happy Halloweenin' to y'all

and I can't WAIT to get some pics of my costume up here, because it is the embodiment of epicness, and did I mention that I love my grandma and she's a brilliant genius? I did now. This is the ref sheet I drew her when I gave her the pattern: And because she is made of awesome, it came out just like that only AWESOMER. Can you imagine? Gaah, I can't wait to show you it. Pics coming soon. I mean eventually.

And I hesitate to show you this because it is a fossil from last year and also not done. I will probably never finish it and just draw it completely over, with better skillz, you know? What's goin' on here is that Kelsier just threw that big metal safe out of a very high window and leapt out after it, using Allomancy to slow his fall by Pushing with steel against the safe when it hit the ground. Now he's just showing off and hovering there for the heck of it.

Gaah, my non-existent year-old skillz. Or lack thereof. It pains me so. I remember when this was, too, it was exactly a year ago, because Dad gave me Mistborn to read right around then, and I was drawing this in the car on the way to the pumpkin patch, and then it started pouring down rain and we went to the Great Mall and went flopsying about over there instead. It was great.

I love Halloween. Gaah.

No seriously, I dressed up in a different costume every day this week and went to school with 'em on and everything. And everybody was like "Whut, this haz nevar happended buh-fore. No wai no wai!" It was pretty funny. I was an airship pilot on Monday, a dragon Tuesday, a fairy on Wednesday, a ninja Thursday and a gypsy Friday. Saturday I had to wear normal-people clothes because I was at National Portfolio Day most of the afternoon and I wanted to make a good impression. And today I am an Allomancer with a beasty mistcloak and very frightening knives. Buaahaha. And I'm doing homework and answering the door, alternately. Also, I went with Reedfrost and Blondycakes to see Legend of the Guardians earlier this afternoon, and the verdict is: terrible plot, but GORGEOUS movie. See it for the art. It's beautiful. But you have to completely forget about the book storyline, because they pretty much ignore it and do their own thing. It kinda messed with my head a little bit. But Ezelryb was frickin' amazing with his cockeyed ear tufts and squinty glare and missing toes. I love that guy. *hearts* And Grimble, I love him too. All the old weird growly ones are my favorite. They rock.

Now on to more productive endeavors. Have I mentioned that I love my cloak?! Gaaaaah!

Commander Kip

*flat glare* How very adult of you.

Normal is overrated!

sketchmess

I dunno what was goin' on here. My brain wasn't workin' right. I think we should take it a bit at a time. This thing here is a design for a Farshorean battle shell. I might use it for the Queen's guards when I start working on Portals again. You know what that means, right? Yesss, that means Kyren and Saabra get to wear it. *minisquee* The sleeves are my favorite.

Look, another faerie. This is Twitch, you gaiz, and she lives under a trapdoor. Except not right now, because the trapdoor in question is not done yet. Whacky anatomy, I do not care.

Vin the Mistborn, with some knives, and looking quite unlike herself. I didn't feel like looking up the knives in the book, so they probably don't really look like that. BUT... the knives I got from the costume store for my Mistborn costume DO look like that, so there.

And this is Helm, the blacksmith of Erimon Hill and Nath's mentor. Bet I shocked you there. He's younger and prettier than any blacksmith ought to be. And he can haz SCARZ. Muaa. I have a feeling we'll be seeing quite a bit more of him in the second draft. Assuming I ever get around to the second draft.

I have nothing to say about the ballerina except that she's only there because I saw her on a poster somewhere and needed her to practice shoulder blades on.

And here I have a strange old sketch of Nath, which I found in my novel notebook from EIW last year. He looks odd. Perhaps it's his gimpy left arm, or maybe that cross-eyed growl he's doing. I dunno, never mind. HE'S BLIND NOW, BY THE WAY. As of last week. Mourn, peons, or I will eat your head. *cries, then cackles evilly*

I just watched Peter Pan again, with my dad this time. Eventually, every single one of my friends and family members WILL see this movie. It is my all-time favorite. The one-liners, gaah, and the beasty soundtrack, and the general gorgeous adorable hilarious AWESOME. I am overwhelmed by the awesome. I think I've done this rant before. Oh well; expect to hear it again at regular intervals. Best. Movie. EVAH.

Shutting up now.

Commander Kip

"Michael, are you shot?" "I haven't checked, but there's something worser!" "Oh, what could be worse?" "MY... THOUGHTS... AREN'T... VERY... HAPPEEEEEEE..."

