Zela Photos ’09
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Mother and Daughter
They look nothing alike. Are you sure they’re related?
I realized that Zela and Flaria don’t get drawn together very often (in fact, Flaria’s usually not drawn with anyone except Flairé, oddly enough) so I decided to draw them together. It’s a bit of a flop, since they don’t seem to have much to do with each other. However, I still tried to put them in the same image.
I’m really, really happy with the way Zela came out. Her hair is lovely, her posture indicates readiness to some extent, and her expression approaches fierce. Which is exactly what I was going for. Flaria looks a bit washed out and useless. : ( Her features are too small.
Symmetry
Floatin’ in space, oh my
Well, guess what this is! Hint: look at the top left of your page. The very top. No, higher than that. No, lower than the toolbar. …Yeah! It’s the ‘site logo’ thingy that I made up to go as part of the title image. Except in pencil. Looks pretty similar, doesn’t it? After I get near everything else up, then I’ll post the colour version and you can see that, too.
So, this is the natural outcome of the earlier Symmetry pictures. With my own characters, instead.
People keep praising kneadable erasers. Am I using mine wrong? It doesn’t seem to work for me.
Family
Guess who!
This picture makes me go SQUEE!! everytime I see it. Can you guess why? Kalmaeirin children ftw!! It’s Zela and Flaer, and Flairé is the toddler on the right, and Flaria is the baby in arms. So cute! Especially Flairé! And Zela is beautiful and serene, yet recognizable as Zela. That makes me very proud.
I love this picture. It is my darling. (picks up ten-year-old Flairé and squeezes him)
Flairé: That’s a very nice doll you have there…
Zela
You are boring.
Hey, look! It’s a marker picture! It’s a portrait of Zela, and that’s about all I can tell you because I forget the circumstances of this drawing. It’s not a bad picture, either. Mostly. It could be better. But then, so could everything.
Song
Trio of musically inclined and deformed friends
I tried to draw this picture on the success of the last picture, but it didn’t turn out so well, for a few reasons. First reason is that that harp is ridiculous. Second reason is that Silver the dragon (the intellectual descendant – who shares nothing with her predecessor – of Christina the dragon) has a very long tail and really awful arms. Yoeath the unicorn isn’t so bad. But anyone who knows what a horse looks like will be able to tell that she needs work. And her horn is lopsided.
True Love Awakens
He fell over on a bunch of rocks! And can’t get up! : P
Hey, this picture! I like this picture. I think I drew a draft of it somewhere in my notes but I couldn’t find it. Oh well. This one is better, for once.
The gist of the story: Flaer meets Zela in the forest; Flaer falls in love with Zela; Flaer tells Zela he loves her; Zela doesn’t know what to do; Flaer doesn’t know what to do; a few months later he wanders back into the forest and walks around until he throws himself down for a nap (Author’s note: on a pile of (mossy) rocks? Huh? He must be more masochistic than I thought…); Zela finds Flaer sleeping; Zela falls in love with Flaer.
Yeah, a pair of young idiots the both of them. But I like this picture. Flaer’s hair is all tumbled; his hands aren’t totally lame; Zela is recognisable with her hair down. All good points. Plus the background which exists, more or less. Mostly less.
FLAER SO PRETTY.
Anyway, this picture furthers the story, at least a tiny bit. It concretizes a portion that had always existed in amorphic, nebulous form. I have no idea if I’m using those words right.
Zela and Flaer kiss
Diagonal kissing? When was that invented?
Hi! Just putting up a picture before I go waste my brain cells on KOTOR II again. I’m getting close to the end. Um, this picture is… not very good. I mean, it’s better than usual for a picture of people kissing, but it’s of people kissing, and I’m not very good at that. I think. I haven’t tried in a while. Anyway, there is no real story behind this picture. It’s just Zela and Flaer, kissing. Because they do that on occasion. When their children aren’t looking. : )
You know the theme song of Red Dwarf? Of course you know the theme song from Red Dwarf. “I want to lie/shipwrecked and comatose/drinking fresh mango juice…” Anyway, it was written by Howard Goodall. But wait, you say, who the heck is Howard Goodall? Well, one person he is… in the episode of Mr. Bean in which he goes to church and they sing the hymn with all the Alleluias – I’ll look it up later; right now we just call it the Mr. Bean Hymn – and there is an ORGANIST. And the ORGANIST is HOWARD GOODALL. In case you were wondering. He also wrote an interesting book called Musical Big Bangs.
Dwinderling
Crown made of silver sand, ultimately
Ohmigoodness, ohmigoodness, I love this picture. I’m not entirely sure what it means, but it looks like Flaer is being emo and holding a crumbling crown and Zela is holding him but has no comfort to offer other than that. And isn’t Dwinderling a great word?
Okay, sadly that’s all I have to say about this picture right now. Maybe I’ll remember something later. But I do think this is a great picture.
Rana in pen
Oooh, what’s over there?
Ooh, a pen sketch that turned out really really good! At least, it did partly. Rana’s head is on the right, whereas Zela’s head somehow ended up getting attached to Rana’s body on the left. But Rana’s head turned out really well! It looks like her! That wide-eyed curious fascinated smile, with gentle eyebrows and smooth brown hair that does what she wants it to do mostly… I think she’s very pretty in this picture.