It’s a shirt.
I expressed an interest in learning to draw cloth realistically. Dad suggested I get something – a magazine, perhaps – and pick something out of that and draw it. I picked a photo from the National Geographic that was lying around the living room, a photo of a young boy hauling himself up to look into the barrel of a giant (disused, I think) tank. Here is his shirt. Proof that I can draw well on occasion.
I have a lens flare on my sword; fear me!
Ha, this is a cool picture despite the technical problems. The guy in the middle is the ‘hero boy’, Ron. The Meticulous Dwarf Wiz is the short guy, and then Jervis is the ‘axe boy’ over on the left. On the right, the chick is named Marialla and keeps her lockpicks in her purse. Ha. Lastly is Flairé: yah! Continue reading
Dude…
These two guys are named Carl and Mark. Carl is the one with the (red) sweatshirt and Mark is the one with sunglasses. They’re from an original (gasp) story bouncing around in my head. Carl is a bummy jerk, thinking of dropping out of Grade 11, and Mark is the school genius and a bit fussy about his appearence. Their class goes to some (foreign?) city where Carl wanders off, bored, Mark goes to go get him, and the bus leaves without them. The part requiring suspension of disbelief follows (until I can sort it out realistically) because somehow they have no way to call home. Or talk to the police. Or anything. They’re ‘stranded in civilization’. And have to work together to make it back. Wow, how clichéed. At least it’s my own characters and my own setting messing it up, not some FE or LZ (or, heaven forbid, ME) folks in their own nerdy world (where, admittedly, it might be easier to come up with an excuse for the scenario).
Happy ending before it starts
This is a movie poster for a lovely little novel called “The Princess and Curdie” which is actually the second of two. The first is called “The Princess and the Goblin”, and it’s just as sweet. They’re obviously fairytales, written by a guy called George Macdonald. And I made a movie poster for the second one. It’s supposed to be in the castle, and the marble floors are shiny, and the rug thing at the bottom is red.
Sweet sound, sweet smile
If you can’t guess, I didn’t draw him well enough: it’s Joshua Bell! He plays so beautifully, I believe he’s the best violinist in the world today. I especially like his Kreisler.
Very plain picture, based on a picture either from one of my four CD booklets or his website.
So cool he’s hot or something like that
That up there is someone who doesn’t normally look that way: it’s Kopaka from Bionicle (a Lego franchise). Basically, he’s a powerful warrior and guardian of the Bionicle people who live up the mountain, and he uses ice as a weapon. He’s pretty cool, the coolest character in Bionicle. If Bionicle can be considered cool. It’s not fabulous, and they’re getting weirder than ever. Their first movie (we saw the first and the second) was okay, but corny and kinda stupid. I just like Kopaka. He was also the first guy to show up in the comic that came with the magazine that we got for a few years, and he had some good lines. I also like the others a bit, Lewa best of the others, I guess.
Willowy and watery
Sorry, more filler today. Remember that dryad picture I was going to put up? Well, the time for it passed while I wasn’t looking. So here it is finally. I just randomly started drawing and one thing flowed into another, et voila. If you’re wondering why there’s no scanner shadow, it’s because it’s a separate page – was detached from a sketchbook.
It’s in Miscellaneous because dryads and naiads are not particularly Zelaish.
My slightly elfy friend
Her name is Scherene and she plays fiddle.
Fair lassies, one plain lass, and an extra lad
This is a picture of all the people who were living in a vivacious – er, lively-ish – fashion in my head at this time. L-R Lyra, the High Elf maiden who made Mengil into a good guy, but she looks more like Esgalwen than the girl next to her, Esgalwen. You can tell who’s who because Esgalwen has a dress with lots of pleats and she has a locket around her neck. Lakia stands next to her. Sitting are Rinako, who looks especially good here, and Salir, who you might remember is Sain’s girlfriend in my story. Up on the tree branch is a girl named Cassandra, with bright red hair and raggedy clothes from living on a deserted planet. The two Hylians are again talking, Raelle and Rana, and Raelle has her nice hair again. Ceniro wanted to be included, but my first attempt looked more like my amusing double bass player friend Anthony.
Lots of grass… so much grass to paint…
At the Filburg Festival (Comox Valley thing in August) I took a picture of my Mom, because she was pretty. She’s wearing a pink dress with little flowers and a straw hat. I remember my friend Jessie was with me. I wanted to turn it into a watercolour for a birthday present for her, and I did a few practice paintings, but I never got the shadows dark enough. I should finish that this summer.