#practical guide to evil fanart

[dandyabomination]

Cat in that sundress cause she should wear them more.

Like imagine becoming one of the most powerful people ever and you can't even wear your favoured clothes (⁠ノ⁠｀⁠Д⁠´⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

[jinxcrest101]

First Fanart of 2025! Here's "A Practical Guide to Evil" Fanart of Black!

I call it "BLACK AS KNIGHT!"

You can check out PGTE on Webtoon!

For reference, each Dagger represents a Calamity!

[noctilia]

[gutierritoshds]

Abigail of summerholm emptying her stomach half campaign

[tisinoodle]

Kairos Theodosian, inspired by Leyendecker.

More of that PGTE art I haven’t posted here yet!

As a side note, EE did give me permission to sell my PGTE fanart as prints. Let me know in the tags if you’re interested!

[narrative1311]

The Book of Some Things, A Practical Guide to Evil Fanzine, COMING AUGUST.

It includes an author Q&A, essays, fanart, fanfiction, memes, and more!

[asymptomaticsavant]

Commission for a character from A Practical Guide to Evil— the book, as he's not going to appear in the new comic for a few decades yet I think.

Artist tip— draw old people, it’s delightful.

[yettofindaname]

Hello, I'm Jude. I sent you a message on Reddit as well. I'm currently working on making a FREE and digital fanzine (fan magazine) for Practical Guide to Evil. I was wondering if I could ask your permission to feature your work posted here on Reddit titled "The Tower" on it?

To clarify, what I'm doing is completely FREE and NONPROFIT, which means I will NOT be able to provide and monetary compensation. Should you choose to agree, it goes without saying that I will of course be crediting you for your art.

Please let me know if you're interested, either here or on Instagram and Discord. My username in both other platforms is Narrative1311. My Reddit username is DriverPleasant8757.

Thank you.

Wow, thanks for the message - Sure, go ahead! Permission granted!

When you publish the zine, send a link for me here by ask or DM!

Also, for the tumblr crowd - here is the piece - I have an art tumbr (@yettofindanameart) with other pixel arts, but it's been a while since i posted anything.

[emojayce]

rev | he / it | 20

this is my arcane/lol side blog!! i'll likely post fanart, ramblings, au ideas, and headcanons often here - i'm sure with some misc things thrown in.

i'd love to make friends and talk to others about all kinds of things : O if you'd like feel free to send me a msg or something >:]

my main is @cryptidcruncher (but i'm not the most active so its quite vacant at the moment)

i will likely spend much of my time here jayvik/vikjayce posting and the other time meljayvik posting - as in posting about the individual characters and the actual shared dynamics and/or pairings themselves)

my favorite character from arcane is actually jinx, but my mind has chosen jayce as its special guy so i'm sure there will be much focus on him.

in general, i am most fond of jinx, viktor, jayce, sevika, mel, and silco.

my favorite dynamics are jayvik as well as meljayvik in every way you can split it, as well as just being a trio (i adore melvik-) and then the family dynamic shared between jinx, isha and sevika.

i do play LoL (since early december)! by no means do i think i properly understand everything i'm meant to be doing but unfortunately the mental illness has chosen this evil game so i'm consistently watching videos and reading guides to try and improve >:P

i currently main jayce - and gladio technically - on midlane. i do my best !! im trying to practice jayce like crazy to actually perform decent.

in terms of league lore, i'm very fond of orianna as well as blitzcrank but i am also slowly digging through character bios and i am sure there will be many more.

[dandyabomination]

Hanno of Arward and Cordelia Hasenbach cause I lowkey ship them, platonically speaking ╰⁠(⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠´⁠꒳⁠`⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠)⁠╯

[jinxcrest101]

THIS TIME, you get 2 boards for the price of 1!✨ Here are my 2 storyboard panels for ep. 7 of a Practical Guide to Evil!💖

[gutierritoshds]

Abigail of summerholm before any promotion

[gwennafran]

Masego progression over the books.

A Practical Guide to Evil fanart.

Also the only art I’ve really done for some two months (not impressive, that statistic)

Book 2: Chubby apprentice with cute glasses he doesn't really needs. Colourfull robes and tons of various trinkets in the hair.

Book 3: I decided to go with chubby Hierophant after the wardrobe change and new hair accessories here. Also blindfold.

Book 4: Underweight Masego from early in the book.

Book 5: Severely underweight and generally neglected Masego.

Book 6: A lot of things happened for Book 6 Maego. He's gotten actual normal weight and wears grey with pale green and yellow accents for starters. Also got a single ring in each braid now.

Book 7: Masego is back in black. Now sporting the beginning of a beard. And well... One meat eye and one semi-functional sun-touched glass eye.

[st-just]

First Under the Night by Antti Hakosaari

[anipologist]

A tongue-in-cheek practical guide for understanding Silmarillion fanart...

If they have red hair and are male...it’s probably Maedhros. If you’re still not sure (the Ambrussa are red-heads too) check the hands. If one is missing it’s Maedhros.

Gold braided into dark hair= Fingon

If they have a harp it could be any number all of them of musically inclined elves but best bet is either Maglor or Finrod. If blond with or without Sauron looming in the background it’s Finrod. If dark-haired it’s probably Maglor.

