#good omens colouring pages

[theravenmuse]

The artists of the @goodomensafterdark community are proud to present a winter themed colouring book for your enjoyment!

Download below and don’t be afraid to share your coloured pages!

printable pdf

png files for digital colouring

Thanks to our contributing artists: @bingothedingo666 @floofyraptor-art-and-writing @bjs4bildad Blue_McFly @onedappercat @daneecastle @isiaiowin @vavoom-sorted-art

And thanks to @theonewiththeshippinggoogles for throwing our pages together

[avoicebehindthestars]

TIAL&INGO ch11 - This Is Real (a colouring page)

As promised, here's another colouring page for my beloved fandom's enjoyment! :D

Once again, it's for one of @phoen1xr0se's brilliant works - There Is a Light & It Never Goes Out, chapter 11 to be specific.

(Obsessed? Who, me?)

As previously, you are all welcome to help yourselves to this colouring page! Please don't erase my signature and credit me if you post your coloured version anywhere. A comment and some kudos on AO3 will be much appreciated!

But you know what would be the most awesome thank-you you could possibly offer? Donating to PhoenixRose's crowdfunder! She's a gem to this fandom, an inspiration to so many of us, and a joy to even more. And this time we can do something for her in return!

@goodomensafterdark If you'd be so kind as to do your thing ;)

[beastsovrevelation]

@seraphhiim I was recently reminded of this one, and I firmly believe it's one of the few the Harpy doesn't completely despise. Even though she thinks the cross on the spear is stupid. 🤣

And the longer the stare at it, he kind of does resemble a male version of her 👀

[cavorta]

Today, I colored one of my own coloring pages and yes, I did a bit of pride colors for the backs of the books in the shelves. 🏳️‍🌈 The coloring page can be downloaded for free in my Deviant Art gallery in high resolution, so that you can print it: https://www.deviantart.com/andreacavorta/art/Aziraphale-and-Crowley-Coloring-Page-978847827

The coloring page is based on this photo:

[kailoros]

Hiy sketchbook pages

Vienna comic con was very fun :))

Also when u need to do smth with ur hand while listening to an audiobook, highly recommend hand studies

[verdantvulpus]

WIP Wednesday- Tracy Mosaic!

This will go up on my Patreon first once it’s finished, but I’ll post the lower res version here a month later assuming I actually remember to do so (unintelligible grumbling about executive disfunction)

[nadiaidan]

Here’s the lineart for idk a colouring page haha

this is prob my best fanart yet i’m so proud afhghafaga

[captainfantasticalright]

In 1985, one of the only persons interested in an interview with a “new” writer called Terry Pratchett, after his publication of the Colour of Magic, was one Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman was writing for Space Voyager at the time. "The Colour of Pratchett" was the name given here:

It ran exactly one page inside the June/July issue of that year. The interview took place in a Chinese restaurant in London.

Here is Neil many years later holding that issue. You can see it here if you want. Warning: extremely emotional video.

Neil arrived wearing a grey homburg hat. “Sort of like the ones Humphrey Bogart wears in movies” he later wrote. (Before saying that in fact he did not look like him, but like someone wearing a grown-up’s hat). Terry Pratchett, photo courtesy of one @neil-gaiman, was in a Lenin-style leather cap and a harlequin-patterned pullover. At this point, Terry was already a hat person, although not that hat.

Terry offered Neil this : "An interview needn't last more than 15 minutes. A good quote for the beginning, a good quote for the end, and the rest you make up back at the office"*. (Terry Pratchett had worked many years in journalism by this point ).

But the meeting went terribly well. The two of them realized they had "the same sort of brains". So well indeed, that in 1985, Neil had shown Terry a file containing 5282 words, exploring a scenario in which Richmal Crompton's William Brown had somehow become the Antichrist. Was a collaboration in the cards as of that moment? Not really. But Terry found in Neil someone to whom he could send disks of work in progress and to whom he could pick up the phone sometimes when he hit a brick in the road of his writing.

