#joyspren

Windrunner Pas de Deux

AfterSkybreaker on ice I somehow ended up with a Windrunner ballet… I was drawing a ballerina for a job, and when I sketched Syl in my free time, once again I thought how I always imagine her with the poise and built of a classical dancer and one thing led to another and here we are.

The references for the poses come from a Giselle production of the Wiener Staatsballet and from the Knave of Hearts Pas de deux of the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland of the Royal Opera House.

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[image description: Syl and Kaladin dancing ballet in four pictures showing them in different poses, it starts with them solemn and melancholic, sparsely lit in front of a dark background that turns lighter and more blue as their moves become playful and joyful. Glowing little joyspren start whirling around them as are windspren as soon they do jumps and just continue their dance floating in the air. In right half of the fourth picture Shallan, Adolin, Liftn, Szeth and a fluffy dog are seen sitting in the audience. From left to right: there is Shallan clinging to Adolin, who has one arm tightly around her shoulder the other over his mouth. Shallan’s face is full of excited bewilderment and Adolin is happy-crying. Next to him sits Lift, legs crossed, watching rather unmoved while munching on some popcorn from a bucket in her lap. To her right from her is Szeth. He has one hand to his mount, a knuckle posed against his lower lip and he wears an expression of critical acknowledgement on his face. Next to him sits a giant fluffy dog. It is the dog Kaladin was hugging in my Skybreaker on ice thing.]