Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 288
March 12, 2016
indigo-teen:
Villain’s Name: the Darkling
Book: Shadow and...
Villain’s Name: the Darkling
Book: Shadow and Bone by @lbardugo
Weapon of Choice: darkness
Special Ability: can summon terrifying creatures from the dark
Ultimate Goal: a world of order, power and darkness
Why we love him: Immortal, charismatic and surprisingly vulnerable. This villain feels like a hero and his descent is heart-wrenching. You kind of hope he wins because: darkling. Furthermore: OTP
BATTLE SONG: Building a Monster by Skylar Grey
March 11, 2016
toastyhat:
Okay, so, recently someone recommended Six of Crows...
I wanted Kaz to look kind of like a crow (for obvious reasons), so his hair is meant to look a bit like rumpled feathers. I'm gonna try a top hat next time. @v@
Still need to see if the side of his bad leg is confirmed anywhere. Still haven't tried drawing that crow-headed cane. Studies for eyes, physique, hands.
Of course Inej is a lot sleeker and less pointy than Kaz, which feels appropriate to me for a lot of reasons. I love her and I love drawing her. Expect more ninja poses in future!
Finally got to draw a couple bits from the book! If you can't read 'em, the speech bubbles read: "Say you're sorry." and "I literally don't know how." (the second one is not a direct quote)
More Inej, more ninja poses--and I wanted to play with some expressions. :>
Nina looks a bit much like one of my own OCs for comfort. I'll have to see about that. I like Matthias's face but it turned out pretty hard to duplicate so just...don't look too hard at the last one
Okay, so, recently someone recommended Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo to me (and yes I do have plans to read the Grisha trilogy as well), and last night I finally found the time to compile some notes on everyone’s appearance and do a little sketching! It’s not everyone, but y’all can expect more soon enough.
Uuuhhh, what else… I was too hype to draw everyone’s faces to do any research on what kind of clothes exactly they might be wearing (see: Kaz’s tie and bowler hat, which together make him look like an American gangster in the 20s), so these aren’t final designs for me. And I imagined Inej as extra-super-small and Kaz as having one thousand years of darkness carved into his face, so I’m still struggling with getting them to look their age, haha… @v@ Not 100% on Nina and Matthias either, but I do love them.
More notes in full-view! Highly-recommended literature!
So much to love here. Determined Inej! Grumpy Matthias!
March 10, 2016
What modern language is Trigedasleng based on, or most closely related to? Does it have the same basic family as any of our modern/past languages or is it completely made from scratch?
English. It is intended to be evolved from modern English. And it is. Every word of it comes from English. It’s also really, REALLY close to modern, colloquial, American English. Like, this literally is English:
Ha yu na hit em op?
In both English and Trigedasleng it means “How are you going to meet up with him?” It’s just that in English you’d write it:
How you ‘na hit ‘em up?
There’s been very minimal phonological change from modern colloquial American English to Trigedasleng; a little bit of grammatical innovation; and a lot of semantic change (basically taboo replacement, in a weird way). It’s by no means trying to disguise itself. It’s proudly and enthusiastically proclaiming its American Englishness. If languages were birds, this would be Trigedasleng:
If circumstances were such that there were no other survivors in The 100, the name of the language would probably just be English. Well. That is until they rebuilt civilization and met up with other large groups of English speakers, like on the West Coast, in the Midwest, in the South, etc. They might’ve changed enough that the languages would be unintelligible. No way to know, though, at present. Maybe someday, if the show gets there. We’ll see!
mermaidyke:
FEMSLASH AESTHETICS: alina starkov & genya...
March 9, 2016
may12324:
meabhd:
Nina and Matthias
OMG THIS IS SO...
Nina and Matthias
OMG THIS IS SO CUTE!!!!!!! NINA!!! BABE!!!!!
*sniffle* love this.
may12324:
Hello everyone! I am celebrating reaching 9000...
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A full body flat colour drawing of a character (fanart or oc) of their choosing OR full body flat colour of 2 characters from fanart, that I myself draw/like.The prize for the second winner:
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Reblogging cuz this lady is great.