Terry loved it and the concept stayed in his mind. A couple of years later, he rang Neil to ask him if he had done any more work on it. Neil had been busy with The Sandman, he had not really given it another thought. Terry said, "Well I know what happens next, so either you sell me the idea or we can write it together". **

On collaborating together:

Here is a video of Sir Terry saying why he chose to collaborate with Neil, another video talking about the technical difficulties of writing a book when the two of them where miles apart ,and some pages from Interzone Magazine Issue 207 published December 2006:

An Interview with Sir Terry Pratchett and his works- and Neil Gaiman, where he shortly addresses the process of writing Good Omens.

Terry shortly mentions,

“Neil doesn't rule out another book with me and he was good to write with...yep, it could happen. With anyone else? I don't know, but probably not.?”

Neil says,

"Terry took that initial 5,000 words of mine and ran it through the computer (because I’d lost the files in a computer crash) and made it the first 10,000 words, and it was definitely Good Omens at that point. Neither one thing nor the other, but a third thing.”

"I think Terry could do a very good impersonation of me if he needed to, and I could do a very good impersonation of him; so we knew the area of the Venn diagram in which we were working. But mostly the book found its own voice very quickly. It helped that we were both scarred by the William books when we were kids...”

And as you know, unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri, the rest is history. That was the beginning of what would become William the Antichrist and later would get the name Good Omens:The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. (Title provided by Neil Gaiman and subtitle by Terry Pratchett).

More about the writing process:

Terry took the first 5,000 words and typed them into his word processor, and by the time he had finished they were the first 10,000 words. Terry had borrowed all the things about me that he thought were amusing, like my tendency back then to wear sunglasses even when it wasn't sunny, and given them, along with a vintage Bentley, to Crawleigh, who had now become Crowley. The Satanic Nurses were Satanic Nuns.

The book was under way.

We wrote the first draft in about nine weeks. Nine weeks of gloriously long phone calls, in which we would read each other what we'd written, and try to make the other one laugh. We'd plot, delightedly, and then hurry off the phone, determined to get to the next good bit before the other one could. We'd rewrite each other, footnote each other's pages, sometimes even footnote each other's footnotes. We would throw characters in, hand them off when we got stuck. We finished the book and decided we would only tell people a little about the writing process - we would tell them that Agnes Nutter was Terry's, and the Four Horsemen (and the Other Four Motorcyclists) were mine.

From the introduction to William the Antichrist:

“In the summer of 1987 several odd ideas came together: (..)I found myself imagining a book called William the Antichrist, in which a hapless demon was going to be responsible for swapping the wrong baby over, and the son of the US Ambassador would be completely undemonic, while William Brown would grow up to be the Antichrist, and the demon would need to stop him ending the world. The unfortunate demon, whom I called Crawleigh, because Crawley was a nearby town with an unfortunate name, would have to sort it all out as best he could.

It felt like a story with legs.

Terry took the 5,000 words, and rewrote them, calling me to tell me what he was doing and what he was planning to do. The biggest thing he was going to do, he told me, was split the hapless demon into two characters – a would-be-cool demon in dark glasses (which was, I think, Terry’s way of making fun of me, a never-actually- cool journalist in dark glasses) who had renamed himself Crowley, and a rare-book dealer and angel called Aziraphale, who would embody all the English awkwardness that either of us could conceive.”

William the Antichrist being a direct inspiration of the 1976 film The Omen. If the baby swap had just been a little bit messier and the kid had gone off somewhere else he would have grown up as somebody else. “And then there was a beat and I thought, I should write it, it will be called William the Antichrist” says Neil. ***

“The first draft of Good Omens was a William-book. It was absolutely in every way it could be a William book. It had Violet Elizabeth Bott, it had William and the Outlaws, it had Mr. Brown”.

Over time they realized that they would have more creative freedom if they in their own words filed off the serial numbers. William and the Outlaws becoming Adam and the Them.

But the spirit of Just William was never far away.

The joy for Neil was to construct “perfectly William sentences”. The one when Anathema tells Adam that she has lost the Book, and he tells her that he has written a book about a pirate who became a famous detective and it is 8 pages long… that’s “a William sentence”.

