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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 theoriginal 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,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rahja dear, in spite of everything. Here's wishing you - and, of course, Wolf - all the best for the coming year.
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
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.
