Tealin Draws with Tablet! Footage at 11!

[tealin]

I drew with a tablet. I don't know how those tablet people do it. Colouring's OK, but lines?



Eponine and Cosette. I think I'm stealing Eponine from someone else I've drawn but I don't remember who.




Hmm. I think I like the tablet ones better; for all their grobbliness, they've got more soul. And Cosette looks like my mental image of Sophie from the O'Brian books. Sorta.

And now for something completely different:

tulanoodle drew "Emo Snape," which I thought was a fabulous idea, and drew this before I saw her drawing (which she told me about over the phone):

Quick, someone get him a latte Withe a 1,000 Elephants!
Well, my brain knows a good pun when it sees one (and bad ones too, more often than not) so it immediately progressed to:

EMU SNAPE!

The credit is all hers.

Oh, I am so very clever. How I do kill myself. Har har har.

Comments

[cambryn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like these, Cosette has some actual personality (which is something I find lacking in lots of the stage productions.) I like 'ponine too. Poor little angsty thing, dejectedly delivering messages.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Funny, when I looked at the Cosette I drew, I thought 'huh, she has remarkably little personality.' I suppose any personality is better than how she is onstage...

[cambryn.livejournal.com]

I suppose any personality is better than how she is onstage...
Precisely. :)

wow

[(Anonymous)]

its cool but odd in a good funky way.....

[green--desire.livejournal.com]

I'm a tablet peehole. I didn't used to be and getting used to it was really weird and my stuff looked funky but I got addicted to it and now I feel weird drawing on normal paper.

[morbid-bunny.livejournal.com]

!! Cosette is ADORIBLE. Eponine looks fantastic, too. Both look very in character... Our Cosette (Les Mis came through here recently and I sat right up front, thus seeing her face and all) was a bit ish. She looked alright, but sometimes she acted a bit airheaded...

I think this (like everything else you draw -jelous-) is absolutely marvelous.

[durayan.livejournal.com]

Practice practice practice. Oh, and spend some wretched time drawing with a mouse first, so you can properly appreciate drawing with a tablet. Once you get the hang of it, it's really quite as natural as drawing on paper.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

“Grobbly”?

By the way, that’s a lovely De la Tour by your “Sacrament Model” Quiz result on my LJ. I fell in love with The Little Mermaid when I saw that among her collection was De la Tour’s La Madeleine pénitente à la veilleuse (“Whats a fire and why does it—whats the word?—‘burn?’”).





Oh, I forgot to say that your art is brilliant—but do I really need to repeat it? It’s a given. Anybody who can draw Harry Potter with a ketchup packet doesn’t need to worry about tablets.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I. LOVE. Your icon.

You must have seen the cast I saw! I love that cast! (Except for the way-too-young Gavroche...) Cosette did seem a bit ... froofy ... but I thought that was par for the course.

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

Tann has a livejournal? Why am I just now noticing this ...?

Anywhoo, your Eponine (I love that hat!) looks fantastic, buuuut I'm going to say that Cosette, while nothing's wrong with her and she looks nice, seems to have an air of one of those filler characters people draw just for the sake of drawing or to fill up space. Or, I could have just said that you're right about the lack of personlity, but that would have been too easy.

[cambryn.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched that movie in YEARS. I need to watch it again simply to see the painting now. I love La Tour. Such beautiful works, for the most part, though occassionally the people can get a bit weird in the face. *Am such an art history geek*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I didn't pick it; it came with the quiz.

(I did like the results, though)

And it was a skewer stick! A skewer stick! It was just like a very very thin pen that needed to be dipped every five seconds!

[poisonedwriter.livejournal.com]

You're pictures are hilarious. I showed them to my mom, and she laughed out loud! I am also pleased to say I found the Liam Neeson version of Les Miz at Blockbuster for $5 (on VHS). It may not be the musical, but a story's a story.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Except, to the best of my recollection, it ends before it's supposed to. Okay, it does close off one arc and everything after that is pretty much epilogue, but still...

