#jsamnfanart

[vetmosss]

[xandiland]

Happy Christmas Eve! Here’s my piece for this year’s JSAMN art exchange, graciously put together by @jsamnfanart​. The exchange has been a holiday highlight for me for the past two years, and I hope it continues for years to come!

This year, I was matched with @lord-uniscorn​, who got the gears turning with some great prompts. I ended up choosing “Segundus taking notes while Lady Pole is telling seemingly nonsense tales.”

I took a few creative liberties here. The quote is from an actual tale she began to tell as Segundus and Honeyfoot took notes. Of course, they weren’t taking those notes in the style of a medieval illumination, but on a few levels the style really spoke to me for this prompt.

First, an illuminated manuscript was often given such detail to show that a person, or their words, were of great importance and value. Although sometimes the pair struggled to understand what Lady Pole was trying to tell them, they never really saw her as insane. They recognized the magic surrounding her and were diligent to try to find the meaning in her words, even if they were looking in the wrong places. To them, she and her words were both important and valuable.

In addition, I feel like a lot of the Segundus storyline is about his search for illumination, specifically of finding out why magic wasn’t done in England anymore. These illuminated words symbolize his own great desire to be illuminated.

I chose the colors carefully, with the red roses being an obvious choice. The browns represent England and specifically the rooms where Lady Pole told her tales; next to Lost Hope, they seemed monochromatic and dull, but somewhat stable. Finally, the blues are for Lady Pole’s stolen innocence.

I did this all by hand with Sharpies and BiC markers, which you can probably tell due to the mistakes and unbalanced formatting. I wanted to make it as close to what Segundus would actually have been able to do as possible.

Finally, this style is new to me, especially when it comes to the flat, undetailed people of illuminated manuscripts. I’m always open to suggestions! But most of all, I hope you like it, @lord-uniscorn​.

[syntheticcathedral]

 Here’s my piece for the @jsamnfanart exchange - happy holidays, @erebusodora! One of your prompts was John Segundus in the King’s Roads; there he is. Lost, probably. Having fun, most certainly.

 Thanks to everyone who made this exchange possible! It’s been a minute since I did something JS&MN-related and it helped me remember how good this book is. ❤

[pileofsith]

Stephen Black: The King of Lost-Hope

Hear on the wind how the pendulum swings Feel how the winter succumbs to the spring Over the palisade morning will break Rise up to meet it, oh sleeper awake Gather the soldiers, the heir to enfold Crown him and give him a scepter to hold Sound every horn as the columns extend Up to the hill where the king will ascend Look to the sky where the sign will be shown Heaven and earth and the king on his throne (The Oh Hellos - Caeser)

Made for the ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ exchange over at @jsamnfanart

I just had to do the prompt of Stephen as the King of Lost-Hope because he’s amazing. I like to imagine him as growing into a confident and shrewd ruler in Faerie, long may he reign!

For @degenezijde, I do hope you’ll like it!

[profdrlachfinger]

John Segundus ~ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

This is my entry for the @jsamnfanart Christmas Fan Art Exchange and I was able to pinch hit for the magnificent @erebusodora!

Their prompt was “John Segundus on the King's Roads” and I somehow got stuck on the idea of him just being able to ... slip between the two spaces while studying.

I loved to pinch-hit for you, because you gave the JSAMN Fanbook its astonishing cover and you provide the fandom with your deep and eery art of all its characters! Hopefully 2017 has been a kind and creative year for you and I wish you all the best that there is for the upcoming 2018!

[profdrlachfinger]

AAAAAAH YOU‘RE MY SECRET SANTA! How lucky I am! Thank you so much for this marvellous picture, it captures the scene perfectly! ���😭😭🙏✨💕

And it was so nice meeting you on the Comic Salon in Erlangen! Happy Holidays to you, too! 🌟

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, @profdrlachfinger

I have been participating in the @jsamnfanart exchange this year and had the luck to be matched with @profdrlachfinger!! :D The prompt I’ve chosen was Jonathan Strange and Childermass sitting in front of a cozy living room fire and talking magic. 

