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I haven’t been feeling very artistically inspired lately but then I thought about Pynch sleepcuddling and WELL

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HEY GUYS sorry about the “long time no draw” thing, but I recently switched to SketchBook Pro (A+++ WOULD RECOMMEND) and did some Feyre and Rhysand sketches to practice SketchBooking, because learning a new program is hard and because I recently read A Court of Mist and Fury and am having difficulty thinking about anything else.

(Note: I’ve seen some of my doodles around the interwebs with the url chopped off and it is NOT NICE. Pleeeease do not repost this image and remove the signature because if you do Rhysand will come for yoooou, and not in a good way, in a murder way)

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Aelin’s dress in Queen of Shadows is a dress of DREAMS 

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Shahrzad from The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

If you haven’t read The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh, a retelling of 1001 Nights, you ABSOLUTELY must get on that. It has a ferocious, fearsome heroine, lush writing and atmosphere, and a SHIP OF SHIPS. Oh sweet Shazi, that ship. The sequel comes out and May and it’s probably my second or third most anticipated of the whole year. I HAVE SUCH A NEED. I miss Shazi (and Khalid, you adorable murderous boy-king, you)

Edited to add: a detail pic because why not

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I don’t normally post art stuffs that are this “in progress”, but I’ve gotten a few asks about my typical process, and I guess my current big project is a good way to show it. (As you can maybe/hopefully see, I’m drawing the Six of Crows squad, and yes, that is what I’ve named my ArtRage file, because that book is squad goals x 1000). Still quite a bit of work to go, obvs, but yep. This is what half-finished Gillian stuff looks like. Lots of messy blue lines and twenty minutes spent obsessing over the placement of Kaz’s nose (only to keep it exactly where I’d originally drawn it, naturally)

All actual drawing/painting business is done with a Wacom tablet, because those things are of the gods

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Blue and Ronan eating ice cream together, dedicated to the anon who specifically (and wonderfully) asked:

Hi, I know this is a weird request, but could you maybe draw Ronan and Blue getting ice cream together? I just really love them together. And I feel like they would get ice cream together.

Keep thinking those beautiful thoughts, anon. 

Now I really want some TRC ice cream fic. Noah gets really excited whenever he hears the ice cream truck music. Gansey tries to pay for one popsicle with a twenty dollar bill.

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OH HEY FUN STORY TIME THIS BLOGGER IS ACTUALLY ME

I felt super awkward at first because I’m so not the type of person who does things like go up to strangers and demand they reveal their names (I’d be TERRIBLE at serving legal papers, I’d feel really guilty and end up apologizing and taking the papers back and buying them coffee or something) but Victoria was very nice and friendly

So yes, I was indeed on a London-bound flight with both Victoria Aveyard and Draco Malfoy, and if that plane had flown us all to Middle Earth via Narnia I would not have been surprised. That’s how surreal it was. Like I’d get up to go to the bathroom and it’d be like OH HEY, JUST...PASSING DRACO MALFOY, ON THE WAY TO THE TOILET, HOPE THERE’S NO MOANING MYRTLE IN THERE HAHAHA I’M SO CASUAL ABOUT THIS, because after sitting in a metal box for 10 hours and being on your way to pee is a great time to meet your childhood crushes

Have you ever been recognised outside of book events? Are you at that level of fame yet?

I’ve been recognized a grand total of once. I was on a flight from LA to London and a very lovely blogger asked if I was Victoria Aveyard. I thought she was going to serve me legal papers.

Fun fact: Draco Malfoy was on the flight, two seats away, and in the back of my head I was like YOU SHOULD’VE RECOGNIZED ME IN FRONT OF DRACO!!

:)

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remember that time Percy and Annabeth fell asleep

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Winter is coming!

WINTER IS SO CLOSE I CAN’T BELIEVE IT ARE YOU READY FOR THIS LUNAR JELLY

Cinder is also clearly super excited and ready to kick some Lunar butt. T-minus 5 days! #JointheResistance #JointheLunarRevolution

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Inktober, Day 8: Kaz and Inej from Six of Crows by @lbardugo, aka the newest #1 NYT BESTSELLER ENDLESS CONGRATULATIONS AND SO DESERVED

I’m completely obsessed with this book. It’s dark and twisted and full of action and it’s about A HEIST and my god i love heist stories. I also love motley crew, found family, ragtag misfits coming together stories, and this is that, but with a darker edge. And the world is just so insanely richly rendered and full of detail, and the cHARACTERS. I. Love. Them. Every one of them. And it is ship central, because not only will you love them all, but you’ll love them all TOGETHER (and want them to make out all the time)

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Inktober sketch number two is my one true love, Richard Gansey III from The Raven Cycle by @maggie-stiefvater, doing that thumb thing and being cute and WASPy and handsome and popped-collar-y because oh, Gansey, you loser, you would

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HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Just like Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, I am BACK and ready to BLOW SHIZZ UP! or, you know, doodle a few things which is ALMOST as cool as forcefully reclaiming my kingdom and murdering ALL WHO HAVE WRONGED ME but to say I live my life on a sliiightly smaller scale than the Queen of Terrasen is a bit of an understatement.

ANYHOO, I missed you, Tumblr! Life has been crazy busy (I was out of the country for a WHOLE MONTH), and I’ve barely had time to do any arting (minus these cool things I made for the Queen of Shadows blog tour, go take a looksy, you can buy things yay for things!)

I really want to be back into regularly drawing. The weather FINALLY turned the slightest bit cool here in Los Angeles, and that makes me want to be very arty and indoorsy and productive. So i decided to belatedly join INKTOBER, wherein arty types make an ink sketch a day to keep the laziness away. Blank page, micron pens, pure desperation inspiration, et voila.

