Fan Art Friday (At Last!)

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It’s still Friday on the west coast of the US, so I give you Fan Art Friday, the technically not-late edition.

First, here’s a great video from Christina and Douglas, visualizing the Faceplay software from “Facing the Future” (Also known as Chapter 4 of Uglies).

Ugly to Pretty – WIP from Christina Hall on Vimeo.

Pretty cool, huh? I’ve always thought this would be a cool scene in the movie.

If my embed isn’t working for you, click here to check it out on Vimeo (and slightly bigger!).

And next, a very amusing cartoon from Soraia, riffing on the Perils of Pauline chapter in Goliath:

That whole chapter came about because I was researching William Randolph Hearst, and found out that he was behind the Perils of Pauline series of films, which began in 1914. So I decided to watch them, and discovered that in the very first one, the eponymous heroine gets blown away in a hydrogen balloon, not unlike a certain Scottish cross-dresser! So I just HAD to show Alek seeing the movie as part of his education that girls could do cool stuff.

Though I’d like to claim that I planned this symmetry between books 1 and 3 from the beginning, it’s merely a coincidence. But it proves that if you do your research, you will be rewarded. And coincidence or not, I’m super glad to see it pop up here in fan art form.

The dialog in this comic is quite funny, so click here to see it bigger and zoomable.

Here from Carly is some rare Midnighters fan art, showing Jessica at a certain climactic moment in Blue Noon.

That’s a scene that I had planned from back in book 1, as you will see if you look at chapter 4 of The Secret Hour. Sometimes I am good at first-shoeing things.

And here from MoonieBalloonie, a pensive-looking Lilit:

I always love how distinctive Lilit is, thanks to her cool Armenian attire.

And finally, from Victoria, some Dalek!

Okay, I’m headed to America soon, so I must go pack or whatever. (My only public appearance will be at Comic Con.)

Hope you all have a good weekend.

201 thoughts on “Fan Art Friday (At Last!)”

  1. First!

    Absolutely love the purple colour that Lilit was drawn in. Hey Scott, is there any chance you’ll be down in Melbourne, ever?

  6. @Nickywa: I always draw Lilit in purple! Alek is always red, and Deryn is always blue. Glad you like my technicolor-sketching, ahha.
    The video was incredible. “I’m going to be so pretty,” and the reveal that she looks absolutely nothing like her stereotypical disney-channel star designed image…. good, good stuff.
    And Scott, it is okay this is late. Because I sent that picture to you this morning, and if you had been on time, it wouldn’t have made it! haha

  7. Honestly – I think the ‘ugly’ version of the girl is way prettier than the ‘pretty’ version… 🙂

    And all the art is amazing, as always!

  9. But I’ll have to read it (the comic) on my computer cuz my iPod screen is too small… I think that’s the problem.

  12. AH HA! One of those pictures was drawn by hand!! SO IT IS POSSIBLE TO SEND A SKETCH TO SCOTT! DOES ANYONE KNOW EXACTLY HOW????
    I’ve heard about scanning it, but I don’t have scanner! I’m sure I could find one somewhere though, if that’s the only way…?

  13. Rue- Unless you really want to get a scanner, you may just have to take a pic of the art and upload it on your computer. Then click on “Contact Scott Westerfeld”, which is somewhere on the right and side of the page. You will be able to email him. Copy/Paste your art into the email, and, if you like, write a description. Then click “Send”!!!

  15. And one more thing- Some printers (like mine) double into scanners. If you have a printer, it may be a scanner and you haven’t even realized it!

  21. Could someone who can read the comic translate it for me, I mean tell me what it says, not translate it into another language? Pleeez?

  24. The comic reads:

    “Your highness, could you come here? Your creature is disturbing Mr. Tesla.”

    “My eyes!”

    “Oh, sorry! Bov– Sorry!”

    Also, is anyone else getting the Midnighters fanart? I can’t see it on my browser.

  27. I like the comic! And the purple Lilit is awesome! Thank you Kallie! I couldn’t read the comic either.

  33. Fixed the Midnighters art. It was TIFF file, which for some reason some of you can’t see. It is now a standard jpg.

  35. I’m gonna work on finishing up the Dr. Barlow drawing I’ve been sketching for months so I can send it in. Currently she has no head so it’s not quite ready.
    Also I had a question for Scott that I was gonna post early in the comments but I don’t remeber what it was. That’s okay, it was probably stupid. AND PLEASE NOBODY SAY “THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS” CUZ THAT’S JUST NOT TRUE!!!

