At last! Here is another edition of Fan Art Friday for your art-viewing pleasure.
But first . . . it’s time for another meet-up on the Forum. For those of you who don’t hang out there, the Forum is roughly 99% of this site. It has over 30,000 members and about half a million posts. And once every couple of months, I hang out there and answer ALL the questions.
So let’s do one next Saturday, June 25, at 2PM, US-EST. (Sorry, I know that’s the middle of the night for Australia.) Come one, come all, and I shall try as always to answer as many of your questions as humanly possible.
And now to the fan arts . . .
As previously moaned about, I have read a bajillion fan fics, and it’s really too hard to choose just a few, because so many are so good. But I will choose just ONE, because it was quite off-center and unexpected. Even original.
It’s set many years before Alek or Deryn were born, when the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife-to-be Sophie first met. Now because there are historical characters, this might not have been a Leviathan fan fic at all. But there is a big WALKER at the beginning, so it totally counts.
Check it out, “Prague”, by fanfiction.net’s Cardboard Edward.
And while we’re talking fan fic, here’s some fic-related art, a cover created by LinnetLove for a piece of fan fic by Victorian Bombshell (Hah, I got two fics in there):
From Brazil, here is Irwin Dias’ dyptich of disturbing delight, featuring Dr. Cable and Special Tally:
Scary Special teeth are scary!
And now for a big bunch of pencil pieces. First, from Mercedes Amanda, here’s a picture from the ever-popular (and complicated) theme of The Lilit Triangle!
A cool split personality Deryn from Michelle, The Clanker, and color pencil sketch by her:
From Angel Sun, a CUTE manga-style Deryn and Bovril:
And finally from Ellyn, here’s a pre-crossdressing Deryn, looking discontent in her non-uniform!
It’s actually kind of weird to think of Deryn in a dress, isn’t it? And that’s the way it should be, too.
Enjoy your weekends!
June 18th, 2011 02:19
i love the fan art, it’s always so cool, and we have all been waiting a long time for it.
June 18th, 2011 02:24
*screams!* thats two of pictures! sorry but really when i saw them there i screamed i love the other fan arts to the first one is awesome
June 18th, 2011 02:38
The special was creepy. I’m gonna have nightmares now.
June 18th, 2011 02:44
I hate to say it Scott, but you wimped out on Fan Fic Fan Art Friday. You know it. And don’t think you can get away with putting lots of lovely fan art to detract from that.
But I appreciate it was a tough choice
and the fic you picked (or both) are brilliant.
June 18th, 2011 03:00
Nice fan art, everyone!! I can’t wait to check out that fanfic.
June 18th, 2011 03:34
Oh I do love that “Prague” story. Very well written (which is very important) and out of the box. Card Board Edward’s other stuff is really good to (I highly recommend).
But Scott, you really should have put one of Julia456′s things up. They are very good and she keeps the characters in character. Really, for the next Fanart Friday you need to put up a link to Quite Peculiar (filled with many fun drabbles and whatnot!)
One last note: you would pick my wedding day for the next forum meet up. Sadly I will have to miss the meet up because I will be drinking mimosas in preparation of being stuffed into a dress (which has a corset tie. I don’t care what Deryn thinks, that thing sucks me in and I love it!). Anyone willing to ask him questions for me?
June 18th, 2011 04:10
@ Books Before Boys
I think Tally is creepier than the special…Sorry Tally!
My fave is Deryn and Bovril by Angel Sun!
June 18th, 2011 04:20
@Mallory: CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING MARRIED! Is it gong to be a leviathan themed wedding? It should be ;D
Loving the first poster!
June 18th, 2011 04:29
No! The last one was my birthday and this meet-up is the day I go to Japan and China. Oh well…I think it’s time to sneak into business class and steal their wi-fi (:
By the way I love the art!
June 18th, 2011 04:37
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with that second to last sentence? Address……That just seems wrong to me….but I’m dyslexic so what do I know?
(inner thoughts: Address….A dress…Address…. a dress?….Address? *confusion*)
Art was awesome nonetheless.
June 18th, 2011 05:31
I am infact the sender of the drawing in here, but I am not the artist. I even said in the e-mail that Amanda is the artist. She drew it on her computer with a digital sketch pad!
June 18th, 2011 07:59
@Julia sorry it will not be Leviathan themed LoL. There’s not really a theme, it’s just blue and green and tables with composer names instead of numbers (although there are a lot of German/Austrian composers. Including Mozart)
@Regan: I noticed that too! But I had just gotten up from a nap when I read it and was like “it looks wrong, but it has to be right because Scott wrote it. And he’s a writer so it has to be right.” But yeah, it totally isn’t. LoL.
June 18th, 2011 08:03
@Mallory: Well, in that case your big day is doomed to disastor. Nahhh… I’m kidding… I think… I mean I know…
haha, “it has to be right because Scott wrote it.” DEFINATELY.
June 18th, 2011 08:21
Yay! Cannot wait for the meet-up!
June 18th, 2011 08:31
…Hi. This is, erm, Cardboard Edward.