Normal is overrated!

Infernal Devices, squeeeee

Clockwork Angel for the win, just for y'all's information. Plenty of blood and guts and ichor. And beautiful angsty teenage boys who do not sparkle, if you're interested in that sort of thing. And evil mechanical automatons and blade-edged parasols and strange men who invent things in crypts and delicious British accents and romance and mortal wounds and traitors and mysteries and dead people. Lots of dead people. Lots. Heck, I could have written it.

Have some sillies. Here you go.

This instantaneously and spontaneously happened right after I saw the awesomeness that is The Matrix. The spoon was the best part. Right next to Neo shooting up that wall of windows with his beasty Gatling gun thing in the helicopter. Anyway. I'll just be done now.

And this is just Anabeth and Thaelen being overly dramatic and whatnot. I cut them slack because she's dying. Otherwise, I would not be putting up with this behavior. *smacksmack*
The whole song goes thusly:

When I think of you, I am at rest

My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore

Lover of beauty, knightliest and best

When I think of you, I am at rest

I have remembered, I have remembered

Beauty in the night

And music in the dark

And running water singing on rocks

In English wood, I once heard a lark...

I have remembered, remembered...

When I think of you, I am at rest

My thoughts seek you, as waves that seek the shore

Lover of beauty, knightliest and best

When I think of you, I am at rest

But all remembered beauty

Is no more, is no more

Than a vague prelude

To the thought of you...

Lover of beauty, knightliest and best

When I think of you, I am at rest...

I am at rest.

It's quite too bad I can't find a recording of it on Youtube. I wish you could hear it. Positively glorious, that middle part. I suppose it would help if I could recall the name of it and the composer... blast it all... Anyway, it's one of many various pieces I've added to the Thaelen/Anabeth playlist, including Sing Me to Heaven, Labyrinth Waltz, The Old Ways, Breath of Life, Prayer (Secret Garden), Dante's Prayer, On a Winter's Day, The Promise, Elegie, Sigma, Dark Night of the Soul, To Where You Are, Laura's Hill, Bring Me To Life, Cursum Perficio, The Wee Lass on the Brae, The Heart's Cry, Caoineadh Cu Chulainn, Sally Gardens, Mantle So Green, Whispers of Paradise, etc. etc. long long list. I am done.

Side note: The rest of the picture (oh yeah, there was a picture buried in there somewhere?) is available upon request, accompanied by a big warning sign that says in great big red letters 'not for parents or younger siblings. This mean you people peering over fill-in-the-blank's shoulders at the computer screen. Shoo, unworthy people. Shoooooo.' I mean, it's not THAT bad, as long as you don't mind a little minor nudity and things. I'd just post this censored version and hide the other one for ever and ever, except that their hands came out really well. For me. For hands, y'know. And their hair. Neither of which you can see very well in the censored version. Point being, comment if you wanna see the rest of it, and I'd be warily happy to email it to you.

I had some rather startling revelations concerning Portals the other day. About the ending, and what all has to happen thare. Like who gets to live, and who gets to go home, and who gets together with who. And... who DOESN'T. Stuff like that. Muaaaaaa.

Matrix and the awesome bald kid with the bendy unspoon (c) idunno, the Matrix people. Not me.

Thaelen, Anabeth, Portals (c) Me. Definately me.

All songs (c) their respective owners/artists

Commander Kip

No, I meant enterprising. If I meant morally deficient, I would have said, "Now, that's something I would have done."

Normal is overrated!

some things

A diverse pile for you. I have more stuff, but it's not scanned. So you'll have to WAAAAIT. Mua.

Tenebrae decided to be dramatic during church the other day. It was pretty funny. Oh, the words mean nothing, by the way. Pay no attention to them. GAAH PRINCE OF PERSIA OMG SQUEEE. I love that movie. I know it was sorta weak storywise, but the parkour was awesome and worth it. So thah.

Mah peeps from the new thing. I hate how some of them came out. Brackolt, Jaxter, Sprocket and Mahogany look the best. The rest of them are kind of meh.

It's not that I FORGOT about this, per se, it's just that I got stuck and sorta gave up on it. Juniper's nightie was refusing to cooperate, and I'm not sure what it is exactly, but Draith's head is lookin mighty skewed somehow. I dunno. Nevermind.

