Illustrated SA Scenes & Characters

[Rasarr]

Can Syl transform into a skateboard?

 

No, no, you've got it all wrong. The proper question is: why wouldn't she?

 

More seriously, though, if she can turn into a shield, a spear and a halberd, a skateboard is probably not out of question.

[sheep]

Can Syl transform into a skateboard?

 

The problem with skateboards is that they have moving parts, the deck and the wheels, and a spren can only be one of them.  Like with the Shardbows - the spren can either be the bow or the arrow, but not both.  But Syl can be a snowboard or surfboard perfectly fine, and if Kaladin can lash himself to a surfboard, he would be a pretty crazy awesome surfer.  Brandon says that Alethi are partially based on Hawaiians and Polynesians, so maybe Kaladin can surf like one.    Shardsurfboard vs Jetski, who wins. :ph34r:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to take this time to share something really stupid with you guys.  This belongs in the "Silly stuff" pile.

Gorgeous digitally painted portraits are one thing, but there is nothing that can quite beat stylised cartoons for quickly and effectively expressing my interpretation of a character and their personality.  You know you did it right if you can look at a picture and see story or dialogue happening, without any words being written in it.

 

 

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"Let's draw Shallan"

 

 

"Let's draw Kaladin"

 

 

"Let's draw Adolin"

 

 

The things Shallan draws are slightly sparklier and more exaggerated than real life, while still having touches of realism and truth.

The things Kaladin draws reflect his honest feelings.  Shallan is cute and goofy, Adolin getting smacked down now and then would be deserved and pretty hilarious, and in his mind, Kaladin is still a slave.

Adolin can't draw but he tries anyway.  It's okay to draw because it's not reading!  Fashion magazines are okay because they're just pictures, not books!

 

 

On the character designs - I want every character to have a unique "look" because otherwise they all look the same when they wear uniforms.  An artist has done a good job if other people can pick up who each character is after a quick glance, without having to read the annotations on a piece.  In this piece, it's relatively easy to distinguish Shallan from the boys because she is much smaller than both of them,  But I always wanted to be able to distinguish Adolin from Kaladin, and not just by their hair colours, as anime often uses in the shows where all the characters look the same and wear school uniforms.

 

For this reason, I draw Adolin with even features, aka "conventionally attractive", and make him more expressive in terms of how his face changes when he talks or responds to people in conversation.  He is described as "handsome" in-canon, but I use boyish, charming and cute handsome rather than set-your-ovaries-on-fire hot. 

 

Kaladin in canon is apparently rugged and masculine like a pile of rocks, with a chin that can lead armies.   I draw him with no lips, no smiling or laughing, and a nose that is slightly too big, but overall his appearance is one that some girls might like, if they are into rocks and eyes so deep and dark and mysterious you will fall into them and wake up ascending into Shardholderdom.

[Sunbird]

I seriously cannot stop laughing. Sheep, you are amazing.

[Rasarr]

I died at "Let's draw Adolin"    This is so great. And I like your choices with character design.

[maxal]

Alright, you had me at "Let's draw Adolin": Shallan's was quite something..... And OMG Adolin can't draw        I had wondered though... the mother was an artist and Adolin seems more artistically inclined than the rest of his family... so I had wondered how he would actually do were he to actually pick up a pen.

[DreamEternal]

I love how Adolin draws Kaladin's face as a square with a sad face.

[Argel]

Very nice. WIll upvote tomorrow when I have votes again. Looking forward to even more!

[sheep]

Alright, you had me at "Let's draw Adolin": Shallan's was quite something..... And OMG Adolin can't draw        I had wondered though... the mother was an artist and Adolin seems more artistically inclined than the rest of his family... so I had wondered how he would actually do were he to actually pick up a pen.

 

In my experience, having family with artistic skills, or having an artistic eye for critique or observing the world doesn't actually mean you can pick up a pen and draw well immediately.  Just like anything else, it takes lots and lots of practice to get to the point where you can translate a mental image into a visual image on paper.  You have to train yourself to connect your mind to your hand (I know that sounds really wishy washy but I'm an artsy type soo   ) and I do not think Adolin can draw well if he can't even read and write glyphs, and probably hasn't lifted a pencil since he got big enough to hold a sword. 

