#paul canavan

[geekynerfherder]

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Paul Scott Canavan.

[magicmalcolm]

Robber Of The Rich

[treeroutes]

what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark

In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson

The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood

The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon

'Bloom', John Langan

The Ruins, Scott Smith

The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell

'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson

The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley

The Ash-Tree, M.R. James

Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher

'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter

'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini

Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss

Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin

Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks

Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison

The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector

'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams

Apartment Building E, Malachi King

The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith

Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Nursery, Lewis Mallory

The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda

Semiosis, Sue Burke

The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly

Perennials, Bryce Gibson

Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary

The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson

Ordinary Horror, David Searcy

The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper

The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey

Seeders, A.J. Colucci

Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean

The Plant, Stephen King

Anthologies/collections :

The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry

Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward

Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher

Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller

'But fungi aren't plants' :

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight

Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay

The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley

'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling

Mungwort, James Noll

Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham

Notes :

all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;

list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;

if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;

not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).

[caught-a-dragonfly]

Dragonfly art process - part 1 | part 2

Been wanting to do this for a while! But boy was it hard to figure out what needs explaining and what doesn't, so if you'd like me to expand on anything here feel free to send me an ask!

Happy painting <3

Some resources below the cut

Loish has a lot of tutorials available on her Patreon

Devin Elle Kurtz has some great guides saved from her instagram stories (@/devinellekurtz over there)

Alexandria Neonakis has some cool talks on her youtube (particularly recommend the one about values)

Charlie Bowater still has a few process videos up on her youtube

James Gurney can never be recommended enough for traditional painting and all things theory (on youtube)

Claire Hummel also has some process videos on her youtube

Nicholas Kole's videos are also super informative. I think he even gives a course now

Paul Scott Canavan does these cool study buddy streams on twitch, where you can study together with other folks

[margaw]

Something I painted during Paul Scott Canavan's mentorship - such a great experience, I learned so much!<3

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[emilylorange]

Hiii, I was wondering, what's StudyBuddies?? I saw it on your post and haven't come across it before

StudyBuddies is a.... periodic twitch stream run by Paul Scott Canavan (https://twitter.com/abigbat). Paul's an industry artist that generously sets time aside to just help folks of all skill levels out.

Generally the format is he will pick a selection of images (movie stills, master paintings, still lives, clothed models, photographs, game screenshots, pets) and sit and paint one or two for about two hours, with the invitation for anyone interested to pick and paint (or sketch or model or whatever your medium is) alongside.

At the end of the two hour mark he collects the images made and shows them to the stream (this part is optional if you're shy). It's not a critique, he only ever brings positive energy to the showcase, no one is there to make anyone feel bad.

Generally he tries to run it Monday and Friday at 7pm GMT (which i believe is around 2pm Eastern for those in the US), however as a working adult he sometimes struggles with keeping that schedule. Best thing to do is to follow his twitter if you are interested, he typically posts about 8 hours before that he plans to stream and again when he goes live. Edit: I've been informed twitter no longer allows you to view posts if you don't have and account, so here is the direct link to twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/paulscottcanavan/

[rupparart]

The Dragon Age series has been one of my dream IPs to work on in my career, so for my portfolio development process I focused on that for my most recent piece. Painted as part of Paul Canavan's mentorship.

[damoclestheone]

Back in 2022 I ended up getting a mentorship with Paul Scott Canavan. He's a really great guy, and he taught me a ton of amazing stuff. This was the height of that. I really love how this turned out still, it's probably my favorite piece I ever did to this day.

Obviously, I've continued further with my more anime inspired work, but occasionally I love doing something more realistic like this.

[splendidcyan]

study buddies warm up from paul scott canavan's twitch stream, yippee

[turnupswritessometimes]

13 questions about books

Tagged by the wonderful @holographiccs - thank you! <3

1. The last book I read:

I finished reading Fright Bite by Jennifer Killick this morning - very good, very fun middlegrade horror. Each book has different mutated animals, and this time round it was rats! We love to see it!

2. A book I recommend

So many, but The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning. What if the puppets from Labyrinth/The Dark Crystal came to life in our world? Fun shenanigans! It's a real love letter to the Jim Henson company.

3. A book I couldn't put down

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Yes, it's only a hundred pages or so, but I read it in one sitting. Those boys!! Those boys and their relationships and coming of age! The ending!