I went with mah bro and Ereka to see the Jack Hanna thing at the Carlson, and he had this werid little fox, I disremember what it was called, and it had these ears that completely dwarfed the rest of its head. I loved it.

Malfoy with his hair from the fourth movie. They all had awesome hair in that one except Ron, who had a mullet. Lol.

Some random shiny elf person. Government and politics bore me. I care NOTHING for your friggin Articles of Confederation. Blaargh.

Ellian. She says hai. Trying out a different kind of face again.

And this one has a fascinating story behind it, which I'm not going to tell you; suffice to say that I was rather angry and having a general angsty teenager moment the other night, and Hickory suffered for it. Poor guy, I messed up his hair. And in case you haven't noticed, I continue to fail at hands. Anyway, moving on. I'm okay now.

I'm working on some Hunger Games fanart right now, as well as something from the Matrix, something from Labyrinth, and some random other stuff that has little to do with anything. And a Portals piece that will probably not end up getting posted, for reasons I'd rather not explain at the moment. Please and thank you. Good day.

I'm still quite busy, by the way, in case you thought I'd died again. Poor Lady Arin's been calling me for two weeks or something. I WILL CALL YOU BACK EVENTUALLY, I SWEAR.

Commander Kip

"Sarah, you're sure you can get the containment field down quickly?" *GIANT EXPLOSION* "Pretty sure."
Normal is overrated!

whatever you do, DO NOT drop the weapons

Or they might break and then I would be quite upset, because I spent my summer doing these.



Anyhow. This is Sir Beast. Say hello. Beasty, isn't he?

See, this is why I never throw anything away. I can always use thing to glue onto other things and make everything more better.

That's the bendy part of a straw, folks. Phear the skillz. PHEAR THEM.

And this is the Spatler, or Spat for short. She's a beauty, but I had considerable trouble sticking her togethah. Can't wait to use her in a photoshoot, you gaiz.

Computer cables. Old ones.

And part of an old yoyo that got all tangled up in the string and no longer functions.

Those little bulbs at the bottom there are from flashlights. The big red bulb is from the remote control of a little remote control helicopter that stopped working because someone's hair got twistytailed around the propellor. So I dismembered it. Muaa.

Little tiny hotel shampoo bottles for teh win. And GAWSP is that a recycled air restrictor?!? WHY YES IT IS. Aren't I a clever girl.

Okay, it's the middle of the night, so I'll just quickly say that Naruto is making me sad right now, gaah stupid charries doing stupid things, and that this was a terribly busy weekend during which I got very little done. That is all. Oh, and I discovered a new webcomic, which is part of the reason why nothing got done. *sneakyface*

Commander Kip

"Witness my genius." "Impressive. But how is it genius when all you're doing is reading the instruction manual?" "Bah, everything I do and say is genius."

Normal is overrated!

anything and everything within arm's reach...

... is goin' inta the scannuh, yeah. Because I obviously haven't posted in about a million years. BLAARGH SCHOOL IS RETARDED. Just sayin.

Hokay, so this is the side of the front of Wizard Quest in Wisconsin Dells, or in other words, the coolest place evar. It pretty much looks like that on the inside too. I have more pics from that trip that I may or may not get around to posting, but here's this one anyway. A page from my iBrain, using different media and song lyrics. I dusted some metallic copper paint on the leaves to make them awesomer.

This has been in the works for several months now. I present you, after much delay... Aubrey, for Shadowshine on the OYAN forum. Innit adorable? I barely remember how she's supposed to look, so I hope this is okay. Ulp.

SELF PORTRAIT TIME. This was the technical one, so it was actually supposed to look like me and everything. I think it looks like a messed-up mug shot, but whatever.

Me and company. Haha. I fail at likenesses. Moving on.

Me with family. Yeah, I see you over thare goin 'WHUT.' in the corner. It makes sense because in our free time, my brother and I descend to the basement and beat on each other through the 360 while singing retarded parodies at the top of our lungs. Enjoy.

Clearly this looks better in real life. My scanner and my pencils do not get along. Anyway, it's Holly again, with some shiny colors in the background. She ended up getting pasted into my iBrain to accompany a review I wrote of The Atlantis Complex. Awesome book, by the way. I swear I didn't stop laughing until I finished it. ("I am not exuding anything." "Yes you are, a lovely aura that's light blue with little dolphins." "I think I'm going to be sick. Did he say... light blue?!" "With dolphins. Little ones.")

Um, this is Andros. I love his weird beaky nose, don't you?

