Irlican Beasties

Hey, that worked better than I expected...

Hi. Just so everybody knows, I tend to talk first and say hello after.

These two horny beasties are creatures from my book, Portals of Irlica. The upper one is a muc-mhara adarcach (pronounced mook-WA-ra ah-AR-kach), which is Gaelic for 'horned whale', although it looks more like a spined whale to me. Many thanks to friend Amzi for the pronunciation. The muc-mhara adarcach lives in the Sea of Sighs that forms the eastern border of Zraeland. The Farshoreans hunt them for sport, and because their horns/spines are considered a great prize. They are very fast swimmers, very hard to catch, and when the hunters do catch them, they only take one horn and let the creature go. It grows another horn in a matter of months. The other one is a gaunt, a beast of burden with a skinny trunk and muscular legs. I think it has too many talons in this picture... it looks like some kind of messed-up bird of prey. But anyway, the Zraelanders use them as mounts and beasts of burden. Despite their fearsome appearance, they're actually quite docile. You can't really tell in the picture, but the gaunt's eyes have cross-slits, which I am rather proud of.

Commander Kip, over and out
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Happy Thanksgiving!

G'day, guys! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

To celebrate this momentous holiday, I rifled through my digital pics and found these suitably side-splitting ones:

That's my puppy, Marco. He's playing Big Bad Albino Dragon Attacking the Castle, and I just had to take pictures. Hee! The castle is Playmobile, and the poofy little doggie is a Bichon Frise.

Commander Kip

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And It Was Magic

Good Day, again. I know I already posted today, but I was inspired...

Lookie, it's Commander Kip in a coolio black cloak her madre lent her. The glowy ball of Magic was originally my bootiful dragon egg, Grover, but he looked cooler as a glowy ball, so the glowy ball it was. Me likey the spray-paint tool. Yay!

Gaah, we took such a funny movie at Lady Arin's house! Gaah! I laugh just thinking about it! I was walking and I pretended to trip and grabbed my wand out of my boot and then I whipped around and pointed it at my foe. Yes, the foe that wasn't really there... but hey, don't look at me like that... we had fun! And the sound effects were supremely special. I was like, "Whoops... AHA!!!" It was awesome indeed. Unfortunately, I can't stick it up here because it has my face in it. And you guys don't want to see THAT... Just kidding. My madre is very paranoid and doesn't want my mug shot all over the dangerous jungle of the Internet; neither does mi padre. And mi padre helped me make CreativityIncarnate, so I can't really complain.

Commander Kip

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Argh, Commander Kip's been Blighted!

Just kidding. Thank you, Lady Arin, for the body crayons. I had much fun with them, I did. *runs to take shower* Itches like the dickens, though...

Soooo, for all of you who are currently wondering what the Blight is, I shall enlighten you: It's a deadly incurable disease I invented for my book. Muahahaaa!!! Yes, I'm that evil, but every adventure story is more exciting with a deadly incurable disease in it, right? The Blight is spread through direct contact with another Blighted human or Fae, although it originated from a specific type of plant in the Blighted Basin. Yeah, something like that. There's actually a bit of text to go with this one:

After turning the campsite inside out, Ellian finally thought to search the stream bank for her sister. Sure enough, Anabeth was crouched by a small, gurgling waterfall about twenty yards outside the camp. The tiny waterfall splashed down into a clear pool, which Anabeth was crouched over, washing her arms in the cool water. Ellian stood silently for a minute, watching from the shadow of the trees. Her sister rinsed the mud from her arms with angry vigor. Her sleeves were pushed up past her elbows, and Ellian stared with a good deal of worry at a glint of green on Anabeth’s right forearm. Ellian had not noticed the green before. At first she assumed it was a leaf or some other foliage stuck to Anabeth’s arm by the mud, but as she continued to watch, she became convinced that it was not plant matter. For the mud slid easily off of Anabeth’s skin and was carried away down the stream, but the flash of green on her forearm remained, as clear as before.

Ellian could not suppress her gasp.

Whirling about, Anabeth reflexively yanked her sleeves down to cover her arms. “Ellian, I told you I wanted to be alone. What are you doing here?”

Anabeth shouted at Ellian often at home. She was used to being shouted at. Unfazed, she answered, “I came to see if you were okay, and you are apparently not. Have you looked at your forearm lately?”

“No, because there’s nothing to see,” Anabeth growled back. She tossed her braid defensively over her shoulder and rose from her crouch in a smooth motion. “You must have been imagining things. Come on, let’s get back to camp.”


