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20 hours ago, Lyraina said:

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy them - there will be one more!

Thank you! Hospital room is an interesting connection here, not something I aimed for - but I guess given the circumstances here it does work!

Interestingly, it doesn't quite fit the hospital room connection with everything as it is in the diagram - but you can very easily see how his doctors, while trying to make his chambers a suitable operating theater, might make it so.  (Remove the plants, for example, and 90% of the room is suddenly devoid of color.  Remove the black lacquered furniture, and that 90% suddenly becomes grey and white)  I'd love to see this in movie form.  

Maybe the palace gets remodeled every time a faction rises to power?  And Shai's room was overlooked because before it's literally the worst guest room the palace has on offer, so the purple-ish coloring is a remnant of whichever faction was in power 3 or 4 emperors ago?  

Absolutely gorgeous!  And it captures the feeling of Ashravan's rooms exactly like Shai describes it - the whites and silvers and greys evoke a hospital room, and the positioning of the bed is more practical for displaying a body in state than for sleeping, the design of it more like a shrine than a bed.  

9 hours ago, Lyraina said:

She has to break down the wall to the next room, which is a storage room - and in the process even manages to find material for a hearth. So given that information, I am pretty sure there will be some old clutter in that other part of room that she can get her hands on for some additional furniture as well.

I'm not certain that Forgery works that way, exactly - what she did with that particular alteration is retcon the construction of both rooms so her room is larger and is furnished with a hearth.  Furthermore, I suspect those two changes are the products of different stamps.  In any event, what Forgery cannot do is create Cognitive presences from scratch - and I spy upwards of 9 different objects which don't have counterparts in the before picture, but now exist and therefore have a presence in the Cognitive Realm.  

Then again, Shai is a Forging master who created a nigh-seamless AI copy of a living human from (basically) scratch within a quarter of a year, as well as a master con artist who was basically one step ahead of her captors for the entirety of her captivity.  It's well within the realm of possibility that she simply asked her guards for more things to Forge.  For example, that table with the cards on it was undoubtedly brought by the guards to while away yet another boring shift in Shai's room.  

I noticed that the color scheme changes inside and outside Shai's door (even before she Forges it).  What do you suppose is the rationale for that?  

Speaking of "each and every furniture":  Where did the accoutrements around the hearth come from?  The vases, the dustpan, the folding screen?  Also several other bits of furniture that materialize from the aether between the before and after pictures.  

It is indeed beautiful.  I love what you did with the wallpaper.  However, something I immediately noticed:  Shai's bed is in an inopportune spot for Zu to crash through it during Shai's escape attempt.  (Or for Shai to "cower" behind it when Zu tries to kill her)

On 6/6/2017 at 11:59 AM, Lyraina said:

Thank you! An after pic is coming, albeit only in line, in addition to the illustration with Gaotona, which is also in the "after" stage.

The illustration with Gaotona?  I presume you mean of the scene where Shai Forges the mural into the wall?  (I seem to recall that said mural was "the last thing [Shai] wanted to do for the room.")

14 hours ago, Alfa said:

Absolutely impressive! Upvote. Wouild give two if able.

Noticed a small (not really important) part: wasn't there something regarding an aluminium (or however it is called in the Rosean Empire) wall behind the stones?

There was a thin sheet of ralkalest (read: aluminum/aluminium) supposedly encasing each of the cells designed for Forging.  However, in this concept there's no reason for the aluminum security blanket to ever be rendered.  Maybe, during Shai's summation of her escape plan, will the rocks be pulled away to showcase the metal wall behind it, but that's the only reason I can think of for that piece to ever come up.  (And even then, it wouldn't be a full cylinder, like the cell itself - it'd just be the patch where the stones were pulled away)  

5 hours ago, Quiver said:

Neat! Not how I picture Hold, but I like the picture.

Are those specific shardworlds? I thought the one on the top right might be Roshar, but I'm not sure if the land mass matches up..

A lot of specific shardworlds are Earthlike, and therefore would be indistinguishable at the distance shown.  The only known exceptions (Roshar, Taldain) would need more to them than just the planet to be recognizable.  In the case of those two, it would require the 3 moons and a representation of Taldain's stars, respectively.  Plus Taldain would need some rendering on the planet itself to really sell the idea that half of it is always in darkness.  Anything besides that would require ludicrous levels of precision (to mark out the continents and such correctly).  

Chibi Shallan in the background just sells it.  

Nice composition.  I like the color scheme, but despite the dark background Raoden's hands kind of blur into his general shape.  Also the top and bottom lines of the central figure in Aon Rao flare up and out too much (they should be parallel, and perpendicular to the lines leading to the circles).  

It looks beautiful. How did you decide what metals to put behind Sazed?

The expressions and faces are spot on.  Not as certain about the outfits - Blushweaver, for instance, I'd think would have something that shows a bit more, well, everything - but that's just me.