Starting my Inktober off with my one true queen from Queen of Shadows by @sjmaas, which I read in the rain in Spain and stayed mainly in the PLAINLY AWESOME PAGES OF THIS BOOK

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What about YA fantasy? Do you have any YA fantasy authors and/or series that you would absolutely recommend to anyone?

*pushes back sleeves* *rubs hands together* *cracks knuckles*

OKAY YOU ASKED FOR YA FANTASY AND IMMA GIVE YOU YA FANTASY ARE YOU READY

YA fantasy is my true love. it is my heart’s breath. It is all that is good and pure in this world.

The Seven Realms trilogy by Cinda Williams Chima (The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, The Crimson Crown YA fantasy at its finest, really, with insane plots and epic world-building and OTPS ALL OVER THE PLACE and I binge-read this whole series in a mad rush which is really the way to do it

The Girl of Fire and Thorns series by Rae Carson ELISA MY TRUE QUEEN and Hector and parliament of queens and bad assery and a play on the Chosen One and sosososo good

The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas SHIPPIEST SHIP OF SHIPPERY

THRONE OF GLASS OBVIOUSLYYYYYYY

LUMATERE CHRONICLES BY MELINA MARCHETTA I’ve only red the first one, Finnikin of the Rick,  because I am a failure but hooooooooooly holiestthing

KRISTIN BLOODY CASHORE

Shadow and Bone aka the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo because HOLY WORLDBUILING BATMAN and also Sturmhond my husband i want you to do unspeakable things to me I mean what

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman because d r a g o n s

TAMORA. BLOODY. PIERCE. To say her Tortall books were seminal to my childhood–to my LIFE–would be an understatement. Start with Alanna and then go chronologically through all the series and watch your life be changed forever by bad ass heroines and OTPs you are welcome

THE WRATH. AND. THE. DAWN. BY RENEE AHDIEH. I COULD BELLOW ABOUT THIS BRILLIANT BOOK UNTIL THE STARS TURNED COLD BUT I’LL JUST LET MY REVIEW SPEAK FOR ME

And then there are books I call “crack fantasies” where like your whole brain is consumed by them and you want to eat it whole and for me those are books like The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson, Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, THE STORYSPINNER BY BECKY WALLACE YES YES YES, The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows, and Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

Then there are some newer fantasy releases, like Valiant by Sarah McGuire which is A+ adorable, UPROOTED BY NAOMI NOVIK WHICH IS MORE AN ADULT FANTASY BUT IT’S SO GOOD THAT MY BRAIN GOES ALL EXCLAMATION POINTY JUST THINKING ABOUT IT DEAR GIDDY GOD READ IT, Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine which is a truly bizarre and wonderful and dark book SEMI BASED ON PHANTOM OF THE OPERA meets a Chinese factory of all things, Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge, and Poison by Bridget Zinn which is so adorable you’ll be squealing like a piglet

AND THEN there are the lower fantasy books set in our world but with MAGICKS

CHIEF OF WHICH IS THE RAVEN BOYS BY MAGGIE STIEFVATER  BECAUS THAT SERIES IS MY WHOLE LIFE

Wish I was even a little bit joking about that but there you are

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan part of the Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan GOTHIS BRITISH MAGIC WARLOCKS MURDER SECRETS JOKES

YES JOKES

The adorable Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson which comes out super soon and has ALTERNATE 1890′s MAGICAL STEAMPUNK NEW YORK and the most adorable boy

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black which has evil faeries and a lady knight and a cute gay ship and a horned prince

MAGONIA BY MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY THIS BOOK IS ON THE WILDEST DRUGS AND I LOVE IT

The Falconer by Elizabeth May which is set in Victorian Scotland and is basically Buffy the EVIL FAE slayer

EDIT: THE GIRL AT MIDNIGHT BY MELISSA GREY IT’S FABULOUS AND YOU SHOULD READ IT

and though these don’t really need more hype, I’d be remiss not to mention my deep love for Vampire Academy and Bloodlines though they’re really more paranormal than fantasy, but especially the latter because SYDRIAN

and then, of course, PERCYYYYYYYY

and, of course of course of course HARRY FREAKIN’ POTTER, because if you haven’t read Harry Potter…

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Bless the highhhh number of people who requested Pynch drawings. You people are my people.

Also bless the person who specifically asked for Ronan sitting next to Adam with his leg over Adam’s (I know you asked for it to be in the Pig but I did not have time to draw a car interior so HERE THEY ARE ON A PURPLE BOX for um artistic reasons)

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Yes do do draw more. *urges you on* I shan't disturb you anymore, lovely artist.

Thank you for your abrupt chivalry, lovely abrupt-chivalry :) And messages are never disturbing! Unless you tell me that you don’t ship Pynch or Harry Potter is garbage. That would be disturbing.

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I really love your style it's great :) (Also your guys are fab! I'm horrible at drawing guys HA!)

Thank you so much!

I’ve have alllllways preferred drawing girls to guys. I think it’s because I naturally like to draw swirls and rounded shapes, which is more conducive to the stereotypical female form. Seriously, all my freeform doodles are circles. Or maybe it’s just because girls are awesome and YAY GIRLS But I think the trick to drawing dudes is all straight lines and angles. And cheekbones. I am very pro dude cheekbones.

(I checked out your tumblr and your art is LOVELY btw

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By request: Red Queen by vaveyard. Silver prince, red queen.

Wooo, lots of RQ requests in ye olde inboxe. I may technically ship Mare and Cal, but Mare and Maven’s dynamic is my favorite in the book. Plus I feel like their official royal portrait things would be hilariously awkward.

Photographer: SMILE, LADY TITANOS

Mare: *contemplates striking photographer with lightning*

(While I was at BEA I was without my drawing pad and only had pens and colored pencils. It was pretty fun going “back to basics”)