If you want to read more details about William The Antichrist, here are some slides I made.

Good Omens was also inspired by a particularly antisemitic moment in The Jew of Malta and John le Carre's spy novels. (Neil’s ask)

 Then I was reading The Jew of Malta by Kit Marlowe, and it has a bit where the three (cartoonishly evil) Jews compare notes on all the well-poisoning and suchlike they’d done that day, and as a Jew who never quite gets his act together, it occurred to me that if I were the third Jew I’d just be apologizing for having failed to poison a well… And suddenly I had the opening of a book. It would be called William the Antichrist. And it would begin with three Demons in a graveyard… (x).

“When we finished the book we estimated that the words were 60% Terry’s and 40% mine, and the plot, such as it was, was entirely ours.” -Neil Gaiman

"Neil and I had known each other since early 1985. Doing it was our idea, not a publisher's deal." "I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Good Omens. It was fairly easy to keep track of because of the way we sent discs to one another, and because I was Keeper of the Official Master Copy I can say that I wrote a bit over two thirds of Good Omens. However, we were on the phone to each other every day, at least once. If you have an idea during a brainstorming session with another guy, whose idea is it? One guy goes and writes 2,000 words after thirty minutes on the phone, what exactly is the process that's happening? I did most of the physical writing because: 1) I had to. Neil had to keep Sandman going -- I could take time off from the DW; 2) One person has to be overall editor, and do all the stitching and filling and slicing and, as I've said before, it was me by agreement -- if it had been a graphic novel, it would have been Neil taking the chair for exactly the same reasons it was me for a novel; 3) I'm a selfish bastard and tried to write ahead to get to the good bits before Neil. Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever -- by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. By agreement, I am allowed to say that Agnes Nutter, her life and death, was completely and utterly mine. And Neil proudly claims responsibility for the maggots. Neil's had a major influence on the opening scenes, me on the ending. In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock." "Yes, the maggot reversal was by me, with a gun to Neil's head (although he understood the reasons, it's just that he likes maggots). There couldn't be blood on Adam's hands, even blood spilled by third parties. No-one should die because he was alive." -("Terry Pratchett : His World”)

(Here are some slides of mine where I go into some other details concerning the origins of Good Omens).

Another wonderful insight with Rob Wilkins in "The Worlds of Terry Pratchett".

*Quote: from Terry Pratchett A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins, but said by Terry of course.

** All the quotes, facts listed here : see above.

***all other quotes by Neil Gaiman from various interviews and asks I’ll link.

[easternbluenovellist]

Ima start with a piece I'm very happy with.

Current Hyperfixation is Good Omens, so my personnal journal has to go through GO themed decoration of course!

I make a page for each month, and here is June.

A bit crowded but I spent a good chunk of time on it (most of it being a full afternoon watching Season 2 in the background)

It's watercolours and colour pencils with gold and white gel pens for the details.

Hopes you like it! ❤️

Edit :

I posted some pics of the sketches for this piece for those interested there.

[earthtooz]

earth do you have any spare alhaitham thoughts 🥺 thinking ab him a little extra hard tonight 😵

nothing but fluff, reader and al-haitham are engaged, so much banter.

"What do you think about inviting Nahida to our wedding?"

Al-Haitham looks at you incredulously, blinking slowly to register your question. You know a lengthy discussion is imminent when he uncrosses his leg, a habit of his whenever he needs to prepare for a conversation that requires most of his attention.

"You don't mean Lesser Lord Kusanali, do you?" He asks and you nod, as if it is typical to invite a god to one's wedding. "Dear, do you understand what you are asking right now?"

"I do," you sit down beside him, Zaytun peach in one hand and a small knife in the other, cutting up slices that you feed him.

"Then do you realise how ludicrous your question is?"

"I think you are overcomplicating it."

His book snaps shut. "Am I? Or is it appropriate because you just suggested inviting an archon to our very ordinary wedding?"

"You still think you're ordinary after overthrowing a corrupt government and being promoted by said archon?"

