The only thing missing is The Watcher In The Water. I was gonna put up a video of that exact scene but it clashed with my flow and I felt that this was way too common of a thing to really have a point other than it's a tired cliche.
The "smell of brimstone" bit reminds me strongly of that passage. Reminds me of every single description of brimstone to dragons I've read. It's . . . very cliche . . .
I would like to thank Christopher Paolini for showing me what a bad idea it is to skim over important events. So thank you, Paolini, for making me think twice when I skip over a scene.
I think Glaedr's identity was hard for Eragon to grasp, not hard to grasp in general. After all, we are talking about "Me smash orc because orc bad!!" Eragon.
“they did not condemn each other for their shortcomings, but rather acknowledged and forgave them.” O_O It's a secret message for everyone who ever called him a sociopath!! XD Just kidding.
But, even after all these years, it boggles me why people read these books. There are so many equally bad books out there where shit actually happens. I just asked them, but last I heard they were yelling at Mike for not doing an interview or posting anything for a month and they seem rather angry about it. So I'll see what happens.
The sky is ridiculously detailed. It completely overwhelms the ship and the dragon, even though the ship and the dragon should have been central. Instead, the sky turns the focal points into a "Where's Waldo." Likewise, the sky is a giant, empty space. So he fills it up with so much detail, you can hardly see the intended focal points. The water is beautiful.Coincidentally, the empty sky with too many details, how flat the ship is (though, it can work in this style), and how the sky distracts from the dragon and the ship are my main complaints against this piece. If he used fewer lines and used positive space to detail clouds, stars, and that moon or maybe just some depth, it'd be pretty nice. Then the river, I absolutely love how he did his river. I may even try that sometime depending on the style I'm working with
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Did he draw it on Büttenpapier (I have no idea what the English word for it is. Hand made paper? Something like that...) That would count for "wanting to create something epic", methinks.
It looks like one of those things I did during school, scribbling onto everything in reach, including the table and the person next to me. It could be worse. He's probably just trying to make his fans happy.
It was all just to announce their names and walk in. With some trimming, this could've been fused with the next chapter, or it could've focused on some serious character development and bonding between Eragon and Saphira. But no, we get this.
I gave myself the shaft for signing up for this chapter. Well, at least I got some entertaining ones in the beginning (chapters 2 and 4).
Augh! I'm killing myself laughing. Paolini! Check your words! Make sure they mean what you think they mean.
But in a stange, strange way, that fits perfectly. Glaedr is supposed be like Yoda, hence the regal part. But his advice is sometimes a bad idea and even snails can sneak up on him, hence the dissonant part.
So Glaedr gets a longer name by virtue of having lived longer. Okay CP, I'll buy that. Except that Sloan's name was only three little words, and Sloan has lived longer than Eragon. Unless this is some subtle jab about Sloan being a simple and 2D villain that only three words are needed to describe him and his life. Hey, even CP recognizes that his characters are cardboard cutouts.
I think it's more a mix of living longer and experiencing more. Sloan has no merit given to his true name because he's a simple peasant who lived in the same village despite being older than Eragon and experiencing different tragedies that Eragon will never have to deal with. Nope, having to face two different deaths, having to choose between a suicidal trip through mountains that claimed his wife that might claim his daughter or choosing the route that he's certain will ensure his daughter's survival (basically freedom vs living), having to be brutally tortured and lose everything in his life because of well-meaning but harsh choices, having to KNOW that his daughter is STARVING and possibly DYING all because he made the wrong choice, and then being denied even the chance to see if his daughter is alive and safe and maybe make some peace with her by someone who he hasn't seen since he fled the village after some suspicious activity in the village . . . All that gives him a 3-word true name
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I was gonna put up a video of that exact scene but it clashed with my flow and I felt that this was way too common of a thing to really have a point other than it's a tired cliche.
The "smell of brimstone" bit reminds me strongly of that passage.
Reminds me of every single description of brimstone to dragons I've read. It's . . . very cliche . . .
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I think Glaedr's identity was hard for Eragon to grasp, not hard to grasp in general. After all, we are talking about "Me smash orc because orc bad!!" Eragon.
“they did not condemn each other for their shortcomings, but rather acknowledged and forgave them.” O_O It's a secret message for everyone who ever called him a sociopath!! XD Just kidding.
But, even after all these years, it boggles me why people read these books. There are so many equally bad books out there where shit actually happens. I just asked them, but last I heard they were yelling at Mike for not doing an interview or posting anything for a month and they seem rather angry about it. So I'll see what happens.
http://shurtugal.com/2012/11/12/christopher-paolini-shares-beautiful-hand-drawn-depiction-of-the-final-scene-in-inheritance/This is Paolini's writing style in a picture. From ( ... )
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Likewise, the sky is a giant, empty space. So he fills it up with so much detail, you can hardly see the intended focal points.
The water is beautiful.Coincidentally, the empty sky with too many details, how flat the ship is (though, it can work in this style), and how the sky distracts from the dragon and the ship are my main complaints against this piece. If he used fewer lines and used positive space to detail clouds, stars, and that moon or maybe just some depth, it'd be pretty nice. Then the river, I absolutely love how he did his river. I may even try that sometime depending on the style I'm working with ( ... )
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The moon was done right. It's hilariously symbolic how Saphira is surrounded by empty space, but that part does have nice contrast.
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Did he draw it on Büttenpapier (I have no idea what the English word for it is. Hand made paper? Something like that...) That would count for "wanting to create something epic", methinks.
It looks like one of those things I did during school, scribbling onto everything in reach, including the table and the person next to me. It could be worse. He's probably just trying to make his fans happy.
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Did Paolini write this as a kink meme fill? I can't think of any reasons for these tiny chapters except livejournal's evil character limit.
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I gave myself the shaft for signing up for this chapter. Well, at least I got some entertaining ones in the beginning (chapters 2 and 4).
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(As a aside, I'm still puzzling over your default icon, the one with the red background and magic going on (?). Where is that from?)
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Video of the impossible boss battle here. It's not easy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUsbtUrXHk
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Augh! I'm killing myself laughing. Paolini! Check your words! Make sure they mean what you think they mean.
But in a stange, strange way, that fits perfectly. Glaedr is supposed be like Yoda, hence the regal part. But his advice is sometimes a bad idea and even snails can sneak up on him, hence the dissonant part.
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So Glaedr gets a longer name by virtue of having lived longer. Okay CP, I'll buy that. Except that Sloan's name was only three little words, and Sloan has lived longer than Eragon. Unless this is some subtle jab about Sloan being a simple and 2D villain that only three words are needed to describe him and his life. Hey, even CP recognizes that his characters are cardboard cutouts.
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