#shallan/veil/radiant

[mintmutationx3]

tbh the stormlight archive wiki is an embarrassment. i was just reading the shallan article and it's literally written like a book report 😭😭😭😭 like wtf. coppermind supremacy

[zazarts]

Shallan/Veil/Radiant sketch 🌛🌝🌜

[starry-stormy-knight]

taken me ages but behold archive karecktors

adolin and maya beloved but also the most time consuming because i had to figure out how the hell i was going to do adolin's hair and not hate looking at it, and maya took me forever to figure out the colours lol. looked at so many references trying to figure out what dead vines should look like and what i would like it to look and i couldnt really find what i wanted lol. but what i went for was like really dried out and very very dead looking fibre. that wasnt too bad but trying to figure out her clothes that would look decent before and after she becomes a deadeye was hell for me an amateur colour theory understander lmao

i have drawn shallan before so she wasn't too difficult but i was truly torn about which version of pattern i wanted to show?? so i did a few of them hahah. i did a canon compliant version, alluding a bit to BE NOT AFRAID angel vibes. but im pretty passionate about ferrofluid-looking pattern as thats what i picture in my head (but i couldnt really find a good reference so i couldnt really do it well. it's also like, about the way it moves more than a still frame so extra challenge). and if you've seen my shallan art you know i. asdlkfjh. i originally pictured pattern as a QR code so i was compelled to continue it. @mistbjorn this one's for you because youre so right <3

syl i usually picture similar to kida in disney's atlantis when she merges with the crystal and you can see her scalp beneath her transparent hair, so thats the inspo for her. for the sylspear i designed it to look a bit like a caduceus as homage to kaladin's medical training and his dad, and like it's not that deep but i guess the swirly glowy bits are his duality and being torn between two worlds etc etc or you can just picture spren zipping about if you want lol like i definitely pictured syl was one but the other makes no sense

the kholins i dont have much to say since they were not part of my original plan hahaha but i couldn't help adding them too. i lowkey struggled to make them unique but also similar because family alksdjfhs i was sketching this around a time i did a lot of face studies so it was so whack and the colouring absolutely killed me so it is what it is asldkjaklsdjf

[luckyspren]

Radiant, Veil and Formless.

[starling-illu]

cosmere inktober 9: shielded

[madxmellon]

Cosmere Inktober day 9: Shielded

I went a little more abstract today and decided to draw Shallan + Veil + Radiant to show how each part of Shallan’s system works to keep her safe.

[imaginative-joy]

This is easily THE most niche fanart series I’ve ever drawn: Stormlight Archive meets Barbie!

I was thinking about how Adolin is basically the Ken of the main characters, and then I wanted to draw Barbie-themed posters of Shallan, Radiant, and Veil, and it all spiraled out of control from there.

Honestly, this was some of the most fun I’ve had drawing in a while (especially Kaladin lol). Also, it was really fun coming up with each of the poster subtitles 😂

(Prints available here!)

[pekgna]

"Chiaroscuro"

[chumsterfire]

This sums it up, I think.

[colwbear]

veil, shallan, and radiant from about a month ago!

i'm like 250 pages into rhythm of war and good GOD

[nerd-in-distress]

only one right answer

art by @lamaery

[piano-hoarder]

My jaw actually dropped when I read this.

Absolute genius 👌

[frogs-are-cool-but-so-is-medea]

shallan be like "oh no, I don't have the experience for this", "oh no I'm not ready for this" then pretend like she does, takes it to far and create an entire personality about it and be like "oh no I have multiple personality disorder" "oh no there goes my mental health"

[written-in-the-stars135]

Shallan

she do be lookin' a bit too relatable though week so I drew her and the gals

Im really proud of my side profilesher and Shallan and Veil's outfits

[riverbeatsaber]

Hello all! Here's a Stormlight Archive observation I'd like to share. Shallan's coping mechanisms are not:

❌ Veil

❌ Radiant

Veil, Radiant, and headmates in general are actually people! How would you feel if someone called you a coping mechanism or an unhealthy coping mechanism, or implied or outright said that you were not real? Yes, Veil and Radiant are characters, but there are also systems who exist in real life and can hear how you talk about them.*

To be fair, I know that for the first two books, Brandon Sanderson himself was not writing Radiant and Veil as their own people, and there is an argument to be made that he never fully pivoted away from that, but I believe/hope that we as a fandom can do better than him.

In addition, what Shallan's coping mechanisms are, from my observation:

Drawing, to distract herself from things that are stressing her out.

Being a scholar, especially in the earlier books.

Dissociation, which, interestingly, in the flashback chapters seems to be fully blanking out for a while, and in current time is written more as active repression (maybe so that Shallan can just decide not to repress her memories and achieve Character Development more easily? Not sure.)

This is kinda a sneak peak of a giant character analysis of Shallan that I've been doing for a while. I got stuck writing down quotes in Oathbringer, but I've been picking it up again recently. I hope to be posting more thoughts from that in the future:]

*I am the host of one of those systems who see y'all posting. just to make it clear

[king-of-the-oreo]

good old inktober of 2021