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JennyDolfen

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Good morning! I joined this forum a while ago, but didn't dare to browse too much as I was still reading through Stormlight Archive, but now I've finished Wind and Truth and am ready to say hi. 

What's the best place for art? I'm not quite sure. Fan Works, Creators Corner, or the Gallery? 

A bit about me: I'm a German illustrator and teacher, and was brought into the series by my daughter, who read the books last summer and wouldn't shut up about them, so I gave them a go. First on Audible (I'm visually disabled), then on Kindle (with a ridiculous font size, but that turned out to be the better option). 

I may be familiar to some for my Tolkien work. ;) These days, I create art on the iPad, because my eyes won't let me work on paper anymore - not in the detail I still like to work in. I've made my own watercolour brushes to be able to emulate the watercolour style I used to have. 

Looking forward to connecting to other Cosmere fans! I'll definitely pick up Mistborn too, but right now, I'm rereading/relistening to SLA while I draw, and there's so much more I want to depict - I'm definitely not done with Stormlight yet. 

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#1 Taln Fan

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52 minutes ago, JennyDolfen said:

Good morning! I joined this forum a while ago, but didn't dare to browse too much as I was still reading through Stormlight Archive, but now I've finished Wind and Truth and am ready to say hi. 

Welcome! There isn't much difference between posting in Fan Works and in the Gallery, so whichever you prefer. Creator's Corner is more for general art, not rather than Sanderson-specific fanart.
I also highly recommend joining our discord server, as we have a very active #arting channel and we love to feast on fanart. :sylheart:

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Welcome to the Shard!!!

1 hour ago, JennyDolfen said:

What's the best place for art? I'm not quite sure. Fan Works, Creators Corner, or the Gallery? 

As Taln Fan said, the Creators Corner is more for non-fanwork stuff, and the Fan Works area and Gallery are functionally the same (Though it's really not that strict, this is just general).

I'd say in my own experience of posting artwork, Gallery posts are more suited to a single, finished piece (because they are a single post with comments), and the Fanworks section is good for a long series of things, or work-in-progress posts because you can have a long thread with multiple posts together. But it just really depends on how you decide to organize things.

1 hour ago, JennyDolfen said:

I may be familiar to some for my Tolkien work. ;)

Aside from Sanderson, I'm a huge Silmarillion fan and I always love your paintings! The watercolor style is so lovely ^_^

Do you have a favorite character?

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JennyDolfen

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1 hour ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I also highly recommend joining our discord server, as we have a very active #arting channel and we love to feast on fanart. :sylheart:

Thanks for the welcome! Ooooh, a Discord server sounds great. Particularly since I recently understood how it works. ;) 

18 minutes ago, Magi said:

Do you have a favorite character?

Thanks Magi! That helps a lot. My favourite character is Kaladin, as can easily be deduced from how often he features in my drawings. I remember "meeting" him for the first time in WoK, and my train of thought went, Man, this guy is really too perfect, the author's trying way to hard to make me like hhhh.... oh hell, he spends his earnings to bribe the runners to get his men off the field first. I'm yours, Kaladin Stormblessed. 

Adolin is another favourite, also on second glance, but then unconditionally. I disliked him for a womaniser first, and then we get his groping for "perambulating" and I was sold. I'm a simple woman. 

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5 minutes ago, JennyDolfen said:

Thanks Magi! That helps a lot. My favourite character is Kaladin, as can easily be deduced from how often he features in my drawings. I remember "meeting" him for the first time in WoK, and my train of thought went, Man, this guy is really too perfect, the author's trying way to hard to make me like hhhh.... oh hell, he spends his earnings to bribe the runners to get his men off the field first. I'm yours, Kaladin Stormblessed. 

Adolin is another favourite, also on second glance, but then unconditionally. I disliked him for a womaniser first, and then we get his groping for "perambulating" and I was sold. I'm a simple woman. 

Hehe that's amazing! They're both favorites of mine as well 😄. 

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10 minutes ago, Terrisman said:

Hey welcome!! Love that watercolor. It’s phenomenal

 what order do you belong in?

