It came to the Glimmer Field... by @zenphoenixa (Annabel Lee)

FEATURED CHARACTER: Gavin, a silver-haired, spear-wielding Priest.

CREATOR’S CHARACTER: Eternalblade

PIC STATUS: Surprise gift/request

MEDIUMS: Prismacolour pencils (Gavin, grass), black felt tip and permanent marker (line art and ink shading), Paintshop Pro 5 (background and all light/special effects).

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First things first: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETERNALBLADE!!! :party: :party: :party: And for the first time this year, I don’t have to add ‘belated’ before everything else! ^^; ^^; (What a shocker! XD) It helped that I was noted three months in advance… =P Anyway, how did this come about? Waaaaaay back in December last year, one of Eternalblade’s good friends, Himizu sent me a note regarding a request – not for himself though, but for his pal as a Christmas gift. Knowing my chances of getting a pic done in time for Christmas were low, I decided to postpone the gift for Eternalblade’s b-day, and the day has finally arrived… I’m actually two days early – his b-day is on the 22nd but I got this done three days ago. =P It feels nice to be early for a change instead of horrifically late as I always am, though. Hmm, I could get used to this… XD

(Before I go on, I’d like to point out again that requests are still CLOSED, with a few exceptions – this is one of them!)

With that out of the way, it’s time for introductions – this here is Gavin, who Himizu asked me to draw for Eternalblade, and one of the characters who features in his main prose work on Deviantart. This is the second time I’ve drawn one of his characters, the first being Kell who I drew as part of one of the first ever trades I’d gotten on the internet, and that was about two years ago now… time passes by so fast, eh? ^.^ Lol, you need to colour Gavin more often EB… I was only guessing that his colour scheme hadn’t changed after all the other alterations you gave him, and I had to get Himizu to find out what colour his eyes were. =P He was fun to draw anyway! :D

So er… for the rest of you… what’s going on here? O__o;; The title implies that something’s up, and I guess that could be true. Okay, well, the thing is that throughout the whole drawing process, I’m always sifting through possible titles in my head, because that determines what the final look is going to be. This was no exception, so because I wanted an excuse to show Gavin’s special abilities by using shiny light effects, ;) I homed in on the word ‘glimmer’… and because I wanted to try my hand at drawing long grass, I homed in on the word ‘field’. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realise how the title came about next then… ^^; The concept of a Glimmer Field does not feature in Eternalblade’s story, but you’re always welcome to use it in the future if you wish dear. ^^ Secondly, I wanted some sort of justification for Gavin’s slightly ordinary pose, so whatever’s “come” to the Glimmer Field is about to be engaged in battle and so Gavin’s pose is defensive. Speaking of battle, in Eternalblade’s story, the spear which Gavin is holding plays an important part and he is able to “draw” from it… hey, it was a good excuse to break out the dodge tool! XD (By the way, I did not use any lens filters when making those light effects; people often think that I use them in my pics but I definitely do not rely on them, and use them only once every ten pics or so.)

And so we reach the technical stuff – let me just say OH MY GODFATHER!!! O____O If this were real life, Gavin would be having one hell of a bill on his hands from an overload of cosmetic surgery… X_____X;;; His face underwent at least six alterations all the way through the pencilling, inking and colouring until finally, at 8 pm, I was able to officially say: “The eyes are even at last…!!!!!!!” Don’t forget the nose, cheek, mouth and chin jobs either. XD XD I had to give the eyes a serious makeover though, they were constantly lopsided and saggy, and I was after the sharp effect that Eternalblade created in his most recent frontal pic of Gavin. Lol, when I finally got them fixed though, I found myself squinting hard, wondering where I’d seen the face before me in the past… and then I was like, “Oh my Lord! He looks like Sephiroth now – without the fringe…!!” O_____O;;;; Runs off screeching Er, it’s not that bad though. ^^; ^^;

Ho hum, well, that’s all I can think of to talk about so I’ll leave you all now; have a happy b’day Eternalblade, and thankyou also to Himizu for getting the ball rolling in the first place! ^__^