  37. @33: Thank you Scott-la! My life is complete! (Actually it isn’t and won’t be until the Manual of Aeronautics comes out. Suprise early release, mayybe?)

  41. Darn. You don’t all get to see my Count Volger head. Maybe it didn’t send like it was supposed to? Hmmph.
    I’ve been gone for so long! Did you miss me? 😀 lol, just kidding. I’ve been at a girl’s college all week, and might I say it was AWESOME. Girls are so much nicer without boys around. They see others as friends and not competition.
    Anyway, though. HELLO!

  45. I still think there ARE stupid questions and I think people are mostly saying there aren’t to be contrary.

  46. There are no stupid questions as long as the qeustion has not been asked by the same person/group of people to prodigious amounts of repetition, is not specifically meant to annoy/ harass, or is a question everybody has to know by that age to live (i.e. a 30 year old asking if they have to breath.)

  47. @clankergurl98. Why, thank you. I always enjoy random bits of praise 🙂
    @M@X. Today. I have it done and it’s on fanfiction, but I have to put it on my blog yet. And I need a computer for that, so I can’t now seeing as I’m on my phone.

  49. LOL, click on Middy Mile’s name now, and it should be there. *laughs evilly because you TOTALLY don’t know who this is.* *Sarcasm overload*

  51. @39: DOUBLE FACEPALM: When the fail is just too bad. I saw a picture that said that (or thereabouts.)
    @49: Yes, sarcasm overload.

  53. When you first said the new ch. was up, I didn’t read the rest and clicked on your name, I was dissapointed. 🙁

    But now I’m not! 😀

  56. *takes a moment to remember what the las one was* Ah, yes. Because it had Max, then? Personally I liked this one better. Yogurt in coffee isn’t really that bad.

  58. Okay, just a question. On my blog, is eveything all smushed together into one giant paragraph? Because it looks that way from my phone, and I will try and fix it if it does for you, too.

  59. I grudgingly accept the fact that some people do not like coffee, but that doesn’t mean I like it when people say it. So, in the future, one would be advised not to say anything contrary to the liking of coffee if they value their LIFE.
    *cough* ahem. And how are you today?

  61. I love coffee! Black with no sugar is the best way to drink it! Except when you have 7 cups of it like that all within an hour of each other. Very bad idea 😉

  64. Finally!!! Summer vacation!!!! I’m free at last! But then again, when vacation is over I’m transitioning from my middle school with a total of 18 kids in all the grades to a high school with 1700 kids… fun fun fun 🙁

  65. OH MY GAWD! There is a rumor (according to IMDb) that the Uglies movie is coming out in November! Probably not, though. 🙁

  71. so let me explain why I haven’t been on: softball.
    so when school got out that weekend I had a tourney (4th place)
    then the next week I had softball camp all week everyday all day.
    that weekend I had another tourney (2nd place, one of the umpires had a sister on the other team)
    then that following week I went away to softball camp, we got to stay at the collage dorms 😛
    and this week, Mon- practice Tues- team sleepover 😛 Wed-practice Thurs- double header and today is my day off! Finally! Tomorrow is practice, Sunday, nothing that I know of, Monday another double header, then practice that week HUGE tournament not this weekend but next. 😛

  78. OH WOW I just went on imdb AND THERE IIIIIISSSSSSS!!!!!!! (gonna be a movie) CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAAAAAIIIIITTTTT!!!!!! I wonder who’s gonna play Tally? SORRY BUT IM JUST SO ECXITED!!!!!! I actually don’t know how to spell exited so yeah pardon me… WOOOO HOOOO!!!! UGLIES MOVIE!!!!!!! But I hope it’s not as crappy as Percy Jackson or whatever….

  79. 1) This is old news.

    2) I thought they released the actors already.

    3) Percy Jackson is an awesome movie, you just can’t see it because your too hung up on it being exactley like the book. The movie on it’s own, judged for it’s own merits, is amazing.