…I can’t even begin to say how flattered I am. I’m kind of shaking right now. Oh, god, I’m…. I can’t believe this is happening.
Thank you, so much. Thank you anyone who recced me- any of my fics, thank you all of my readers…
And thank you Scott. I can’t even begin to explain how amazed I am, right now. Thank you so much.
June 18th, 2011 10:12
I noticed the address thing xD Everyone makes mistakes… or maybe it wasn’t a mistake… hmm….
Anyway, awesome art!
June 18th, 2011 10:15
Yus!! Finally!!!
Thank you Scott!!! I’ve actually only ever seen one of these…the Victorian Bombshell cover thing.
June 18th, 2011 10:57
Great fan art, but I had to calm down my friend, SepteChromaJ, because she was having an emotional breakdown that her fan art wasn’t accepted. You know, the “vampire and werewolf” one?
But still, great artwork
June 18th, 2011 12:12
Lol. I should totally be asleep but i made the mistake of checking twitter and I’ve been lacking in posts xD so anyways…YAY fanart 8D I love all of the leviathan fanart artists ;-; they’re all so good <3 I especially love the colored pencil one because I like color D<. Also because I've recently become re-obsessed with the Uglies series, I love the one with doctor cable and tally. X3 I shall get around to reading fanfiction soon F< but that's my input on that. I shall SLEEP.
June 18th, 2011 12:17
And @Julia. My apologies I totally forgot there was another Julia on here xD I’ll make a habit of going by Julez. (even though this comment was unneeded i make a lot of mistakes sooooo F<)
June 18th, 2011 15:28
Haha, I noticed the ‘address’ thing but I figured…Scott’s human too.
Or maybe…in each blog there’s an error, then when you put them together and intricate Goliath based cipher has been in front of us all along???
Or maybe I’ve watched National Treasure too much.
June 18th, 2011 19:03
Erm…Mr Scott, you put address instead of a dress in the third to last sentence.
June 18th, 2011 19:18
@Moonie CONGRATS!!! Ah, I love that fic so much! Such an excellent representation of the fandom.
June 18th, 2011 19:33
@Julia (comment #19 and 20): Don’t you just hate having a popular name? I’ve never been to an American school where there isn’t “the other Julia” in my class. XD
June 18th, 2011 20:12
@Moonie: You deserve it, hon – you’re awesome!
June 18th, 2011 20:29
SORRY Mercedes and Amanda for the mix-up. Yes, I put in a bunch of art and then realized I hadn’t credited it, and was sloppy. Fixed now.
Pikol: Tell your friend SepteChromaJ that I didn’t get her piece. Did she email it? Send it again. (Email is an imperfect medium.)
And thanks to everyone for pointing out my typa. I know those are annoying.
(Heh.)
June 18th, 2011 22:02
@Scott ummm typa u did that one on purpose!!!!
June 18th, 2011 22:47
I have to say I really hated the special Tally (no offense intended) but it looked nothing like how i pictured special Tally. I have to say to me it just looked like a very creepy and deranged person with sharp teeth and a bad choice in facial tattoos. Oh well can’t please everyone.
June 18th, 2011 23:18
@Oral disaster101
yeah, i thought the dr cable and special tally pictures were weird too.
SCOTT YOU MADE ANOTHER TYPO!! (i dont even know if i spelled that right)
June 19th, 2011 01:17
Thank you, Holly and Julia (with the numbers, haha)
I’D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADE— LEVIATHAN FANDOM, ESPECIALLY THESE TWO FOR INSPIRING ME…
<333
(pssst just one feature is not enough, they need their stuff up here too. Seriously.)
June 19th, 2011 02:43
Thank so muuuuuch Scott!! xD I’m really happy! \รต/ That everybody likes of my draws! =D Muitas pessoas no Brasil gostam de Ulgies series! I’m anxious for the movie! Congratullations Scott!
June 19th, 2011 05:59
@Regan
He might have had spell check on, accidentally typed ‘adress’ instead of ‘a dress’, and the spell check, not recognizing it as a real word, changed it to ‘address’.
June 19th, 2011 09:12
hehe….typos are fun…that last one u did scott, it had to be on purpose!!! admit it! anyways….love the fan art…havnt read the fan fic yet…working on getting there. but yay!! cant wait for the “Uglies secret” to come out… ^_^
June 19th, 2011 10:07
Woot, LOVED the Fan Art!! It’s so nice to see some!!
June 19th, 2011 13:07
DAMN!!!! Don’t fix typing errors! Do you have any ide of how enoying it is to read a comment where it say’s there’s a typing error. AND YOU JUST CAN’T FIND IT!! T.T
@Julia and Julia: you should be happy: I haven’t met on person with my name.
Also: WHY DOES EVERY BOOK I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR COME OUT AFTER SUMMER VACATION.
(Summer vacation just started here:)
June 19th, 2011 19:48
I have two little things to say here. Both only semi-related
1) There is a cute little computer game out there called “The Fool” that has a steampunk-y chapter in it. It’s a hidden object game about a kingdom that’s terrorized by a Dragon, and the Fool follows it to save his princess. It goes through a mideval village, a steampunk city (you get to fix an airship!), and like an ancient greek or roman city in the clouds. It’s not too difficult, but it is cute, and the artwork is incredible!