"You're crazy," Al-Haitham murmurs, shaking his head with an affectionate smile, one that he always likes to conceal by pressing a kiss to your cheek.

You poke his side gently. "Then we are cut from the same cloth."

"That does not diminish your madness."

Still, you persist. "Well, you haven't said anything in response to my suggestion."

"I called you crazy."

"You haven't said anything I want to hear."

Once again, he sighs, but the noise is too airy to hold any true malice. "Even if I reject your idea, you would personally go to the Sanctuary of Surasthana and deliver the invite yourself."

Instead of answering, you merely feed him another slice of the Zaytun peach, smile growing more and more mischievous.

There is a reason Al-Haitham wants to spend the rest of his life with you. The bouts of delightful juvenility paints endless blotches of colour on his plain canvas, carving a certain feeling of warmth and admiration in his chest that no one else has managed to recreate.

No one compares to you, and he's certain no one ever will because even after all these years of knowing and loving you, every moment he spends with you is as priceless as divine knowledge. Even when you ask ridiculous questions that perplex him greatly.

"How do you even deliver messages to the Sanctuary of Surasthana?" You wonder.

A kiss to your temple halts your thinking. "Let's find out another time. How did this idea of inviting Nahida spring about?"

You shrug. "I was merely thinking back. She's always been so thoughtful and kind to her subjects, even when the Akademiya hid her from us. Then the idea of inviting her made itself quite at home."

"I see," he hums. "Ever so thoughtful."

"Maybe it's a good omen for our partnership to invite an archon. She won't have to bring a present, her presence alone is enough."

Al-Haitham huffs. "My faith in our relationship exceeds that of a good omen, but I agree."

"Aww, you love me that much?"

"Do you still doubt me?"

"Still?" You parrot. "Darling, I've never doubted you."

"I'd like to contest that. Remember when you were vehemently against me resigning as the Acting Grand Sage?"

You feed him another slice. "It gave me bragging rights! Who else could claim that their hot boyfriend-now-fiancé was the Grand Sage?"

"So you prefer when I'm away at the Akademiya working tirelessly from dawn to dusk?"

"Well, no," you set the knife and pit of the peach down before throwing your arms around his neck, pressing yourself close to him. "I prefer having you all to myself."

Al-Haitham huffs triumphantly and you stay pressed close to him for a while, watching as he returns to his novel. He flips back to his exact page despite the lack of a bookmark.

"I'll be sure to send the invite to Nahida tomorrow."

"Alright."

Two days later, you wake to a message written in beautifully precise handwriting on Al-Haitham's blackboard.

'Can Wanderer be invited too? - Nahida'

© EARTHTOOZ 2024, do not steal, translate, repost my fics and do not recommend my fics onto any other site.

[avoicebehindthestars]

Oh, wow, my colouring page got included as an ongoing event :D And without me even applying! @goodomenscalendar tysm for spreading my idea! :D

What is this? | Submit your own event or tag us! | Be sure to click through to the original post for the latest updates! Last edited: June 1st.

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Good Omens Spooky Bang | Sign-ups close June 10

A spooky Good Omens bang to kick off the autumn season! Whether it's Aziraphale pumpkin-picking, a pumpkin spice latte coffee shop AU, or Hell hosting a Halloween bash, you're invited to the Spooky Bang! Both SFW and NSFW content allowed. - @spooky-bang-good-omens -

Good Omens Fairy Tale Bang | Artist Sign-ups close June 15

This is a Good Omens Mini Bang themed entirely around Fairy Tales! Writing your own or adapting a favorite! All versions of all Fairy Tales and Mythology are welcome! Both SFW and NSFW content allowed. - @fairytalegobang -

The Ineffable Con 5 Zine | Submissions close June 15

Whether you’re a fanfic writer, artist or cosplayer, we want to celebrate your contributions to this ineffable fandom with the TIC5 Zine. SFW and NSFW content allowed! - @theineffablecon - Twitter - Website -

Ace Omens Zine: Volume 2 | Pre-orders close June 15

A Good Omens zine focused on ace representation. Featuring SFW content! - @aceomenszine - BigCartel -

In Love With My Car Zine: Volume 2 | Fundraising ends June 20

A zine dedicated to the vehicles in Good Omens. The zine is free to download with the option of donating to the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Featuring SFW and NSFW content! - @in-love-with-my-car-zine - itch.io -

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A SFW digital charity zine that celebrates the varied and wonderful cast of Good Omens––human, demon, angel, and anything in between! Free to download or with a donation to National Network to End Domestic Violence. Featuring SFW content. - @abczine - Twitter - Instagram - Bluesky -

Monster Bangers Bang | 18+ | Interest Check open now!

