Trying to get Tam during class. I succeeded. Finally. I may incorporate this into the painting.
News later.
Tam in pen
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Flairé + kimono
Ooh! Art! …Yeah. Anyway, I realized recently that I hadn’t drawn Flairé in like forevar. So I did. I’m so out of practice. This one’s a bit on the realistic-experimental side, and I do realize that his eyes are too close together (the bane of my face-drawing! D : ). I think he’s looks decently pretty nonetheless. I’m not sure why he’s wearing the kimono. That just sort of came out of my pencil. I also have a Photoshop picture of him as a baby, but it’s a WIP right now.
Rana bio portrait
Oh hey, it’s Rana. She’s my childish Hylian character! She loves acting like a little kid and doing acrobatics and giggling and also defeating evil!
Ceniro bio portrait
And it’s our brave (actually – normal-couraged) tactician to next get his mug in colour. He’s from Fire Emblem 7 and he is quiet and smart and idealistic and likes wandering a LOT.
His boots are really worn out so he’s holding the leg parts together with bandages and string. Heheh.
Same colouring technique as last time. If I leave out the black outline, it looks kind of like a watercolour which is kind of cool. Except he doesn’t have eyelashes so he looks like a freak.
I think I should learn to draw Ceniro head-on because the back of his hair changes depending on which view I drew him from. : P
Esgalwen bio portrait
Hey! I coloured a portrait for a personal biography page! In this case, it’s the unassuming and shy Esgalwen, who lives in Mirkwood and dances and is married to a blonde.
I cheated. I selected the pencil with the magic wand tool (okay, I selected the not-pencil and clicked inverse) and then filled in with black, creating that funky outline. …It took me half an hour and looks decent. I’m satisfied. It remains to be seen whether I colour the other bios like that or not.
Stars and Midnight Blue II
“You have lost yourself in dreaming… I have lost myself in you… …I can hear your heartbeat…”
I was listening to Stars and Midnight Blue by Enya on her Christmas CD again… seems everytime I listen to it I get the urge to draw a new picture. So here you are, Flaer and Zela watching the stars and their breath in the cold air… and Zela’s wearing a sleeveless dress. : P What kin ya do.
I like drawing these two. I should do it more.
Inseparable Trio
Why are the guys in back so short.
Owwwwwww… I now know beyond a doubt that girls have pectorals. In case you were unsure about that. Because mine hurt.
Anyway, this is the picture I promised you on Tuesday, featuring our intrepid trio of kalmei. Flairé, of course, is the leader, the captain of the regiment and Jalril’s mentor and trainer. Lam’ro, who doesn’t look nearly as good in this picture, is the second in command, the quiet reliable one who advises but can’t implement. Jalril, who here has an awfully big head and an awfully short torso (HE’S LEANING OVER OKAY – I’m just really bad at drawing it) is the apprentice, the shy young enthusiastic try-hard-er. They, in Book 3 or something, really are an inseparable trio who work very closely together and look out for each other all the time. And sometimes win battles and stuff too.
My shoulders and other various parts of my body hurt because karate started on Tuesday with a big push-up/sit-up warm-up, and I am hilariously bad at those things. So bad my partner (we were in pairs) had to help pull me up with a karate belt. I know, I know, hysterical. But this will help me get better. Also I went running with L this morning, and discovered the magical fact that if I don’t talk, I don’t get out of breath so much! Also she makes a mean bacon-and-eggs.
Man, the way I ache, I better have some very pretty biceps/abs once I’m done this year.
Lam’rokruhl
Expression does not match dress sense
Hey, hey, this is a guy I made up this summer. Like around the time that I went to Ontario to hang out with the grandparents etc. Anyway, his name means “darkgreenleaf” and he has been on the Characters page for a bit, unobtrusively sneaking in at the bottom. He’s from the Nunathoemlen, the unicorn land of the north, and he is married to a nice lady and is friends with a unicorn. He probably has a few kids too, but he hasn’t told me about them. He’s Flairé’s second in command after the war gets going, because Flairé is kind of loopy and needs someone to ground him. Even when Flairé matures or is being super serious, Lam’ro won’t be wasted because it’s good to have a few more quiet, level-headed characters around, and it’s nice to know yet another guy from the unicornland, especially a ‘normal’ one, because Tam is definitely not normal, and Marotheth is a jerk. Yeah?
…I can feel my characters getting out of control. No one except me is going to be able to keep track of them all! : P Continue reading
Crouching Lion, Hidden Power
Okay, the title is just an excuse for being really cheesy. I like cheesy sometimes.
It’s AUR!! I have tried to draw him before, but he never came out… There are other attempts which are so bad they are not touching my computer let alone the interwebs. But this one is actually kind of recognizable, sort of. (I think part of it is that his new character art makes him look more ‘shaggy’ and less ‘mullet-y’. lol!) I wanted to try really getting detailed with costume design, too, because you know how my characters all wear 1) tunic 2) pants 3) boots 4) belt – and that’s pretty much all they need. Except Ceniro, because he is a little more realistic. (I don’t think Ceniro has underwear anymore, though. X D Tmi?) Anyway, and except Esgalwen, because she wears a dress. Anyway anyway, so that’s why you don’t recognize what Aur is wearing. Because I went crazy.
Colour will be coming on this one soon! He deserves it.
I drew this because I read through Darkstar again (fantastic story – I cry every time KluYa shows up and says goodbye T_T) and I was thinking really hard about the voices – Ben’s ‘deep warm golden’ voice, Kip’s ‘now, now…’ Cecil’s heroic tenor, Kain’s deep snarky voice, Edge’s irritable baritone, the huge differences between Pren/Joran/Rosa/Rydia, and… Chase. He’s just a little kid. But if you look between the cracks, he’s recovering more and more subconscious awareness of who he used to be (AAAUUUUURRRR 😀 ) or else the author uses him to fill plot holes – JUST KIDDING, AYWREN! Anyway, so I am a big ChAur fan and any excuse is good enough to try and draw him. He’s a lion-bishie! XD
The Edge of Silverlake
Whoa, hey, new characters! Or at least ones I’ve never drawn before in all the Adhemlenei! And in pencil! Bet you didn’t miss that medium, did you! This is Kirstril, the future King of the Dragonlanders, and his wife Shlaes, and his best buddy who is so far nameless but who will be the first future Dragon Knight. Pretty cool, huh? And they’ve gone out wandering alone away from their camp, and so they are the first three to reach the edge of the frozen Silverlake. And it’s winter. Silly kalmaei.
I drew this yesterday and Kirstril is such a cutie I want to keep drawing him. He has blue eyes and wispy, dark brown hair. His wife is deceptively dark-haired in this picture; she has white hair like clouds. I really should find out definitively what Flar looks like. Because I don’t actually know.
I have been working on a timeline for the Adhemlenei. I already subtly adjusted a few birthdates in the bios; if you can’t tell, I’m not telling you which. I still don’t have a decent motivation for the plot, but I have already had the idea that I should tell the beginning of the story from Flar’s POV, and then Flaer’s, and then finally Flairé’s. Three generations’ look at Zela and the world around them. (Because Zela is stupidly hard to write for. Still. After a whole decade of living together. : P That stubborn woman.) We’ll see how that goes for this year’s NaNoWriMo. Looking at things from Flar and Flaer’s POV will really let me show how they are great leaders, because they haven’t really acted like it yet. Or how they are not such good leaders as everyone thinks and it’s only habit that puts them in charge, even though they really are the best available for the job. : P Whatever.