If only Ellian was imagining things. Poor Anabeth, hee. Don't worry, she comes back to life later...
Anabeth and Ellian are Mine. No touchie, or ah will getchoo wid mah spork o'doom! Phear the wrath an' all that.

Commander Kip
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Hattie

Hey thurr, guys!

Augh, we had the Chemistry Test of Death in school this morning. Stoichiometry, rawr! I never want to see another mole ever again... but that's highly unlikely, since we have nine more modules in the textbook to get through. Blaargh!

I needed some cheering up after the Chemistry Test of Death, so... D'girl has returned! Mwahahahaaa! Phear her and the accompanying madskillz.

This here purdy picture is Hattie the glowy dustbunny. Ain't she preshus? I drawled her in Paint.Net, which really made me want GIMP... there are NO BRUSHES in Paint.Net! I was like, 'come ON!' Even my baby paint program that came with Windows has a spray-paint brush. So, I'll keep working on mi padre to try and get him to let me have GIMP. I hear tell that there's this thing called a fairy-dust brush. I wants it, I does! Had to use the wash tool for the glowy bubbles, which was complicated and so much harder than a spray-paint tool. Ni!

So, Hattie's story... she's the cute floating pet of my friend's character Lawrence (at least, I think that's how it's spelled; it might be Lorence, I'll have to ask her.) She comes from the Merry Moor where all the dustbunnies live. Hee.

Hattie and all Untitled characters are hands-off in the name of me and my school friend. If you touchie, Ah will getchoo wid mah spork o'doom! Bwahahaaa!!! *cackles fiendishly*

Charlette D'girl, otherwise known as 'The One and Only Girl'

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Spark and Dragon's Milk

Good Day and Salutations!

Check out the cuteness! This liddle beauty just had his first birthday on Halloween, so as a birthday present, I changed his name. He is now called Spark, and he is most adorable indeed. Originally, I had named him Squirt, which fit him perfectly when he was a dracling, but now that he's grown a bit, I decided he needed a more dignified name. Hee!

On a similar note, has anyone read the Dragon Chronicals by Susan Fletcher? They used to be my all-time favorite books. The first one, Dragon's Milk, is about a girl named Kaeldra (the coolest name EVER) who can communicate with dragons. Her foster-sister, Lyf, has some rare uncurable disease, Vermillion Fever, I think. Kaeldra goes up into the mountains to find a dragon and get some of its milk, the mythical cure for Vermillion Fever. The dragon, whose name is Flagra, agrees to give Kaeldra milk in exchange for some babysitting. Flagra has a new litter of draclings and cannot leave her cave to hunt, for fear of the draclings getting into trouble, so Kaeldra watches the draclings while Flagra goes out hunting in exchange for a month's worth of milk. Of course, the draclings are not easy to watch, especially when they start learning how to fly. The villagers are angry because their livestock is disappearing, and they kill Flagra, forcing Kaeldra to flee the village with the three draclings. She is pursued by a wannabe dragon-slayer who is after the draclings, and she must find a way to outwit him, escape the seething village, and return the baby dragons to their kyn. The other two books in the trilogy are Flight of the Dragon Kyn and The Sign of the Dove. Highly recommended!

Commander Kip

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Pendragon: Before the War

Attention, Pendragon fans! I have an announcement to make! *waves arms*

There are going to be Pendragon short stories! Yay! (Although I'd just as soon have Mr. MacHale hurry up and finish the tenth book before I go CRAZY.) Anyway, they're coming out early next year, and you can see the covers of the first two on the Pendragon website. They're about the Travelers' lives before they met Bobby and joined the battle for Halla. The first one has short stories of Kasha, Gunny and Spader! Yay, I love Spader! And if you look at the cover, there are pictures of all three of them on there. Spader doesn't look quite like I imagined him, but he looks a lot better than he did in the guidebook. Gaah, they butchered him in there! He had brown hair and looked like a cowboy! Blaargh! The guidebook messed up Kasha too. She looked like she was about to eat somebody... but I really like the picture of her on the first short story book. The little short story series is going to be called 'Pendragon: Before the War'.

Commader Kip the Obsessor
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Kyren

Good Day, CreativityIncarnate!

Okay, I have some illustrations of the novel I'm trying to write, and I can't help but stick them up here.
As always, please excuse the cruddy pic... *needs scanner* Maybe I'll ask my madre y padre for one for Christmas.

