#tony diterlizzi

[oldschoolfrp]

A perky panpiper, one of the more cheerful characters traveling the planes from Sigil (Tony DiTerlizzi, AD&D 2e Planescape Campaign Expansion Planes of Chaos: The Travelogue, TSR, 1994)

[thestuffedalligator]

Anyways, The Spiderwick Chronicles was 100% responsible for me being as into fantasy as I am today, and trying to mimic the art of Tony DiTerlizzi was 1000% responsible for my art style, so this is a Tony DiTerlizzi appreciation post.

[victusinveritas]

"Portrait of a Young Tiefling", from the great Tony DiTerlizzi.

[chwiken]

3D Model of Eva Nine from The Search For Wandla.

[gilgalahad]

Tony DiTerlizzi

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || December || 4 || Favorite Childhood Book

[suzythesilkie]

Redesigning old creatures based on the Spiderwick Chronicle Field Guide

[orbona]

We finally got the a first look and more information on the upcoming WondLa series! Tony posted these images to his socials, along with a link to the official PR release.

We have release a date! It is set for June 28, 2024 on Apple TV+. It is slated for 7 episodes and will cover the first book.

Casting announcements!

- Jeanine Mason (“Roswell, New Mexico”) as Eva

- Teri Hatcher (“Desperate Housewives”) as Muthr

- Gary Anthony Williams (“TMNT: Out of the Shadows”) as Rovender

- Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) as Otto

- Chiké Okonkwo (“The Birth of a Nation”) as Besteel

- D.C. Douglas as Omnipod

- Alan Tudyk as Cadmus Pryde

[moonwaterstories]

Tony DiTerlizzi illustrations

-from: The Spiderwick Chronicles (book 1) by Holly Black

[amethystsoda]

Since we're talking about Tony DiTerrlizzi with the (hopefully temporary) cancellation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, I thought I'd share my class handouts on here--

I had the absolute honor of sitting in on his drawing class at GenCon 2015! We all drew beholder ideas after he gave us a full drawing tutorial for like 10-15 minutes.

[oldschoolfrp]

Into the Abyss -- in Zrintor, the Viper Forest, within Graz'zt's realm of Azzagrat (Tony DiTerlizzi, from AD&D 2e Planescape Campaign Expansion Planes of Chaos: The Travelogue, TSR, 1994)

[i-fell-in-a-hole]

the spiderwick chronicles mean so much to me and I genuinely would not be the same person without these books. I’ve read them so many times and arthur spiderwick’s field guide is never on my shelf too long, I still look at it all the time. needless to say I was very excited for the show! it was a lot different than the books, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it and I really hope it gets picked up for a second season!

thank you tony diterlizzi and holly black for my childhood <3

[sunshinedottv]

In The Search for WondLa when Rovender and Eva are mourning Muthr and he says he should have died instead of her makes me SCREAM. He says it should've been him because Muthr had a child to take care of 😭 FUCK

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Dragon Magazine #242 Cover Art by Tony DiTerlizzi

[lonesome-greenery]

as a kid, there were a few writers that I really enjoyed reading from:

brian jacques

c.s. lewis

trenton lee stewart

k.a. applegate

kate di camillo

tony di terlizzi

and i can pretty clearly see how these guys have influenced my writing

jacquesian school of writing -> describe the important things in vivid detail, give your characters accents and different ways of speaking, include songs and innocuous details, food is an important part of the world and don't think your characters can get away with not having at least one meal scene, treat every character with at least a modicum of compassion even if they're "pure evil"

lewis school of writing -> sometimes you just have to outright say something and it can't all be subtextual, leave certain things up to the reader's imagination, if you can write in a matter of fact way then people might just end up believing that your writing has at least a kernel of truth to it even if it is bizarre, you can have a paragraph long sentence using semicolons and em dashes but that doesn't necessarily mean you should, you can and should convey a lot about a character in just a couple of short sentences

stewart school of writing -> puzzles are really fun to include in your writing, kids have important stories that need to be told and they're often underestimated which is part of what makes them perfect for particular adventures that adults don't find as important, you can give your characters a 'thing' and still have them read as characters and not caricatures

applegate school of writing -> hey kid, you ever heard of body horror? that's going to stick with you and your writing for a hell of a long time before you figure out why it's there, complex political backgrounds to stories and child soldiers with a huge sense of responsibility but frightened of ever revealing that to anyone? that'll be there too, and you might not be ready for it yet, but there's definitely going to be some queer subtext to your stories before you realize that and make it overt later on

dicamillo school of writing -> sometimes a story is about grief and change and that's going to make the whole story melancholy even though there's so much joy to it too, have young characters, but don't be afraid to have older characters who genuinely care about them present too, the landscape and world of your story can and should tie into the themes of what you're writing, it's good to write your characters having a good cry, food again, but in a very particular thematic way of showing up again and again

diterlizzi school of writing -> fairy tales and stories are a whole lot of fun to play around with, you can draw what your characters look like and have a lot of fun with that and maybe even get that slipped into your books, sibling relationships are very important to include, let bad things happen to your characters and have that have longstanding consequences in the narrative, sometimes your world building can get a bit bizarre so have some fun with it and let it get ugly sometimes, if you don't want to make a conlang, figure out some universal translator to make the different languages you wish you could include at least implied

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Round 2, Poll 2: The Spiderwick Chronicles vs Goosebumps