 

Kaladin in comparison reads and writes glyphs, and if he doesn't have a creative imagination like Shallan does, he still manages to translate his thoughts into a recognisable image.  He was the one who designed the Bridge Four patch and forehead tattoo designs, so I would say that even if he can't draw like an Alethi woman, he can get by.

 

 

I love how Adolin draws Kaladin's face as a square with a sad face.

That's pretty much what he is, a sad square.

 

One of my favourite character designs for Kaladin comes from the Tumblr user pmendicant.  The design literally makes his face a grumpy rectangle.  It's so fitting omg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it time for more art?

YES IT'S TIME FOR MORE ART.

 

Most of the time I work with art in digital format because it's so convenient and easy, and has all these cool features for streamlining the process, and you can do experiments with colour and design and trash everything you don't like, no big deal, since it's only pixels.  The very occasional times where I venture into traditional media beyond basic pencil sketches and doodling, I am reminded why I stick to digital. 

• Number one reason: Undo button.  It is better than any eraser ever.  Most artists have felt the soul-searing pain when their hand slips and the piece they were working on is ruined FOREVER because of a crooked line or streak of paint in the wrong colour or place.  The Undo feature means you will never have to feel it again if you don't want to. 
• Second reason: Save As.  It's like going back to your save point when you die in a video game. 
• Third reason:  Layers.  You will never ever have to wait for paint to dry before you can start going over a piece. 

 

Some watercolour character fanart here -

I am not happy with it, and there are many things I wish I could fix but it's too late now.  If I work over it too much it will wear a hole through the paper.  It's a real problem with working on paper.

Also I am bleh at painting and my hand shakes too much.  The real queen of watercolours is the user Botanica, I seriously lay at her glorious glorious colourfully watery feet.

 

 

 

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Kaladin, Adolin and Shallan

 

 

Original pencil sketch:

 

 

Process pic

 

 

 

The working area.

I use a mug to rinse brushes, and a sauce dish I took from a restaurant as a palette.  Shhh, don't tell Jimmy.

 

 

 

 

Jasnah and Navani

 

 

Original pencil sketch:

 

 

Process pic

 

 

Working area:

One of the super annoying things is that water makes the paper curl up on the edges so it distorts the colours a little when trying to get a picture of it.

 

As a side note, the blue colour I use for "Kholin blue" is not cobalt or even ultramarine as it should be.  It's called "American blue" and it's like your eyes are getting assaulted by freedom when you look at it in full saturation.  It's gorgeous.

 

 

 

 

 

Now let's get back to digital.

Open it up in full res, pls!  It looks better that way!

 

 

"Kaladin kicking chulls"

The heroic moment of heroism where it's pretty much like the Alethi version of using a folding chair in a wrestling match.  I even went back to the book to confirm that his helmet-glove was grey coloured Plate.

Oh, and Syl's stylised design is inspired by Adventure Time princesses.

 

 

I made a minimalist one-colour version first because I was lazy and messing around, but I wasn't happy with it, it seemed like it lacked drama, so I eventually coloured it.

 

 

And a process pic for how I go about doing digital art.  It's pretty much layers of sketches one under the other, and each time I go over the top, I change something, or smooth out a line, or add a bit more detail.  Often I will sketch something five or six times, and it becomes a rainbow mess.  But I never dig a hole through the paper!!!  That is the best part.

 

 

And one last pic:

 

Renarin and Navani hanging out because that's what they do, talking about the fresh gadgets that are gonna drop tomorrow, and comparing specs vs pricepoints.

 

 

I really like my character design for Navani.  Shallan describes her as "motherly", but I can't draw her as a warm and loving mother, I just can't!  My first impression of her from WoK was how Dalinar described her as a power hungry political manipulator.  This woman married the ultrawarlordest guy in Alethkar, and was a queen!  So I made her design and character costume something that would fit an empress.  If she is the ultimate Ice Queen mother to Jasnah's Ice Princess, and turned Elhokar into a milktoast mama's boy, then she has to look intimidating and poised and elegant.

 

Yeah, I'm kind of ambivalent on the Renarin design.  He is kind of bland and in the background a lot so I dunno.

 

[Argel]

Great stuff like always!!! You should do some art tutorials! Edit: What software do you use? Photoshop? Painter? Illustrator? Or some of the Open Source ones such as Gimp and Krita?

Edited April 27, 2016 by Argel

[Delightful]

Sheep, your artwork is absolutely gorgeous.

