Imagine Kaladin realizing he’s falling in a new depression episode. And now that he’s getting better at therapy, he’s actively ,yet subtley, seeking help
So, He goes to find Adolin himself. Because Adolin always finds a way to distract him from his dark thoughts.
And Adolin realizes something is wrong. He doesn’t say it nor does he say that he could cry out of happiness that Kaladin is trying to let Adolin help.
And suddenly, since Kaladin is trying to escape his darker ones he accidentally speaks other thoughts out loud…
“ How DO you make your hair look like that ?! “
They both freeze.. till Adolin laughs so much he falls and Kaladin almost leaves.
“ Well, Bridgeboy, It’s easier to show you”
And Kaladin ends up with a new hair cut. He welcomed the change. It was one less reminder of his days as a slave and a bridgeman if he changed the sight in the mirror.
Not exactly like Adolin’s , but similar in it’s admirable casual messiness : deliberate style ratio. Yet more formal because it’s stormface Kaladin and we can’t make him too adorable
I can imagine it as shortened to his ears with layered waves
And it looked so good that Kaladin can’t complain about how much time it took and how annoyingly Adolin is grinning
…That Shallan didn’t even speak a word and instantly took out her sketch book and starting drawing him
…That Navani gave him a compliment.
… That Dalinar did a double check, raised his eyebrow at his son, dropped it, then nodded.
… That almost all Bridge Four members jokingly catcalled him in the barracks, The more polite ones told him it looked great.
But I’m so sorry Kalaldin! I won’t draw you like this anymore. I can’t even bring myself to finish it I’m too embarrassed. I’m going back to animating.
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.
————————— [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.]
The second theme of cosmere fashion week isMasquerade. I decided to go for costumes that are reminiscent of what the spren/human companions usually are wearing with a bit of a high fashion tweak… and lots of masks… fancy masks. Also I think these three are the pairs where I actually have designs for both of humans and spren in shadesmar form (maybe apart from Design and her talkative radiant).
Again another lesson in if you’re not entirely convinced by your painting just slap a lot of effects on :D
Image description (by@cosmereplay and myself) below the cut:
Kaladin & Syl from Stormlight Archives. A quick sketch. I HAVE to do a full color fully fledged fanart for the book series, though. When I get the time….!
