Sorry I’ve missed the last two Fridays, but at last FAF is BACK!
Okay, so Dalek Week is approaching over at Deviant Art. It runs from July 8 to 14, and is a seven-day challenge, each day with a different Deryn-and-Alek-y theme. (Click here for more details.) So I thought I’d start with a couple of entries from last year’s Dalek Week.
First here’s one from the estimable PrinceofParties, which reminds me of a certain schoolyard taunt (containing the line, “K-I-S-S-I-N-G”).
So romantic.
And here from Sorcaron, a sorta metaphorical image of Darwinist and Clanker angels:
Those wings of Alek’s have an interesting story behind them. When Keith and I were first conceptualizing the series, Keith wanted to start with portraits of Alek and Deryn. (Those portraits appear in the original Leviathan trailer, and will be in the Manual of Aeronautics, along with newer ones of Barlow and Volger.) He spent a lot of time on frames that signified the warring powers, and which began the notion of two distinct Clanker and Darwnist aesthetics. Then Sammy Yuen, the designer for the original Levaiathan cover, used Alek’s Clanker wings on the cover. Since then, that visual motif has become the symbol of the series. So it’s great to see it here in angelic-Alek form.
And here’s Deryn doing some Clanker stuff, and I have no idea whom this is from, or where it was created. Help me!
Update: It’s a Poptropica screenshot that reminded someone of Deryn in a walker, and rightly so.
And now some Japanese fan art! Thanks to Brita O. for sending these along.
Both from Pivix.net. I don’t know who did them, because the whole site’s in Japanese. But they’re really cool.
This one’s called “Thinking”:
And the text here says, “There’s no way jellyfish balloons can be that cute!”
Update: No it doesn’t. But supposedly some text somewhere around this picture did.
Link to original. Kawaiiii!
And now a great Deryn poster from SarahD:
And finally, here’s some rare So Yesterday fan art from Camilla. It’s called “French Revolution,” which will make sense to those of you who’ve read the book.
Okay, that’s it for this FAF. Now I have to pack for visiting my dad in Savannah and San Diego Comic Con. Can’t wait to see some of you there.
Don’t forget our Team Human chat on Sunday!
Okay, let’s see Max on more time:
And make sure to watch the sequel, because the next time I see Rick Riordan, I’m totally going to call him “Rick RiorDAN.”
July 6th, 2012 11:31
The Deryn in a clanker suit is actually just a screenshot of someone playing Poptropica….
July 6th, 2012 13:33
Very cute art, as always! FYI, though, I’m a professional translator of Japanese, and the text in that second image actually reads “Leviathan” (in green) and “Whale(s) and Steam Engines” (in red). Not sure who gave you the jellyfish interpretation, but it’s…wildly off-base. Sorry!
July 6th, 2012 17:34
I have no idea who did the one you can’t identify but it’s from Steamworks island on Poptropica. I was obessed with Poptropica a few years ago until I found better ways to spend my time… like on the Westerblog…
July 6th, 2012 17:37
I love the japenese stuff. I wish I could draw like that.
July 6th, 2012 17:40
The sequel to that video is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on youtube along with Charlie Reads Twilight!
July 6th, 2012 20:20
That kid is so awesome, there are no words.
July 6th, 2012 21:42
ARGH! I’ve been drawing Manga art since I was SEVEN and NONE of mine could compare to that. Phail. *headdesk*
July 6th, 2012 21:43
…buuut I love it anyway.
And I’m happy cause I’m going to a friends house and that friend has read Leviathan!!!!
July 6th, 2012 22:23
Can’t stop watching Max’s second video-I can never look at a Percy Jackson book the same way ever again. xD
July 7th, 2012 00:26
Wonderful art! I like the first one a lot. But what’s Poptropica, anyway?
That video cracks me up! Off to the sequel.
July 7th, 2012 01:11
I will never see Rick RiorDAN in the same light again. Max is Hilarious!
July 7th, 2012 01:30
@10- Poptropica is a website on which you complete different missions or quests on different “islands”. Each island has a different mission. That screenshot is from Steamworks island in which your character discovers the island completely inhabited by steamwork machines and then tries to find what happened to the people who once lived on the island. I think… It’s been a year or so since I played.
July 7th, 2012 03:40
So much freakin’ talent! I love Thinking.
