#scarvenartist

[tsfennec]

A lynx gryphon, inspired by @scarvenartist's Ganrok. :D

#it has been WAY too long since I've actually drawn a gryphon #I used to do them all the time #but I kind of had to figure it out all over again here lol #artists #art #artblr #scarvenartist #griffin #gryphon #mythical creatures #lynx #eagle #writing #writers #writeblr

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

👗 Merry Christmas!!!!

#the fairy godmother's wardrobe #scarvenartist

[isfjmel-phleg]

A recent commission from @scarvenartist, who chose to draw my OC Delclis!

Dedicated (perhaps obsessive) young botanist who gets roped into the worst job ever: monarch of a major world power. His mind is a thousand miles away cataloging and analyzing specimens. The expression here captures it perfectly!

#scarvenartist #scarvenartist art #The Blackberry Bushes art #Delclis Phemister #a formal uniform was considered #but depicting him in his element instead was a good choice #he's at his most characteristic here #thank you again! this is fantastic and I can't wait to get it framed with the others

[fictionadventurer]

Every time I hear "Carol of the Bells" this year, I think about how the original version is a Ukrainian New Year's song about a swallow that flies into the house and declares a plentiful year ahead, and that this feels extremely relevant to @scarvenartist's Shapeshifter Stories.

#also apparently it's associated with epiphany #according to wikipedia #the shapeshifter stories #an illusion of wings #scarvenartist

[lady-merian]

I commissioned @scarvenartist for art of Caliam at the forge, and I’ve been grinning every time I saw it ever since she finished. Even with so much going on the week I got it, (wifi was in and out at home, mostly out, and work seemed especially tiring) I can’t believe I haven’t posted this till now because I love it so much.

#Thank you again Kelsi it’s perfect #Caliam #Not my art #Scarvenartist #Caliam approves 100% #Which is no mean feat #OC art

[bookshelf-in-progress]

1, 8, 13 and 15 for the end of year writing asks?

what was your writing-highlight this year? what made it special and how will you reflect on it next year?

"The True Story" was definitely the highlight. After two years of struggling and failing to write an epistolary fantasy, and more years of failing to write anything longer than about 5,000 words, to write a 10,000-word epistolary fantasy in just over three days was close to a miracle.

I had fun writing original characters! I got to make use of the Imaginary Book Recs! I got the closest I'll ever come to writing Cardinal's Map! I just let myself have fun and somehow it managed to come together in a story that mostly works and that accomplishes what I wanted it to do. It was amazing on a lot of different levels. I'm going to look back on it--and the wonderful feedback--very fondly.

8. what are three things you’re looking forward to next year?

Writing more retellings. I'd specifically like to finish either my "Tattercoats" or "Twelve Huntsmen" retelling as a slightly-longer work, but there are also some shorter stories I'm looking forward to exploring.

Trying to write slightly longer work, ideally an original story.

Writing something that's been edited. I'd like to try using beta readers again instead of just posting lightly-edited first drafts.

13. how did you change as a writer? did you learn anything new? started to plan instead of pants? share your wisdom!

My Inklings Challenge experience--especially with "The True Story"--make me reevaluate my writing habits. I learned that while I need to have a rough idea of the kind of story I'm telling and what ending I'm aiming for, it works better if I don't know everything. The story takes a more natural shape if I let the details that pop up during drafting determine the direction the story goes.

While writing the stories I posted at the end of December, I further developed this insight into three related maxims.

The story starts at the beginning. No matter what cool ideas you have for the overall work, the story unspools in a sequence of words beginning from the first scene, so you have to sink into that scene and let the story flow from there.

Develop the meta after you write. Getting too deep into the the characters and themes during the brainstorming process makes it very difficult to translate that to words on the page. Writing first and then digging deeper into the meta makes the process work much better.

The beautiful story that exists in your head should be the inspiration, not the goal. The words you write on the page are never going to be able to capture the layered emotions of your daydream. Instead, use that daydream as motivation to start writing, and then get excited about the (similar but not the same) story that exists on the page.

15. time for shameless self-promotion! answer with a piece of writing you want others to see/read!

Even though it's an unfinished piece of fiction, I'm still fond of my Anne of Green Gables meets fairy tales Island verse, and "The Sylph in the Storm" was built out of one of my favorite pieces of it, so I'll give it a shout-out here.

#answered asks #adventures in writing #scarvenartist

[valiantarcher]

Tagged by @scarvenartist to explain why I picked my URL - thank you!

So, the short answer is that it's been a general username for me for a while and it was natural to carry it over to Tumblr when I came here.

The slightly longer answer is that it originally came about because I was looking for a new username for a site because my old default had already been taken. I wasn't coming up with anything but a sister (being much clever at these sorts of things than me) suggested it as a reference to a fictional character I'm fond of, and I haven't looked back.