[Sunbird]

Watercolor baffles me so completely that I am amazed that anybody can create art with it, let alone art as beautiful as yours, Sheep! Love that shot of Kaladin leaping into the arena to kick some chull. And the Kaladin character design from Tumblr! XD I cannot stop laughing, especially at the comment about his boots.

[sheep]

Great stuff like always!!! You should do some art tutorials! Edit: What software do you use? Photoshop? Painter? Illustrator? Or some of the Open Source ones such as Gimp and Krita?

 

I'm not really a good teacher for art - I'm like those annoying and not helpful "how to draw" books where step one is "draw a circle" and step two is "draw an owl".    The process I use is the same one most other digital artists use, and you can easily find tutorials or video replays on YouTube for how to sketch and colour things on a computer.  I pretty much only use Photoshop.  I have PaintTool SAI and Krita but I don't like flipping from one program to another.  Occasionally I sketch pencil on paper to get my ideas down, and then scan it in and work on it digitally.

 

Here are original sketches from the picture "Shardblade Proportions" from my OP.

 

My tiny stub of a pencil - it's the animators' staple Sanford-Prismacolor Col-Erase. I use it because you can easily see it under graphite or black ink.

 

Messy as Braize ballpoint scrawlings.  But afterwards I scan it in and it looks much cleaner when I finish working it digitally, and change things that can't be changed on paper without using a bucket of white-out.

 

 

Watercolor baffles me so completely that I am amazed that anybody can create art with it, let alone art as beautiful as yours, Sheep! Love that shot of Kaladin leaping into the arena to kick some chull. And the Kaladin character design from Tumblr! XD I cannot stop laughing, especially at the comment about his boots.

Watercolour is more frustrating than difficult, IMO.  You just need to have lots of control and patience to make sure the water doesn't go everywhere - I keep a box of tissues on the side just in case accidents happen.  And when you are colouring something, you have to go from light to dark because there is no Undo button if you start with black instead of building up with it - when I post my process pictures, I do the lightest colours first, and outlines later.  In digital art, I do the outlines first, and colour it like a colouring book.  Gotta reverse gears when you are moving from traditional media to digital and vice versa.

 

I am not the watercolour pro though - Botanica is the Sharder who does all the fantastic pen and ink and detailed paint work.

I first started practicing with those cheap kiddie paint sets and use dinnerware to rinse my brushes and mix my colours, and I still do it today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it time for more art?

YES IT IS!!

 

 

 

 

What if SA was an animated series?

It's too much to hope that SA would have the budget for elaborate backgrounds for every single scene, with full Ghibli colour, but I'd like it if any animated adaptation could convey the same kind of "atmosphere" and feel of Alethkar that I get when I imagine it in my head.  Nothing is exactly like Earth, but colour palettes and tonal settings reflect certain environments on Earth, which probably inspired Brandon when he wrote SA.

 

So here are some illustrated SA scenes in the style of TV cartoon, based on how I imagined the story and characters.

 

 

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IT'S BETTER TO VIEW IN FULL!!

 

"New Boots"

 

Process:

 

To me, the Shattered Plains is very western-like (or outback-like) to me, with caravan robberies and bandits!  I designed Tyn to be like a cowgirl or (we call it jillaroo here) in a duster coat.  I really liked drawing her, and I'm sad she died.  Her character costume is inspired by Central Asian traditional dress (the pointy shoulders and boots which are a traditional design for Mongolian horsemen) and it forms a short cape thing in the back like the traditional Aussie stockman duster. 

 

Rockbuds!

 

 

 

"Be Spectacular"

 

Process:

 

The architecture in the warcamps was described as curved to deflect the highstorms.  That stuck with me, and I draw the interiors of buildings as rounded and curved as well.  Soulcast buildings to me are all the same beigey brown colour which is combined with diamond sphere light to make the insides of rooms feel "warm", like a comfy Hobbithole or something.   It's supposed to feel safe, and stormproof, but still alien looking compared to Earth homes that use a mix of wood, concrete, slate, and tiles in different colours and textures.  A warcamp building gives the impression of being claustrophobic and underground since floor and ceiling are made of stone, and there are few windows, but obviously a native Alethi wouldn't see it that way.

 

The Shardblade stances are real ones.  The ritual prayer that gets burned before a duel is from my imagination - they are glyphs that are palindromic but not stylised into shapes.