  83. @49-You are:PERSON WITH HAT. Just a guess. I can tell by your additude. (no way I spelled additude right)

  86. And by the way, if you hate when people say they hate coffee then why’d you make Deryn say it?
    And I just realized that Alek was shirtless (for just a moment) AGAIN during that chapter. :3 If Deryn weren’t so lovey dovey over that prince he would totally be my boyfriend…<3 <3 <3

  88. It’s so cold and rainy out!! How come when I’m finally on summer vacation the weather turns all nasty? 🙁

  92. @91- yes it was cuz it was posted 1 minute before the whistler posted and the whistler has something to do with MM. Or at least, I think it does.

  97. My friend has been haunting my dreams ever since school ended. I’m kinda freaked out…

  101. Damn I shoulda realized that I had 99 and COULD HAVE GOTTEN 100…but I was so defeated by my 18-minute failure that I was a total bum-rag and DIDN’T.

  103. Agreed with comment #79!

    And if Uglies does come out in november it’s comeing out close to my birthday, my SIXTEENTH birthday!!!!!!!
    😀

  104. I have a theory, what if Scott Westerfeld was really from the future and he was Dr. Cable’s husband or brother of a sort and he wrote UPSE to warn us about the future, to not let it happen that way and he just told it from Tally’s perspective ???? (:
    WHAT IF?!?!?!

  106. @103: The Hunger Games came out within a week of my birthday.

    @104: No comment

    @ 105: Yes, yes it is. (imagine it like phineas saying, “Yes, yes we are.”)

  108. That new Alice in Wonderland movie woth Jonny Depp came out on my birthday, but that was a few years ago…

  112. @ M@X
    That’s cool! Catching Fire will be close to my 17th birthday (:
    And you know it’s true !
    Loving the Phineas thing ^-^

    @YOLO!
    Lol, thanks!(:

    @Steampunk
    Just a little, I only went out cold after I said goodnight here lol

  113. My dad has been speaking to me only in french ALL DAY LONG!!! I need someone to communicate in english with! Pleeezz!!

  119. @114- I suppose speaking french almost fluently is useful but I miss hearing english speaking people. I’m going to have to comfort myself by watching youtube for awhile.

  120. It’s almost 1:00 in the morning and a car just drove by my house. I live in the middle of nowhere, 40 minutes from any reasonable population and a car just drove by??? A dunno, I guess I find this just the slightest bit creepy. AND THERE GOES ANOHER ONE!!! IT’S FRIGGIN 1:00 IN THE MORNING PEOPLE!! WHAT IS THERE?? SOME KIND OF NOCTURNAL CONVENTION GOING ON? Sorry, haven’t slept in over 24(ish) hours. I should probably get to sleep (finally!). Speaking of which (sorta) I think I’ll get a really good night sleep then see how long I can stay awake.

  122. @ M@X
    I’ve said it before -_- but I’ll say it one more time, I’m a Lifeguard.

    @PWH
    Well, I think cos you know, it’s summer, people you know, well I don’t know, take road trips :p just saying. Lol, sleepies time for you PWH! Nighty-night!(:

  123. @119- Okay so it turns out that you can actually over watch youtube, as I learned…

  124. Hey Zaliz-la! I’d stay and be sociable but I think I’m about to collapse from exhaustion. So yeah… Night!

  125. I had the awesomest night last night with my softball tesm! I love them to much 😀

  126. hhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeee Softball tournament startting tomorrow!

  133. Wow, I’ve missed quite a lot. Since I’m too lazy to scroll up to find the comments I want to reply to, I’ll just reply to the ones I remember, without numbers or most likely who they’re directed at. Sorry for any inconvenience 🙂

    First off, I fixed the chapter on my blog. It’s all better now!

    As for the black coffee, no sugar, I agree. And with the 7 cups within an hour… been there done that. Several times…

    As for the “if you hate when people say they hate coffee then why’d you make Deryn say it?” thing, I’ll point out the fact that Deryn, as well as most of the people in LBG(O), like coffee, she just didn’t like it with yogurt in it, because she hates yogurt. And, yes, Alek was shirtless. Deryn would probably push you off an airship if you tried to steal Alek, but that’s just a guess.

    DUDE! It was supposed to be totally obvious that “Mysterious Someone” was me. *Facepalm*

    The Whistler seems to have been on lots of posts…

  139. The thing I don’t like about your name, YOLO! is it makes me look like I have punctuation issues. Did I say that before?? Maybe…

  140. There’s this creepy little smiley face right below the submit button. I feel like it’s watching me. Am I the only one who’s seen this?

