Category Archives: Pencil

Gullac at the Beginning of the Evening

Hey there, cutie! I'm-a gonna sing a song fer ye, 'kay?

Hey there, cutie! I’m-a gonna sing a song fer ye, ‘kay?

And we return to Mister Attention-Hog, perched on one of those high stools at the beginning of his evening performance of Los Adolescentes, his (tentative) theme song, in some random nightclub.

And that’s pretty much all I can say about that. Except I’m pleased with his face/smile.

Gullac Is An Attention Hog

"amooooooooooor or sumthin' like that"

“amooooooooooor or sumthin’ like that”

The original title of this picture was “Gullac is an attention w****. <3”, but I thought that might not be very good for a G-rated website. This picture was drawn while listening to Los Adolescentes, which could possibly be his theme song if Natalia ever gets back to me on the meaning of the lyrics. It pictures him in the modern day human world, singing in a nightclub, sliding down the mic stand because it makes him look sexy. : P Except mine didn’t turn out so well because I’m not very good with extremely tall and skinny anatomy. And probably for other reasons as well.

The next two pictures elaborate on this topic. The nightclub topic.

Just walked around Dragon’s Gullet last night in Guild Wars. My group only KO’d once! It’s larger than I expected. But not much is there. It’s just another cool-looking area. Next up is going to be North Kryta, possibly with certain of my favourite NPCs in tow…

Deerfleet

The fast runner with huge peepers.

The fast runner with huge peepers.

Eeee, it’s young Deerfleet. Still not quite right, but very, very close. Cutie. I’m afraid he looks too much like a Japanese kalma, and indeed certain images were an inspiration for the hair and clothes, but he’s in the end just supposed to look Griffon-land-ish. Maybe his eyes should be less tilted. Tilted is a North-Eastern thing! Hence Zela’s eyes. Except Tam is North-Eastern, and has straight eyes…

Tam and Flairé

"Bud, take a look at that thing." "Awesome!"

“Bud, take a look at that thing.” “Awesome!”

Okay, now we get to see Tam again (looking awfully manly, hmm) and teenage Flairé. They appear to be watching something. That pencil stroke between Tam’s neck and Flairé’s face is confusing me now. I don’t remember what it is. I think it might be Tam’s arm, but I don’t know why he would have his arm like that.

How is it that I find My Neighbours the Yamadas to be Miyazaki’s weirdest movie, but Mom finds it his most understandable? Different mind-sets, I suppose. Well, I really like the bit where they’re ‘driving the car’ and arguing about where to go, and then they crash, and then we find out it’s a video game. We watch it only in Japanese.

Love the Dragon Roost Island music. I just got the urge to listen to it, so I’m listening to it.

Guild Wars is pretty huge! I’ve explored pretty much all of Ascalon that I can get to at the moment, except for the Flame Temple Corridor, and I’m working my way through the snowy mountains right now. I just found a place called Ice Tooth Cave or something, so I’m taking a break and hanging out there until I head out again (probably later this evening)

D&D Party

Angry, slow, clueless, and insane. XD Love 'em all.

Angry, slow, clueless, and insane. XD Love ’em all.

This is the roleplaying group that involves two people named Kevin, and three UVic music students. On the left is Myra, who isn’t any of these. Myra is a human cleric who really, really, really wants to be an elf. She has red hair and a lightening sword. She’s played by Katherine, the sister of our DM, Cedric the tenor. Next is Torrigan, the righteous but good-natured Paladin of Pelor, played by KevinT. Next is Illinia, *coughesgalwencough* who is played by me. She’s looking for someone, it seems, and has gained a hawk companion in her travels. Last is Kellan Dunn, and he’s a mechanic awesome a former circus clown. He’s six foot tall and bald, and greatly enjoys acting insane. I mean, we’re not sure if he’s sane to begin with. He also loves money. He’s played by KevinM.

Oh, and hey, Corel Painter 4 is really weird compared to Adobe Elements 7, but it’s really good for doing ‘pencil’ sketches. …I have about a dozen fanarts lined up to do. Don’t worry, that includes Adhemlenei fanart. : )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Recital Poster sketch ’09

It's a bunch of asylum resi- I mean, music students!

It’s a bunch of asylum resi- I mean, music students!

Ummmm. This was my first try at a recital poster for this year’s recital. It fell through when May Ling told me she had about a dozen Conservatory students that would otherwise have gone in the middle. : P

Here’s the finished version, to remind you what I eventually came up with.

So, this version has all the important stuff, and six music students… Tab, a nice first-year, who came out nearly recognisable, KevinN… …… …who always wears shorts, JenniferH, Endy, whose name I spelled wrong (he has crazy hair but not that crazy), Clinton, who is a brilliant – and I mean jaw-dropping good – pianist, and meh on the end.

Last night, I played Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and I nearly got to the first dungeon. Zelda is a pushy little brat, isn’t she? Much different than the princesses of the same name that I  know… I mean, she knows what she’s doing, and she does it well – but she’s rather selfish and it comes across strongly. Perhaps this will be her ‘learning journey’ – after all, this Zelda has never known not being a princess! (though the other ones were the same, and they weren’t so selfish… or freaked out by everything!)

Pent’s Story materials

I thought someone might find this interesting, so here it is! – It’s the two sides of the piece of paper that I used to help me plot out Pent’s Story. On the one side, like so:

pentchart

is a map of all the characters and how they relate together. As you can see, some of them I didn’t name at first – or at all, until it came to actually writing. And I did some digging on the Fire Emblem Wiki to find out all I could about Etruria. This chart was an amazing help to me. I recommend this method to everyone writing about a group of more than three characters. Continue reading

Tam and Flairé

He so mischievous

He so mischievous

"Dude." "'Sup?" "Your hair is blue." "...Duh."

“Dude.” “‘Sup?” “Your hair is blue.” “…Duh.”

Taaaaaaaaaaaaammmm!!! Tatamkanai, as drawn by me. The last you saw him was in doll form, back here. This is, so far, the best picture of him… and I hadn’t posted anything in a while, so here you are, a new hot guy. And teenage Flairé. Teenage Flairé is cute. A little short yet. Compared to Tam. They’re around the same height in adulthood.

As you can see, Tam has super-high cheekbones, deepset eyes, and multi-coloured hair. And Flairé is settling down into a very definite pattern – exotic, tilted eyes (from his mother, y’know) and a wide mouth. And everyone has long noses.

The chibi was my first draft of his total design, and the rest of the picture grew out of it. Sort of.

The Farseer

This picture can be found in the story chapter below, and is the last of the illustrations for the Pent story to date. I rather like this one; I had no reference for Pent but he came out rather well. This was the second picture I drew, so it’s a little out of order. In this picture, Ceniro is receiving a magical device designed to help him plot strategy. It’s like a GPS, sort of. I’m rather proud of the wilted flower by the waterbarrel. The stick thing that Pent has is his heal staff.