 

 

 

"Takeaway Chouta"

 

Process:

 

 

Obligatory silly stuff!!!

This is what Shallan and Adolin did after their menagerie date, because Adolin promised Shallan a date and dinner, but the book didn't show them stopping at a restaurant or anything.  Maybe they got takeaway chouta!  You can pay the food vendor from the window!  Adolin is such a friendly guy and the Roshar equivalent of a professional athlete, so I always imagined him as a big eater who doesn't care about being picky when he has to eat Soulcast food.  The gravy covers up weird tastes or lack of taste, anyway.

 

I drew the inside of the carriage as curved like Alethi architecture, and made the interior upholstery and curtains blue, because the Kholins like being flashy.  The outside is probably blue as well, and painted with the family glyphpair.  Kaladin is being a grump like usual, but he deserves it because he chose to be the third wheel. 

 

 

 

 

 

Some traditional arts now!

 

 

Stormlight Archive character postcard set!

 

Lol I don't have IRL friends who read SA dunno what I'm going to do now...

 

 

"Dalinar Cards"

I wasn't happy with the first one, so I painted another, and wasn't happy wit that...then dropped my brush and got a black spot on the third...so I ended up with four slightly different cards.  I'm still trying to get a grip on how exactly to draw him, and it's not made any easier doing it in traditional format, which means mistakes mean having to start from square one.

 

 

Extra pic of cards:

The Adolin Shardbearer card isn't actually a bright electric blue.  Colour settings are off.

 

 

Process:

 

 

 

Bonus pic

"Adolin's Shardblade and Lucky Charm"

 

Watercolour with coloured pencil on top.

I drew the red one first and wasn't happy with it - there are things that bother me, number one being that red isn't the Kholin colour.  Then I drew the blue one slightly different, with changed proportions and I'm not happy with it either - the Shardblade gets too narrow too quickly .  This is why traditional media makes me want to headdesk even though it can make for some pretty awesome visual impact.

 

Thanks for reading!

[Rasarr]

WOW. Now I really want to see SA: The Animated Series, and the style you did it in looks really great. And those portraits!

 

As for "what to do with the cards", maybe try selling them? I probably wouldn't be able to buy any (probably), but I'm pretty sure a lot of people 'round the Shard would like those.

[Argel]

Wow, great stuff again!! Any chance you could do a Shallan and Jasnah scene (e.g. from TWoK or WoR on the ship). Or Sebarial and Palano reading her book at the end of WoR (certainly a funny scene)?

[sheep]

WOW. Now I really want to see SA: The Animated Series, and the style you did it in looks really great. And those portraits!

 

As for "what to do with the cards", maybe try selling them? I probably wouldn't be able to buy any (probably), but I'm pretty sure a lot of people 'round the Shard would like those.

A lot of people have been saying for ages that SA would be perfect for an anime series, but I honestly prefer the style of a Saturday morning cartoon.  I like them bright and colourful with expressive characters, even if the action sequences end up simplified because no budget. 

 

They're only small A6 pieces of card, and I doubt people would pay more than $5 for one.  Postage from my country, envelopes, and art supplies would eat up all of that, so I dunno, maybe it's better to hold onto it.  I could give them to Brandon when he visits my country next year.

 

 

 

Wow, great stuff again!! Any chance you could do a Shallan and Jasnah scene (e.g. from TWoK or WoR on the ship). Or Sebarial and Palano reading her book at the end of WoR (certainly a funny scene)?

 

I did actually do a Shallan and Jasnah scene!

I don't have a good mental image of Sebarial and Palona, so I don't think I could create a character design that I think would do them justice.  I still haven't got my mind around Sadeas and Elhokar yet, so I only feel confident about drawing them in their Shardplate.  I can't remember if Elhokar even wears a crown or uniform when he hangs out at his house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art time!

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trust me, it's better that way

 

Scenes from SA: The Animated Series.

This time it's WoK Edition.

 

 

 

"The Lesson"

 

 

 

"Shallan hesitated at the mouth of the alleyway, her heart thumping, her thoughts muddled. The wind blew and bells rang, like frozen raindrops shattering against the stones. In a moment of decision, she rushed after Jasnah, preferring company, even in the dark, to being alone. The shrouded glimmer of the Soulcaster was barely enough to light their way, and Shallan followed in Jasnah’s shadow.