  141. I’m trying to type thid without looking cuz normally I habe to look when I type akd I’m noy correcting anu mistakes I make. S0 yeah… I think I just used a zero for the “o” in “s0” and again. but it was an accident. Hmmm… I’m not as bad at typing as I thought I would be. I’m so proud of myself! (Not really).

  143. @137
    I know right ^-^
    Ooh!! And I just got my first paycheck 😀
    (even though I did only work 3days/16hours I got paid!) lol(:
    I’m still working though :p

  144. Have any of you ever heard of Dani Shay? I think she should be Deryn in the LBG movie! Even though she’s a singer/songwriter and would be way too old by the time they got around to making a movie… hahahaha Justin Beiber looks like her 🙂

  147. Haha! Did you guess “Hopeless”? Because it was partly that one, too. 🙂

    Do any of you remember when I did an art post on my blog way back when that included a drawing of a girl laying in the grass, which I’d submitted to a contest? Well, I got “runner up” for it, which is the same as second place. My school got some stuff and I got a bunch of random stuff (i.e. duck call, whistle, waterproof capsule thing, reusable cup with lid and straw, chapstick). I was excited about it. Lots of people submitted art, and for mine to have been chosen as second was really cool. Now I just want to see what first looks like…

  148. I just saw the 1st… and wasn’t impressed. Although, I’m probably quite biased on the subject. But, honestly, looking back at mine now I’m seeing lots of things I’d like to change.

  149. My brother just got a whittling knife for his birthday and he cut a huge chunk out of his leg within the first three minutes of opening the package.

  150. @147- Nice! 🙂
    My school doesn’t have art contests because it’s too small. Appearently, contests ruin the “community atmosphere” .

  153. @150. It wasn’t a community thing, it was a state thing. And, really? I thought competition was supposed to be healthy in reasonable amounts…

    @149. Oh, no! Is he okay? I hope he’s okay. Was it, like, out of the muscle, or just the fleshy part? IS HE OKAY?

  156. @153 & 154- Yeah, he’s fine. Clumsy, but fine. It’s only a flesh wound but it’ll leave a nasty scar. Luckily, the knife was very sharp so it’s a smooth, clean cut.

  157. @153- A state thing? That makes second place more impressive! My school is strange…

  159. @157. Yeah, a state thing. You can Google it if you feel ambitious. It was called “Take it Outside” and it was the 2012 contest. They have a Facebook page, and you can find the art in “Pictures” and then the first album it shows. You know, if you feel ambitious 🙂

  160. And I found out that there were, like, two honorable mentions awarded and then “Best use of Theme” and “Best use of Color” and “Most Creative”. I was only honorable mention, but I thought the other winners in my category were kind of… eh. Best use of Theme looked like something I did in my third grade language arts class. No joke. Wow, turn the letters into other stuff and color it in with marker… sooooooo cool. *sarcasm overload*

  166. @161-AH HA! You live in my timezone! Or I did my math wrong… Or it was almost 11 a.m. Maybe I already knew this and I forgot.

  168. @162. Yeah, I don’t really care.

    @163. Actually it was only 10, but my computer’s clock was an hour off. And I got up early today to run a few miles. (Hehe Miles 🙂 ) And I usually try to be in bed before then, especially if I have a busy day ahead, which, if I’m not mistaken, I do. Plus, my bedtime was 8 until fifth grade, so 11 o’clock and on are pretty late for me.

    @164/165. Well, that stinks. But at least you qualified! Does that mean you get to go on, or is ‘kicked out’ very final?

    @166. Sorry, it was only 10, but my clock was off. You live on the east side of the country, then?

    @167. Ha ha ha! (No, I don’t say “lol”)

  169. @168- Yes, I live in New England. The thing that bugs me most about New England is all the tourists that come up in the fall to see the leaves turn redish yellowy orange brown. Our main tourism attraction is death??? Really??? On a different note, I was up until 3:00 last night… and the night before… and the night before. Not a great idea 😉

  171. @170- Yes, I suppose the vibrant colors thing makes sense but if they want to see vibrant colors why don’t the go to their local paint store? Okay, I understand that they want to see the beauty of nature or whatever. Even I appreciate nature. I guess tourists just annoy me. They seem to have an obsession with moose and black bears. Actually, it’s the manufacturers of the souvenirs that have an obsession with moose, black bears, etc. I’m over-thinking this.

