#and was like near their dorm

[horsescary]

tbh its not that difficult to win a debate if you do like at least some amount of research before hand and say a lot of bullshit confidently

[grmpgm]

[sideblogdotjpeg]

i am not immune to launchpad sol and albin thoughts

[e-adlirez]

The art style of Cloud Castle is absolute ass bro why are their eyes so big

Idk man it just looks.... off

I wish they brought back the og art style like Blue Scarab Hunt because that was gorgeous

Well if you’re referring to the book's artstyle as a whole, then calm down buddy the illustrations as a whole are pretty good all things considered (believe me some of the illustrations in the later books are waaaaayyyyy iffier)

But if you are referring to Danilo Barozzi’s illustrations in the book then uhhhhh… yeah I don’t blame you, I didn’t like the big anime irises either, she didn’t cook with this one,,,

The interesting thing is Barozzi also did pieces for Secret of the Snow and those looked fine (she did well enough that I have to squint to determine which ones were done by her). My guess is either she did a lot of the illustrations for the latter half of SotS and we just got used to it, or it’s because the artstyle of special editions 2 and 3 were more… experimental? Books 4 onwards developed a very specific… look for the artstyle that adhered very closely to the main book illustrations of Spanish Dance Mission onwards, thus the illustrators had to follow suit, resulting in whatever looks off to look especially off.

(Even with this set of pictures, I’m only about 70% sure these are Barozzi’s because of how alike yet different the styles are from each other in the book. The first one could be Barozzi’s, but it could also be Giuseppe Facciotto’s, since he also did illustrations for SotS and his stylization means he sometimes puts the eyes really close to each other in a way that’s weird but still makes sense somehow.) On the contrary, books 2 and 3 (and I would probably even include book 1 there) had a more experimental look to the illustrations, which seems to be based more on (and this is just a theory of mine) Giuseppe Facciotto’s iconic work for the covers of Mouseford Academy books 2-12, 14, 15 and 17 in the English books (he did waaayyy more covers for the Italian Mouseford books— he was basically the cover guy for the Mouseford books for a WHILE) as well as the books from Spanish Dance Mission to Lost Letters. If you’re wondering why those covers go as hard as they do, then now you know why.

(These aren’t all of Facciotto’s works for the covers we know in English but you can see that he popped off <3)

But yeah as you can see with special editions 2 and 3, the art direction seems to be heavily inspired by Facciotto’s artstyle.

However, when Barbara Pellizzari’s works became the aesthetic poster child of the books’ brand, that was reflected in the illustrations and how their aesthetic changed, as seen in the main books and how they look currently, special editions 4-9, and the Treasure Seekers trilogy.

This new profile thing of the girls? This was done by Pellizzari (coloring was done by Flavio Ferron), and thus it became the main reference for how the girls look in the book’s illustrations.

And it’s not just in the general direction to the artists for how to draw the Thea Sisters, but also in the direction given to the colorists. Alessandro Muscillo was the colorist for the special edition books since book 1 and the Treasure Seekers trilogy, and you can see that the direction for the style varied through books 1-3, like maybe direction was experimenting with the mood the illustrations were to convey, beginning with the cartoony and bright colors of book 1, easing into the more grounded and layered palettes of books 2 and 3

Then book 4 was when they transitioned to using digital art /j

I jest, but seriously book 4 was the debut of the coloring style we end up keeping for the rest of the special editions and for all of Treasure Seekers, which is very… bright :D

(I would show more picture examples but I manually took pictures of my physical copies for the Cloud Castle and SotS illustrations and gwuh I’m too lazy to grab my entire collection just to take pictures,,)

Bright as in like… the colors are very defined and saturated. I dunno how to describe it, but when you see it, you get what I mean. It’s very bright and pretty and colorful and it stands out. There are still variations that happen on occasion (Star Fairies in particular uses a good dose of airbrush for the lighting and shadow effects, and Crystal Fairies looks like someone had a bit of fun using sparkle brushes), but other than that, it’s very bright. I don’t hate it, but I do acknowledge that yeah, if I was introduced to the series when it had fully transitioned to the new style, I never would’ve gotten into the series in the first place, because the older books had something that didn’t make it feel specifically catered to girls. The colors were bright, but not too bright. Colorful, but unified. They weren’t that complicated, and they didn’t have to be because the colorists (plural, there were at least 3 per book once upon a time) were popping the hell off with the colors they were given. But y’know, the newer books’ consistent style did give me a good spot to practice drawing mouse furries so I’m not complaining too much about the newer style, haha.

(Tiny baby E’s (it’s literally from 2020 what’re you on about mate) her first mouse Violet drawing using Barbara Pellizzari’s artstyle in Treasure Seekers 1 as an anatomy guide!!)