Noise from behind. Shallan turned with a start to see several dark forms crowding into the alley. “Oh, Stormfather,” she whispered. Why? Why was Jasnah doing this?"

Chapter 36, "The Lesson", WoK

 

I thought this was one of the defining moments in the Shallan-Jasnah relationship, and defining moments of characterisation, where you're just left with your mouth open going "did she just?!!".  But no matter what I think of Jasnah, I think she's a fun character to draw.  The background here was pretty low energy because it was late at night and I didn't feel like working at it.

 

 

Process pic:

 

 

 

"Man of Extremes"

 

 

 

“I didn’t mean to confuse you, all those years ago,” he said, voice soft to keep it from prying ears. “I had intended to court you, but Gavilar expressed a preference for you. So I eventually felt I had to step aside.”

“Just like that?” Navani asked. She sounded offended.

“He didn’t realize that I was interested. He thought that by introducing you to him, I was indicating that he should court you. That was often how our relationship worked; I would discover people Gavilar should know, then bring them to him. I didn’t realize until too late what I had done in giving you to him.”

“‘Giving’ me? Is there a slave’s brand on my forehead of which I’ve been unaware?”

“I did not mean—”

“Oh hush,” Navani said.

Chapter 64, "A Man of Extremes", WoK

 

It's not the most action-packed scenes from WoK, but even thought it was pretty low-key, I thought it was dramatic and touching and made me feel sad feelings, so I remembered it.  Dalinar said something that was pretty foot-in-mouth and when I re-read the scene, I laughed pretty hard at it.  Hence the facial expressions that are something in between and .  Yes, I am aware that in that scene Dalinar is wearing a winter trenchcoat version of his uniform instead of a cape, but I don't feel like changing character costume designs because I am lazy.  It's the same reason why your favourite cartoon characters always wear the same thing.  When you draw something over and over, you get good at it, and if you were to switch to something else, it would take weeks of drawing badly to get to a level of being good. 

 

And I do end up drawing it over and over, as part of the sketching process.

 

 

Process pic: 

 

 

 

 

Vintage SA posters!

If SA had a silent film or theatrical playbill or was published as an antique novel, I imagine it would be something like this. 

 

"Kaladin"

 

 

"Adolin"

 

 

"Shallan"

 

 

 

Now to the traditional format!

COSPLAY TIME

 

 

"Foam sword"

Yeah, it's really ugly, but most convention centres don't allow stuff that looks dangerous.

 

 

"Painted sword"

Wine bottle for size comparison because I don't have a yardstick or metrestick and I couldn't find anything else that everyone would be able to recognise.  It's around 4ft long because this has got to fit in a car.

 

 

"More foam crafting"

Did you know that if you heated up foam with a hairdryer on high, you could melt it enough to bend it and make it keep its shape?

 

 

"Inside view"

It's a mess, but the cool thing about cosplay is that no cares about being practical like those historical re-enactor LARPer folks where every detail has to be perfect, inside and out.  The inside of this is unpainted foam and velcro.

 

 

 

 

OBLIGATORY SILLY STUFF!

Modern AU Kaladin and Adolin shenanigans.

 

"Horsepower"

 

In a modern AU, Adolin is still a spoiled princeling who rides a white horse.

In a modern AU, Kaladin is an adrenaline junkie who is smug about the fact that Adolin's fancy white horse can't compete with his 50+ horsepower engine.  And when he jumps mud ramps at the local motocross track, it's as close as it gets to flying.

In a modern AU, speed limits are for highspren.

 

How big is Sureblood anyway?  I drew him somewhere around 19 hands high.  Good thing that Shardbearers are extra nimble, otherwise they would never able to get up in the saddle without a stepladder.

And Kaladin rides dirt bikes because they have tall seats compared to street bikes and he has long legs.  They can also take a beating and still work, and he likes things that have dents, as long as it's fixable.  They're also made for off-roading, and you can hide in the woods when the cops come after you for not having lights or turn signals when you're on the street.

[Argel]

Yay!! Jasnah and Shallan!! It's that night that Shallan steals the fake fabrial, so I agree it was a defining moment.  I like Dalinar and Navani as well, and it's been so long since I read TWoK I forgot about that scene! Nice job! The vintage stuff was great too, and of course the AU!!

