt again and that made the arrow go into a more fatal position? In the sequel (remember, I wrote this when I was young) Nayru and Farore, two of the three goddesses, associated with the Triforces of Wisdom and Courage which are borne by Zelda and Link respectively, were going to revive her so she could become the new bearer of the Triforce of Strength so that Ganondorf couldn’t use it anymore. Eheh. Oh, and she was ‘buried’ inside a block of ice so everybody could see her.

Ummmmm, now I have to decide whether I’m going to actually kill her off or have it so she doesn’t actually die, but somehow Link has to think she does or else the point of the intermediary chapters is zero. Uh, it’ll all come clear when I start putting the story up.

There used to be two fairies in this picture, Navi and the dying Naeri, but I edited them out since they were even worse than the rest of this picture. It’s called Rana’s Death II because I drew a Rana’s Death I and it was absolutely horrible. It had Zelda and Ganon in it too, and Zelda’s hair was good but the rest was terrible. This one, I like the composition (except the fairies) and the pose and shading and all, but although it’s a rather personal picture to me, I’m not happy with it anymore. I was drawing in the style I copied from the official Zelda art for Ocarina of Time, but I didn’t do it too well. The eyes are too high up. Oh, and those Hylian ears are baaaaad.

First Laugh

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Aaaaaaaaaaah!

Aaaaaaaaaaah!

This picture officially introduces Rana, a young Hylian who I made up. Because I made her up when I was very young, her backstory is uncomfortably ‘Mary-Sue-ish’ or a character who is too good to be true – or a self-insert. Rana, two years younger than Link, was discovered on the edge of the Kokiri Forest by one of the Kokiri children. She was given a fairy and taken in by them, even more quickly than Link, who, as we know, didn’t get a fairy until the beginning of Ocarina of Time. Then, because she leaves the forest with Link (side-kick character) she grows up during the seven years he sleeps in the Sacred Realm.

During this time, she turned from a chubby little girl into a lithe, wiry acrobat-fighter. She uses a Hylian sword, of course, but it takes her a long, long time to find one. She was captured when she was fifteen, and had to wait two long, mind-cracking years to be rescued by Link when he came back. She had what her fairy Naeri called “over-developed vengeance complex”, and this picture is of her healing.

Link, after he beats the Forest Temple, goes to the Great Deku Tree’s glade and sees a tiny plant… which explodes out of the ground into a small tree, scaring him. He falls over on his back, yelling in fright… and realizes that nothing’s attacking him. So, when he found Rana couldn’t laugh anymore, he eventually took her there and copied what he had done, and she stared – and then laughed. Yes! Score one for the hyper side!

Link and Dark Link

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Whoa! Is that me?

Whoa! Is that me?

I believe that this picture was inspired by the fact that this, Christmas ’03, was the year we were given a Gamecube and Zelda disk from Santa! I played to the Water Temple by the 10th, and I fought Dark Link, who was insanely difficult that time, and then I sat down and drew this picture. Dark Link’s head is a bit small (chopped skull syndrome, someone called it), and Link looks a bit strange, but it was pretty good for my skill level! It’s even somewhat shaded!

I love the Legend of Zelda. I own… almost all the games. I have all except for Oracle of Seasons, Minish Cap, and Twilight Princess, which I want to get on Wii and Wii is not available. Yet. Mwahahaha, I will obtain it eventually!

Fire Emblem Band

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You can't take it with you.../No matter what you do!

You can’t take it with you…/No matter what you do!

Fire Emblem! Wha!

Ahem. This picture is of four of the characters of Fire Emblem 7: Rekka no Ken (Blazing Sword) and they are in a rock band.

Why? Who knows? Well, I now have to tell you my life story, so hold tight. I was playing Super Smash Bros. Melee with my friend Bobby, and I liked being one of these two handsome swordsmen with long cloaks, and I asked him about them, and he didn’t know much, but he told me that Roy was a prince and Marth was some other guy, and they both came from this game called Fire Emblem. I forgot the name several times, but then I began to research it on the Internet, and I found some sites that talked about it. They were talking about the newest (at the time) game, which would be the first to be officially released in English.

Soon after, I read a copy of Nintendo Power somewhere (I sure didn’t own it… school library, maybe?) and was formally introduced to all the characters of the first ten levels, along with a brief walkthrough and a ‘how this game works’ article. Wow, was I intrigued.

So, I was listening to the Alan Parsons Project CD we have, and I started imagining Sain singing the lead… and this picture followed. I plotted out where all the others would stand, but I never got around to drawing them.

Kent took more time than the others, as I was a bit afraid of him since he didn’t have any official art that got released in North America. He was started on December the 2nd, and finished January the 19th, and he still didn’t come out that well! Anyway, I’ll just put a couple of things below about the cast in this crazy excursion…

 

Character
 Role
Lyn
 Guitar (rhythm and solos)
Kent
 Bass guitar, vocals
Sain
 Lead vocals, solo guitar
Florina
 First violin
Wil
 Keyboards, vocals
Dorcas
 French horn, back-up vocals
Erk
 Viola
Serra
 Cello
Rath
 Second violin
Matthew
 Saxophone, vocals
Nils
 Flute
Lucius
 Clarinet, I think, or was it harp?
Wallace
 Percussion


As you can see, I don’t know much about the way rock bands work. I just went by what I heard. Here’s who sings what.