And this is Andros, only he's dying this time. *ducks flying vegetables* And that's his girlfriend Rivenwick. Remember her? I hope she turns good at the end, or this won't end up making any se - oh, it doesn't make sense, what am I talking about? This story idea is messing me up.

Some random Aztec ripoff person. That is all.

This is me trying to get people to look like the people they're supposed to look like. >.<>Not that people care, but here are some roots I had to draw for homework. This was the night I was up till two in the morning. Excuse the lopsided handwriting that ensued.

PAINTBAAAAALL. Nuff said.

And I'm not sure why I stuck this in here. OH YEAH, it's because I love that movie and I love that actress and they're playing it at the Coterie this year squeeee etc. Nvm.

Back to the piano with me. Oh - I finished Mockingjay and you people all need to read those books and omg I'm gonna start crying now...

Commander Kip

What? Do you find this... distracting?

Normal is overrated!

putting in a word or two

Okay, so I actually do have some art to show you, but wouldn't you know it, my internet's down on my laptop again. YET A-FREAKING-GAIN. Es RIDICULO. Muy ridiculo. Uff. Anyway, I can't get to the art from here (dad's computer), but I'm just popping to tell you that I started public school (!!) two weeks ago, and I haven't even had time to check my email since. IB really does eat your life. I have NEVER EVER that busy before. Evah. Thank heavens, my mom took me out of the program and now I'll just be taking four classes - art, Spanish 5, History of the Americas and choir. Not so bad. I can do math, science and English at HOME. And now I'll have time to practice the piano and get myself ready for Yamaha... meep... nervous. But anyway, I'm only going to be on during the weekends now, so don't freak out when you don't see me during the week anymore.

I have a brilliant idea for another faerie door, but that probably won't happen until Thanksgiving Break or somewhere around there, because I'm trying to finish my other Nerf gun mod in time for the bro's birthday, and that'll be most of my free time right there. Plus I'm still working on Erimon Hill, and brainstorming like fury on the new steampunk thingy. Also, I want to redo my room. It's not that I don't like the cool color palate anymore; it's that I discovered steampunk. Which, you know, changes everything. So my mom and I found me a new floor lamp, to replace my ugly dented white one, and a new bedside lamp, to replace the one she confiscated for the office, and a new awesome clock, to replace the boring ugly atomic one. All the metallic silver is slowly leaching out of my room, lol. Everything's gonna be bronze and copper and gold now. It's gonna be awesome.

If I can get the pics on my flash drive, I'll try to post my more recent art before school starts back up on Monday. And I'll also try to visit you OYAN people Monday when class gets out. If I can get someone to drive me over thare. We shall see.

Commander Kip who never knew the meaning of "busy" until now
I used the dull edge, you barking git.
Normal is overrated!

Erimon Hill things

I'm back from the Dells, people, and lemme tell you: the food is atrocious up there. Nice river though.

The many faces of Andra. Some of them not so flattering. Lol. Check out the scar, dudes. Scars rock. This stinking picture refused to cooperate. I've been drawing it for months now. Sorry about the blood and the stabbing, and the disproportions, but I like their hair, okay? So leave me alone. I KNOW their heads are enormous! Oh, and those stripy things on Fable's back are supposed to be scars. This was before I knew how to draw scars. Oh, and also, there was supposed to be a wall there behind Andra, for her to fall into, but it was a curved wall, and it eluded me. So no.

That stupid bracer-thing on Fable's arm gave me no end of trouble, but I like both of their expressions and Fable's sword/sheath. There, I'm done. I never wanna see this thing again.

Wrote five or six pages on the Showdown last night. I think I'm finally unstuck! Woot!... except that school starts tomorrow and is just waiting to eat my free time... blast it all...

Commander Kip

Run around. Make noise. Bite people who are not me.

Normal is overrated!

providing a distraction

so that the Commander can pack for Wisconsin in peace. Have a look.

http://commanderkip.deviantart.com/gallery/#Steampunk-Parody

Oh good, you're back. Is your brain still attached? Excellent. Lady Arin, you REALLY should get yourself a DeviantART account. Just saying.

See you next weekend.

Commander Kip
I know Kung Fu!
Normal is overrated!

Self Portrait the First (and some other junk)

As you can imagine, this took forever. I LOVE MORWYN'S HAAAAAIR.
Me: Morning, Peter. What's up?

Peter: Eh, the usual. Morwyn?