4. A book I’ve read twice (or more)

The Black Magician Trilogy (I know I'm cheating) by Trudi Canavan. I love the world and the characters and the magic system. The Novice is the best one because of Dannyl's arc. (We love finding out you've been using magic to suppress the fact you're gay for literal years! I'm sinking my teeth into that plot line.)

5. a book on my to-be-read

I have nearly 100 on my Goodreads to read list, lol. But I'm very interested in These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. Romeo and Juliet but in 1920s Shanghai? Incredible!

6. a book i’ve put down

I don't often not finish a book, but 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Paul Alexander. You cannot make those kind of sweeping, certain claims about James Dean's life without proper referencing or a proper bibliography!

7. a book on my wishlist

'Poison in their Hearts' by Laura Sebastian, the final in the trilogy. Very Game of Thrones fantasy political intrigue, but with strong female characters who are actually well-rounded and well-written! And use their smarts in most situations! Very intrigued to see how it will all finish up.

(But I have the first two in paperback, so I really need to wait for this one to be in paperback too.)

8. a favorite book from childhood

Anything by Jacqueline Wilson, but I do have a soft spot for 'Candyfloss.' Wilson just has a way of capturing what it's like to be a child really authentically. I did also love that each chapter had a page of illustrations that fit together to hint about what was going to happen.

9. a book i would give to a friend

Lost Boy, by Christina Henry. A dark Peter Pan from Lost Boy Jamie(who wears a red pirate coat! Hint hint!)'s perspective that fits perfectly within the original book. It will make you cry!

10. a fiction book i own

Way too many...Descendent of the Crane by Joan He was one I hugely enjoyed. Very twisty Asian Fantasy with a really good romance and a great female lead.

11. a nonfiction book i own

Last Night at the Viper Room by Gavin Edwards. A really good biography of River Phoenix's life that's well researched and really highlights who he was. (And how weird everyone was about him!)

12. what i am currently reading

I'm slowly trudging my way through 'It' by Stephen King and 'Tinker Belles and Evil Queens' by Sean Griffin. Both are very good but Tinker Belles and Evil Queens requires a lot of thinking to get through. (And It has a lot of Kingisms to brace yourself for.)

13. what i plan on reading next

I've just collected 'Rumblefish' and 'That was Then, This is now,' by S.E. Hinton from the library, so I'll be devouring both of those over the next couple of days at work. I love the sense of time and place in them. There's a sparseness to the prose, and yet real depth in the characters.

I'm tagging @lizziebennetss (thank you for the follow btw! <3) and @howtotrainyourmerlin (if you feel like it)

[kollapsar]

3 hour Arcane screenshot study for Paul Canavan's Study Buddies stream! This painting wiped the floor with me but I have even more appreciation for the art of Arcane now.

[pulledrosepetals]

A Guild Wars 2 Art Stream with my fellow Partner Paul Canavan! [http://twitch.tv/guildwars2]

We will be drawing our Charr characters in our own respective styles! Come hang out! There will be Community Chest Giveaways. And if you haven’t yet gotten your Twitch drops, by watching you can claim these items! [LINK]

[phasepandemonium]

Id: mtg card skyline scout, illustrated by paul scott canavan. The art is of a man in a white hood and cape swinging from a rope through the buildings. The flavor text reads: "sometimes an angel passes by and gives me a nod, like, 'you're a daring one!' That always makes my day."

[phasepandemonium]

Art by Paul Scott Canavan for magic the gathering

チョウゲンボウ。 Common kestrel.

[i-mlosingyourmemory]

Allora:

Trilogia di Brent Weeks "L'angelo della notte" (uno dei miei preferiti se non il mio preferito)

Trilogia di Trudi Canavan "The black Magician" (molto bello anche questo)

Trilogia di Paul Hoffman "La mano sinistra di Dio" (Merita molto)

Se ci spostiamo in Italia comunque i soliti nomi sopra tra tutti Licia Troisi anche se la preferivo con La saga delle cronache del mondo emerso e delle guerre del mondo emerso e i Regni di Nashira.

Questi sono tra i più interessanti. Personalmente ti consiglio la prima trilogia. E' uscito di recente un altro libro a distanza di 10 anni se non di più solo in inglese. Ti assicuro che è un mondo che ti rimane dentro. Questo. Buona lettura qualunque cosa tu scelga.

Ti ringrazio 🌺

Di Licia Troisi ho letto anch'io le cronache del Mondo emerso molto bello anche se forse un po'prolisso!!

[wolf-at-dusk]

lovely commission of my scary himbo tiefling boy, Moth

Art by Paul Canavan!