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The Elves of LleuGarnock is Copyright Irene Pitcairn<2008-2009. The Elves of LleuGarnock is hosted on ComicGenesis, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.

LleuGarnock HOME Archive     --- CHAPTERS & Sections     --- Chapter 1: Amaranta's Grandchildren 1-1: The Berry Incident 1-2: Destiny & Mr. Cat 1-3: By Garnock River 1-4: Pursuit of Fruit Chapter 2: Gemini Alone 2-1: The Dangers of Thinking 2-2: Healing 2-3: Destiny or Somesuch 2-4: Humans in Town Chapter 3: Laws and Secrets 3-1: Comforts of Home 3-2: Colliding Worlds 3-3: Living History 3-4: Gifts Chapter 4: Calindell Roads 4-1: Blue Girl 4-2: Toad's Story 4-3: Getting Along 4-4: Arledge Chapter 5: Under the Full Moon 5-1: Black Cat Inn 5-2: Corn Cat 5-3: Helpless 5-4: Story of the Opals Chapter 6: Prisoners of the Earth 6-1: Bitter Words 6-2: Kings and Constraints 6-3: The Shape of a Prison 6-4: Lightless Chapter 7: Bonds of Hardship 7-1: Differences of Opinion 7-2: Truitt's Tale 7-3: Strange Magic 7-4: The Black-Haired Man 7-5: The Evil-Hearted Monk Chapter 8: Shedding Light 8-1: Curses on Verses 8-2: Who Needs Keys? 8-3: The Sacrifice 8-4: Prayers Chapter 9: An Unequal Fight 9-1: Drawing the Curtains 9-2: Power of the Staff 9-3: To the Ends of the Earth 9-4: And Back Home

Yay! The elven hall!

I started this picture before my big foray into watercolor on black. I’m decent with colored pencils, but this picture is taking me forever. That’s right, I’m still not done. It’s a big piece of paper with a lot of the village in it. I might use the whole thing for something later. Ooh, I just had an idea.

I really wanted to make it pretty, but not too cute or too grand or too weird. This was difficult, but I think I got generally what I wanted.

I wish I had Piro’s talent for drawing buildings. But then he went to school for architecture. I just studied art. And not the cartoony kind.

One of the reasons I'm so fascinated by working on black paper is that a stray black pixel in a light area draws far less attention than a stray white pixel in a dark area. I really want to go back sometime and smooth this out even more in the GIMP.

I have a problem, because I am a perfectionist with a short attention span. My biggest projects have a wide range of sorts of things to be interested so that I can always convince myself to be interested in part of it.

Later:
My latest distraction from the crazy rush that has been starting up the comic is some Alien Dice
fanart. I do plan to make a gallery page here at some point, but for now you'll have to go to the AD fanart gallery here.

There are a couple of other things I might put in the gallery. I just got a huge book on using the GIMP. $50 for a book about a free program! But it is totally worth it. It's a good book, and I figure a lot of the skills I learn will transfer to Photoshop if I ever decide to spend that big wad of cash.

Anyway, the point is I've been experimenting a lot more with layers and shading. My major experiment has been a picture of a character from another project, but I'll probably put it here when I get my gallery up, if my partner in crime (fantasy novels) agrees to it.

I believe this is the last page that has backgrounds overly influenced by the GIMP's vine brush. Yay! And if I ever really need a similar tool again, well, I just learned how to make my own animated brushes!