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The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé: Not Very Helpful Explanations

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Leslie: What is going on?

Flairé: I dunno, but… …you’re here, right?

Leslie: So… do you know Jen?

Flairé: Yeah, of course! D’you think that just because you’ve travelled back in time a few million years that I wouldn’t know my best friend?

Leslie: Even though she’s not actually born yet?

Flairé: Uh, yeah. I guess that would be the case. *THINKING*

Leslie: hahaha (He’s just as odd as Jen said he’d be… but he’s nice and friendly. But how did I get here, and what am I going to do?)

Whoohoo! And it’s time for another page. No background because I still don’t trust myself on ’em.

Leslie politely demands an explanation; Flairé is singularly useless at explaining things in a straightforward fashion. (I think second-to-last panel has him looking very pretty. <3 ) I wonder if he’s acting clueless in order to string the reader along with mystery. …Nah, that can’t be it. He’s just clueless.

Haven’t drawn the next page! I’d better get some done before next week! It’ll be an adventure!

I think his eyes are too light. I’m going to start using the dark green marker for him.

Flairé’s Ride, Part 2

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SAFE is not the word he'd use to describe it.

SAFE is not the word he’d use to describe it.

And the thrilling conclusion to the horse chase yesterday! Sort of. He makes it to the next village ahead of the raiders, and I had extra space so I drew a butterfly. His butterfly. Whatever. I mean his butterfly cloak pin. Whatever. This picture and the one before it were inspired by Mark Knopfler’s Speedway at Nazareth. Which is a song about racecars. Go figure.

Flairé’s Ride, Part 1

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Ride 'em cowboy! Ummmmm... no?

Ride ’em cowboy! Ummmmm… no?

I used my soft-sketchy pencils for this one. Inspired by the Mark Knopfler song Speedway at Nazareth, especially the 5 minute instrumental second half (and maybe just a little bit of the horse race part of The Reivers suite by John Williams). I would say whoohoo but it’s not that great. Again, it’s just a concept. I was drawing while listening to the music so I had to work really fast. And by fast I mean that I blocked out the frames, and then scribbled in with just a couple strokes what happened in each frame, and then sketched it in full afterwards.

Flairé has been sent by his mother to warn the next village over that the main front is retreating to their position. Or something. Flairé is still quite young, a teenager, really, and quite cocky, and not really the fighting equal of those chasing him – yet. He is their equal at horse-riding. WOOT GO FLAIRÉ. The last frame is three poses within seconds of each other; he’s somehow spun around, watching the curve to see if his pursuers will come around the bend in the cliff, but then wheels his horse around and gallops off before they show up.

Guys, I can’t draw horses. Stop trying to tell me I can. : P

The Totally Not Canon Adventures of Flairé: That’s Right!

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Flairé: Hey there! How are you?

Leslie: …I…uh…

Flairé: Well, I’m very pleased to see you. Miss Leslie, right?

Leslie: F-flairé…..?

Flairé: That’s right!

Whoo! It seems that Flairé already knows Leslie somehow. How could that be? Oh my dear goodness!

I don’t actually know. Yet. But I always have fun drawing Flairé. Stupidly faint coloured pencil background because I felt pen felt too permanent and I’m not so good at backgrounds yet.

W00t! I broke the 10,000 word mark in the Zela novel! I introduced an awesome new character whom I only vaguely knew before as “that friendly guy” and he had never appeared in text before, just in my head. I named him Tam.

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flaire: The Sound of Music

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Leslie: “And what’s that sound? Where is it?”

(walks through the trees until she meets… Flairé! Playing his pipe.)

So Leslie figures out where she is by who she meets. And we introduce a new character. He’s very pretty here. : D

No NNWM words just yet. I have my outline ready to go. I’m going to start on that now, and get maybe the Prologue (again) done before church. I don’t think my previous Prologue is quite bad enough to be scrapped yet, but they say you must start from scratch – punishable by death! So I’ll rewrite it anyway, because my ideas have changed a bit since I last wrote it. The thing is to not let on that they’ve changed, because I liked the effect of the first time. But it means something else now, so I have to reflect that too.

I’m going to try and get a chapter and a bit done today.

I still need a title for the thing! I’d like to call it something like “Adhemlenei: First Blood” or “Beginning of the Fall” or anything with “Sword” in it. Especially anything with “Sword” in it. I have the other three books named, just not the first one!

Siblings

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What a load of wierdos.

What a load of wierdos.

It’s Flairé! And all six of his siblings! Woot woot. I drew this coming home from the Bard on the Beach expedition (wow, that was so fun). I asked L what I should draw on the way back, the seven children of Flaer/Zela, or the Flairé-rides-through-the-forest sequence (which I did eventually draw, so hold on to your horses – ahem), and she said the seven persons. So I did. Took me a couple days. I had to redo Marteth, as he looked like a twin of Menad. They still do, actually. Pickles. Bayn looks oversized… I guess that’s what he is, but I thought the effect would be different. And Gullac is supposed to be taller than Mathaning. He’s just hanging off his shoulder. I had fun with the boots, though!

…Gullac is so glompable. (……runs and glomps)

Gullac: AAAAAAAAAAGH GETITOFF GETITOFF GETITOFF

Mathaning: (cracks up)

Also Mt Baker at the bottom of the page.mtbakertiny

Btw the Olympic torch is in town and those ridiculous helicopters keep circling.

The Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé

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Well, this is the beginning of an exciting new endeavour! I’m going to try my hand at a weekly webcomic. The script is done, and I have a buffer of six weeks. This comic is only 36 pages long, counting the cover, but that’s most of a year so I think I’m good for now. And I can always think of new adventures later. There’s at least one more episode in concept form, with a bunch of new characters. But that’s waaaaaaaay in the future. Right now, enjoy! First page will be up next week. Huzzah!

For those of you who are new: Welcome! This is the first page of a webcomic that will be updating on Sundays (hopefully at 12:00 noon Pacific time), starring my original character Flairé in his original homeland the Adhemlenei, and my best friend Leslie. And some other completely insane nutcase who by all rights shouldn’t even be allowed to exist there. ; ) And yes, the adventures are non-canon so they have no real bearing on the story that should be written about Flairé, his mother, and the darkening world around them… written sometime in the next decade or three. Yep. Again, welcome, and good luck!

Yesterday there was lots of D&D-ing. It was great fun, although Illinia didn’t talk much, as usual. She needs to talk more. I think the setting is confusing her. Her player coloured the above picture and drew a hot picture of Torrigan (the Paladin of Pelor in our party) on her script. But it was tons of fun. And then we all went for dinner at Shabu Shabu at about 8:00 and got completely stuffed. Yum.

Next time I will totally play Flairé. : D

Doodles, year 2, part 1

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Some doodles from second year notebooks.

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Daneel Olivaw, Theory class, Oct 5, 2008. My favourite character from The Caves of Steel and sequels, by Isaac Asimov. He’s a robot! With genuine emotions, sorta! Continue reading →