    I got up at 8:30 but I would’ve slept longer had my mother not woken me.

  172. Okay, I have a question for you all concerning Dalek week on DeviantArt. One of the categories is “Roaring 20s”, and I’m trying to decide if Deryn would wear a flapper dress. I think she would, but she’d look totally B.A. while doing it. I put her in the classic Bonnie Parker (from Bonnie and Clyde) position, leaning on the front of a car. I just need to find a casual wear dress for her to wear… all the stuff is, like, for going to a dance club. And then you have Alek wearing a sweater…
    but anyway. I think that by her late 20s, Deryn would have gotten rid of her disguise, you know?

  173. @171. Yes, I assume that tourists/souvenir manufacturers would get annoying. I wouldn’t know, as the only tourism we have are the Sprint Car Nationals, and that’s a bunch of drunk people that I avoid by staying out of town… but gas goes up and traffic is terrible. That I know. My grandparents have people camp in their yard every year, and some of the people that come in are quite the characters… in good ways and bad. But, yeah. Our souvenirs are expensive tshirts, and that’s about it.

  174. @173- Oh, we have every moose/black bear/racoon product you could ever want, or you know, not want. Tee shirts are among the many avalible souvenirs. Shot glasses, bobble heads, little New Hampshire license plates with your name on it, and even little bags of chocolate covered raisins claiming to be the feces of various species of local wildlife. All of these delightful, unecessary products are of course manufactured in China. Well, this is what you find away from the coast. On our sixteen miles of coastline you may select from the same varieties of products with the difference of featuring sea creatures and tie dye rather than fuzzy mammals and olive drab. I’m sorry, this is like the fifth night in a row I’ve been up too late. It’s 1:26 and I’m fairly sure I won’t be sleeping anytime soon. 🙁

  175. @174, I’m sorry to hear that. Really. About the tourism blues and the not being able to sleep. I know how the latter feels, but not several days in a row.

  177. @175- Thank you. I think I may sleep tonight seeing as I’m at a sleepover (I know that’s kinda reverse logic but I didn’t sleep at all last night).
    Also I told my brother that some random person on the internet hopes he heals soon. He asked who the random person was and I told him it was Middy Miles. I love confusing people 🙂

  183. @169- The leaves change color here in California too! They change color everywhere! So what’s so special about NH?

  185. “Volger, of course. The man was allergic to sleep.” HAHA lol 🙂 I haven’t read Leviathan for a while cause my moms been hoarding it so all the old jokes are still funny!
    Right now I feel like I’m allergic to sleep. It’s 10:28. And dont say that’s not late, cause I think I’m the youngest person here, so it’s late for me.

  186. I think the reason I can’t sleep is because a bunch of bum-rags are setting fireworks off right outside my window….EVEN THOUGH FIREWORKS AREN’T ALLOWED INY NEIGHBORHOOD. *stamps feet* what a bunch of barking daft no good filthy little…..
    Ahem. Sorry bout that.

  187. @185 That last paragraph didn’t use very good grammar. It’s not late because I’m the youngest person here. Since I think you are all older than me, ten o’ clock seems later for me. You guys think that ten pm is the new five pm.

  188. @183- I have no idea…
    @185-That happened to me for about a week straight except with me I stayed up until about 3:00 every night … or morning… Whatever 😉
    @186- My parents have taken us to Canada. We left on the forth of July so I didn’t even get to see fireworks.

  193. Ha ha! I figured out how to put the German s thingy in my typing!!
    Ich heißen Superphantastic!
    Ich trinke Champagner und Lachsfisch!
    Ich heißen Superphantastic!!!
    And that is the extent of the random unuseful German I am going to put you through today 😉

  194. ARGH. Not German again. By the way, my friend taught me how to say “No sh*t” in German, but I don’t know how to spell it. It’s something like “Nye Shwiza”. Yes, that makes me look like an idiot, but that’s how you pronounce it. Help? No, it’s not rainyish.

  197. @194- It’s spelled nein scheiße. I think… All the German I know I’ve taught myself so I’m not always completely accurate. It’s not rainy? Huh…

  201. aaaak! i missed all this interesting chatter! nooooooo! just randomly checking the comments in older posts but NOOOOOOO!

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