音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

2009-Feb-07 (Sat), 24:05@GMT+8

❅ Love Song, self-cover: liner notes

Inspired by the album “Love Song,” by Key+riya, which is released in 2005, I drew these pictures.
The Hill Where Everything Began – hajimari no saka
Firstly, I tried to draw a girl stooping to touch and pick the flowers, but, that’s too difficult for me, so I gave up. Then I thought up the hill from “Saikano”; maybe it’s good to get the feeling of awaiting some beloved one, so I sketched out the original version of this draw smoothly. In my draw, there is something which is kind of like “Ah, he comes at last!” during watching the time.
Indigo Dreams – ao no yume
I wanted to make out a storm scene, but I failed. How can I talk about storms? There even is sunshine! (・・?) Did I fail here? Well, at least the draw isn’t so bad, I suppose. In this song, ‘I’ am taking a long travel, for catching up with ‘you.’ Deriving from this topic, I drew this one with the central message of that ‘you’ are looking downward at ‘me,’ the person ‘you’ like, whose shadow is becoming smaller and smaller, in the endless and indigo sky.
The Stone Which Becomes A Star – hoshi naru ishi
Originally, I was thinking about such a scene: ‘you’ are sitting in a café, and seeing over the window, toward somewhere distant but spraying lights out. However, why did my draft become the current version even without my attention (・・? Maybe my draw is the end of this story. ‘You’ dug the stone out, and ‘I’ walked close to ‘you.’ Then, the stone floated up with much of light, together with our dreams, became a star in the high sky.
Running – hashiru
This song is my favorite. ♪♪~ But there’s something very weird: there’s not anyone is running in both the original booklet and my draw!? But, but, in my case, the leaves on the background ARE dancing and running! As well as her hair! Maybe I wanted to express that everything is dancing with the wind here. You see, the tempos of scampering wind and running people have the same (really?).
Hundreds of Summers – hyakunen no natsu
This song is kind of like an image song for “Air”! It’s a beautiful song. But since its tempo is a bit slow, I spent much longer time on designing my draw. Then I noticed “sunflower” in the lyrics. Oh, yes! It’s the sunflower! Thus I drew this picture. And I believe this picture can match the song well.
Our Love – bokura no koi
I love this song, love the piano, and love the sound of sea. To match the song’s ambience, I chose a picture of sea as the background. By the way, I made the horizon line inclined, which means ‘our’ unachievable love; even ‘I’ still can’t to love someone, ‘I’ came to fall in love with ‘you,’ kind of heaviness of that. So, no matter how long time goes away, ‘I’ will never forget your smile when we were together, drawing our sea.
Gray Feathers – haiiro no hane
There’s one song of “Air,” and now it turns to “Haibane Renmei”? Anyhow, I don’t like this song very much. Maybe that’s because the melody is too quiet? But thus my pencil went more freely here. Regardless of my own favor to this song, I couldn’t miss the chance to be forced to adding a pair of gray wings. I also got a “colder” picture for its background. I myself also feel cold when I look at this draw…
Gramophone – guramofon
This was the first time I heard such a gentle song (really!). By the way, the song reminds me about “Kino’s Travel,” but why… a sad story flows out from the song. On that of design, I got her hand stretched out with gentleness, as if she’s touching something. That must be her beloved gramophone. And this scene in the twilight must have been their last memory.
Myth – shinwa
I don’t have much fond of this song, but I love the lyrics! Because it’s a song about a myth, I used the gothic style on the clothing. Yet it’s kind of simple gothic style… so, I chose a splendid cosmic picture as the background. Moreover, her calm face, white arms, and a small planet… they are all the girl’s myth, an endless story which has been the myth.
Ice Clock – koori tokei
The tempo and lyrics are good! I like this song. But, I think, there may be only one point in my draw can be linked to the song’s ambience. (・_・ That’s the ice clock that is floating in the air (ok, here I confess that it was Photoshop drew the clock for me). Of course, I have to get a winter picture as the background, but this background gets me to think up “KANON”… (though “KANON” is also one of Key’s works…)
Unbreakable Wings – orenai tsubasa
The melody isn’t anywhere good, but the arrangement of percussion instruments is very excellent! I also like my draw for this song! However, there’s only one pity: I think my draw isn’t linked tightly to the original song… In fact, I attempted to get something on the like storm or universe, but, the one I completed has such a brilliant sky! Ahaha…
Then the Story Ends – soshite monogatari ga owaru
The melody isn’t my favorite type… but I do love the lyrics. Especially the part I’ve embedded into the picture, as well as riya’s repeated part: “aishita, aishita, aishita…” Also, this was my first trying on drawing the lateral side, so I’ve paid enough attention. Well, why in Miko’s style? It’s my own fondness, don’t mind. About the background, I wanted to match the slow melody, so I chose this one with the shinning twilight. How about it?
Love Song
A song that is like the first song, I love it! ♪♪~ If you ask for why I drew an umbrella? I think, it’s maybe because the harmonizing of an electronic-piano (or no?) on the background sounds like the rain. Since I’ve made her to hold an umbrella, I’ve got to choose a background picture includes rain or something like that. Eventually, I got this hydrangea one. But, yet I think the hydrangea is a bit unmatched for her clothes… kind of unseasonableness…