I'd say the two obvious answers are Lightweaver or Windrunner, but I'm confident to say Windrunner. Hey, I run back to the baker's if I find they gave me 10€ too much as change. I'm sure I'd attract a stuffy old honourspren. 

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Just now, JennyDolfen said:

I'd say the two obvious answers are Lightweaver or Windrunner, but I'm confident to say Windrunner. Hey, I run back to the baker's if I find they gave me 10€ too much as change. I'm sure I'd attract a stuffy old honourspren. 

Did you ever take the quiz?

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Oh my gosh it's so beautiful I'm gonna cry T~T

Welcome to the Shard! What kind of food would you like to eat for the rest of your life, if you could only pick one? 

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43 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Hey there! Welcome to the Shard! :D

that art is mind-blowing . . . 

What's your favorite type of spren?

Thank you so much! 😊 
I’ll once again be obvious and say I love the honourspren. The less obvious answers are that I love the creationspren that make up Shallan's armour (they remind me of a 1990s Coca Cola ad where a bunch of ice cubes topple over one another in excitement when someone opens the fridge). Artistically, I want to draw agonyspren and luckspren at one point. 

1 minute ago, Halcyon The Only said:

Oh my gosh it's so beautiful I'm gonna cry T~T

Welcome to the Shard! What kind of food would you like to eat for the rest of your life, if you could only pick one? 

Can I cheat and say muesli? 

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7 minutes ago, JennyDolfen said:

Thank you so much! 😊 
I’ll once again be obvious and say I love the honourspren. The less obvious answers are that I love the creationspren that make up Shallan's armour (they remind me of a 1990s Coca Cola ad where a bunch of ice cubes topple over one another in excitement when someone opens the fridge). Artistically, I want to draw agonyspren and luckspren at one point. 

Can I cheat and say muesli? 

Sure, even though I have no clue what that is 😂 

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5 hours ago, JennyDolfen said:

Good morning! I joined this forum a while ago, but didn't dare to browse too much as I was still reading through Stormlight Archive, but now I've finished Wind and Truth and am ready to say hi. 

What's the best place for art? I'm not quite sure. Fan Works, Creators Corner, or the Gallery? 

A bit about me: I'm a German illustrator and teacher, and was brought into the series by my daughter, who read the books last summer and wouldn't shut up about them, so I gave them a go. First on Audible (I'm visually disabled), then on Kindle (with a ridiculous font size, but that turned out to be the better option). 

I may be familiar to some for my Tolkien work. ;) These days, I create art on the iPad, because my eyes won't let me work on paper anymore - not in the detail I still like to work in. I've made my own watercolour brushes to be able to emulate the watercolour style I used to have. 

Looking forward to connecting to other Cosmere fans! I'll definitely pick up Mistborn too, but right now, I'm rereading/relistening to SLA while I draw, and there's so much more I want to depict - I'm definitely not done with Stormlight yet. 

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Hi!

That is beautiful. Also, I think I've seen some of your Tolkien stuff before! 

I love Tolkien. To a... slightly concerning amount.

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I can list the entire family tree of Finwë from memory and have several per prepared speeches for summarizing the Silmarillion in various time frames for people when they ask what it is and what it's about.

 

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JennyDolfen

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone! =

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I can list the entire family tree of Finwë from memory and have several per prepared speeches for summarizing the Silmarillion in various time frames for people when they ask what it is and what it's about.

Ooooh, I know. It's why my daughter knows the entire Silmarillion - she kept walking in while I drew and asked what I was drawing, and I'd tell her. 

Funnily, that diesn't work with most Stormlight Archive Art. When I draw in the staffroom and a colleague looks over my shoulder to ask what I'm drawing, I'd usually have to spend twenty minutes talking before anything would make any sense! 😂

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On 3/3/2025 at 9:34 PM, JennyDolfen said:

I may be familiar to some for my Tolkien work. ;)

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Eärendil and Elwing!

Welcome to the Shard! That's amazing Kaladin and Adolin art, hope you enjoy your time here! 🙂

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