Tagging @morfinwen, @wanderingwolpertinger, @theworldiswhispering, @aceofstars16, and @stingrayextraordinaire, if they so desire!

#scarvenartist #asks #so to speak #At any rate the longer answer is that it's a reference to Lucy Pevensie (which most people guess) but not Susan (which they don't) #But if anyone wants to guess where the exact reference comes from it'd be fun to see if it's as obvious or not as I think it is! :D

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

4 and 10 for the end of year writing asks!

Thanks! :D

4. what is your favourite line you wrote this year?: This paragraph from Silver Glass:

Because in this case Yo-han really didn't believe that justice was best served by publicly revealing the murderer's identity. Because sometimes murder victims weren't really victims at all. Because there were some criminals who the law couldn't or wouldn't touch, and the only way their victims could get justice was to take matters into their own hands.

10. which character(s) turned out differently from what you had planned? how so?: Davit and Gwladys. Originally Davit was working with Dzovig from the start, Çelik Bey was the intended murder victim, and Gwladys got killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then I started writing, and Gwladys turned into Rachael 2.0.

#ask #scarvenartist #writing #my WIPs #WIP: glass #the case files of seo yo han

[siena-sevenwits]

Today I finally found time to properly begin @scarvenartist's An Illusion of Wings. I started it before the church picnic.

Oh. My.

I was dutifully social, but I did sneak off to the church basement just to finish that initial chapter because it could not wait.

This is soo exactly my kind of book. I'm exhausted now, but I need to blog some thoughts about it once the fuzziness clears. Just - what a brilliant opening.

#an illusion of wings #the shapeshifter book #scarvenartist #Coreander's Old Books #reflections

[tsfennec]

Stylized version of @scarvenartist's Kiro and Nezka in their shifted forms, loosely inspired by the descriptions of Nezka seeing his forms while traveling in the Nothing.

#illusion of wings #shapeshifters #scarvenartist #painting #digital painting #original characters #art #artists #artblr #magpie #swallow #birds #nature

[urban-hart]

A song you associate with Caspar!

okay i was. way overcomplicating this ask set ^^' so I'm FINALLY just gonna answer

'Fool for Love' by Lord Huron! definitely has Caspar's vibe. doesn't match his story part-for-part, but it's the bit about trying! the vibe of just drifting into oblivion in the end *throws hands* how else can i say it other than THE VIBES??

character theme song ask

#scarvenartist #song asks #not me tryna fullblown illustrate these things #like that's even DOABLE #it is #but not in this economy #character thoughts #caspar #liminal

[isfjmel-phleg]

3 and 6 for the voice asks?

3. I’ll talk about my favorite outfit

6. I’ll talk about something I’m obsessed with/currently interested in

#asks #scarvenartist #thank you! #random personal stuff #please excuse the intrusion of a notification on my phone in the second one

[fictionadventurer]

Time travel, visit the sick!

-The time cops are chasing after the time-traveling nurse who's bringing futuristic medical knowledge and hygiene practices to patients of the past.

-A disease causes involuntary time travel, and a woman must find each of the days her sick child visits to make certain it gets all the doses of medication.

-A woman who neglected her family as a young woman uses time travel to visit her now-dead grandmother in her final years.

-Controversial time travel technology allows the ill to live in a massively-slowed-down time stream to give doctors more time to provide treatment/find a cure, but the isolation can cause psychological harm. A nurse works to find family/volunteers willing to give up weeks of their normal life to spend a few hours with the patient.

#answered asks #adventures in writing #adventures in the inklings challenge #scarvenartist

[lady-merian]

this is closer to what I had in mind for the birthday sketch of Jelvari for @scarvenartist. Roughly three months later, I got the urge to try again, with a similar but not the same outfit

#No references except for the outfit inspiration and the chair (which looks little like it’s reference) #I’m happy with it #it looks *almost* like I pictured it #My art #Scarvenartist #an illusion of wings

[spookyscribe]

Spotted a magpie while on vacation in Scotland. Obviously my first thought was of Byron, my oc’s faery magpie familiar. Brought a huge smile to my face!

#inspiration #animals #magpie #its Byron!!! #winter’s blight #obviously I also thought of #scarvenartist

[iminlovewithpercyjackson]

I had to tell you--I had a dream the other night that there was a sequel to TGM, and I got to see an advance showing of it, and it was largely awesome, except that one notable character was glaringly absent, and Dream Me was like, ohhhh no, iminlovewithpercyjackson is going to be so incredibly disappointed that Miles Teller isn't in it. 😬😬😬 Anyway--join the list of mutuals who've wandered into my dreams! 😂

oh my gosh that is absolutely hilarious i love that 😂😂

no way they would ever make another movie without him, not after the shoulder shimmy scene 😏

i do need another sequel though.....

honored to join the list 😂

#scarvenartist #asks!!!!! #MILES TELLER #<3