July 7th, 2012 03:59
When I saw “Dalek week” I thought it was referring to the EXTERMINATE variety. While Alek and Deryn are fantastic, for a split second there I was hoping for a random spurt of daleks on this blog.
But that would be, indeed, VERY random.
July 7th, 2012 05:59
@12: Poptropica looks interesting.
@14: Yes, indeedy.
July 7th, 2012 06:25
Oh, I LOVE theprinceofparties’s “Such Great Heights”! Actually, I adore everything by her that’s Leviathan related….
Have you seen her other Dalek Week 2011 art? theprinceofparties, I mean. “A Place to Belong” and “Faith” are tear-jerkers….
July 7th, 2012 06:30
I just bought a copy of Leviathan in french! But why is it 20 or so more dollars than it is in english? Anyone have an answer?
July 7th, 2012 07:32
Nice art! Wish I had some form of artistic ability.
July 7th, 2012 07:37
I love the youtube vid, hilarious!
July 7th, 2012 19:38
Hello, all! I haven’t been on in a while…
If you would please click on my name and read my Dalek week submission for “Parents” to see if you can find typos/something wrong, it would be much appreciated.
July 7th, 2012 22:01
@20-Heh! I expected something like Alek and Deryn being parents, but nooo! So creative!
July 8th, 2012 00:37
Thanks, YOLO! Like I said, trying to be creative. I was originally going to have it as a drawing in comic-like form, but that would have taken too long and I have four things left to do before tomorrow, so I wrote it instead. It was fun
), and “Summer afternoons” and “Generations”, which I have no clue on. Yikes.
I only have to finish writing “obsession”, do “blindfold” (I have a great idea for that
July 8th, 2012 00:38
And isn’t Prince of Parties awesome? I love her work. Have you read “Gender bending squirrel” and “Leviathan Comic Superdump”? Hilarious.
July 8th, 2012 06:36
asjkghiuwrygiusgf no one’s ever called me ESTIMABLE before ;u; I had to look that up, actually XD
Oh my god thank you; I didn’t expect this at all!
July 8th, 2012 22:25
@20- It was good! And a little suprising when it was Volger and Barlow that were like the parents.
@21- Hahaha, that’s almost exactly what I thought but what I thought was a little… em… dirtier.
July 8th, 2012 23:33
I finally uploaded stuff to my deviant account!! Not dalek week stuff though
. I have nothing ready so it may be a bit too late…
July 9th, 2012 01:40
I LOVE PrinceofParties’s artwork. So beautiful. I also think “Thinking” is neat as it seems like the different nation’s flags are represented. (or maybe not because of Alek’s colors don’t seem to match.)
July 9th, 2012 09:55
Wait a second… I have a question for YOLO!. On the last fan art friday which we were still actively commenting on until july 7th or so, you wrote a comment that said “the higgs bosun partical rules the world!” at the time I thought “okay whatever. That’s a little random but that’s what we do here…” But then today I got back from Canada when it occured to me to check if any of the people I subscribe to on youtube had uploaded any new videos and there was one from Hank Green called “The Higgs Bosun Partical” or something like that. So this is my question/declartion: Was that a coincidence? Of course not, you don’t go randomly talking about particals on the same day Hank Green makes a video about the very same particals (which btw was also my brothers birthday). Or maybe you do go around talking about particals, I dunno, I’m not you…
July 9th, 2012 09:56
That was way way way longer than I thought it would be…
July 9th, 2012 09:57
There should be Dalek and Daleks! I’d do it, except I can’t draw xP Unless there already is some. And, in that case, I would love to see it.
July 9th, 2012 23:35
@26. You don’t have to do one every day. So if you were to do some of the themes for later on in the week, like summer afternoons, obsession, and generations, you’d be ay-okay.
July 9th, 2012 23:36
@25. Thanks! And…erm..dirtier?
July 10th, 2012 06:04
@31-Thanks! Maybe I will…
Also I’ve been thinking of adding either my figment page or my deviantart page for the website thingy so my name will be clickable but is it actually possible to link it just to my page?
July 10th, 2012 06:06
@32-Yes, dirtier I guess is the only word to use there. Now either I could go right out and say what I thought or hint at it annoyingly until everybody is too ticked off to bother guessing.
July 10th, 2012 07:04
Loving the Japenese (;
Reminds me of my home town Tokyo…lol
(joke)
July 10th, 2012 23:15
My neighbors are so loud that I can hear their conversations from inside my bedroom!