This is Llaelora ferch Diarbed (pronounced Tlay-LOR-a; the double L sounds like a TL), better known as Kyren the Bodyguard. My favorite li'l pyromaniac... She has a younger sister, Saabra, who looks almost exactly like her, and if their lives are in danger, they can switch places, kind of like Padme and her handmaidens in Star Wars, except Kyren and Saabra are both princesses... so neither of them are 'expendable'. I drew this pic before I learned my anatomy, so excuse any mistakes in proportion and so on.

Kyren is entirely miiiiiiiine. No touchie, or I will getchoo with mah spork o' doom! 4LL PH34R!

Commander Kip the Krazee

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Stalemate and Tango

Hehe, you'll never believe this... *falls about laughing*

Gaah, this is so funny! Did you know Kipin was a Star Wars nut in disguise? I was messing with my brother's Star Wars action figures the other day, and I came up with a few really nice poses, so I naturally had to take pictures...

The first pic is called Tango, and it was inspired purely by the coincidence of the two characters having the same-shaped hands. The dude in the tunic with the ponytail is A'Sharad Hett, and the alien lady with the horn thingers on her head is Shaak Tii (spelling?) They're doing the tango, obviously. And the other pic is entitled Stalemate, 'cause that's exactly what it is, hee. A'Sharad Hett again (I luvz that guy, he's got nice flexible limbs and an awesome ponytail, not to mention these coolio blue designs on his face, which you can't see in the pic) and another Jedi, the Dark Woman. You can't tell from the side, but the Dark Woman is wearing the coolest purple garment thing. Yay for purple! And they're holding lightsabers to each other's necks, so if either of them move, they both DIE. Fun stuff, that. I had another fun setup one time, where there were two Jedi back-to-back in the middle of a ring of like twenty
bad guys... gaah, it was so funny... didn't get a picture of it though.


Commander Kip
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Truffles and Rosie

Good Day, CreativityIncarnate!

Today, I was in a draconic mood. Rawr! So I give you... more dragons! These two have a story as well. The green one with the cake and the chef's hat is Truffles, and although you can't see it in the pic, he has little blobs of frosting all over him and is quite adorable. The story behind him is that my grandpa is a raw-foods chef, and he makes the most delicious little raw truffles, and he lets me mold them into coolio shapes. Two years ago, around Christmastime, we made partridges and pears, and we had sooo much fun and got sooo sticky... but of course it was worth it! Stickiness is always fun.

The pink one with the half-knitted scarf is for my grandma. Her name is Rosie, and she's holding a ball of yarn in her tail. My grandma is very handy with all that needlepoint and crotcheting and knitting business... in fact, she helped me knit my first scarf. Much luv to ya, Gramma dear.

Commander Kip, over and out.

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Dona Crei 'Tun

Oooooh-kaaaaaay, lemme see if this works...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir-SdQ94VsM

Aha! It did!!! Now you may all go and enjoy the awesomeness! BTW, I didn't make this, so it's not exactly MY creative endeavor, it's somebody else's, namely, Mr. Stadler. Much love to him, etc. The title of the song is Dona Crei 'Tun, I think, and it's in some faery language that nobody has been able to translate. But it sounds cool. XD

KiptheKool
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Grace and Feathr

Good Day to all!

This here cruddy pic is courtesy of my digital camera that doesn't know the difference between a Drog and a candy cane... rawr! Kipin needs a scanner. She needs it badly. But anyway, the Drog on top is Grace-fall, and the Drog on bottom is Feathr. They both live in the extensive Farshorean Drog Kennels. And for those of you who don't know what Drogs are, I shall enlighten you... I created them for my novel-in-progress, Portals of Irlica. They're a lot like dogs, but much bigger, and they have wings and talons and horsy manes... and some of them can breathe super-heated steam when you hack them off, so yeah. My sorta first attempt at drawing animal anatomy, so please excuse the mistakes.

KipintheKrazyArtistFiend
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Scribbler

Good day, CreativityIncarnate! *firstpostdance*

For my first trick, I would like to introduce Scribbler, my inspirational dragon. I made him with my own two handses, I did. Is he not special? His job is to provide me with inspiration when I write (names, ideas, concepts, plot twists, etc.) He does his duty well. Yay for him!

I have made and will be making a lot of dragons, so expect more in the future.

Commander Kip, over and out. *bleep*