It’s been way too long since I last updated, but I’ve had a lot of work- and school-related stress and other things on my mind (or rather, I’ve had so many things on my mind I’ve been deliberately trying to keep it blank). But now that I feel I’m once again starting to catch up with the world I thought I should maybe post something again. I’ve been doodling a lot lately, but they’ve all been mostly character concepts and not very finished. I’ve a new flashy computer again but I haven’t got my old scanner to work with Vista yet so I can’t just scan stuff at home - so bear with me while I *try* to remember to scan my doodles at school.
I finished my Red Wizard of Thay costume for this weekend’s Ropecon well ahead (24 hours before the convention) and I think it turned out pretty damn well. It’s also my most finished costume of all time, the prettiest and also the most comfortable.
I’m sorry if I look too sweet for an EVIL wizard in these pictures, which were taken by friend and fellow costumer Nergui.
Some of the details; the costume itself is made of two separate cotton dresses that both have about 7 metres of hemline. The white dress has long puffy sleeves that are fastened with gold-coloured cords around the wrists and they both have a pretty stone attached. From the belt I had hanging a small velvet pouch for my dice, a leather bag and a clay jug. The hood and bodices on both dresses are laced up, because sewing clasps in is a pain.
Also note my awesome spellbook, which was quite a hit I think.. I found it at a local bookstore, and it was one of those moments you see in comics/films/anime, where the main character finds an odd-looking book, reads it and is transported to some other world (which hasn’t happened to me quite yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did). The book is (or looks, at least) hand-bound with lovely yellow paper, and during the convention I passed it around my friends who all drew me a spell or two — now the book has such useful spells like “Beardalize”, “Unicorn Distraction in the Rear”, “Summon Farmer Joe” and “Turn Wine into Cheese”, and I’ll definitely continue collecting more spells — I think I’ll make a proper post about the book, with pictures, later.
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First, the porridge..
..and then the bed.
I think there’s a Hobbit problem in the neighbourhood. This one was fed to bears soon after.
(gah, I really need to make a new layout for this site, I need more width for the posts)
Even more Efeme illustrations. This one looks so much better in large size, maybe I’ll post it on DA later. I don’t think I’ve ever really done stricly black&white drawings before, so I’m still learning a lot with each new illust I manage to finish (even this one took several attempts, most of which were drawn while intoxicated). Haha :p.
I’m so not into ninjas of any kind, so drawing these was rather difficult — and they’re still a bit more samurai’ish than ninja. Anyway, it’s good to start drawing again.
My LotRO dude&dudette, doodled in Kupoli’s PaintChat.
Work work work.
^ Lhasbelin and her pet raven Kaarne.
I never come up with any interesting post titles :(. I’ve been playing Lord of the Rings Online again, surprisingly, so I’ll just post a screenshot to keep up with my weekly post quota. Now that school’s over I don’t really get (myself) to draw that much, unless I’m away from the gamehome and bored to death. Also, I’ve been working rather hard the last two weeks; travelling around the metropolitan area, handling adhd kids, doing print layouts and zine covers, so I really can’t be bothered to do anything constructive when I finally get home.
Oh, and I got “viikon kuva” again @ Harhakuva, haha :D.
Lalala finished, get a MASSIVE wallpaper version here: http://zhenoa.deviantart.com/art/Efemeros-issue-1-cover-88643022.
Doodled at work, tried using tones but failed with the white ink (was way too runny, bleh!).
Been working on this for the whole week, and still not finished. I’m so slow and bad at this kinda colouring that it takes ages to get anything finished.
Shoulda just done a good ol’ cel shading.