I'm curious to see it again... I only saw it once, when it came out in the theatre, and that was how many years ago?

[punkinart.livejournal.com]

EMU SNAPE ROX MY SOX! HAHAAH!

[cambryn.livejournal.com]

It came out in 1998.
When Geofrey Rush walks into the river... that was a bit odd. I think I prefered the musical version...

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

SQQQUUEEEEE!!! I wanna hug EMU!Snape!!! (though I thought he was a Moa or a Cassowary before I read it...blame the single malt scotch. And EMO Severus is BRILLIANT!!! The reading glasses just add loads to his orginal sex appeal! I *L O V E* him! :-D

Poor Eponine! :-( I always felt bad for her (annoying as she may sometimes be). What pisses me off about her is that every time I see any stage version of Les Mis, she's played by an Asian. Nothing wrong with that, but I just can't picture an Asian girl in Paris in 1830.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Hey, you don't mind if I steal the Emu for icon purposes, do you?? I've always wanted an emu as a pet, and to see one personified as my love just gives me such glee!:-P

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it John Malkovitch? That's the only role I [thought I] know him in – he looked just like the substitute teacher we always got in Orchestra.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Naw, go ahead, just pass a little credit this way when you first use it. : ) Glad to see it in use.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

ah yeah i definately prefer pencil to tabby..but you're also drawing in photoshop. photoshop suuucks for that.. but OpenCanvas is actually ok :D

..MAN why is snape so hot xDDD he's not big shouldered and strong jawed at all! x)

it's that little extra strand of hair. ...ok no i just like snape x).

emu snape = genius.

[sorsaria.livejournal.com]

these are so good! luv ur snapes!

[pink-fairy.livejournal.com]

i love your icon! :D

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

I know you didn’t choose it. You don’t suppose I’d have picked that Pink Horror, do you? That very tendentious quiz ought to have given me Vierzehnheiligen, or at the very least St. Peter’s (though I suspect the author was avoiding that as too trite).


Oh, a skewer stick! Well, that makes all the difference in the world! Obviously, you have no real talent after all!

ARGH!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oho, I banged my head on the mousepad for nine years before getting a tablet. I just wish my tablet at work (Graphire 3) had as much tooth in its surface as mine at home (Graphire 1) so I could actually feel the stylus moving across it, which helps a lot. I'm tempted to take some sandpaper to it but it's not mine, alas.

[cambryn.livejournal.com]

The 1998 one with Liam Neeson has Geoffrey Rush as Javert.

The 2000 miniseries has John Makovich. In that one Gérard Depardieu played Jean Valjean.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

"I thought he was a Moa or a Cassowary before I read it...blame the single malt scotch."

I blame the hooked 'nose' – change the beak, and an emu does look more like a moa. (Cassowaries have that ... head thing, do they not? And blobby dangles?)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ooooookaaaay... I am confused, then. Thankee.

[martes.livejournal.com]

Drawing in a vector program like Flash or Illustrator can take care of any line weight problems. In Flash (useing the brush tool, NOT the line tool) you can smooth out lines and manually adjust the thick and thinness to get a nice tabering effect. Usually what I'll do is do the inking and clean-up of a pencil image in Flash, then import it into Photoshop for coloring. Photoshop sucks for inking, unless you're working from a VERY tight pencil drawing, in which case you can just darken the lines.

[mandrill.livejournal.com]

BwahahahahaHAs at Emo!Snape and Emu!Snape! Heeheeeeee! :=D

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Les Mis in one piece, I've seen the first half of a French production that was supposed to hold very true to the book and the last half of the musical, and I find they don't really match up. In the French production Eponine was quite nasty and cruel, and also very pretty. In the musical she was that little sad girl with her duffle coat and sixpence hat. How does that happen?

