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TEAMWORK

What if Sakura was a rationalist? In my one-shot fanfic I reimagine Team 7's survival training on this basic premise. You can read it here (or here if you prefer AO3 to fanfiction.net)

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

Original title, I know. But I couldn't think of anything else. This drawing is based on an old sketch of mine of a girl with christmas ornaments in her hair. It's so old I can't remember if the original idea was mine or it I got it from somewhere else. At any rate, I redid everything but the ribbon-bell-baubles combo for this piece. The ringlets took ages both to draw, ink and colour, but don't they look lovely? :3 A merry christmas to all!  

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AUTUMN MOON

One evning in September, while driving home late, I saw the yellowest moon I'd ever seen. It was a striking sight that seemed peculiarly autumn-y, and set me to consider how the moon appears different in different seasons. I had the idea that I'd like to try to draw the seasonal aspects of the moon, and decided to post each drawing during the season it corresponds to. I only just managed that with this one, but even though yesterday we had the first snowfall of the season here in Norway, it is still technically autumn.

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EONA

A redone version of an old drawing. The background is the same, but the character is entirely redrawn. I changed her expression into something a lot less blank, and tried to make it better all-round. I've recently changed my way of doing lineart, and my colouring style too, to a certain extent, so the drawing became quite a lot more different than I expected. As with the original, trying to colour the dress and gloves so that the material looked like silk was by far the hardest part. I'm still not entirely satisfied ... but it looks better than before, at least. 

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HOUSE OF CARDS

This drawing was born from me thinking to myself: "I want to draw something REALLY DETAILED for once" (I have a habit of leaving a lot of big, open spaces in my drawings), and so I tried to do that with this one. Although it still didn't quite reach the heights of detailed wonder I aspired to, I came to the conclusion that adding anything more would just make it look cluttered. The characters are my own OCs Agnor and Nora (and their alter egos) from my story Drømmer og Jern ("Dreams and Iron").

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AGNOR

Another simple portrait painting, this time of my OC Agnor from my story Drømmer og Jern ("Dreams and Iron"). I just wanted to draw him. The hardest part of this drawing was probably doing the sideburns XD They're hard to draw, and I still don't think I got them completely right. Bu~ut I have a bit of a weakness for sideburns and that's why he's got 'em. I'm not sure about the highlights in the hair, either. Can't figure out what style I prefer for hair-highlights, that's the long and the short of it. Well, mostly short. Guess I'll keep experimenting.

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VEGA

A simple piece done just to visualize this OC I was working on, which I liked enough to colour. The background is a little weird, I know. She belongs in a gearpunk setting, so that's why there are gears ... Yeah, can't really think of anything more to say about this one XD

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THE MAN WHO OWNED THE WINDS

I tried to draw Kaladin Stormblessed, my favourite character from The Stormlight Archive. Once again, I found that drawing characters from books is HARD. I'm not sure this even looks like Kaladin to me, even though all the essential bits are there: The hair, the eyes, the scowl, the brands ... (I imagine this set during Words of Radience, as that's where the quote in the title is from. What he's wearing is tentatively the uniform of the Cobolt Guard -- really, I have no idea how to draw Rosharian fashions.) As a drawing I'm quite happy with it, though (I actually coloured it twice and this was the better version by far).

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LE MÉMOIRE DE BABEL

Third entry in my series of fanarts for The Mirror Visitor, this time for the third book, Le Mémoire de Babel (or The Memory of Babel). This one was actually the first one I drew out of the three I've done so war, and that's why it might seem a bit unpolished compared to the other two (Ophelia's running pose is especially awkward).

Haven't read the fourth book yet, so the fanart for that one will have to wait!

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LES DISPARDUS DU CLAIRDELUNE

Entry two in my "Mirror Visitor" fanart series, this time for Les Dispardus du Clairdelune (or The Missing of Clairdelune). This time the characters are Thorn and Ophelia in the center, and from the top, clockwise; Archibald, Farouk, Fox and Berenilde. Not quite as satisfied with the general layout here as on the previous. Ophelia also looks a bit different because on the previous one I went a little bit overboard on the hair details, while here I kept it simpler. Still reasonably satisfied with it, though.

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LES FIANCÉS DE L’HIVER

I read the first three books of Christelle Dabos' The Mirror Visitor-series a while back, and I absolutely loved it, so much so that I had to do an accompanying series of fanarts for it. This is for the first book, A Winter's Promise, (or in the original, Les Fiancés de l'Hiver, which is quite a lot more specific). Characters from top left, in clockwise direction, are Berenilde, Archibald, Ophelia, Fox, Gail and Thorn. As usual when I try to draw characters from books, I'm only halfway satisfied with the result -- trying to meld strong but vague mental images into actual pencil strokes to denote hair, eyes and expressions is hard -- but I tried to be as faithful to the book's descriptions as I knew how.

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For my first tumbler post ever, I present the Fiendfyre Phoenix! I was so struck with the mental image conjured up by the fiendfyre phoenix that appears in Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality that I just had to try my hand at drawing it. I LOVE phoenixes, and the concept of a dark one, like the antithesis of Fawkes, was just too tantalizing to pass up! Drawing it proved hard, however, since the phoenix is supposed to be really dark and yet clearly made of fire, so I had to sacrifice some of the darkness I wanted for proper flame effects ... and it doesn't quite match the image in my head now, but what drawing ever does? I originally wanted a certain person to appear in this drawing alongside the dark phoenix, but I had trouble visualizing them, and in the end I decided that at any rate, the bird would be more striking in a standalone image.