July 11th, 2012 00:49
@34. Hint away, my internet friend….
@36. Is that so? I would have no idea what that would be like as I live a mile away from my closest neighbor…
July 11th, 2012 02:24
@37- I don’t live in one of those places that the houses are smashed together and no one has any personal space but I do have neighbors in view of my house… and then it turns to woods… for 20 miles straight.
July 12th, 2012 07:20
I to live in the country. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. My nearest neighbor (meaning house, not just building) lives about a quarter of a mile away. There used to be an rmpty house directly across the road from me, but they moved the house to another area and so then there were just some buildings and a little trailer house for workers to stay in some times. This year they moved the trailer, took down the buildings and built two grain bins.
July 12th, 2012 07:21
Dang it’s depressing that we’ve gotten this bad about commenting.
July 12th, 2012 09:24
I love poptropica !! (: I waste my life on that website xD
And Ian so agreeing with M@X about the commenting thing -.-
We seriously need to step it up about 50 knotches. Maybe 70.
I wish I could comment more often but yeah…I get pretty busy.
July 12th, 2012 19:48
Dalek week? Fascinating. Now if only I had time to write something…
July 14th, 2012 00:08
You’re right. This really is sad. A whole week and not even 50 comments?
I would be on more, but I’ve been busy with Dalek week stuff.
Oh, and, sorry, but I haven’t even started the next chapter of Orion yet… I will try to soon, though!
July 14th, 2012 00:51
I at the least wish we’d do 50-100 comments.
July 14th, 2012 02:04
Been to busy myself.
July 14th, 2012 03:12
I haven’t exactly been busy, in fact, I’ve done nothing all week so I have nothing to post. You know, unless you want to hear about the excessive amounts of youtube I’ve been watching or the swimming in restricted areas. I could talk all the brilliant ideas I get but they’re… I dunno… Unshareable might be the word…
July 14th, 2012 03:13
My friend’s brother followed me all day, which was creepy…
July 14th, 2012 18:57
YOLO! has gone missing dun dun dun!
July 15th, 2012 06:25
Random: Does anyone else here play Spore? Designing on it works pretty well, but detail is crippled by the “complexity meter.” Maybe I should leave art to the artistically talented. There’s plenty of those kinds of people.
July 15th, 2012 06:26
50!! Not 100, but still 50!! We’ve reached 50 comments now! (we’re usually into the upper 100′s around now, but maybe we’re slowing down.
)
July 15th, 2012 08:58
@28-HIGGS BOSUN!!! HIGGS BOSUN!!! HIGGS BOSUN!!!
Okay. Here I go. The Higgs Bosun Particle is a THEORY. Scientists believe that there is a particle that gives everything MASS. Now, don’t say “Well thats boring”, because it’s NOT. Scientists are EXTREMELY CLOSE to finding the Higgs, and if they do, it will be the MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY OF YOUR WHOLE BARKING LIFE.
:3
July 15th, 2012 08:59
@48-NOT!
July 15th, 2012 09:02
@51-Sorry, I forgot to add: No, I didn’t watch that video. My mom learned about it on Science Friday, and then she got me all obsessed about it.
July 15th, 2012 09:05
.-.
Hmm…
July 15th, 2012 09:05
I don’t have to worry about commenting too little. (too little? too sparsely?) I’m probably Little Miss Comments. Well, this week I haven’t commented much, but BESIDES this week I comment A LOT.
July 15th, 2012 09:06
@54-Hmmm what?
July 15th, 2012 09:07
Oh yeah, guess what? Has anybody ever played Fluxx? I love Monty Python Fluxx. But that’s not the point. I’m making Leviathan Fluxx!!!!
July 15th, 2012 09:08
@50-*throws confetti* yay. yay. yay.
July 15th, 2012 09:12
It’s 1 in the morning and I’m sitting in my room writing songs on my keyboard about things I hate. I. Have. No. Life.
July 15th, 2012 09:13
Really??? Really??? I missed YOLO! by 4 minutes??? Arrrgghhh!!!!!!!!!¡
July 15th, 2012 20:16
@59-Everybody who has read Leviathan ultimately has no life because we all went crazy over how totally awesome it is and spend the rest of our lives reading it over and over and creating fanfics and fan art and doing nothing else.