[Rasarr]

Sheep, you have no idea how happy I was when I saw that there are new posts in this thread. Yes for more excellent art! I especially love the vintage posters - I imagine this could be something that could exist in some sort of future-er Roshar.

[scifan]

This is really an awesome thread!   Thank you for sharing!

[vikramadith]

Loved it. Keep them coming!

[sheep]

This thread has not been abandoned yet!
And I am kind of annoyed by this new site layout.  It logged me out in the middle writing a long post because I was taking too long, so I had to start again.

Anyways, this update will be mostly character designs because that's what I like doing, and if there's no point in doing stuff you don't like in your own free time.

 

Words of Radiance Cast

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Since I don't think you can click to open images to full size, CLICK HERE to open up to its full screen stretching size.

Some notes about this:  I drew Sadeas to have a punchable face, and Amaram to be less punchable because he's supposed to be a smarmy smug wannabe-Radiant who looks like a normal dude from the outside.  I imagined him to be late 30's or almost or about 40, because Jasnah was 34 as of WoK and he was her almost-husband.  Taravangian is supposed to be like a wise sage kungfu master grandpa, who looks harmless.  Taln wears yellow because topazes are the gemstone of the Stonewards, but later I looked it up and found out that topazes can come in other colours than orangey-yellow, but it was too late for that.  Wit has a medieval pageboy haircut because his job is to something like a King's minstrel and his blue eyes are somewhere in between light and dark. 

 

Tyn

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I wanted to include her, but she died 1/3 of the way through WoR, so she's hardly a major character.  I actually liked her.

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She wore trousers and a long coat that almost looked like a dress, buckled at the waist. She wore a tan glove over her safehand, and spoke Alethi without an accent.

Chapter 20, WoR

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She wore her long, tan coat, buckled at the waist and almost closed. It had a dresslike feel to it, though it was far stiffer than any dress Shallan had worn, matched by the stiff trousers the woman wore underneath.

Chapter 24, WoR

The coat, as I have mentioned before, is similar to a cowboy's duster and Mongolian traditional dress.  It's also inspired by the leather buff coats worn by musketeers in the 1600's, which are weatherproof and warm while being useful for hand-to-hand fighting.  These things are pretty good at being knife proof.  You can look them up!

 

Veil

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Veil is something like what Tyn's little sister would be, since Shallan keeps her own voice when she Lightweaves.  But Veil is tougher and slightly older.  And she wears all of Tyn's clothes.

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Dark hair. Long, like her real hair, but not red. Same height, same build, but a much different face. Worn features, like Tyn’s. A scar across the chin, a more angular face. Not as pretty, but not ugly either. More . . . straightforward.

Chapter 42, WoR

Someone mentioned it before, and I thought it would be amusing.  Shallan gets Adolin, but Veil gets Kaladin.  I think Kaladin would really like Veil, but we all know that's never going to happen.  But hey, Brandon said that there would never get a traditional love triangle, so maybe this will happen in Oathbringer.

 

Kaladin and Veil

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Shallan and Veil

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And something different...

Eshonai's Victory

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Eshonai's only canon picture is the chapter header icon in her PoVs.  She looked like a tank!!!  And because I was inspired by the Predator movie series, I draw her as huge and physically imposing relative to the other characters.  But she still has a human-like face that isn't fully monster, even in Stormform.  I tried to make it expressive, but clear that she's not human, hence the creepy glowing eyes. 

This is my impression of a chrysalis and gemheart.  In my imagination, they were giant glowing, roughly faceted chunks of crystal that had mysterious flickering lights coming from the inside.  And the "violet ichor" of chasmfiend blood was like a goopy slime that dripped out when you pulled the gem out of the chrysalis.  Who knows, maybe it's really the texture of purple ketchup.

 

 

Costume designs now!

For Adolin, Shallan, and Kaladin.

 

ALTERNATE COSTUMES

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Adolin - Summer uniform, with half cape.

Shallan - Fancy feast dress.  Her motif is flowers because "blossoms and cake", so this was inspired by lotuses.

Kaladin - Amaram's squadleader.  What does a takama/warrior manskirt look like?  Whatever I tried looked silly, so I threw in a slit for mobility and called it a day.

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The darkeyed spearmen wore equipment like Cenn’s: leather jerkin and knee-length skirt with a simple steel cap and a matching breastplate.

He wore the common leathers of a spearman, but under them was a pair of dark trousers. That wasn’t supposed to be allowed.

