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Scottish Writer of Fantasy & Sci-Fi

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New Commission! Ghia Mercado draws Tyler

A few months back, I funded the Get Ghia to Oakland campaign to help a young artist whose work I admire get to Oakland to start working in her dream job.

As a reward, Ghia offered to do digital sketches for her supporters, and I chipped it for a sketch of Tyler from Divide the Sky (yep, Rebel Against Heaven has had a title change).

It’s a super cool, action-packed sketch, and I’m happy to share it here.

Tyler by Ghia Mercado

I absolutely love the details — the pose, the feathers around the edges, the crosshatching and the sketchy construction lines you can see behind it.

I was experimenting when I started getting commissioned art for this story, and I wasn’t quite sure if it would be as much fun as it seemed it my head… it has! I’ve really been loving seeing how every artist does their own spin on the character while keeping true to the reference images I provide.

Commissioned Art by Fishiebug

I commissioned artist Fishiebug to do a bust painting of Tyler from REBEL AGAINST HEAVEN, and oh man did she deliver some awesome work:

fishiebugtyler

It is so good. So very very good, and stunningly true to the reference images I gave her. I’m hoping to commission some more work from her on the future, but before I can do that I’ll need some half-decent references from my other characters.

Fishiebug also recorded an hour of working on this piece, which is super useful for aspiring artists to pick up new skills. I’ve already found it very helpfull!

Using this as a desktop background to keep me motivated through these revisions!

Revisions are going pretty well today. My system wasn’t working but I sorted it out, and now instead of overwhelming myself I can take it all one thing at a time.

Showing off some lovely art by Tennyboo

Oh, hallo! Ciamar a tha thu?* I’m still out in Stornoway, staying somewhere with no internet connection, but I’m taking advantage of my aunt’s magical wifi connection to show off this beautiful art by tennyboo who is currently on this address on Tumblr.

I commissioned a picture of Tyler from REBEL AGAINST HEAVEN and oh man just look at it:

THOSE WINGS. THE HATCHING. THAT POSE. EVERYTHING. Squeeeee.

I’m heading back offline now, but I should be back to the blog on… Sunday, I think? And then I’ll have some lovely photos of the Western Isles to share!

 

*Oh, hello. How are you?

More Art! Mockingbird Wings

So, I’m kind of on an art spree. Otherwise known as a avoiding-writing-obligations spree. Otherwise known as I have a lot to read and a lot to write and my brain just keeps deciding Tumblr and drawing are easier than tackling the to-do list.

So, yeah, I’m going to need to sort out my priorities tomorrow, but for now at least I get decent artwork out of it. I decided to take the ‘Show Your Colours’ piece a bit further with a sharpie pen and get some practice drawing Ty’s wings. It was actually good fun.

(The left-hand wing is just the right hand wing flip, because a) my notebook is too small to even fit one full wing in and b) lazy.)

Art: Show Your Colours

Tonight wasn’t supposed to be an art night, but I was in that kind of mood. On a whim, I took a sketch that turned out quite nicely…

And I polished it up a bit:

This is Tyler from REBEL AGAINST HEAVEN. Wings are from the Slater Museum, which is a mind-blowing reference that I wish I’d had much earlier. Might do a few portrait shots like this for all the REBEL main characters, as an exercise/reference. This image is an updated version of this older reference which was thrown together in May.

I have a question for you, blog friends: does it bother you when two book characters have similar-ish names? I’m wondering if Tyler and Toni are too similar and need changing…