The idea to draw for the album “Love Song” began from July in the last year. That time, I was very busy on many issues, so I just scratched out some drafts and never got them into real digital pictures. However, that is very fortunate for me. After the first drafts, I also did much re-drawing. Well, I see, about times at least. Not only about characters’ poses, but also that to cast them for the 13 songs; that was really not easy. The one I changed for most times is “indigo dreams (ao no yume).” Besides, I also concerned a little about my own story when I did the casting. However, I may not say more about my own stuff here.
Since finally, I finished my “Love Song,” eventually, I completed my “Love Song.” Cheer up, cheer up. ♪♪~

view more, go to here
2005年夏発売になったKey+riyaのアルバム「Love Song」から霊感を与えられ、私はこの絵たちを出来上がった。
始まりの坂
そもそもキャラが身をかがめ、花や草を触れたり摘んだりするのを描きたかったが、なんだか面倒くさくて諦めちゃった。ふと「最彼」のあの坂を思い出し、好きな人を待ってる様子がいいかもと思ってそのまま草案を出来た、自然に。私の絵は、彼女が手を上げ腕と計を見ようとするとき、待つ人がやっと来るとき「あっ、来た来た」というようなわくわく雰囲気だと見られるかもね。
蒼の夢
確かに、嵐が起こってるような雰囲気をしたかったが、完成した際に見ると、嵐どころか陽射しさえもあった絵になった(・・?)。しっぱい?でも、とりあえずまだまだそんなに悪くないとも思う。歌の中に、キミを追っても追ってもボクは諦めずに旅をする。この主題を得て、私は広く青い空の中に、小さくなる好きになった「ボク」を、見続けてる「キミ」を中心に描いた。
星なる石
原案は「キミ」がひとり喫茶店のなか窓越して遥かに光ってるどこかを眺める様子だった。けど、途中に今のような草案を自然になったのは何故(・・?私の絵はたぶん、物語の終わりかもしれない。「キミ」は石を掘り出して、「キミ」そばへ「ボク」は近づいて、そして、その石がピカピカに、空へ昇っていて、「ボクら」の夢をも一緒に連れていて、星一つになった。
走る
これが私の一番大好きな曲なんだよ♪♪~。でもへんね、原作ブックレットでも今度の私の絵も、キャラたちも走るのをしない!?でもでも、背景のほうが、葉っぱたちが確かに踊っていて走っているのよ!そして彼女の髪も服も。ここでたぶん私は、風と一緒に踊ろうという感じを表現したかったね。だって、速い風が走ることと同じリズムがあるから(ホント?)。
百年の夏
このうた、まるで「Air」のイメージソングみたい!きれいな一曲だね。でもテンポが遅くてデザインの時はちょっと時間掛かった。そして、歌詞の中に「ひまわり」を歌ったことがあるので、そうか、ひまわりだとすぐにこんな絵一枚出来た。なんかますます原作の雰囲気と合わせるようになった気がするわね。
僕らの恋