Okay. Maybe it’s only ME who does that. But. I. Don’t. Care.
July 15th, 2012 20:17
@60-Darn! Should have stayed on longer!
July 15th, 2012 23:31
@58: That was VERY enthusiastic. Like, in the not opposite day sort of way.
July 16th, 2012 00:10
@63-:3
July 16th, 2012 00:16
Okay. If anybody can guess what book this is from, I WILL BE SO HAPPY! It’s one of my favorite books, but as far as I can tell, nobody I know has read it.
“But we have otherrr trrroubles rrright now. Justine is holding a pistol on Clairrre, Gunarrr is missing; was hit by an out-of-contrrrol vehicle and she’s lopped off at the knees. Octavia is now Septavia-she lost a tentacle, but she’ll rrregenerrrate. Sean and Meghan arrre on the rrroof playing sniperrr.”
“Egads.”
“I’ll say.”
July 16th, 2012 00:18
Sorry, typo.
“missing; Florence was hit…”
Florence is lopped off at the knees.
July 17th, 2012 05:19
No idea what book that is.
And I actually started to write chapter 29! *gasp!*
July 17th, 2012 07:04
@65-I think I recognize it bit maybe I just recognize the names…
July 17th, 2012 21:47
The book is The Unwanteds. READ IT PEEPS.
July 17th, 2012 21:48
@67-Oh goody!!!!!! Can’t wait for it to be finished!!!!!!
Can I have a hint as to what it’s about?
July 18th, 2012 00:48
The first Alice was a red lady of the spade
In her hand she held a carefully sharpened blade
She wandered all of Wonderland and killed everything in her path
She left a trail of crimson blood and wrath
In the deep forest she was called a sin
And was confined to stay there within
The second Alice was a most refined gentleman
Singing songs to all the folks who lived in Wonderland
…and that’s all I remember of that song. The lyrics aren’t even right, I just guessed.
July 18th, 2012 00:49
War
Lies
Vanity
Love
Peace
July 18th, 2012 23:14
@70. No… there’s lots of stuff that goes on, so it would be hard to give you just a hint.
Also, what color of hair and eyes do you all picture Fitzroy having?
July 19th, 2012 00:45
Brown.
Nothing else to say. I’ve been busy, but not with anything interesting.
July 19th, 2012 02:42
Is light brown hair and blue eyes okay? I want him to be good looking, so that his evilness kind of throws you off, you know?
July 19th, 2012 07:44
Not blue, maybe green or hazel, but blue I always associate with blonde hair.
July 19th, 2012 07:45
Like, golden hazel, not brown hazel.
July 20th, 2012 04:20
@73- I would say dirty blonde/light brown hair and grayish green eyes but it may be too late for my suggestion.
July 21st, 2012 02:08
Okay. He has golden hazel eyes, and the color of his hair didn’t actually come up, so that’s still for your imagination.
And guess what.
I FINISHED CHAPTER 29!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAY!
I will post it soon.
July 21st, 2012 02:33
It’s seven pages long…
AND SUPER DRAMATIC!
In a good way. Not a corny way.
July 21st, 2012 08:04
At my grandma’s house, I discovered the BEST TV CHANNEL EVER: SyFy!!!!!!!
There are a few shows that I now LOVE.
Fact or Fake
Haunted Collecter
Haunted Highway
School Spirits
Insane or Inspired
THEY ROCK!!!!
July 21st, 2012 08:04
@79-Dont post it soon, post it NOW.
July 21st, 2012 09:23
I am now afraid of gas masks. Wow. Gas masks. They are kinda creepy though, aren’t they?
July 21st, 2012 21:54
@81. You didn’t know about SyFy until now? Oh, you poor, poor dear. Although your a few years too late–the show Eureka had it’s series finale last week. *teardrop* That was a wonderful show.
I’ve been watching SyFy for a long time. Blisters, I watched it back when it was still SciFi.
July 21st, 2012 22:03
Okay, it’s posted now. Enjoy and tell me what you think! (Please)
July 22nd, 2012 02:17
Life, way, too, busy!
I must make time For the blog -_-
July 22nd, 2012 06:35
@84-Unfortunatly, my TV doesn’t have SyFy on it. Only my grandma’s does.
July 22nd, 2012 07:10
Okay. I sorta skimmed the last of chapter 27, so does Rachel really not like Newkirk or did she just make everything up so he wouldn’t get in trouble?
