Beritalis & Luca
Original Fantasy Characters; more on them another time.
*gasp*
In the midst of my WoW experience…ok fine I did 99% of it before I started playing WoW again….anyway…
So I was poking about on facebook and deviantArt, talking with my L5R friend LadyEntropy about art and how I need 1000 times more practice. I got to thinking that maybe she’d like it if I painted one of her drawings as a present. I did not alter any of her line art, and in fact left it a little darker than I normally would so as to highlight her beautiful lines and shading. So with her permission here is the final piece:
A Moment of Quiet Repose by ~LadyEntropy on deviantART
The original work can be found here: A Moment of Quiet Repose by LadyEntropy on deviantArt
Soooooooooo…..
/say Um…I feel like an addict…one that was recovering and slipped…
/say Heck the idea might apply.
/shy
/say I started playing World of Warcraft again…with their updates and my better video gaming skills its a 1000 times more fun than it was the first time I played…
/cry
/say I have so many bad memories of the past time I played WoW. It was very frustrating…took me an entire year to get to level 60, the max at that time. Granted I started playing 3 days after the game was released, and there was a lot left to be improved that could only be discovered by people playing the game, and a huge learning curve for me since I’m not very good at comp games, only console ones, and even then I’m generally just mediocre.
/cry
/say now they’ve apparently made it easier to get to lvl 60 since they want everyone to play in their new area for 60 to 70, the new max. I’ve played for less than a week and I’m already level 22. I know I’m playing a warrior which at this level takes a little less skill in general than rogue, which is what I played to 60, and I do have my evasion skills carefully honed by months of “Please don’t aggro on me I don’t want to die and run across the map for 7 minutes AGAIN!” practice.
/scream
/say Sorry the memories bring back all the adrenaline into my system and I want to crawl into a dark hole and hide. I was wandering through Night Elf lands, Ashenvale and Astranaar and Stonetalon on Kalimdor last night with my fiance and friend. All I kept saying was “I remember this place.” “I hate this place.” “No we can’t go there.” “I was underleveled when I came here and died 80,000 times.” “No we’re not going to Redridge I’d rather die here 80,000 more times than -ever- see/hear/kill/loot another one of those hyena things again.” “OH GNOLLS they’re called gnolls!”
/cry
/say it also helps that I’m playing one of the new races that was included with the Burning Crusade expansion, the Draenei. Yes I’m still stuck on the alliance side even though Belfs are HOTT and I really want to play one, really really bad. I mean really bad. I played them before the expansion was released and pushed back like 3 times at BlizzCon in October 2005. http://jenniferashleyart.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=36
/say Yes I got my face painted to look like a Night Elf. All my further NE’s have those face markings. When I made Ayrya I couldn’t see b/c my monitor was so dark and my vid card was poor. So she ended up with maple leaves on her eyes. Which is annoying b/c I really like those markings. I almost remade her but then I’d have been completely behind and have cried a lot.
/cry
/say I really like the abbreviation NE though. In D&D terms it stands for Neutral Evil. Understanding the ramifications of Neutral Evil, it tends to work out for me in roleplay because its all about being self centered. I am a self centered creature. It works. Night Elves work for me too.
/say So yeah I logged out of my main, Ayrya, a 60 NE Rogue on Earthen Ring 2 years ago right around Christmas.
/say How do I know it was around Christmas? Here’s how.
WTF?
oh.
[Esc]
Exit Game *click*
Sketching..
So recently I’ve actually sketched. 
I’ve been playing with the concept art for my dancer character.
And a different original character:
Wow…lately I’ve been drawing lots of blondes…bizarre
(Brief) Hiatus
We got rid of the comp desk and bought a dining room table to put in my dining room, so my comp is still not all connected and ready to go (stupid job interfering! Okay so I like to read too and I’m almost finished with Jim Butcher’s Cursor’s Fury (Codex Alera Book 3) ). I -have- been drawing though, and I intend to scan my sketches today. In the meantime here’s the last self caricature I sketched:
MORE SNOW!
I haven’t seen snow like this since I moved away from Kansas! Especially not in Texas! The only time I’ve seen anything close to this was the time it snowed on Valentine’s Day before I moved here.
You’d think that it was some kind of disaster the way that everyone here in Texas flips out when it snows–I was calling my mom to tell her about it (she is thoroughly unsympathetic considering they’ve gone without snow on the ground for like 2 days out of the winter) and I saw a car rear end another in the parking lot! It’s snow, and its on the roads, but its just slush and it probably won’t freeze until tonight. All the schools are already closed, UT Dallas has canceled classes for the rest of the day.
Snow…in March!
Let alone the fact that I live in Texas!
We took our new ferret out onto the snow early in the morning when she wasn’t quite awake to see what she’d do. I mean, in all the ferret catalogs and stuff they have pics of ferrets enjoying snow. So we thought she’d enjoy it.
WRONG! The Princess declares that her mother and father should remove her from the snow. Immediately.
my eyes my eyes!
My eyes always feel like they’re bleeding after I work on a monochromatic piece like this.
The original piece is one I did maybe 3 years ago, when my monitor was failing and everything was slowly going dark. It was a character portrait, to be used as an avatar on The Imperial Court
After much more cropping, practice, love and patience it turned into this:
Detail (gotta love eyeball shots):
Original:
I’ll leave out the detail on that one…it just makes it look worse :) Anyway, hopefully more soon.