この歌が好き。背景のピアノがすき。海の声も好き。歌の内容を合わせるように、背景はとっくに海を選んだ。ちなみに、その歪んだ水平線は、ボクらのかなわない恋という意味が囲んだの。ボクはまだ人を愛することが出来ないのに、キミを好きになったその重さ。そして、幾年たっても、ボクらはいっしょにボクらの海を描くときに、キミの笑顔をも、忘れない。
灰色の羽根
さっきは『Air』、今度は『灰羽連盟』?ただ、なんてゆかこの歌をどうしても気になれないの。たぶん旋律がより平穏そうだわけ?私の筆ももっと自由になった。気になるにせよ気にならないにせよ、せっかくの『灰羽』関連ソングだから、キャラの背に灰羽を加えないとダメなんだ。そして、背景のほうもより冷っぽいのを選んだ。自分が見ても体が寒いと感じるわね~
グラモフォン
こんなに優しい歌を聞こえるのは、これが始めだった(ホントウです!)。ちなみにこのなんで歌を『キノの旅』を思わせたか…歌から流れ出すのは悲しい物語だった。デザインのほうが、彼女の手が何かをそっと触れてるように、伸び出した。あれはきっとその愛しいグラモフォンなんだ。そしてこの夕日の下のシーンもきっとそのふたりの最後の記憶だった。
神話
歌自身はあまり気にならないが、歌詞のほうが大好きなんだよ。神話だから、服装上私はとっくにゴスロリ風を使った。ちょっぴり地味なゴスロリのだった…から、背景はすごい華麗なる一つ宇宙の図を選んだ。また、キャラの静かな顔、真っ白な腕、または、一つ小さな星。みんな全部、少女の綴った神話、すでに永遠になった終わりのない物語。
氷時計
ノリがよくて、歌詞もよいし、この歌が好きなんだよん。ただし、私の絵が確かに、一つしかない関係あるなんだ(・_・…空に浮かんでるその氷時計のことだった(はいはい、白状する、この時計の原型はPhotoshopがやってくれたんだ)。背景は冬の図をつかむのが勿論のことで、ただその図はかなり『カノン』の雰囲気があるので…(そう言えば『カノン』もKey社の作品だね~)
折れない翼
旋律は普通だが、打楽器のアレンジが愛するっ!自分のこの絵も大好きなんだ。ただ、残念のことが一つだけ、これは、絵自身はなんとなく歌と関係なさそうてゆーこと。実に、この絵をそもそも嵐や宇宙の雰囲気をしたかったが、キャラを描いた後、今皆様のご覧になるごとく、ちょー晴れやかなる空のある背景の出番になった。アハハ…
そして物語が終わる
旋律は私の好みじゃない…でも、歌詞が大好きだよ。とっくに、絵の中に埋め込むその分、と、riyaさんの終わらないフレーズ、「愛した、愛した、愛した…」と…しかも、これが私の横顔への初体験だったから、大変用心に描いた。で、なんで巫女さんの姿?個人好みだから気にしないで。また、背景は、伸びるメロディーと合わすため、輝く夕映えの図を選んだ。どうかな~
Love Song
一曲目と似てる歌、大好き♪♪~。どうして傘や雨模様を出来たのかな、和声としての電子ピアノ(?)の音が雨粒と似てるのかもしれないね。キャラがすでに傘が持ってるので、背景を雨と関する図を使わなくちゃと、大変選んだあげく、紫陽花の図を取った。だけど、キャラの服と背景の紫陽花がちょっと季節外れのような気がする…

アルバム「Love Song」へなにかを描こうという発想は、昨年7月から始まった。その頃、大変忙しくて草案が草々に出来たがずっと本気にデジ絵にしなかった。でもこれもありがたいことだね。そのご、私の「Love Song」はまた幾たび描きなおされた。えっと、せめて4度かな。キャラの姿のみならず、13曲の歌ごと、どのキャラが主役にすればいいということにも大変考えた。一番変更の多いのは『蒼い夢』だった。なお、各キャラを決めるとき、少しとも自分の書いているストーリを参考した。でも、より深いもの、私のキャラたちのストーリがここにて漏らすこと出来ません。
ついに『Love Song』が完成された、どうしても『Love Song』を出来上がった。めでたしめでたし♪♪~
2009-Feb-06 (Fri), 7:18@GMT+8

❅ Wow! It’s Mozart!