2) I think that for a choir feild trip over spring break next year, we will be going to Prague, Hamburg, and other locations mentioned in the Leviathan books!!!!! I am soooooo excited!
But it will only happen if enough people sign up. So fingers crossed!
June 19th, 2011 20:04
I’m finally up to date! Yeahs!
June 19th, 2011 23:11
i love the one with deryn in a dress! it seems like somthing alek might make her do when he found out she was a girl. It amuses me!
June 20th, 2011 01:15
I am so excited for the meet-up, I had to miss the last one because of a piano recital, but I’m glad to come to this one.
And going back to some old meet-ups, I remember once asking Scott why Specials had sharp teeth!
(And also asking him if I should call him Mr. Westerfeld……. I’m sorry, I believe we decided to go with “Scott-Sensei”)
Also, why don’t we have some Uglies fanfics? They have some really good ones on fanfiction.net…….
June 20th, 2011 09:38
I fixed my name xD
@ Julia xD I’m so proud of this mix-up. I honestly never meet any other julias. I guess that there’s a direct correlation between having the name and being a fan of Scott’s books 8D
and Scott *shakes finger* Typa..
June 20th, 2011 10:27
YES!!! That’s the day before I go to camp for two weeks!!!
I’ll be there!!!
June 20th, 2011 21:00
I love the fan fic you picked, I totally ship Franz and Sophie.
June 21st, 2011 01:53
Lilit, sharing is caring…
though I don’t think the Ottomans care that much…
June 21st, 2011 04:42
I made a fanart that wasn’t a fic! Wow, its been a while. http://jett-wolfe98.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3jgc37
I HATE CRAPPY CAMERA QUALITY.
June 21st, 2011 21:05
Oh, wow. Special Tally scares me a little. Unfortunately, I’m only on the first book and I now know Tally becomes a Special. Great. :/ Nah, I don’t really care.
Anyway, I was in a bookstore the other day and there was a steampunk display, including Leviathan, Behemoth and Boneshaker (plus the Boneshaker sequel that I haven’t read yet and can’t remember the name of).
Gonna be reading those fanfics in a minute.
June 22nd, 2011 14:22
Typa…typo…see what he did there. You’re so witty Mr. Westerfeld
I can’t make the meet-up either because I’ll be at work, waitressing and enduring awful karaoke. It’s a hard knock life.
Will someone ask questions for me?
June 23rd, 2011 08:48
I LOVE angel sun’s deryn/bovril piece. I swear, Westerlies must be the MOST talented bunch of fans
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Dang it, I gotta work on saturday during the forum meet up – but have fun!!! ask good questions all!
June 23rd, 2011 21:14
Awesome fanart! now i really REALLY dont wanna wait for the book. . . but i must. sigh* o well
June 24th, 2011 02:42
Awww man i can’t make the meet up either i have a swim meet (for all you non-swimmers thats like a competition) which i will totally rock at but still i will probably dreaming about all the Goliath info i missed during my races. If I suddenly start choking on water only you guys will know why
June 24th, 2011 07:22
I am not going to be here on Saturday. So, can anyone who is here comment on all the important ‘Leviathan’, ‘Behemoth’, and ‘Goliath’ facts? Mainly ‘Goliath’? And by important, I mean EVERYTHING! Please? Pretty please? Pretty pretty please? With a cherry on top?
June 24th, 2011 12:48
I finally received the advance review copy of Goliath from my supplier and I am halfway through it. Apparently I’m the one in my country to have received when I did sometime in early June. Can’t wait to finish it! I have it right next to me as I write this…. with much glee!
June 24th, 2011 12:49
Sorry I meant I’m the only one.
June 24th, 2011 22:24
*sob* *cry* *bawl* Why can’t I have an ARC of ‘Goliath’!!!!!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!! I guess i’ll go cry somemore. *sob* *cry* *bawl*
June 24th, 2011 23:03
ggggrrrrrrr. i hate being on vacation. im going to be in boston during the forum meet up.
maybe it will rain and i wont have to go…
June 25th, 2011 08:21
Yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay…It is almost the first of July. Can anyone say ‘Goliath art reveal’? Because I can! I can not wait (and I mean it seriously, I think i am going to explode) until ‘Goliath’ comes ou!
June 25th, 2011 08:21
*out
June 26th, 2011 04:43
aww the manga deryn is adorable!!!!
June 26th, 2011 06:56
Scott, Thank you SO much for putting my twins fanfiction on your website, and also my fan-art! Heh, we were totally freaking out when we saw it on your website! I mean… dancing around the room and squeeing. Thank you SO much!
June 29th, 2011 23:24
Thanks Scott!!! You’re so cool with the way you interact with your fans. This is just another one of the reasons you’re my favorite author.
March 31st, 2012 18:42
If I’m in Amanda’s art, I’m tuning my violin. XD
March 31st, 2012 18:43
Which I do’t hv 1. :-/