#the final empire

stardustravens:

something that’s so good about the final empire is that none of the crew truly believe that they can succeed. they’re facing overwhelming odds on an impossible job, yet they all choose to stay. because even if they fail, they’ve tried. they’ve stood up for the skaa and they’ve opposed the final empire, and that’s a victory, no matter how it ends.

then they win, and they get to remake the world.

mylumosme:

Elend Venture really said ‘I’m not like other boys’ when he was reading his book at the ball.

Yoitsthew: Are there any deserts on Roshar, and if so could the white sand organism spread? Just imagining how sand mastery might possibly migrate to Roshar lol.

Brandon Sanderson: The White Sand organism could spread on Scadrial, and on any planet, but it would need investiture to do so. It would be easier for it to spread on Roshar, for example, because of the storms.

The … less good brother

Marsh, Marsh Marsh

Our boy Spook and his progression through the books.

Dockson, Clubs, Hammond, OreSeur, Breeze and Alrianne
Portrait for some of the crew

Vin and Elend from The Final Empire

After making my way through Mistborn era 1 again, I hope to make a few more character pieces for it… and fashion ideas. The textile patters came from musing what would patterns would be made from in a world that forgot what flowers are.

Sazed

I like Sazed. Next to Vin, he is probably my favorite character of the first Mistborn trilogy… at least so far in my reread…

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[image description: Digital painting of Sazed in his Terris Steward robes. He has overall elongated features with light, tan skin, a shaved head and a more strongly developed epicanthic folds. His hears are rimmed with various earrings, piercings and studs, his lobes slightly elongated to hold more jewellery. There is also a small metal stud in one of his nasal wings. His robes are made out of complicated arrangement of triangular cut cloth in orange and purple, which also is patterned with triangular shapes. The fingers on his hand are all adorned with rings made from various metals. He looks slightly upwards with a serene but discerning expression, a light smile in the corner of his mouth.]

Mistborn

hmmm… mists. I think I want to learn to use the lasso tool more for painting. Soft edges, sharp edges.

Vin

I really liked one of the sketches I made of her, because I felt it captured something of her quiet intensity, and decided to give that one a full rendering in colour.

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[image description: It is a digitally painted portrait of Vin – head and shoulders. The image is made of very dark and medium grey, with a hint of purple, red and yellow here. We see Vin in a three quarter profile, her face is lit from below, while she is gazing sternly and solemnly downward into the mists. Her hair is in some kind of pixie hair cut and tousled by a breeze. One the lobe of her ear glints a small earring stud. The mist cloak around her shoulders is made of stripes of soft, grey material sewn together from her shoulders up until it forms a high collar around her neck. A collar and hood made from a firmer material is fastened on top of that. Curling mist surrounds her. In the distance the vague shapes of pointed rooftops and towers peel themselves from the misty dark.]

Vin and Elend’s balcony meet cute

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[ID: Two iterations of the same image showing Vin and Elend on the balcony below the ceiling of the Venture’s ballroom. We see Vin from being standing in the front. She is wearing a blue dress with puffy short sleeves and looks towards Elend, who stands in the background next to a lamp set with blue and white glass panels. He leans into the corner of a giant grey stone pillar reading a book. To the right of the picture the warm orange and pink lights of the ballroom shine from below. In the second version Vin’s face is in profile gazing down into the hall. Elend is looking at her smiling a rather cheeky smile.]

I do not know why that particular light situation stuck in my head. The last glow of the day on the rooftops of Luthadel with the mists rolling in. Heck, if I remember correctly, it was actually already night in the scene in the book. But well, I really wanted to try to paint it nevertheless…

Also sketches for Vin and Dox. I like Dockson. Street urchin Vin has a glare that is almost owlish. She is a lot of fun to draw.

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[ID: The first image is a digital painting of a rooftop scene with Kelsier crouching on the roofs parapet in his mistcloak. Standing a bit further back are a Vin and Dockson. All are lit up by the red glow of the sinking sun. Behind and around them are the dark, peaked roofs of Luthadel, dark lines of smoke from chimneys crossing some clouds glowing dully pink in the last light of the day.

The other image shows sketches of Vin’s and Dockson’s face with different points of views and expressions. Dox is a middle aged man, dark short hair, with a few grey streaks and a goaty around his mouth. He has strong eyebrows and has wears mostly an expression of neutral to mild / amused interest on his face. Vin is shown in various stages from the beginning of The Final Empire. With short hack hair and a beaten-up, half-swollen and bruised face. Crouching, scowling and staring intensely at the viewer. With a cloak and a hood that hides most of her face. In the dark with a mistcloak around her shoulders looking downwards, lit from below, wearing a serious expression, a breeze tossling her marginally longer hair. Looking upward with an annoyed, half-disgusted expression. (some teenager spirit peaking through) and as Valette Renoux in a dress with short puffy sleeves, long gloves and her hair parted in the middle and clipped backwards over her ]

Kelsier

Some attempts at the murdering psychopath from The Final Empire. I always had some widely mixed feelings about Kelsier, but then that is what makes him such an interesting character and protagonist.

A mullet was suggested for his hair. I am tempted. Also I am working on making him clearly distinguishable from other main characters in the cosmere - charming blond guys and hawk-faced ones alike.

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[ID: The first image shows Kelsier striding through the mists. He is grinning and wearing his Mistborn cloak, its strips are sown cross-hatching in the chest and shoulder part, the loose ends curling around him. In one hands he holds a string purse and in the a other a bloody, glass dagger.

The second image is various of sketches of Kelsier, mostly of his head and shoulders and sometimes showing his torso, too. He has blond wavy hair, parted in the middle and his wearing all kinds of attires: loose shirts, vests and mistcloak. I was trying to test out various expressions and angles on him. Smiling: friendly, non-chalant, smirking out from under a hat, fatherly, menacing. More serious: facing of Marsh, solemn and lit from below, and as a skaa worker glaring towards the viewer.

The third image is a row the same sketch of Kelsier in a three-quarter profile with different hairstyles: the one he has in the other drawings, a mullet, a regency style short haircut with the hair and sideburns combed forwards, long hair tied to a tail in the nape of his neck with a string, and long, open wavy hair. A small drawing of myself is standing next to these, inspecting them warily.
Below that is another row of heads: Marsh, face similar to Kelsier’s but slightly squarer and with very short hair, Kelsier, Adolin more round faced and with a short, stubby nose, Wit with more pronounced cheekbones and a very narrow face and Kaladin who has a strong curvature both in his cheekbones and his nose.]

Kelsier: We’re going to beat them with the power and intense hope brought on by friendship!

Marsh: We are not friends.

Kelsier: We’re going to beat them with incredible violence!

Kelsier: I’m plenty generous, remember all the times I gave blood?

Sazed: Whose blood?

Kelsier: Does it matter??

Vin: *wakes up after being knocked out* Where are we?

Kelsier, sarcastically:Heaven.

Vin: Oh, I didn’t think you’d be here.