With that said tho, yeah I miss the old books -m- dunno if it’d fit the aesthetic of the special editions but m a n we could’ve had it and it probably would’ve looked cool

Also the illustrations go way harder in the older books, like Prince's Emerald? I've talked about Prince's Emerald and how it goes hard before, and I still stand by it and say that it does in fact still go hard

Maybe it won't fit the uh splash of color they gave the hardcovers, but imagine they grabbed Giulia Basile's coloring work for the graphic novels and used that as sort've a basis for the coloring style of the hardcovers. Not exactly the same-- would probably still add a touch of whimsical watercolor and/or paint to the very cel-shaded style, but we could've had something pretty dope -m-

Anyway that's my ramble simultaneously defending the hardcovers' artstyle and reminiscing on what could've been haha

[enbysiriusblack]

remus tends to get very quiet around strangers, but with his friends he nonstop rambles. he has no clue what he's saying, but he's talking a mile a minute and switching between various languages without realising

[kickbutts-singsongs]

You would not believe your eyes

If two really stupid guys

Barged into your dorm at 12:30am

[fizzytoo]

adrien... friends with benefits? STAND UP ‼️

[marlynnofmany]

I've been working on making a notes document for my own use, for the next time I need to format a book. It always seems simple at first, then more and more little annoyances pop up like a game of literary whack-a-mole. I'm hoping to make a more streamlined checklist of what things to do in which order.

I started on this document when I started formatting the current project (the yearly anthology for my local writers' club). It was very neat and orderly at first.

It was not by the end.

The end is all things like "consider doing the next book with the dang widows & orphans thing turned off" and "….aaaaaaaugh I didn’t update the TOC numbersssssss."

It's like one of those before and after photosets of someone's first day of college compared with their first day of finals.

[todayisafridaynight]

getting wigs for characters with the same hair color as myself make me feel like the biggest dumbass around but youd have me fucked thinking im burdening myself with daigos 2000's emo cut just for a weekend

[smile-files]

wanting to make a pretend-play object show featuring jellycat amuseables is just an excuse to get more jellycat amuseables. which i'm not arguing with

[1eos]

thoughts on leo and shownu being in a musical together?? imo they’re both the best of the best 👏🏻

thoughts? ummmmm *rummaging around in my purse* i think leo looks hot in this outfit ☝🏾

[screamingay]

hate when i think abt someone just like once in passing during the day and suddenly my whole dream is abt that person. we havent been friends or spoken for like 2 years i dont wanna imagine us all buddy buddy again!!

[blood-loving-leech]

throwback to the time at summer camp i was looking out a second story window and a bunch of guys in the hall below were pretending to meow like cats and then there was an actual cat outside and i was like “oh my god look there’s a cat!!” and i heard them all laughing because they thought i thought they were actually cats and i was like “no look! there is a literal actually cat down there”

behold: cat

[dayurno]

what kind of music/artists do you think kevin listens to? now i could be crucified for this but i feel like he could get down to some radiohead. like idk i also feel like he’s a freak that could just be really into ambient noise kinda shit too.

AH good question honestly the author said before kevin listens to classic music which is i think the world's biggest autism steorotype you could find beyond sheldon from the big bang theory but i actually agree with her. somewhat. i think kevin likes irish traditional music and classical music and bossa nova and the opera and (occasionally) a good show tune. i have to admit i know nothing about radiohead but my best friend is a big fan so i'm inclined to say kevin would like it! i think in general he'd enjoy acoustic songs of any kind..... i even lowkey agree with you about the ambient noise because i don't think kevin would care about the lyrics. he just likes the harmonies and the care and the competence needed to handle an instrument :)

it's canon he hates EDM which i think is really funny but honestly during his times @ edens it didn't seem he cared that much and even had fun. kevin just likes noise honestly. i think the nest never had much space for music and he likes to be in a place where noise isn't only common but expected (i.e: music, the cousins' video games, neil tinkering in the kitchen, laughter from the bedroom, an exy game playing from the background)

[discoidal]

ate a burger and fries and a liter of coke and it was so good and i was so sick and so sad that briefly i. u know what im not gonna make a joke abt americans i just want yall to know that we can make it if we have burger on our side

[actual-corpse]

I'm not afraid of becoming disabled for vanity reasons.

I'm afraid because this world isn't built for disabled people.

I'll be confined to my home because of the lack of public transit. Or I'll be stuck having to trust people to go out of their way to assist me.

Airplanes will destroy my expensive equipment.

I might not be able to use public restrooms.

There's nothing wrong with disability itself...

It's the world around us. It's so hostile.