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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. :lol:
Since finally, I finished my “Love Song,” eventually, I completed my “Love Song.” Cheer up, cheer up. ♪♪～



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。 :lol:
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♪♪～

One benefit of blogging is that you can share your own news, ideas, feelings… etc. with others at the very time; reading others’ blogs is definitely enough good either, especially when they are whom you admire.

On November 19 and 20, two big bangs burst out from Yuki Kajiura’s blog. On December 24, 2008, Xmas Eve, Kalafina’s new single CD, “fairytale,” will be released! On February 25, 2009, a new FictionJunction album will be released, pluses with many new tracks! Project FJ~~~ How fascinating they are! Kalafina, YUUKA, KEIKO, KAORI, ASUKA, WAKANA, YURIKO KAIDA… the new FJ album must be a good selection for all new comers of FictionJunction, or also a good belated birthday present for me! (oops! I’ve to pay for it, don’t I?)

The past two months were rather dull to me, but not to people who went to Yuki’s lives. The most recent album of Yuki was an original soundtrack, “Achilles and the Turtle.” Not bad, but I prefer to soundtracks from “Kara no Kyokai, Garden of Sinner.” And the two bangs blasted onto me, I was recharged up to full energy!

Talk about my goddess now. Although I have the experience of singing at a chorus, I never have any ideas how many chorus tracks a song uses. In Yuki’s recent posts, one her coworkers, Mrs./Mr. K, tried to suggest composing a song without any chorus track. Guess what did Yuki say? “No, ‘cos I’ve accustomed to use enough chorus tracks.”

Interesting, huh? In that post, Yuki confessed that there are often more than 50 tracks of chorus in a song; in case of Kalafina-songs, the number usually increases to 60-80 (or more, I can’t remember very clearly). Sure, chorus-free songs, like FJY’s “June is your eternity, from ‘circus’” exist, but they’re few. There’re more songs include so many chorus tracks that no one can’t lose in counting. Maybe songs like “Together, ‘destination’” have only a few such tracks, Heaven knows!

Today is a day with rain and tiny coldness. I fetched this CD accidentally.
That was “noir WHITE IN BLACK Vocal Song Collection.”
Thus, I heard See-Saw’s “love.”
It’s so long since last time I listened to See-Saw…
“love” is in my top 5 of See-Saw. I just like it no matter how much times I hear it.
And especially in such a rainy day; I get the song with more affection.
With the melody, early autumn rain rises in mind. Fine and coldly, gradually, vision becomes vague, and fade into pale…you chill even with hands bracing the arms…the back yard where nobody is…just few people in the street, cars pass away rapidly, with water splashes up…the air is very clear, and…also, memories turn to clear…
…it seemed that I used to listened “love” in rainy days. Well, there is another song, “Emu.Moa.” It is also fit with rain, though in its case, the ambience is shift to a gloom bar: the dim light, the bright crimson wine, the goblet which reflects the mild light, coldly, and “Emu.Moa” with melancholy violin…
Is it the best heaven of rain songs?
It not because the habit of attaching ambiance to any piece of melody, I, however, just enjoy doing it.
And I’m very entranced with it.



今日は朝から雨の降り続け、ちょっと寒い日です。気がつかずに、私はこのCDを取った。
「noir 黒の中の白　Vocal Song Collection」だった。
それで、See-Sawの「love」を聞いた。
See-Sawの歌を聞くのはお久しぶり…
「love」はSee-Sawの全部の歌より、私のトップ5に入れる一曲です。何度も聞いても大好きです。
とっくに今日のように雨の日に、この歌はより愛しく味わえる。
歌と共に、浮かびだしたのは、早秋の雨模様だった。細くて冷たくて、視界はだんだんぼんやりとなって、青白に色褪せた…手で腕を抱えても寒くて…無人の裏庭…街に人が少なくて、車が急いで通り過ぎて、水溜りを跳ね返らせる…空気がすごくきれいになる…記憶も、きれいになる…
…確か「love」を聞く場合は、雨の降る頃ばかり。で、CDよりもう一曲、「エム・モア」がある。この歌も雨とばっちり似合ってる。でも、今度の雰囲気がある夕方のバーに切り換える。暗い灯りの下、赤く鮮やかなワイン、あったかな光を冷たく反射してるゴブレット、憂鬱のバイオリンの「エム・モア」…
雨歌の最高境界じゃない？
歌や音楽に一つ一つ雰囲気を付いてあげるって癖のわけじゃない、私はただ、こんなことがとても好きで、
とってもうっとりしている。