The original outhor and illustrator is Oliver Jeffers. This is a simplified retelling by me, but I don't own this story, and the illustrations are simple remakes of the originals in my style (I do have more pictures, I just haven't painted them yet). This is a fanwork, and no copyright infringement is intended. Please support the original artist/illustrator. Thank you.
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It's hard though! It's been 8 years, and I still haven't made any progress, either with the drawing or my skill level. I really want to get it done, though. It's an AU version of what the kids might look like in our modern world. Eddie is being a pain as usual.
Here are my new entries for Recreate This Book!
So to start, I finally decorated the left-hand side of Create a pocket:
I tried using my Signo pen to do the highlights, but for some reason, it didn't want to work, so I used a trick I learnt from SuperRaeDizzle, and used my Tip-ex pen instead. It worked really well!
The next page I worked on was one I had an idea for straight away. It's Create a page of stripes, and I knew I would do t-shirts. While making it, I decided to add other stripey clothes. And I'm sorry to say, I did trace the outlines, because I suck so much at drawing, but the designs are my own imagination:
Continue readingI'm a big fan of Moriah Elizabeth's channel, and I really admire how creative she is. Like, how the heck does she come up with all those ideas? I have a lot of imagination, but very little creativity. I just find it such a struggle to come up with anything original and interesting. Anyway, watching her Create This Book series, I was tempted to buy a copy of one of them, but now that I've lost my job (thanks, Mophead McLiarface), I can't really justify spending £12 on something that I lack the creativity to even do a good job with. So, I went kinda cheeky and copied out some of the prompts I liked in an old notebook I bought years ago and never knew what to do with. I'm planning on using some free prompts from the interwebz as well.
Continue readingSince I'd run out of craft projects and had 3 canvasses gathering dust, I decided now was the time to try this out!
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What are the three primary colours for pigment? I was always taught red, blue and yellow at school, how about you? It's so wrong though. Totally wrong. Well, 2/3 wrong, to be accurate.
The three primary colours are in fact: yellow, magenta and cyan. Which I should have known as I'm the one who buys the printer ink. But you know, we have it hammered into our heads at school that it's red, blue and yellow, and we don't really question it, do we? But in fact, red and blue cannot be primary colours, for the simple reason that you can make them with magenta, cyan and yellow. Yep, and we proved it!
The kids and I had a lot of fun learning about colours!
Here's a Moriah Elizabeth quick craft I really wanted to try out.
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Kid playing Nine-Ball. Took a while, and didn't come out quite how I intended. But it's okay for a first attempt.
This was inspired by the scene in Last Window, where Kyle's mother would look out the window while this song played. Kyle's losing of his father reminded me of Kiki's losing Callimachus, so I wrote some lyrics to match. I used this as an illustration in Dreamsong chapter 5, although the sentiment is more matched to a scene in chapter 4.
Artwork, character and lyrics © Silver Arrows 2013-2015. All rights reserved. If you wish to record the lyrics, that's fine, but NO COMMERCIAL USE and you must credit and link back. You may NOT use my artwork without permission. I'll probably say yes, but ask first. Thanks. Credit to generosa for the flower brush.
Music © Nintendo.
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I've finally updated the image to match the lyrics. However, there just isn't enough space for the full version with the additional chorus. But the rest of it matches.
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Background: ~struckdumb/~pureplayas529 | Phoenix's hand refs: here and here
Appearance: Feralians are similar in height and build to humans. The obvious difference is their rich-brown wings. When in non-winged form, only the eye colour gives it away; their eyes being bright orange or, very rarely, silver. Their hair ranges from dark brown to almost black, and both sexes wear it long.
They favour simple, utilitarian clothing, having little time for adornment. It's a custom for everyone to wear an armband with their name.
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My characters doing Phoenix Wright cosplay. Ace Attorney belongs to Capcom. These characters belong to me.
She's called Phoenix. I was actually planning on giving her a Greek name, so I was flipping through my astronomy book, hoping to find a name like Callisto or Alcyone or something, instead, I saw the constellation of Phoenix, thought: That'll do, and there we are. I'm so lazy.
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Zephy has a magic carpet.
I did it! I did it! I clocked Hard level!
(2021 update: since then, I clocked Expert level too. AND I went to the (2012?) Comicon in Ouendan cosplay!)
Anyways, yet another fangirlism to add to the list. Here are Clarys and Zephy celebrating my success by way of awesome cosplay.
Nope, the outfits aren't wrong. It's a combined cosplay of Ouendan AND Ouran!
Okay, so as you might have noticed, one of my weaknesses (besides anatomy) when it comes to illustration is — COLOURING! I fail at colouring, although I am starting to figure things out a bit. But in any case, what I would really love is for someone to colour my fails stuffs and show me how it's done. So here is desperate attempt for lessons #1:
My stuffs. Click to download the high-res version from dA.
Rules: credit and link back to this page. Use whatever colour schemes you like, create whatever backgrounds, just keep it clean (strictly PG — sexualise my characters and bad things will happen to you) and don't remove the copyright text. kthasall. I'd be really grateful to anyone who can teach me a thing or two about colouring!
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