Category Archives: The Adhemlenei

The fictional world in my head.

“Maybe the children of a lesser god…” painting

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Oh my goodness, it’s done. First time painting a dragon, I think? Painting one in full anyway. I don’t do dragons very often. I’ll have to change that at some point… Vol. 4 of The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé is set in the Dragonland, after all! Anyway, pretty happy with this painting, but critiques are always welcome! I do know that the arms are not quite the same size, though.

Click for mega-massive full size image!

Now go listen to Kings and Queens by 30 Seconds to Mars, just one more time, to get the full tone of this image.

Angry Flaer

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Oh hei look it’s Flaer having an emotion! I am in the middle of this council scene, and someone just said “whyyyyy are we so worked up about this? It’s not that important, is it?” and Flaer just jumps up and is all like “guyyyyys someone killed someone!! If that’s not important I don’t know what is!! So siddown and shaddup!!” And the other guy is like “man, for a prince, you can make people listen” and then some other idiot is like “maybe he should be king instead of his dad!” and Flaer is all “shut up, man, my dad is the best.” …Yeah, this is what happens in my head before and/or after I actually put serious stuff into Word.

“Children” WIP 2

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WIP 2

Some progress. You’ll notice the clouds are completely different from last time. That’s right, I completely redid them again. I still have a few tweaks to make, but things are better. Also I added shiny to the armour. You can’t see it at this resolution but I’m happy with the horns on his helmet. Maybe tomorrow I’ll finish Tseo. Then for the hard part – Hoarwilk.

EDIT: Better, neh? More limbs attached.

Yay for movie soundtracks! I’ve been listening to both How to Train Your Dragon (on YouTube until the CD I ordered comes in) and Treasure Planet. Makes me want to watch them. Yes, I like Treasure Planet, shut up.

Now I’m going to go watch the Narnia movies. For real this time. EDIT: Spent so long on Tseo I didn’t. Argh. They’re due tomorrow and I have a recital to play in.

“Children” WIP

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WIP 1

Here’s what I worked on today! It took me a long time to do clouds. First I tried doing it in Corel Painter, but for one thing I only have the Painter 4 and also my computer is slow so the whole process was not terribly successful. I ended up with a lovely impressionistic background, but… that’s not really good enough for clouds. I should learn to draw clouds on my own, because here I’m just using the Photoshop Cloud Brush that I found in the back of my Digital Art magazine.

I think it needs more yellow. It’s not warm enough yet.

Tomorrow I will finish Tseo’s basecolours and start shading; Hoarwilk I won’t start for a while. I want to check on drawing dragons. I notice that NeonDragon tends to draw her scaley-dragon noses all the same way and it’s not quite what I’m going for. Research time!

EDIT: Since even these clouds don’t look like what I have in my head, I’m scrapping them and starting AGAIN. : )

“Maybe the children of a lesser god…”

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This picture is inspired by “Kings and Queens” by the band 30 Seconds to Mars, and it is a most excellent song. It has a good baseline. Anyway, here’s Tseo on Hoarwilk his dragon, soaring through the clouds together. Go listen to it and look again!

Note to self – obtain the NeonDragon book about drawing humanoid characters. Also practice with the dragon character book.

This will be painted at some point! Hopefully I can do a wispy painty painting and tell you that that’s how the original looks where it is slapped on some wall at the Dragonland castle. <3

Some notes on why the picture is the way it is: all the sapient creatures in the Adhemlenei are ridden bare-back. If you think this looks uncomfortable, what with Hoarwilk’s backbonespikes, well, they deal with it. Also, you may notice that Hoarwilk has rather human-like paws, whereas Silver in the book cover does not so much. This is on purpose. Silver comes from a family that has fairly cat-like paws; Hoarwilk (who is gold, by the way) has more lizard-like toes. Also Hoarwilk has cheek fins and no head-horns.

Dragons with head-horns: Silver, Lumi (you don’t know him yet), Kirstril’s partner (I don’t know him yet!), Shlaes’ partner.

Dragons without head-horns: Craegaarhck, Hoarwilk.

Math Ready to Fly

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Hmm. I don’t remember what music I was listening to when I drew this. It was prolly the Holst Planets or something like that.

Anyway, Math and his strap-on-wings! If I ever draw the other side, maybe you’ll see more how they work! Or not, because there’s a lot under those fluffy brown feathers. Suffice it to say he can actually fly with those, and he’s standing on the roof of the castle, about to demonstrate it. : P

You may note his similarity in appearance to another of my characters. Actually, I’m trying to decide which of my two characters should resemble my friend who has straight hair on the top of his head but curly hair where it gets longer. I shall figure it out soon.

Dragonland Trio

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The big three of the Dragonland; Kirstril, Shlaes, and Tseo. Shlaes is in the back, with the poofy white hair. Kirstril in the front with the messy black hair. Tseo over on the right, in one of his longer-hair phases. I like how Kirstril came out.

Y’know, my ScriptFrenzy script is not going so well. I really don’t know how to make it interesting. They say “Make the hero awesome, then make him suffer. Make him (or her, really; I still don’t know if the heroine should be the protagonist) want something really badly and then put obstacles in his/her way. Also make the bad guy interesting and relatable.” …I guess my hero isn’t awesome enough yet because I keep worrying about what RedLetterMedia said in their Star Wars II review: “Just coz you put obstacles in a romance don’t mean we’ll care about it.”

I’ve had too much advice and not enough inspiration. Anyone want to kick me into pushing through to the next part?

I know the climax will be great. Edmund gets to shoot somebody. But how they get there I have no cluuueeee…

These are some of the reasons I decided not to write the Dragonland script. I don’t wanna write something boring, and I don’t know Kirstril well enough to trust his charisma to push me through to the end (sexy as he is in this picture).

Layalin

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Layalin, the red-curly-haired princess of unicorns. I’m pretty sure this was originally for the bio page (it has details on the clothes! I never do that!) HOWEVER her arms are too long and her legs are too short. And I think she’s holding, like, a music scroll or something, but since we don’t necessarily know that it just looks like she’s scrunching up a roll of useless fabric.