Morwyn: I'm fine, thanks for asking. How go things below?

Kaden: Faaaaantastic. Thaelen continues to be oblivious.

Thaelen: *oblivious angsting and flashbacking*

Broga: Ooh, shiny Fae boy. Shineeee.

Nath: Why am I holding this? Uh, Kip?

Lizby: Quit 'oldin' it then an' 'elp me 'old th' piano! Th' blarsted thing'll break me back!

Irk: That's cuz I'm sitting on it, duh...

It is actually done. I left my charries black and white on purpose. (And Peter, obviously, even though he isn't mine.) The assignment was to draw what you're like when nobody's watching, or in other words, yourself by yourself. Well. I'm never by myself, on account of all the silly people in my head. By the way, this BARELY fit on the scanner glass.

And this is Lady Rivenwick, one of Nocturn's henchwomen from the crazy new story idea. She can haz osm gluvzes.

And I was bored during Driver's Ex and Melian and Thingol ended up glaring at each other over a two-page spread in my notebook. Except, Melian had a really weird nose, so you just get Thingol. Happy birthday, it's for you. I finished the Silmarillion, by the way, and it is rather depressing. Everybody dies. Except Elrond and Galadriel and Celeborn. No, srsly. You have to feel really bad for the sons of Feanor.

Mom and Spud and I saw The Sorcerer's Apprentice down at the Legends the other day. I liked it mostly, but the ending bothered me a bit. It just felt too easy, you know? Like the good guys didn't have to work hard enough, or they didn't recieve enough mortal injuries or go through enough emotional trauma. I sat there and reworked the ending in my head during the car ride home, lol... but I have to say, Nicholas Cage looks pretty awesome with stringy hair and a scruffy beard. He was born to play a thousand-year-old sorcerer. In my opinion.

I'll try to do the FATP post before I leave for Wisconsin on the 8th, buuuut... no promises. Thanks for the poking, guys.

Commander Kip

"Wait... how'd you know my name?" "BECAUSE I CAN READ MINDS!... It's on your backpack."

Normal is overrated!

the grand abode of the grand Lady Arin

We had a ripping time. We always do, don't we, Milady? (Back me up, woman. Ack cough. Just kidding.) We watched Shakespeare in Love, which is rated R but very very good, and parts of A Room with a View, which is also good and has some scenes that are super awkward and laugh-aloud hilarious all at once. We read a lot of fanfiction. We talked boys. FOR HOURS. We took more than five hundred pictures over the course of three and a half days. And we dressed up and stuff. And there were GUNS involved. Observe. Sepia is fun. Ooh, look, windeeeeeee...

We took some in color too. Lady Arin had glitter all over her face and neck at this point, which, to my knowledge, still hasn't come out of her scalp. Oh, and I got her soaking wet too. We had the best hosefight in the history of the world. I lost, and she made me water my hair and then fling it around a lot. It was okay though, cuz it was about a bazillion degrees out thare.

I love that property. SO MUCH GREEEEEN. See the faerie path?

And lookit, I painted mah feetses. While the Lady was reading some Harry Potter fanfiction to me and I had nothing better to do. I did one of her legs too. Just cuz it was there, you know.

And I discovered this song, called The Labyrinth Waltz, by Kim Robertson, thanks to the Lady.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17GXHGxd4Y

Doesn't it make you think of faeries dancing in a hidden hall, kind of slow and solemn? I think it's the most lovely, heart-wrenching, haunted melody THAT WILL BE PERFECT FOR THAELEN AND ANABETH, once she starts dying of the Blight and all. Gah.

And this one, called Ferry Me Across the Water, by the same artist, is also lovely. But I don't love it QUITE as much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmnNPLlglA

Also, I discovered that home-grown garden tomatoes do not offend me as much as I though.

ALSO, there was this little yellow finch-bird thing that came 'round and tapped on all the windows every morning to wake us up while I was there. We ended up naming him Erazmus. I kinda wanted to take him home with me, but he seemed pretty happy where he was. XD

So there's that stuff out of the way. I'm terribly unmotivated to do the FATP post, cuz it will be long and strenuous and I'll have to go through and find the pictures with no one's faces in them. So. Somebody had better poke me with a stick and get me moving. Or it'll never be done.

Commander Kip who actually made some HEADWAY on Chapter Twelve last night. That fight scene is being a beast.

*outraged British accent* Ouch, you're treading on me!

Normal is overrated!