Calling all monster-fuckers! A Good Omens bang devoted to monster banging. - @gomonsterbangersbang -

It Ends As It Began Coloring Page | At your leisure!

Inspired by the fic Don't Fall Away From Me by PhoenixRose314-- This is a colouring page by @avoicebehindthestars! I'm serious, if you feel like colouring it in (and can put up with the utter mess I've made of the plants xD), grab at will. I want you to! :D - Tumblr Post - AO3 Post -

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Ineffable Eras 4: Before the Beginning | Preorders open June 24

This is our largest volume yet, featuring 42 artists and 16 authors, creating works about Creation, Heaven's War, The Fall and Aftermath, and the Garden of Eden! Both physical and digital editions available-- digital version includes screen reader text! Shipping from United States, expected late September or early October. - @ineffableeraszine - Twitter - Instagram - Bluesky -

[elenthyaolyenths]

"Wake up, I'm back..."

This one was a WIP, find the final full-colour version here! Thanks for your support on this WIP version, waiting for you HERE

Still a W.I.P!!!! Here I am, searching my own coloring style...

More informations about my lineart process on my Ko-Fi page (free access!)

Thanks to @goodomensafterdark and you all amazing goblins ❤️‍🔥

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[beastsovrevelation]

How the fuck does one call this color of hair?..

"Dark red" doesn't work in a description that's vivid, and color heavy. It's... Amber? I've seen amber that dark, but, for some reason, the word makes me think of a lighter colour. Copper, maybe...

See? I am causing myself problems. Worst of all, I'm writing a scene that's who the Hell knows after how many chapters, because it's clawing at me.

[cavorta]

All of my free coloring pages can now be found here in my Deviantart Gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/andreacavorta/gallery/89061292/free-coloring-pages-downloadable

All downloadable, in high resolution (300 dpi) so that you can print them. The size is approx. 21 x 29,7 cm. Images: Brigid, the Celtic goddess Odin, the Norse god Loki, the Norse deity Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens "The Witch Fire"

[avoicebehindthestars]

Gods and pantheons, I'm an idiot! 😂 I realised TODAY that I'd forgotten to tag @goodomensafterdark

FTL - The Light Finds You (fanart)

(@klikandtuna I hope you have some feels left to spare today 'cause, um, after over a month I finally finished a thing. Also, I might've been the anon who asked.)

I know the craze is all about SCB these days, but I can't help it that I'm still smitten helpless by Find the Light. If you've read it, you know why this scene still lives rent-free in my head.

PS. Would anyone like this as a colouring page? Let me know, I'm happy to share the lineart! :D

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Niel,

I'd like to share a funny little coincidence that made my day some time ago.

My almost 11 years old daughter is a sweet and incredibly imaginative child who wants to be a writer when she grows up. I took my kids to Venice a couple of months ago where we bumped into a little shop that sold high quality leather-bound notebooks. I bought one with blank pages and bound with red leather for my her as she wanted a pretty and special notebook for her first book manuscript. The people at the shop were very nice and even printed her initials with gold colour at one of the corners.

Now imagine my joy when, a couple of days ago, I was listening to your interview by Tim Ferriss and you mentioned that your highest quality norebook was a leather-bound notebook from Venice! Such a delightful coincidence which brought a lot of joy to my kid (she is a big fan of the Good Omens TV series by the way).

Just figured that I'd throw that in the black hole of your inbox :)

Best and stay safe!

I'm sure they were the same notebooks...