Finrod also tends to appear with a blinding necklace and a posse of friendly dwarves and men. Despite the fact that he canonically lost it and chucked his crown at his back-stabbing cousins he is usually smiling.

Thingol is the really tall one with silvery hair. He is probably scowling. May or may not be fondly contemplating roasting Beren and or Celegorm and Curufin assorted Fëanorians on a spit.

Lúthien is usually either dancing in a field or singing an assortment of Sauron/Morgoth/Mandos into agreement. Generally appears with inhuman amounts of hair, stars, a half-dead Beren and a wolf-hound.

Fingolfin -see Fingon minus gold braided into hair. Frequently on a rearing horse or charging a Vala ten times his size.

Earwen-she takes the title of Swan-maid seriously. Almost never glimpsed without accompanying swans and/or starry waves. Also fond of artful strings of pearls. Silver hair.

Finarfin- Gold hair, pensive expression. Occasionally wearing a crown. See Finrod without blinding necklace.

Galadriel- overwhelming amounts of gold hair, lots of white dresses, occasionally looks possessed and evil. Wise and fearless and fair.

Celeborn- fair and presumably wise and fearless. Mostly disappears into Galadriel’s shadow. Silver hair, has some reservations about dwarves and Gandalf.

Fëanor -tall, dark and occasional kin-slayer. Frequently waving some combination of swords and magic jewels. Also seen burning ships or accompanied by some other manifestation of fire. His mother named him well...

Aredhel- physically incapable of wearing anything other than white.

Nerdenal- pretty much all red-headed female elves that aren’t Tauriel. Deserves better on every level. Occasionally shown with Fëanor her handsome, driven and murderous husband. More often shown with a hammer or at a forge.

Turgon - seldomed seen as he is holed up in Goldolin. When he does appear he is ridiculously tall, dark-haired and possibly stubbornly standing on a tower surrounded by dragons and balrogs. Enjoys throwing the unworthy off of sheer cliffs.

Pretty, blond and hanging out with a human woman- Aegnor

Pretty, blond with two ill-fated blonde children-Angrod

Idril- blonde, happily shown with a human husband her father shockingly made no objection too. Also shown avoiding her creepy cousin and fleeing balrogs.

Maeglin- see Idril’s creepy cousin. Likes moles, treason and his cousin.

Gil-galad- tall, handsome and uses a spear rather than a sword. Parentage in dispute so equally likely to be with Fingon or Orodreth. Friends with Elendil (they were killed by Sauron together).

[herbivorousxenomorph]

Quest Lessons Retrospective

The quest, the basis of most narrative in media. In games this is used to directly put the player into the story as that is precisely what quests are, stories. The player is given their quest, they take their steps to complete it, and eventually they triumph and are given a reward (or they fail and retry it *or* they fail and suffer the consequences on the larger scale quest that is the game overall). Because of this the best quests will be written much akin to stories like the monomyth/hero’s journey. 

I want to make it excessively clear that writing quests is not just a checklist defined by the above image. Good stories will (usually) go through most of these elements on their own, a quest with stakes for the player will take them through the steps outlines above, as the best stories do. Again, the Hero’s Journey is *not a checklist* it is a framework to analyze things through, sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Knowing this is important when designing quests for games (or for any writing) because it is important to know what constitutes a good story (or at least a competently written one) and how that is different from a story that merely has all the parts it “needs”.

Another element specific to games in quests is that of player choice.

When the hero/player is at their crossroads, be that somewhere in the quest, or even when they decide to begin the quest, their choices matter and should impact the world they play in. This is something I feel I often struggle with in regards to how the story goes out in my own writing and my head, and how a given player will choose to play it. In a talk story I recently went through, the ‘players’ current actions conflicted with my scripted plans and it showed badly, honestly as someone who has GM’d and generally made games for years now, it was embarrassing to find myself at a place where my words were straight up “no”. 

Musing on this I am reminded of the often misused quote “the customer is always right” usually employed to placate some Karen who got their order wrong. The original usage of the quote was “the customer is always right about what they want” the writer or designer or what-have-you will be right about the technical details more often than not, but this doesn’t matter if those details conflict with what the player wants to be doing. When writing and designing quests, you need to plan for what the player wants to be doing. Make it interesting and engaging, and when possible, find a way to incorporate as many of their ideas, goals, and desires into the story you are telling. With videogames where the player and designer/writer are further removed, this means making sure the quest is right for the type of player and experience you want. Something I hope to work on even more in the future.

Lastly when dealing with player wants and story frames, there is the deal of breaking them.

(this is fanart for Practical Guide to Evil by u/CaptainOfMySouls [reddit account], the book series is all about breaking fantasy tropes, go read it, it’s online, it’s published electronically, it’s free, seriously go read it)

Delaying player satisfaction and making them work for their goal is still a good thing and even a necessary thing to give them the full satisfaction of their eventual success. Much in the same way, making them work for their victory and breaking the cycle they expect makes them work for their story to end properly and well. Finding the right balance of work and reward is something I aim to get better at over time with simple practice and repetition until I can get right the ebb and flow of it.

Overall I’d say this class exploration into quests has gone well, and while I may not be quite there yet with some of the elements of it, I think I have a good enough grasp on the fundamentals that it is just a matter of time and energy expended into making myself better at it.