Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent; sehet, die dritte Kerze brennt.

[oloriel]

(This is not getting posted an hour too late. You didn't see anything. *jedi handwaving*)

We learned some things today.
- I am indeed incapable of making people look like they're supposed to look.
- I am incapable of using coloured pencils properly. One should think that's, like, the easiest thing in the world, but it isn't.
- LJ's new updating layout is fugly.

The latter you have likely all found out before me. The former I shall prove now.

Sooo, for this Sunday, I thought I'd try and foray into something new and scary: POTC fanart! (I've drawn Harry Potter stuff before, I've drawn hundreds of Tolkien-related things before, but I've never drawn POTC stuff before - among the reasons is that I know I can't draw people looking like their "real selves", and that is somewhat more relevant in a movie fandom than it is in a book-based fandom...)

Following the theme of Christmas customs, after the original Scandinavian norse tree and mistletoe, this time it's about the German custom of burnt punch.
Burnt punch, for those unfamiliar with it, is basically made by burning rum over a sugar loaf. The resulting rum caramel drips down into a cauldron filled with red wine, spices and orange bits which is again heated from below, so in the end you have a hot mixture of wine, spice, molten sugar and rum that gets you drunk fairly quick. Of course, the relevant part in this particular context is that you're burning rum, oh outrageous deed.

Anyway.

But why is the rum gone, Episode 24601. In faily coloured pencil, because Lyra felt lucky and wasn't. Norrington teaches the crew of the Black Pearl about the burnt punch. Captain Jack is not impressed.

(In case you'd prefer it without the faily colour, here's the lineart.)

I don't have any Caribbean Christmas music that I know of, alack and alas, so have something Hawaiian instead - at least it fits with the Christmas in a warm and un-snowy region thingy:
Mele Kalikimaka

And while we're at silly music anyway, have the classic Disney "Yo Ho" song, too:
A Pirate's Life for Me

Again there's no story to go with this, and I've posted the Jamaican Creole Nativity Story last year already, so the quick explanation of this whole thing will have to do as a text. Anyone complaining? I thought not.


And: Happy belated birthday, rahja dear, in spite of everything. Here's wishing you - and, of course, Wolf - all the best for the coming year.

Comments

[caduceus.livejournal.com]

I think Norrington and Co. look mighty fine! *^_^*
Also, I do recognize every character you drew, so it can't be that bad. *g*

(What you could try if you like your colour pencils too much to throw them away forever - get smoother paper. Yours seems to have a pretty big grain (eine grobe Körnung?) which is bad when using pencils. Smoother paper will allow you to rub colour over the background without the lines showing so much... Even simple printer paper might work for starters. Try it sometime.)

And Feuerzangenbowle sounds so much nicer than burnt punch. :P

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Wellll, they are recognizable, but I think it's pattern recognition more than accuracy. Ah well.

(I will! I had originally meant to colour this in watercolour, so I've used paper appropriate for that - and when I decided for trying the pencils, I didn't think of printing the lineart on normal paper... my excuse is that it was almost 11 pm and I didn't have enough sleep on the weekend ;))

It so does!

[rahja.livejournal.com]

Dankeschön! *kuss*

[eliathanis.livejournal.com]

But you did very well! The characters are very well drawn and the idea is just gorgeous! *giggle*

I think coloured pencils are really difficult to draw with. *sigh* I suppose the only solution is as always: practise. ^^;

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeeeh. ^_^
Jack looks a lot like Jack. Not entirely, but you'd have recognized him (and the others as well!) even without a mention of PotC, and not just because of the clothes. *amusion*

Hel: *likes Jack, but likes Ildur way more*

[fuchs.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah! The rum! What are you doing! *snerk*

*räusper* Saaag mal, wann könnte man dich denn mal mit Köttbullar bestechen, mit mir meinen Rollschrank abholen zu fahren? ^^;;;;;;;

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Ööööh... irgendwann in der ersten Januarwoche muss ich eh mal nach Köln, um mir meine Referatstexte zu besorgen; wahrscheinlich an dem Dienstag? Ist glaub ich der 2.1....

(Ich brauche ein Ikea-Icon.)