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Yes they do...simmilar to Meleagris gallopavo, or North American Turkey (as they are better known). Cassowaries are obviously deadlier. Ironically, I used to have a turkey named Severus. :-(

Hmmm

[gitargentlyweep.livejournal.com]

Either way, that's an interesting way to percive/draw Eponine... what a good play... what a good play...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, if she weren't a sympathetic character, no one would feel bad when she died, see? It's all about manipulating the audience's emotions... that's what storytelling is about. If you don't like the characters, you don't care what happens to them. This is why I don't like listening to the American cast of Sunset Boulevard and absolutely cannot stand Aspects of Love.

[i-have-boydism.livejournal.com]

looks great... I wish I could do that with my tablet... I need practice

[spicedfries.livejournal.com]

Why's he got glasses? O___O (That's what's bothering me. :P )

*giggles insanely at Emu Snape*
As much as I love Snape and hate anything/one that makes fun of him, i must admit that's funny.

[cantatrix05.livejournal.com]

*Emu love* Your emu looks more like Snape to me than most of the drawings I've found of him as a person!

Emu Snape

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

Heheheh...now I have this mental image of Rod Hull as Dumbledore, holding Emu Snape under his arm and trying to keep him from snatching a wand and AKing him.

Dude!

[modestlyhott.livejournal.com]

Can I use that Emu Snape for an icon? It's hilarious! (If you don't want me to, that's fine!)

[infiniteviking]

Are you using a pen or a mouse? 'Cause pens rule and mice squeak. Once you get used to it, a pressure-sensitive tablet is loads of fun.

Love your Emu!Snape. The expression is just exquisite.

[amandagrazini.livejournal.com]

*Dies in laughter*

Oh Tealin,its just you to make me laugh now...I've just finished HBP now...:(

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

*sidles in*

Er, hullo. I've... been lurking at your journal for some time, but never got around to commenting and introducing myself. Actually, I've been lurking around your art for years longer than that, but then I discovered you had an LJ, so, um, hello.

I confess I'm mostly delurking now because Emu Snape made me literally laugh out loud, and anyone who can make me crack up with a drawing really deserves to, um, not be lurked at. ^^

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

(Unfair! I hate coming in later than everyone else. Talk aboutchor inferiority complexes!)

I actually saw this post at my host family's house (see upcoming post, I think, for details) when stealthily grabbing a little internet time. Of course, the whole stealthy part was utterly ruined when I collapsed laughing at Emu!Snape. ALL YOUR FAULT. (Emo!Snape is amazing too . . . it's just that he's not . . . an emu.)

Aww. I love Eponine so much. I think Lea Salonga has always been Eponine for me, although I vaguely recall thinking of her with blonde curls sometime in the past . . . what color is her hair in the book, anyway? I know Fantine's is blonde, Valjean is white, and Cosette is . . . brown? N-E-WAY.

Yay for tablet!?

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

Muahahaha, Emu Snape! And no one believed me when I said that the plural of emo is emu.

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

You're not half bad with that tablet, Tealin. I reeaally like how tablet Eponine turned out. Now that I've seen you use it, I kind of see what people rave about - crisp clean lines. I'm still not even considering buying one.

Cosette does rather look like my mental image of Sophie as well...

Tee-hee. Emo Snape. Though I'm still not quite sure what 'emo' means and I'm certainly ignorant of these 1,000 elephants you speak of...

I like emu Snape best of all. Striking resemblance.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The '1,000 elephants' thing is originally from Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures, where it is a tagline on nearly every movie poster, but its use as an insto-presto sentence-improvement phrase is the idea of gabbysun ... see this entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/gabbysun/2005/08/07/).

To be honest, I have a very loose grasp of 'emo' as well, as it's a label that came into use after I graduated high school and thereby lost all connection to popular culture. From what's been described to me and what I have gleaned from context, I think it refers to the kooky-but-not-really-Goth people who tend to populate art classes, so I just kind of based EmoSnape's outfit and disposition on someone in my AP art class.

[jay-snaps.livejournal.com]

Oh that emu snape just cracked me up! hilarious.