Although I love Mozart’s music very much, I don’t hear enough his music yet, which including his famous Requiem in d Minor. So I thought a bit shameful about it, I got the CD yesterday. ♪♪~
This work is one of the few-not-so-happy works from all Mozart’s works. But, but, he’s a wonderful musician! Even only a little, I found his sweet-element from this requiem…
Then, track No. 8 is titled “III - Sequenz - 6 - Lacrimosa.” At first, I didn’t listen to it while reading the titles; but here when it turned to this track, something like “what? A deja-vu?” burst into my mind. Hence, I started to repeat this track. Later, about 3 times of listening to it, I went into the status full with strong emotion toward the famous musician, as well as Kenji Kawai.
What? Why Kenji Kawai? As we know, he is the musician who composed for the animation “Fate/Stay Night.” Talk regardless of his music style, I especially love his way of arrangement. One example is “Fate,” and another is the series of “Higurashi.” The first time when I listened to “Fate,” I paid more attention on these two tracks: “Eirei Chinkon (requiem for the great)” and “La Sola.” I’ve ever listened to only the two for many and many times, with murmuring “how these are marvelous.”
However, I think I’ve felt a little sorry after I listened to Mozart’s Requiem: “Eirei Chinkon” can be seen as a rearrangement of “III - Sequenz - 6 – Lacrimosa!” Why didn’t I know it before? Also, why isn’t there anything about Mozart’s Requiem on the booklet of “Fate”? Ok, I see, at least it was Kenji Kawai did the rearrangement work, so… or, is this only one tiny secret for us listeners from “Fate”?
Ok, ok, no matter what it is. At least, I dug it out yesterday! ♪♪~
*:..。o○☆゚・:,。*:..。o○☆*:゚・:,。*:..。o○☆゚・:,。*:..。o○☆゚・:,。*:..。o
モーツァルトの音楽が好きでいるくせに、そちらの著名な鎮魂曲を一度でも始めから終わりまで聴いたことはなくて、恥ずかしくてついに、昨日そのCDを手に取った。♪♪~
この作品はモーツァルトのあらゆる作品の中に、少数の「楽しそうではない」一曲である。でもね、やっぱ、やっぱすごい音楽家だね。微かにだけど、私はこの鎮魂曲から彼の「甘い旋律」を発見した…
そして、トラック8のは、「III - Sequenz - 6 - Lacrimosa」というタイトルがある。一番最初私はタイトルなんかぜんぜん気づいてないまま聞いてたが、この曲になると、「あら、デジャヴュ?」と自分に聞きながら、CDプレイヤーをこの曲に留めた。その後、およぞ三度かな、「ああ、こなんじゃすごーい。モーツァルト、または川井憲次さん!」と言わんばかりに、私はずいぶん感慨無量だった。
え?なんで川井憲次?その方、テレビアニメ「Fate/Stay Night」の音楽担当である。彼の曲風はさておき、私はとっくに彼のアレンジが好きである。「Fate」はひとつ、また「ひぐらし」シリーズも。始めて「Fate」のOSTを聞いたとき、「英霊鎮魂」と「La Sola」二曲を大変気になった。なんて素敵な曲だねと連呼ながらその二曲を繰り返し聞いたこともいつもある。
でも、今度モーツァルトの鎮魂曲を聴いた後、なんか、少し恥ずかしくなったような気がした。だって、「英霊鎮魂」は実に、「III - Sequenz - 6 - Lacrimosa」の再編集と言ってもいいから。なんでその前は知らなかったの?そして、なんで「Fate」のブックレットにて、原作曲者をちっとも付いたことない?もちろん川井憲次はこの曲を再編曲した。あるいは、これがもっとも「Fate」が私たち聞き手のほうに残した小さな秘密の一つ?
まあ、どうでもいいの。せめて昨日から、私がこの秘密を見つけた。♪♪~
2009-Jan-28 (Wed), 7:46@GMT+8