I hope you like it, it was so nice working on this. I love this book <3

[cobblepottery]

My gift for @isilloth for the JS&MN gift exchange hosted by @jsamnfanart !!

The prompt was Jonathan and Arabella talking in Padua when Strange is in the Darkness. I knew instantly what I wanted to do even though I’m playing a bit fast and loose with canon here... but it’s COOL ok !!!

[samayla]

Here’s my piece for @jsamnfanart‘s 2018 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Fanart Exchange!

My match was @palavapeite, who requested John Uskglass building the King’s Roads - hope you like it, Sweetie! 

Happy Holidays!

[night-like-gold]

Here is my piece for the @jsamnfanart fan art exchange! My match was @ghostbees with the prompt “Cold Childermass and Segundus.” I had a ton of fun drawing this prompt and trying out new techniques!

[gellavonhamster]

I feel like with this website's new policies complicating our online/fandom experience lately, spreading more positivity would be appropriate, so I decided to put together a list of my favourite Tumblr blogs of 2018. Please remember that even if you're not on the list, you still brighten my dashboard, and I enjoy following you a lot. Happy New Year everyone - and check out these blogs, they are all worth following! 

In alphabetical order (mutuals italicized, including sideblogs):

A-H

@aseriesofunfortunatetexts @asoue-sideblog @beau--brummell @boligoliv @bs-au @calamity-bean @calebbrewster @clauduscumclaudo @darrenjolras @dearestvita @decadeance @eggscutespam @esmesqualor @favtine @goddamnshinyrock

I-P

@isamai @jaeneyre @jennathearcher @jsamnfanart @kazmtaz @kapitanova-n @kcrabb88 @lagren0uille @lemonysnidget @lesamis @lunavagantt @mybrilliantfandom @mycravatundone @nonbinaryfrancisabernathy @opheliablossom

Q-Z

@pahrdaily @pasternvk @penultimatesugarbowl @pilferingapples @pnienor @priscillajeanohare @softcritiques​ @speakingskies @sumacknot @tolstayas @unfortunate-stranger-losers @vfdstyle @virtualfindingsdocumented @wolfinthethorns

[woodmoss]

Here is Lascelles as Champion of the Castle of the Plucked Eye and Heart for @aludneva, my match in the @jsamnfanart exchange 2018. Happy Holidays, I hope you enjoy it! x

[vetmosss]

in woods during the war

[mrgabel]

Woah! This turned out so wonderful and mysterious! One of many of my very favourite scenes in the books and you recreated it as vividly as I imagined! :D

Thank you so much!!! I am so delighted with it <3

Made for the Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell exchange by @jsamnfanart!

For @mrgabel, hope you’ll like it! My prompt was: “Stephen Black and the gentleman with the thistle-down hair in front of a mirror framed with fine ornaments, blue-ish, hazy light; the mirror revealing Stephen as a king.”

The wonderful scene in the book where they first meet has something darkly surreal to it, putting it mildly. So I made the scenery derelict and vaguely inhuman… The sort of room where you can’t be entirely certain that the furniture won’t take it into its mind to attack you.

As to why the fairy gentleman has only his reflection visible - he’s only halfway in the human world and I doubt he worries overmuch about such trifles as keeping up with reality, anyway.

[profdrlachfinger]

John Segundus & John Childermass ~ John Squared

This is my entry for the @jsamnfanart Christmas Fan Art Exchange. Thank you again for organizing this year, too! :3

My match was @apidologist and their prompt was “Childermass and Segundus bickering/teasing (romantic or not)” and I really enjoyed it because those two were on of my JSAMN OTPs! <3

I really do hope you like your picture and I wish you a wonderful Christmas and an amazing year 2018!

[calamity-bean]

Presenting my piece for the @jsamnfanart 2017 fanart exchange! I was matched with @sharkhette / @sharkdraws, who requested “Childermass and Segundus surrounded by roses, with ravens in the flowers.” I absolutely loved this prompt, and I hope you like my take on it!

[ghostbees]

My piece for @calamity-bean as part of the lovely @jsamnfanart Yule exchange. A “happy Mr Segundus” who is quite looking forward to spring while still enjoying the sprout harvest! Hope you like it!