Here’s a special XmE* edition of Fan Art Friday. Yes, it’s already Friday here in the eastern hemisphere, and summer down here in the southern! (I double win at life.)
It’s been awhile since I did a Fan Art Friday, and I know there are many of your efforts waiting in the queue. But I’m about to start working on the second draft of Goliath, so for this FAF I’m drawing my inspiration from all the fabulous Leviathan fan art out there, in particular the Deviant Art group known as the Leviathaneers!
So check these out.
Warning: If you haven’t finished Behemoth, the last piece is spoilery!
First up is the regal “Boffin and Count,” from KoniraThax:
Next is the dynamic and gritty “Hostage Situation,” by ComickerGirl.
The handy blog-badge: “Clanker Have Hearts Too,” by bnt800.
The mangalicious and shipper-tastic “Fly,” by WeasleyTwin.
And finally from Deviant, the quietly romantic “Sketching” by Irrel:
This is only a TINY FRACTION of the cool stuff at Leviathaneers. Go check out the rest!
And we’ll end with one last piece, not from Deviant but still fabulous. It’s the spoilery one, so if you haven’t read Behemoth . . .
turn
away
your
eyes . . .
“Just Curious,” Allison B. Thomas.
Heh. So that’s it for me. I’m going back to being lazy now, and then working on the second draft of Goliath. Thanks to everyone for a great year of fannishness!
Happy holidays, and see you in 2011.
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*Christmas Eve, duh.
The postings have been slim here. Justine and I have done our bisummeral relocation to Sydney, where the weather is rather better than it is in New York.
I haz proof:
Yes, this is the view from where I work. Neener-neener.
Check this out. It is TOTALLY FAKE, but cool.
JarredSpekter of Deviant Art.
And it comes with this awesome FAKE poster, also by Jarred:
I quite like the fake movie trailer/poster art form.
But yes, this is me just being lazy, posting random stuff. I GET TO BE LAZY. I’ve been traveling all over the world the last few months, after all. And I’ve spent the last week working on a s3krit project, which I can’t even tell you about. (Yes, so why tell you that I can’t tell you? I dunno. Just to sound cool, I guess.)
Oh, also! Those of you who are e-book readers (or who know one) here’s a cool new thing:
It’s the Uglies Quartet all together in e-book form! Check it out here. And here’s a list of the many reading devices supported.
Anyway, I will get back to more regular postings in the new year. In the meantime, happy holidays to everyone.
Hey, sorry it’s been so long since I’ve blogged. I plead tour exhaustion. But here are things for you to listen to and look upon!
For the listening, while on tour I did two long interviews with Writing Excuses, a weekly podcast on the craft of writing.
The first interview is appropriate to the Leviathan series, because it’s all about the visual components of writing. Maps, diagrams, character sketches, floor plans, and full-blown illustrations—all those things writers create to help them visualize the world of their books. (And for those of you who are visual learners, or who hate the sound of my voice, here’s the transcript.)
The second interview is more generally about steampunk, the subgenre of which I am now the resident expert/bore (but not high priestess, waah). Listen here or check out the transcript.
And now for things to look at. As I’ve toured, I’ve talked a lot about the books that inspired me to make Leviathan series illustrated: the 1910s-30s teen novels that had cool pictures in them. But I didn’t make a point of showing examples to my audiences, and I haven’t put any here on my blog. This seems like an oversight.
So here from my research bookshelf, recorded by my iPhone with craptastic lighting, are a couple of these inspirations.
First is A Trip to Mars, both the cover and an interior illustration:
And here’s the cover and illustration from the glorious “boy’s own adventure,” A Trip to Mars.
Note the similarities and differences from Keith’s work. Some of the stiffness of Edwardian illustration is visible in these, and the caption on A Trip to Mars could totally go in Leviathan. The spilling off the frame isn’t present here, and these are in color, which is interesting. But the spirit of them is, I think, the same.
Also, you can see that Keith is much better than these old-fashioned dudes. Seriously.
But I will admit that, whether they’re pen names or not, Captain F.S. Brereton and Fenton Ash are the most awesome author names in history. Evar.
Okay, I’m about to transit hemispheres, so there may be another long pause in my blogging. But thanks for dropping by, and thanks again to all of you who made my tour so much fun.
Ciao for now.
As you can see, my website has had its first makeover in many years. This is to celebrate the fact that my first new series in years, Leviathan, comes out this autumn. (October 6, to be exact.)
Things may be wonky for a while as we play around under the hood. But I hope you enjoy the new look. Let me know what you think!
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