❈ Die Elf Elfen

Maybe I’ve added too much items on my to-do list, maybe I have just fallen down to the anticlimax of my German study, or maybe I found I’ve lost a great amount of my English vocabulary that needs to be regained again. Ok, however, recent days have almost driven me to be downright crazy; thus why I’m mad about entitling this post in German, means “The Eleven Elves” in English.
Nonetheless, there’re only 10 items on my recent to-do list. Some of them are the kind of I have got to do, and the others are the kind of I want to do. Fortunately, no matter what kind of an item is, I have the willing to do it well (or maybe thus they drive me insane?).
Eins: at the very morning, I often listen to an episode of Science Podcast for my listening exercise. Frankly, I can get only about more or less 65%. I need exercise more~
Zwei: to review my English vocabulary. I’ve paid attention on my dwindling English vocabulary. One example: one day I’d got to browse the dictionary for spelling the word “century.” -__-;
Drei: to remember many German new words. I’ve ever heard many people say that German and English are in part similar. Sure, they do have some similarities, but still it’s far more difficult than English. Its awesome pronunciation, especial in the case of the letter “r.” I think my tongue has been twisted after many times’ trying to pronounce it. And finally, ok, it maybe doesn’t matter if my German sounds a litter “harder” and “unnatural” to the native people.
Vier: continued to the previous, this is about German grammar. I’m a greenhorn in German, though I’ve learnt English for many years. I’ve forgotten how I learned English, as well German isn’t similar to Asia language system; I can’t find anymore experience. In all, German study is awesome!
Fünf: grammar of ancient Japanese. Though still it’s a language related item, but here it has become a bit easier (at least I know what my book says). But, it’s about another system of grammar. What I should do is to remember what on the book, and then exercise what I remembered…
Sechs: so far, you may think that I’m a language major. No, no I’ll finally start to study on my real major: life science. I need to do a brief review for all my previous courses; it’s a part of preparing for my future graduate study. The first one is biochemistry (I tell you here, the book is thicker than GENE IX). Fortunately, I’ve finished reading more than half of it!
Sieben: at last, I may get some leisure for my hobbies. Drawing has the very priority definitely! Sometimes on paper, and sometimes on computer with my tablet, I like to draw, but I don’t have the intent to get more characters, because these thirteen have cost a great amount of time to design, (oh! ignore the fact that I’ve gotten two new ones recently).
Acht: my fiction… I’ve thought about it for at least 7 years (though yet I don’t finish it)! There’s one thing I have to confess, that I did borrow one name from my fiction as my own pen-name. At the time when I was not working on the fiction, it doesn’t matter at all. The problem emerges out now, however. Sometimes I’m confusing about who I am? The one in my fiction or I myself… Maybe I’m wasting your time on a trivia…
Neun: Aha, another thing I’m very glad to do. That is, translating of Yuki Kajiura’s blog! How it is good that Yuki-sama writes her blog entries occasionally (till now she’s gotten only 3 entries), so I don’t have to be busy on the translation. I did know what the feeling is when one works on a super-long translation (like her Jan. 3rd one).
Zehn: now, time to end the daily to-do list loop. This one is, to read some articles from the most famous scientific magazine Science. I don’t dare to read too much research article. For me, one or two research related papers per week, and I choose more articles which are easy to understand.
Elf: no. 11? What? I’ve said that there’re 10 items? Oh, yes. I did. I list the eleventh one here only because it’s very important to not only me, but also all of you. To take a good sleep. Every needs a good sleep time to fetch an good brain situation tomorrow, no?
Ok. The 11 items are like elves, they’re around me, play with me, and go with me. Every morning, say morning to me; every night, say good day to me. Die Elf Elfen, I love you!