 

 

Tracks
 Lead vocals
I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
 Sain
Eye in the Sky
 Sain
Games People Play
 Sain
Time
 Kent
Pyramania
 Sain
You Don’t Believe
 (Sain?)
Lucifer
 N/A
Psychobabble
 Matthew
D***ed If I Do
 (Sain?)
Don’t Let it Show
 Sain!
Can’t Take it With You
 (Sain)
Old and Wise
 Eliwood guest solo


My favourites are Eye in the Sky, Time, Don’t Let it Show, and Old and Wise.

In Time, the singer sounds a lot like Kent does in my head. That’s why I put Kent as singing it. Don’t Let it Show is very beautiful, and I imagine Sain writing it for his girlfriend.

SPOILER FOR MY STORY (which hasn’t been put up here yet…)
Old and Wise almost perfectly describes Eliwood after his tactician is killed in the second-last chapter. I had to change a couple of lines:
you follow(ed) where I go
I’ll miss you when you go
When they ask you if you knew me (they being people in the afterlife – not changed, but context added)
as the final curtain falls o’er your eyes

Crowned with Stars

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Calacirca and a bowman...

Calacirca and a bowman…

Last picture for Middle Earth for a while! First picture of the new year! Huzzah!

Huzzah has a lot of meanings for me, but more on that later.

This picture is of Legolas, stepping out onto the bank of Anduin to shoot the mysterious and sinister black shape in the air. The Big Dipper, or Calacirca, is over his head. Frodo sees “the dark head of the elf crowned with stars”… It was so beautiful I tried to do a picture of it, and it worked pretty well, but I never finished it. I may do a CG Photoshop version sometime. That would look really nice. Or maybe I’ll use my new markers!

North Wall of Moon City Palace

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Pillars of trees

Pillars of trees

Another Zela picture! This time, I went for setting rather than character, and this picture is much better than I expected.

This picture was inspired, as began to happen more and more frequently, by music: La cathedral engloutie, par Debussy. Someone I knew played it at a masterclass, and I was enthralled… so pretty……..

Anyway, so, as well as imagining a weed-draped stone structure with light filtering down from above, and water gushing out as it rises, I also imagined a great hall of glass and stone trees for pillars, and as the sun sets, it falls full on two thrones at one end (in this picture, out of sight on the right), illuminating two figures sitting there: Flar and Stria! Stria is one incarnation, at least, of Flair’s mother.

The little words and the arrow pointing to the girl say ‘scale figure’. My brother says he thinks it’s a good picture!

Wood Elves

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How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

This is a picture of more of those Mirkwoodian elves, the tree elves, I suppose. I had trouble drawing in scale, so that’s why the ones in the back are bigger than the ones in front. At least the ones who are biggest are the most important.

Thranduil, King of Mirkwood, is the big guy on the left, and Legolas his son is on the right of him. There are random people all over, including a harpist, and a dark-haired, dark-eyed cutie hiding smiling behind a tree over on the far left. Esgalwen is the girl with dark shiny hair leaning against the log in front, chatting with someone… her sister? Oh, and that’s Thorin, hiding in plain view, so this is from The Hobbit. Who guessed before I said?

I shaded this one, because I figured it would be too hard to show that it was night time by the light of a ‘bonfire’ if it wasn’t. I shaded it, I remember, at all the parts of a Campbell River Friends of Music concert, I think it was, that it wasn’t impolite: before, intermission, and after. I was just finishing up, and that’s why I think I took it with me. I’m pleased with how it came out, although, even though I got Dad to spray it with protective stuff so it wouldn’t smudge, it still smudged. It’s smudged even worse now than this scan, since I did the scan at least two years ago. Blah. I can tell because you can’t see the harpist’s strings on the original, now, and there’s a lot of graphite on the back of the previous page, which is the beginning of a new sketchbook.

Esgalwen

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Black-haired elf-child

Black-haired elf-child

This is Esgalwen, a young elf-maiden living in Mirkwood, or as they call it, Taur-nu-Fuin: Forest under Shadow. I think they changed the name after Sauron got booted, though, back to its old name Greenwood the Great. She has black hair and brown eyes, and likes running and dancing through the forest: she’s one of the ‘childlike’ elves. I made her up. She also likes singing, and I imagine most of the songs on Enya’s Shepherd Moons CD as being sung by her… not the first one; that one will be described on the page for the 29th. One or two on the A Day Without Rain CD I also imagine being sung by her, such as Only Time, which she sings with her older sister, sitting in a glade with one playing a harp and one playing a cello.

The Peak of Thangorodrim

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A song always cheers everybody up

A song always cheers everybody up

This is Fingon, with the harp, playing to Maedhros, the one chained by the wrist. I drew this based on a particularly dramatic scene in the Silmarillion, and I even shaded parts of it! It looks pretty good! Maedhros’s portrait is a close-up; he’s not really in that space in the air. The dark smudge on the mountain behind Fingon is him. The only problem is that I drew it with Maedhros chained by the wrong wrist, so this is actually flipped from the way I drew it… but it’s the right way around now. I was going to shade the mountain Fingon’s leaning against too, but I decided it was too big a job and I didn’t know how to do it, so it would get ruined if I did it.

I like Fingon. I like Fingolfin a lot, but Fingon is rather like him. Maedhros is cool, too, especially when he makes all the orcs run away just by glaring at them. I should draw a picture of that. ^_^7