His black Alethi hair was shoulder-length and wavy, his eyes a dark brown. He also had knots of white cord on the shoulders of his jerkin, marking him as a squadleader.

Chapter 1, WoK

 

 

HALF DRESSED

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Adolin - Unlike Kaladin, his socks don't have holes.

Shallan -  What do lighteyed women wear under their havahs? 

Kaladin -  Bridgeman uniform.  The vest was inspired by boating life vests.

 

 

MODERN AU - CASUAL

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Adolin -  Fashionable, but not edgy or statement clothing.  Pretty much like a magazine page or store mannequin clothing.

Shallan - Shops at the thrift store, because that's what artsy people do.  She dresses modestly, but comfortable.

Kaladin - Doesn't care about his appearance.

 

URITHIRU KNIGHTS logo closeup

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Because it would look pretty cool on a t-shirt.

 

 

MODERN AU - HOBBIES

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Adolin - Kendo practice.  It's almost like duelling...

Shallan -  Safari naturalist, from the thrift store.  It's called vintage, you know.

Kaladin -  Leather race suit.  When you're on your bike at the track going 300km/hr, it's almost like flying when you don't have magic.  I always thought Kaladin was a bit of an adrenaline addict.

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The horse snorted again, and Kaladin found himself laughing. Storms, but that had felt good! He couldn’t explain why, but the act of clinging for dear life to the thrashing animal had been truly exhilarating.

Chapter 25, WoR

 

 

And if the modern AU had an animated series Sitcom Edition, it would be something like this:

Date Interrupted

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Shallan and Adolin go to the local malt shop or greasy spoon diner, and Kaladin is there.

Rock's Diner has pictures of the Horneater Peaks, Rock with his friends Lopen and Teft, and the Bridge Four freedom forehead tattoo design.

 

 

And if the the duelling preparation room had lockers, Shallan would draw something for Adolin to stick to the inside of his locker.  Other girls would write glyph prayers for their suitors before a duel, but since Shallan is not like the other girls, she would do something more creative.  Because Vedens are not as stuffy as those silly Alethis!

 

First Base

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Yeah, I know it's naughty.

Avert your eyes!!!!

 

 

And now, obligatory silly stuff!

MULTIVERSE CROSSOVER!

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Would these two like each other if they met?   Who cares, it would be awesome!!!!!  If this really was a buddy cop movie, there would be walking away from explosions, one-liners, Horatio Caine sunglasses moments, saving the girl, and creative interpretations of the legal code.

[Argel]

Yay!! So happy to see new fanfic! Some of your best in this batch!! Great job as always!

[Rasarr]

Wow! I have little more to say than oh gosh, this is awesome. Love your rendition of Veil (and Veil/Kaladin, Shallan/Adolin would be pretty funny indeed). Unfortunately, I can't see anything past Urithiru Knights closeup, but the rest is great!

Also, I think I'd make myself an Urithiru Knights T-shirt. May I?

[FeatherWriter]

Don't mind me, I'm just going to sit over here in awe.

@sheep I know you said that you're a "shipper who should be exiled to tumblr" which leads me to ask... do you already have a tumblr? And if so, can I apologize for the fact that I am not already following you and sticking all of your fanart on Adonalsium? BECAUSE IT'S SO GOOD. I NEED ALL OF IT ON ADO.

I love your Veil in particular. It was one of those moments where the illustration wasn't what I had pictured in my head but my brain went "oh no, wait, that's better." And as a terrible Mraize/Veil shipper I'm just going to use that interpretation from now on in my head thanks.

[DreamEternal]

21 hours ago, FeatherWriter said:

I love your Veil in particular. It was one of those moments where the illustration wasn't what I had pictured in my head but my brain went "oh no, wait, that's better." And as a terrible Mraize/Veil shipper I'm just going to use that interpretation from now on in my head thanks.

You should be ashamed of yourself. Everyone knows Iyatil/Veil is the best ship. Everyone except maskless barbarians, that is.

Edited June 21, 2016 by DreamEternal

[FeatherWriter]

1 hour ago, DreamEternal said:

You should be ashamed of yourself. Everyone knows Iyatil/Veil is the best ship. Everyone except maskless barbarians, that is.

Okay listen, I'm not saying that I've written Iyatil/Mraize/Veil fic in the past, but...