July 22nd, 2012 07:42
Awesome chapter MM. You better get the next one up quick or I will find some petty, stupid and irrelevant way to get you back!!!
On another note, I was born and raised on free antenna tv, so I’ve never gotten to see the Syfy channel. I’ve seen The A-Team, Roseanne, and Knight Rider though!
July 22nd, 2012 09:02
I really want a cookie for some reason. Maybe PWH can send me one. On the other hand, the brownie never reached me. Maybe PWH’s powers are malfunctioned.
remember?
July 22nd, 2012 09:06
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July 22nd, 2012 09:07
Darn. That was supposed to read “Scott”. It looked really cool when it wasn’t a jumbled mess of lines.
July 22nd, 2012 09:08
I’m really anxious for the art reveal.
I wonder if there are ANY bloggers who live on the West Coast. It seems like everybody is across the country, or not even IN the country.
July 22nd, 2012 17:42
—…—.
July 22nd, 2012 17:43
Messed up, Imean …—…!
July 22nd, 2012 17:44
I mean.
July 23rd, 2012 01:06
Teem Hooman
July 23rd, 2012 08:05
98…
July 23rd, 2012 08:05
99…
July 23rd, 2012 08:06
100!!!!!!
July 23rd, 2012 08:07
Okay guys, you got your wish, we got 100 comments…after 20 days. Or maybe 19. That’s FIVE COMMENTS PER DAY. That’s SAD.
July 23rd, 2012 08:08
Oooh anime!!!!! Me likes!
July 23rd, 2012 08:09
Seriously guys, we should have about 300 comments right now.
July 23rd, 2012 08:10
HEY A PERSON
July 23rd, 2012 08:11
Are you still here? I need somebody to talk to even if they’re a total stranger
July 23rd, 2012 08:12
Okay, I need help, some people call it Manga, some people call it Anime. WHAT IS THE CORRECT NAME FOR THIS COMIC LIKE JAPANESE ART????
July 23rd, 2012 08:13
Your not here are you ivy-la…
July 23rd, 2012 08:14
Anyway bye…
July 23rd, 2012 08:50
I’m here! But you’re probably not…
July 23rd, 2012 08:51
@106-Really, you can use either name. Technically, anime is the word for movies, like Howl’s Moving Castle, and manga is comics, like Yotsuba and Sailor Moon.
July 23rd, 2012 23:48
AND I AM HERE AGAIN.
July 23rd, 2012 23:49
Has anybody read Bunnydrop? It’s another manga and it’s really good. And it’s cute.
July 25th, 2012 05:02
@90- Sorry, my powers did malfunction. Also, there were no more brownies.
July 25th, 2012 08:11
@112-OOH OOH ME HAS READ THAT!
July 25th, 2012 09:41
Highschool of the dead is really good, as well as Clannad, Clannad after story, death note, and many more(:
July 26th, 2012 19:28
Thank you all for your kind words toward my chapter of Orion.
As for Rarkirk, some plans on that have changed, but I won’t tell you which ones. All I can say is that it continues into the sequel, Medusa! (Or some other name that starts with “M” because I want there to be four and spell “OMBS”. o.O )
I have chapter 30 started! The very first part is a total fangirl moment… though it’s not TOO graphic. Just some kissing…
But then it gets all action-ny. HAHAHAHAHA!
July 28th, 2012 04:15
@116-
Oh
My
Barking
Spiders!!!!
July 30th, 2012 02:12
@117- 8)
Stop Motion ANIMAAAA-TIIIIOOOOONN…
August 1st, 2012 07:51
@118-Your smiley didn’t work our. And that was really random. No offense though.
8)
SUNGLASSES SMILEY
August 1st, 2012 07:52
What? That didn’t work?
8D
Maybe this will work…
August 1st, 2012 07:52
Nope.
August 3rd, 2012 08:38
Nobody comments here anymore.
August 14th, 2012 16:30
I comment here!!!
August 14th, 2012 16:31
8D
August 14th, 2012 16:31
8)
August 15th, 2012 10:32
Hi Sheri,That is a stock photo but you can find one that is very similar here.
August 31st, 2012 07:25
I have been exposed to a multitude of fan art – some are good, decent while others can be quietly announced as bad or ‘needs improvement’. I think that you have a nice collection here and I would like to see more.